When we did Samsung Galaxy S 3 hands-on review, we mentioned one of the iPhone killer Apps being S-Voice. Now the same S-Voice App has been extracted from the device is available for other Android Ice Cream Sanchwich devices.
Heres how you can get the most anticipated Android App on your phone:
Move it to your phone via data cable, Bluetooth or Wifi connection.
Make sure, you have “Unknown Sources – Allow installation of non-Market applications” ticked. To assure this, go to Settings>Applications, this will be the first tickbox in the list.
Install and relish it over the weekend…
Note: You ought to have Android 4.0 to make use of the App. If you try it on other device, you’ll get this message “There is a problem parsing the package.” This is the equivalent of the dreded Blue Screen in windows Courtesy the enthusiasts at XDA Developers: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1662101
A day after the Facebook IPO – (Boon or a Debacle), Marc left his signature hood and switched to a suit. The occassion was the second IPO of his life – his wedding with his longstanding Girlfriend Priscila Chan.
They have been seen going around together on several occasions. At several events… He seems to be doing everything Right!
Those who are familiar with Apple iTunes Festival must be familiar with its features like music concerts and plenty of opportunities to interact with famous music personalities. Apple announced iTunes Festival featuring appearances by likes of Jack White, Usher and Norah Jones.
This Festival has been around since quite some time now ever since it started off in 2007. This year its being organised during September at the Roundhouse music venur in London.
Other prominent performets shall be One Direction. A total of more than 60 performances are being planned.
There are no tickets to be purchased, instead you’ll have to participate in online events or competitions to highten your chance of getting selected as audience to festival. The iTunes Festival audience is limit to citizens of UK, Germany, France, Holland and Ireland. 160 couple tickets for each night.
So you are a proud owner of the most advanced mobile OS on earth. And you want to keep the device running android on its heals. Not letting a single opportunity to show iPhone and Blackberry down with the lightening performance of your phone.
But every now and then you notice your phone dwindle while running apps. You dont wanna let anyone see this happen do you? Worry not! Theres just the app that is available for free on the market, ahem! Google Play that is…
Its called “Cosmos”, with the icon having a green mechanical gear in center surrounded by an elliptical blaze. App developer is Support.com
The tag line itself says “Battery Saver, Junk Cleaner, and Privacy Scanner for Android™ Smartphones”. This is an all in one app, developed and supported by a trusted entity support.com.
Features Elaborated:
Battery Optimizer: Manages battery life while optimising performance as per user’s wish. Best part is that the App comes with three predefines profiles for battery utilisation, namely, Basic, Aggressive, and Extreme profile. You dont have to get into attribute details for each of the profile, the App come with those settings in-built.
The Balanced Optimization Profile will manage your device’s connectivity – mobile data and Wi-Fi. This profile also enables data connectivity at the time interval of every 15 minutes helping applications synchronize data when the screen is turned OFF.
The Power Saver Optimization Profile, connectivity (WiFi, Bluetooth and Data), device’s screen timeout and display brightness are managed.
Extreme Optimization Profile simply shuts down internet connectivity, while maintaining low brightness, small screen timeouts and no synchronization, rendering a maximum battery life.
Privacy Scanner – This digital broom wipes clean your personal data leaving no risk of tracking cookies and sorts. No need to go to browser settings and clearing off cache, offline data and cookies manually. The risk of accidentally publishing personal data is reduced. The app scans installed apps for personal data and wioes it clean.
Trash Cleaner: The cleaner the place the more the merrier. Wipes clean the junk which may have come from misprocessing of data by installed apps as well as previously uninstalled apps. Stuff like browser history, caches and call logs too are cleaned. Leads to clearing up of storage space as well.
This ap is worth a shot and it works well too (if you dont mind top left corner of your screen dominated by the app icon all the time)
Samsung Galaxy Note – The Phone? Tablet? device recently got Android 4.0.3 ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich). The new upgraded OS can be easily applied to upgrade the device. You got following steps to follow:
Like any other patch/upgrade/flashing your phone, readers are advised to exercise caution. Hope you dont end up getting your device bricked.
Copy all of these to your /sdcard destination on the device.
