Binatone iHomePhone 2 Is An Android Landline Phone No One Should Own

Binatone iHome Phone 2

A DECT based cordless phone with Android OS and speaker dock seems like all-in-one dream gadget for your home. With Android OS, much more can be done than just making plain phone calls, you can browse Internet, play games, music, video etc. And DECT? Yes you could connect many other DECT cordless devices to this network. With a speaker dock, you can throw your old mp3 player and use this flashy

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Smart Battery Charger

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How many times have you wanted a fresh pair of batteries for your remote,  toys or any gadgets and got none? You have dozens of pairs of batteries but none working?

Your kid gives a nice pose, you see a beautiful scenery or a rare bird and in the nick of time, you find the camera batteries have dried out. For the geek in you, you obviously have moved from dry cell batteries to rechargeable batteries –

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128 MB Is Gigantic File Size For Microsoft

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Like everybody else I too have been whining about the stupid menu bar search and that the nice file search of Windows XP is no longer there in Windows Vista and 7. Today I just discovered another stupid thing with Windows 7 file search. 128 MB file size is Gigantic for Microsoft.

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Happy New Year 2011

Happy New Year

Dear friends and readers of my blog, Outscribe wishes a happy and prosperous new year 2011 to you all. I have not been updating my blog lately, though there are many things happening and lots of new ideas. I will assure you this new year will have more interesting posts. Thanks for being my blog reader.

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Android Infographic

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A nice infographic on Android Operating System done by cellphones.org. Among many things it shows you the growth, timeline and market share of the popular mobile OS made by Google. One caveat I noticed (and many others) is the missing Symbian OS in the smartphone market breakdown section shown below in section 3. Symbian has been a powerful and popular OS for smartphones though lately it has been beaten by Android, iPhone and Blackberry.

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The Android Privacy Fuss

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A study by scientists of Intel Labs, Duke University and Pennsylvania State University says that few Android apps are sending out private information like your current location information (could be GPS coordinates or coarse network based location details) and other sensitive personal data like IMEI, phone number and SIM number to, possibly the advertisers and app content servers. These information, claims the scientists are being sent without any kind of notification or permission of the

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The 47 Top Apps On My Android Phone

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Once you have an Android phone, no one can stop playing around it with apps from the Android app market – all popular, newer and crazier kinds. So as of date, here is a list of favorite apps I have on my phone. My phone model is Samsung Spica (i5700), which was released just about an year ago and has been out of market close to six months. This is one of an excellent

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