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.