Will the Samsung's flagship product take over the smartphone market?

Samsung, the current global leader in Smartphones sales who have beaten the all time undispute record holder Apple inc, is apparently drawing it's layouts for the future.  

Samsung released the Galaxy SIII in May 2012 leading the smartphone market and have eventually become Samsung's best flagship product yet along side with Galaxy Note II which got released in following September.Samsung sold recording 18 million units in 2012 Q3 whereas Apple managed 16.2M sales.

"Designed by Humans, Inspired By Nature" the slogan of the SIII played a fair part of being such for real, when some other slogans have just been left as slogans. Personally for me this been the best phone so far, I believe this has increased my efficiency in a positive way. It seems like the manufacturer have done a proper market research, people research and products research to enhance the most wanted features in an adequate manner. 

My favourites and most useful: 

• Smart stay - being the most useful feature as I tend to read articles, news updates and social media through the phone and it stays awake knowing that I am looking at it. Great!!
• Calender application ; being so user friendly, colourful and easy to organise
• Social media defaults such as Flipboard; being the most attractive way to read the news, social media and updates like never before. The feeling and view such as you are reading a proper news paper or magazine which has all your favourites and subscriptions. Isn't that a cool thing?
• Voice commands for apps - very useful for applications such as Camera. All you need is to say cheese/ capture/ shoot etc and you can hold your phone in your favourite agnle and leave the capturing part to the phone. Quite good when I can never reach the capture button for self-portraits or different angles.  Also for most other apps this works pretty well such as saying play/pause/next will operate the media player from distance.
• Easiness of typing using predictive text and Samsung swipe keyboard, also the bigger digital number pad
• Proper customisation features I always wanted such as overall font size, menu organising, favourites etc
• Regular device and application updates
• Enormous level of supportability and compatibility with almost any file
• Rich and colourful display and screen size, making it easier to view or organise - Web browsing is easier too, as it provides automatic zooming-in for tabs which are hard to hit. Personally I prefer to use the Google's Chrome browser.
• Powerful feel when I can run many different applications without having to worry about the available memory or processing power
• Quality of Skype video calling is as never before.. well, you need to experience that
• All the animations have been designed to feel natural and not to exaggerate
• Easy task killer - One press of the main button will open the very user-friendly task killer where you just need to swipe out the application.

 Aren't these the options that anyone would love to have in any phone, or most of the mobile users? I am not quite sure what more you can expect from a Blackberry as it is used to be the most secure way of electronic communication. But can it support the features like above which any person including business man would love to have?

Again, Samsung is laying out the release of S4 which will be composed of 8 cores with 4 1.8GHz for heavy process sentric functions and four cores of 1.2GHz for general purpose light to medium functions. This would anyway be a 4G LTE probably with a slightly larger 4.99'' screen with 1080p rather than SIII's 720p. And a improved camera such as 13MP for sure which is used in Sony Xperia ZL.

Below is a leaked image of the SIII vs S4 I could find online.

As you can notice, the shape has been differed slightly, probably to facilitate the slightly bigger screen size in a comfortable manner. By the look this is more like the S2 but with huge improvements.

  By February, the SIII will complete a good 10 months period and I would presume the new release will due in March / April which is said to be the biggest releasing event yet to witness.

(image reference : http://www.trustedreviews.com)

Monster Energy Horror!!

I have read an article in Metro news paper today broadcasting a shocker about Monster energy drinks. It has been reported a death toll of 5 as a result of drinking Monster Engery drinks and leading that into disorders or heart failures. It has further reported there are similar death incidents with Red Bull energy drinks as well. Both of these companies are giants in the industry and they are so popular that these shocking news are automatically ignored by their beloved consumers. 

As I read through the article which is believed to be from a nation wide trustworthy source, most of those unfortunate incidents have been occured as a result of  high caffeine percentage within these drinks (said by the family and related people of who died). The recent case has arisen the need of awareness of these products and further investigations are under way.

This Prevention is better, than cure, or death..

Skype infecting Windows PCs!

