HTC has today confirmed the launch of the Desire C, a budget Android smartphone that features Beats audio, Ice Cream Sandwich and NFC support. The 3.5-inch smartphone is powered by a 600MHz Snapdragon S1 processor and boasts an HVGA display, Bluetooth 4.0, 5-megapixel camera, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage and a 1230 mAh battery. As...
For a lot of people, the smartphone is only now becoming a possibility, either because they rarely use their phones and have never thought to upgrade, or their old phone has officially said goodbye to the world and they need a new one. So for those of you who don’t really know what it is: a smart phone is essentially what it says...
Windows Phone has a smaller selection of apps available to users than Android or iOS, but the average quality is exceptionally high. As the platform becomes more popular, the range of apps will increase and hopefully the quality will remain as high, or even higher, than it is now. Here are few apps that prove the worth of the platform. Weave Mobile...
Turning an Android smartphone into something like an iPhone or a Windows Phone (or vice versa) is a very common type of customization that people like to do. It lets them enjoy the functionality of one mobile platform while having the looks of another. Although I am not at all a fan of such customization, if you’re the type who wishes to make their Android look like an iPhone, this post is for you.
Before we get down to the three most common methods to get the iPhone look on Android, consider this: if you want the true iPhone look, you’ll have to get yourself an iPhone. No launcher/ROM/customization will ever nail the iOS look, and the better ones that are available are, well, well-intentioned but still far away from looking like iOS.
Method #1: Get ADW/GO Launcher
The most common and safest way to get an iPhone-like look on Android is to download, install a launchers like ADW or GO. Both pack their own set of unique features, but have one common aspect: theming. You can download a wide variety of themes (originals, clones, mash-ups, whatever floats your boat) that give your device a distinct look.
Despite being the easiest and most configurable method, we aren’t big fans of it. Firstly, because the free themes aren’t of good quality and the paid ones cost more than full-fledged apps. Secondly, because these are, well, themes that are added on top of a launcher; they aren’t made from the ground-up and that is exactly why you’ll find lots of rough edges.
Download ADW.Launcher for Android [Market Link]
Download GO Launcher for Android [Market Link]
There are dozens upon dozens of iPhone themes. Search for “iPhone ADW/Go launcher themes” on Android Market.
Method #2: Get Espier Launcher
The last method is similar to Method #1 in that it involves a launcher. The difference here is that Espier Launcher was developed from the ground up to look and work like Springboard on iOS. Unlike the themes on ADW/GO, Espier comes with Spotlight-like search, Folders, “jiggly mode”, uninstall-in-one-click and more!
Download Espier Launcher for Android [Market Link]
If 2011 was the year of the dual-core processors, then 2012 is shaping up to be defined by quad cores. Among these phones, what we can expect at MWC next month, the X3 looks to be one of the early challengers to HTC in the quad-core market.
The giant processor comes courtesy of the Tegra 3 chipset by Nvidia, and while the 720p screen measures in at a quite large 4.7 inches, it supposedly manages to retain a slim 9mm waistline. LG plans to stick in a 2000mAh battery to power it all.
Other features include 16GB of internal storage, 8MP camera, Touch capacitive buttons, Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi, and an NFC. Also, the X3 should definitely come with the latest Android, Ice Cream Sandwich, right out of the box.
We can expect the X3 by the end of Q2 this year.
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Here are five of the best Android Smartphones for 2011:
1. Samsung Galaxy S II
This smartphone is really your dream of innovative technology come true. It not only claims to be the next generation smartphone, but it really is. It has a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED screen for better readability and a slimmer design. Not only that, but its dual core processor is unprecedented.
Samsung Galaxy S II
2. HTC Sensation
It comes with qHD display which is crystal clear. It has a Hi-Fi audio technology which is in competence with Nokia N8. It has HTC’s unsurpassable Android friendly HTC Sense User Interface that goes well with Android platform. Thus, it is user-friendly and is a multimedia super phone.
HTC Sensation
3. Droid 2 Global
It is a total business smartphone that you have been always looking for. It has a Quad band GSM that has sufficient e-mail sending technology. It allows you to tie up with Verizon Wireless in the United States for calls from around the world. It has superfast 1.2 GHz processor and enhanced security.
Droid 2 Global
4. Motorola ATRIX 4G
It has some of the best features like web top and finger print technology for accessing confidential folders and files that beat any hackers. You can get entertained by watching full length movies and load web pages faster than possible ever before.
