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.