BBC reported that SKYPE has been used by hackers to spread Windows PCs through a worm. If the user clicks on an instant message saying "lol is this your new profile pic?" this would download a trojan horse containing the worm inside it. This can result in a user logout and locked from the machine. Hacker could use this situation for demanding money from the victim to release the computer. Further more the worm will send more "lol" messages to the contact list of the user and in most cases this will probably be opened by the recipient thinking an actual message from the user. That will also result in automatic downloading of the trojan horse file.

Samsung Galaxy Note - Super cool Android phone

The overall look of the mobile phone looks huge when you are comparing with a regular size phone such as HTC Sensation / Samsung Galaxy. I had a chance to play around a bit with this phone and this is a super cool phone. You get used to the size of it quicker than you think because of its attractive UI features and performance. I would not expect much from an android tab if I owe this phone since this is nearly a half smartphone half tablet pc.

Best Job boards for a local job hunter

This is with related to my previous blog on tips in job hunting.(http://dushseven.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/key-points-for-job-hunters.html)

 Here I have listed one of the most useful job boards based on my experience which some of you might already know. I have purposely omitted some job boards such as reed.co.uk since the hit rate is far below the expectation. All these boards are quite useful and worthy a daily visit. (The first one is solely for IT)

1. CW jobs (maintained by Computer Weekly)  - www.cwjobs.co.uk
2. Jobsite - www.jobsite.co.uk
3. Monster jobs - www.monster.co.uk
4. Staffs uni Jobzone - staffs.prospects.ac.uk/index.html
5. Milkround - www.milkround.com
6. Brampton Stafford - www.brampton-recruitment-4-graduate-jobs.co.uk/
7. Graduate Advantage - www.graduateadvantage.co.uk
8. Grad Central - www.grad-central.co.uk
9. Total jobs - www.totaljobs.com
10. Gum tree - www.gumtree.com

Don't forget to upload your best CV on above job boards and make them visible to recruiters. Few boards might not support this such as Staffs job zone but still you can create your profile with your skills and expected area and I found the team behind this is working hard to get visible results. Even you can email to employers directly since some of the above sites directly give employer contact details which is always better.

Some internet job boards: (Click the picture to zoom in)

 image: (www.recruitingblogs.com, 2012)

Key points for job hunters

Fed up of job hunting? Here are some of my experiences of job hunting

 

image reference: (www.m4bmarketing.com,2012)

Before everything..
First make sure your CV is created with utter concern and according to one of the standards which you can easily find from a google search. (Good article from BCS: http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/3035) It is all about marketing yourself, promoting yourself but you have to make sure that you don't exaggerate yourself which sometimes ended up representing someone else rather than you. Try to limit your CV to two pages but if you really can not afford your content, feel free to go to the third page. Spend much time and revisions as you would like with this step since this can make a significant impact. You could also make a general covering letter which you can use with any application.

Approaching the employers..
The best way I see on approaching employers is to make your CV public on popular job boards. I will make a list of this later. Okey you have uploaded your CV but that's not enough! Regularly search for the opportunities which match your skills and criteria of your own and apply directly by sending your CV, Covering letter to corresponding people. A Golden Rule - If you feel like you are having an odd CV or responses are getting low, change your layout/format/content or anything immediately you think should be updated, doing will make it a fresh CV on the job boards which then will come up again for agencies and employers. Remember not to overdo this since that will result on you as a bad candidate.

Some valuable attributes..
professional email address, working mobile number which you carry always, create a linkedin profile and attach to your CV, professional layout

Hope this will help.You get the call, half of the job is done and then it is in your hands.

Happy Hunting

Samsung to go another step forward?

Samsung seems to be releasing their first phone in 2012 and yet another innovation.

image reference: (www.dailymail.co.uk, 2012)

This is a sample image of the phone which is having an amazing flexible OLED(Organic Light Emitting Diaode) display. They are about to break the initial thoughts we normally get when someone says the words "mobile display or screen" which is the legacy rectangular display. This technology has come to the world even before and limited number of people have seen them on latest tech shows. Both Sony and Samsung have presented flexible displays in such occasions but yet to come to the commercial arena. Okey the concept is cool, innovative and tempting but One question;

Why do you need a flexible display and what do you use it for?