Moto X advert hints at something different from Google's in-house smartphone

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Everyone knows that Google bought Motorola for the patents, or did they? The much awaited Moto X superphone has long been rumoured and various leaks have revealed little. The past few weeks have seen some movement at the Google owned Motorola division. A new Google-ish logo appeared a week ago and more recently, a print ad for the Moto X smartphone. The text heavy ad, which shows no image (although the Moto X prototyle has been widely leaked -see above) there are a number of hints towards a different approach of phone-making.

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Lumia 1020 on AT&T image leak reveals Nokia Pro Cam app

The Lumia 1020 which is AKA as the Nokia EOS is the expected  smartphone with a 41 Megapixel senor that's being launched next week in New York City.  While earlier press invitations and blog posts from Nokia have alluded to a revolutionary smartphone camera an actual image from Twitter's favourite smartphone tipster @Evleaks shows what seems to be the AT&T version of the Nokia EOS complete with a new Nokia Pro Cam Live Tile. Nothing has been confirmed but as far as we know, this could be very probable. As for Canadians, Rogers is Nokia's preferred partner for high-end Lumias, at least that was how it has been with the Lumia 820 and Lumia 920, so if this impressive smartphone does come to Canada, we expect it to be under the banner of the big red machine.

Will this be the ultimate smartphone camera? Can this possibly disrupt both smartphones as well as digital cameras in general? All will be revelaed on July 11th!

3D scanning the Brazilian National Football team

3D scanning technology was put to good use for an upcoming multimedia project by Latin America mass media group Globo Internacional. Making use of Artec scanners, realistic three-dimensional models of the entire Brazilian National Football team were created. The video above shows a glimpse of how the entire process came about.

Source: Artec 3D

Apple celebrates '5 years of App Store"

Whether you try to argue it or not, there is no denying how Apple - then shaped by Steve Jobs - changed the way we interact with our phones. They, with their App Store, brought apps into relevance and created new jobs for millions of developers; with an estimated 5-billion dollars in payments going out to developers lasdt year alone. Some big numbers. But, time has flown, and on July 10th, 2008 the App Store turns 5 years old. 

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