Motorola ATRIX 4G
5. LG Optimus 2X
It has a dual core processor backed by Android 2.2 (FROYO) and gives faster performance. It is extremely user friendly and has fast web browsing. It comes with 1080p HD video recording technology with content mirroring through HDMI interface. It is one of the best gaming smartphones with gaming console with NVIDIA graphical processor.
LG Optimus 2X
Sharp Electronics Corporation is a renowned company internationally for its unique electronic products and solutions. The company covers all the requirements of a standard lifestyle with a range of electronic products both for home and office. It has shown over the years a solemn dedication for improving human quality of life.
Now it has ventured into the upcoming iPhone and wants to be a part of Apple. In response, Apple has been reported to have chosen Sharp to make next-generation low-temperature poly-silicon LCD displays, which will allow a thinner and lighter design for the much awaited next iPhone in 2012.
The thinner and lighter screens will take less power than traditional LCD screens, which is a technology that allows making “system on glass” devices. In such devices the optical sensors, signal processing circuits and other components are located directly on the glass substrate. It has many advantages such as saving space within the device and enhancing battery life with better efficiency.
iPhone
To control the global market for smartphones, both Google and Apple are in an intense competition for succeeding against each other. Whether they will succeed is a question that a research and analyst firm Gartner is trying to answer through making some predictions which are quite surprising.
According to its report, Microsoft Windows Phone 7 will have a better market share by 2015 than Apple iOS. Android will take over almost 50% of the mobile smartphone market in the next two years. The recent predictions report by Gartner says that Android will increase its market share from this year’s 38.5% to 49.2% in the next, which is astonishingly more than double its market share of 22.7% from the last year.
Same fascinating inferences are about iOS that it will also pace up its market share this year at 19.4%, but it will go down to 18.9% in 2012 and to 17.2% by 2015. On the other hand, Windows Phone will leap up from 5.6% this year to 10.8% in the coming year and will stretch to 19.5% in 2015. BlackBerry is predicted to have a slow decline by falling from this year’s 13.4% to 11.1% in 2015. These are all the research estimates from the firm Gartner.
Smartphone Market by 2015
The current Google flagship smartphone, the Galaxy Nexus by Samsung, is the first device to run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The super large, super high-resolution display on the Galaxy Nexus is a dream to look at, and the new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system gives users something very new and interesting to work with. Here is the in-depth review of this super smartphone.
The Nexus itself is fairly big. With dimensions of 135.5 x 67.9 x 8.9mm, it’s marginally bigger than Samsung’s other flagship handset, the Galaxy S2. It’s also a little bit heavier at 135g compared to the latter’s 116g. Not that it feels larger although you can tell you are not using an iPhone 4S. The rear takes its design cues from the S2 with a snap on cover that feels slightly coarse to give a good grip. It has both Google and Samsung branding on. Ridiculously, in this flagship Google handset which is so set up as a media device, has been crippled by having no expandable memory. Words fail us. And they may fail you when you realise that 16GB internal storage is your lot. It has a CPU of Dual-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A9, PowerVR SGX540 GPU along with 1 GB of RAM. It’s available in Black colour only. It is available in 16 and 32GB of storage with no external micro SD option in it.
The phone has a 4.65-inches with a resolution of 720 x 1280, giving a ppi of 316. It really is super sharp. We would have expected nothing less with Samsung’s mobile displays among the best out there but it’s cracking for internet and video. But it’s bright, it’s beautiful, the viewing angles are as close to 180 degrees as you can get. It’s simply a great display, and the delicate curve given to the glass adds an extra touch of class.
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is the world’s first phone to run Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and comes with full of top end tech, including a huge but still massively high resolution screen. The Galaxy Nexus is like nothing you’ll have seen before from Android. It is a complete redesign and although some bits are the same as they were, on the whole, even long-term Android users like us had to spend a few moments figuring out where things now are. Three soft keys are now provided within the OS at the bottom of the screen: back, home and multitasking. The beauty here is that when they’re not needed, the OS disposes of them and gives you more screen space to enjoy your pleasures. Icons have been refreshed and look sharper and clearer too… overall, it’s a much more polished experience to take on the gloss of Windows Phone and iOS. Like the rest of the UI, Contacts has been rewritten and we are massive fans of the new look. The older one was looking really dated and the black colour scheme was hardly imaginative. The new People app is light (white and blue) and feels so much more elegant. Texting has been redesigned to fit in with the whole look of Ice Cream Sandwich. It’s fairly basic. White background, black headers, but it does the job well. It’s very much separate from the other messaging forms – there is no BlackBerry-style unified inbox here.
