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Samsung Focus 2 review
Ready for Samsung's latest entrant to the Windows Phone game? Hopefully you answered "yes," because we're about to take you through an in-depth look at such a device: the Focus 2. Around the time that we United States-based Engadgeteers were lusting over Nokia's Lumia 800 and getting to know the HTC Titan, Samsung introduced its Focus S and lower-tiered Focus Flash WP7.5 handsets. Redmond's hardware restrictions haven't exactly changed much since then, begging the question as to how the Focus 2 fits in as a late follow-up to the original Focus from back in 2010. The bulk of the answer, of course, is LTE. This handset is the only other Windows Phone aside from the Lumia 900 and HTC Titan II to feature such connectivity on Ma Bell's network. That, and it's priced at just $50 dollars on a two-year commitment. Is it a veritable steal like the Focus Flash proved to be, though? Join us past the break where we'll lay it all out.
Inside the box you'll find the Focus 2, a USB cable with a cube-shaped wall adapter, an in-ear headset and a pair of information pamphlets. Anyone familiar with T-Mobile's Galaxy Blaze 4G might feel a sense of déjà vu as they glance at the Focus 2 for the first time. The devices are similar in design, but the Focus 2 falls victim to our all-too-common complaint with Sammy-bred phones: it feels just a bit too plasticky. Samsung traded the Blaze's brushed-metal accents and textured battery cover in favor of a literally slick "Gloss Pure White" finish. The overall design ethos remains intact, though, so the device at least feels pleasing in hand. You'll find a 4-inch (WVGA) Super AMOLED display up front with Windows Phone's standard trio of backlit capacitive buttons above the bottom edge. Colors on the screen appear vibrant with gobs of contrast, the black levels are very deep and you'll get fairly good viewing angles. Tilt the device about 150 degrees, however, and you'll start noticing some color shifting.
Here's the thing: having the non-Plus variety of Super AMOLED means you're getting PenTile, and it's easily noticeable. Once you've seen a display like those belonging to the Focus Flash or even the 4.3-inch Lumia 900, it makes the 800 x 480 resolution look worse than it really is. It's especially obvious on curved borders and text, making what should be a smooth white look like grid paper. We found that it irritated our eyes and was harder to focus on than comparable displays without it. The interesting takeaway is that the Focus 2 has a slightly higher ppi than the Lumia 900 (233 pixels per inch vs. 217). It would be wise to grab a look at this phone in person to see if you can live with it.
With that detailed, it's time to move a bit below the display. The capacitive buttons are ultra-responsive like the ones we experienced on the older Focus models, and the device's vibration motor left us with unquestionably better haptic feedback than the Lumia 900. That said, that level of responsiveness becomes a pain in Landscape mode, where we repeatedly found ourselves accidentally exiting out of Netflix into Bing just like with those other Focuses. Another quirk that'll surely annoy some folks is how much the buttons light up -- they're jarring indoors, being brighter than the display on its highest setting. By the way, don't count on the vibration motor to be subtle during a quiet meeting; we noticed it makes a boop pitch that'll easily be amplified if set down on a table.
The back of the Focus 2 lays claim to a 5-megapixel sensor, LED flash and speakerphone. Peeling off the thin, snap-on battery cover reveals a micro-SIM slot and a 1,750mAh battery to keep the handset juiced. A chunky stripe of chrome plastic wraps around the edges of device breaking up its milky white complexion. On the right, it houses a power button and a two-stage shutter release, along with a volume rocker on the left. All of the buttons have a pleasing click without being too stiff, but they do feel just a little wobbly like we noted on the Lumia 800. The shutter button feels especially great, however, only requiring a light tap to grab a photo without inducing any shake. That leaves us with the top of the device, where there's a 3.5mm headset jack and secondary noise-cancelling microphone, and the bottom which houses the main microphone and micro-USB port.
If you caught our initial hands-on, one point that still resonates with us is how small it feels in hand. Despite having a 4-inch screen, it doesn't seem much bigger than the Galaxy S or even an iPhone 3GS. It's only if you put these devices back-to-back when it becomes apparent the Focus 2 is larger. We've got a nifty chart that goes over the key specs of the Focus 2 below, compared to the Titan II and Lumia 900 for perspective.
HTC Titan II Samsung Focus 2 Nokia Lumia 900
Dimensions 5.2 x 2.7 x 0.4 inches
(132 x 69 x 10.2mm) 4.79 x 2.47 x 0.43 inches
(121.7 x 62.7 x 10.9 mm) 5.03 x 2.7 x 0.45 inches (127.8 x 68.5 x 11.5mm)
Weight 6.1 oz (173g) 4.3 oz (122g) 5.64 oz (160g)
Screen size 4.7 inches 4 inches 4.3 inches
Screen resolution 800 x 480 (199ppi) 800 x 480 (233ppi) 800 x 480 (217ppi)
Screen type S-LCD Super AMOLED (PenTile) ClearBlack sAMOLED+
Battery 1,730mAh 1,750mAh 1,830mAh
CPU 1.5GHz single-core Qualcomm MSM8255T (Snapdragon S2) 1.4GHz single-core Qualcomm (Snapdragon S2) 1.4GHz single-core Qualcomm APQ8055 (Snapdragon S2)
GPU Adreno 205 Adreno 205 Adreno 205
RAM 512MB 512MB 512MB
Internal storage 16GB 8GB 16GB
External storage None None None
Rear camera 16MP, f/2.6 5 MP 8MP, f/2.2
Front-facing camera 1.3MP VGA 1.0MP
Video capture 720p HD 720p HD (30fps) 720p HD
NFC No No No
Radios Quadband GSM / EDGE; HSPA+ 850 / 1900 / 2100; LTE 700 / 1700 Quadband GSM / EDGE; HSPA+ 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100; LTE 700 / 1700 Quadband GSM / EDGE / ; HSPA+ 850 / 1900 / 2100; LTE 700 / 1700
Network speeds LTE, HSPA+ LTE, HSPA+ LTE, HSPA+ 21.1Mbps
Bluetooth 2.1+EDR 2.1+EDR 2.1+EDR
MHL No -- Yes
Internet Sharing Yes Yes Yes
FM Radio Yes Yes Yes
SIM card Standard Micro Micro
It's getting tiresome to note that a new Windows Phone performs about the same as the others on the software front, but that's exactly the case here. Given the hardware restrictions that will remain in place until Windows Phone 8 hits, you're left with a 1.4GHz single-core CPU, an Adreno 205 GPU and 512MB of RAM to run your phone. As such, there are no surprises here, with the device averaging a WP Bench score of 87.2 after ten runs -- predictably not far behind every other Windows Phone we've used.
Performance is usually smooth, but it's not ultra-zippy like the latest iPhone and top tier of Android flagships. It's not likely to be an issue as long as you're not an extreme power user -- heck, at least three Engadget editors manage to use Mango devices as their daily drivers, so we really mean it when we say "extreme." Apps generally load fairly quickly, but we occasionally experienced load-screen hangups while trying to access basics like Messages and Twitter. Aside from that and some mild stuttering when swiping around, we'd be hard-pressed to say any of the Windows Phone flagships perform materially better. The main concern we have with the Focus 2 rests with its 8GB (6.51GB user-accessible) of non-expandable storage. Despite having powerful connectivity, it leaves us to think that Samsung is forcibly positioning an otherwise solid device into the newbie smartphone owner territory -- that, or it's hoping you love SkyDrive.
Of course, running over HSPA+ and LTE can do a number on your battery life, so how does it fare here?
Samsung Focus 2 Samsung Focus S Nokia Lumia 900 HTC Titan II
WP Bench 87.2 91.54 92 94.5
Battery rundown 4:47 4:24 4:29 2:50
SunSpider (ms, lower numbers are better) 7,058 6,914 6,902 6,445
Using a Lumia 900 alongside the Focus 2, we really didn't find much of a difference between their running times. As long as you're not tethering over LTE and HSPA+ for about three hours a day like we do, you'll easily be able to eke out more than a day's worth of life -- so long as Mango's battery saver is turned on. Even adding in a light amount of Netflix streaming, a handful of calls, texting, a few camera shots and light browsing, we could probably make it through a normal workday without an outlet. That said, the Focus 2 managed to last 18 minutes longer than the Lumia 900's four hours and 29 minutes in WP Bench's CPU-intensive battery rundown. It's not a whopping achievement by any means, but if battery life is your main concern for a Windows Phone then look no further.
Speaking of radio signals, let's talk about speeds. Using BandWidth, we were able to record LTE throughput as high as about 10Mbps down (with peaks up to 13) and 5Mbps up in San Francisco. Tethering to a laptop in Midtown Manhattan, the best we manged was around 5 Mbps down and 4 Mbps up according to SpeedTest.net. Considering we've seen upwards of 21 Mbps down on the Lumia 900 and Titan II, we're disappointed that, in our LTE trials, the phone couldn't make it out of the speed zone that's common for HSPA+. Web browsing in IE9 is usually just peppy enough, but as our most accurate SunSpider score shows (7,058ms +/- 0.3 percent), it's a bit slower than the rest of the pack. We experienced load times in excess of a minute to fully load pages over WiFi with the Lumia 900, and the results aren't any better here. You won't catch any checkerboarding, but scroll down a long webpage and you'll be greeted by a sea of white for a second or two.
Filed Under Cellphones, Wireless
Samsung Focus 2 review
By Joe Pollicino posted May 26th 2012 12:00PM
Review
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Ready for Samsung's latest entrant to the Windows Phone game? Hopefully you answered "yes," because we're about to take you through an in-depth look at such a device: the Focus 2. Around the time that we United States-based Engadgeteers were lusting over Nokia's Lumia 800 and getting to know the HTC Titan, Samsung introduced its Focus S and lower-tiered Focus Flash WP7.5 handsets. Redmond's hardware restrictions haven't exactly changed much since then, begging the question as to how the Focus 2 fits in as a late follow-up to the original Focus from back in 2010. The bulk of the answer, of course, is LTE. This handset is the only other Windows Phone aside from the Lumia 900 and HTC Titan II to feature such connectivity on Ma Bell's network. That, and it's priced at just $50 dollars on a two-year commitment. Is it a veritable steal like the Focus Flash proved to be, though? Join us past the break where we'll lay it all out.
Samsung Focus 2 review
Hardware
Inside the box you'll find the Focus 2, a USB cable with a cube-shaped wall adapter, an in-ear headset and a pair of information pamphlets. Anyone familiar with T-Mobile's Galaxy Blaze 4G might feel a sense of déjà vu as they glance at the Focus 2 for the first time. The devices are similar in design, but the Focus 2 falls victim to our all-too-common complaint with Sammy-bred phones: it feels just a bit too plasticky. Samsung traded the Blaze's brushed-metal accents and textured battery cover in favor of a literally slick "Gloss Pure White" finish. The overall design ethos remains intact, though, so the device at least feels pleasing in hand. You'll find a 4-inch (WVGA) Super AMOLED display up front with Windows Phone's standard trio of backlit capacitive buttons above the bottom edge. Colors on the screen appear vibrant with gobs of contrast, the black levels are very deep and you'll get fairly good viewing angles. Tilt the device about 150 degrees, however, and you'll start noticing some color shifting.
Having the non-Plus variety of Super AMOLED means you're getting PenTile, and it's beyond easily noticeable.
Here's the thing: having the non-Plus variety of Super AMOLED means you're getting PenTile, and it's easily noticeable. Once you've seen a display like those belonging to the Focus Flash or even the 4.3-inch Lumia 900, it makes the 800 x 480 resolution look worse than it really is. It's especially obvious on curved borders and text, making what should be a smooth white look like grid paper. We found that it irritated our eyes and was harder to focus on than comparable displays without it. The interesting takeaway is that the Focus 2 has a slightly higher ppi than the Lumia 900 (233 pixels per inch vs. 217). It would be wise to grab a look at this phone in person to see if you can live with it.
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With that detailed, it's time to move a bit below the display. The capacitive buttons are ultra-responsive like the ones we experienced on the older Focus models, and the device's vibration motor left us with unquestionably better haptic feedback than the Lumia 900. That said, that level of responsiveness becomes a pain in Landscape mode, where we repeatedly found ourselves accidentally exiting out of Netflix into Bing just like with those other Focuses. Another quirk that'll surely annoy some folks is how much the buttons light up -- they're jarring indoors, being brighter than the display on its highest setting. By the way, don't count on the vibration motor to be subtle during a quiet meeting; we noticed it makes a boop pitch that'll easily be amplified if set down on a table.
