HTC officially announced their MWC line-up of Android smartphones: One X, One XL, One S and One V

HTC officially announced their MWC line-up of Android smartphones. Unsurprisingly, the devices unveiled are the flagship One X and One XL, the mid-range One S, and the starter One V. Let's start with the most interesting one.

 HTC One X 

The One X is the most powerful Android smartphone HTC have built to date and it's built around a 4.7-inch Super LCD 2 display sporting a 720p (1280x720 pixels) resolution. A 1.5GHz quad-core Tegra 3 chip for the global edition of the phone and a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 dual-core for the LTE variant coupled with 1GB of RAM will be making sure Android 4.0 Ice Scream Sandwich is running at its best with no apps making it think twice.

At the back, the One X sports an 8MP snapper, which packs a special Dual Shutter camera module, which allows you to take photos while shooting 1080p video at the same time. We are quite impressed. And the main camera itself rocks a 22mm wide angle lens, f/2.0 aperture and a BSI sensor. Face and smile detection are on board as well as burst shooting mode up to 5fps.

Storage on the One X is limited to 32GB with no microSD card on board, but HTC compensates its lack with 25GB of free Dropbox storage for two years. NFC, DLNA, Bluetooth 3, Wi-Fi N, 3.5mm headphone jack and microUSB with MHL are on board, too. Oh, and it's also got Beats Audio enhancement, so music through that 3.5mm jack should sound extra nice.

The display of the One X is covered in 3D Gorilla Glass, which is another way of saying the screen glass is tapered on the edges as on the Nokia N9 and Lumia 800. The whole body of the phone is one piece of polycarbonate plastic, just like the N9. It's quite slim, too, measuring only 9,29mm. Impressive for a 720p screen, Tegra 3-packing (or Snapdragon S4-packing) Droid.
     
 HTC One XL

The HTC One XL is a variation of the One X but packs LTE, hence the L at the end of the phone's name. As we mentioned above, the One XL will be packing the Snapdragon S4 dual-core processor clocked at 1.5GHz.

HTC One S

The One S is the slimmer brother of the One X and as it happens is the thinnest phone HTC has ever produced.

Slimmer, but also less powerful, it's powered by a dual-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 processor on the MSM8260A platform thus making it more of a mid-range model, rather than a truly fledged flagship.

Still, the One S is packing a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED display and an 8MP shooter at the back with an f/2.0 lens and a LED flash. The audio of the One S is enhanced by Beats Audio as well.

The One S is built around HTC's usual aluminum unibody design and is just 7.6mm thick. HTC has gone the extra mile by giving the One S a crystaline ceramic metal finish, which is achieved by baking the aluminum in plasma. This whole process transforms the aluminum into ceramic making it 4 times harder and scratch resistant.
     

HTC One V

And lastly, the HTC One V is the entry level addition to the HTC line-up at MWC.

As such, it's packs a 1GHz single-core yet unspecified CPU Snapdragon S2 processor, 512MB of RAM and a 3.7-inch WVGA LCD display. The One V runs Ice Cream Sandwich, but unlike it's fellow relatives from the One family, which run Sense 4.0, the One V is coated with the older Sense 3.6.

At the back there's a 5MP camera with autofocus and f/2.0 lens recording 720p videos. Unfortunately, HTC has omitted the front-facing camera on the One V. Storage is limited to just 4GB sans microSD card slot, but a deal with HTC and Dropbox comes to the rescue. It gives users 25GB of free Dropbox online storage for 2 years.

A 1500mAh battery will give the phone its power juices while a quadband GSM and WCDMA radios will take care of the telephony. The One V also packs GPS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

The whole HTC One family of phones will be globally available come April this year.

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Highest, Longest, Tallest, Smallest, Heaviest, Fastest of Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, Insects, Fishes...