The only thing in Galaxy Nexus which is not up to the currently available standards, is it’s camera, which clocks in at 5MP. It’s not the most adventurous of phone camera specs considering the iPhone 4, which launched almost 18 months ago, came with that. Indeed, the Samsung Galaxy S2 has been out since early summer, and that rocks 8MP.
The good thing in that camera is that it takes photos unbelievably quickly. You tap the capture button on screen and before you can remove your finger, the photo is taken and saved. It really is that fast. There is also an inbuilt panoramic mode that you will really enjoy using but don’t do it in a hurry. Even when you’ve finished, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus has to stitch the photos together. And it will take almost 20 seconds to do this.
Video on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is captured in glorious 1080p Full HD and looks fantastic on that screen. It’s not amazing when transferred back to a computer, but it’s no so bad that you’ll want to throw the handset under a bus.
The size of the Galaxy Nexus, the quality of its screen and its weight make this an ideal PMP and you will really enjoy using it as such. It’s a real shame, however, that you are stuck with a finite amount of storage as it makes you really selective about what music and videos you load on in case you run out of space.
Watching movies is a more than pleasant affair on the Galaxy Nexus. It is a basic player in that when you start playing one of your flicks, there aren’t dozens of options that you can wade through, tweaking this and tweaking that.
Internet and Connectivity
The phone runs on the latest Google OS, and compared to the internet experiences of both Gingerbread and Honeycomb, we were expecting perfection. But there was one huge omission on our review handset. Flash. Yes, you read that correctly. Flash is NOT on there.
The browser is fantastic and aside from the (presumably temporary) lack of Flash, we had no complaints. However, we appreciate that Android’s browser is not necessarily to everybody’s taste and if this is the case, you can easily download a third party one from the Market.
For connections, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is pretty future-proof. Not only are the staples such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, HSPDA and GPS all built in, we also have the benefits of DLNA and NFC technology, which also incorporates Android Beam.
You can expect blazing fast speeds over Wi-Fi and HSDPA, so internet surfing really is a breeze. Ice Cream Sandwich also provides you with a new data monitor to track how much you get through, which is particularly handy on a data-hungry operating system like Android.
Wi-Fi is quick to set up, and Wi-Fi direct is also supported, so you can bypass the hotspot. We weren’t impressed with the wireless internet signal strength, though. Samsung really needs to sort out the components it uses, since we’ve noticed that on both the Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy S2, even when you’re practically sitting on the router, it’s still not 100%.
Detailed Specification
Albert Einstein once said, “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attraction.” Fathom this; a man operating a smartphone that is docked into his prosthetic arm. You would think that the last sentence is a line from a futuristic science fiction novel. But with imagination and a little persistence, Trevor Prideaux turned this idea into a reality.
Trevor Prideaux, a catering manager from Somerset, England, was born without a left forearm. He was fitted with his first prosthetic arm at the age of 3. When Prideaux wanted to text message or call his loved ones, he had to either place the phone on a flat surface or balance it on his prosthetic arm. He told The Telegraph, “From owning a mobile phone and with the invention of the iPhone, it became clear that this piece of technology was not ideally suited to be used with only one hand.” It was at this point that Prideaux decided to approach this problem head on and provide an elegant solution, embedding the phone into his prosthetic arm.
This past summer, he enlisted the help of Exeter Mobility Center(EMC) to aid in the development of the prosthesis. EMC Lead prosthesist Dave House explained the process to PCWorld: “We started by taking an impression of the mobile phone so that we had an exact shape to work with…….We had to take into account a number of factors including the phone was secure but easy to remove with one hand; the function of the forearm prosthesis was not compromised and ensuring that we could manufacture it again if the phone was replaced and was a different design or size.”
Continuing to be the pioneers in providing latest blackberry smartphones, Ufone once again proudly introduces the stunning BlackBerry® Bold™ 9900. This latest BlackBerry® smartphone is the thinnest ever BlackBerry® which is equipped with innovative applications and powerful new functions of the next generation BlackBerry® 7 OS.
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The BlackBerry® Bold™ 9900 smartphone features complete functionality, including:
