Android devices selling is still growing within this 2011. Milions Android devices have been sold in global market. As open source OS, Android has special advantages than its competitor. Many of Android users really like whatever so called free apps. With Android Ver. 4.0 aka Ice Cream Sandwich released, caused in increasing Android device selling this year.

Andy Rubin, Google's SVP argued that in the span of two days (before and during this Christmas, 24 and 25 December 2011), there are 3.7 million Android devices that are activation enabled!. The Activation of the 3.7 million Android devices can be assumed as the sales volumes. In fact, Android devices are sold in two days might be more than that. Andy Rubin.

This figure is indeed relatively large enough for an OS that was still very young. From the announcement that there are 700,000 Android enabled each month, all of a sudden that number increased at the start of the holiday season in late 2011.

This could be the sign that Android is already the most OS used in global mobile device market. But Apple with iOS still remains the greatest with its good contents. The question is, how long Apple can survive in this tight competition ? However most smartphone users are reluctant to pay for and tablet content apps. Let's look at just what will soon take place the number one in 2012. Will Android be able to dominate the world market ?

Taking screenshot in Android OS mobile device is not as easy as any other. You are required to go through the quite long complicated process to take a screenshot which is officially permitted in the Android OS. But there is a way that can be done to simplify the process, you can use a simple application like Screenshot It.

Screenshot It is  an utility software developed by Edward Kim that can be used to take screenshot with different intended purpose. In case you need to take a screenshot from your Android device to share information for your friends or colleagues , you can use this application.

From beginning installation, it takes a rooted device so that applications can been installed and running well. You can download it directly from the Android Market or visit the official website to get the apk file. The capacity of this application after the installation process does not consume a lot of memory space.

As the utilities to take a picture or screenshot on phones with the Android OS platform, Edward Kim as the developer of this software provides many features and develop them with the ability to rely on. Here are some interesting features that we found in this application.

• Easy to Take - By using these utilities, you can easily take screenshots on the Android device. Taking pictures can be easily done directly on the device and not have to do a long process. This application is relying on convenience as one of the main feature.
• Shake Your Device - Taking pictures can be done in two ways, first by putting a screenshot on the taskbar icon or by shaking your device. This setting can easily customize to your desire.
• Save Data - after screenshot taking process is done, this application directly save the image into the internal or external memory according to your choice. When finished with the process of image storing, you can immediately see the screenshots that have been taken.
• Screenshot Delay - The developer provides a time delay with several options that can be selected in accordance with the wishes before the screenshot is taken. With the delay, you can ensure a screenshot capture time itself.
• Image Format - To facilitate support to the recipients you send a screenshot, this software supports two image formats commonly used in the wider community. Both of these formats are Jpeg and Png.
• The facilities to rotate the image of screenshots that have been taken from its original position and rotate clockwise or anti clockwise.
• The facility to invert color.Color correction is performed by this application is quite effective and able to correct them properly.
• You can either crop images that have been taken in accordance with needs. Only then store them in internal or external memory.

To you who feel you need instructions for use,, this software provides a tutorial that provides step by step and very easy to understand. Edward Kim offer you this Screenshot It Pro at $3.99. With the features offered, it's price is still reasonable.

With Screenshot It, it seems you no longer have to undergo a very lengthy process for taking pictures.The ability of this application is inappropriate for the thumbs up. 

Android ver. 4.0 aka Ice Cream Sandwich has been a top of Android user request for OS updating on their smartphone or tablets. From what we read on news, Samsung company have confirmed that some of Samsung Android mobile devices will get an Android Ice Cream Sandwich update. And now Samsung has announced the provision of the update schedule estimates. 

Following Samsung mobile devices lists that might be get an update option to ICS :

• Galaxy S II 
• Samsung Galaxy Notes 
• Galaxy S II LTE and R 
• Galaxy Tab 10.1 
• Tab 8.9 
• Tab 7.7 
• Tab 7.0 Plus. 

However in this Android ICS software update, Samsung confirmed that the next release time will vary depending on region and market operators.

We can see that Samsung Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab 7.0 are not included in update program schedule. On the other side, Samsung Galaxy Nexus S, which is obviously almost identical to the Galaxy S soon will get Android 4.0.

