Top Things To Look For In A Luxury Watch:Entry Level Luxury

Welcome to the first of three articles that offer an overview for watch newbies on what to look for when getting a new watch. Esteemed watch expert readers are going to be familiar with much of what I am talking about, and I encourage your personal additions to the list. For the rest, I hope to help guide your watch purchase decision and discuss information that many of us take for granted. Too often am I presented with questions about what watch people should buy, or what makes a watch good. I simply cannot review the 100s of watch brands and 1000s of styles with each person - what I can give people is a general overview of what to look for and ask about given your budget.
Let me first say that these lists will not discuss complications (functions) that watches have. I doesn't matter to me whether you are looking for a chronograph (stopwatch), perpetual calendar (does not need to be adjusted very often), GMT (24 hour hand second time zone), or otherwise... operating watch. These three lists will mention aspects of the watch or its construction that are often function agnostic. Plus, these items are overall things to look. There is no "perfect" watch, so just make sure the watches you are looking for satisfy as many of the items below as possible.
In "Part 1," I will discuss features you should look for in what I call an "entry level luxury" watch. This is going to be the $300 and above price point. I will not cap it because different watches simply give you more for the money and these features are certainly things you'll want in upper range watches as well. The next price point will be $1000 and up, and finally we will have the price point of about $20,000 and up. This latter price point will include things at the $20,000 level as well as the $200,000 level.

For $300 and up watches:

This is a broad range of watches with probably the largest selection of watches in it. For some of you $300 is a huge sum for a watch, while for others of you, this is a paltry amount barely worth your attention. If you are in the former category, you'll want to listen up as these are important things to look for. Again, this is just one partial list, and there are of course others things that go into a good watch.

1. Sapphire Crystal

A watch crystal is the transparent cover over the face of the watch. Crystals have been made using different materials over the years, but only a few major materials dominate the market today. Most of the watch you'll look at have one of two types of crystals; mineral glass or synthetic sapphire crystals. Mineral crystals are cheaper and offer one benefit over sapphire - they don't tend to shatter if stuck hard. Meaning they will crack, but not shatter. Shattered sapphire crystals are relatively rare and typically occur with a harsh impact. The better the watch, the thicker the sapphire crystal will be, and thus less likely to crack. Sapphire crystals are incredibly scratch-resistant though. You often seen well-worn watches with beat up cases but a "flawless" crystal. Thus, sapphire crystals are more desirable to mineral crystals and should be preferred the majority of the time.

2. Solid Metal Construction

To some people it might be obvious to get a watch out of solid metal, but you'd be surprised at how some cheaper watches cut costs. Steel watches should be make from grade 316L stainless steel almost all the time. Plus, the watch case and bracelet links should be solid pieces of metal rather than folder metal or anything hollow. it is easy to tell a solid bracelet by looking at the side of it and noticing it if looks like one solid piece. In watches at this level, cases are best made from the fewest amount of pieces and using the most metal possible. This means the least (or no) amount of materials such as plastic or otherwise.

3. Swiss movement or Japanese Movement (if it is a Japanese watch)

Switzerland is known for making high quality watch movements - you knew that. Japan also makes good movements, but not all movements are created equally. Most of the the time Swiss movements comes from ETA, or Ronda - especially if they are quartz movements (though this is not always the case). Japanese quartz movements typically come from makers such as Seiko, Citizen, and Casio. While these countries are not the only makers of movements, at these price points try to get movements from these regions as much as possible. Plus, if a watch is not Japanese, try to find one with a Swiss movement. You generally want to stay away from Chinese movements, though this is not always a signal of low quality. Japanese watches probably utilize Japanese movements the best, though you'll find Japanese movements (often Miyota which is part of Citizen) in timepiece from all over the world. Lastly, at this price point don't worry too much about finding mechanical watches - you are just fine with a quartz movement - even though there are plenty of mechanical movements available.

