Prompt Medical Care: ER or Other Options?
When you require quick restorative care, the main line of exhortation has customarily been, "Go to the closest crisis room." But is that guidance the best game-plan? With visits to the ER at an untouched high, hold up times have soar. Also, crisis room medicines for non-crisis therapeutic conditions add to the increasing expense of our social insurance. So what are other consideration settings, and how would you figure out which is ideal? Emergency Room physician near me
Contrasting options to ER Care
Unless it's a genuine crisis, you'll likely get faster therapeutic consideration at other consideration settings, for example, a pressing consideration focus, retail wellbeing center or stroll in specialist's office. Utilize these choices, where accessible, when you require restorative care rapidly, yet can't see your general specialist. These strategically placed, authorized and licensed consideration settings are staffed with specialists, attendants and doctor's partners. So you'll get quality consideration, and you'll regularly pay significantly less than you would for crisis care. What's more, they're normally open nighttimes, weekends and now and then occasions, and can cost about the same as a specialist visit.
Pressing consideration focus: These centers can generally handle issues that need quick consideration yet aren't life-debilitating or crises, as fastens, sprains and x-beams.Emergency Room physician near me
Retail wellbeing facility: Many significant drug stores and retail locations now have these stroll in centers staffed by therapeutic experts. Go there when you require helpful, routine consideration, as for hacks and influenza shots.
Stroll in specialist's office: No arrangement is required at these workplaces, and you as a rule aren't required to be a current patient. This option is a decent decision when you require basic restorative consideration in a rush, as for gentle asthma or minor unfavorably susceptible responses.
Your wellbeing arrangement may have an every minute of every day medical caretaker line that you can call for help with deciding the seriousness of your side effects and where to go for consideration.
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Friday, 8 November 2013
Samsung launches dual-SIM version of the Galaxy Note 3
Samsung has just launched the dual-SIM version of the Galaxy Note 3 phablet. Most of the recent Galaxies received a dual-SIM treatment shortly after release and the Galaxy Note 3 is no exception.
The first country to get the dual-SIM Galaxy Note 3 is China, though the gadget is carrier unlocked and can be exported and used on other countries around the world. You should check, of course, the supported network bands and be careful where you activate the device.
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Dual-SIM
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Dual-SIM is also based on the Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 chipset, just like the international N9005 model, which means it is probably LTE-capable as well.
The dual-SIM Galaxy Note 3 costs €735 in Asia, which sounds about right since its international single-SIM models is priced at €700. There is no info on official pricing and availability, nor there is even a press note announcing the dual-SIM version. We expect the device to expand its market reach in the next few months though.
Limited edition Oppo N1 with CyanogenMod gets announced
Oppo announced that it will sell a limited edition of its N1 flagship with CyanogenMod out of the box. The smartphone will be available next month for the same price as the regular N1.
As expected, the CyanogenMod version of the Oppo N1 will support all the device’s features, including its tricked out camera. Furthermore, the device will come with unique retail box (as seen in the photo above) which includes a special case to go with other CyanogenMod specific accessories.
The “regular” Oppo N1 will not be left out of the CyanogenMod party as well. The device will come with the ROM pre-loaded, so users will be able to flash it right out of the box.
Wednesday, 30 October 2013
Motorola announces Ara, a new modular phone concept
We have seen the ambitions Phonebloks concept in the past. But while the idea was definitely amazing, it was hard not to get cynical about its success, considering it was just guy with an idea trying to get the attention of companies around the world to make it a reality.
But what if one of those companies decided to take the idea and do something about it? Presenting the Motorola Ara, a modular phone concept that might actually become real one day.
Just like with Phonebloks, the Ara will have removable modules that will let you replace or upgrade specific parts of the device. This makes repair and upgrading easy but also lets you customize the phone to your exact needs. You can choose only those modules that are important to you and skimp out on the others.
The Motorola Ara project has been in development for a year now, so it's not something Motorola put together when they saw the Phonebloks video. Motorola will also be working with the creator of the Phonebloks concept Dave Hakkens on the Ara project.
Motorola will soon be sending invites to developers to start working on modules for the Ara and an alpha version of a Module Developer's Kit will be released in winter.
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 gets a bug-squashing update
The Snapdragon 800-version of the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is getting an over-the-air firmware update. It weighs 116MB and should be available to all SIM-free and unlocked N9005 models any moment now.
According to the official changelog the update brings stability improvements plus it turns off the re-activation lock, which requires you to input your Samsung account details after a factory reset of the phone.