Image
The back of the Focus 2 lays claim to a 5-megapixel sensor, LED flash and speakerphone. Peeling off the thin, snap-on battery cover reveals a micro-SIM slot and a 1,750mAh battery to keep the handset juiced. A chunky stripe of chrome plastic wraps around the edges of device breaking up its milky white complexion. On the right, it houses a power button and a two-stage shutter release, along with a volume rocker on the left. All of the buttons have a pleasing click without being too stiff, but they do feel just a little wobbly like we noted on the Lumia 800. The shutter button feels especially great, however, only requiring a light tap to grab a photo without inducing any shake. That leaves us with the top of the device, where there's a 3.5mm headset jack and secondary noise-cancelling microphone, and the bottom which houses the main microphone and micro-USB port.
If you caught our initial hands-on, one point that still resonates with us is how small it feels in hand. Despite having a 4-inch screen, it doesn't seem much bigger than the Galaxy S or even an iPhone 3GS. It's only if you put these devices back-to-back when it becomes apparent the Focus 2 is larger. We've got a nifty chart that goes over the key specs of the Focus 2 below, compared to the Titan II and Lumia 900 for perspective.
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HTC Titan II Samsung Focus 2 Nokia Lumia 900
Dimensions 5.2 x 2.7 x 0.4 inches
(132 x 69 x 10.2mm) 4.79 x 2.47 x 0.43 inches
(121.7 x 62.7 x 10.9 mm) 5.03 x 2.7 x 0.45 inches (127.8 x 68.5 x 11.5mm)
Weight 6.1 oz (173g) 4.3 oz (122g) 5.64 oz (160g)
Screen size 4.7 inches 4 inches 4.3 inches
Screen resolution 800 x 480 (199ppi) 800 x 480 (233ppi) 800 x 480 (217ppi)
Screen type S-LCD Super AMOLED (PenTile) ClearBlack sAMOLED+
Battery 1,730mAh 1,750mAh 1,830mAh
CPU 1.5GHz single-core Qualcomm MSM8255T (Snapdragon S2) 1.4GHz single-core Qualcomm (Snapdragon S2) 1.4GHz single-core Qualcomm APQ8055 (Snapdragon S2)
GPU Adreno 205 Adreno 205 Adreno 205
RAM 512MB 512MB 512MB
Internal storage 16GB 8GB 16GB
External storage None None None
Rear camera 16MP, f/2.6 5 MP 8MP, f/2.2
Front-facing camera 1.3MP VGA 1.0MP
Video capture 720p HD 720p HD (30fps) 720p HD
NFC No No No
Radios Quadband GSM / EDGE; HSPA+ 850 / 1900 / 2100; LTE 700 / 1700 Quadband GSM / EDGE; HSPA+ 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100; LTE 700 / 1700 Quadband GSM / EDGE / ; HSPA+ 850 / 1900 / 2100; LTE 700 / 1700
Network speeds LTE, HSPA+ LTE, HSPA+ LTE, HSPA+ 21.1Mbps
Bluetooth 2.1+EDR 2.1+EDR 2.1+EDR
MHL No -- Yes
Internet Sharing Yes Yes Yes
FM Radio Yes Yes Yes
SIM card Standard Micro Micro
Performance and battery life
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It's getting tiresome to note that a new Windows Phone performs about the same as the others on the software front, but that's exactly the case here. Given the hardware restrictions that will remain in place until Windows Phone 8 hits, you're left with a 1.4GHz single-core CPU, an Adreno 205 GPU and 512MB of RAM to run your phone. As such, there are no surprises here, with the device averaging a WP Bench score of 87.2 after ten runs -- predictably not far behind every other Windows Phone we've used.
Performance is usually smooth, but it's not ultra-zippy like the latest iPhone and top tier of Android flagships. It's not likely to be an issue as long as you're not an extreme power user -- heck, at least three Engadget editors manage to use Mango devices as their daily drivers, so we really mean it when we say "extreme." Apps generally load fairly quickly, but we occasionally experienced load-screen hangups while trying to access basics like Messages and Twitter. Aside from that and some mild stuttering when swiping around, we'd be hard-pressed to say any of the Windows Phone flagships perform materially better. The main concern we have with the Focus 2 rests with its 8GB (6.51GB user-accessible) of non-expandable storage. Despite having powerful connectivity, it leaves us to think that Samsung is forcibly positioning an otherwise solid device into the newbie smartphone owner territory -- that, or it's hoping you love SkyDrive.
Of course, running over HSPA+ and LTE can do a number on your battery life, so how does it fare here?
Samsung Focus 2 Samsung Focus S Nokia Lumia 900 HTC Titan II
WP Bench 87.2 91.54 92 94.5
Battery rundown 4:47 4:24 4:29 2:50
SunSpider (ms, lower numbers are better) 7,058 6,914 6,902 6,445
Using a Lumia 900 alongside the Focus 2, we really didn't find much of a difference between their running times. As long as you're not tethering over LTE and HSPA+ for about three hours a day like we do, you'll easily be able to eke out more than a day's worth of life -- so long as Mango's battery saver is turned on. Even adding in a light amount of Netflix streaming, a handful of calls, texting, a few camera shots and light browsing, we could probably make it through a normal workday without an outlet. That said, the Focus 2 managed to last 18 minutes longer than the Lumia 900's four hours and 29 minutes in WP Bench's CPU-intensive battery rundown. It's not a whopping achievement by any means, but if battery life is your main concern for a Windows Phone then look no further.
If battery life is your main concern for a Windows Phone then look no further.
Speaking of radio signals, let's talk about speeds. Using BandWidth, we were able to record LTE throughput as high as about 10Mbps down (with peaks up to 13) and 5Mbps up in San Francisco. Tethering to a laptop in Midtown Manhattan, the best we manged was around 5 Mbps down and 4 Mbps up according to SpeedTest.net. Considering we've seen upwards of 21 Mbps down on the Lumia 900 and Titan II, we're disappointed that, in our LTE trials, the phone couldn't make it out of the speed zone that's common for HSPA+. Web browsing in IE9 is usually just peppy enough, but as our most accurate SunSpider score shows (7,058ms +/- 0.3 percent), it's a bit slower than the rest of the pack. We experienced load times in excess of a minute to fully load pages over WiFi with the Lumia 900, and the results aren't any better here. You won't catch any checkerboarding, but scroll down a long webpage and you'll be greeted by a sea of white for a second or two.
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Lackluster speeds aside, we came away quite impressed with the audio quality on the Focus 2. Compared to the Lumia 900, the device has much less hiss in the signal and a bit less grit to overall sound, with headphones plugged in. Although WP7.5 still can't seamlessly transition between two tracks without a quick pause, we didn't experience any popping like we do with the 900. Unluckily enough for Nokia's flagship, it doesn't stop there -- the Focus 2's earpiece produced clearer audio, without the slightest hints of metallic tones like the Lumia produces. Even the speakerphone sounds clearer, making the 900's sound a bit muddier and condensed in comparison (it's sound is noticeably thicker, however). Interestingly enough, the Focus 2 also has a hotter volume output (at least in the lower volume settings) through its headphone jack, needing only to hit 3 or 4 out of 30 when the Lumia needed to be near 15 to achieve the same output. With both devices, though, callers on the other end didn't have any complaints about hearing us. The Lumia 900 is certainly a good performer in the voice quality department, but there's no question that Samsung's lower-tiered device comes out a step ahead. And in case you're wondering, the included in-ear headphones are essentially (save for the inline remote and mic) what you'd get with a Galaxy Player: passable at best.
Let's start this section by stating that, no, this 5-megapixel shooter won't rival your Canon S95s. It does have some redeeming qualities, however, especially when pit it against the Lumia 900. Once you get into the Focus 2's live screen, the 900's look awful by comparison -- the framerate is smoother while panning, and the dreaded pink center that other WP7.5 devices suffer from is at least less obvious. The Lumia 900 does produce sharper images with more information and a wider angle thanks to its 8-megapixel sensor and 28mm lens, but the Focus 2 never slipped up with auto white balance like the 900 does on nearly every shot.
Its contrast levels are a bit over the top on auto and highlights tended to get blown out easily, but you can always adjust your settings thanks to Windows Phone's plethora of manual options. Low-light performance from the Focus is acceptable.The images produced are noticeably less noisy than the Lumia, but the shots do come out a bit darker. The lens also suffers from some extreme flare-ups when any bright lights from cars and the like are introduced, so don't bet on anything other than artsy results in those types of situations. We were able to achieve better bokeh from the macro mode on the Focus 2 than the 900, but it had had a tendency to focus on the background in challenging light situations. The time it'll take to catch focus with both devices is about the same: not particularly quick. You'd be better off just whipping out a standalone camera if you're hoping to catch moving subjects, as you're results will always have a bit of blur. You'll also find a 4x digital zoom, but we'd steer clear of it as the results are worse than the VGA front-facing camera. Speaking of that, it'll do okay for videocalls. Pictures? Spare yourself the grief and don't even go for it. Overall, the cameras onboard are just good enough and the Lumia's results are largely better -- even if it means some extra tweaking to make it happen.
Filed Under Cellphones, Wireless
Samsung Focus 2 review
By Joe Pollicino posted May 26th 2012 12:00PM
Review
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Ready for Samsung's latest entrant to the Windows Phone game? Hopefully you answered "yes," because we're about to take you through an in-depth look at such a device: the Focus 2. Around the time that we United States-based Engadgeteers were lusting over Nokia's Lumia 800 and getting to know the HTC Titan, Samsung introduced its Focus S and lower-tiered Focus Flash WP7.5 handsets. Redmond's hardware restrictions haven't exactly changed much since then, begging the question as to how the Focus 2 fits in as a late follow-up to the original Focus from back in 2010. The bulk of the answer, of course, is LTE. This handset is the only other Windows Phone aside from the Lumia 900 and HTC Titan II to feature such connectivity on Ma Bell's network. That, and it's priced at just $50 dollars on a two-year commitment. Is it a veritable steal like the Focus Flash proved to be, though? Join us past the break where we'll lay it all out.
Samsung Focus 2 review
Hardware
Inside the box you'll find the Focus 2, a USB cable with a cube-shaped wall adapter, an in-ear headset and a pair of information pamphlets. Anyone familiar with T-Mobile's Galaxy Blaze 4G might feel a sense of déjà vu as they glance at the Focus 2 for the first time. The devices are similar in design, but the Focus 2 falls victim to our all-too-common complaint with Sammy-bred phones: it feels just a bit too plasticky. Samsung traded the Blaze's brushed-metal accents and textured battery cover in favor of a literally slick "Gloss Pure White" finish. The overall design ethos remains intact, though, so the device at least feels pleasing in hand. You'll find a 4-inch (WVGA) Super AMOLED display up front with Windows Phone's standard trio of backlit capacitive buttons above the bottom edge. Colors on the screen appear vibrant with gobs of contrast, the black levels are very deep and you'll get fairly good viewing angles. Tilt the device about 150 degrees, however, and you'll start noticing some color shifting.
Having the non-Plus variety of Super AMOLED means you're getting PenTile, and it's beyond easily noticeable.
Here's the thing: having the non-Plus variety of Super AMOLED means you're getting PenTile, and it's easily noticeable. Once you've seen a display like those belonging to the Focus Flash or even the 4.3-inch Lumia 900, it makes the 800 x 480 resolution look worse than it really is. It's especially obvious on curved borders and text, making what should be a smooth white look like grid paper. We found that it irritated our eyes and was harder to focus on than comparable displays without it. The interesting takeaway is that the Focus 2 has a slightly higher ppi than the Lumia 900 (233 pixels per inch vs. 217). It would be wise to grab a look at this phone in person to see if you can live with it.
Image
With that detailed, it's time to move a bit below the display. The capacitive buttons are ultra-responsive like the ones we experienced on the older Focus models, and the device's vibration motor left us with unquestionably better haptic feedback than the Lumia 900. That said, that level of responsiveness becomes a pain in Landscape mode, where we repeatedly found ourselves accidentally exiting out of Netflix into Bing just like with those other Focuses. Another quirk that'll surely annoy some folks is how much the buttons light up -- they're jarring indoors, being brighter than the display on its highest setting. By the way, don't count on the vibration motor to be subtle during a quiet meeting; we noticed it makes a boop pitch that'll easily be amplified if set down on a table.
Image
The back of the Focus 2 lays claim to a 5-megapixel sensor, LED flash and speakerphone. Peeling off the thin, snap-on battery cover reveals a micro-SIM slot and a 1,750mAh battery to keep the handset juiced. A chunky stripe of chrome plastic wraps around the edges of device breaking up its milky white complexion. On the right, it houses a power button and a two-stage shutter release, along with a volume rocker on the left. All of the buttons have a pleasing click without being too stiff, but they do feel just a little wobbly like we noted on the Lumia 800. The shutter button feels especially great, however, only requiring a light tap to grab a photo without inducing any shake. That leaves us with the top of the device, where there's a 3.5mm headset jack and secondary noise-cancelling microphone, and the bottom which houses the main microphone and micro-USB port.
