Android powered Nikon Coolpix S800c coming to India in October . .

Good news for our Indian readers! The Android powered Nikon Coolpix S800c will be launching in the subcontinent this October.

No word on a price yet, but it might be revealed next month. The announcement yesterday had it at about $350, so I’d assume the Indian price would be somewhere around that. This comes along in a press release sent out by Nikon India that lists several of it’s camera models coming in by October, before the Diwali festive season.

Obviously, we here at UnleashThePhones arnt too bothered about the other models, but since the S800c runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread and can download apps from the Google Play Store, we’re a little bit interested in it. There’s also built-in GPS, Wifi, a 16 Megapixel BSI CMOS sensor, 10x optical zoom lens, a 3.5 inch OLED WVGA touchscreen, and can record up to 1080p video. 4GB of internal memory as well, though there’s no word if there’s external memory or what the battery life might be like.

But eh, if you’ve been wanting to Instagram pictures right from your point-and-shoot camera, the time is coming soon y’all!

iOS 6 simulator runs at 640×1136, confirms next gen iPhone resolution . . .

We’ve seen assembled cases, we’ve seen the actual glass involved, and we’ve got an army of leaks and rumors that tell us the new iPhone will have a larger display. Just shy of 4 inches, the new iPhone could have a resolution of 640×1136 if “sources close to the matter” are to be believed. Well, with the release of iOS 6 Beta 4, iOS developers have been given what they need to confirm that iOS is being groomed to support a higher resolution than that used by the iPhone 4/4S Retina display.

The iPhone is basically the only major smartphone to have a display that still under 4 inches. Every successful Android device in the past year has had a 4-inch or larger 720p screen, not to mention technologies like NFC and LTE. HTC even has a 1080p device on the way. The screen has never been an area in which Apple has had to do much to compete in — the Retina display is a tremendous screen in terms of quality, but the size and resolution of the screen has been pushing users to try other things to get a better multimedia experience on their handsets.

An added bump to the screen boost on the new iPhone will be more apps per homepage. According to the screenshots, the pages on the iOS homescreen will be able to fit one more layer of icons without needing to make any changes to the rest of the iPhone UI.

Even so, having a 640×1136 display puts the new iPhone on the wrong side of being able to claim the new iPhone has an HD display, though the quality of a Retina display may leave a question as to whether or not the phone is beyond HD. On a specs sheet the new iPhone will have a lower resolution display than competing devices, and that may hurt iPhone sales if Apple’s competition presses their advantage.

Location-based Alerts on your Android ....

Setting location based reminders is very  simple in android. The app is integrated with Google Maps and you can just tap a location on the map to set a reminder when you are around that place.
You can  create one-time alerts or  configure it to repeat on particular days


How do you locate your mobile phone if the ringer is off? Maybe you switched the phone to vibrate mode while you were in a meeting and now you dont find it .
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could use other  phone  to turn on the ringer of your missing phone?
Here is an app for it
Agastya, a new Android app that lets you “remotely” perform various tasks on your phone from any other phone via simple SMS commands. The other phone, that is sending the commands, need not be running Android – even the basic Nokia phone would do

The workflow is very  easy. You send an SMS command from a friend’s phone to your own phone in a given format and the app reacts accordingly.
For example, a command like “ringer” would turn on the ringer while “silent” would put the phone to silent mode.
The best feature of this app is it  helps you retrieve your missed calls list or your incoming text messages via, you got it right, SMS.
Here’s a complete list of SMS commands that you can try on your Android phone:

• SILENT – Turn off the phone’s ringer
• RINGER – Turn on the ringer
• IMEI – Get the IMEI number* of your phone
• LAST MESSAGES – Retrieve the last 5 text messages received on your phone
• LAST CALLS – Know the last 5 missed/received/dialed numbers
• <CONTACT> – Fetch the contact number of a person from the address book.

Agastay isn’t the first app that offers such features.
The more popular Where’s My Droid app can not only turn on the ringer of your phone remotely but will also send you the phone’s current GPS location by SMS. There’s overlap but these apps are more inclined towards locating your lost phone while Agastay is like a command console – you can toggle between phone states or even fetch details of a contact remotely from the phone’s address book. The IMEI feature is also handy for blacklisting your misplaced phone