Who doesn’t fall in love with a super smartphone with so called premier hand set’s features at half of its price? Here comes the OnePlus to conquer the global smart phone market but it’s not a walk in the park to grab your piece due to limited production. Exclusively for Indian’s, OnePlus 64GB variant is priced at 25,000 INR. We will present you layer by layer niceties of the jazziest gadget. [Read more…]
Whenever we need to do scan a hard copy, we always think about using a desktop scanner and slow OCR softwares to perform OCR. But today, our mobile technology is developed up to such a high level that we can easily scan and perform OCR on our documents and can get a PDF file of it. So from now on, we don’t need to take pictures of hard copies we need or wish to read later. You can (almost) scan without printer with and Android device and save it as a PDF file.
An Android Smartphone has camera which allows you to take pictures, but obviously cannot perform OCR and cannot save a PDF file of the document – you’ll just have a picture of your document. So, to save a document as a PDF file and to OCR them, you’ll need special apps. Some particular special apps which are can perform these functions. We’ve listed some of those apps below which can help you to save multiple images as a PDF file with Android device.
Evernote is a popular which millions of people use to save their notes, create to-do lists and record voice reminders. If you’re one those users, than you’ll be happy to know that this app also allows comes with a scan feature. You can just take a scan of the hard copy using your camera and can save a PDF file in your Evernote account.
You can access the scanner from “+” sign button in Evernote and the tap on “Page Camera”. Now you’ll see the camera screen, centre the hard copy you want to scan and press the green camera button at the bottom. The good thing about Evernote is that it allows you to take multiple scans without leaving the camera interface and you can the combine them all as a single PDF file.
Google Drive is also filled with scanning and OCR ability. Just simply snap a picture and Google Drive will save the PDF file of it. You can also perform OCR on the documents using Google’s Servers so you can search it in your drive.
To scan the document, open the Google Drive app on your Smartphone and then open the menu. Tap on Add new and then select the Scan option from the list. You’ll see the camera interface. Now just centre the hard copy and press the blue button at the bottom to scan. Unlike Evernote, Google Drive saves separate PDF file of every scan, which means you cannot combine multiple scans to save a single PDF file. It’s interesting to note that Google Drive extract the document from the rest unwanted part from the picture. You can also manually rotate and crop the document before saving it to your drive.
CamScanner is a perfect fit for those people who want to scan PDF files, sync, edit, share and manage contents. It is a combination of both scanning and OCR facility. You can just turn your Smartphone into a properly working scanner and scan (take a picture of) all kinds of paper documents: receipts, notes, invoices, whiteboard discussions, business cards, certificates, etc. Batch Scan Mode saves you even more time. It auto detects and adjusts the document orientation. OCR for Search allows you to easily find keywords within PDF files, saving you the trouble of browsing among tons of documents. Upload the scanned documents to cloud storages; Fax scanned documents; Share documents between mobile devices and computers via WiFi; Share documents on your mobile or at www.camscanner.net via sending the document link.
So these were some apps which can scan hard copies to PDF file. Is there any other app which you use for this purpose? Surely let us know in the comments below. Mean time check out the “Top 10 Collaborative Editing Tools To Improve Productivity“.
Better improvements are being made to each of the smartphones upon its release. Since, most of the smartphone users in India are students; we tend to forget writing about the things which suit them the best. Well, students have many concerns like studying, knowing different things, browsing the web, chatting, watching movies, playing games etc. So, a well-built sturdy phone with amazing specs will fit all of the requirements for a student. Let’s take a look at the best smartphones for students in India.
Packed within a nice 5-inch display IdeaPhone k860 is pretty much inexpensive for a phablet. It weighs slightly more and it’s quite difficult to handle it within one hand, but still, it’s been equipped with Corning Gorilla Glass protection and a nice combination of CPU and GPU.
This device has internal storage of 8GB but you can extend it as well up to 32GB. It comes with Exynos 4412 Quad-Core 1.4GHz Cortex-A9 which has been used in the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. Bundled with 1GB RAM and Mali-400MP GPU, chances are that you’ll fall in love with the HD games and multiple running apps. The only downside with its specs is its backdated support from Android. It seems pretty harsh to own ICS on such a nice looking device. It also has 8MP rear camera with amazing image quality. It comes with a price tag of Rs. 19,990 which is quite affordable for the college students.
