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.

Blackberry Playbook 16 GB only $99

We are entering new era of mobile technology of smartphone and tablet pc with many choices from low to high end devices. The OS technology also has growing so fast and it is a tight competition. For example a mobile phone and tablet with Android Ice Cream Sandwich with attractive feature like face recognition. Apple IOS with Siri voice command. And many more.

Another vendor is RIM with Blackberry trademark is trying to win the competition. RIM starts with new promo in Indonesia with 50% price cut on Blackberry smartphone. Recently RIM's Promo is selling the Blackberry Playbook 16 GB with only $99 to their employer. This promo also allow the employer to buy it up to 8 units, and for the bigger version they just pay $50 for each upgrade.

The normal price for Blackberry Playbook  16GB is $199, $299 for 32GB and $399 for 64 GB. This is very interesting ! Will this strategy be an advantage to employer to re sell again to end user? We can tell that RIM is playing with price strategy to attract people to buy their product and to win the mobile devices competition.

An iPhone Burnt on A Flight

An unexpected incident reportedly occurred on a flight in Australia, when suddenly smoke comes out from passenger's iPhone 4 and a red light like a bright fire shining out from it while on the aircraft. This incident occurred on board a Regional Express flight ZL319 to Sydney.

Based on reports from the airline, The passenger's iPhone began issuing smoke pretty much immediately after the plane landed. The Smoke on the iPhone was also accompanied by a reddish light. A steward then quickly tried to turn off the smoke and reddish light using a fire extinguishers.

There are reported no staff and passengers who were injured in that incident. While the device is expected is the iPhone 4 has been submitted to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau and Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) to be investigated.

Acer Allegro Available in Europe

Feeling left far behind from its competitors, Acer as famous notebook company is rumored to have started selling its first smartphone named Acer Allegro, based on Windows Phone OS on the European market . As we know that Acer's competitor like Nokia, Samsung, HTC and LG has been starting to bring Windows Phone OS based on their smartphone available in international market and Europe in particular.

Acer Allegro is a first generation smartphone produced by Acer based on Windows Phone. Acer plans to bring the first Allegro in December 2011, but an online retail sites in France Rue du Commerce has sell it with a price tag of 284.05 euros, or about USD 3.4 million.

We can tell that the price of Acer Allegro is very attractive, when compared with its competitor price of Nokia Lumia 800 to 420 Euros. Acer Allegro has specifications as follows:

• TFT capacitive touchscreen, 
• 16M colors, 
• 8GB of internal memory with an additional micro sd slot that can top up to 32GB, 
• 1 GHz Snapdragon processor, 
• Qualcomm MSM8255 chipset

We hope this will be an advantage for user if the competition of smartphone makes plenty of choices with affordable prices we can get. 

How to Add Space on iPad or iPhone ?

Sometimes when you need to install applications, games, photos, videos on iPhone or iPad, cannot be process because a notification on the screen shows there is no more space available. Usually The IOS device can take data space from 8 Gb up to 64 Gb. The thing that has taken most space on your iPhone or iPad is backup files.

Although iTunes often make backups on a regular schedule, but  on the new IOS device, features like restore as new, updates and new content can cause a number of backups and continue to accumulate and take more space in for months or even years. 

May be the only way is to add disk space is by deleting the existing backup files. But to do that you need to be careful. Of course you do not want your iPhone or iPad getting some errors by deleting wrong files.

There is some tutorial  to delete some backup files on IOS devices. Some are as follows 

1. Open iTunes on Mac / Windows PC 
2. Navigate to the menu, click on Preferences 
3. Click on the Device Tab 
4. You will see a list of IOS devices on iTunes. It also displayed together with a list of data backup. Click on one that you want to delete. 
5. Click the Delete Backup 
6. A notification appears and asks if you sure to delete the data? 
7. Repeat the same steps for other backups that you want to delete. 

Remember not to delete all backups, or do not delete the most recent backup. If you delete the most recent backup then most likely you can no longer restore into iPhone,  iPad. Deleting many files one by one can be very boring but the steps above is the simplest way to delete the backup files. But if you prefer to store the backups on the drive or disk, it would be very dangerous if you delete them unless you enable file system. - 

Where is the iTunes store backups IOS? 