If you caught our initial hands-on, one point that still resonates with us is how small it feels in hand. Despite having a 4-inch screen, it doesn't seem much bigger than the Galaxy S or even an iPhone 3GS. It's only if you put these devices back-to-back when it becomes apparent the Focus 2 is larger. We've got a nifty chart that goes over the key specs of the Focus 2 below, compared to the Titan II and Lumia 900 for perspective.
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HTC Titan II Samsung Focus 2 Nokia Lumia 900
Dimensions 5.2 x 2.7 x 0.4 inches
(132 x 69 x 10.2mm) 4.79 x 2.47 x 0.43 inches
(121.7 x 62.7 x 10.9 mm) 5.03 x 2.7 x 0.45 inches (127.8 x 68.5 x 11.5mm)
Weight 6.1 oz (173g) 4.3 oz (122g) 5.64 oz (160g)
Screen size 4.7 inches 4 inches 4.3 inches
Screen resolution 800 x 480 (199ppi) 800 x 480 (233ppi) 800 x 480 (217ppi)
Screen type S-LCD Super AMOLED (PenTile) ClearBlack sAMOLED+
Battery 1,730mAh 1,750mAh 1,830mAh
CPU 1.5GHz single-core Qualcomm MSM8255T (Snapdragon S2) 1.4GHz single-core Qualcomm (Snapdragon S2) 1.4GHz single-core Qualcomm APQ8055 (Snapdragon S2)
GPU Adreno 205 Adreno 205 Adreno 205
RAM 512MB 512MB 512MB
Internal storage 16GB 8GB 16GB
External storage None None None
Rear camera 16MP, f/2.6 5 MP 8MP, f/2.2
Front-facing camera 1.3MP VGA 1.0MP
Video capture 720p HD 720p HD (30fps) 720p HD
NFC No No No
Radios Quadband GSM / EDGE; HSPA+ 850 / 1900 / 2100; LTE 700 / 1700 Quadband GSM / EDGE; HSPA+ 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100; LTE 700 / 1700 Quadband GSM / EDGE / ; HSPA+ 850 / 1900 / 2100; LTE 700 / 1700
Network speeds LTE, HSPA+ LTE, HSPA+ LTE, HSPA+ 21.1Mbps
Bluetooth 2.1+EDR 2.1+EDR 2.1+EDR
MHL No -- Yes
Internet Sharing Yes Yes Yes
FM Radio Yes Yes Yes
SIM card Standard Micro Micro
Performance and battery life
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It's getting tiresome to note that a new Windows Phone performs about the same as the others on the software front, but that's exactly the case here. Given the hardware restrictions that will remain in place until Windows Phone 8 hits, you're left with a 1.4GHz single-core CPU, an Adreno 205 GPU and 512MB of RAM to run your phone. As such, there are no surprises here, with the device averaging a WP Bench score of 87.2 after ten runs -- predictably not far behind every other Windows Phone we've used.
Performance is usually smooth, but it's not ultra-zippy like the latest iPhone and top tier of Android flagships. It's not likely to be an issue as long as you're not an extreme power user -- heck, at least three Engadget editors manage to use Mango devices as their daily drivers, so we really mean it when we say "extreme." Apps generally load fairly quickly, but we occasionally experienced load-screen hangups while trying to access basics like Messages and Twitter. Aside from that and some mild stuttering when swiping around, we'd be hard-pressed to say any of the Windows Phone flagships perform materially better. The main concern we have with the Focus 2 rests with its 8GB (6.51GB user-accessible) of non-expandable storage. Despite having powerful connectivity, it leaves us to think that Samsung is forcibly positioning an otherwise solid device into the newbie smartphone owner territory -- that, or it's hoping you love SkyDrive.
Of course, running over HSPA+ and LTE can do a number on your battery life, so how does it fare here?
Samsung Focus 2 Samsung Focus S Nokia Lumia 900 HTC Titan II
WP Bench 87.2 91.54 92 94.5
Battery rundown 4:47 4:24 4:29 2:50
SunSpider (ms, lower numbers are better) 7,058 6,914 6,902 6,445
Using a Lumia 900 alongside the Focus 2, we really didn't find much of a difference between their running times. As long as you're not tethering over LTE and HSPA+ for about three hours a day like we do, you'll easily be able to eke out more than a day's worth of life -- so long as Mango's battery saver is turned on. Even adding in a light amount of Netflix streaming, a handful of calls, texting, a few camera shots and light browsing, we could probably make it through a normal workday without an outlet. That said, the Focus 2 managed to last 18 minutes longer than the Lumia 900's four hours and 29 minutes in WP Bench's CPU-intensive battery rundown. It's not a whopping achievement by any means, but if battery life is your main concern for a Windows Phone then look no further.
If battery life is your main concern for a Windows Phone then look no further.
Speaking of radio signals, let's talk about speeds. Using BandWidth, we were able to record LTE throughput as high as about 10Mbps down (with peaks up to 13) and 5Mbps up in San Francisco. Tethering to a laptop in Midtown Manhattan, the best we manged was around 5 Mbps down and 4 Mbps up according to SpeedTest.net. Considering we've seen upwards of 21 Mbps down on the Lumia 900 and Titan II, we're disappointed that, in our LTE trials, the phone couldn't make it out of the speed zone that's common for HSPA+. Web browsing in IE9 is usually just peppy enough, but as our most accurate SunSpider score shows (7,058ms +/- 0.3 percent), it's a bit slower than the rest of the pack. We experienced load times in excess of a minute to fully load pages over WiFi with the Lumia 900, and the results aren't any better here. You won't catch any checkerboarding, but scroll down a long webpage and you'll be greeted by a sea of white for a second or two.
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Lackluster speeds aside, we came away quite impressed with the audio quality on the Focus 2. Compared to the Lumia 900, the device has much less hiss in the signal and a bit less grit to overall sound, with headphones plugged in. Although WP7.5 still can't seamlessly transition between two tracks without a quick pause, we didn't experience any popping like we do with the 900. Unluckily enough for Nokia's flagship, it doesn't stop there -- the Focus 2's earpiece produced clearer audio, without the slightest hints of metallic tones like the Lumia produces. Even the speakerphone sounds clearer, making the 900's sound a bit muddier and condensed in comparison (it's sound is noticeably thicker, however). Interestingly enough, the Focus 2 also has a hotter volume output (at least in the lower volume settings) through its headphone jack, needing only to hit 3 or 4 out of 30 when the Lumia needed to be near 15 to achieve the same output. With both devices, though, callers on the other end didn't have any complaints about hearing us. The Lumia 900 is certainly a good performer in the voice quality department, but there's no question that Samsung's lower-tiered device comes out a step ahead. And in case you're wondering, the included in-ear headphones are essentially (save for the inline remote and mic) what you'd get with a Galaxy Player: passable at best.
Camera
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Let's start this section by stating that, no, this 5-megapixel shooter won't rival your Canon S95s. It does have some redeeming qualities, however, especially when pit it against the Lumia 900. Once you get into the Focus 2's live screen, the 900's look awful by comparison -- the framerate is smoother while panning, and the dreaded pink center that other WP7.5 devices suffer from is at least less obvious. The Lumia 900 does produce sharper images with more information and a wider angle thanks to its 8-megapixel sensor and 28mm lens, but the Focus 2 never slipped up with auto white balance like the 900 does on nearly every shot.
Samsung Focus 2 sample images
Its contrast levels are a bit over the top on auto and highlights tended to get blown out easily, but you can always adjust your settings thanks to Windows Phone's plethora of manual options. Low-light performance from the Focus is acceptable.The images produced are noticeably less noisy than the Lumia, but the shots do come out a bit darker. The lens also suffers from some extreme flare-ups when any bright lights from cars and the like are introduced, so don't bet on anything other than artsy results in those types of situations. We were able to achieve better bokeh from the macro mode on the Focus 2 than the 900, but it had had a tendency to focus on the background in challenging light situations. The time it'll take to catch focus with both devices is about the same: not particularly quick. You'd be better off just whipping out a standalone camera if you're hoping to catch moving subjects, as you're results will always have a bit of blur. You'll also find a 4x digital zoom, but we'd steer clear of it as the results are worse than the VGA front-facing camera. Speaking of that, it'll do okay for videocalls. Pictures? Spare yourself the grief and don't even go for it. Overall, the cameras onboard are just good enough and the Lumia's results are largely better -- even if it means some extra tweaking to make it happen.
Let's talk about moving images now. That rear shooter is also capable enough to capture VGA and 720p HD video (30fps). Video quality, like the photos, is just good enough to get the job done. Colors come through naturally, but you'll also be dealing with a fair amount of rolling shutter, lens-flaring, blown-out highs and wobbling from the slightest movements (there's no image stabilization to speak of). Far as we can tell you're also stuck with a fixed focus, but thankfully, exposure is continuously adjusted automatically. The audio results for video, unlike the rest of of the phone, comes out as compressed garbage to be blunt. As you can hear in our sample video, our blabbering easily clips the signal as it tries to compensate for the traffic whizzing by. You'll also notice that the birds chirping sound more like harsh squeals, and that the overall sound is tinny. The most annoying aspect we dealt with is that video defaults to VGA, meaning you'll likely miss many quickly-passing moving if you want to shoot in HD.
Software
Remember Windows Phone 7.5 Mango? Yeah, it's exactly the same Metro-styled UI with Live Tiles and sparse customizability options you either love, hate or have learned to live with. Samsung and AT&T have added their usual array of bloatware apps, but you can delete all of them to free up more of that spare storage space. On the AT&T front, there's U-Verse Mobile, Family Map, Navigator, YPmobile and surprisingly useful Code Scanner, while Samsung packs in its usual Now news and weather aggregator and Photo Studio editor. Unlike most crapware we actually found ourselves using these two Samsung additions a great deal -- the Now application easily trumps Redmond's baked-in weather app. You'll also find these and other exclusive bits in the AT&T Featured and Samsung Zone sections within the Marketplace, leaving us to again wonder why they have to come pre-loaded on the device in the first place. Notably, Samsung's free Photogram app gave us access to some nifty filters like HDR and Glow, which gives you more options in addition to the likes of Lomoshot and Dreamshot found in Photo Studio. We'd be remiss not to mention that Photo Studio also enables other goodies like a Panorama mode.
Wrap-up
We're really at a toss-up with the Samsung Focus 2. We find ourselves reluctant to fall in love with the current crop of devices as the next version of Windows Phone looms ever closer, but geez does the Focus 2 tug on our geeky heartstrings. When it comes down to it, we feel like Samsung is playing love games with us on this one. You've now got a $50 option for an LTE-capable Windows Phone that can outlive the batteries of the $100 Lumia 900 and $200 Titan II and outperform at least one on audio quality, marred by a PenTile display, a paltry 6.51GB of user-accesible and non-expandable storage, and slow LTE speeds. Furthermore, the overall package doesn't serve as a compelling upgrade from even the earlier Focus models unless your heart is set on LTE and tethering. Every day that we get closer to Apollo it gets harder to recommend the likes of the Lumia 900 and the HTC Titan II on AT&T's network, making the lower-tiered Focus 2 an even harder sell. There's no question that the Focus 2 is a solid little handset, but we also have no doubt that when faced with a two-year agreement the Lumia 900 is still the best bang for your buck if you can pony up the extra $50.
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Gambling News Month in Review, May 2012,
It seems that bad news is following the French gambling group of Bernard Tapie. This comes as a result of the statement that was announced by Groupe Bernard Tapie regarding the fact that it will postpone the much anticipated International Stadium Poker Tour until the end of May of 2013. This comes as the second spurt of bad news following its failure to buy out Full Tilt Poker. This tour was previously planned to happen in the Wembley stadium in London, it was planned to happen by the end of 2012. It was advertised through a set of videos by the ISPT, it was going to be a live tournament with 600 Euros buy in. It was going to have online satellite support which would result in an outstanding number of thirty thousand players in the stadium of Wembley for the biggest poker tournament ever.
The next step that players will start to eliminate each other until the players left are only 10 % of the players who started. These 10 % will then sit on a final table in order to win the tournament, the fame and of course, the amazing prize of 20 million Euros. The question that is risen is the about the fact that the gambling group, Groupe Bernard Tapie, and their partner Prosper Masquelier don’t have any big internet poker websites or operations, so how were they planning to host such a complicated and a worldwide poker live tournament like this one? Answer unknown, but it might be the reason behind the postponing. Maybe they were counting on the purchase of FTP, but when that failed, they had to postpone it.
