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Most Amazing Features: Samsung Galaxy S4 or Samsung Galaxy Note 2

The latest Samsung Galaxy S4 has been able to attract lots of eye balls all over the world. While many have already made the choice to purchase the Galaxy S4, there are still lots of people who are still confused whether to purchase this smart phone or to opt for other smart phones like Samsung Galaxy Note 2.

While the Galaxy S4 has already started arriving on the doorsteps for those who had pre-ordered it, it is still not available for immediate purchase. Those who have already started taking advantage of this smart phone have reported that the Galaxy S4 is a tempting smart phone which boasts amazing features.

The Samsung Galaxy S4 features a 4.99-inch full HD Super AMOLED 1,920 x 1080 display with a pixel density of 441ppi while the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 comes with an S-AMOLED capacitive touch screen display of 5.5 inches of 720 x 1280 resolutions with a pixel density of 267 ppi. The Galaxy S4 uses Super AMOLED display with a PenTile pixel arrangement.

The Galaxy Note 2 has got an 8MP camera of 3264×2448 pixels resolution. However, the Galaxy S4 has got a 13 megapixel rear camera that can shoot video in Full HD 1080p quality. It also has a 2 megapixel camera that can also record 1080p video.

The phone has got Backside-illuminated (BSI) sensor for better low-light sensitivity. It can be used for video calling and has even got Dual Camera mode. The front camera of the phone controls the phone with Smart Pause. When you look away from the screen the video will get paused and when you will look back, the video will automatically turn on.

The Galaxy S4 has got Exynos octa-core processors running at 1.6GHz. It uses ARM’s big. LITTLE architecture and is therefore, strictly not an eight-core processor phone. The eight cores are divided in two: four high-power, complex cores for doing the heavy lifting and four smaller, power-efficient cores for doing more mundane tasks. Its architecture is designed so that it can switch between the different types of core seamlessly while the Galaxy Note 2 is powered by Exynos 4412 Quad, MALI 400, 1.6 GHz Cortex A9 Quad Core processor.

The Galaxy S4 will have the Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean OS while the Galaxy Note 2 operates on Android Jelly Bean v.4.1.1.

However, like the Galaxy Note 2 even the Galaxy S4 has got 2 GB RAM and the storage capacity of 16GB, 32GB and 64GB which can be expanded further through microSD card.

Review on Naway Sahar Laptop Scheme (KPK)

Naway Sahar (New Dawn) Laptop Scheme, started by government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to facilitate the TALENTED students of the province. Chief Minister Amir Haider Khan Hoti on Sunday, February 10^th, 2013 inaugurated the Naway Sahar Laptop Scheme by distributing 35 laptops among the topper students of BS Program under University of Peshawar and students of three affiliated degree colleges. Around 23,147 laptops will be distributed through the scheme among the students who had achieved 70% or above marks in their last semester. Similarly, those students who had secured 60% marks during their annual examination will also be eligible for the laptop. Similarly, top forty position holders of government institutions from each board of intermediate and secondary education and board of technical education would also get laptops. KPK Govt. is ensuring transparency in the procurement and distribution of the laptops among some twenty three thousand plus students studying in the various degree programs in KPK’s public sector universities.

 No doubt that this scheme indeed is a very good initiative for easy and fastest excess to the facilities of information technology. This will enable students to get benefit from the world latest and largest knowledge of their interest. This is just the beginning, and a lot more is needed to be done to achieve the world class standards. Nowadays computer particularly laptop is the need of every educated person. But it is very difficult for the Govt. to provide laptop to every student, therefore ultimately some criteria for selection is essential. Among the student community mostly reward and support is provided on the basis of:

• ·         Merit as incentive to the Top positions/securing high level of marks
• ·         To meet the need of the poor students who have no power of purchase

It is good to know that under this scheme up till now laptop distribution is going on with complete transparency among the students on merit. But the level of merit is the matter of concern.  Is it just to line up the hardworking students of Top positions or those securing 85 % and above marks in the same rank with the students of least effort who secured 60/70% marks? The standard/ level of merit for this scheme is kept very low.

This scheme would have served a double purpose of motivation and incentive if the level of merit was kept reasonably high and preserved a quota for the REAL poor students. Hence besides equipping the students with laptop, this would have been a lead source for enhancing the spirit of competition and advancement in different fields.