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Samsung Galaxy X Cover 2 key specifications

• 4-inch TFT 480×800 WVGA
• 4GB internal storage with microSD support up to 32GB
• 5-megapixel rear camera
• VGA front facing camera
• Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, USB 2.0, A-GPS
• EDGE (850/900/1800/1900) HSPA+21.1Mbps, HSUPA 5.76Mbps (850/900/1900/2100)
• 1,700 mAh
• Android Jelly Bean
• 130.5×67.7×11.9mm
• 148 grams 

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Looks like Samsung is one company that's going to have it's plate full with a range of devices expected to launch this year. Apart from unveiling it's latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S IV as well as the new Galaxy Note, the company is also planning to launch a new smartphone sporting a huge 5.8-inch display.

Citing an "insider" bringing latest information, Samsung oriented blog, SamMobile states that the Korean electronics giant will soon announce a smartphone dubbed as the Galaxy Fonblet 5.8 (GT-I9152). It may come with Android Jelly Bean straight out of the box and feature dual-SIM capabilities as well. The device is expected to launch in Pure White.

This smartphone is expected to be a superior version of the Galaxy Player 5.8 that is currently available only in Korea. It comes with a 5.8-inch TFT screen with QHD resolution display, 3-megapixel camera, Bluetooth 4.0 and runs on Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich).

In some more news, the blog also confirms the existence of the next iteration of the Galaxy X Cover (launched in 2011) in the form of the X Cover 2 GT-S7710. The device is likely to come in two colour versions (Titan Gray and Black/Red). Pricing and availability details are currently unknown, but we expect Samsung to announce these smartphones soon.

Measuring 130.5 × 67.7 × 11.9 mm and weighing 148 grams, the Galaxy X Cover 2 will run Android Jelly Bean (version 4.1 or 4.2) and like its predecessor, is going to be dustproof and waterproof. Other features include a 4-inch WVGA display, 5-megapixel rear camera, VGA front-facing camera, 4GB of internal memory, microSD card support, HSPA+, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, GPS, Bluetooth 4.0 and a 1,700 mAh battery.

The Mobile World Congress is all set to take place in Barcelona next month and we'd certainly hope to see these devices make an appearance at the event.

But Samsung isn't just bringing smartphones to MWC, it's also planning to unveil a new 7-inch Galaxy Tab at the event, reports Unwired View via Korea's ET Times. The tablet's details appear bleak at the moment, but it is expected to jump into the full-HD pool running on Android Jelly Bean and feature a a quad-core processor.

At CES, the company recently unveiled the next processor in its Exynos 5 lineup called the Exynos 5 Octa, an eight-core SoC dedicated to tablets and high-end smartphones. The Samsung Galaxy S IV is likely to feature the new chipset that will be manufactured using a 28nm process as opposed to the 32nm process used by the Exynos 5 Dual, hence claiming to be more power-efficient.

NASA's Older Mars Rover Notches Another Milestone

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Opportunity, NASA's other Mars rover, has tooled around the red planet for so long it's easy to forget it's still alive.
Some 5,000 miles away from the limelight surrounding Curiosity's every move, Opportunity this week quietly embarks on its tenth year of exploration — a sweet milestone since it was only tasked to work for three months.
"Opportunity is still going. Go figure," said mission deputy principal investigator Ray Arvidson of Washington University in St. Louis.
True, it's not as snazzy as Curiosity, the most high-tech interplanetary rover ever designed. It awed the world with its landing near the Martian equator five months ago.
After so many years crater-hopping, Opportunity is showing its age: It has an arthritic joint in its robotic arm and it drives mostly backward due to a balky front wheel — more annoyances than show-stoppers.
For the past several months, it has been parked on a clay-rich hill along the western rim of Endeavour Crater that's unlike any scenery it encountered before. It plans to wrap up at its current spot in the next several months and then drive south where the terrain looks even riper for discoveries.
Long before Curiosity became everybody's favorite rover, Opportunity was the darling.
The six-wheel, solar-powered rover parachuted to Eagle Crater in Mars' southern hemisphere on Jan. 24, 2004, weeks after its twin Spirit landed on the opposite side of the planet.
During the first three months, there were frequent updates about the twin rovers' antics. The world, it seemed, followed every trail, every rock touched and even kept up with Spirit's health scare that it eventually recovered from.
Opportunity immediately lived up to its name, touching down in an ancient lakebed brimming with minerals that formed in the presence of water, a key ingredient for life. After grinding into rocks and sifting through dirt, Opportunity made one of the enduring finds on Mars: Signs abound of an ancient environment that was warmer and wetter than today's dusty, cold desert state.
Spirit, on the other hand, landed in a less interesting spot and had to drive some distance to find geologic evidence of past water. After six productive years wheeling around, it fell silent in 2010, forever stuck in Martian sand.
Opportunity went on to poke into four other craters, uncovering even more hints that water existed on Mars long ago.
The rover "is not like a lander staring at the same real estate. We've gone to different terrains, explored different geology and answered different questions on Mars," said project manager John Callas of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which runs the $984 million project.
What's still unknown is whether Mars ever had the right environmental conditions to support microscopic organisms — something Curiosity is trying to answer during its two-year mission. Besides water, it's generally agreed that a power source like the sun and carbon-based compounds are essential for life.
Unlike the flashier Curiosity, armed with the latest tools, Opportunity is not equipped with a carbon detector. Its latest crater destination, which it arrived at last year after an epic three-year journey, contains sections rich in clay deposits. Clays typically form in the presence of water and can be a fine preserver of carbon material. But scientists will never know.
As it enters its tenth year on Mars, Opportunity will continue studying the chemical makeup and pinning down the ages of several interesting rocks at its location for several more months before adding more mileage to the 22 miles it has logged since landing.
As for the hunt for carbon, all eyes are on Curiosity, set to drive later this year to the base of a mountain where rock layers containing clay minerals have been detected.
Callas, the JPL project manager, said Curiosity has a long way to go to catch up with Opportunity, which has nearly a decade head start on the Martian surface.
"Mars is big enough for more than two rovers to explore," he said.
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Tanzania: Solar Power Is Viable Source of Energy for the Majority Poor