Riviera Casino Las Vegas and Buffalo Studios
Riviera Casino, the very famous land based casino of Las Vegas has entered a partnership with Buffalo Studios, which is a step towards the entrance of virtual bingo to Las Vegas. Buffalo Studios is the same company that developed the software for the very famous bingo game on Facebook, Bingo Blitz.
Virtual Bingo Partnership
The reason behind this new partnership and the whole virtual bingo project was announced by Andy Chody, the CEO of the Riviera Casino. He said that this project aims to give the land casino a much needed aid in order to expand its customer base and attract more players and to make a great expansion in their internet gaming section. This new virtual bingo game will go live on Monday, on this date; customers will have the ability to enjoy virtual bingo on the Web page of the Riviera Casino. This game will be filled with a lot of cash bonuses, prizes and several promotions from the Riviera Casino. One of them is a free trip to visit and become an attendant in the $200,000 bingo tournament of the Riviera Casino that takes place twice each year.
This partnership that the company is having with Bingo Blitz is considered a major step in Riviera Casino’s quest to provide its services to a new age group, the youth and the teens. Commenting on this, the vice presidents from Buffalo Studios stated that it is a known fact that bingo is a very social game, so they have translated that into a very social online game to provide the players with the best online and social experience.
Betfair Releasing New Site
According to sources, the internet gambling company, Betfair is going to release its newest website. This website is planned to be its most recent betting website with fixed odds. This new website will result in a head to head competition with the standard bookmakers. This website is planned to be launched and ready to get into the action by the time of the 2012 football event, the Euro Championship 2012. This website is going to increase and expand the online reach of the company. Such expansion in the realm of online sport gambling is considered a disadvantage by the company.
Betfair has over four million gamblers in its records; with such numbers, that surely makes Betfair a competitor with noticeable weight that would make other companies and betting sites fear and account for. This new website is going to make Betfair able to take almost 30% of the punters betting that are going somewhere else outside of the company.
This new online website is developed and created by Openbet. Openbet is one of the biggest and experienced developers. It has worked with famous and known operators such as Skybet, Paddy Power and William Hill. Commenting on this, the operations director of Befair, Nick Hagen said that the company is aware that 30% of their client data base wager on sports. Through this website the company will offer sport wagering services to these players instead of watching them place their bets on other websites.
Poker Movie on the Flop?
According to sources, there is a new movie that is gambling related, specifically poker, that is going to have Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck as the stars. This movie is going to discover the dark history of the recently legalized and regulated internet poker market. The movie will follow the story of the character that will be played by Justin Timberlake who is going to travel to Costa Rica in order to get back his tuition money. This tuition money was cheated out by an online poker website that is owned by the character that will be played by Ben Affleck. And then, Justin’s character will become the personal assistant of Ben Affleck’s character.
These events come very close to the real life disaster that hit the world of internet poker, the infamous Black Friday. On this day, three of the major poker rooms were kicked off the American internet and the owners were indicted. The three poker rooms were FTP (Full Tilt Poker), Absolute Poker and PokerStars. In another scandal, that is not connected with the indictments of Black Friday, Russ Hamilton the UB principle was accused with cheating charges, as he allegedly has cheated millions of customers, but despite that, he wasn’t charged for this theft.
Hollywood seems to be preparing itself to take advantage of the dark history of internet poker. Meanwhile, a lot of states are already trying to legalize and regulate online poker according to their own state laws. For instance, the state of Nevada is expected to be the first state to legalize and license poker websites by the end of the summer. Poker News Source
Realtime Gaming installed at South African Online Casino
Springbok Casino has just gone live; Springbok Casino is an internet casino that offers gambling services to the residents of South Africa. It is appropriately named, as it is named after the Springbok gazelle that lives in South Africa. Of course, since the Springbok Casino is a newly launched casino, it has many offers that include a lot of bonuses and promotions. For instance, there is a bonus that is equal 12 dollars, or 100 ZAR that can be given to players, all what the players have to do is download the casino and make an account. This is not all, as there is another welcome bonus at hand. Once the player makes the initial deposit, the player will get a bonus that equals that deposit, with a bonus that can reach up to 1,500 ZAR. If you think things ends here, then you are wrong, as the casino offers 50% cash back bonus on the 2nd and the 3rd deposits as well, each of them has a maximum limit of 5,000 ZAR.
Realtime Gaming is the software developer behind this casino. This casino offers a wide variety of casino gambling games, this included blackjack, video poker, craps, slot machine and others. The casino will give the players a very original and an innovative experience through a wide variety of games accompanied by great graphics and features that is both lucrative and entertaining.
Spain Says ‘Show me the Money’ and Some Casino Operations Do
Regarding the back taxes that were announced by the Spanish authorities that will be implemented on the internet gambling operators who are wishing to get licensed to work within the regulated market of Spain, Bwin.Party is estimated to pay 33 million Euros in back taxes. Bwin.Party has agreed to pay these penalties and back taxes due to 2 laws; the laws were from 1966 and 1977. These laws were applicable to offline wagering operations in the country and some of the wagers with no fixed odds.
Bwin.Party announced that their company, accompanied by several other internet gambling operators who are seeking a license in the Spanish market have assessed the taxes according to the Spanish law. This resulted in a payment of 25.6 million Euros in taxes and a sum of 8 million Euros in interest and surcharges which amounts up to a total of 33 million Euros. They continued by saying that by paying such taxes and penalties, they believe that the company has now met all the terms and conditions of the Spanish authorities, and they have the right to be licensed and enter the gambling market of Spain.
Regarding the same matter, Sportingbet that was forced to close its Spanish operations in the beginning of 2012, the company has announced that it had entered negotiations with the authorities. These talks are done in order for the website to pay back taxes starting from 2009 until now. It is expected that such taxes would amount to 20 million Euros.
Jadestone and WMS Partnership
It is clear that after the recent acquisition that was done by WMS Industries that WMS is planning to improve and upgrade its Business to business (B2B) game servers and its content distribution. This is due to the fact that the company’s latest acquisition was Jadestone Group AB. Jadestone is one of the biggest and known software and content developer in the world of online gaming.
This acquisition will provide WMS with all of the game content that Jadestone has. This content will include all of the internet products, content distribution and the whole portfolio of games. Jadestone will also use all of its capabilities and will pursue a new target, which is developing and creating a suite for interactive services and online products. Jadestone is known for providing its services to many known and famous gambling operators in Europe. The list of clients includes Betsson, Microgame, Unibet and Bwin.Party.
Commenting on the acquisition, the president of WMS industries, Orrin J. Edidin stated that this partnership with Jadestone is a perfect addition to their arsenal. Jadestone will offer its great experience and state of the art solutions, all of this will be mixed with the great management and experience in developing platforms for internet gaming of WMS in order to give the clients the best online gaming experience they will ever get.
It also has been confirmed by Orrin J. Edidin that this partnership will basically focus on mobile and website social games. This is due to the fact the market for this kind of gaming is on the rise and is moving quickly.
Legalizing Internet Gambling in the US
As predicted, states have already started to regulate and legalize internet gambling. The first state to take such step is Delaware, as the state has taken major steps concerning legalizing intra state internet gambling and sport wagering. This was made clear through the presented legislation bill that was passed by the Pari-mutuels & House Gaming Committee. This legislation is named the Act of 2012, the Delaware Gaming Competitiveness.
This act would legalize online gaming and gambling for all the residents of the state of Delaware who are 21 years of age or older. This will be regulated under the umbrella of the Delaware Lottery. This legislation is presented and backed by John Viola, the State Representative, the bill is known as the House Bill 333. This bill is planned to be viewed in front of the full House of Representatives of the state to undergo a voting. Analysts stated that such bill if implemented, the money that will come from such legislation would give the officials the ability to cancel the 4 million dollars fees that is paid by casino owners as fees on their slot games. This will also decrease the fees on table based games down to 3 million dollars after being 6.75 million dollars.
As a result of these reductions in fees, the casinos are going to be asked to pay this amount in business costs. This includes debt reduction, marketing among other costs as well.
A new iPad application has been released through a partnership of Bwin and Euro League Basketball. This new application is named “bwin Euro League Playbook” this application would give the players, the coaches and the loyal fans of the game with a much guaranteed source of analysis to the tactics of the game. It will also offer them a very interactive content regarding the famous European basketball matches and competition. Not only that, but this sponsorship by bwin of the Euro league Basketball will offer very exclusive videos of the competition. This video content will provide the fans with the ability to view different game tactics and plays by choosing their favorite teams and analyze their tactics and strategy throughout the league.
There are also additional features to the iPad application, as viewers will have the ability to make their own plays or customize existing ones very easily. Then they can compare their strategies with the strategies and tactics of the professional coaches of the basketball teams.
Commenting on this new application, a director form Bwin, Thomas Priglinger, stated that through this new application, the company is intending to provide something completely new and original to all the fans and viewers of the Euro League. On the other hand, the chief officer of Euro League, Roser Queraltó, stated that this amazing, state of the art application is proof of the commitment and the originality that Bwin is presenting to Euro League and all of its’ fans.
Online Gambling Operators in Spain
Since the Spanish government announced that online gambling operators will be required to pay back taxes in order to get licensed, and many European operators have been scrambling to pay off and settle these back taxes. One of the biggest European based gambling companies, Bwin.Party has announced that to settle this issue, it is going to pay 33 m Euro to the Spanish authorities.
Another gambling operator has made an announcement regarding the situation was Sportingbet. As the company announced that it has entered negotiations and talks with the Spanish authorities concerning the situation, but they haven’t reached a fixed back tax amount yet. Although, the company has stated that it has accumulated almost 15 m pounds by selling convertible bonds in order to pay off the back taxes to settle this issue.
It was also stated that the company is expecting to pay off its back taxes and to become eligible to enter the Spanish market legally and to obtain the Spanish eGaming license that is predicted to be available on the 1st of June of this year. These back taxes are expected to be implemented on the whole time period between January of 2009 and May of last year. This period is the period when the internet gambling operators had their operations running within the Spanish market without any license or regulations. This is why the Spanish govt. is back taxing all of these operators for that period as they were operating illegally within the country.
Revenue Results from AGTech
Despite the good financial numbers within the group, AGTech the Chinese wagering company announced a very average financial record for the first quarter of this year. As for the numbers themselves, they are as followed: The total revenues increased by 117% to reach 42.3 million Hong Kong Dollars. The net profit increased by 73.2% and reached 25.2 million Hong Kong Dollars. As for the operations profits, it was equal to 674 thousand HK dollar, which is quite good when put in comparison with the loss of the 1st quarter of last year which was worth 2.4 million HK dollars, so it is clear that the company has recovered from the Q1 /2011’s loss.
It looks like the future success of the company is directly linked to the sum of upgrades and developments that took place at the company in 2011. For example, the company has become partners with Ladbrokes, the UK based land and internet gambling operator. As they have a joint project together, it is named Lucky Racing. It has also acquisitioned Shenzhen Silvercreek, the famous lottery supplier and mobile gaming provider. But seems that things aren’t continuing the same way on the Lucky Racing section, this is due to the fact that the revenues from the first quarter of 2011 has decreased by a total of 35% on the fourth quarter of 2012 that was worth 400 million RMB, reasons are still unclear regarding this decrease.
Partnership Dissolved
So far, it has been seven days since the players of the Purple Lounge casino knew that Media Corp has left the partnership between the two companies, and the departure of both Sara Vincent, the executive officer and Justin Drummond the Chairman. Despite this long period of time, no one from the new staff has told them or given them information regarding the status of their accounts and the safety of their funds. Also, they have had no news regarding when they will be able to withdraw the funds from their Purple Lounge accounts.
After the latest acquisition of Intabet, the new managerial staff consisted of Phil Jackson who replaced Justin Drummond as the chairman, and replacing Sara Vincent as chief executive, Adam Fraser. Both of them were a part of the processes that resulted in the Intabet acquisition. This is why they had enough time to involve themselves in everything related to both Media Corp and Purple Lounge online casino. This is why they are very familiar with the whole process. Despite all of that, there has been only one announcement concerning the future of the casino. This information was announced by the company, it stated that the company believes that the latest acquisition of Intabet is surely going to help with the reconstruction process that is taking place on Purple Lounge internet casino. As this acquisition would aid the addition of new casino rooms and poker games to be added to the new platform that is supplied by Intabet.
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Best iPhone Apps for Beauty
There are a huge number of beauty related apps available in the iTunes app and with around half of the iPhone user population being female, it is easy to see why these kinds of apps are so popular. However, as with any other kind of app, there are some great beauty apps and some that are not so good. We have rounded up a list of some of the best iPhone apps for beauty.