Until today, this option was turned on by default and, while it added some extra security, it came as nasty surprise to those that didn't know it existed. If you want to reenable it, you should go to Settings -> General -> Security.
The new update also squashes many known bugs, including those related to the Pebble smartwatch accessory. The Samsung home-baked keyboard has been reskinned, too.
If you happen to have already received the update, drop us a line in the comments section, mentioning how you find your Galaxy Note 3 after it.
Nokia Q3 report shows 8.8 million Lumia sales
Nokia published its financial results for the quarter ending in September – let's have a look at how the company did in its final quarter before selling its legendary phone business.
Sales for Nokia Group decreased 22% year on year €5.662 billion, but operating profit went up to €118 million from a sizable loss of €564 million during the same quarter last year.
Devices & Services – the division that Microsoft is set to acquire in the final quarter this year – accounted for €2.898 billion in net sales, down 19% year on year. The division posted an operating loss of €86 million, peanuts compared to the €672 million loss from last year.
The good news is that most of the declining sales come from the feature phone department, which saw its sales decline 37% compared to last year. This coincides with a 27% drop in shipment volumes.
The Smart devices shipments increased to 8.8 million units (up 40% year on year), beating the early estimates. Smartphone revenue was up 28% to €1.254 billion.
The rest of Nokia Group, which is not part of the Microsoft deal, includes the Nokia Solution Networks (or NSN, which used to stand for Nokia Siemens Networks until recently) and HERE.
NSN saw declining net sales both year on year and quarter on quarter, but this business is almost as big as the phone business – sales were €2.592 billion . It is also doing pretty good with €166 million in operating profit. That's a sixth profitable quarter in a row.
HERE is smaller with €211 million in net sales, but is profitable too, earning €14 million in operating profit. NSN and HERE were hit by weak seasonal demand and are expected to improve in Q4.
A third division, Advanced Technologies, will be started up inside Nokia Group and it will round off the Finns' business divisions after Microsoft acquires the phone business.
The Nokia press release points out that if Microsoft had already acquired the business, the sales for Nokia group would be just €2.9 billion instead of €5.7 billion, but the non-IFRS operating margin would have been 11.5% rather than 3.8%.
This is a subtle way of saying that the phone division was operating at a loss and once that's gone, operating profit for Nokia Group will improve. This combined with the overall results, which exceeded expectations sent the Nokia stock 6.5% up at time of writing.
Check out this document for more numbers and details (PDF).
HTC One Max review: Supersized
Introduction
It's phablet o'clock on HTC's watch and they're shifting gear and changing direction. Done expanding the One portfolio towards the compact end of the spectrum, HTC are going the other way with the aptly named One Max. It builds on a proven formula emphasizing media consumption and looks, while bringing a few welcome new features to the lineup.
HTC One Max official images
The expandable storage deals with one of the chronic liabilities of the One, so you're no longer limited in your selection of videos and songs to enjoy on the excellent speakers and the now even bigger screen. There's also the latest Android release powering the whole thing, coupled with the most up-to-date edition of HTC's proprietary Sense UI.
Key features
- Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support; 3G with HSPA; LTE
- 5.9" 16M-color 1080p Super LCD3 capacitive touchscreen with 373ppi pixel density
- Android OS v4.3 Jelly Bean with Sense UI 5.5
- Quad-core 1.7 GHz Krait 300 CPU, 2 GB RAM, Adreno 320 GPU; Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 chipset
- 4 MP autofocus "UltraPixel" camera with 1/3" sensor size, 2µm pixel size; LED flash
- 1080p video recording @ 30fps with HDR mode, continuous autofocus and stereo sound
- HTC Zoe
- 2.1 MP front-facing camera, 1080p video recording
- Wi-Fi a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct and DLNA; Wireless TV-out (Miracast)
- GPS with A-GPS, GLONASS
- 16GB/32GB of built-in storage, expandable via a microSD slot
- MHL-enabled microUSB port
- Bluetooth v4.0
- NFC
- Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
- Accelerometer and proximity sensor
- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
- Sleek aluminum body
- Front-mounted stereo speakers with BoomSound tech
- Class-leading audio output
Main disadvantages
- 4MP UltraPixel camera has less than stellar performance in good light
- Non user-replaceable battery
- Poor video and audio codec support out of box
- Fingerprint scanner let down by software support
- Snapdragon 600 chipset is no longer the snappiest around
The choice of Snapdragon 600 over its more capable Snapdragon 800 sibling is bound to raise a few eyebrows, but realistically, the Snapdragon 600 is no slouch either and it has never left an impression of being underpowered. And with the resolution unchanged over the HTC One, there will be no extra strain on the GPU to worry about either.
