Google says has right to read your emails

Google's attorneys say their long-running practice of electronically scanning the contents of people's Gmail accounts to help sell ads is legal, and are asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks to stop the practice.

SAN JOSE: Google's attorneys say their long-running practice of electronically scanning the contents of people's Gmail accounts to help sell ads is legal, and are asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks to stop the practice.

In court records filed in advance of a federal hearing scheduled for Thursday in San Jose,Google argues that "all users of email must necessarily expect that their emails will be subject to automated processing."

The class action lawsuit, filed in May, says Google "unlawfully opens up, reads, and acquires the content of people's private email messages" in violation of California's privacy laws and federal wiretapping statutes. The lawsuit notes that the company even scans messages sent to any of the 425 million active Gmail users from non-Gmail users who never agreed to the company's terms.

Google has repeatedly described how it targets its advertising based on words that show up in Gmail messages. For example, the company says if someone has received a lot of messages about photography or cameras then it might display an advertisement from a local camera store. Google says the process is fully automated, "and no humans read your email..."

"This case involves Plaintiffs' effort to criminalize ordinary business practices that have been part of Google's free Gmail service since it was introduced nearly a decade ago," argue company attorneys in their motion to dismiss the case.

Privacy advocates have long questioned the practice.

"People believe, for better or worse, that their email is private correspondence, not subject to the eyes of a $180 billion corporation and its whims," said Consumer Watchdog president Jamie Court
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Microsoft's emerging market dilemma

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has said he sees such phones - of which Nokia shipped more than 50 million last quarter - as an entree to more expensive fare.

SINGAPORE/NEW DELHI: Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia's handset business gives the software behemoth control of its main Windows smartphone partner, but leaves a question mark over the bigger business it has bought: Nokia's cheap and basic phones that still dominate emerging markets like India. 

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has said he sees such phones - of which Nokia shipped more than 50 million last quarter - as an entree to more expensive fare. 

"We look at that as an excellent feeder system into the smartphone world and a way to touch people with our services even on much lower-end devices in many parts of the world," he said in a conference call to analysts on Tuesday. 

But analysts warn that's easier said than done. 

The problem, said Jayanth Kolla, partner at Convergence Catalyst, an India-based telecom research and advisory firm, is that Microsoft simply lacks Nokia's retail and supply chain experience in the Finnish company's most important markets. 

"The devices business, especially the non-smartphones business in emerging markets, is a completely different dynamic," he said. 

Kolla pointed to the need to manage tight supply chains, distribution, and building brands through word-of-mouth. "Microsoft doesn't have it in its DNA to run operations at this level," he said. 

India is a case in point. Nokia has been there since the mid 1990s and the country accounted for 7 percent of its 2012 revenue while the United States generated just 6%, according to Thomson Reuters data. Its India roots run deep: it has a presence in 200,000 outlets, 70,000 of which sell only its devices. One of its biggest plants in the world is in the southern city of Chennai. 

For sure, Nokia has slipped in India as elsewhere: After nearly two decades as the market leader it was unseated by Samsung Electronics in overall sales last quarter. 

But it still sold more of its more basic feature phones. 

As recently as last October, market research company Nielsen ranked it the top handset brand. The Economic Times ranked it the country's third most trusted brand. 

Loyalty runs deep
In a land of frequent power cuts and rugged roads, the sturdiness and longer battery life of Nokia's phones have won it a loyal fan base - some of whom have stayed loyal when trading up. 

Take Sunil Sachdeva, a Delhi-based executive, who has stuck with Nokia since his first phone. He has just bought his fifth: an upgrade to the Nokia Lumia smartphone running Microsoft's mobile operating system. 

"Technology-wise they are still the best," he said of Nokia. 

But Microsoft can't take such loyalty for granted. Challenging it and Samsung are local players such as Karbonn and Micromax, which are churning out smartphones running Google's Android operating system for as little as $50. 

Such players are also denting Nokia's efforts to build its Asha brand, touchscreen devices perched somewhere between a feature phone and a smartphone. 

