February 22, 2012

Mobile Tips

Google Android 5.0 (Jelly Bean) Expected In Q2, 2012 (Yay!)

Android 5 - Jelly Bean

Although Google’s Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) operating system is yet to fully take off, the news of its successor is already doing rounds. Viewing that the adoption of Android 4.0 has fallen short of original expectations and Microsoft will launch Windows 8 in the third quarter of 2012, Google is likely to launch Android 5.0 (Jelly [...]

Google Releases Chrome Web Browser For Android – Brings Bookmark Sync, Sign In, Tabs

Google Chrome For Android

Quick heads up to all the Google Chrome fanboys. Google has launched Chrome for Android. The good news is that you can finally bypass all those bookmark sync apps for chrome and get the REAL Chrome experience including book mark sync, viewing open tabs (on your pc) and not to forget the simplistic but beautiful [...]

Exogear Exomount – Universal Mount That Sticks On Anything And Holds Everything! [Review]

Exogear Exomount Side

Navigation system, music player, video viewer (large screen devices) and what not can a smartphone do these days. It’s pretty easy to make full use of your device when your hands are not busy but what about when you are driving? Can you then afford to stray eyes from the road, pick up mobile, change [...]

Case Mate Barely There Safeguards Galaxy S II From External Damage [Review]

Barely noticeable Case Mate protective shield.

Samsung Galaxy S II is selling like hot cakes and rightly so with it being a powerful android device one can dream of. Buying a Galaxy S II is one thing and keeping it safe and secure is another. You wouldn’t want to risk “breaking” is by accidentally dropping it, etc. And with Samsung Galaxy [...]

Airtel GPRS Settings Guide For Non OTA Mobile Phones – Save Time, Setup Internet Manually

Airtel Manual GPRS Settings

Airtel has finally took a step forward and released a small guide for setting up mobile office/Net On Phone (NOP) on various handsets manually. From now on you’ll be able to setup internet connection on your Samsung, HTC, Blackberry, Apple iPhone without going into the trouble of contacting Airtel Customer service and requesting them for [...]

Nokia On Revival Path – Lumia Windows Smartphones Are Driving Force

Nokia Lumia

I have written umpteen times with reference to Nokia handsets that Nokia and Windows operating system is lethal combination and the day it becomes popular, it will give the competition run for its money. And my prediction is going to be right if the comments of some leading analysts are to be believed. Android will [...]

Android 2.3.6 – Gingerbread Update Available For Samsung Galaxy Ace [India]

Gingerbread For Galaxy Ace

Galaxy Ace has been one of the successful android devices in Samsung’s arsenal and respecting that, Samsung has pushed an OS update for Galaxy Ace S5830I. This update takes forward the installed android os to version 2.3.6 i.e Gingerbread. Since it is a major OS update therefore you’ll have to get it from KIES itself, updating Over [...]

Nokia Luring Customers By Offering Free Music Service

Nokia Asha 200 And Asha 300

As I have been blogging earlier, Nokia is getting aggressive in India to promote its latest range of phones. Nokia is exploiting all the options to lure customers to buy its phones. To attract its customers, Nokia today introduced in Jaipur, its free music service Nokia Music Unlimited, which comes free on its latest range of [...]

Next iPhone & Samsung Smartphone To Be Waterproof?

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As per rough estimate up to a million phones are water-damaged every year worldwide. And these damages cannot be taken lightly by industry leaders of smartphones – Apple and Samsung. Probably maximum number of their phones must be getting water damaged as they are the major suppliers of phones in the world. Both Apple and [...]

Smartphone Addiction Is Increasing Day By Day – Not Good For Health

Smartphone Addiction Dilbert

YouTube’s head of content, Robert Kyncl said in a speech at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that more Android devices are activated per day than babies are born on Earth. Kyncl joked that Andy Rubin, Google’s director of mobile, was now looking for customers on other planets. Besides Android smartphones, Apple’s  activations [...]