Friday, May 31, 2013

Samsung Announces Galaxy S4 Mini

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Samsung yesterday announced the compact with many of the advance features of Galaxy S4, the Galaxy S4 Mini.
Samsung is marketing S4 Mini as powerful yet compact version of company’s bestselling smartphone, Galaxy S4.
Samsung galaxy S4 mini comes with 4.3 inch qHD Super AMOLED screen and runs on Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean on top of Samsung’s extensive TouchWiz customizations.
The Galaxy S4 mini boasts powerful performance, equipped with a 1.7GHz dual core processor. It comes along with a 8-megapixel rear-facing camera and 1.9-megapixel HD front-facing camera.
Here are the complete specs for Galaxy S4 Mini:
  • Processor: 1.7 GHz Dual-Core Processor
  • OS: Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean)
  • Display: 4.3”qHD (16:9 wide view) Super AMOLED
  • Dimension: 124.6 x 61.3 x 8.94mm, 107g (3G Dual SIM version:108g)
  • Memory: 8GB Internal memory (User Memory approximately 5GB) + microSD (up to 64GB), 1.5GB RAM
  • Camera:
    • Rear : 8 megapixel
    • Front: 1.9 megapixel
    • Camera Features: Sound & Shot, Night(Low Light Shot), Best Photo, Best Face, Beauty Face(include Live Beauty), HDR (High Dynamic Range), Panorama, Sports, Continuous Shot
  • Connectivity:
    • WiFi 5.0GHz a/b/g/n
    • GPS + GLONASS
    • Bluetooth® v4.0 (LE), NFC(LTE version only)
    • IR LED (Remote Control)
  • Sensor: Accelerometer, Light, Proximity, Gyro, Magnetic
  • Battery: 1,900mAh
  • Other features:
    • Group Play: Share Music, Share Picture, Share Document,
    • Play Games
    • Story Album, S Translator
    • S Travel (TripAdvisor), S Voice™,
    • S Health (Downloadable from Samsung Apps)
    • Samsung Adapt Display, Samsung Adapt Sound
    • Safety Assistance, Samsung Link, Screen Mirroring, HomeSync, Smart Switch
    • Samsung KNOX
Samsung hasn’t released any info regarding the availability or price of S4 Mini.

94.4% Bank Branches Offer Online Banking Services in Pakistan: SBP

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Over ninety-four percent of banks’ branches in Pakistan are now offering Real-Time Online Branches (RTOB) services, said a quarterly Payment System review published by State Bank of Pakistan.
Overall 9,946 branches of banks out of 10,535 now offer RTOB services across the country. The volume of overall e-banking transactions in the country also increased by 3.47 percent amounting to 82.21 million transactions and value of e-banking transactions registered a growth of 4.37 percent reaching Rs. 7.9 trillion during the third quarter of the current fiscal year, the Review added.
The Payment Systems infrastructure in the country maintained an increasing growth trend during the third quarter of FY13 and 217 more Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) were installed by various banks bringing the total number of ATMs in the country to 6,449.
The Review said that the number of plastic cards in the country also witnessed an increase of 5.06 percent in the third quarter reaching 21.77 million.
In comparison with other cards, debit cards have shown the highest percentage growth of about 5.41 percent which has raised the total number of debit cards so far issued to 19.57 million. Moreover, debit cards have the highest share in the total number of plastic cards issued in the country which is 89.94 percent in the current quarter of FY 13. Transactions through debit cards have also increased both in volume and value as compared to the previous quarter which is 6.2 percent and 8.82 percent respectively, the Review added.