Nokia shipped 4.3 million Asha phones globally in the second quarter of this year, down from 5.0 million the previous quarter. 

"The sales performance of the Asha line has been quite poor," said Sameer Singh, Hyderabad-based analyst at BitChemy Ventures, an investor in local startups. "With increasing competition from the low-end smartphone vendors, I'm unsure how long that business will last." 

That leaves the cheap seats. Singh estimates that the Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa accounted for two-thirds of Nokia's feature phone volumes in the last quarter, at an average selling price of between 25 to 30 euros ($32.99 to $39.59). 

"I don't see how Microsoft can really leverage this volume," he said. "The market is extremely price sensitive and margins are racing into negative territory." 

Too big to ignore
The quandary for Microsoft is that while the basic phone market may be declining, it may simply be too big to ignore. 

"If you look at markets like India and Indonesia, more than 70% of the volume comes from the feature phone business," Anshul Gupta, principal research analyst at Gartner said. "It's still a significant part of the overall market." 

That means that if Microsoft wants to herd this market up the value chain to its Windows phones, it needs to keep the Nokia and Asha brands afloat - while also narrowing the price gap between its smartphones and the feature phones and cheap smartphones. 

Microsoft has hinted that lowering prices of smartphones would be a priority. The Windows Phone series includes the top-end Lumia 1020, which comes with a 41-megapixel camera, while it also sells simpler models such as the Lumia 610 and 620 aimed at first-time smartphone buyers.

"The lower price phone is a strategic initiative for the next Windows Phone release," Terry Myerson, vice president of operating systems said on the same conference call, while declining to provide details. 

An option for Microsoft, analysts said, would be to shoe-horn services like Bing search, Outlook webmail and Skype, the Internet telephony and messaging application, into the lower-end phones as a way to drive traffic to those services and make the devices more appealing. 

"So you can bundle services with these low-end products and that way you can reach a wider audience," said Finland-based Nordea Markets analyst Sami Sarkamies. 

But in the meantime Microsoft needs to brace for assault on all fronts as emerging market rivals see an opportunity to eat further into Nokia's market share. In India, said Convergent Catalyst's Kolla, cheap local Android brands have been held back by Nokia's strong promotion of its mid-tier Asha brand. 

"Now, I expect them to pounce," he said. ($1 = 0.7577 euros
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200th Test venue to depend on Sachin Tendulkar's future plans

Tendulkar is open to playing his 200th Test anywhere in the country. 

NEW DELHI: With speculation rife over whether Sachin Tendulkar will retire from Test cricket after playing his 200th Test and even the cricket board (BCCI) not sure about the batsman's plans, the issue of which venue is going to host the landmark Test is getting interesting. 

According to BCCI insiders, the board may talk to Tendulkar before deciding on the venue for the important Test. 

Sources said if Tendulkar is thinking of retiring after playing his 200th Test, Mumbai will probably get to host the game against the West Indies. 

"It began there and it should end there if he is retiring," a top BCCI official told TOI. But if Tendulkar plans to keep on playing beyond the series against West Indies, then Kolkata could land the tie. 

Interestingly, Tendulkar himself is open to playing this Test anywhere in the country. "He has no qualms about playing at any centre," a source said. 

Bangalore, it was learnt, is another venue which is in the BCCI short-list. Tendulkar is looking forward to the momentous occasion, he would like to have some first class games under his best before he plays the two-Test series against the Caribbeans. A source said Tendulkar is likely to play some Ranji matches for Mumbai to get some match practice before the Tests. 

"The West Indies team will be in India between October 31 and November 27, during which it will play two Tests and three ODIs. The itinerary and venues for the matches will be announced shortly," BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel said in a statement. 

Mumbai should host Test on emotional grounds, says Sourav Ganguly 

KOLKATA: Amid the pitched battle over hosting Sachin Tendulkar's 200th Test, former India captain Sourav Ganguly said it would be a fitting tribute if the Mumbai batsman could play the milestone match at his home ground. 