#1 – Makeup Tips and Tricks
This is a really great app in terms of beauty and it is available for the price of just $0.99 in the US as well. Basically, this is an app that has been designed to show you a few of the tips and tricks that will help you to apply your makeup in better ways than you might have thought of. There are a lot of different things covered in this app including ways to highlight your natural beauty, news looks and more. There are even tutorials on how to touch-up and fix any mistakes that you make and tips on keeping a healthy body too. You are sure to see a noticeable improvement when you follow the tips from this app and for $0.99, you really can’t go wrong.
#2 – Hairstyle
Many of us change our hair style from time to time but more often than not, finding a style to opt for is the most difficult part of doing this. This app is here to help as it actually helps you to choose a great hairstyle, right from your iPhone. Hairstyle actually has more than 270 hairstyles for you to choose from including short, medium length and long styles. There are also more than 50 different hair colours for you to choose from so you can really see what colour to opt for when you go and get your new style. The app uses a photo of your own face that you can take with the iPhone camera and puts the different hairstyles on you. For $0.99, this is a stunning app for beauty
#3 – DailyGlow
This is an app from the website; Dailyglow.com which some of you may recognise as one of the leading beauty websites out there. This app basically gives you expert advice on a number of things including skin care, hair, makeup and more. In fact, there are more than 500 beauty tips included in this app and many other features too, including the instant manicure feature. There are product reviews, step-by-step make-up guides, blogs and even an online community. Best of all, this app is available completely free of charge from the iTunes app store.
There are plenty of other fantastic beauty related apps in the app store including SunSmart, Make Perfume and many others. There are also a number of other free beauty apps but the ones above are the ones that we think are the best iPhone apps for beauty
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Samsung Focus 2 review
Inside the box you'll find the Focus 2, a USB cable with a cube-shaped wall adapter, an in-ear headset and a pair of information pamphlets. Anyone familiar with T-Mobile's Galaxy Blaze 4G might feel a sense of déjà vu as they glance at the Focus 2 for the first time. The devices are similar in design, but the Focus 2 falls victim to our all-too-common complaint with Sammy-bred phones: it feels just a bit too plasticky. Samsung traded the Blaze's brushed-metal accents and textured battery cover in favor of a literally slick "Gloss Pure White" finish. The overall design ethos remains intact, though, so the device at least feels pleasing in hand. You'll find a 4-inch (WVGA) Super AMOLED display up front with Windows Phone's standard trio of backlit capacitive buttons above the bottom edge. Colors on the screen appear vibrant with gobs of contrast, the black levels are very deep and you'll get fairly good viewing angles. Tilt the device about 150 degrees, however, and you'll start noticing some color shifting.
Here's the thing: having the non-Plus variety of Super AMOLED means you're getting PenTile, and it's easily noticeable. Once you've seen a display like those belonging to the Focus Flash or even the 4.3-inch Lumia 900, it makes the 800 x 480 resolution look worse than it really is. It's especially obvious on curved borders and text, making what should be a smooth white look like grid paper. We found that it irritated our eyes and was harder to focus on than comparable displays without it. The interesting takeaway is that the Focus 2 has a slightly higher ppi than the Lumia 900 (233 pixels per inch vs. 217). It would be wise to grab a look at this phone in person to see if you can live with it.
The back of the Focus 2 lays claim to a 5-megapixel sensor, LED flash and speakerphone. Peeling off the thin, snap-on battery cover reveals a micro-SIM slot and a 1,750mAh battery to keep the handset juiced. A chunky stripe of chrome plastic wraps around the edges of device breaking up its milky white complexion. On the right, it houses a power button and a two-stage shutter release, along with a volume rocker on the left. All of the buttons have a pleasing click without being too stiff, but they do feel just a little wobbly like we noted on the Lumia 800. The shutter button feels especially great, however, only requiring a light tap to grab a photo without inducing any shake. That leaves us with the top of the device, where there's a 3.5mm headset jack and secondary noise-cancelling microphone, and the bottom which houses the main microphone and micro-USB port.
If you caught our initial hands-on, one point that still resonates with us is how small it feels in hand. Despite having a 4-inch screen, it doesn't seem much bigger than the Galaxy S or even an iPhone 3GS. It's only if you put these devices back-to-back when it becomes apparent the Focus 2 is larger. We've got a nifty chart that goes over the key specs of the Focus 2 below, compared to the Titan II and Lumia 900 for perspective.
HTC Titan II Samsung Focus 2 Nokia Lumia 900
Dimensions 5.2 x 2.7 x 0.4 inches
(132 x 69 x 10.2mm) 4.79 x 2.47 x 0.43 inches
(121.7 x 62.7 x 10.9 mm) 5.03 x 2.7 x 0.45 inches (127.8 x 68.5 x 11.5mm)
Weight 6.1 oz (173g) 4.3 oz (122g) 5.64 oz (160g)
Screen size 4.7 inches 4 inches 4.3 inches
Screen resolution 800 x 480 (199ppi) 800 x 480 (233ppi) 800 x 480 (217ppi)
Screen type S-LCD Super AMOLED (PenTile) ClearBlack sAMOLED+
Battery 1,730mAh 1,750mAh 1,830mAh
CPU 1.5GHz single-core Qualcomm MSM8255T (Snapdragon S2) 1.4GHz single-core Qualcomm (Snapdragon S2) 1.4GHz single-core Qualcomm APQ8055 (Snapdragon S2)
GPU Adreno 205 Adreno 205 Adreno 205
RAM 512MB 512MB 512MB
Internal storage 16GB 8GB 16GB
External storage None None None
Rear camera 16MP, f/2.6 5 MP 8MP, f/2.2
Front-facing camera 1.3MP VGA 1.0MP
Video capture 720p HD 720p HD (30fps) 720p HD
NFC No No No
Radios Quadband GSM / EDGE; HSPA+ 850 / 1900 / 2100; LTE 700 / 1700 Quadband GSM / EDGE; HSPA+ 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100; LTE 700 / 1700 Quadband GSM / EDGE / ; HSPA+ 850 / 1900 / 2100; LTE 700 / 1700
Network speeds LTE, HSPA+ LTE, HSPA+ LTE, HSPA+ 21.1Mbps
Bluetooth 2.1+EDR 2.1+EDR 2.1+EDR
MHL No -- Yes
Internet Sharing Yes Yes Yes
FM Radio Yes Yes Yes
SIM card Standard Micro Micro
It's getting tiresome to note that a new Windows Phone performs about the same as the others on the software front, but that's exactly the case here. Given the hardware restrictions that will remain in place until Windows Phone 8 hits, you're left with a 1.4GHz single-core CPU, an Adreno 205 GPU and 512MB of RAM to run your phone. As such, there are no surprises here, with the device averaging a WP Bench score of 87.2 after ten runs -- predictably not far behind every other Windows Phone we've used.
Performance is usually smooth, but it's not ultra-zippy like the latest iPhone and top tier of Android flagships. It's not likely to be an issue as long as you're not an extreme power user -- heck, at least three Engadget editors manage to use Mango devices as their daily drivers, so we really mean it when we say "extreme." Apps generally load fairly quickly, but we occasionally experienced load-screen hangups while trying to access basics like Messages and Twitter. Aside from that and some mild stuttering when swiping around, we'd be hard-pressed to say any of the Windows Phone flagships perform materially better. The main concern we have with the Focus 2 rests with its 8GB (6.51GB user-accessible) of non-expandable storage. Despite having powerful connectivity, it leaves us to think that Samsung is forcibly positioning an otherwise solid device into the newbie smartphone owner territory -- that, or it's hoping you love SkyDrive.
Of course, running over HSPA+ and LTE can do a number on your battery life, so how does it fare here?
Samsung Focus 2 Samsung Focus S Nokia Lumia 900 HTC Titan II
WP Bench 87.2 91.54 92 94.5
Battery rundown 4:47 4:24 4:29 2:50
SunSpider (ms, lower numbers are better) 7,058 6,914 6,902 6,445
Using a Lumia 900 alongside the Focus 2, we really didn't find much of a difference between their running times. As long as you're not tethering over LTE and HSPA+ for about three hours a day like we do, you'll easily be able to eke out more than a day's worth of life -- so long as Mango's battery saver is turned on. Even adding in a light amount of Netflix streaming, a handful of calls, texting, a few camera shots and light browsing, we could probably make it through a normal workday without an outlet. That said, the Focus 2 managed to last 18 minutes longer than the Lumia 900's four hours and 29 minutes in WP Bench's CPU-intensive battery rundown. It's not a whopping achievement by any means, but if battery life is your main concern for a Windows Phone then look no further.
Speaking of radio signals, let's talk about speeds. Using BandWidth, we were able to record LTE throughput as high as about 10Mbps down (with peaks up to 13) and 5Mbps up in San Francisco. Tethering to a laptop in Midtown Manhattan, the best we manged was around 5 Mbps down and 4 Mbps up according to SpeedTest.net. Considering we've seen upwards of 21 Mbps down on the Lumia 900 and Titan II, we're disappointed that, in our LTE trials, the phone couldn't make it out of the speed zone that's common for HSPA+. Web browsing in IE9 is usually just peppy enough, but as our most accurate SunSpider score shows (7,058ms +/- 0.3 percent), it's a bit slower than the rest of the pack. We experienced load times in excess of a minute to fully load pages over WiFi with the Lumia 900, and the results aren't any better here. You won't catch any checkerboarding, but scroll down a long webpage and you'll be greeted by a sea of white for a second or two.
Filed Under Cellphones, Wireless
Samsung Focus 2 review
By Joe Pollicino posted May 26th 2012 12:00PM
Review
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Ready for Samsung's latest entrant to the Windows Phone game? Hopefully you answered "yes," because we're about to take you through an in-depth look at such a device: the Focus 2. Around the time that we United States-based Engadgeteers were lusting over Nokia's Lumia 800 and getting to know the HTC Titan, Samsung introduced its Focus S and lower-tiered Focus Flash WP7.5 handsets. Redmond's hardware restrictions haven't exactly changed much since then, begging the question as to how the Focus 2 fits in as a late follow-up to the original Focus from back in 2010. The bulk of the answer, of course, is LTE. This handset is the only other Windows Phone aside from the Lumia 900 and HTC Titan II to feature such connectivity on Ma Bell's network. That, and it's priced at just $50 dollars on a two-year commitment. Is it a veritable steal like the Focus Flash proved to be, though? Join us past the break where we'll lay it all out.
Samsung Focus 2 review
Hardware
Inside the box you'll find the Focus 2, a USB cable with a cube-shaped wall adapter, an in-ear headset and a pair of information pamphlets. Anyone familiar with T-Mobile's Galaxy Blaze 4G might feel a sense of déjà vu as they glance at the Focus 2 for the first time. The devices are similar in design, but the Focus 2 falls victim to our all-too-common complaint with Sammy-bred phones: it feels just a bit too plasticky. Samsung traded the Blaze's brushed-metal accents and textured battery cover in favor of a literally slick "Gloss Pure White" finish. The overall design ethos remains intact, though, so the device at least feels pleasing in hand. You'll find a 4-inch (WVGA) Super AMOLED display up front with Windows Phone's standard trio of backlit capacitive buttons above the bottom edge. Colors on the screen appear vibrant with gobs of contrast, the black levels are very deep and you'll get fairly good viewing angles. Tilt the device about 150 degrees, however, and you'll start noticing some color shifting.
Having the non-Plus variety of Super AMOLED means you're getting PenTile, and it's beyond easily noticeable.
Here's the thing: having the non-Plus variety of Super AMOLED means you're getting PenTile, and it's easily noticeable. Once you've seen a display like those belonging to the Focus Flash or even the 4.3-inch Lumia 900, it makes the 800 x 480 resolution look worse than it really is. It's especially obvious on curved borders and text, making what should be a smooth white look like grid paper. We found that it irritated our eyes and was harder to focus on than comparable displays without it. The interesting takeaway is that the Focus 2 has a slightly higher ppi than the Lumia 900 (233 pixels per inch vs. 217). It would be wise to grab a look at this phone in person to see if you can live with it.
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With that detailed, it's time to move a bit below the display. The capacitive buttons are ultra-responsive like the ones we experienced on the older Focus models, and the device's vibration motor left us with unquestionably better haptic feedback than the Lumia 900. That said, that level of responsiveness becomes a pain in Landscape mode, where we repeatedly found ourselves accidentally exiting out of Netflix into Bing just like with those other Focuses. Another quirk that'll surely annoy some folks is how much the buttons light up -- they're jarring indoors, being brighter than the display on its highest setting. By the way, don't count on the vibration motor to be subtle during a quiet meeting; we noticed it makes a boop pitch that'll easily be amplified if set down on a table.
