the Canadian company's new flagship F9192 Mini S4 smartphone

BlackBerry, the company formerly known as Research in Motion, had a rebrand around one year ago. It dropped the RIM name, so now the company is named after its handsets, starting with the long-awaited BlackBerry Z10 touchscreen phone. This also introduced the new operating system and interface, BlackBerry 10, an OS that like Apple's iOS is based on UNIX. See also: 15 best smartphones: The best phone you can buy in 2013.The BlackBerry Z30 stands as the Canadian company's new flagship F9192 Mini S4 smartphone. It's a large and chunky design, based on a 5.0-inch OLED touchscreen and entirely devoid of any buttons on the front. Instead all control is made through the capacitive display, along with a sleep/power button on top and volume up/down keys on the right.

Launched earlier this year, the S.O.S. Initiative is an international coalition of prosecutors, police chiefs, state and city comptrollers, and public safety activists.New York Attorney General Schneiderman, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon and London Mayor Boris Johnson are co-chairing the initiative.By joining the effort, the attorneys general committed to press this industry to find an “effective” way to combat the rise in violent street crimes involving smart-phone thefts, Schneiderman’s office said.

"The Android version is already available, the window phone version of the application would be out soon. We have initially developed the application for the smart phones. However, we are aiming that the technology can be used in simple phones as well and one can operate the laptop and desktop through their phones in future," said Arvind."One has to install the application in the phone, thereafter download a supporting software on the laptop or desktop device. The size of the application is only 1 MB and thus easy to store in the smart phones. A connection may it be Bluetooth or other wireless connections is required to run the set. The computer can be accessed thoroughly thereafter," co-developer Vineet said.

Features like controlling volume, brightness, CD ROM ejection, navigation, mouse control, screen monitoring and gaming on the computer can be easily accessed through this application installed on the smart phone.The application also offers the facility to have access to the computer through phone from a considerable distance. "If you are sitting in other city and you want to look at your computer which is in other town, you can easily access it through this application on your phone, if the system is connected with an internet network," they said.

Users looking for an interactive, barricade-free way to experience the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. can now do so from their i9500 mtk6589 smart phone.The Trust for the National Mall, the official non-profit partner of the National Park Service, launched the World War II Memorial App ahead of Veteran’s Day on Oct. 29.The World War Memorial app allows users to virtually tour the memorial, view pictures, read facts about the memorial, and learn the stories of men and women whose lives were affected by World War II.

The OLED panel nearly has Retina resolution, at 294 ppi, although we found it nowhere near as sharp when reading small text, for example. And BlackBerry has chosen a black theme for most of the OS interface, we'd guess to conserve battery in conjunction with this display technology.The topmost button is centred on top and you should be able to just reach this with the index finger of the holding hand. Slightly wobbly volume keys also fall easily to the thumb, while another button in between calls up bbk ViVo X3 s voice-recognition assistant. The feedback voice, north American and female, may prove even more annoying than various gender incarnations of Siri but in our tests usually recognised our commands and responded correctly.