The HTC One Max at ours
So what we need to find out now is whether the Sense UI 5.5 is as good as HTC touts it to be, and whether the fingerprint scanner can be a key selling point. We already saw an excellent hardware implementation of the feature by Apple in the iPhone 5s, but the software failed to make proper use of it. We now set out to find what HTC did differently and how well it works.
But first thing - first. The HTC One Max is getting a proper physical examination right after the break.
Moto G makes an appearance on Motorola’s homepage
In a rather unexpected fashion, a mysterious Moto G device appeared alongside the Moto X on Motorola’s homepage. The link for the device was quickly removed, thus further piquing our interest.
Apple admits a battery issue in a small number of iPhone 5s units
Earlier this month while going through our battery test of the iPhone 5s, we noted that on some occasions, the smartphone suffered from quick battery drain. Today, in a statement to The New York Times, Apple has acknowledged that a small number of iPhone 5s devices are indeed affected by such an issue.
According to spokesperson from Apple, a manufacturing issue sits at the heart of the problem. It has affected a “very limited number” (Apple has implied to The New York Times that there are a few thousand devices affected) of iPhone 5s devices and has caused their battery to take longer to charge, or have reduced endurance.
Apple has begun reaching out to users whose phones were affected. They will be given a replacement device.
Friday, 25 October 2013
Things looking up as LG ships 12 million smartphones in Q3
After getting eclipsed by its Korean counterpart Samsung for the past few years, LG is finally becoming relevant again after it posted a 217.8 billion won ($196.34 million) operating profit in Q3 of this year. This is a 27% increase over the same period last year.
LG claims that it's able to achieve this despite slowing demand in its Home Entertainment division and unfavorable exchange rates.
The company's earnings report has LG Mobile shipping an impressive 12 million smartphones this past quarter. The company also expects a further increase in sales during the holiday season fuelled by the strong performance of its LG G2 flagship and midrange devices like the L II and F series.
It's great to see LG on the road back, and we hope it will be able to give the undisputed leader, Samsung, a run for its money soon enough. The other Korean giant's Q3 earnings report is expected any day now, but initial estimates indicate it's poised for a record-breaking $7.28 billion profit.
1080p Micromax Canvas Turbo goes official
Today Micromax announced the Canvas Turbo. The smartphone comes with a 5.0-inch 1080p IPS CGS (Continuous Grain Silicon) display made by Sharp and is powered by a quad-core processor.
The actual chipset inside the Canvas Turbo is MT6589T with four 1.5GHz Cortex-A7 cores, PowerVR SGX544 graphics and 2GB of RAM. The smartphone offers 16GB of internal storage, but sadly no microSD expansion slot.
Naturally, the Micromax Canvas Turbo comes with dual-SIM support. You get quad-band GSM plus 2100MHz HSPA support for up to 42Mbps downlink.
The rest of the Canvas Turbo specs include a 13MP rear camera with a LED flash and 1080p video recording, a 5MP front snapper, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth 4.0, and a 2,000mAh battery.
Micromax Canvas Turbo runs on Android 4.2.1 Jelly Bean and will launch in India on October 26 in Pristine White and Midnight Blue colors. The suggested retail price is INR19,990, which translates to about €235.
AT&T gets WP8 Samsung ATIV S Neo
Samsung and AT&T announced the ATIV S Neo smartphone with Windows Phone 8 on board. The LTE handset will hit the carrier’s shelves on November 8 for $99.99 with a two-year contract, or $21 per month with AT&T Next.
Samsung ATIV S Neo is powered by a 1.4GHz dual-core CPU (likely a Qualcomm Snapdragon unit). The device features a 4.77” HD display and 16GB of built-in memory, which can be further expanded via microSD card slot. An 8MP camera with LED flash, 1.9MP front-facing unit, and NFC complete the known highlights of the handset’s spec sheet.
When available, the Samsung ATIV S Neo will square off against an entire lineup of Nokia Lumia devices on AT&T's shelves, with the Lumia 925 sporting the same price tag as the newcomer.
Samsung posts record profits in its latest earnings report
Samsung released its Q3 2013 earnings report. As expected, the Korean giant posted record-shattering profits which slightly exceeded the guidance from earlier this month.