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The back of the Focus 2 lays claim to a 5-megapixel sensor, LED flash and speakerphone. Peeling off the thin, snap-on battery cover reveals a micro-SIM slot and a 1,750mAh battery to keep the handset juiced. A chunky stripe of chrome plastic wraps around the edges of device breaking up its milky white complexion. On the right, it houses a power button and a two-stage shutter release, along with a volume rocker on the left. All of the buttons have a pleasing click without being too stiff, but they do feel just a little wobbly like we noted on the Lumia 800. The shutter button feels especially great, however, only requiring a light tap to grab a photo without inducing any shake. That leaves us with the top of the device, where there's a 3.5mm headset jack and secondary noise-cancelling microphone, and the bottom which houses the main microphone and micro-USB port.
If you caught our initial hands-on, one point that still resonates with us is how small it feels in hand. Despite having a 4-inch screen, it doesn't seem much bigger than the Galaxy S or even an iPhone 3GS. It's only if you put these devices back-to-back when it becomes apparent the Focus 2 is larger. We've got a nifty chart that goes over the key specs of the Focus 2 below, compared to the Titan II and Lumia 900 for perspective.
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HTC Titan II Samsung Focus 2 Nokia Lumia 900
Dimensions 5.2 x 2.7 x 0.4 inches
(132 x 69 x 10.2mm) 4.79 x 2.47 x 0.43 inches
(121.7 x 62.7 x 10.9 mm) 5.03 x 2.7 x 0.45 inches (127.8 x 68.5 x 11.5mm)
Weight 6.1 oz (173g) 4.3 oz (122g) 5.64 oz (160g)
Screen size 4.7 inches 4 inches 4.3 inches
Screen resolution 800 x 480 (199ppi) 800 x 480 (233ppi) 800 x 480 (217ppi)
Screen type S-LCD Super AMOLED (PenTile) ClearBlack sAMOLED+
Battery 1,730mAh 1,750mAh 1,830mAh
CPU 1.5GHz single-core Qualcomm MSM8255T (Snapdragon S2) 1.4GHz single-core Qualcomm (Snapdragon S2) 1.4GHz single-core Qualcomm APQ8055 (Snapdragon S2)
GPU Adreno 205 Adreno 205 Adreno 205
RAM 512MB 512MB 512MB
Internal storage 16GB 8GB 16GB
External storage None None None
Rear camera 16MP, f/2.6 5 MP 8MP, f/2.2
Front-facing camera 1.3MP VGA 1.0MP
Video capture 720p HD 720p HD (30fps) 720p HD
NFC No No No
Radios Quadband GSM / EDGE; HSPA+ 850 / 1900 / 2100; LTE 700 / 1700 Quadband GSM / EDGE; HSPA+ 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100; LTE 700 / 1700 Quadband GSM / EDGE / ; HSPA+ 850 / 1900 / 2100; LTE 700 / 1700
Network speeds LTE, HSPA+ LTE, HSPA+ LTE, HSPA+ 21.1Mbps
Bluetooth 2.1+EDR 2.1+EDR 2.1+EDR
MHL No -- Yes
Internet Sharing Yes Yes Yes
FM Radio Yes Yes Yes
SIM card Standard Micro Micro
Performance and battery life
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It's getting tiresome to note that a new Windows Phone performs about the same as the others on the software front, but that's exactly the case here. Given the hardware restrictions that will remain in place until Windows Phone 8 hits, you're left with a 1.4GHz single-core CPU, an Adreno 205 GPU and 512MB of RAM to run your phone. As such, there are no surprises here, with the device averaging a WP Bench score of 87.2 after ten runs -- predictably not far behind every other Windows Phone we've used.
Performance is usually smooth, but it's not ultra-zippy like the latest iPhone and top tier of Android flagships. It's not likely to be an issue as long as you're not an extreme power user -- heck, at least three Engadget editors manage to use Mango devices as their daily drivers, so we really mean it when we say "extreme." Apps generally load fairly quickly, but we occasionally experienced load-screen hangups while trying to access basics like Messages and Twitter. Aside from that and some mild stuttering when swiping around, we'd be hard-pressed to say any of the Windows Phone flagships perform materially better. The main concern we have with the Focus 2 rests with its 8GB (6.51GB user-accessible) of non-expandable storage. Despite having powerful connectivity, it leaves us to think that Samsung is forcibly positioning an otherwise solid device into the newbie smartphone owner territory -- that, or it's hoping you love SkyDrive.
Of course, running over HSPA+ and LTE can do a number on your battery life, so how does it fare here?
Samsung Focus 2 Samsung Focus S Nokia Lumia 900 HTC Titan II
WP Bench 87.2 91.54 92 94.5
Battery rundown 4:47 4:24 4:29 2:50
SunSpider (ms, lower numbers are better) 7,058 6,914 6,902 6,445
Using a Lumia 900 alongside the Focus 2, we really didn't find much of a difference between their running times. As long as you're not tethering over LTE and HSPA+ for about three hours a day like we do, you'll easily be able to eke out more than a day's worth of life -- so long as Mango's battery saver is turned on. Even adding in a light amount of Netflix streaming, a handful of calls, texting, a few camera shots and light browsing, we could probably make it through a normal workday without an outlet. That said, the Focus 2 managed to last 18 minutes longer than the Lumia 900's four hours and 29 minutes in WP Bench's CPU-intensive battery rundown. It's not a whopping achievement by any means, but if battery life is your main concern for a Windows Phone then look no further.
If battery life is your main concern for a Windows Phone then look no further.
Speaking of radio signals, let's talk about speeds. Using BandWidth, we were able to record LTE throughput as high as about 10Mbps down (with peaks up to 13) and 5Mbps up in San Francisco. Tethering to a laptop in Midtown Manhattan, the best we manged was around 5 Mbps down and 4 Mbps up according to SpeedTest.net. Considering we've seen upwards of 21 Mbps down on the Lumia 900 and Titan II, we're disappointed that, in our LTE trials, the phone couldn't make it out of the speed zone that's common for HSPA+. Web browsing in IE9 is usually just peppy enough, but as our most accurate SunSpider score shows (7,058ms +/- 0.3 percent), it's a bit slower than the rest of the pack. We experienced load times in excess of a minute to fully load pages over WiFi with the Lumia 900, and the results aren't any better here. You won't catch any checkerboarding, but scroll down a long webpage and you'll be greeted by a sea of white for a second or two.
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Lackluster speeds aside, we came away quite impressed with the audio quality on the Focus 2. Compared to the Lumia 900, the device has much less hiss in the signal and a bit less grit to overall sound, with headphones plugged in. Although WP7.5 still can't seamlessly transition between two tracks without a quick pause, we didn't experience any popping like we do with the 900. Unluckily enough for Nokia's flagship, it doesn't stop there -- the Focus 2's earpiece produced clearer audio, without the slightest hints of metallic tones like the Lumia produces. Even the speakerphone sounds clearer, making the 900's sound a bit muddier and condensed in comparison (it's sound is noticeably thicker, however). Interestingly enough, the Focus 2 also has a hotter volume output (at least in the lower volume settings) through its headphone jack, needing only to hit 3 or 4 out of 30 when the Lumia needed to be near 15 to achieve the same output. With both devices, though, callers on the other end didn't have any complaints about hearing us. The Lumia 900 is certainly a good performer in the voice quality department, but there's no question that Samsung's lower-tiered device comes out a step ahead. And in case you're wondering, the included in-ear headphones are essentially (save for the inline remote and mic) what you'd get with a Galaxy Player: passable at best.
Its contrast levels are a bit over the top on auto and highlights tended to get blown out easily, but you can always adjust your settings thanks to Windows Phone's plethora of manual options. Low-light performance from the Focus is acceptable.The images produced are noticeably less noisy than the Lumia, but the shots do come out a bit darker. The lens also suffers from some extreme flare-ups when any bright lights from cars and the like are introduced, so don't bet on anything other than artsy results in those types of situations. We were able to achieve better bokeh from the macro mode on the Focus 2 than the 900, but it had had a tendency to focus on the background in challenging light situations. The time it'll take to catch focus with both devices is about the same: not particularly quick. You'd be better off just whipping out a standalone camera if you're hoping to catch moving subjects, as you're results will always have a bit of blur. You'll also find a 4x digital zoom, but we'd steer clear of it as the results are worse than the VGA front-facing camera. Speaking of that, it'll do okay for videocalls. Pictures? Spare yourself the grief and don't even go for it. Overall, the cameras onboard are just good enough and the Lumia's results are largely better -- even if it means some extra tweaking to make it happen.
Filed Under Cellphones, Wireless
Samsung Focus 2 review
By Joe Pollicino posted May 26th 2012 12:00PM
Review
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Ready for Samsung's latest entrant to the Windows Phone game? Hopefully you answered "yes," because we're about to take you through an in-depth look at such a device: the Focus 2. Around the time that we United States-based Engadgeteers were lusting over Nokia's Lumia 800 and getting to know the HTC Titan, Samsung introduced its Focus S and lower-tiered Focus Flash WP7.5 handsets. Redmond's hardware restrictions haven't exactly changed much since then, begging the question as to how the Focus 2 fits in as a late follow-up to the original Focus from back in 2010. The bulk of the answer, of course, is LTE. This handset is the only other Windows Phone aside from the Lumia 900 and HTC Titan II to feature such connectivity on Ma Bell's network. That, and it's priced at just $50 dollars on a two-year commitment. Is it a veritable steal like the Focus Flash proved to be, though? Join us past the break where we'll lay it all out.
Samsung Focus 2 review
Hardware
Inside the box you'll find the Focus 2, a USB cable with a cube-shaped wall adapter, an in-ear headset and a pair of information pamphlets. Anyone familiar with T-Mobile's Galaxy Blaze 4G might feel a sense of déjà vu as they glance at the Focus 2 for the first time. The devices are similar in design, but the Focus 2 falls victim to our all-too-common complaint with Sammy-bred phones: it feels just a bit too plasticky. Samsung traded the Blaze's brushed-metal accents and textured battery cover in favor of a literally slick "Gloss Pure White" finish. The overall design ethos remains intact, though, so the device at least feels pleasing in hand. You'll find a 4-inch (WVGA) Super AMOLED display up front with Windows Phone's standard trio of backlit capacitive buttons above the bottom edge. Colors on the screen appear vibrant with gobs of contrast, the black levels are very deep and you'll get fairly good viewing angles. Tilt the device about 150 degrees, however, and you'll start noticing some color shifting.
Having the non-Plus variety of Super AMOLED means you're getting PenTile, and it's beyond easily noticeable.
Here's the thing: having the non-Plus variety of Super AMOLED means you're getting PenTile, and it's easily noticeable. Once you've seen a display like those belonging to the Focus Flash or even the 4.3-inch Lumia 900, it makes the 800 x 480 resolution look worse than it really is. It's especially obvious on curved borders and text, making what should be a smooth white look like grid paper. We found that it irritated our eyes and was harder to focus on than comparable displays without it. The interesting takeaway is that the Focus 2 has a slightly higher ppi than the Lumia 900 (233 pixels per inch vs. 217). It would be wise to grab a look at this phone in person to see if you can live with it.
Image
With that detailed, it's time to move a bit below the display. The capacitive buttons are ultra-responsive like the ones we experienced on the older Focus models, and the device's vibration motor left us with unquestionably better haptic feedback than the Lumia 900. That said, that level of responsiveness becomes a pain in Landscape mode, where we repeatedly found ourselves accidentally exiting out of Netflix into Bing just like with those other Focuses. Another quirk that'll surely annoy some folks is how much the buttons light up -- they're jarring indoors, being brighter than the display on its highest setting. By the way, don't count on the vibration motor to be subtle during a quiet meeting; we noticed it makes a boop pitch that'll easily be amplified if set down on a table.
Image
The back of the Focus 2 lays claim to a 5-megapixel sensor, LED flash and speakerphone. Peeling off the thin, snap-on battery cover reveals a micro-SIM slot and a 1,750mAh battery to keep the handset juiced. A chunky stripe of chrome plastic wraps around the edges of device breaking up its milky white complexion. On the right, it houses a power button and a two-stage shutter release, along with a volume rocker on the left. All of the buttons have a pleasing click without being too stiff, but they do feel just a little wobbly like we noted on the Lumia 800. The shutter button feels especially great, however, only requiring a light tap to grab a photo without inducing any shake. That leaves us with the top of the device, where there's a 3.5mm headset jack and secondary noise-cancelling microphone, and the bottom which houses the main microphone and micro-USB port.