"It will be the biggest thing if Tendulkar gets to play the 200th Test in Mumbai, purely on emotional grounds. He has all his friends and family members there," Ganguly said. "At this moment, it seems it will be impossible for anybody to break the record of playing 200 Tests. It will be a fulfilling moment for Tendulkar," Ganguly added
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Microsoft awarded $14.5M in Motorola patent licensing suit

In second phase of closely-watched patent trial, federal jury finds the Google handset maker in breach of contract for failing to license standard essential patents at a reasonable rate.

Microsoft on Wednesday won another key courtroom victory in the second phase of a closely-watched battle with Motorola Mobility over patent licensing fees.

A federal jury in Seattle ordered the Google-owned handset maker to pay the software giant $14.5 million in damages for breach of contract for failing to license at reasonable terms standard essential patents covering wireless and video technology used in the Xbox game console. However, the award is half the $29 million in damages Microsoft had sought.

The case began in 2010 when Microsoft sued Motorola, claiming that Motorola was charging excessive royalties for licensing on the patents. Motorola had demanded Microsoft pay annual royalties of up to $4 billion for use of patents that are part of the H.264 video and 802.11 wireless standards, which are baked into Windows and the Xbox video game console. Microsoft said it was willing to pay royalties but not at the 2.25 percent of the product price that Motorola sought.

"This is a landmark win for all who want products that are affordable and work well together," Microsoft deputy general counsel David Howard said in a statement. "The jury's verdict is the latest in a growing list of decisions by regulators and courts telling Google to stop abusing patents."

Motorola promised to appeal the decision.

Microsoft's first victory in the case came in April when a federal judge determined thatMicrosoft should pay Motorola Mobility unit $1.8 million a year in royalties for use of the patents instead of the billions of dollars the Google unit had sought."We're disappointed in this outcome but look forward to an appeal of the new legal issues raised in this case," a Motorola spokesperson said in a statement.

The case is expected to have broad ramifications for patent law. The two companies had argued over what constitutes fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory terms -- known to patent lawyers as FRAND -- that patent holders can charge for standard-essential patents. This case could help establish a framework for what patent holders can reasonably charge for use of their essential technology.

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Yahoo's new logo sports dancing exclamation point

While still purple and in all caps, new logo goes sans-serif and includes a reverse white-on-purple version.

 

Yahoo's new corporate logo.

(Credit: Yahoo)

After a month-long typography fashion show Yahoo crowned a new corporate logo Wednesday night.

While still purple and in all caps, the company's new logo dumps the serif-like font for a sans-serif presentation with distinctive interior elevations. It also adds a twist to its familiar exclamation point, allowing it to dance around half the logo during page refreshes before settling at the end of the company's name. An alternate version includes a reverse white-on-purple presentation.

Not all logo redesigns resonate well with consumers. A new AOL logo in 2009, designed to reflect its divorce from Time Warner, was met with derision. The design, which dumped the familiar all-caps logo, was called "lame" by GigaOm's Om Malik. "It is ambiguous at best, and as sexy as the obese, shapeless humans living on Axiom, the flagship of the BnL fleet in Pixar movie 'WALL-E.'"

So is Yahoo's new look a hit or a miss? Take the poll and let us know your opinion. Also, review the other logos below and let us know if one was more appealing, if any.

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Amazon introduces next-generation Kindle Paperwhite e-reader

Amazon has announced an update to its popular Kindle Paperwhite e-reader. New features include a higher contrast display, a better built-in light, a faster processor, improved touch technology, and a few software enhancements.

Highlight of the new software features is integration with Goodreads, a book lovers' community thatAmazon acquired earlier this year. This new feature will allow Kindle owners to see what their friends are reading, share highlights, and rate the books they read with other Goodreads users, all from their Kindle.

Amazon is also introducing a new child-friendly mode called FreeTime, that uses built-in parental controls to give parents a way to encourage kids to spend more time reading. It lets parents hand-select books for the kids to read, and hand out achievement badges when they hit reading milestones. A progress report keeps parents updated on total time spent reading, number of words looked up, badges earned and books finished.

