Last week, one of the top stories from SmartBrief on Social Media was an article from the New York Times called “Search Takes a Social Turn.” The theory is that social networking sites, like Twitter, are taking traffic away from search engines because users can instead quickly poll their friends when they have a question, rather than turning to searching Google for the answer. Could we see a huge drop in search engine usage as social networking becomes more and more popular?

You can’t trust Google.

I don’t mean that you can’t trust the company or any other search engine for that matter. However, at the end of the day, your results are still automated and you have to weed out the most relevant sites. Let’s say you’re searching for “best restaurants in New Mexico,” for example. The results you get will most likely contain ads, restaurants near New Mexico, restaurants that are new and in Mexico, and other irrelevant sites. Even the top sites may not actually lead you the best restaurants as voted by fans or ranked by some kind of expert. Instead, they could very well be sites that have spent a lot of money optimizing themselves for the search term.

Your friends are going to give you their honest opinions on the best restaurants in New Mexico. They essentially act as a search engine result filter, and you can trust that what they give you is going to match your “search term” so to speak. Your friends are humans. Google’s search engines are not. This is not The Matrix. Yet. Humans – 1, Machines – 0.

When you “search” for something via your friends/followers, you have the chance to hold a conversation about the topic. For example, let’s say that you need to know the definition of a word. Instead of using a search engine, you ask your Twitter friends and someone replies to you with the answer. If you need further clarification, you can just ask. With a search engine, there’s no conversation with their results. If you need further clarification, you have to reword your search term and try to find it yourself.

The best part on a social networking site is that you have the ability to talk to multiple people at once about the topic. The conversation isn’t a one-way street, like on a search engine, nor is it even a two-way street. It’s a whole network of streets. Again, a win for the human race. Humans – 2, Machines – 0

There is one clear problem with using social networking to replace search engines, and it’s why search engines will never die. When you poll your friends, there’s a good chance, even if you have a million Twitter followers, that you won’t see any results. If no one knows how to answer your question or even has an opinion, you’ll hear crickets chirping and be stuck high and dry. On a search engine, that doesn’t really happen. Sure, you may occasionally type in something obscure that gives you no results, but in general, you’re going to get a list of relevant websites.

Plus, I’m guessing that most of you don’t have a million friends on any one social networking site. If you’re brand new, you might still be working on building up a following. The fewer people you have to poll, the less likely it will be that you get results. Unfortunately, it just takes time to build up your social networking sites. If you need an answer today, it doesn’t help you to wait a month until you have more connections. A search engine will give you results even if it is your first day using the Internet.

Even for easy-to-answer or opinion questions, you might not get a reply via social networking if you’re asking at an off hour when most of your friends are sleeping. Search engines don’t sleep. So, I have to give this round to the machines. Humans – 2, Machines – 1

Overall, humans do still come out on top, but the last factor probably needs to be more heavily weighted. Social networking may take away some search engine traffic, but we aren’t going to see Google or other search engines up and disappear because of this.

Still, the article is a good reminder – don’t forget to use the real people in your life when you’d normally type something into a search engine. If someone can give you a result, it’s likely to be better than the results list you’d receive via a search engine.

A contemporary mobile phone must maintain such functions, as: mobility, constant Internet access, access to the documents, games and to give the best possibilities and means of communication and contact. A new generation mobile phone “Mobile script” gives all these possibilities!

It has two touch screen (small and large), which provide the best access to information and provide a wide field of communications, such as:
Video link
Ability to view movies
Using the browser
Targeting areas with the help of internet services
All of these functions is more convenient to use on a large screen, which is located inside the phone in the collapsed state.

Big screen consists of 2 layers: a soft OLDE – touchscreen and soft nano material hardening in the filing of low-voltage nego. At the time opening screen hard and bouncy, after work on the side of the screen is pressed Eject, and becomes soft and mosey inside.
The “Mobile Script” mobile phone does not require a power charge, its case is covered with a nano material, converting the Sun light into the energy for your phone feed. At your phone’s display you can watch how much charge is left at the battery and how strong the power of the light which charges the battery is. The mobile phone will automatically give the pieces of advice and clues, when a power recharge is needed, also it is possible to put the mobile phone for a night on a special wireless recharge rug or to recharge the device with a similar wireless way in any public place, where this service is rendered, whether it be: the public transport, a bar or a club.

Diagonal internal screen is 9.5 inches. And you get a Laptop in Your Pocket.

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It’s about the fake nokia N8.Read the story of  fake nokia N8…

The Nokia N8 clone looks pretty much as a real thing, except that specs wise – it’s a completely different beast. We’re talking about a device with a 3.2-inch 240×400 pixels touchscreen (instead of nHD – 360×640), Bluetooth, media player, FM radio and some camera which definitely counts way less pixels than the original N8.

Well, it was bound to happen: a flagship device released as a KIRF (for the second time) well ahead of its official launch. Unfortunately, that’s what happens when you delay a product that already leaked months in advance. The $99.20 “N8-00″ might share its name and stylings with Nokia’s imminent Symbian flagship but that’s where the similarities end.

This Chinese N8 packs a 3.3-inch touchscreen (resistive, no doubt), a quad-band GSM radio, pair of VGA cameras (ha!), 2GB of MicroSD blah blah blah… hey, let’s be honest, the specs don’t really matter do they? This “Nseries” device, like all KIRFs, will be sold to poseurs who want to look the part before quickly discarding it for the next trend. Picture of the backside after the break.

There you have it folks. Don’t get fooled into buying any of these. If a deal sounds too good to be true… it probably is.

Okay, so maybe this won't exactly lead to the demise of the global giant Nokia, but it certainly isn't good news that Samsung will no longer support the Symbian operating system.