Samsung’s Galaxy series has created a great impact in the smartphone world and we’ve seen Galaxy devices with different sizes hovering around the whole country. Galaxy Grand Duos is a great smartphone according to its specs and price. It’s supported by Jelly Bean and lower ppi display built within 5-inches but still it packs a powerful Dual-Core 1.2 GHz processor to run it effectively. The GPU unit is Broadcom VideoCore IV and it can help you to represent great powerpoint presentation as well as multiple gaming compatibility. The 8-MP rear camera is quite handy for taking great pictures and videos at 1080p. It won’t cost you more than Rs. 17,460.
Canvas 4 has made its entrance as the top rated smartphone in the market and mostly students are hovering around to get one in their pockets. Costing around Rs. 17,999, this device enables you to make lots of amazing stuffs in your daily schedule. Powered by Quad-Core processor and coupled with 1GB RAM, this device is open for any challenge to cover any HD games or running 20apps at once is not a big deal for it. It packs a 13-MP rear camera and you can guess the amazing quality that it’s trying to offer the market. You can get a bundled package within less money by buying Canvas 4. Thousands of people have already pre-ordered this device which is why it seems pretty obvious that it will perform above the mark for any student within this affordable price range.
Well, we’ve prepared this list considering the best mobile price list in India to guide the fellow students who have a tighter budget to buy mid-ranged smartphones. If your budget is much higher than our guess, then you can get sturdy phones like Galaxy S4, HTC One, iPhone 5 etc.
Author Bio: Mohsinali Sunasara is Co-Founder at Waroze.com which offers cashback shopping online in india.
Android community has recently surprised everyone with the news of their connection with one of NASA’s recent projects, where ‘Nexus One’ Smartphone built by HTC, running on Google’s Android OS is used for low cost satellite manufacturing. The ‘PhoneSat’ project is primarily aimed at evolving the satellite architecture focusing more into NASA’s capability to develop low-cost, easy, and quickly built satellite technology.
Well, hard to believe whether a modern day Smartphone can offer such capabilities required for satellite systems; however, Android apps development has made it possible. So, here are the features of your regular Smartphones that has made this project possible;
Today’s Smartphones have capabilities beyond our expectations. At consumer level, we only use or are aware of very few of them; however, the capabilities can do miracle for technocrats, such as NASA has experimented with. Giving this interesting rocket science a pause, let us see what these Android phones can do more for general consumers.
Most of the out of the box phones running on Android platform come with powerful processors. This gives the phone the capacity of a computer. These phones are capable of doing almost everything that a computer can do. Robust hardware integration is key to the myriad popularity of these devices.
Due to dedicated in-built memory, Android phones posses super fastness. This is why you download and install so much of apps and are still able to work and play in a multi tasking environment. Minimum 1 or 2 GB RAM is common for today’s Android Smartphones.
Text messaging and Emailing have been talk of the past. Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Gtalk, and any other communication platform; Android makes it possible on your Smartphones.
Android phones offer excellent GPS navigation capabilities to guide you on the route of your journey. Finding a landmark, any building or street, and direction to your destination was never so easy and accurate.
Android is a universal mobile device operating system. This OS is compatible with Smartphones, tablets or palmtops, desktops, and even high end cameras, Smart TVs, wrist watches, headphones, VoIP Phones etc. The cross-device compatibility nature of Android has turned it into the widely accepted mobile OS.
After the introduction of Android, the world of communication and mobile technology has undergone a sea-change. Android is the choicest OS for almost all major and emerging mobile device manufacturers. With the experimentation of its capability beyond the use of general communication technology by NASA, Android now opens up new vistas for innovators and product manufacturers. This is particularly encouraging news for consumers; as they will be offered more and more new and useful features with their Android mobile device.
Within very small time of its launch, Google’s Android has become the platform for all innovative products and hardware. With quick, robust, and regular updates, Android will keep its miracle on and on in the coming times.
In a country like India, where there is absolutely no infrastructure for physically disabled, this news brings the fresh air of change and hope. A start-up, Kriyate Design Solutions, based in India has successfully created World’s first Braille smart phone for blind people.
This phone converts all text in to Braille pattern and thus allow the blind people to read SMSes and emails. Sumit Dagar, the innovator of this smartphone claims, “This product is based on an innovative ‘touch screen’ which is capable of elevating and depressing the contents it receives to transform them into ‘touchable’ patterns“.
The working of the phone was explained by Times of India as:
The phone uses Shape Memory Alloy technology, based on the concept that metals remember their original shapes, i.e. expand and contract to its original shape after use. The phone’s ‘screen’ has a grid of pins, which move up and down as per requirement. The grid has a Braille display, where pins come up to represent a character or letter. This screen will be capable of elevating and depressing the contents to form patterns in Braille. All other elements are like any other smartphone.
