Best Sellers In Amazon

The Best smartphones for 2012 are just around the corner. Some of them have already been released and there are also those that are yet to make their own grand appearances. Also, there’s no doubt that the newly announced Samsung Galaxy S3 can now be considered as one of the crowd’s favorites.

But of course, there are still a lot of good phones out there that deserve to be part of your most wanted list. That is why we have decided to create this list. Fortunately, we did manage to find the ten best smartphones that we think would create a buzz this 2012. Some of these phones are equipped with high-quality cameras while there are also those that can take pride of their high-speed dual core and quad core processors. So if you are all set to view our list, read on.

1 – Samsung Galaxy S3 aka The Next Samsung Galaxy

Even before it got officially announced, the Samsung Galaxy S 3 was already meant for stardom. Flaunting its rounded-off nature-inspired design, the Samsung Galaxy S 2 successor packs a very powerful quad core processor that has been clocked at 1.4GHz. But that’s not all.

The smartphone also boasts its Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich OS that goes along with its wide selection of intuitive functions and applications. That being said, you can take advantage of the GS3’s premium suite of features such as Smart Stay, S-Beam, Recording Snapshot, Burst Photo Shot and S-Voice. You don’t even need to question this phone’s qualifications. Plus, you’ll get a large 4.8 inch display that’s quite ideal for viewing your favorite videos.

Samsung’s much revered smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S III GT-I9300, has been the trending topic on all blog sites and reviews this past few days, following its release two days ago in London during the Samsung Mobile Unpacking 2012 event.

Finally, the rumors and speculation about Samsung latest flagship smartphone has ended after top executives of Samsung unveiled all the technical specification and features of the phone as well as its innovative accessories that will soon be available this year.

The following list showcases our pick of the 60 best free iPhone apps, and includes iPhone applications for social networking, travel, news, photography, productivity and more.

Most of these apps are also suitable for the iPod touch.

If your top free iPhone apps aren't covered, tell us all about them in the comments.
And don't forget to check out our iPhone 5 release date, news and rumours article for the latest on the next iPhone.

1. Facebook

The world's biggest social network brings a tightly honed experience to the iPhone and iPod touch, but nonetheless still enables you to access your contacts, feeds and other important information. This sense of focus makes it in many ways superior to using Facebook in a desktop browser.

2. PhotoSynth

We did a bit of a double-take on seeing Microsoft's name attached to this, not least given the lack of a price-tag. But PhotoSynth is a really great panorama app; it's user-friendly and fun to use, especially when watching your panoramas take shape while you capture them.

The greatest multi-sport event on Earth is about to begin in London, and app developers have jumped on the bandwagon, meaning there's a deluge of Olympics-related smartphone and tablet apps flooding the respective app stores.

Finding the good ones – and trust us, there are some great ones out there – can be tricky, so we've scoured the stores to bring you the very best apps for London 2012.
From apps packed with news and beautiful photography, to ones that'll help you understand each sport's rules and transport guides, we've got something for everyone, whether you're going to an event or watching from the comfort of your sofa.

1. London 2012: Official Join In App for the Olympic and Paralympic Games - Free

iPhone, Android, BlackBerry

The Olympics is about more than just the sports – a programme of arts and other events is taking place around the country, and this app helps you find what's going on near you, including details of events at your nearest Live Site. It's also got a full calendar of what sports are happening when, and if you tap through to a specific event, you'll find live photo highlights from Twitter once things kick off.

We take a look at the latest mobile platforms from Google and Apple and pitch them against each other in a head-on showdown

Google has just launched its latest Android platform, it’s version 4.1 but also known as Jelly Bean. Meanwhile, Apple is preparing iOS 6 to launch alongside the iPhone 5 very soon and it’s already been quite public about some of the new features.

In this comparison we’ll put the two side-by-side to see which comes out the best.

Design and performance

In the last three versions of Android - Honeycomb 3.2, Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) 4.0 and now Jelly Bean 4.1 - Google has made leaps and bounds in terms of establishing both a distinctive visual style and in generally improving performance, smoothness and usability, as well as making it much more stable and reliable in the process.

Aesthetically Jelly Bean certainly lives up to its sugary-treat inspired namesake. It’s kept ICS’s striking candy-like blue colour for many of the menu and interface elements, often contrasting starkly to black backgrounds. There’s plenty of white text too though and the font choice is works well for a very clean and high-tech look.

The included wallpapers follow on Google’s recent esoteric style with lots of abstract shapes and interesting palettes, while the icon and widget design ethos has also come across from ICS with lots of bright colours and a sort of cell-shaded, vector art style.

The end result is an oddball blend of a fairly minimalist and monochrome canvas for all the fundamental stuff needed for smartphone operation, such as the menus and control inputs, but then the whole thing has had plenty of noisy and bright stuff slapped on top. It shouldn’t work, but it does.

IDC believes developers are losing interest in Windows Phone. We try and find out if this is the case

Windows Phone is in a fragile state. One minute we hear what could be deemed as good news in the form of Nokia announcing four million Lumias have shipped. And then we saw a marketshare jump in July - the biggest yet, in fact.

But the world still isn't quite convinced, especially tech journalists and analysts who believe the platform hasn't got what it takes, and that Android and Apple have the market all sewn up.

And now IDC, who seems to have faith in the platform judging by past predictions, is a little weary of the Windows Marketplace and the level of developer support surrounding it.

A survey by IDC and Appcelerator found only six per cent of developers believe Windows Phone can win in the world of enterprise. This is compared with six per cent surveyed in Q3 of 2011.

Not a particularly big drop, but the gap between Windows Phone and its competitors remains significant. Developers favoured Apple with 53 per cent of votes. Second went to Android, with 37 per cent of votes.

It gets worse, according to the data. The number of developers 'very interested' in Windows Phone went from 37 per cent in Q1 of 2012, to 25 per cent in Q2 of 2012. Not a great result, then, but IDC did say this was expected, given the still secretive sales figures, the Windows Phone 8/7.8 update saga, and competitive challenges.

The display of Samsung’s latest flagship, the Galaxy S3, hovers just over the 300+ PPI (pixel per inch) mark, which, according to Steve Jobs himself, is enough for people to not be able to distinguish the individual pixels. Apple later backtracked and started releasing “Retina displays” with only 264 PPI for the new iPad, and only 220 PPI for the new Macbook Pro, claiming that the difference in viewing distance compensates for the smaller pixel density.

But Samsung is planning to make displays that are a lot sharper than the iPhone’s Retina. Thanks to advancements in in the Fine Metal Mask production technique and use of Super AMOLED technology instead of IPS LCD, Samsung will be able to achieve 350 PPI.

These next-gen displays will be used for both phones and tablets, so perhaps we’ll finally get to see that long-rumored 2560×1600 tablet from Samsung, with the also long-rumored Exynos 5250 chip.