Samsung posted consolidated operating profit of 10.16 trillion won (approximately $9.56 billion) from a 59.08 trillion won (roughly $55.59 billion) of revenue. Samsung’s profits came in 7% higher than the previous quarter and an impressive 26% more than the same period last year.
Unsurprisingly, the mobile division chipped in significantly to the profits. Its growth was driven by increased sales of mass-market, lower-cost models. High-end devices’ shipments have remained at similar level with the previous quarter.
Samsung tablets have done well over the past quarter as well. Their shipments have increased sharply thanks to expanded product lineups.
Samsung’s next quarter outlook for its mobile division is upbeat. The company expects steady growth for both smartphones and tablets thanks to increased demand during the holiday season.
You can see the full breakdown of Samsung’s financial performance by hitting the source link below.
Sunday, 20 October 2013
First true octa-core smartphone unveiled
MediaTek was the first to announce a chipset with a true octa-core processor back in June and now the first phone utilizing it has gone official. The UMI X2S broke cover at the Autumn Edition of Hong Kong Electronics Fair.
All of UMI’s phones are intended for the Chinese market and that’s why you’ve probably never heard of the brand. The UMI latest X2S smartphone is powered by MT6592 chipset with an octa-core Cortex-A7 1.5GHz processor and 2GB of RAM. There is no word on the GPU, but when the MT6592 got benchmarked it was rocking a Mali-450, so that's probably it.
The rest of the UMI X2S specs include a 5” 1080p display, 32GB internal storage, a 13MP camera with Sony lens, and NFC connectivity. Since MG6592 is LTE-capable, we guess the X2S should be LTE-enabled as well.
There is no info on the pricing and availability yet, but the gadget is supposed to be very affordable, despite its fancy CPU.
MediaTek was indeed the first one to design and release a true octa-core chip and will probably remain the only one for a while as early hopes of Samsung enabling 8-core processing on its Exynos 5 Octa via a firmware update were squashed. And the revised Exynos 5 is unlikely to make it in actual hardware before the Galaxy S5 comes around next year.
Sony Xperia Z1S press image leaks
Popular leak-source evleaks has struck again, delivering a photo of the Sony Xperia Z1S, which is allegedly due for announcement this year. There were no details provided, so it's unclear what exactly the Xperia Z1S will be.
Given that the Xperia Z1 went on sale just a few weeks ago, it's seems extremely unlikely that Sony will be releasing a new flagship before the year runs out. So the Xperia Z1S might be the international version of the Sony Xperia Z1 mini, which already broke cover in Japan as the Xperia Z1 f.
Another possible theory is that what we are seeing here is the T-Mobile version of the Sony Xperia Z1. The location of the front-facing camera is different compared to the international Xperia Z1, but perhaps Sony had to shuffle a few internal components around before shipping its smartphone to the States. The name change for the US market is not uncommon either.
Given that all manufacturers are aiming to bring their lineups to the store shelves before the end of November, we'll probably see an official announcement from Sony in the next couple of weeks, solving the mystery. And there's a good chance that more leaks will fill in some of the details in the meantime. We'll keep you posted if we hear anything, so stay tuned!
Sony Xperia Z Android 4.3 update rumored to in November
A word has arrived on the potential availability of the much-awaited Android 4.3 Jelly Bean for the Sony Xperia Z. The latest Android Jelly Bean version will reportedly make it to the device in the last week of November.
There is no word on the features which the update will bring to the Sony Xperia Z. Rumor has it however, that the new version will bring significant changes to the device.
Furthermore, according to Sony Mobile Argentina, the Sony Xperia L will get Android 4.3 in mid-November. The information emerged in the official Facebook account of Sony Mobile.
Wednesday, 9 October 2013
Apple to hold an iPad unveiling event on October 22
We have been hearing rumors of Apple holding an event some time this month to announce the remainder of the products for this year's holiday season. Although it's not official yet, both AllThingsDand The Loop have confirmed through their sources that the event will take place on October 22.
Now a lot of things are being rumored to be announced during this event but the focus will be on the new iPads. By now, we have pretty much seen all that there is to see about both these devices.
The new iPad with Retina display (or the iPad 5) will feature a new design that makes it look like a bigger iPad mini. It will feature an updated SoC, possibly named A7X. The iPad mini, on the other hand, will have an A7 processor but no Retina display. Both devices will have the new M7 co-processor and Touch ID fingerprint scanner, along with the new colors: silver, space gray and gold.