Samsung company is finally responding to news that Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab 7.0 could not be updated to the Android Ice Cream Sandwich, because both of them have Samsung TouchWiz features, a typical Samsung, which has been customized quite complex (including custom widgets, video call and other). In fact, for models that are exclusively bundled with some specific carriers in some countries get mentioned much more in-depth customization (eg digital TV tuner for Brazil ISDB-Tb). From these conditions, Samsung argues that all of the features and last customization will not work properly when upgraded to Android version 4.0 ICS. Beside that hardware specs from Samsung Galaxy S and Tablet 7 are too low in RAM and ROM, which became a point of weakness. So the Android Gingerbread will be remain stagnant.

It seems that many users of Samsung devices will be disappointed. However, for smar user, this is not a serious problem, while many outstanding Android forum have Ice Cream Sandwich (Android v4.0) customization ROM without ruining ToucWiz feature, which must be compatible with some those Samsung devices which are not included in the official list.

Mozilla Firefox is already famous as most pc user use this browser for long time ago before Google chrome raise up. But on the other side, Google Chrome has been dominating the mobile browser. Google also wants their Google services of search engine may immediately appear on the main page Firefox browser.

Unlike in the pc world, Mozilla Firefox started onto mobile browser with codename Fennec, based on Mozilla Firefox 3.6 on March 2011 and recently Mozilla uses codename Firefox as mobile browser for Android. Mozilla released Firefox 9.0 for Android base Smartphone and Tablet.

The user interface of Firefox 9.0 for Android is completely redesigned for small screen optimization, the controls are hidden away so that only the web content is shown on screen and it uses touchscreen interaction methods

Firefox for Android wants to challenge the traditional mobile browser experience with a unique side-by-side layout. It hides off the left side menu of the screen for browsing tabs. The hidden menu to the right you will find your go back and for forward navigation, preferences and bookmarks. Also for the other menu you can find them on down side. So this unique menu makes wider space on the browser.

Gamer maniac all around the world has been waiting for the release of PS Vita, the new handheld game console from Sony corporation. Luckily, Japan gamer always has the choice of what kind game console they want to play without waiting for too long.

On the other side, gamer from outside Japan, have to wait for PS Vita to be released for their region version, including those gamer who live in Indonesia. For gamer who are still waiting for PS Vita in Indonesia, which has been saving their money since the far-away day to buy this handheld game console, this would be the best news for You!

Believe it or not, the PS Vita already arrived at some gadget store in Indonesia, especially in Jakarta. Just visit and walk into one of the Central wholesale gaming device in Mangga Dua Jakarta, you will be surprised to see that PS Vita is already sold freely there.

The version of this PS Vita which is already available is Japan version and it is sold at a price of USD $ 427 bundled with minimal package included

• Game console,
• Charger, 
• Adapter, 
• Usb data

You can see that there is no Memory Card included in Japan version PS Vita, but it is sold separately. The rumor is that the PS Vita 8 GB memory card is gone in the market due to supply run out. We can say that Playing PS Vita without memory card is only serve as a browsing device. The physical games price ranging is between US$ 40 to US$ 70 depending on the game title you want.

Those who live in Asia, there will be no PS Vita Version with 3G support because the strict region lock mechanism in Japan version PS Vita so that it cannot be used freely in other country beside Japan. Luckily for those of you who can't wait anymore to play it, Sony will launch its own new Asia 3G version PS Vita  in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore in the near future and hopefully  the prices also may be cheaper.

Apple has done a unique implementation again with Siri, a voice command to a piano through MIDI signals receiver which is equipped into a series of digital piano, Yamaha Disklavier, enabled it to play songs as the user desires.

Apple company with its new feature, Siri, a voice command on iPhone 4S, has collaborated together with Yamaha, a leading musical instrument manufacturer, to implement Siri to a digital piano so it can play songs   in accordance with the playlist  just by saying "Play", the title song in will appear on the screen and the iPhone 4S will begin to play the piano. This remind me of creepy ghost story.

The secret of this technology is in the receive unit of the Apple Airport Express which is placed at the bottom of the piano as it will receive the file and sends instructions to the piano via WiFi. The songs in the playlist is also a special playlist that also stores digital MIDI versions of it-which sends MIDI signals to the piano. So, the songs will be played exactly the same as the existing version in the playlist. 

