on November 19th, 2011
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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on October 29th, 2010
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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on October 4th, 2010
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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on September 28th, 2010
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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on September 26th, 2010
Update 2 [05-10-2010]: Today Google ended its testing and enabled paid apps for all users. The market now shows the approximate price of the app in Indian Rupees as ~Rs. The price is converted as per the day’s USD to INR conversion rate.
Update [26-09-2010]: Google has sent out an email to all Android developers indicating it is going to extend paid apps support for ‘additional’ countries without mentioning which are those additional countries. Find the
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on December 14th, 2009
Well, many of mobile users have their own favourite applications, its high time I listed mine; my favourite, most used, and best applications I have on my mobile. I have been using Nokia E65 for last two years, though Nokia has ditched this model with latest firmware ridden with many bugs and closing their ears and eyes shut for complaints. This mobile is based on Symbian S60 3rd Edition (initial release) platform. This mobile has entertained, shown ways,
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on July 7th, 2009 Many of our feature rich high-end mobile phones or Smartphones carry a lot of our personal and business data, be it photos, videos, email, notes, documents and not to forget, the precious Phone book. These toys are very pricey, many shell out large part of their salary. It pains a lot when one loses their valuable phone. The pain is multitude as the loss of data adds up to the loss of mobile itself. Many I know
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