Along with the new iPads, Apple is also expected to announce new MacBook Pro with Retina displays. The updated models will have the new fourth generation Intel Core processors, also known as 'Haswell', along with updated NVIDIA 7-series mobile GPU.
Apple is also expected to give an update on the new Mac Pro that they unveiled during WWDC. They will possibly be announcing the proper launch date, along with the pricing for the new Pro.
Lastly, the next version of OS X, 10.9 Mavericks, is also expected to be released on the same day on the Mac App Store. You can expect any new Macs announced on that day to ship with it pre-installed.
That's a lot of stuff for one event so for all the Apple fans out there, it seems Christmas has come early this year.
Samsung Galaxy Round with curved display goes official
Shortly after we saw it in leaked press images, Samsung took the wraps off the Galaxy Round – the world’s first smartphone with curved display. The peculiarly designed handset will be available in Korea on October 10.
Undoubtedly, the biggest highlight of the Samsung Galaxy Round is its curved display. The latter is a 5.7” Super Flexible AMOLED unit with Full HD resolution (1920 x 1080 pixels). You may remember that back in the day the Samsung-made Nexus S also had a slight curve going on, but in that case it was just the screen glass that was curved, and not the panel itself.
Samsung Galaxy Round official photos
The rest of the Samsung Galaxy Round are quite Note 3-ish: there is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 SoC with quad-core Krait CPU clocked at 2.3GHz, 3GB of RAM, 32GB of built-in memory, and microSD card slot. There’s a 13MP camera on the back of the device, a 2MP front-facing unit, as well as full connectivity suite on board.
The Samsung Galaxy Round measures are 151.1 x 79.6 x 7.9mm, while its weight tips the scale at 154g. The handset is powered by a 2,800mAh battery.
Update: Here are some live shots of the Samsung Galaxy Round.
Samsung Galaxy Round live photos
The Samsung Galaxy Round boots Android 4.3 Jelly Bean, dressed in Samsung’s latest TouchWIz UI. Samsung has naturally added a couple of tricks to utilize the curved screen of the device. They include Bounce UX for controlling the device’s music player by tapping on its sides, and Gravity Effect for interacting with the display by rolling it. You can check out the latter in action at the video below.
The Samsung Galaxy Round will be available in Luxury Brown for KRW1,089,000 (approximately $1,000). More colors will be available soon.
Unfortunately, currently there are no plans for international availability (as in outside South Korea).
Apple to hold an iPad unveiling event on October 22
We have been hearing rumors of Apple holding an event some time this month to announce the remainder of the products for this year's holiday season. Although it's not official yet, both AllThingsDand The Loop have confirmed through their sources that the event will take place on October 22.
Now a lot of things are being rumored to be announced during this event but the focus will be on the new iPads. By now, we have pretty much seen all that there is to see about both these devices.
The new iPad with Retina display (or the iPad 5) will feature a new design that makes it look like a bigger iPad mini. It will feature an updated SoC, possibly named A7X. The iPad mini, on the other hand, will have an A7 processor but no Retina display. Both devices will have the new M7 co-processor and Touch ID fingerprint scanner, along with the new colors: silver, space gray and gold.
Along with the new iPads, Apple is also expected to announce new MacBook Pro with Retina displays. The updated models will have the new fourth generation Intel Core processors, also known as 'Haswell', along with updated NVIDIA 7-series mobile GPU.
Apple is also expected to give an update on the new Mac Pro that they unveiled during WWDC. They will possibly be announcing the proper launch date, along with the pricing for the new Pro.
Lastly, the next version of OS X, 10.9 Mavericks, is also expected to be released on the same day on the Mac App Store. You can expect any new Macs announced on that day to ship with it pre-installed.
That's a lot of stuff for one event so for all the Apple fans out there, it seems Christmas has come early this year.
Sony Xperia Z1 rumored to get Android 4.4 update in November
It seems Sony is already working on the Android 4.4 update for the Xperia Z1 smartphone, according to the latest bit of rumor, the 4.4 update, named KitKat, will be released for the company's flagship device in November 7. It will then eventually be released to other devices, such as the Xperia Z Ultra at an unknown date.
The Android 4.4 update was announced very recently by Google and we know very little about it as of now other than it's name. Which is why it's heartening to see that Sony has already began working on it and will be releasing it as early as next month, assuming the rumors are true.
This also suggests that we are not far from the announcement of the next Nexus device, as that's usually when we get to see the next version of Android simultaneously.
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