New Smart Lookup integrates a full dictionary definition with other reference information about a word, character, topic or book via X-Ray and Wikipedia.

Amazon is also introducing MatchBook, a service that will let customers purchase Kindle editions of print books purchased from Amazon - past, present and future - for $2.99 or less.

The new Kindle Paperwhite (Wi-Fi only) is available for pre-order starting today at www.amazon.com for $119 and begins shipping September 30.

The new top-of-the-line Kindle Paperwhite Wi-Fi + 3G is not up for pre-orders yet but customers can sign up to be notified when Kindle Paperwhite Wi-Fi + 3G is available for pre-order at www.amazon.com. Kindle Paperwhite Wi-Fi + 3G is priced at $189 is expected to ship November 5.

Earlier this year, Amazon had introduced the Kindle Paperwhite e-reader in India for Rs. 10,999. There's no word on the India price or availability of the next-generation Kindle Paperwhite.

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Nokia Lumia 925 review

Nokia brought some of its camera innovations to the Windows Phone platform with the launch of the Lumia 920. While the phone was praised for its low-light imaging prowess and the ClearBlack display, there were a few gripes. The Lumia 920 was panned for being an extremely bulky device. Also, just like other Lumia phones, the Nokia Lumia 920 sported a polycarbonate unibody shell and was made available in a number of colours. While many found the playful and colourful form factor of the Lumia range interesting, some felt that it was too radical for a mainstream flagship device.

With the Lumia 925, Nokia has tried to address these concerns and although the phone is not a major upgrade to the Lumia 920 in terms of hardware, it fits all the capabilities of the previous flagship device in a brand new shell that is much lighter than the Lumia 920. It's also the first Lumia phone that sports a metal frame, giving the phone a premium look. Inside, the Lumia 925 runs Lumia Amber, the latest build of Windows Phone 8 available at the time of writing this review. 

However, with new flagship devices on other platforms breaking ground in terms of hardware specifications and design, is the Nokia Lumia 925 an effort too little, too late? We try to find out in our review.

Build/ Design
We'll have to say that the Nokia Lumia 925 is one of the best looking Nokia smartphones, thanks mainly to the aluminium frame that encases it, though the metal design gets inconsistent as one looks at the phone's back. 

As we mentioned earlier, the phone is much sleeker and lighter than the Lumia 920 at 8.5mm and 139 grams, and comes in three rather restrained colour options, White, Black and Grey, unlike the 920 which was also offered in Red and Yellow variants. The White and Grey variants of the Lumia 925 look similar except for the colour of the phone's back plate. The new colour choices would appeal to a larger number of consumers, especially business users.

 We got the White Lumia 925 as our review unit. The phone retains the almost rectangular design of the other Lumia phones but gets rid of the polycarbonate. Instead, the phone sports a sturdy aluminium frame with brushed finish. The frame is curved all over and corners are rounded. There are two black bands on both the left and right side of the phone that accentuate the metal frame. 

The front of the device features a glass panel that houses the 4.5-inch AMOLED display of the device, and merges with the aluminium frame seamlessly. The three capacitive Windows Phone keys are located just below the display and are backlit in White. The front-facing camera and the earpiece sit at the top of the display. In line with other phones in the Lumia line-up, the phone's hardware keys including the volume rocker, power/ screen lock key and the camera shutter key are located at the right hand side of the phone. There are no keys or ports at the left hand side or the bottom, while the top houses the Micro-SIM tray, the Micro-USB port and the 3.5mm headset jack.

The back of the phone is the only place where you'd still see polycarbonate and to be honest it does look and feel a little awkward. The back features a White coloured plastic plate. The big 8.7-megapixel camera lens, the LED flash and the speaker grill are all located at the back, in addition to a speaker grill and some Nokia branding.

It's worth pointing out that the battery powering the phone is not removable. The phone's back also sports three contact points for back shells (not included with the phone) that enable wireless charging.