If you caught our initial hands-on, one point that still resonates with us is how small it feels in hand. Despite having a 4-inch screen, it doesn't seem much bigger than the Galaxy S or even an iPhone 3GS. It's only if you put these devices back-to-back when it becomes apparent the Focus 2 is larger. We've got a nifty chart that goes over the key specs of the Focus 2 below, compared to the Titan II and Lumia 900 for perspective.
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HTC Titan II Samsung Focus 2 Nokia Lumia 900
Dimensions 5.2 x 2.7 x 0.4 inches
(132 x 69 x 10.2mm) 4.79 x 2.47 x 0.43 inches
(121.7 x 62.7 x 10.9 mm) 5.03 x 2.7 x 0.45 inches (127.8 x 68.5 x 11.5mm)
Weight 6.1 oz (173g) 4.3 oz (122g) 5.64 oz (160g)
Screen size 4.7 inches 4 inches 4.3 inches
Screen resolution 800 x 480 (199ppi) 800 x 480 (233ppi) 800 x 480 (217ppi)
Screen type S-LCD Super AMOLED (PenTile) ClearBlack sAMOLED+
Battery 1,730mAh 1,750mAh 1,830mAh
CPU 1.5GHz single-core Qualcomm MSM8255T (Snapdragon S2) 1.4GHz single-core Qualcomm (Snapdragon S2) 1.4GHz single-core Qualcomm APQ8055 (Snapdragon S2)
GPU Adreno 205 Adreno 205 Adreno 205
RAM 512MB 512MB 512MB
Internal storage 16GB 8GB 16GB
External storage None None None
Rear camera 16MP, f/2.6 5 MP 8MP, f/2.2
Front-facing camera 1.3MP VGA 1.0MP
Video capture 720p HD 720p HD (30fps) 720p HD
NFC No No No
Radios Quadband GSM / EDGE; HSPA+ 850 / 1900 / 2100; LTE 700 / 1700 Quadband GSM / EDGE; HSPA+ 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100; LTE 700 / 1700 Quadband GSM / EDGE / ; HSPA+ 850 / 1900 / 2100; LTE 700 / 1700
Network speeds LTE, HSPA+ LTE, HSPA+ LTE, HSPA+ 21.1Mbps
Bluetooth 2.1+EDR 2.1+EDR 2.1+EDR
MHL No -- Yes
Internet Sharing Yes Yes Yes
FM Radio Yes Yes Yes
SIM card Standard Micro Micro
Performance and battery life
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It's getting tiresome to note that a new Windows Phone performs about the same as the others on the software front, but that's exactly the case here. Given the hardware restrictions that will remain in place until Windows Phone 8 hits, you're left with a 1.4GHz single-core CPU, an Adreno 205 GPU and 512MB of RAM to run your phone. As such, there are no surprises here, with the device averaging a WP Bench score of 87.2 after ten runs -- predictably not far behind every other Windows Phone we've used.
Performance is usually smooth, but it's not ultra-zippy like the latest iPhone and top tier of Android flagships. It's not likely to be an issue as long as you're not an extreme power user -- heck, at least three Engadget editors manage to use Mango devices as their daily drivers, so we really mean it when we say "extreme." Apps generally load fairly quickly, but we occasionally experienced load-screen hangups while trying to access basics like Messages and Twitter. Aside from that and some mild stuttering when swiping around, we'd be hard-pressed to say any of the Windows Phone flagships perform materially better. The main concern we have with the Focus 2 rests with its 8GB (6.51GB user-accessible) of non-expandable storage. Despite having powerful connectivity, it leaves us to think that Samsung is forcibly positioning an otherwise solid device into the newbie smartphone owner territory -- that, or it's hoping you love SkyDrive.
Of course, running over HSPA+ and LTE can do a number on your battery life, so how does it fare here?
Samsung Focus 2 Samsung Focus S Nokia Lumia 900 HTC Titan II
WP Bench 87.2 91.54 92 94.5
Battery rundown 4:47 4:24 4:29 2:50
SunSpider (ms, lower numbers are better) 7,058 6,914 6,902 6,445
Using a Lumia 900 alongside the Focus 2, we really didn't find much of a difference between their running times. As long as you're not tethering over LTE and HSPA+ for about three hours a day like we do, you'll easily be able to eke out more than a day's worth of life -- so long as Mango's battery saver is turned on. Even adding in a light amount of Netflix streaming, a handful of calls, texting, a few camera shots and light browsing, we could probably make it through a normal workday without an outlet. That said, the Focus 2 managed to last 18 minutes longer than the Lumia 900's four hours and 29 minutes in WP Bench's CPU-intensive battery rundown. It's not a whopping achievement by any means, but if battery life is your main concern for a Windows Phone then look no further.
If battery life is your main concern for a Windows Phone then look no further.
Speaking of radio signals, let's talk about speeds. Using BandWidth, we were able to record LTE throughput as high as about 10Mbps down (with peaks up to 13) and 5Mbps up in San Francisco. Tethering to a laptop in Midtown Manhattan, the best we manged was around 5 Mbps down and 4 Mbps up according to SpeedTest.net. Considering we've seen upwards of 21 Mbps down on the Lumia 900 and Titan II, we're disappointed that, in our LTE trials, the phone couldn't make it out of the speed zone that's common for HSPA+. Web browsing in IE9 is usually just peppy enough, but as our most accurate SunSpider score shows (7,058ms +/- 0.3 percent), it's a bit slower than the rest of the pack. We experienced load times in excess of a minute to fully load pages over WiFi with the Lumia 900, and the results aren't any better here. You won't catch any checkerboarding, but scroll down a long webpage and you'll be greeted by a sea of white for a second or two.
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Lackluster speeds aside, we came away quite impressed with the audio quality on the Focus 2. Compared to the Lumia 900, the device has much less hiss in the signal and a bit less grit to overall sound, with headphones plugged in. Although WP7.5 still can't seamlessly transition between two tracks without a quick pause, we didn't experience any popping like we do with the 900. Unluckily enough for Nokia's flagship, it doesn't stop there -- the Focus 2's earpiece produced clearer audio, without the slightest hints of metallic tones like the Lumia produces. Even the speakerphone sounds clearer, making the 900's sound a bit muddier and condensed in comparison (it's sound is noticeably thicker, however). Interestingly enough, the Focus 2 also has a hotter volume output (at least in the lower volume settings) through its headphone jack, needing only to hit 3 or 4 out of 30 when the Lumia needed to be near 15 to achieve the same output. With both devices, though, callers on the other end didn't have any complaints about hearing us. The Lumia 900 is certainly a good performer in the voice quality department, but there's no question that Samsung's lower-tiered device comes out a step ahead. And in case you're wondering, the included in-ear headphones are essentially (save for the inline remote and mic) what you'd get with a Galaxy Player: passable at best.
Camera
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Let's start this section by stating that, no, this 5-megapixel shooter won't rival your Canon S95s. It does have some redeeming qualities, however, especially when pit it against the Lumia 900. Once you get into the Focus 2's live screen, the 900's look awful by comparison -- the framerate is smoother while panning, and the dreaded pink center that other WP7.5 devices suffer from is at least less obvious. The Lumia 900 does produce sharper images with more information and a wider angle thanks to its 8-megapixel sensor and 28mm lens, but the Focus 2 never slipped up with auto white balance like the 900 does on nearly every shot.
Samsung Focus 2 sample images
Its contrast levels are a bit over the top on auto and highlights tended to get blown out easily, but you can always adjust your settings thanks to Windows Phone's plethora of manual options. Low-light performance from the Focus is acceptable.The images produced are noticeably less noisy than the Lumia, but the shots do come out a bit darker. The lens also suffers from some extreme flare-ups when any bright lights from cars and the like are introduced, so don't bet on anything other than artsy results in those types of situations. We were able to achieve better bokeh from the macro mode on the Focus 2 than the 900, but it had had a tendency to focus on the background in challenging light situations. The time it'll take to catch focus with both devices is about the same: not particularly quick. You'd be better off just whipping out a standalone camera if you're hoping to catch moving subjects, as you're results will always have a bit of blur. You'll also find a 4x digital zoom, but we'd steer clear of it as the results are worse than the VGA front-facing camera. Speaking of that, it'll do okay for videocalls. Pictures? Spare yourself the grief and don't even go for it. Overall, the cameras onboard are just good enough and the Lumia's results are largely better -- even if it means some extra tweaking to make it happen.
Let's talk about moving images now. That rear shooter is also capable enough to capture VGA and 720p HD video (30fps). Video quality, like the photos, is just good enough to get the job done. Colors come through naturally, but you'll also be dealing with a fair amount of rolling shutter, lens-flaring, blown-out highs and wobbling from the slightest movements (there's no image stabilization to speak of). Far as we can tell you're also stuck with a fixed focus, but thankfully, exposure is continuously adjusted automatically. The audio results for video, unlike the rest of of the phone, comes out as compressed garbage to be blunt. As you can hear in our sample video, our blabbering easily clips the signal as it tries to compensate for the traffic whizzing by. You'll also notice that the birds chirping sound more like harsh squeals, and that the overall sound is tinny. The most annoying aspect we dealt with is that video defaults to VGA, meaning you'll likely miss many quickly-passing moving if you want to shoot in HD.
Software
Remember Windows Phone 7.5 Mango? Yeah, it's exactly the same Metro-styled UI with Live Tiles and sparse customizability options you either love, hate or have learned to live with. Samsung and AT&T have added their usual array of bloatware apps, but you can delete all of them to free up more of that spare storage space. On the AT&T front, there's U-Verse Mobile, Family Map, Navigator, YPmobile and surprisingly useful Code Scanner, while Samsung packs in its usual Now news and weather aggregator and Photo Studio editor. Unlike most crapware we actually found ourselves using these two Samsung additions a great deal -- the Now application easily trumps Redmond's baked-in weather app. You'll also find these and other exclusive bits in the AT&T Featured and Samsung Zone sections within the Marketplace, leaving us to again wonder why they have to come pre-loaded on the device in the first place. Notably, Samsung's free Photogram app gave us access to some nifty filters like HDR and Glow, which gives you more options in addition to the likes of Lomoshot and Dreamshot found in Photo Studio. We'd be remiss not to mention that Photo Studio also enables other goodies like a Panorama mode.
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Gambling News Month in Review, May 2012,
It seems that bad news is following the French gambling group of Bernard Tapie. This comes as a result of the statement that was announced by Groupe Bernard Tapie regarding the fact that it will postpone the much anticipated International Stadium Poker Tour until the end of May of 2013. This comes as the second spurt of bad news following its failure to buy out Full Tilt Poker. This tour was previously planned to happen in the Wembley stadium in London, it was planned to happen by the end of 2012. It was advertised through a set of videos by the ISPT, it was going to be a live tournament with 600 Euros buy in. It was going to have online satellite support which would result in an outstanding number of thirty thousand players in the stadium of Wembley for the biggest poker tournament ever.
The next step that players will start to eliminate each other until the players left are only 10 % of the players who started. These 10 % will then sit on a final table in order to win the tournament, the fame and of course, the amazing prize of 20 million Euros. The question that is risen is the about the fact that the gambling group, Groupe Bernard Tapie, and their partner Prosper Masquelier don’t have any big internet poker websites or operations, so how were they planning to host such a complicated and a worldwide poker live tournament like this one? Answer unknown, but it might be the reason behind the postponing. Maybe they were counting on the purchase of FTP, but when that failed, they had to postpone it.
Riviera Casino Las Vegas and Buffalo Studios
Riviera Casino, the very famous land based casino of Las Vegas has entered a partnership with Buffalo Studios, which is a step towards the entrance of virtual bingo to Las Vegas. Buffalo Studios is the same company that developed the software for the very famous bingo game on Facebook, Bingo Blitz.
Virtual Bingo Partnership
The reason behind this new partnership and the whole virtual bingo project was announced by Andy Chody, the CEO of the Riviera Casino. He said that this project aims to give the land casino a much needed aid in order to expand its customer base and attract more players and to make a great expansion in their internet gaming section. This new virtual bingo game will go live on Monday, on this date; customers will have the ability to enjoy virtual bingo on the Web page of the Riviera Casino. This game will be filled with a lot of cash bonuses, prizes and several promotions from the Riviera Casino. One of them is a free trip to visit and become an attendant in the $200,000 bingo tournament of the Riviera Casino that takes place twice each year.
This partnership that the company is having with Bingo Blitz is considered a major step in Riviera Casino’s quest to provide its services to a new age group, the youth and the teens. Commenting on this, the vice presidents from Buffalo Studios stated that it is a known fact that bingo is a very social game, so they have translated that into a very social online game to provide the players with the best online and social experience.