MAMMALS Largest and Heaviest Blue Whale Average length 30.5 m Largest ever recorded 33.58 m Pregnant female may weigh 203 tones Smallest Land Mammal Kitti's hog-nosed Bat (Found in Thailand)2 Wing span 16 cm weight 1.75 to 2 g Smallest Marine Mammal Probably Heaviside's dolphin (Found in South Atlantic) Length 1.22 m Weight 41 kg Rarest Mammal Rarest Mammal Aspecies of tenrec from Madagascar is only known from a single specimen. Fastest Mammal Cheetah (found in Africa, Middle East, W. Asia) can run at 100 kph over short distances. Pronhorn antelope (Found in USA) Can run at 60 kph over long distances. Slowest Mammal Three-toedsloth (found in South America) covers about 5 m a minute in trees, and only 2 m aminute on the ground. Highest Mammal Yak (found in Tibet and China) climbs to 6000 m to feed. REPTILES Largest and Heaviest Estuarine Crocodile (found in Asia, Australia) Average length (male) up to 4.3 m Longest ever recorded 8.23 m Largest Lizard Komodo dragon (found in Indonesian Island) length up to 3 m largest Turtle Pacific leatherback turtle Average length (male) up to 2.13 m weight up to 363 kg. Fastest Amphibian (On Land) Six-linedracerunner (found in USA) can run at 29 kph Fastest Amphibian (In Water) (In Water) Pacific Leatherback turtlecan swim at 35 kph Longest Snake Reticulated Python (found in India and South-east Asia) Average length more than 6 m Longest ever recorded 10 m Most Poisonous Snake Sea Snake (found in North West Australia) Most Poisonous Land Snake Fierce Snake(found in Australia) has most toxic venom. AMPHIBIANS Largest Amphibian Chinese gaintsalamander Average length 1m Longest ever recorded 1.52 m Weight 11 to 13 kg. Largest Frog Goliath Frog (found in Africa) Length of body 33.5 cm Largest Toad Probably marinetoad (found in South America) Length 22.9 cm. Largest Newt Ribbed newt (found in Africa) Length upto 40 cm Weight 450 g Highest Toad Common toad  One found in Himalayas at 8000 m Most Poisonous Kokoiarrow-poison frog (found in South America) A tiny amount of toxin is enough to kill a man. Smallest Newt Striped newt (found in USA) length 5.1 cm BIRDS Largest Bird (Flightless) North African Ostrich Height (male) 2.74 m Weight 156.5 kg eggs up to 20 cm long Largest Wing Span Wandering albatross (found in Southern Oceans) Average length (male) 3.15 m Largest ever recorded 3.6 m Smallest Bird Helena's humming bird (found in Cuba) Average length (male) 5.8 cm (head and body 1.5 cm) Weight 2 g Egg 1.14 cm long Rarest Bird Mauritius Kestrel (found in Mauritius) About 5 are thought to remain. Fastest Bird Spine-tailed swift (found in Russia and Himalayas) flies at 171 kph Longest Flight Arctic tern May cover 40,000 km a year migrating from Arctic to Antarctic and back. Fastest Under Water Gentoo Penguin swims at 36 kph Largest Nest Bald eagles one was 2.9 m wide and 6 m deep. FISHES Largest Fish  (Plankton-eating) Whale Shark Largest ever recorded 18.5 m long. Largest Fish (Meat Eating) Great white shark (the man-eater)  Average length up to 4.57 m. Heaviest Bony Fish Ocean sunfish is the heaviest largest ever recorded 2.28 tonnes. Longest Bony Fish Russian sturgeon or Beluga Length up to 8 m Fastest Fish Probably Sailfish fastest ever recorded 109 kph Most Poisonous Fish Stonefish (foundin Indian and Pacific Oceans) Poison carried in spines can cause a person's death within a few hours. Most Electric Electric eel (found in South America) can produce 400 to 500 volts. INSECTS Largest Insect Goliath beetle (found in Africa) Weight (male) 100g Longest Insect Tropical stick insect  Length up to 33 cm Largest locust Swarn A Swarn of desert locusts that crossed the Red Sea in 1889. Swarn estimated to contain 250,000,000 insects weighing about 500,000 tonnes and covering 5,000 sq. km Largest Butterfly Queen Alexandra bird wing (found in Guinea) Wing span 28 cm, weight 5 g Most Dangerous Ant Black bulldog ant (found in Australia and Tasmaina) One bite can kill a man. Fastest Wing Beat A tiny midge can beat its wings 1000 times a second.

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2012 Tech News Update: Apple iPad Mini And iPhone 5 Coming Soon!

With the launch of the iPad and release of the iPhone 4, rumors of the next version of both devices are inevitable. While launch of a new iPad will not turn many heads, an early launch of iPhone 5 is a shocker.

iPad Mini:

A seven-inch-screened version of the iPad is substantially finished and will be ready for announcement either later this year or early in 2011. Apple has been prototyping devices with screens of this size for a long time—quite possibly predating the original iPhone.

iPhone 5:

According to our source—and we have to say that we find this part hard to believe—Apple is pushing up the release date of the fifth-generation iPhone to early 2011 (as soon as January) because of the antenna issues with the iPhone 4. It’s unknown whether this will be a repackaging of iPhone 4 components in a different shell or something more substantial. We reiterate: it’s hard to believe. But as with so many seemingly far-fetched early reports, it’s not impossible.

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