• Mac: ~ / Library / Application Support / Mobile Sync / Backups 
• Windows: ~ \ Application Data \ Apple Computer \ MobileSync \ Backup Note: a ~ refers to the user directory. Example: HD / Users / Rene Ritchie / Library Inside that directory you can see random folders. 

Folders are also coupled with the info to see the backup size. This will help you see the folder that the most took space. Deleting files is always accompanied by risk, so think carefully before doing so. If you hesitate or think maybe the file was useful at a later time, simply copy the files and save it on an external hard drive or burn on a DVD. If you want to delete, you can sort by date. 

Note: do not try to stop backing up, because you probably need them .However the backup is very important. If you upgrade or update device firmware, backup will return exactly the same content as the last time you sync with iTunes. Backup will provide photos, messages, music and other personal data that you can not find or download elsewhere. That is why the backup process to be a mandatory thing to do. So, make sure you perform regular backups.

Print Anywhere with Your Android Devices

People with busy time likes to do something efficiently. Also there are time when they are in hurry to print some documents from their smartphone directly to printer without using a computer. Apple iPhone is one of the smartphone that able to print directly to printer. For Android user also can do the same thing with their smartphone. There is an application named "PrinterShare" developed by Mobile Dynamix to help android user to print document directly from their smartphone with 2 mode, Nearby and Remote.

To do Nearby print mode you have to install this PrinterShare application into Android smartphone. Make sure that the printer is already has WiFi feature on. The PrinterShare application will detect the printer and there you go!  it is ready to print.

However if the printer does not have WiFi feature on it, you can use Nearby mode via PC which already has been installed with PrinterShare desktop client. The tricks is as follows:

1. Install PrinterShare into Android device
2. Make sure the computer and the printer was connected, including setting and ready for use,
3. Install the PrinterShare desktop client on a computer 
4. On the PrinterShare desktop client application on computer, look for the printer on list Local Printers and click Share.
5. The Android devices with PrinterShare on it will directly detect the printer share.

If you have a wifi connection, you can use the Remote mode. How it works is pretty much the same with the Nearby mode, it's just that in this mode you will use the internet as an intermediary between Android and the computer. The trick is as follows:

1. Make sure the computer and the android device already installed PrinterShare.
2. On the PrinterShare client desktop application on computer , look for the printer being used on list Local Printers and click Share.
3. On Android device, click Menu-> Printers-> create Remote User ID. User ID can be found on the upper left corner of the desktop client PrinterShare.
4. Furthermore all devices are ready to print. When selecting the files to print, desktop client issued a notification, click the New job-> Print. Notification steps necessary to prevent other users from accessing the printer.
5. the next step indicates that a Remote device could send files on the desktop other clients around the world. Example, if you does not have a printer at home, you can ask your friends anywhere to help you to print through their computer.

What is Rooting on Android System ?

As we know the software technology is growing so rapidly especially the Operating System software of Mobile gadget like smartphone and tablet PC. Many vendor has trying to update their Operating System software for their next gen gadget. So the user has option to upgrade to the updated OS.

We can tell that Android OS is more reliable and most of smartphone vendors are using it. So the Android user often heard of word "root". Actually it is more like Administrator user account in Microsoft windows or Linux whose has the right of all the access of software.

The process of getting into root in Android system is called rooting. Every gadget has different ways to get into root or rooting. Some of applications like z4root, Super One Click, Unrevoked, Titanium Backup, Root Explorer, Terminal Emulator etc can be used to rooting process in Android system or it depends on its each vendor.

As user with root acces can do following with their Android gadget.

1. Can update the Android version without having to wait for the official version came out. Luckily for us because there are a lot of people who develop custom Rom on Android so that we can easily install custom Roms to the device.
2. Can overclock to maximize the performance of the processor or undervolt to minimize performance processor in order to save battery life.
3. Can install applications to your sdcard (not the app2sd feature on froyo)
4. Able to use applications that require root privileges, such as MarketEnabler (to display the application in the Market paid), ShootMe (for screen capture), and more
5. And it's all up to you as a user with the highest access rights.  

