Distro Issue 40: the battle for smartphone dominance continues and we go hands-on at CTIA 2012

Having trouble with the barrage of smartphone news in recent weeks? Don't worry, we've got you covered in this Friday's edition of our e-publication. The focus this week is the on-going quest for the ultimate smartphone champion. In our search, we take a look at the recently outted Samsung Galaxy S III while putting both the AT&T HTC One X and the Sprint Galaxy Nexus through their paces. While he's a fan of their thin frames, Darren Murph demands better battery life in new laptops and his editorial offers some thoughts on the matter. Our hands-on section is all CTIA this week, as we look back at a handful of gadgets that caught our eye. Smartphone reviews just not doing the trick this week? Well, we take the Jawbone Big Jambox for a spin in this week's issue as well. Yes, all the regulars are here -- including Reaction Time with a word on The Avengers and Call of Duty. Stat takes a look at phone profits, Switched On tackles smartplayers, IRL takes another peek in our backpacks, Square's CTO Bob Lee gets cozy with the Q&A and Dustin Harbin offers the Last Word on excessive texters. So, grab a seat in your favorite reading chair and hit the download link of your choice to get your copy of our tablet mag.

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Atlantic invests in the future of agriculture : Atlantic

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In photo are the 26 farmers who graduated from the 2nd annual Farmer Enterprise Training Programme run by the University of Trinidad and Tobago, facilitated by the Ministry of Food Production and Land and Marine Affairs, and sponsored by LNG production company Atlantic. Front row seated includes (left to right): Ms. Leela Watti Rastogi, the Ministry's Director, Regional Administration South; Ms. Toni Sirju-Ramnarine, Head, Sustainability and Corporate Communications, Atlantic; Ms. Stephanie Elder Alexander, the Ministry's Deputy Permanent Secretary; and Ms. Jillian Singh, Product Assistant, University of Trinidad and Tobago.

LNG production company Atlantic will continue to invest in the training of farmers and agricultural entrepreneurs as an initiative to help reduce Trinidad and Tobago?s reliance on food imports.

This was announced by Toni Sirju-Ramnarine, Atlantic?s Head of Sustainability and Corporate Communications, who was speaking at the recently held Graduation Ceremony for the 2^nd annual Atlantic Farmer Enterprise Training Programme.

Addressing the Programme?s twenty-six (26) graduates, Ms. Sirju-Ramnarine explained that while it may seem strange for a company that processes natural gas to be interested in farming and food production, Atlantic saw it as an opportunity to help strengthen local capacity and re-energise agricultural enterprise at the community level.

?Food is not a luxury, but a necessity,? Ms. Sirju-Ramnarine said. ??It is our expectation that your commercial farming enterprises will decrease Trinidad and Tobago?s vulnerability to global market forces and reliance on food imports.?

Ms. Sirju-Ramnarine described the Farmer Enterprise Training Programme as straddling the line between traditional agricultural techniques and modern approaches to viable commercial agricultural business.

?Today?s farming communities must be willing to adopt new approaches and explore new opportunities to take your product from field to market, if they are to be sustainable,? Ms. Sirju-Ramnarine said. ??In your grandparents? time, understanding marketing, sponsorships and e-business were not required for agricultural enterprise. ?However to be competitive in today?s market, one has to be one step ahead.?

The Atlantic Farmer Enterprise Training Programme was established in 2010 by Atlantic in partnership with the University of Trinidad and Tobago and the Ministry of Food Production and Land and Marine Affairs. ?The programme focuses on the development of ?agri-entrepreneurs? in the Southwest Peninsula and wider Trinidad and Tobago. ?The three-month course exposes young farmers to the latest techniques in their areas of agriculture specializations, as well as skills in business development and the use of computer applications in modern agri-business.

For the 2012 programme, twenty-six (26) farmers and entrepreneurs participated, with specializations in food crops, tree crops, agri-processing, vegetables, apiculture and poultry.

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HTC EVO V 4G (Virgin Mobile USA) hands-on

Does that handset above look familiar to you? It should because you've seen it once before when Sprint debuted it as the EVO 3D. This time, however, the phone that failed to ignite much consumer interest is back with a rebranded moniker -- EVO V 4G -- a new home on Virgin Mobile, that 3D screen and a $299 price. We managed to get some hands-on time with the device and for better or for worse, it's still packing the same list of specs: 4.3-inch qHD display, 1.3 megapixel front-facing / dual 5 megapixel rear cameras, dual-core 1.2GHz processor buffered by 1GB RAM and packing 4GB of internal storage with an additional 8GB furnished by an included microSD card.

Cosmetically, nothing has changed from its postpaid to prepaid journey, so you're still getting that same bulky build, jarring button layout for the 3D to 2D slider and the three quarter grooved plastic back. What counts, however, is the software it runs, namely Android 4.0.3. Yes, right out of the gate the company intends to ship this 4G WiMAX device (sorry, it's not future-proofed for LTE) with a Sense 3.6 skin running atop Ice Cream Sandwich. It's not HTC's latest lightweight 4.0 UX, but for the market it's aimed at, it'll do just fine. Check out our gallery below for additional shots of this fat smartphone ahead of its planned June launch.

Gallery: EVO V 4G hands-on

Myriam Joire contributed to this report.

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