That would be pretty decent for the specs we know so far: 4.5-inch qHD IPS gapless display, MSM8225Q quad-core chip, dual-SIM support, an eight-megapixel main camera (which produced reasonably good photos, from what we could see), a two-megapixel front-facing camera, and Baidu cloud service integration with 15GB of storage for life, plus another 15GB free for one year.

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The camera's convenient 'Auto Cloud Backup' feature will automatically save precious photos into the cloud via Samsung's AllShare the instant they are taken.

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At the time, the idea was to send your photos straight from your camera to your PC, where you could run slideshows or upload them to the cloud (if you were already into that sort of thing).

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One area where mobile and cloud computing converge is augmented reality, which allows computer-generated content to be superimposed over a live camera view of the real world.

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Just one example (courtesy iMedicalApps): startup Cellscope developed a smartphone camera attachment to create a personal otoscope (for looking at your eardrum) that links to a Cloud-based diagnosis engine to determine whether your child has an ear infection.

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