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

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.

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.  

Blackberry 9900 and 9930 Battery Problem

The competition between Smartphone vendor is very tight right now. We can see from operating system software available on the market now, like IOS, Android, Blackberry OS, and Windows phone. Many user has had bad experience with their smartphone lately. iPhone 4S user has battery power problem, and now we had heard that Blackberry user had battery problem too.

There are Blackberry 9900 and 9930 users reported that after a night long recharging, they having difficulties to turn the smartphone on for a while. There are not known yet how many users had this problem.

For this problem, RIM has been actively working hard to release an update to solved it. We hope they don't do the same mistakes like Apple did when they release an update for IOS 5 due to battery problem. Like the news said that the update of IOS 5 made the battery problem even worse.

We guess that many vendor is really having tight schedule to hurry release their product to the market. They don't have time to test it for while. But yet we don't see any of android or windows phone users had similar problem with their smartphone. We hope they don't.

Phillips Fidelio Android Music Dock, Bluetooth and Power Reacharging ready

As the android smartphone and tablet pc is on the top of gadget market today, Phillips does not want to miss the opportunity to reach the market also. With the years of experience in music accessories manufacture, Phillips is the great choice of technology for Smartphone and tablet pc user. 

We can tell that Android  operating system is used in the most of the Smartphones and Tablet pc available in the market today. So Phillips is realize that it is time to bring  their special product to the market of android gadget system. 

As one of their special product is music dock for Smartphone. This music dock has 3 series of product. Fidelio  AS851, AS351 and AS111.  This music dock is capable to play music via bluetooth connection and  battery recharging. So the user will  be feel little more comfort as their smartphone will not getting the battery out of power. To operate  this music dock, Phllips is bringing their free software too. 

This Android music dock has more beautiful eye catching design than the iPod dock.  Beside that the choices of this dock series could give you more suitable places to put on, whether it is bed room, office, family room etc. 

This Android music dock is only available in UK market for now as AS851 series  is sold at £200 which has greatest sound 3 Watt sound. And for  AS351,  AS111 the price are  £200 and £70.

Create 2D Games into 3D Games With LG Optimus 3D

We all know that LG has been launching LG Optimus 3D few months ago. This Android Smartphone has so many interesting features, including 3D video recording, 3d image capture and something that amaze me is this 2D game converter into 3D game.

The 2D to 3D game converter has ability to analyze object and separate the image into two different 2D background, the front interface and background interface. The two different image will be accepted by our left and right eyes, and then created two different deep visual illusion. This technology uses a Parallax Barrier, a thin slice of film

When the game is opened with a 2D to 3D Game Converter software, the program will automatically scan the game and match it with the list of games that are already optimized mobile 2D to 3D conversion. And if it is founded there, then the game will do the conversion with the default visual settings. But If it is not there, the game can still do the conversion but with manual settings. Right now there are about 100 games from 2D to 3D that can already be seen by the users of LG Optimus 3D like game Angry Birds, Angry Bird Rio, Aspalt 4 and FIFA 10.

Lenovo Bring The Latest Android OS And Tegra 3 Into Tablet PC

Android Ice Cream Sandwich and Tegra 3 is the latest gadget technology for today. Many of smartphone, tablet pc users really hope that this latest technology will bring faster performance, more enjoyable features, easy to operate, longer battery life, better image and so on. 

We can tell that many famous leading company are keep releasing their new gadget, smartphone and tablet pc to equip these latest technology. One of those company is Lenovo. Lenovo is getting ready to launch its new tablet pc with Ice cream sandwich OS and Tegra 3 1,6 Ghz chip within the end of 2011. It look likes that Lenovo does not want to be left behind with its competitor such as Asus with Transformer Prime.


Referring to Engadget, this Tablet PC will be carrying 10.1 inch display screen and for the new improvement is that it will use 2 GB DDR 3. So much Interesting while other tablet pc only use 512 MB to 1 GB  Ram. 


Beside that this tablet pc will be equipped with camera and LED to bring clear and bright images.Until now there is no specs about this camera. Another features are the USB port on the side body and finger print scanner for many functions like optical joystick to browsing navigation and ebook. We will just wait and see for this latest nice gadget from Lenovo to be released. 

Tips on How to Conserve The Smartphone Battery

There no denying the popularity of the Android Operating System, we can see by the increasing number of users of mobile phones and smart phones based on Android. Using the Operating System is indeed very useful because there are many applications that we can use and most of it all is free . But the problems of the users of Smart Phone Android (our guess is also the Blackberry users also have the same problem) is a wasteful use of battery and quickly exhausted.There are ways to save the Smartphone batteries life from faster depleted.

