Nokia and AT&T Entry Level Lumia 710

T-Mobile and Nokia is planning to release entry level smartphone soon. While the Lumia 800 is their best windows phone for high class level, they named the entry level smartphone as Nokia Lumia 710 or Nokia Sabre. The Nokia Lumia 710 uses 512 MB RAM , operated by Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, has 3.7 inches powered by 1.4 GHz Scorpion processor and Adreno 205 gpu. When we see the design, it is little bit similar with Lumia 800. We can say it is as a cheaper alternative to the Lumia 800 with colorful design .On an event next week Nokia 710 will hit the US local operator, AT&T.

RIM is On Its Way of Services Ban In Indonesia

Well Indonesia is a largest of Blackberry market as for now we get information RIM has sold the phone over 4 million units just in Indonesia. We can tell that Blackberry is a rich folks trademark in Indonesia. Few weeks ago RIM has sold the Blackberry "Belagio" for just 50% off the normal price. And you know the day before there has been thousand people waiting to buy it. This might be one of a kind event in Indonesia which no other vendors has done that.

Anyway the Indonesian government now is threatening to ban BIS and BBM services within the nation if RIM doesn't build its data center server in Indonesia. It seems that Indonesian government are upset that Research in Motion will be building its new data centers in Singapore, rather than in Indonesia.

RIM is aware that Indonesia is a huge market, but unfortunately under-appreciated. "The money obtained from these countries are also big, so contributed a server in Indonesia also for the benefit of their markets in the future.

Righ now the current BlackBerry users from all over the RIM's partner operator , such as Indosat, Telkomsel, XL, Three, Axis, Bakrie, and Smartfren, has 10 million subscribers. Soon if this banned executed, Blackberry will be just an ordinary smartphone just like the others.

Honeycomb Tablet Version is Only 1% in Market Share

Android as an open source operating system for mobile devices has been developed with many versions. The Android version 3 which is claimed by Google as the best OS for tablet is called Honeycomb. This Honeycomb has been released together along with Motorola Xoom on February 2011. And now many vendors also adapt the Honeycomb for their tablets.

Recently Chitika as Advertising Network has been going on research on the Android version which has dominate the mobile devices OS right now. The result is that Honeycomb OS for tablet only took place 1% of the tablet market. The biggest percentage is taken by Gingerbread with 65%, then Froyo with 28% and the rest is cupcake and donut .

Why Honeycomb which is claimed the best OS for tablet only get 1% on the market? Some people says probably the reason is that when the first released of Honeycomb along with Motorola Xoom, google has not provide the source code itself to developer and the the lack of applications supports for Honeycomb. Unlike Apple which has first introduce the IOS few months before releasing the iPad, so the applications for IOS has been prepared and ready. Also many analyst argue that the lack of supported game on Honeycomb is one of the main factors.

Apple has successfully sold 6.9 million iPad units in the last quarter. Users of Windows Phone, BlackBerry, and Android also is rumored to still vying for the iPad. We hope that Ice Cream Sandwich can change the market share for Android in 2012, lets see.

Google Android Market Promo at $0.10 each Applications.

Being the most choosen OS of Smartphone and Tablet, recently Android OS from Google is reach about 10 billion downloads in Android Market. Google is celebrating the android market for 10 billions download achievement. Some of the applications are sold at $0.10 like

Shazam Encore
Sentinel 3: Homeworld
Baseball Superstars® 2011
Spirit HD
Jelly Defense
Paper Camera
My Beach HD
Farm Frenzy
Toddler Spanish: 100 words
NEED FOR SPEED™ Shift
Game Dev Story

You can buy and download some valuable applications with cheap price at Android Market right now

Sony Erricson Xperia Gingerbread Upgrade To ICS is Pending

Android ver. 4 or Ice Cream Sandwich OS has a reputation as a high end mobile devices OS. Google is trying to make android as market leading OS for smartphone and tablet pc. For this reason Samsung and Google produce Samsung Galaxy Nexus with built in ICS. Other vendors also adapting this ICS OS for their mobile devices. One of them is Sony Erricson.