Step 2: Reboot the device in recovery mode (Switch off the phone. Restart it while holding down the Volume Down + Power + Home buttons until bootscreen appears. press Volume Up to enter Recovery Mode.
Step 3: Choose the option “apply update from external storage” and then select CWM.zip.
Step 4: The device will boot into CWM recovery mode (Clock Work Mod).
Step 5: Again select the ”install zip from sdcard” option and then go to the .zip file named “SU-Busybox-Installer.zip”
Step 6: The go back to main menu and select “reboot system now”.
Endgame: You get latest version of Ice Cream Sandwich OS 4.0.3 installed on your phone. You powerhouse just started oozing with power.
The procedure is originally developed by “deathst”, one of the enthusiasts at XDA-Developer forums.
As you may be aware, Google applied for $5 billion transmission line linking power from wind farms off the East Coast. They got clearance recently however this is just one of the stages leading to final aproval from authorities.
Plan is to send 7000 MegaWatts of power through the Atlantic Wind Connection line. Google’s is a green initiative, while the same is supported financially by Good Energies and a Japanese company by the name Marubeni Corp.
As per the release by Department of the Interior, things seem to be falling in placew for Google and its counterparts for setting up the Atlantic Wind Connection line. Although the proposal is facing several regulatory speed breakers.
Galaxy SIII is finally here. Its designed for Humans! Sounds little similar to Nokia calling it “Human Technology” in yester years. It has the looks, it has the brains, and its for the humans! (Not for geeks? considering that the are humans to the extent of being made fo flesh and blood ). Lets get on with it, shall we humans?
Samsung Galaxy Note, till the launch of Galaxy S 3 was the most advanced powerfully sleek smartpphone. Its successor has now challeneged its thrown. Galaxy SIII aims to be the most powerful smartphone.
Galaxy SIII Specs
CPU: Quad-core 1.4 GHz Exynos 4 processor (a Cortex A9 design, so essentially the same CPU core as found in the NVIDIA Tegra 3, Texas Instruments’ OMAP 4, and Apple’s A5, among others)
GPU: ARM Mali 400 GPU (Same as galaxy Note)
RAM: 1 GB RAM,
Storage: 16, 32, or 64 GB of flash
Screen: 4.8″ 1280×720 HD Super AMOLED screen.
Camera: 8 MP rear camera with LED flash & 1080p video, front-facing 1.9 MP camera capable of 720p video,
Sensors: accelerometer, GPS and GLONASS positioning, compass, gyroscope, and barometer.
Connectivity: 802.11abgn, Bluetooth 3.0, NFC
Data: 4G LTE, 3G HSPA+.
Battery: 2,100 mAh.
Thickness: only 8.6mm thick. Slimmer than any smartphone, 133 grams.
Display & Size attributes: HD Super AMOLED+
Display screen uses a Pentile matrix: each pixel is made up of a pair of either red and green or blue and green sub-pixels, instead of the traditional red/green/blue trio.
The Galaxy S III’s footprint is only a slightly larger than that of its predecessor SII. This si because Samsung has reduced bezel size. The narrow bezels, combined with the light weight (133 grams), and thinness, make it comfortable enough in the hand, though those with particularly small hands may struggle.
Galaxy SIII: Apps, design
The Phone is comfortable in hands if you don’t mind slightly larger device. If you used S 2 or Galaxy Note previously, you would’nt mind.
The shape of the phone is all curves; no sharp corners or edges. The “organic” aspirations can be seen in TouchWiz 4.0 as well. The phone is built on Android 4.0.4 ICS and comes packed with bunch of new Samsung apps that are worth mentioning. Viz-a-viz:
Camera app is one notable feature of this phone. You can shoot photos with almost no delay, and also shoot photos in burst mode: 20 pictures at 3.3 frames a second, and automatically pick the best picture of the burst.
Samsung apps include S Beam and a pair of AllShare programs, Hubs.
S Beam is new way to share files: quick and easy sharing of files, say, between Galaxy S III handsets, similar to Google’s Android Beam feature, with some differences: share using slow NFC, or use fast Wi-Fi Direct.