IGZO From SHARP On Next Apple iPad and Iphone

The touch screen is available in most of gadget today and user demand for sharp, clear, bright and high definition resolution with small and medium size LCD panels for Smartphones and tablet PCs is growing so fast more than ever. Many vendors is trying to bring the next gen technology to the screen of their gadget to satisfied the user.

The IGZO technology brought by Sharp intends to offer the CG silicon LCDs for applications that require resolution of more than 300 pixels per inch and IGZO LCDs for applications requiring high resolution but not so high as 300 ppi.

As Apple Corp always one step ahead from its competitor to make their new gadget, recently they were intended to use the IZGO technology from SHARP for the next generation of iPad and iPhone to bring 330 ppi on the screen beside the Retina Display technology.

This IGZO technology , they said is more out performance the HD screen with IPS technology on iPad and iPhone right now and that certainly makes the point of view is more wider than ever now.

After all the most interesting is that SHARP claimed the IGZO technology will have lower power consumption, lower production cost and only 25 % thicker than OLED technology. Thus the next iPad and iPhone will give the user more amazing experience and save the battery life.

LG Optimus Dual SIM P698

Having dual SIM card on one mobile phone is not a problem anymore. People who live in Indonesia sometimes has more than one SIM card due to different network signal of each place. One of dual SIM card mobile phone with Android OS is LG Optimus Dual SIM P698.

LG Optimus Dual SIM P698 has some good features :
3G 900/2100 MHz ,GPRS/EDGE
Processor 800 MHz, GPU Adreno 200, Qualcomm MSM7227T chipset
3.2 inch Capasitive Touch Screen TFT 320 x 480 pixel,
Internal Memory 150MB, 512 RAM
Camera 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixel, with Auto focus
Android v 2.3.4 (Gingerbread) Operating System
Li-Ion 1500 mAh Battery

This Smartphone has good clean screen resolution of 320 x 480 pixel which bright and wide enough to see even from different angle. But the use of capasitive touch screen might be little old fashion technology. The capasitive touch screen has good clear display even under the light day. Some expert say that this touch screen is very smooth and sensitive with finger touch without pressure. However it does not support stylus, or even when we use glove, the screen cannot be operate. So users with long nail finger might have difficulty to operate handle it.

The camera with 3.15 MP and auto focus is sharp and clear enough to take a picture shoot and records video. Unfortunately this does not equipped with flash light to use under low light / dark places. Another camera features are ISO, White Balance, Color Effect, Timer, Image Quality, Auto Review, Shutter Sound, Tag Location, Zoom, Brightness, Scene, Image Size, which might be useful.

LG Optimus Dual SIM P698 with Android OS also can play MP3 and video with standard applications. The MP3 player can be operate under lock screen too. So it really helpful to pick the song whenever we want. Also the video recording with standard VGA resolution 640 x 480  is clear enough even indoor or outdoor. 

Pros
Good Dual SIM capability
Big Battery capacity
Smooth and Clear display

Cons
Small internal memory capacity
No Flash light.

Samsung Galaxy S III Will be Armed With New Quad Core Processor, Exynos 4212

All this 2011 year we have been introduced by so many new high end gadget from famous vendors. This phenomena is might be going to happen again in 2012. With all high technology from OS softwares to high end processor and GPU, most of all really shocked us. Thus the gadgets will be more fun and faster with eye candy graphics overall made world simply getting so small.

It starts from Nvidia with its quad core processor comes out to high end smartphone like Motorola, HTC etc. Recently the rumors comes out from Samsung as the most innovative vendors with its Quad Core Processor Exynos 4212. This quad core processor Exynos 4212 is containing 32 nm chip quad-core ARM Cortex A9 1.5 GHz speed. Thus this will be 20% lower power used and 50% faster graphics performance.

We might think that Samsung will use this quad core Exynos 4212 to be equipped with Samsung Galaxy SIII soon. Also there is Mali-T604 GPU, a next gen GPU built by Samsung, to be expected 5 times faster than its predecessor. We hope that Samsung would combine these new technologies with longer battery life better than its big competitor also. This Samsung Galaxy S III is expected to be launched next year in February 2012. We might want to check that later soon.