Dagar, a TED fellow and recipient of prestigious Rolex award for Young Laureate, says he felt the need of such a device when he realised that so far, technology has completely ignore the marginalised ones and focuses mainly on the mainstream people. His idea got the boost at the Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship, located in IIM Ahmedabad. The prototype of the device is being developed at IIT Delhi and is currently being tested at L V Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad.
I am very thrilled to see that finally India is using its technical power in the right direction.
Nearly every small business owner has to mind the bottom line carefully. Cash flow is almost always tight, and so every expense warrants scrutiny. When a small business owner sees something that appears unnecessary on a budget, the reflex is often to cut it out. Unfortunately, this reflex can often set back small businesses, because they’re not looking far enough into the future.
One large expense many small businesses wrestle with is providing employees with smartphones. The smartphone has become a staple technology, yet many small businesses are unwilling to pay employees’ monthly bills. Since startup employees typically aren’t mobile, there seems no need to keep them constantly in touch with a smartphone. Plus, many of them will bear the costs themselves, so why offer to pay?
Why offer to pay? Because the smartphone can be crucial to a small business’s success. It might not seem obvious at first, but there are a number of reasons why small businesses should ensure that their employees have smartphones.
One of the most valuable traits for any small business is flexibility. In many ways small businesses cannot afford the rigidity of large corporations. They don’t have the financial might to power through certain obstacles, so they must have the flexibility to circumvent them. The greatest way to achieve flexibility is through organization. The highly organized small business will stand a greater chance of weathering tough times.
A smartphone’s personal information management, or PIM, applications allow employees to remain highly organized. When a company supplies its employees with smartphones, they also imply an obligation to use them. By keeping important dates in line, including deadlines, small businesses can move with efficiency. The smartphone also keeps the employees connected at all times. This isn’t to say that they should work around the clock, but rather that they can be reached when necessary.
There are many instances where employees cannot make it to work. The New York City area was recently hit with a , leaving many without power and access to transportation. Small businesses kept chugging along, though, because their employees were able to work from home. Part of the reason was they all had smartphones, which helped them access information normally stored on their office computers.
Small businesses need to find any means possible to identify with prospects. It is through identifying with them that they can effectively market to them. And it’s not until the marketing phase that the prospect realizes his or her desire for the product. It’s a long, complicated process, and small businesses should embrace any means of making it simpler. Equipping employees with smartphones is a step in that direction.
Analysts forecast next year alone that consumers will buy 1.2 billion smartphones and tablets. That doesn’t even take into account consumers who purchased smartphones this year, who won’t be upgrading until 2013. Billions of prospects worldwide use smartphones, and small businesses can leverage this fact by familiarizing employees with them. The more ways in which an employee can relate to a prospect, the greater chances they can find common ground. Sales typically occur when salesperson and prospect find common ground.
Smartphones also help companies more effectively market to prospects. Mobile websites, apps, and social media are staples of modern marketing. By arming employees with smartphones small businesses afford them an opportunity to dig in deep and learn how to use these marketing tactics. One big reason is because the phone comes from the company. Employees might be less likely to learn if doing so on a personal phone.
Sales are the backbone of any small business. Without sales there is no money, and without money there is no business. Every small business must sell or it is no longer a business at all. Just as small businesses must remain flexible with operations, so it must remain flexible with sales. If there is any obstacle between the prospect and the sale, the prospect likely will not turn into a customer. Smartphones can now help eliminate many obstacles.
Imagine a sales employee traveling around with the ability to sell to anyone, at any place, during any time. Not only that, but imagine that payment is instant. There is no need to input customer information, nor is there any real barrier to the sale. It just involves swiping the customer’s credit card. This is possible now with mobile payment systems. These are units that attach to a smartphone, and allow salespeople to ring people up, as though they were at a real cash register.
Intuit is one company leading the field here, with their Go Payment unit. They keep a that can help explain exactly how small businesses benefit from using these new devices. Of course, they’re only good with a smartphone. They’re just another good reason for small businesses to invest in smartphones for their employees.
Yes, the monthly bill for a smartphone, roughly $100 US per person, can look like a weight on the bottom line. But there are too many advantages to smartphone ownership. Smart small businesses will see this cost as an opportunity to make employees more organized and flexible, while allowing them to gain common ground with prospects and generate sales. Instead of being a cost, smartphones should be viewed as investments.
Author Bio: Joe Pawlikowski writes, edits, and consults for several technology blogs across the web. He keeps a personal blog at JoePawl.com.