Display
The Nokia Lumia 925 sports a 4.5-inch AMOLED ClearBlack, PureMotion HD+ display with a resolution of 768x1280 pixels and Gorilla Glass 2. While the pixel density on the phone's display stands nowhere close to the likes of 1080p displays of the HTC One and the Galaxy S4, you won't really notice it while using the phone's user interface. This is especially true if you use Windows Phone's dark theme that shines on the Lumia 925's display with text looking crisp and vibrant contrasting the deep blacks the phone's AMOLED display delivers.

While AMOLED displays are usually known for not reproducing colours accurately. Nokia has included special settings for tinkering with the screen's colour profile to set saturation and temperature levels as per the user's own preference with the help of a set of images that appear in the settings. The additional settings help in mitigating the issues that accompany AMOLED screens to a large extent. 

The screen offers excellent viewing angles and although it's a little reflective, the under sun visibility was really good. Just like the Lumia 920, the Lumia 925 also comes with a super sensitive touch panel that works with even gloves on. 

Overall, the Lumia 925 offers a great display that makes watching movies, reading text and browsing pictures a good experience.

Camera
Nokia continues to use the PureView branding with the Lumia 925 though technically it doesn't use the oversampling tweak that made its debut with the Nokia 808 PureView. Nokia even puts the PureView branding on the back of the phone. The Lumia 925 features the same 8.7-megapixel camera found on the Lumia 920 though it features one more lens on top of the five other lenses that the Lumia 920 featured. Nokia claims that the phone's camera is an improvement over the 920's camera. 

In our use we observed that the phone takes good quality images in daylight. Colour reproduction was accurate and the pictures retained a good amount of details. Although at times the focus does go a bit haywire, especially when you want to take a quick shot. You'll need to be a little patient if you want to take a perfect shot. The default app lets you tinker with the ISO, Exposure, and White Balance settings. In case you're wondering why the flash lights up while focusing, even though you've turned it off, we'd like to inform you that it's actually the Focus Assist Light. Thankfully, you can turn it off.

The high point of the Lumia 925's camera is the ability to take great pictures in low-light conditions. At times these photos do look a little artificial and it's hard to recognize that they had been taken in the same settings. But everyone wants to capture the best looking moment, and these photos are great for sharing on social networks. 

The other area where the phone excels is image stabilisation. Nokia has suspended the entire Lumia 925 optical assembly using tiny springs that absorb shocks and the results are stunning. If you are fond of taking videos on the move, or just have shaky hands, you'll love the Nokia Lumia 925's cameras.

Windows Phone 8 introduced the concept of camera lenses, which let you see and click images in a "different light". Nokia Lumia 925 comes with Bing Vision, Panorama, Cinemagraph and Smart Cam lenses to cater to various shooting moods and requirements.
The Smart Cam lens can even be set as the default camera app. The SmartCam app shoots a sequence of 10 photos and lets you choose the best photo among them or combine all of them into one, choosing between different effects. The effects include Motion Focus that adds blur to create an illusion of motion, and Action Shot that adds a strobe effect to show action. It also allows you to choose the best faces in-group photos and remove objects or people from photos. Editing pictures leads to down-sampling of the pictures from 8.7-megapixel to 5-megapixels, though. Also, the implementation is not that smooth and at times the effects don't turn out the way they're promised. 

The Camera 360 is a similar lens app that allows you to add various effects to pictures. It even lets you preview effects before actually clicking the pictures.

As we mentioned in our Lumia 720 review, the Panorama lens is a horrible implementation of the Panorama feature. Instead of holding up your phone and just moving it around to take a Panorama, Nokia chose to go a peculiar way. You need to click a photograph and watch it appear on the left most corner of your screen and stay there. You are then expected to align this picture with the real world view that you see on your screen, and when the two are perfectly aligned, click another one, so that the phone can 'stitch' these photos together. It's extremely cumbersome to take Panorama shots.

Bing Vision can be used to scan QR codes and Microsoft tags.

