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.

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.

Samsung Galaxy 8.9 LTE Is Ready Via AT&T in US Market 20 November 2011

The need of speed for faster bandwidth need faster gadget too. Samsung is ready to fulfill the user need of faster gadget to be ready with new 4G LTE network. Many more will adopt this 10 times faster network than 3G. 


With the new series of Samsung Galaxy, Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE, more user could enjoy the faster 4G LTE network with wide screen tablet pc. Referring news on the internet, this gadget will be ready in US market on November 20 via AT&T operator with 2 years contract at 479.99 USD.


The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE is probably the premium version of Galaxy Tab 8.9.  In addition the same features with Galaxy Tab 8.9, it is also embedded  with 4G LTE feature and equipped with little bit faster processor,  1,5 Ghz dual core to empower the Android 3.2 OS Honey comb.

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. 

Creative Ziio 7 hands on

Creative Ziio 7 is one of tablet pc that using the Android Froyo 2.2 operating system. Creative Ziio 7 is designed with dimensions 207 mm x 133 mm x 13 mm. With 415 grams weight , this tablet pc looks very simple because it is covered with a plastic material. This tablet pc is equipped with Enhance Sound Pure Android Audio. We think this the good point of this tablet pc.

The touchscreen display of the Creative Ziio 7 is using a 7-inch resistive technology. This touch screen type uses two layers of screens. These screens tend to be less responsive than the capacitive models in normal use. Therefore, the Creative Ziio 7 provides a stylus for easy use on the tablet's touch screen.

Another Creative Ziio 7 features is a mini-HDMI slot, 3.5 mm headphone jack, miniUSB slot, mic, and the power button. These buttons is located on the top. While at the bottom there is a electric charge port.

Another amazing additions of Ziio 7is the front camera on the top of the screen. The Creative Ziio 7 camera has a VGA resolution (640x480 pixels), which is designed for applications such as video chat via Skype.

is also equipped with X-Fi Crystalizer, which is very useful for improving the audio sound on this tablet pc with crystal-clear sound. And the use of Codec Apt-x with low latency can be ascertained wireless stereo sound Bluetooth on these tablets pc. This featurs makes Creative Tablet Ziio 7 more superior than other tablets pc.

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.

ZTE 10.1" A Quad Core Tablet PC Leaked Info

ZTE is a phenomenal gadget manufacturer. We can tell that ZTE has produce a new Tablet PC , ZTE 10.1″. It is loaded with Android 3.2 Honeycomb OS, armed with the New quad-core NVIDIA chip called Tegra 3 processor, have a 1280×800 resolution display, provided with a 5MP camera, and powered with a 3250 mAh battery.

Unfortunately as for now there are not many other details at this point and from some leaked information, found that the ZTE 10.1” tablet is still using Android 2.3 Gingerbread. This is most likely just an early prototype product has not running the latest Android Honeycomb.

Something is really questionable, that small battery combined with a quad-core processor, would it be need more than a small battery ? Although NVIDIA has stated a few times that Tegra 3 aka Kal-El is extremely power efficient.

Other specifications of ZTE U.S. 10.1 inches, are:

• NFC support, 
• 32GB of internal storage 
• Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS . But this tablet is expected to be upgraded OS to Honeycomb or even Ice Cream Sandwich. 

We do not know yet more about the price and the release date of ZTE 10.1".