1. Reduce the display light. It's good to reduce the display light cell phone if it is in the dark or dimly lit room. In this way will help to reduce the use of enough battery power is absorbed by the lights. Furthermore, the existence of the display light in the room revealing light is not very crucial. The reason, the main light in the cell phone is quite able to support a variety of light you need a mobile phone. 
2. Lower the volume When Listening  Music. When Enjoying the music from the radio, mp3, or video, try to reduce the volume. Of course, the batteries will be more efficient if multimedia were turned off.
3. Check Email Manually.  In most of the smart phone users are spoiled with push email service. But did you know, if that turns out to suck the energy of the battery ?. Try  checks email manually. 
4. Don't forget to turn off the wireless network. Check your cell phone, whether the wireless network is active or not. If it is active, immediately turn off. Sometime we forget to disable Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. The active wireless networks will suck the battery energy.
5. Check The Battery. For the users of smart phones, this can be done by installing an energy battery indicator application.There are some applications that inform Your cell phone battery power.

For example, iPhone users can use the application Battery Go and myBatteryLife. Both of these applications informs how energy battery remaining and predicts how Your phone is capable of running applications.

Tips To Secure Your Android Smartphone From Virus

Imagine that while Android users can have fun playing downloaded games from sharing services on the internet, then suddenly they will find links to sites that are ready 'to hang' your Smartphone.

Trend Micro, as Antivirus Company noted that there are malwares for the Android update installer application, which are Androidos_ADSMS.A, Androidos_Dordrael.l, and Androidos_crusewin.A. Then there is an android malware, Droid Dream Light (DDLight), which has killed 25 and infected applications and between 30,000 up to 120,000 users believe they have been affected.

Don't  worry guys, Trend Micro has some important tips for Android users, in order to comfortably and safely run applications while traveling:

• Use the Standard Security Features on Your Android Phone In Go into the menu> Settings, then Select> Location & Security> enter data such as PIN number and password to lock your phone. This is very useful for securing personal data when you lose your phone.
• Do not Choose Settings Auto Connect to Wi-Fi. Go into the menu> Wireless & Network, and select> WiFi Settings, turn off the auto connect to WiFi.Many WiFi that you realize when utilizing this facility allows the data you copied, so you should be careful opening such as Internet banking page when using WiFi.
• Do not Install Applications Apart from Android Market. The best advice is to install applications that exist in the android market, thereby avoid the Trojan android. Recently discovered Trojan android from a third party application service provider in China. 
• Careful on Application for Open Access Personal Data authorization. In some applications that are installed normally ask your permission to open up some data, but make sure you do not give access permission to enter personal data such as phone contact list. 
• Use Special security Application for Your Android Phone Be careful to install and open a particular link is a simple way, but more than that suggested you also install security applications for mobile phones. 

At Trend Micro Mobile Security for Android, not only securing your password, but also secures all your data mobile banking transactions.

PES 2012 Ready For Android

There is interesting news for the football gamer in the world. We know that One of the best football simulation game in the world is PES 2012 (Pro Evolution Soccer 2012). Konami Corp has exclusively made PES 2012 for Android Smartphone Xperia Play gaming. We can tell that from Pro Evolution Soccer series, 2012 edition of this game has got the license from UEFA. The results are this game has a menu feature the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europe League and UEFA Super Cup. As the game successor of PES, Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 has had a lot of progress in the AI player. Also increased in terms of speed, animation and physical players.And, since its debut initially on the Xperia Play.

Then this game has been awarded Certified Playstation control optimization, to obtain a better gaming experience.

T-Mobile Springboard Hands On

Let see, first when Huawei Corp was announced its new Tablet PC called Huawei MediaPad in June 2011, as we can tell that it was the first tablet PC running Android 3.2 Honeycomb. Soon after that, the other Tablet PC like Acer Samsung Galaxy, Iconia Tab A100 and others have flood it to global market.

However its arrival in the US is about the same time as the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus and approaching Toshiba Thrive 7”.

However the people already know that the Huawei MediaPad would be known as the T-Mobile Springboard in USA. Thus it will be on the market at November 16th for $430 off contract, or $180 with a two-year agreement and $50 mail-in rebate.

The T-Mobile SpringBoard tablet PC's operation system is running Android 3.2, armed with dual-core processor 1.2 GHz, 5-Megapixel camera, capable of recording 720p HD videos, 1.3 MP front camera, 7” touchscreen display with multitouch HD.

From other review on Engadget we knew that although the sound quality is not any good as we expected, you will experience more sound quality through headphone or earphone.

To support the features, T-Mobile has 16 GB internal memory and external memory using microSD. T-Mobile Springboard will supports Adobe Flash and applications Blio eRader, MobiLife family Organizer that is supported by cozi.

T-Mobile Springboard will support Bluetooth connectivity and WiFI 802.11 b/g/n and offers HDMI output. Springboard network supports tri-band UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA and GSM/EDGE quadband.

However T-Mobile Springboard is available on the global market at $180 price on T-Mobile promo.