Sony Erricson is preparing an upgrade for their Android Gingerbread based, Sony Erricson Xperia to Android Ice Cream Sandwich. Anyway Android ICS is optimized for Samsung high end mobile devices like Galaxy Nexus. While Sony Erricson trying to make an upgrade, recently they are having difficulties to upgrade Android Gingerbread to ICS as this OS is optimized to be use with Texas Instrument for the OMAP chip.

Sonny Erricson with Xperia is using Qualcomm MSM8255 chipset so they are planning to change few hardware of it to work with ICS OS. Sony Ericsson engineers are required to change some parts of the ICS source code and coupled with the source code of Sony Ericsson as well as trying to eliminate some problems that may arise.

Sony Erricson also must make sure that all features and functions of the hardware of the phone can work well as a camera, bluetooth, WiFi, GPS, sensors, drivers, and others. Once everything is tested then the next stage is to receive official certification, and for Sony Ericsson they explain that to products launched globally they need a certification at least up to 80 countries.

So for Sony Erricson Xperia user should be patience to enjoying new Android OS as we know that many amazing features are available in ICS like face recognizing and many more. 

Blackberry Playbook OS Update Hacked again?

The Blackberry Playbook with OS 7 is having an update to covered the security hole which is a patch to access the root. This broken security hole patch is made by a security hackers to easily rooting the playbook.

While RIM is releasing an OS update to cover it on their web, the Dingleberry, a security hackers, has been succeeded again to break into an updated playbook with new exploit. Just only a few hours later after PlayBook get updated OS which is claimed to cover the security hole is successfully broken again. The RIM trying hard to survive and the hackers tries to strike back.

Amazingly it happened just a few hours after RIM gave a new OS update for the Playbook. But blackberry users do not have to worry, this broken security hole is only happen with playbook. After all playbook users should be patience while RIM fix this problem. We say this is new lesson for vendors that hackers is spying their product to find the weakness of their product.

We can tell this will be a challenging for RIM and is a tough work for immediate repair and cover vulnerabilities that exist on the BlackBerry Playbook.

Cheapest Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich Tablet Available in China

We can tell that as far we know Android Ice Cream Sandwich is a platform for high end mobile devices. But recently in China a tablet pc which is operated with Android ICS available at price $99. This cheap Android ICS tablet is manufactured by Ainol company in china, named Novo7, has 7" capasitive touchscreen display. Soon Novo7 will be available in worldwide market.

The Novo7 is powered with 1 Ghz MIPS single core from MIPS technology. MIPS Technologies is an American leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores that power some of the world's most popular products for the home entertainment, communications, networking and portable multimedia markets.

Some of the features of Novo7 are : 

• 1 Ghz MIPS single processor
• Front and Rear camera 
• 7" display with Capasitive Touchscreen
• 3D Graphics rendered capability
• 1080p HD Video
• HDMI port
• 6 hours of video playing or games
• Runs Google Maps, Gmail, Google Music, dan Google Talk.

This inovation is proudly brought to middle end user for a prove that Android is a smart choice for people from high to low class segmentation. This will make the competition of mobile devices vendors become very tight and grows rapidly. 

The Novo7 tablet will be available in China via Aionol Electronics now and soon available too in 8" and 9" version in world wide market in the next couple months via Leader International and OMG Electronics.

Honeycomb Update For The HTC Flyer Start Rolling

HTC Flyer is a portable 7-inch tablet with a digital pen that can do more than you can imagine. From creating masterpieces with a stroke of a paintbrush, to taking multimedia notes or even signing digital documents, HTC Flyer puts you in control of any situation. With streaming movies at a touch of your finger, HTC Flyer turns any moment into something special.

This tablet pc was launched earlier this year with a different version of Android tablets in general, with Android 2.3 Gingerbread on the way out of the box and HTC promised to give Honeycomb OS updates immediately. 

Today HTC via their Facebook page, informing that the Honeycomb OS update for the HTC Flyer already rolled out, particularly in Europe, other countries will soon follow. Here is their statement on the facebook :

''Ready for the good news? GSM version of HTC Flyer tablets are available in Europe, began to receive updates to the OS Honeycomb today! Honeycomb brings many fixes and improvements on the HTC Flyer tablet, including the latest version of HTC Sense for Tablet with improved internet browsing capabilities, calendar, mail, and optimization system for a 7-inch tablet. Not to be outdone, the HTC Flyer WiFi version will also receive updates Honeycomb soon! Look forward to more information from us . ''

We hope this Honeycomb OS update soon will be released on HTC Flyer and the users would enjoy it soon.