4.Solid Feeling Construction

You want your watch to feel well put together and solid. Check to see how well the strap or bracelet fits to the case. There should little to no wiggle room. Put the watch on your wrist and see how well the clasp or buckle operates, they should be smooth with a nice action. They should further not feel flimsy or poorly sized. If the watch has a rotating diver's bezel, again twist it around and see how much movement it gives in a resting position. A good watch should not make too much or any noise when shifting around briskly on your wrist, and it goes without saying that it should feel like it is all assembled in tight fitting manner. It is also the case that a lot of the time Swiss companies (even at these lower price points), make better metal bracelets than other countries even Japan. it is true that a Swiss design bracelet might actually be manufactured elsewhere, but they take great pride in refinement of these areas.

5. Designed by Actual Watch Makers

Consider that two types of people are designing watches. Those that care about how well a watch functions as a timepiece, and others that just care about how they look. The best watches are designed using fundamental watch design principles that value function AND form. The alternative are "fashion" watches that might look nice, but actually have superfluous or vestigial design cues. Worst case scenario is a watch that is so poorly design it does not even function properly. Examples of this are missing chronograph subdials, erroneous markers on dial, inoperable measuring scales just placed for show, and my all time biggest pet peeve - hands that are too short or the wrong size. The last thing you want is your nice looking watch to function like a movie prop. So do yourself a favor and really take a good long look dial and all its features figuring out what each and everything function does, along with making a decision of whether it is usable given your standards. This is one of the biggest problems in the watch market today, and you'll be proud that you took the time to find a watch that was actually designed to be a highly functional instrument.

6. Locking Deployment Clasp if on Metal Bracelet

Cheaper watches with metal bracelets still have what is called a single locking clasp. This is the type of bracelet that literally just snaps or clicks into place. The best metal bracelets have what are know as "double or triple locking clasps." The image below has a bracelet with a double locking clasp (deployment). The piece on the left "locks" via clicking down when it attaches to the bottom segment. That is the first "lock." The second is the little metal flap that "locks" again over the first piece to secure it being closed. A triple lock often features a push-button in the mix, or there are also "double locking clasps" with a push button instead of a fold over flap. The bottom line is that you want a watch bracelet that will stay secure on your wrist no matter you are doing or if you accidentally hit bracelet on something.

7. Weight

Watch weight is a polarizing concept. Some people (like myself) love heavy watches. Others want something very light. On more expensive watches you start to see materials such as titanium which are lighter than steel, but in this price segment weight is often times a sign of quality. Even though titanium is available at this price level, it most likely is not the higher (grade 5) quality titanium that is what you'll want. At this price level, you are only going to get that nice crisp quality look with steel. Like I said, weight often signifies solid construction using a high quality steel. So feel the weight of a case and bracelet to make sure it is substantial enough to justify your investment.

8. Signed Crown and Buckle or Clasp

A good watch maker is more often than not a proud watch maker, and is fully invested in each watch they design. This means there are typically four places that you'll watch to see the name of the watch makers. This is on the face of the watch, the caseback, on the crown, and on the deployment clasp or strap buckle. These are also known as "signed crowns or buckles/deployment clasps." The manner of "signing" can vary, but at this price level are usually some type of light laser engraving. Higher priced watches have logos and graphics done relief (raised versus etched into the metal). Cheaper watches have bare crowns and deployments which make it too clear that these parts are taken from a parts bin and have no personal touch.

9. Good Dial Lumination

Not all watches are expected to have dials that illuminate in the dark for low light viewing - these are typically the more classic or formal watches. However, almost all sport and causal watches have some type of luminant that is applied on the hands as well as somewhere on the dial. The quality of luminant greatly varies. Some is so impractical that it should not even be there. An example being that you need to shine a bright light directly to the face of the watch for a minute or so, and then the dial dimly glows for a few minutes. Alternatively you have luminant that charges easily with exposed room or sun light and glows for hours. The Japanese tend to make the best luminant, but you get get Japanese luminant watches from all over (watches will never indicate the source of the luminant, but look for LumiNova, or better yet SuperLumiNova is possible). An alternative to luminant are watches that use tritium gas tubes. These tubes are made by just one company in Switzerland and glow by themselves for about 25-30 years. Tritium gas tubes are not tough to find as a few watch brands almost exclusively use them and can be had for reasonable prices. Still, most watches will have applied luminant. Look for large surface areas of luminant that is applied richly (looks raised up a bit).

10. Consistent Pricing

One figure attached to new watches that doesn't tend to mean a lot is the retail price. Why? Because you are a sucker for ever paying retail price most of the time. After those of you from the watch companies stop cursing me, let me explain a bit. Retail prices are just number set so that even authorized retailers can show to the consumer that they are giving you a discount. It is true that some watches are discounted only a bit or not at all, but the vast majority of watches, especially at these prices levels, are sold below retail prices. That is good to know, but not my final point. Due to the fact that prices are often below retail, you want to pay the "actual," consistent street price. Let's say for example a watch has a retail price of $500, but most retailers actually sell it for $400. You want to make sure you shop around to pay $400 as opposed to $450. Here is the kicker though when it comes to assessing value of an entry level luxury watch. If a watch is being sold by authorized dealers for $400, but the unauthorized dealers (everyone else) is charging $250, then you know there is something wrong with the value of the watch. This is what I call "inconsistent pricing." What you want to look for is consistency among retailers so that prices don't vary wildly from seller to seller.  745TDBanty 130729
From:http://www.ablogtowatch.com/top-things-to-look-for-in-a-luxury-watch-part-1-entry-level-luxury/

A Guide To Avoiding Fake Watches

There is a legal version of a replica watch and it is called an “homage.” A number of small internet communities and forums are dedicated to producing, reviewing, and discussing homage watches. These are timepieces produced to be as similar as possible to often historic watches, but the protected names and logos are not reproduced. Some collectors love these, while others have ethical problems with them as they can feel too close to a fake. However, they are perfectly legal. Common brands that have “homages” produced in their honor are Rolex and Panerai, and vintage dive, military, and aviation watches are those which are most commonly ‘homaged.’ The good thing about homage watches is that they are usually produced with a much higher quality than fakes. This is because they aren’t trying to be a low-cost alternative to the real thing, they are trying to be a modern version of something too difficult or no longer possible to get.

15-30% of internet searches on watches involve people looking for replicas. According to the Swiss watch industry, the replica watch market costs them billions of dollars each year, and efforts are made to confiscate fake watches and destroy them in spectacular ‘demonstrative’ ways. One of my favorite examples was from 2010 when about 7,000 replica Rolex watches were smooshed with a steamroller in front of press cameras as the culprit was sent to jail for six months. Most counterfeit goods aren’t given this treatment, and in reality this theatrical performance was done at the behest of concerned watch makers working in tandem with customs officials. How big of a problem are replica watches and are they actually a substitute for the real thing?
The Watch Industry’s Sentiments
A few years ago a consortium of high-end Swiss watch brands known as the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie (FHH) began a publicity campaign with the message that “Fake Watches Are For Fake People.” I don’t think that the message truly resonated with an English speaking audience, but it showed a serious effort on their behalf to pressure people into buying the real thing. I was at a dinner a few years ago where speaking before a large audience, a famous Swiss watch brand’s CEO measured the group’s annual success by indicating a large amount replica watches with their name on them having been seized at the Swiss border. Apparently the more fakes made, the more popular one’s brand is. It was a telling sign of a lighthearted approach to the issue. Why wasn’t he more concerned?