The Lumia 925 is capable of recording 1080p video and the videos shot with it turned out to be really good. The built-in microphone also does a capable job of picking up the sounds, and the audio quality is good as well.

The 1.3-megapixel front camera can record 720p videos. Like most front cameras, it does a good job for video chats, and still photography in well-lit conditions. Videos and pictures taken with the front camera appeared to be grainy in low light conditions.

Software/ User Interface
The Nokia Lumia 925 comes with Windows Phone 8 featuring the Amber update that is essentially the Windows Phone GDR 2 update with Nokia's own tweaks. While the update doesn't bring any major changes in terms of the user interface or features, it does bring FM radio, improvements to the camera software, the Smart Camera app, the Glance and double tap to unlock gestures, the flip to silence gesture and some other minor changes including the Data sense app (which helps you to keep a tab on your data usage) now being compatible with all carriers. Other than these, Windows Phone 8 has not changed much compared to its first iteration.

Nokia's new Amber update brings Nokia Glance Screen, which allows the phone to display the time, battery status and vibrate mode indicator in standby mode. Due to the AMOLED screen (that is more efficient at partially illuminating the screen) on the Lumia 925, the impact on battery life is minimal. Settings for this feature can be found under the display + touch settings menu and you can turn it off, or choose to see the time for 15 minutes after the phone enters standby mode, or keep it always on. It even offers a Peek option that turns the Glance screen on if you hover your hand over the phone. You can also choose to see a dim Glance mode through the Night Mode with a chosen time interval.

While we love the Glance feature as it comes handy to see the time without unlocking the phone, we feel that it could have been enhanced further by offering notifications for messages, missed calls and emails along with the time.

The phone also supports double tap to wake up which means you don't have to press the Power/ Screen lock key to unlock the phone when it's in the standby mode. Even this feature makes using the phone fun though it does use more power.

The Amber update also brings support for Google services for Calendar and Contacts through CalDAV and CardDAV, and for Gmail through IMAP. This means that it's future proof and users will continue to be able to use these services after Google ends support for Exchange Active Sync which pre-GDR2 phones use. We were able to use Gmail smoothly and received emails via Push without any hiccups.

Unlike Android, Windows Phone 8 doesn't offer much flexibility to the manufacturer in terms of customising the OS, however Nokia has included its own apps that may well prove to be the differentiator compared to the competing devices.

The Lumia 925 comes with several exclusive (and non-exclusive) Nokia apps like HERE Drive+, HERE Maps and Nokia Music, as well as other Nokia apps like Nokia Care and HERE City Lens. We love the HERE Drive app that offers offline navigation complete with turn-by-turn directions. As we mentioned in our previous reviews, Nokia continues to set the benchmark in navigation apps, even ahead of Google Maps.

The other services included are HERE Maps, which is a huge improvement over the stock Bing Maps, and Nokia Music, that offers unlimited music free for a year. For some reason we were not able to connect our Nokia Music account with this handset.
The software also includes the mobile version of Microsoft Office, Skype integration and a great email client.

As mentioned in the Camera section, the phone comes with some lenses, which also show up as stand-alone apps. These are Bing Vision, Cinemgraph, Panorama, Camera360 and Nokia Smart Cam.
PhotoBeamer is another interesting app that lets you beam your photos to any computer over Wi-Fi, providing an instant, wireless slideshow you can see over a large screen. During our tests, this worked as advertised.

We also love the software keyboard.

The 925 also comes with a host of pre-installed apps like BIGFLIX (entertainment), Cosmopolitan (lifestyle magazine), Flipkart eBooks, and Zomato (food/ restaurants guide).

However, the annoyances with the OS still remain. One of the major among them is the lack of quality apps. Many mainstream apps including Instagram, Path and even Pocket are absent from the Windows Store, though you can find some third-party alternatives. For instance 6tag is a nice third party app for Instagram. The new Facebook app now levels up to its Android and iOS counterparts while the native Twitter app is also good enough.

