Budget Phone: Samsung Galaxy S Duos 3

Samsung Galaxy S Duos 3 is the newest product in the line of Samsung’s Galaxy S Duos series. It runs on KitKat the latest OS from Android. It also has TouchWiz Essence user interface by Samsung.

Other specification are almost the same from the Samsung Galaxy S Duos 2 S7582. It is equiped with a 4 inches display, WVGA screen 480 x 800 pixels TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors. The processor of the smartphone is 1 GHz dual core Cortex-A7 with 512 MB of RAM. The phone storage is 4 GB of internal memory that is expandable with microSD card. The back camera is 5 MP shooter 2592 х 1944 pixels with autofocus, and LED flash. The front camera is VGA. Samsung Galaxy S Duos 3 is powered by Li-Ion 1500 mAh battery.

Discounted Moto X Units .edu email Users

Motorola is promoting their newest flagship smartphone Moto X to students and educators by giving discounts to .edu email users. Moto X, and other new products of Motorola like Moto Hint Bluetooth and Motorola Turbo Charger are available for pre-order on September 16. If you have a .edu email address, you can get $50 off for the Moto X smartphone for only $449.99, the regular price is $499.99. 

If you are interested in availing the .edu discount you will need to complete a form on their site and register your .edu email address to get the promo code. This promo cannot be used in conjunction with other discounts that Motorola is offering. The .edu promo Moto X will not have a contract with any carrier.

Facebook Video

Facebook have now added a view counter to public videos, you can now find popular and trending videos and monitor your own video if people are viewing it. Facebook said that they are serving about a billion video views per day and about 66% are from mobile users. The advantage of Facebook Video against YouTube is that Facebook is social media and the clip have the potential to go viral more rapidly.

Facebook has tapped video ads as an important part of their revenue stream. They have acquired video ad company LiveRail to help generate more income.