How Big Is The Problem?
Working closely with customs officials in major markets, the luxury industry does play a large part in the successful seizure of fake goods. Though, very many still make it through to market. It is just too difficult to catch them all. As the watch industry pours more money into marketing their goods all over the world, awareness of their products increase and thus demand. Having said that, by nature, luxury goods are just that and can be priced outside of what most people can afford.
The replica cheap watches industry is a natural tangent of a market for items that are outside of the realm of affordability for most people. It has been that way for literally thousands of years as currency was among the first types of things that were faked. Fake watches exist to satisfy the desires of people who cannot afford “the real thing” but want to portray the same status symbols as those who can.
Walk down specific streets in major cities such as New York, Hong Kong, and Tokyo to find known “fake districts” where everything from replica sunglasses to timepieces are peddled to consumers looking to find them. Many people seem to be worried that they will somehow receive a fake watch when buying from a legitimate store or retailer. The odds of this are very slim. Fake watches are found in places where you expect to find a fake watch. Replica watches sold through more legitimate streams are relatively rare. If you are buying a watch via a kiosk on the street for $200, then you expect it to be fake. If you buy a watch from a respectable looking retailer for an amount within a few hundred dollars of retail, then it is real.
The Gray Market
People sometimes misunderstand the “gray market” to involve fake watches. This is wrong. Gray market watches are authentic watches sold outside of an authorized dealer. They can be used watches, or watches sold from an authorized dealer to a different dealer. Gray market watches may not always be in “brand new condition” (though most are), and you won’t get a factory warranty, but they aren’t fake. The reason it is called the gray market is because it sits between the white (authorized) market and the black (fake) market. Like I said, in virtually all instances, gray market retailers are not involved with the purchase or selling of counterfeit watches.


Why Are Fake Watches Illegal?
It is true that many people don’t quite know why fake watches are illegal, or that they are illegal. The problem with the FHH’s campaign of “Fake Watches Are For Fake People” is that the message totally skews what is wrong with fake watches. Fake watches are a poor purchase decision because they are unlawful and because they are usually crap.
Watch makers surprisingly don’t have copyright protection on the design of their watches. I am not going to get into a long intellectual property discussion, but the issue is that while designs are something you can protect, things that are “functional” need to be protected under patent law, not copyright. Patents filed long ago have since expired, or there is so much copying going on between brands, that nothing is “original” any longer. What brands can protect however is their name and logo. Those fall under trademark protection and cannot be copied legally. So what fakes are actually doing is illegally copying a name and logo, as well as other trademarked elements that are designed to tell people who made the watch.
The number of elements on any given watch that can be copied legally is surprisingly numerous. This is why even legitimate brands end up “flattering” each other by borrowing design elements all the time.
Replica Versus Homage

How Common Are Fakes?
Many consumers not familiar with watches often fear that they will end up purchasing a replica watch without knowing it. How likely are you to get a fake watch when you aren’t looking for one specifically? Well first of all there are numerous places online that sell fake watches. Most of these sites are from Asia (where fake watches are made) and are pretty clear about the fact that they sell replica watches. The fact is that most people who sell fakes – no matter how shady they may appear – are very open with the fact that their goods are fake. Why? Because they are catering to people looking for fakes.
Fake watches are not difficult to find if you are looking for them. More and more search engines are being pressured to remove or reduce the relevancy of websites that offer fake watches in favor of legitimate retailers. I’ve also personally seen a welcome reduction in the amount of spam e-mail I’ve received trying sell me fake watches (which again were clearly labeled as such). The larger concern again is not the sheer availability of fakes, but rather the unknowing consumer accidentally buying one.
eBay in the past was littered with fake watches, but that is no longer the case. There are probably fake watches masquerading as the real thing in eBay’s auction listings from time to time, but they are less common than they used to be. Above I mentioned that in virtually all instances you won’t find fake watches sold via legitimate watch retailers. Pretty much the only chance you have of accidentally buying a fake watch these days is via a transaction with some private seller who claim “not to know whether a watch is real or not.” That usually means it is fake. So yes, caveat emptor is still a good policy, but fakes are mostly on the wrists of people who know they are wearing fakes.