Betfair Releasing New Site
According to sources, the internet gambling company, Betfair is going to release its newest website. This website is planned to be its most recent betting website with fixed odds. This new website will result in a head to head competition with the standard bookmakers. This website is planned to be launched and ready to get into the action by the time of the 2012 football event, the Euro Championship 2012. This website is going to increase and expand the online reach of the company. Such expansion in the realm of online sport gambling is considered a disadvantage by the company.
Betfair has over four million gamblers in its records; with such numbers, that surely makes Betfair a competitor with noticeable weight that would make other companies and betting sites fear and account for. This new website is going to make Betfair able to take almost 30% of the punters betting that are going somewhere else outside of the company.
This new online website is developed and created by Openbet. Openbet is one of the biggest and experienced developers. It has worked with famous and known operators such as Skybet, Paddy Power and William Hill. Commenting on this, the operations director of Befair, Nick Hagen said that the company is aware that 30% of their client data base wager on sports. Through this website the company will offer sport wagering services to these players instead of watching them place their bets on other websites.
Poker Movie on the Flop?
According to sources, there is a new movie that is gambling related, specifically poker, that is going to have Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck as the stars. This movie is going to discover the dark history of the recently legalized and regulated internet poker market. The movie will follow the story of the character that will be played by Justin Timberlake who is going to travel to Costa Rica in order to get back his tuition money. This tuition money was cheated out by an online poker website that is owned by the character that will be played by Ben Affleck. And then, Justin’s character will become the personal assistant of Ben Affleck’s character.
These events come very close to the real life disaster that hit the world of internet poker, the infamous Black Friday. On this day, three of the major poker rooms were kicked off the American internet and the owners were indicted. The three poker rooms were FTP (Full Tilt Poker), Absolute Poker and PokerStars. In another scandal, that is not connected with the indictments of Black Friday, Russ Hamilton the UB principle was accused with cheating charges, as he allegedly has cheated millions of customers, but despite that, he wasn’t charged for this theft.
Hollywood seems to be preparing itself to take advantage of the dark history of internet poker. Meanwhile, a lot of states are already trying to legalize and regulate online poker according to their own state laws. For instance, the state of Nevada is expected to be the first state to legalize and license poker websites by the end of the summer. Poker News Source
Realtime Gaming installed at South African Online Casino
Springbok Casino has just gone live; Springbok Casino is an internet casino that offers gambling services to the residents of South Africa. It is appropriately named, as it is named after the Springbok gazelle that lives in South Africa. Of course, since the Springbok Casino is a newly launched casino, it has many offers that include a lot of bonuses and promotions. For instance, there is a bonus that is equal 12 dollars, or 100 ZAR that can be given to players, all what the players have to do is download the casino and make an account. This is not all, as there is another welcome bonus at hand. Once the player makes the initial deposit, the player will get a bonus that equals that deposit, with a bonus that can reach up to 1,500 ZAR. If you think things ends here, then you are wrong, as the casino offers 50% cash back bonus on the 2nd and the 3rd deposits as well, each of them has a maximum limit of 5,000 ZAR.
Realtime Gaming is the software developer behind this casino. This casino offers a wide variety of casino gambling games, this included blackjack, video poker, craps, slot machine and others. The casino will give the players a very original and an innovative experience through a wide variety of games accompanied by great graphics and features that is both lucrative and entertaining.
Spain Says ‘Show me the Money’ and Some Casino Operations Do
Regarding the back taxes that were announced by the Spanish authorities that will be implemented on the internet gambling operators who are wishing to get licensed to work within the regulated market of Spain, Bwin.Party is estimated to pay 33 million Euros in back taxes. Bwin.Party has agreed to pay these penalties and back taxes due to 2 laws; the laws were from 1966 and 1977. These laws were applicable to offline wagering operations in the country and some of the wagers with no fixed odds.
Bwin.Party announced that their company, accompanied by several other internet gambling operators who are seeking a license in the Spanish market have assessed the taxes according to the Spanish law. This resulted in a payment of 25.6 million Euros in taxes and a sum of 8 million Euros in interest and surcharges which amounts up to a total of 33 million Euros. They continued by saying that by paying such taxes and penalties, they believe that the company has now met all the terms and conditions of the Spanish authorities, and they have the right to be licensed and enter the gambling market of Spain.
Regarding the same matter, Sportingbet that was forced to close its Spanish operations in the beginning of 2012, the company has announced that it had entered negotiations with the authorities. These talks are done in order for the website to pay back taxes starting from 2009 until now. It is expected that such taxes would amount to 20 million Euros.
Jadestone and WMS Partnership
It is clear that after the recent acquisition that was done by WMS Industries that WMS is planning to improve and upgrade its Business to business (B2B) game servers and its content distribution. This is due to the fact that the company’s latest acquisition was Jadestone Group AB. Jadestone is one of the biggest and known software and content developer in the world of online gaming.
This acquisition will provide WMS with all of the game content that Jadestone has. This content will include all of the internet products, content distribution and the whole portfolio of games. Jadestone will also use all of its capabilities and will pursue a new target, which is developing and creating a suite for interactive services and online products. Jadestone is known for providing its services to many known and famous gambling operators in Europe. The list of clients includes Betsson, Microgame, Unibet and Bwin.Party.
Commenting on the acquisition, the president of WMS industries, Orrin J. Edidin stated that this partnership with Jadestone is a perfect addition to their arsenal. Jadestone will offer its great experience and state of the art solutions, all of this will be mixed with the great management and experience in developing platforms for internet gaming of WMS in order to give the clients the best online gaming experience they will ever get.
It also has been confirmed by Orrin J. Edidin that this partnership will basically focus on mobile and website social games. This is due to the fact the market for this kind of gaming is on the rise and is moving quickly.
As predicted, states have already started to regulate and legalize internet gambling. The first state to take such step is Delaware, as the state has taken major steps concerning legalizing intra state internet gambling and sport wagering. This was made clear through the presented legislation bill that was passed by the Pari-mutuels & House Gaming Committee. This legislation is named the Act of 2012, the Delaware Gaming Competitiveness.
This act would legalize online gaming and gambling for all the residents of the state of Delaware who are 21 years of age or older. This will be regulated under the umbrella of the Delaware Lottery. This legislation is presented and backed by John Viola, the State Representative, the bill is known as the House Bill 333. This bill is planned to be viewed in front of the full House of Representatives of the state to undergo a voting. Analysts stated that such bill if implemented, the money that will come from such legislation would give the officials the ability to cancel the 4 million dollars fees that is paid by casino owners as fees on their slot games. This will also decrease the fees on table based games down to 3 million dollars after being 6.75 million dollars.
As a result of these reductions in fees, the casinos are going to be asked to pay this amount in business costs. This includes debt reduction, marketing among other costs as well.
A new iPad application has been released through a partnership of Bwin and Euro League Basketball. This new application is named “bwin Euro League Playbook” this application would give the players, the coaches and the loyal fans of the game with a much guaranteed source of analysis to the tactics of the game. It will also offer them a very interactive content regarding the famous European basketball matches and competition. Not only that, but this sponsorship by bwin of the Euro league Basketball will offer very exclusive videos of the competition. This video content will provide the fans with the ability to view different game tactics and plays by choosing their favorite teams and analyze their tactics and strategy throughout the league.
There are also additional features to the iPad application, as viewers will have the ability to make their own plays or customize existing ones very easily. Then they can compare their strategies with the strategies and tactics of the professional coaches of the basketball teams.
Commenting on this new application, a director form Bwin, Thomas Priglinger, stated that through this new application, the company is intending to provide something completely new and original to all the fans and viewers of the Euro League. On the other hand, the chief officer of Euro League, Roser Queraltó, stated that this amazing, state of the art application is proof of the commitment and the originality that Bwin is presenting to Euro League and all of its’ fans.
Online Gambling Operators in Spain
Since the Spanish government announced that online gambling operators will be required to pay back taxes in order to get licensed, and many European operators have been scrambling to pay off and settle these back taxes. One of the biggest European based gambling companies, Bwin.Party has announced that to settle this issue, it is going to pay 33 m Euro to the Spanish authorities.
Another gambling operator has made an announcement regarding the situation was Sportingbet. As the company announced that it has entered negotiations and talks with the Spanish authorities concerning the situation, but they haven’t reached a fixed back tax amount yet. Although, the company has stated that it has accumulated almost 15 m pounds by selling convertible bonds in order to pay off the back taxes to settle this issue.
It was also stated that the company is expecting to pay off its back taxes and to become eligible to enter the Spanish market legally and to obtain the Spanish eGaming license that is predicted to be available on the 1st of June of this year. These back taxes are expected to be implemented on the whole time period between January of 2009 and May of last year. This period is the period when the internet gambling operators had their operations running within the Spanish market without any license or regulations. This is why the Spanish govt. is back taxing all of these operators for that period as they were operating illegally within the country.
Revenue Results from AGTech
Despite the good financial numbers within the group, AGTech the Chinese wagering company announced a very average financial record for the first quarter of this year. As for the numbers themselves, they are as followed: The total revenues increased by 117% to reach 42.3 million Hong Kong Dollars. The net profit increased by 73.2% and reached 25.2 million Hong Kong Dollars. As for the operations profits, it was equal to 674 thousand HK dollar, which is quite good when put in comparison with the loss of the 1st quarter of last year which was worth 2.4 million HK dollars, so it is clear that the company has recovered from the Q1 /2011’s loss.
It looks like the future success of the company is directly linked to the sum of upgrades and developments that took place at the company in 2011. For example, the company has become partners with Ladbrokes, the UK based land and internet gambling operator. As they have a joint project together, it is named Lucky Racing. It has also acquisitioned Shenzhen Silvercreek, the famous lottery supplier and mobile gaming provider. But seems that things aren’t continuing the same way on the Lucky Racing section, this is due to the fact that the revenues from the first quarter of 2011 has decreased by a total of 35% on the fourth quarter of 2012 that was worth 400 million RMB, reasons are still unclear regarding this decrease.
Partnership Dissolved
So far, it has been seven days since the players of the Purple Lounge casino knew that Media Corp has left the partnership between the two companies, and the departure of both Sara Vincent, the executive officer and Justin Drummond the Chairman. Despite this long period of time, no one from the new staff has told them or given them information regarding the status of their accounts and the safety of their funds. Also, they have had no news regarding when they will be able to withdraw the funds from their Purple Lounge accounts.
After the latest acquisition of Intabet, the new managerial staff consisted of Phil Jackson who replaced Justin Drummond as the chairman, and replacing Sara Vincent as chief executive, Adam Fraser. Both of them were a part of the processes that resulted in the Intabet acquisition. This is why they had enough time to involve themselves in everything related to both Media Corp and Purple Lounge online casino. This is why they are very familiar with the whole process. Despite all of that, there has been only one announcement concerning the future of the casino. This information was announced by the company, it stated that the company believes that the latest acquisition of Intabet is surely going to help with the reconstruction process that is taking place on Purple Lounge internet casino. As this acquisition would aid the addition of new casino rooms and poker games to be added to the new platform that is supplied by Intabet.
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#1 – Makeup Tips and Tricks
This is a really great app in terms of beauty and it is available for the price of just $0.99 in the US as well. Basically, this is an app that has been designed to show you a few of the tips and tricks that will help you to apply your makeup in better ways than you might have thought of. There are a lot of different things covered in this app including ways to highlight your natural beauty, news looks and more. There are even tutorials on how to touch-up and fix any mistakes that you make and tips on keeping a healthy body too. You are sure to see a noticeable improvement when you follow the tips from this app and for $0.99, you really can’t go wrong.
Many of us change our hair style from time to time but more often than not, finding a style to opt for is the most difficult part of doing this. This app is here to help as it actually helps you to choose a great hairstyle, right from your iPhone. Hairstyle actually has more than 270 hairstyles for you to choose from including short, medium length and long styles. There are also more than 50 different hair colours for you to choose from so you can really see what colour to opt for when you go and get your new style. The app uses a photo of your own face that you can take with the iPhone camera and puts the different hairstyles on you. For $0.99, this is a stunning app for beauty
This is an app from the website; Dailyglow.com which some of you may recognise as one of the leading beauty websites out there. This app basically gives you expert advice on a number of things including skin care, hair, makeup and more. In fact, there are more than 500 beauty tips included in this app and many other features too, including the instant manicure feature. There are product reviews, step-by-step make-up guides, blogs and even an online community. Best of all, this app is available completely free of charge from the iTunes app store.
There are plenty of other fantastic beauty related apps in the app store including SunSmart, Make Perfume and many others. There are also a number of other free beauty apps but the ones above are the ones that we think are the best iPhone apps for beauty
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