Asus Padfone Uses Tegra 3

2012 will be the year of new smartphone and tablet pc with new technology like Android Ice Cream Sandwich, Windows Phone OS, Tegra 3 quad core chip, and many more. Some vendors are planning to release their new mobile devices on 2012. Thus, there are new player in this mobile devices market like Acer, Asus, Panasonic, Dell which tried to compete with big players such as Apple, Samsung, Sony Erricson, Nokia, HTC, Motorola.

We can tell that according on information from netbooknews.com site, Asus is reportedly preparing new smartphone called Padfone and arranged to be exhibited during the event MWC 2012 in February. It also written that Padfone will not be powered by Qualcomm Krait S4 as has been seen in previous benchmark tests but it will be using the Nvidia Tegra 3 quad core chip, just the same as the Asus Transformer Prime.

As we already know, Asus Padfone has appeared in the results of benchmark tests in November 2011 ago.The test results are use the Krait S4 that Padfone MSM8960 from Qualcomm SoC technology. With the chip should be able to use the connection Padfone HSPA + and LTE plus a GPU Adreno 225.

Samsung Bada, Alternative OS For High End Smartphone

Well it is just like Apple with IOS, Nokia with Symbian, Samsung as a big mobile devices company has develop an Operating System for its mobile devices called Bada. As far as we know Samsung bada is a smartphone platform , which is developed for many kind of devices, launched in 2010. 

We can tell that "bada" is a Korean word that means "ocean" and "seashore". "bada" OS can accommodate the various applications created by developers and it provides an interesting new space that offers amazing enjoyment to its users. bada is a new blue ocean of mobile applications for developers, and customers will have a wider choice of smartphones with cost-effective yet powerful bada-powered phones.


While Bada OS supports a wide range of devices, it is also powerful enough to turn your imagination into powerful applications. With high end devices such as Samsung Wave II and Wave, Bada OS fully utilizes the power of hardware for the ultimate application experience. Even with mid-range or cost-effective models, it also provides powerful features for better application experiences.

Bada OS has features like plenty of UI controls, Flash support, sensors support help applications to be more interactive and offer customers a richer, more interactive experience. Samsung Bada latest version is Ver.2, which is very similar with Android Froyo. But Android has more applications than Bada and  Bada is more exclusive for high end mobile devices. Samsung Wave with Bada OS has better material built in and fancy look. 

Acer Iconia Tab A200 with Ice Cream Sandwich

Android Ice Cream Sandwich is the latest OS from Android which has many interesting features. Since this OS has been announced, many vendors tried to bring it into their latest smartphone and tablet pc. One of the vendors is Acer from Taiwan.

Acer has officially announced the Iconia Tab A200, the latest Android tablet pc that claimed to be affordable and can be upgraded to Android Ice Cream Sandwich in January 2012. Unfortunately the Iconia Tab A200 is still armed with the old Tegra processor 2 while the other competitor tablets have been put on Tegra 3 quad-core into it.

The Iconia Tab A200 is built with specs 10-inch screen with 1280 x 800 pixels, 260 x 175 x 12.4 mm and weighs 720g, Nvidia Tegra 2, 1 Gb Ram and 3260 mAh battery that can last 8 hours for video playback and 400 hours of standby time. Acer provides this Iconia Tab A200 into 2 types of storage media that is 16GB and 8GB. Also there are USB port and microSD slot for memory expansion. Unfortunately there is no rear camera though 2MP front mounted camera for video chat.

For the connectivity Acer Iconia Tab A200  built in with WiFi b / g / n, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, GPS, gyroscope, and accelerometer. Use the 3.5mm audio jack for high quality sound out put to speaker or headphone.

Iconia Tab A200 also use the Android 3.2 Acer Ring interface customization to access various functions such as galleries, volume control, up to the browser. Till now there is no information about the price.