How Good Are Fake Watches?
For me the most important issue in this entire article is a discussion of whether or not fakes are a good alternative to the real thing (minus the legal implications of course). The answer is almost universal that they are an extremely poor alternative to the real thing. Let’s say you really want a $200,000 Ferrari but can’t afford it. Fair enough, most people can’t. You want it for the style, the performance, and that sweet engine growl. You find a guy who for $20,000 offers to sell you a “replica Ferrari just as good as the real thing.” Now you are intrigued. While $20,000 isn’t cheap, it feels like a small price to pay to show everyone you have a Ferrari and to get a car that drives like one.
You get your ‘Fauxrrari’ and the first thing you notice is that it has a tiny engine which emits black smoke and stalls all the time. Next you find that the paint begins to wear off a week after you get it. Then you begin to notice how much of the interior and exterior is really poor quality, in fact much worse than a typical $20,000 car. Pretty soon you realize that your fake car is terrible, and whatever enjoyment it offered you in the first few hours of ownership, it has made up for in being a total piece of garbage. That is pretty much what most fake watch ownership is like. The bottom line is that aren’t nearly as good as the real thing from a quality standpoint.
I’ve visited a lot of watch factories and been fortunate to handle thousands and thousands of watches as a watch writer. I have yet to see a fake that fools me, and if there is one out there, then merely looking at the movement inside of it would inform me in an instant that it is fake. In fact, many fake watches aren’t even analogs of real watches that are made by the brands they are copying. Replica watch makers often take major brand names such a Rolex, Breitling, Patek Philippe, and Cartier, and stick them on horrid Frankenstein watches that are embarrassingly bad. Those are truly the worst of them.

As high as “real” watch prices are, there is a quality that comes with them in terms of the metal, the movements, dials, straps, and the bracelets that simply cannot be matched via cheap alternatives. Luxury watches cost a lot to make, that is a simple market fact.
I would go so far as to say that fake watches totally suck. Most are priced from about $100 – $1,000 and are of far lower quality than watches who natively cost $100 – $1,000. They are produced in rough conditions in Asia using machinery that the normal watch industry stopped using long ago. In fact, some replica watches are produced right next to inexpensive brands that you wouldn’t want anyway. Until there is someone even close to as good as Rolex making fake watches, I will go with a real Rolex.
When You Just Can’t Afford What You Want
If after knowing that fake watches are illegal, poor quality, and make you look foolish… you still want one then go ahead. You are probably doing it in an effort to wear a status symbol that will appear authentic to uneducated people of a low status. And isn’t that ironically the opposite of what a status symbol is supposed to do? Most people are better off simply purchasing the best timepiece they can afford, which is going to offer a dramatically better ownership experience than some cheap fake that will break. 745TDBanty 130722
From: http://www.eachhappy.com/2013/07/23/a-guide-to-avoiding-fake-watches/

Can any tablet OS challenge Android and iOS?

Based on Microsoft's latest earnings report, its Surface RT is a flop. This, in turn, means that Windows RT has failed. But, there are many other would-be tablet operating system challengers to Google's Android and Apple's iOS. Seriously, though, do any of them have a real shot?

There are hundreds of millions of tablets out there, but will any significant number of them ever run anything besides Android or iOS?