The lack of a centralised notification tray/ hub is still a pain point. The 'Me tile' tries to fill that gap, at least for social networking needs, but the experience is a little crippled. For instance it's not possible to do a reply all for tweets.

Performance/ Battery Life
The Lumia 925 is powered by a 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor with 1GB RAM and Adreno 225 Graphics chip. There is 16GB of internal storage, which unfortunately, is not expandable. Windows Phone 8 is not a power hungry OS and the hardware has been optimised for good performance. We did not experience any lag at all while launching apps, playing games like Asphalt 7 Heat Gravity Guy and Jetpack Joyride, clicking pictures, scrolling web pages in Internet Explorer or switching between apps.
 
We were able to play full-HD clips, and formats like AVI are natively supported by the phone's video player. The speaker delivers decent quality sound at high volume levels and the loudness is above average.

Windows Phone 8 supports Bluetooth file transfers. The phone also offers NFC functionality.  
The call quality was top notch and the phone was able to easily latch on to the network even in weak signal areas. We were very satisfied with the network reception.
 
The phone comes with a 2000mAh battery, and in our usage, it lasted us a full working day. We charged the phone in the morning, and our usage ranged from medium to heavy, including 1-1.5 hours of phone calls, three email accounts with push notifications, playing some music (both on the phone and via Internet radio), Twitter notifications and WhatsApp chats. It's worth pointing out that we had turned off Wi-Fi and the auto-brightness mode on. The phone was hooked to a 3G network. Of course having the screen brightness at the highest level, means that the battery drains much more quickly. Altering these settings might help in running the phone for a longer duration, depending on your usage pattern.

Verdict
The Nokia Lumia 925 is undoubtedly the best Windows Phone smartphone available in the market. Although, some would argue that the Lumia 1020, which was unveiled last month by Nokia in the US and is expected to be launched soon in the Indian market, is Nokia's top of the line device as it sports a 41-megapixel PureView camera and more RAM, we don't think the 1020 is a mass market phone due to its bulky form factor. It's also expected to be priced at a much higher price point and everyone doesn't need a camera-focused phone. The Lumia 925 on the other hand sports an attractive form factor, offers a stunning display and takes great pictures in low-light conditions.

The app situation has definitely improved but Windows Phone still has a long way to go before it can begin to compete with Android and iOS. If you're looking to try the latest mobile game titles and apps, then Windows Phone is probably not your cup of tea. 

However, if you primarily use your phone for making calls, connecting with friends through chat apps, taking pictures, staying connected with social networks and playing casual games, then we have no qualms in recommending this phone. It offers a great smartphone experience.
 
At Rs. 33,499, we feel that Nokia has priced the phone sensibly though it faces stiff competition from the likes of the iPhone 4S, Nexus 4, LG Optimus G, Sony Xperia SP and previous generation Android phones like the Samsung Galaxy S III and HTC One X+. 

We do feel that the Lumia 925 should have been the first flagship Windows Phone device. Having said that, it's evident that Nokia continues to innovate and the major roadblock in the success of the platform is Microsoft's laidback attitude in offering software updates.

Price: Rs. 33,499




Pros

• Premium build quality
• Great screen
• Bundled Nokia apps

Cons

• App ecosystem not at par with Android and iOS
• Storage is not expandable

Ratings (out of 5)

• Design: 4
• Display: 3.5
• Camera: 4.5
• Performance: 4
• Software: 3.5
• Battery Life: 3.5
• Value for Money: 4
• Overall: 4

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Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 review

Please turn off all electronic devices, the flight crew instructs as we approach Los Angeles. With a small phone, I might have gotten away with ignoring safety regulations. Samsung's new Galaxy Mega 6.3 phone was too conspicuous for that.

The Mega shouldn't even be called a phone, if it weren't for the fact that it makes phone calls. With a screen measuring 6.3 inches (16 centimeters) diagonally, the Mega is more like a small Android tablet computer. It shares the tablet's advantages in showing more detail in photos and video. Text is larger and easier to read, too.

That doesn't make the Mega practical, though.