Unfortunately iPhone user can not give more order to piano to perform improvisation. With Siri user instruct the piano to play a song, repeat it back, or stop the game. Everything can be done simply by giving orders like a boss to boss. Amazing !

YAMAHA PIANO WITH SIRI RECEIVER IMPLEMENTED

GTA III on iPhone 4S

Well every gamer know GTA or Grand Theft Auto is a famous pc and console game. It has good selling in some country. And now Rockstar company try to make this game can be played on  iPhone, as the most favorite smartphone in US and some country, so it is has to be a good news for iPhone users.

The good respond happened this week. The launch of Grand Theft Auto III was greeted by iPhone users on the iPhone App Store this week . The GTA III became a number one top selling iPhone game and beat the Infinity Blade II and Poker by Zynga.

Here's a list of best-selling  iPhone game sales this week according to courtesy of Apple's public sales information of game chart rankings:

1. Grand Theft Auto III ($ 4.99)
2. Poker by Zynga (Free)
3. DragonVale (Free)
4. Kick the Buddy ($ 0.99)
5. Infinity Blade II ($ 6.99)
6. Angry Birds ($ 0.99)
7. Card Ace: Casino (Free)
8. Tiny Tower (Free)
9. Modern War (Free)
10. Social Girl (Free)

And this is a list of the top 10 selling games on the iPad:

1. Battle Nations (Free)
2. The Sims: FreePlay (Free)
3. Angry Birds HD ($ 4.99)
4. DragonVale (Free)
5. Card Ace: Casino HD (Free)
6. Modern War (Free)
7. Grand Theft Auto III ($ 4.99)
8. Smurfs' Village (Free)
9. Sonic CD ($ 1.99)
10. Infinity Blade II ($ 6.99)

Wearable computer is the next technology of human kind which has unique feature compare to personal computer. According to Wikipedia, Wearable computers are miniature electronic devices that are worn by the bearer under, with or on top of clothing. This class of wearable technology has been developed for general or special purpose information technologies and media development. Wearable computers are especially useful for applications that require more complex computational support than just hardware coded logics.

As Google actively continue to making innovation in computerized devices, recently the Search Engine company comes back with new experiment by introducing a eyeglasses with built in digital screen to access informations from around the world.



These eye lasses will be shaped like regular eyeglasses but equipped by a transparent screen that using Android operating system to access all the information in the world. We think this will be cool gadget like we saw on science fiction movie

Google does really want to be the leading company in developing wearable computer in the future like they ever published in the New York Times about planting the Android operating system to a computer that can be used (wearable computer) at present.

How do these glasses work? These eyeglasses will have a screen with a computer interface that will be embedded in the ' arm ' glasses. However, these eyeglasses will not look different with other eyeglasses in General

The eyeglasses has a more perfect search box appearance for Android. These glasses will display search results in the form of information at the top of the screen.Google also are working to make the voice control system — similar to Apple's Siri — which in fact, allow the search process is carried out much further than standar device with a touchscreen system.

ViewSonic shows its latest tablets, smartphones, and multi-touch Screens in CES 2012. Company unveils new Touch and See the Difference Vision at leading global tradeshow" December 22, 2011. ViewSonic Corporation (South Hall 36631) is the leading global provider of computing products, consumer electronics and communications solutions, celebrate the new year 2012 with a variety of exciting new products that will be displayed at CES 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

According the source on internet, after launching a tablet to market by 2011, ViewSonic is concentrating to more actively take this momentum by expanding the latest product line of 10 inch ViewPad tablet  to business circles which work on Windows and Android.

ViewSonic ViewPad tablet product is an ideal choice for share, read, work and play by using your mobile device. Beside 10 inch Tablet, there will be ViewPad 7e, a 7 inch Android tablet which offers an Amazon service for Android integration, Amazon Kindle to read eBooks and RiteTouch to write directly on the screen. This business class tablet lineup including ViewPad 10pro works on Windows 7 Professional systems and also provides the ability to boot Android.

To build more enhanced innovation, ViewSonic has collaborated  with the EXOPC,  to build one of the world's first EXOdesk. EXOdesk is a PC in the form of a table with a 32 inch multitouch 10 point touch screen on the surface of the table. EXOdesk uses a special open source interface for the developers of HTML5. This Unit will be shown during CES and will be powered by an Intel ® Core ™ i7 processors, Intel integrated graphics, and will run the Windows 7 operating system.