Just over a third of Americans now own tablets. As time goes on, more and more of them will be buying tablets over PCs. By 2017, market research firm NPD predicts that we'll be buying six tablets for every single notebook. Of these tablets, most experts agree it's only a matter of time before Android is on top of the tablet mountain.
That's not to say Microsoft has no hopes for the tablet form factor. I believe Microsoft has a real shot of being a viable third tablet choice if they elect to place its Windows 8.1 family operating system across all devices—PCs, tablets, and smartphones.
Does anyone else have a chance? Blackberry may have given up, but there are many others who want to dethrone Android and iOS. Here, are the leading contenders in the order I rank their chances.
1) Firefox: Firefox is actually ahead of Ubuntu on smartphones with its Linux-based Firefox operating system. For applications, Firefox will rely upon Web-based HTML5 apps. It's an unproven route, but as we put more and more of our apps on the Web and the cloud, it may be a workable one.
Unlike its other Linux-based rivals, Firefox OS smartphones, such as the Alcatel One Touch Fire and ZTE Open, are already shipping. Thanks to its Web browser, Firefox is better known outside of techie circles than Ubuntu and that's where the tablet audience lives. Mozilla, Firefox's parent organization, has long  had its eye on tablets and, partnered with Foxconn, its first engineering sample tablets have started to appear.
2) Ubuntu: Ever since Canonical introduced the Ubuntu Unity interface I thought it had the potential to be a great tablet interface. While much of the news lately has been about Ubuntu's efforts to win supporters for Ubuntu on smartphones, Canonical has big plans for the Ubuntu tablet  as well. Indeed, Ubuntu's founder, Mark Shuttleworth, has promised us that he'll be making a big announcement on July 22nd. I strongly suspect he'll be announcing major Ubuntu tablet news.
I've always been fond of Unity on devices, and I think Ubuntu has a real shot. For now, Firefox is ahead in actually shipping units. We'll see it's that still the case by year's end.
3) Sailfish: When Nokia turned its back on the MeeGo mobile Linux project and bought into Windows Phone, five Nokia staffers started their own company, Jolla, to keep pursuing an open-source operating system approach, Sailfish OS. Unlike Mozilla and Tizen, Sailfish relies on the old Linux stand-by Qt QML, instead of HTML5 for its apps.
Sailfish is on the verge of shipping its first smartphone in the Asian market. After that, Jolla would be more than happy to ship tablets.
4) Tizen: Tizen, like Firefox is an open-source, Linux-based mobile operating system that relies on HTML5 for apps. In theory, Tizen has Samsung's support. In practice, it's been an unwanted step-child without a clear roadmap. With its first device, a Samsung smartphone, pushed back from July to the fourth quarter, I doubt Tizen will ever live up to its promise.
That's a lot of potential players in the tablet space. All of them, except Microsoft, still aren't even really ready to compete yet. Perhaps in 2015, there will be a viable third-party tablet OS, but I really can't see it happening until then. In the meantime, Android and iOS will remain the top tablet dogs. 745TDBanty 130719
From:http://www.zdnet.com/can-any-tablet-os-challenge-android-and-ios-7000018313/

How to be a nice Aurora 2 user

Looking at the way the forum is now flooded with questions everywhere, it seems to show that Ainol is picking up on sales and the community is cooking better stuff for the tab. But it seems to me that some people are just ignorant about certain issues. I wish to highlight some of them, and I hope this thread would be educational.

1. You get what you paid for
A2 cost less than $200, and I think this is by far one of the most value for money tablet. Being cheap means that it WILL suffer in terms of official support, customer service, official communication channel and availability of good ROMs. Getting community help is a plus, but if you have unresolved issues and problems, remember, that $150 you paid can barely even buy you a decent branded mobile phone.

2. Do not expect your seller to solve your technical problems
Sellers are merely people who gives you the goods for your cash. Most of them are not technically trained, and Ainol do not train a batch of staff for customer service like major brands do. I see a lot of people stating that their sellers could not resolve their problems, and I thought that is nothing unusual. However, sellers can do refunds and exchanges, and a lot of them are willing to give you a new device if you send your faulty one back. Yes that would be troublesome, the reason why Ainol do not have retail booth in most countries is simply because they are not financially capable and also to save cost. The cost saved is passed on to you. These inconveniences are in exchange for the cheap price, remember you get what you paid for.

3. Understand China
Ainol is a China company, and things are different over there compared to in the West. People in China speak Mandarin and other related dialects as their first language, so do pardon them if their English is not good enough. Imagine reading through a pile of email in a language that you are not familiar with, that might be the reason why some of them do not reply to English emails. Customer service is not prioritized in China, it's not that they do not exist but probably not as emphasized like in some countries. Rather they focus on cost reduction and mass production. China has a huge internal market, I think a large portion of Ainol's sales go to China's own citizen, therefore perhaps customer support are shifted to support local buyers more than international ones. They are unlike companies like De@lExtreme or eB@y where their target audience are overseas buyers.