Villagers in the remote area of Kendwa in North Unguja have every reason to smile after a solar power project was installed in their neighborhood, thanks to sponsorship from the Government of India, through its Consul General in Zanzibar, Mr Pawan Kumar.
Hailing the project as affordable and easy to instal, Mr Haroun Ali Suleiman, the legislator for Makunduchi in South Unguja, was so impressed that he recommended that the same initiative be extended to benefit his constituents. The solar power project in Zanzibar, whose main source is heat from the sun, is quite a simple undertaking that requires none other than women who have not had formal education, to become the technicians manning the project.
In just two months, the women who were trained in India have managed to connect 80 households with power. And according to the women technicians, the North Unguja project's target is to instal solar panels and lamps in about 400 households.
This by far, is a great achievement worth emulating throughout the country. Solar power is, however, a new technology, much as we have seen its use for quite some time. In Dar es Salaam, for example, solar power use is limited to traffic lights only.
Apart from Ubungo, Tazara and Kijitonyama traffic lights, no solar power is seen to be much of a known source of energy. Yet, power shortage and outages have been a nightmare to city residents, as the Tanzania Electric Supply Company (TANESCO) continues to dominate the power market, with its main sources being water and gas.
The two sources have been either erratic or too expensive. That is one important factor the economy of the country has been grappling with for too long. Fortunately, the country is blessed with plenty of minerals. Some of them like coal, may be used in the production of electricity.
But even if the country finds this kind of production too expensive to develop for the benefit of the majority poor, here is another alternative, plenty of sunshine from where we can tap solar power. However, due to a great deal of reliance on hydro and thermo power, solar power is generally graded as just another source of energy.
There is not much concentration on this resource even as its potential is higher and more viable than TANESCO's power. The Rural Energy Electrification Programme, for example, also relies on hydro and thermo electricity and even seeks to connect villages to the national grid, rather than concentrate on solar power, whose source is readily available in every corner of the country.
Already there are electric appliances like fridge, cooker, lantern and even laptop manufactured to be conventional with solar power specifications, but they don't really offer a viable alternative as they are indeed not affordable. Something ought to be done.
If the aim is to provide the majority with an alternative source of energy and here there is plenty of it, policy and decision makers need to join forces and change their strategies. Time is now for Tanzania to change to solar power as a cheap source of energy. There is no point talking about development while we have not been able to tap all available resources. In this, we hope energy experts are following events closely.

From around the world tonight, the waxing gibbous moon shines closer to Jupiter this Monday evening than it did at this time yesterday. See our January 20 program to know why the moon and Jupiter are pairing up more closely tonight.

The moon and Jupiter snuggle up especially close together in the Americas this evening. In fact, if you’re in the right place in South America, you can watch the moon occult – cover over – Jupiter for up to an hour or so this evening. Click here for more information on this lunar occultation of Jupiter.

Tomorrow morning, at 5:00 a.m. Central Time in North America, the moon will be at apogee – its farthest point from Earth for the month. At apogee the moon will be 405,311 kilometers (251,849 miles) away. Even so, the moon – our closest celestial neighbor – very much remains in the Earth’s backyard while Jupiter lodges in the farther reaches of the solar system.

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