As a phone, it's huge. It doesn't fully fit in the pocket of my jeans, and it sometimes pokes at my stomach when sitting. It doesn't feel comfortable in my hands. I'm unable to grip it tightly because it's so wide, so I feel as if it's going to slip out of my hands. Without that grip, I also feel that it'll be easy for a thief to snatch it away.

A friend jokingly said that it was bigger than her head as she held it up to her ear. A cousin called it ridiculous. A co-worker pointed out that cellphones used to be big, too - in the 1970s.

It could have been worse.

Samsung's Galaxy Note 8.0 tablet has an 8-inch (20.3-centimeter) screen, its diagonal length just a quarter larger than the Mega's. But the tablet is about twice the size of the Mega, in part because it has a thick frame. With the Mega, the screen stretches close to the edge, keeping the overall device relatively slim. Held on its side like a movie screen, the Mega is about as wide as a dollar bill, but slightly taller.

AT&T Inc. is selling the Mega for $150 with a two-year service contract, or $480 without one. By contrast, smaller phones such as Apple's 4-inch (10-centimeter) iPhone 5 and Samsung's 5-inch (12.7-centimeter) Galaxy S4 typically go for $200 with a contract and more than $600 without.

The Mega also costs just half of AT&T's contract price for Samsung's 5.5-inch (14-centimeter) Galaxy Note 2. It's like getting a bigger screen for less. The Mega is only a tad heavier - at 7 ounces (198 grams), compared with 6.4 ounces (181 grams) for the Note 2. (Samsung is expected to announce the Note 3 in Berlin on Wednesday evening.)

The Mega is also coming to Sprint and U.S. Cellular. Dates and prices haven't been announced.

Although I don't see myself using the Mega, I can see its appeal to those who are willing to carry along a tablet computer but don't want to carry a second device - the phone.

The Mega gives you many of the benefits of tablets. With the larger screen, I can read small print on websites without zooming in, and I make fewer mistakes when trying to click on buttons and links. For ebooks, I get a screen size that feels closer to a paperback. I see slightly more content when checking email or Facebook. I don't see a whole lot more, though. Typically, text and images simply get larger to fill out the additional screen space.

Some Android apps have been adapted to take advantage of the tablet's larger screen, but for the ones I checked, apps appear on the Mega as they would on other phones. With the Foursquare social network, for instance, a map showing nearby friends and venues is squeezed into a rectangular banner at the top when held vertically. On tablets, the map is allowed to fill out the entire right half of the display.

It's a shame that the display isn't sharper. The resolution is 233 pixels per inch, compared with 441 for the Galaxy S4 and 326 for the iPhone 5. Video looks dull on the Mega by comparison.

And fans of the Note might be disappointed with the Mega. Although the Mega has a larger screen, it doesn't come with a stylus, something the Note is known for.

I am impressed by the Mega's battery life. Despite the larger screen, which uses more energy, the Mega outlasted Samsung's flagship phone, the S4, in streaming video on Netflix. I got nearly six hours on the Mega, compared with nearly five hours on the S4. The Mega is packed with a larger, higher-capacity battery - something the S4 couldn't have because of its size.

As with other Samsung phones, the Mega comes with an array of Samsung apps, including ones for translating text, taking notes and controlling a TV by turning the phone into a remote control. There's also an easy mode with limited options for first-time smartphone users, plus ways to perform tasks without actually touching the phone. Some of these features can be useful. Others are gimmicky or duplicate what comes standard with other phones running Google's Android system.

I decided to use the Mega to finish reading the ebook "Up in the Air" near the end of my flight to Los Angeles. I figured it was fitting given that its main character spends his life racking up frequent flier miles on planes. But a flight attendant spotted it on my lap and said, "You can turn that off now, please."

Busted.

About 20 minutes later, we landed. I called my brother to pick me up at the airport. For that, I used the smaller iPhone 5.

The Mega remains a novelty that will appeal to people who primarily want a tablet and make few calls. For everyone else, small is the way to go.

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