ViewSonic also will feature displays an astonishing by means of universal input-art capacitive multi-touch. This screen is designed to allow consumers and professionals to connect smartphones, tablet and notebook wirelessly and sharing photos or doing streaming media from services like YouTube. This Display can be used to extend the desktop to the use of two-mode display.

When holiday comes and you want to take a vacation, a good planning is the main thing to consider. start from the place to go to, transportation, hotel, etc. A smartphone with Android OS can help user to do the simple hotel booking planning with an application called booking.com. Booking.com is the right application to help you. With the help of these utilities, you can make a hotel reservations in various parts of the world.

Booking.com is pretty well known in Android market place with high rating 5763. This booking.com apps latest version is version 3.1.1 with size 6.93 MB in installer capacity and after installation is complete, the application will take up space on memory at 8.93 MB.

The primary purpose of this application is providing access and data from a variety of hotels in every corner of the world. You can place an order right away without having to call the hotel that you want to stay. In this way, you can save time and expenses cost in the search for hotel to stay. The latest version of Booking.com  has several beneficial features as follows.

• The booking.com application has a large database of the hotels around the world. More than 50 hotels in a specific area can be displayed by this software. With the support of more than 170 countries in various parts of the world, you can do excursions to wherever you want. You do not need to be concerned about the problem of the Inn due to wherever your destination, the application is ready to help.
• This application uses GPS to help determine your location. To determine your location and Your destination, this application will quickly conduct an analysis of the existence of hotels around you. List of hotels will soon show up and the process of booking directly possible.
• The application can facilitate the search of the hotel and headed to the venue, this application provides additional map features so that the location of the hotel's existence can be known quickly and can be easily targeted. In the map provided, You can estimate the distance and some other useful information.
• Before exploring this application further, you will be exposed to a page where at the top there is a search box at the bottom and there are several fields such as information on the number of people who will stay and the number of days that you want to stay. This field can be ignored if You are not ready to fill it out and continue the search by pressing the button search.
• When there is a hotel that you like, this application can place the hotel became a favorite one. That way, you can easily access the hotel when at a later date wish to access it again.
• After the holidays is done, there is no harm in sharing information on vacation by colleagues or family. Sharing information can be done through Facebook, Twitter, and email so that wherever you are, still be able to share your experiences with others. Everything is very easy to do.
• The unit of currency used by this application can be converted into some other world currency in a way to set it in the settings menu. In addition, You can also perform a variety of other settings so that these applications can be used to its full potential.

By entering the name of the hotel or city that is intended, you will get a list that contains the name of the hotel with iss rating. The best room prices will appear in units of the U.S. dollar. After choosing one, some information such as a picture example State rooms, facilities available, the policy of the hotel, and so on will appear.

Before making a booking, we strongly recommend that you read the reviews that have been available from a variety of people who have been staying in advance so you can imagine the condition of the room and the hotel. The consumer review absolutely will help you to decide which hotel is right in your favor.

Booking.com  need Internet connection to display various information needed. If you do not activate the GPS, You will get error location notification will appear multiple times as long as you access this application.

After the order process is complete, do not have to worry about booking's rejected when arriving at the Inn.Simply by showing proof of booking, everything will work out. In addition, when you have an account at booking.com, you can also perform and arrange a booking through the site.

The unit of currency used by this booking.com application can be converted into some other world currency in a way to set it in the settings menu. In addition, You can also perform a variety of other settings so that these android utilities can be used to its full potential. 

Righ now everybody loves faster performance on their smartphone or tablet pc. So do you want your gadget work faster? There is one thing you can do, just simply upgrade your mobile device MicroSD. 

Smartphone user frequently encounter slow loading process performance when running the applications installed on the SD card or data transferred to SD card.  Sometimes this happens when running the game application, especially those large size applications, this could be a annoying problem. Well in these conditions, the game will do the loading from the SD card again and again, especially during scene changes.

The best solution to this problem is to upgrade the SD card (MicroSD). Generally smartphones use the standard SD card which is slow on performance. 