Price haggling is a common practice in Asia, you can often bargain for a better price if you are buying from a China seller. Of course, do it politely, and do note that it does not always work. China sellers are often flexible around policies and often believe in a win-win situation between buyer and seller. For example, most of them are willing to label your goods as gift with a very under-declared pricing so you can escape custom tax without hesitation. They are often willing to deal privately outside of eB@y or official online stores to escape paying commission to bring the savings to you, but please be careful as you will not have consumer protection.

4. SEARCH!
Before you ask a questions, please do a search in this forum and in Google. I think more than 75% of the questions asked have answers already lying around with good instructions. Do not contribute to content clutter.

5. Not all issues are resolvable
Face it - there WILL be problems where you cannot resolve or you will not be able to find a direct answer. Looking back at point #1, you get what you paid for. To make up for the extra cost that you would have paid Samsung or Apple, you will have to learn to solve problems independently or simply live with unresolved ones. You are paying in terms of research and technical skills in lieu of money.

6. Do not mod your tablet if you are not confidently skilled
Accept the fact that some modifications requires technical skills that you lack. Then, it is either you do research and try it out and risk bricking your tablet or you live with the problems. Do not post and expect someone to magically pass on technical skills to you to fix your issues. You can, however, post and ask about details and clarification on the particular mod and fix. Be precise, "hey how do I get new roms on my A2?" does not work, while "I have figured how to enter recovery mode, do I need to unzip the files I downloaded to update the tablet?" works better.

7. Be appreciative the right way
If you want to thank ROM makers, I think sending them a PM would be more sincere than a one liner "oh hai great rom you have there!" in the thread. I think donating would be the most practical action you can do to thank them. Feature request is good, but please do not demand for features. "Is there an alternate way to make XXX game work on the A2?" sounds much better than "Can you make it support XXX game?". 745TDBanty 130717
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From:http://www.slatedroid.com/topic/38000-how-to-be-a-nice-aurora-2-user/

Samsung, Apple to rekindle the flame with new silicon agreement

Samsung and Apple may still hate each other’s guts when it comes to competing in the mobile space and in the courtroom, but the two can’t seem to live without each other. Apple attempted to stray away from Samsung for SoCs in its future phones, but it looks like Apple is realizing just how important the Korean company was in that regard.
Korea Economic Daily is reporting that Samsung and Apple have entered into a new agreement that will see the former producing chips for the latter’s smartphones beginning in 2015. The report suggests Samsung will produce a 14nm process die for the iPhone 7 — whatever that may turn out to be.

Apple’s desire to get away from Samsung from components didn’t last long, though the company is still not willing to do business in other areas. Specifically, Samsung-produced displays and RAM for Apple’s devices are still being shunned. Rumor has it Apple will be looking Samsung’s way in the future for tablet displays, but nothing is certain right now.
With Samsung’s displays touted for quality in all walks of technology, and with its expertise in producing systems-on-chips, Apple seemingly can’t resist going with the best possible product in the long run, even if that product is coming from its worst enemy. 745TDBanty 130716
From:http://phandroid.com/2013/07/15/samsung-apple-chipsets/

Eachmall Mid-year Sales Promotion

How time flies! It’s the middle of this year and also the time to arrange and review something. For Eachmall, a large whole and detail online store, It’s the season to organize our products, clear our inventory and publish promotion activities offering more benefits to old and new customers. For most of people, it’s surely a good chance to make a plan and purchase those goods wanted for a long time and items necessary in the future with a lower and affordable price. Our products mainly include: consumer electronics, computer parts, apple accessories, video game smart phones & cell phone accessories, Toys &Hobbies, outdoor gears. 745TDBanty 130715

The mid-year promotion activity expiration time is 16^th July 2013, You need to wait for half a year to come across a chance once you lost this good opportunity. Some products involve in big concession:

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