AllShare: A Feature that lets you share media via DLNA to TVs, now gets AllShare Play and AllShare Cast. Play lets you play media on TVs via Wi-Fi Direct; Cast duplicates the phone’s screen on the TV. For TVs that don’t support Wi-Fi Direct, Samsung is releasing a dongle that plugs into an HDMI port to make the wireless experience better.
Samsung Hub: Music, Books, Videos Samsung Music hub offers iTunes equivalent for music. It’s extending this with a scan-and-match feature, similar to Apple’s iTunes Match; it’ll search your hard disk for songs, and allow you to play anything it finds from the cloud. Samsung offers music from 17 million available titles. Video Hub is also being offered for Video, movie rentals.
The OS/ TouchWhiz software felt fast and responsive for the most part.
Blackberry changed the way we use our business phones, now they are trying to take the avid user on another seasaw ride. If the news buzz about the new OS 10 is to be believed, the new OS will all be built around TOUCH. Many avid users hate touch, perhaps the only reason why they cant move away from their current Blackberry phone.
Blackberry’s flagship OS for smartphones and Tablets is in works and they exhibited their first demonstrations during RIM’s BlackBerry World keynote.
RIM is not hitting the trodden path of TOUCH smartphones. If one goes by the popular belief, your phone isnt smart enough if it aint got touch. Probably why Bold 4 and later were given touch screens, to help the qwerty fan evolve to touch. Future Blackberry phones will move away from trackballs and trackpads to full touchscreens. Needless to say, Touchscreens will have Gestures, which shall further be used for multitasking the BB apps.
The revelations made with respect to the future OS 10 show that the homescreen shall have four “tiles” (or widgets), just like any other touchscreen phone. Similar to iPhone, Android or Windows Phone 7. The apps menu which RIM shall place in the phone shall have grid of icons.
The hardware buttons, either touch or click buttons, are placed at the bottom of the screen for ease of use. these will essentially have Phone, Search, and Camera buttons. The standard notification bar is at the top. However, to bring up the notification drawer, a gestures is required. Blackberry OS 10 still carries the iconic notification LED.
Swipe left from the right edge within any app to reveal notifications. A “half-swipe” will simply show unread count and a full swipe will take you directly into the messaging and email app. With in any app, you can swipe from left to right to go up in the hierarchy. The behavior is quiet similar to PlayBook messaging app and UI is highly inspired from HP’s webOS 3.0.
Multitasking
As mentioned, Multitasking is a gesture away. A swipe to the right when you’re at the top level of an app will reveal the app you last had open, which fades in from behind your current app. A half-swipe will give you a preview as it fades in rather than fully switching to it.
Keyboard
The new Multitouch keyboard is a fair improvement to all existing softkeyboards on other platforms. While typing, swipe up on a letter to automatically type a suggested word. Blackberry Keyboard is powered by SwiftKey.
BB10 will eventually replace QNX as a powerful and pervasive OS for complete Mobility: not just smartphones, tablets. This could be a point where RIM starts licensing OS to third part manufacturers and we could see BB10 as an OS platform rather than RIM manufactured device. What this means is that soon we might have LG, Samsung, HTC manufacturing BB10 phones. Who knows what is coming.
Multimedia
RIM showcased wireless streaming video, a long awaited dream for RIM, already pioneering on other platforms. Camera is able to cleverly stay “live” when open and after you take a shot you can move forward or back in time to get it just right in case you missed a moment.
iPad 3 aka iPad HD and officially called “New iPad” is up for grabs and people cant wait in the long queues for Apple stores to open and splurg the market. The product is so gorgeous, it has the features worth the wait.
Here are the specs, to drool upon
iPad 3 Full Specs:
CPU: Dual Core A5x processor
GPU: Quad-core graphics. 2x times faster than Tegra 3, 4x times the performance.
Display: Retina Display: 2048×1536, 3.1 million pixels, more saturation, & contrast.
When we did Samsung Galaxy S 3 hands-on review, we mentioned one of the iPhone killer Apps being S-Voice. Now the same S-Voice App has been extracted from the device is available for other Android Ice Cream Sanchwich devices.
Courtesy the enthusiasts at XDA Developers: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1662101
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