According to jagatreview.com they used to test the speed of standard SD card on Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc with Class10 Kingston MicroSDHC 16GB and standard MicroSD Class10 on the test. The test results are :

• Read speed increased slightly on Class10 Kingston MicroSDHC 16GB compared to a standard MicroSD.
• The write speed of Class10 Kingston MicroSDHC 16GB improved significantly compared to a standard MicroSD
• Class10 Kingston MicroSDHC successfully deliver improved write performance up to 4x 
• The copy process into smartphones are now working more smoothly on Class10 Kingston MicroSDHC 16GB, without a hitch.

So we can tell that an upgrade from MicroSDHC to Class10 MicroSD in fact provide adequate performance that much different. Now your smartphone can work more smoothly, especially when accessing files in the SD card. In that test previously before the upgrade, they had encountered slow performance problems several times during the video recording with HD resolution (720p). But within a week of testing, none of  720p video recording interrupted or stalled. We just imagine, if this smartphone can record 1080p video, MicroSD Class10 certainly will become a necessity.

So If you are using Android smartphone or tablet, an upgrade to the microSDHC Class10 will be a very recommended. Class10 MicroSDHC current price not too far  than class4 or class6. However, you may consider a long-term advantages of this upgrade. However this upgrade does not affect the speed of MicroSD app that is in the internal memory.

Genius as a leading provider of a wide range of computer peripherals that look unique (and it is unique), is probably unmatched manufacturer. This time, they made a Magnetic-Music-Player Portable Speaker, SP-i400. SP-i400 is  a speaker with a tiny MP3 player that integrates the following batteries can be taken everywhere. In addition, Genius also equip it with a magnet and sticky tape to stick to the surface of another object.

This product concept is interesting with its physical appearance, curved-shaped aluminum frame that extends to the four sides, Genius SP-i400 looks futuristic which makes it look like a UFO from a science fiction movie. The Genius SP-i400 main parts are made ​​of plastic. In the middle, there is one speaker with the black grille and has output power of 2 watts RMS  with frequency response between 130 Hz-22 KHz.






The Genius SP-i400 features are :

• Volume button function as the power button 
• a row of buttons playback that can be used when playing the song, 
• Micro-USB connector to charge the battery  
• Jack audio 3.5 mm, and 
• SD memory card slot for playback of music files.
• SP-i400 supports the use of SDHC type memory cards up to 32 GB. 
• 3.5 mm audio connector on the SP-i400 output.
• A travel pouch  
• micro-USB cable that doubles as a 3.5-inch jack for the plugged in device audio source, and a user's guide .

As a portable speaker, Genius SP-i400 is quite easy to use. Users simply plug the 3.5 mm audio cable that doubles as a micro-USB connector into the audio source and turned on the speakers. SP-i400 ready steady songs. The cable provided is long enough so that it can accommodate the needs of most users.

SP-i400 advantage lies in its ability to be placed anywhere. Because it has an integrated lithium battery, you do not need to connect this device with an external power source. Users can attach the SP-i400 at the surface of objects made ​​of magnets are like the back of the laptop screen and refrigerator and also another object surfaces like wood, plastic with a sticky tape that can be attached to the surface of non-metal objects.

Unfortunately, drivers in the SP-i400 speaker produce a sound that sounded less good on the ear. Quality may only be the minus to be able to compete with the laptop speakers. Fortunately, the SP-i400 has an audio connector outputs to other speakers produce greater sound quality. However, this is certainly reduce the value of practicality.

ZTE SKATE

ZTE Corporation is a global public company of providing telecommunications equipment and network solutions in China. Based on analysis of data from three independent companies - ABI Research, IDC and Strategy Analytics - ZTE is recognized as a supplier of mobile handsets in the world's fourth largest. In the third quarter of 2011, ZTE's handset shipments reached 19.1 million, up 57.9 percent from the same period last year, while the total market share rose to 4.9 percent.

Recently ZTE has announced the availability of their new flagship smartphone, the ZTE Skate and ZTE Racer II in France. France market has been the huge mobile devices market along with the increasing number of models of ZTE smartphones sold in France. ZTE seems really emphasized its desire to make their technology available to the public at large segment.

We can tell that with this new device, they want to surpass the success of ZTE Link and ZTE Blade, which was launched in France in 2010. ZTE Skate and ZTE Racer II is launched to target at mid-market and teens, representing the device with the best value for money in its market segment and demonstrate ZTE's commitment in providing increased user experience with competitive prices to attract the mass market.