Symbian is a mobile platform developed in-house by Nokia. Nokia uses it to power all of its smartphones, but also licenses it for other manufacturers to use.

That list of "other manufacturers" is really dwindling down now, though. Earlier this week Sony Ericsson completely stopped using Symbian in its handsets. And today, Samsung, which makes more phones than any other company, also dropped support.

"Registration and certification of Symbian applications for the Samsung Apps store will cease from 08:00am on the 31st of December 2010," said the company in a statement.

Samsung makes an onslaught of mobile phones spanning dozens of cell phone carriers across the world. But it hasn't been until recently that it was able to create a killer phone. The Galaxy S series of high-end Samsung devices is gaining a lot of notoriety.

Those phones run on Android, which has become Samsung's widely preferred mobile platform.

Symbian is becoming more and more completely exclusive to Nokia, a manufacturer that has lost significant ground in the US because it doesn't support Android. But it remains the #1 phone provider on a global scale because of a firm grasp on developing countries.

All of India rejoiced as the iPhone 3GS came available all across the region as of March 2010. The iPhone 3GS has many wonderful features such as a longer battery life, super fast autofocus camera, landscape keyboard, and much more; and countries all across the world waited anxiously for Apple to release the iPhone 3GS in their country. Unfortunately, India had a pretty long wait and the new fab-phone wasn’t available until March 2010. But, it is pretty costly and can be difficult to find. So if you want to know how to purchase an iPhone 3GS in India, here’s how to do it.

First, go to the Apple site to order your iPhone 3GS; you can do that here. Once you get that beautiful little device and are holding it in your hand, you will then need a carrier who will give you a plan to use that wonderful device. Luckily, there’s a carrier who will do that for you, but it’s certainly going to cost you. Airtel is the company that will provide you with the phone service that you will need for your newiPhone 3GS. You can visit their website here to find out more about them and their iPhone carrier plans but, they’ve also released some information regarding the plans and they’re not cheap.

A 16GB iPhone from Airtel will cost users about Rs. 35,500; and the 32GB model costs Rs. 41,500, which is about $900 USD, for all our American readers. Airtel also has the 8GB iPhone 3GS for Rs. 29,500. You won’t only get the features you’d expect from Airtel though, such as being able to text and have a certain number of long distance minutes, but you’ll also get 500MB of free data every month for a year.

Of course, if you choose to use Airtel you could eliminate the first step of using the Apple website altogether, and just go straight through Airtel.

People bump into others a lot when they are texting while walking in the streets, but Samsung released their own solution for that problem.

RoadSMS shows your road through the screen by a transparent keyboardusing the camera in your phone. This way you will know what’s coming ahead of you even while texting.

This app is exclusive to Samsung Apps and is only available to the Samsung Galaxy S users which have the Samsung Apps Market in the phone.

After a little tinkering around, I managed to grab the .APK file of the Road SMS app from the Galaxy S and installed it on my Nexus One. Luckily, it worked on my N1 without any problems at all.

Google just announced Instant Search, which is now live on Google.com for U.S users.

Google Instant is a new search enhancement that shows results as you type. This helps in getting better and faster results instantly as you type your search query.

Benefits of Google Instant Search:

Google Instant is rolling out over several days to users signed in to a Google Account. Check back soon if you are signed in and do not see it yet.

And you wonder the name of the next Android tablet. B-pad, or C-pad? Or even BieberPad. But you’d be very, very wrong! Next, a popular UK high street chain has rolled out its own-brand Android tablet, which is known as the Next 10-inch Tablet. Literally! The gadget is powered by a 10-inch LED touchscreen display at 1024x 600 resolution, a fast 1.0Ghz LNX CODE 11 processor, a 256MB RAM, an 8GB of internal memory, Wi-Fi connectivity, an Android 2.1 operating system, a USB 2.0 connectivity, a 3.5mm headphone port and a microSD memory card slot. The Next 10-inch Android Tablet is priced at £180 or around $286. Okay, next!

Hats off for the chinese this time. Gosund the chinese gadget manufacturer has unveiled a very ‘decent and cheap’ Android tablet, the Gpad 701. Now, are we going to see A to Z pads coming? Ops, Apad is already taken. Powered by a 720MHZ Telechip TCC8902 chip, the tablet boasts a 7-inch (800 x 480) resistive touchscreen, a 256MB RAM, a 2GB Flash storage and Android 2.1 OS. The Shenzhen GosundGpad 701 is compatible with RM/RMVB, AVI, MKV, FLV, WMV, MP4 and 3GP videos with an HDMI port to output videos. The Shenzhen GosundGpad 701 retails for 1099 Yuan or around $160 a pop. I told you it’s going to be affordable, but don’t count on it to be your cracked iPad replacement.

Toshiba has released several promotional videos for its 10-inch Android powered Folio 100 tablet. Surprisingly, the Folio 100 doesn’t have access to the Android Market, so the company has installed the tablet with its own apps, including a Toshiba Market. The gadget features a 10.1-inch (1024 x 600) pixel capacitive touchscreen display, a dual-core nVidia Tegra 2 chip, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Android 2.2 Froyo and Adobe Flash 10.1 support. Not quite a Galaxy Tab killer, or is it?

Loki is the name of the new baby from Xigmatek, and it’s the high performance cooler. I guess this is the killer for Zalman’s new CNPS10X Extreme. The LOKI SD963 supports both Intel (LGA1366, LGA1156, LGA775) and AMD (AM3, AM2+, AM2) sockets. This high performance cooler comes with three direct-touch 6mm copper heatpipes, an aluminum fin array and a 92mm fan that operates at 1200 to 2800 RPM. I guess direct-touch technique is really the best choice for a performance cooler these days, as the results will always be more promising than the typical soldered ones. Pricing and availability are still unknown at the moment.