ZTE RACER II

ZTE Skate equipped with a 4.3-inch multipoint touch screen with intuitive interface that allows quick access to applications, and smooth Internet navigation experience. ZTE Skate is powered by Qualcomm MSM processor 800 Mhz and operated with Android 2.3.4 (Gingerbread). This 11.35mm slim handset weighing only 148 grams and it offers a good 5-megapixel camera with autofocus, Wi-Fi, GPS and accelerometer.

ZTE Racer II is one of the most affordable price ZTE Android smartphones available. With the multipoint touch screen 2.8-inch, the handset is powered by a Broadcom BCM 2157 processor 500 Mhz. This handset also comes with 2 megapixel autofocus camera, GPS, an accelerometer, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

As the fourth largest handset vendor in the world, Year 2011 is an important year for ZTE in future, France market in 2012 was fantastic with middle and upper market targeted. With Honeycomb Android tablets and Windows Phone product line. ZTE has diversified its product range to offer a broader product type again to operators around the world to meet the growing demand from their customers.

Toshiba PORTÉGÉ  Z830 is the  first Toshiba's Ultrabook  powered by the second generation of Intel Core processors. This thin ultrabook weight is just 1.12 kg and a thickness of 9.9 mm. Toshiba PORTÉGÉ Z830 is 20 % lighter  and 40 % thinner than its predecessor  PORTÉGÉ series that has won many R830 award. This latest system offers portability advantages, resilience, essential features and stylish design.

Powered by  the second generation of Intel Core processors for the latest Ultrabook and super fast DDR3 memory, Toshiba Z830 series delivers good performance that is needed for work and play as well as the battery's energy settings to be able to last longer.

This Ultrabook uses Solid State Drive (SSD) 128 GB  with very responsive, having improved durability and energy efficient.  It combined with the latest and exclusive Hi-Speed Start-up Technology of Toshiba so it can be turned on to work within seconds either in the Office or at home. 

This Ultrabook has a very light magnesium casing  and strong one. The latest design of Honeycomb Rib is applied to the casing to support the resistant to shocks and rigidity. Also Toshiba EasyGuard Technology of the ultrabook is designed to give you a sense of security for its users. Consequently, this ultrabook has improved resilience against shocks and water spills.  In addition, a keyboard that is resistant to water spills  gives users enough time to turn off the laptop and protects data stored before you turn it off. 

Toshiba PORTÉGÉ Z830 series is featuring a complete connectivity such as Bluetooth and WLAN plus a number of series/VGA connection, HDMI ® and USB. One of the USB ports are USB 3.0. These systems also have USB Sleep & Charge technology Toshiba are giving users freedom to charge smartphones. 

This Toshiba PORTÉGÉ Z830 series delivers everything you need and want for its users, both to the needs of professional work and entertainment which means a lot in today's digital lifestyle. This Notebook has a 13.3 inch display monitors with high definition that does not reflect light and bright and stereo speakers that are equipped with an Audio Enhancement technology of Toshiba makes ideal for listening to music, watching movies, and video conversations.

Siri as the pioneer of voice command application in Apple mobile device mostly used by busy people with tight schedule. We think that most Android user also like to try this Siri feature on their smartphone. Recently Recently Google is going to compete with Apple Siri by developing an application similar to Siri.

Referring to AndroidandMe, an application called "Majel" will be the first Android Voice Assistance and starts its debut in the end of 2011. Google made Majel as the evolution of Voice Action feature on some Android smartphones. Similar to Siri, Majel will have the ability to take action with user voice command in different languages.

Though Google does not officially stated this Majel application development, at least from the rumor is clear that Google is preparing an application to compete with Apple Siri. And later from BGR, Google also has take over the developer of 'Alfred', the personal software assistance application made by Clever Sense. We might think that this 'Alfred' is going to be developed by Google to be Android Majel by the time of it released. 

Be prepared for BlackBerry smartphone users, the presence of a revolutionary new OS from BlackBerry, BlackBerry 10. This new Operating System should be able to change the view of some people that Blackberry smartphone is just useful for Blackberry Mesenger (BBM) and Email only.

After a long struggle with the old OS include OS7, RIM decided to switch to OS with a new basis, namely the QNX OS. This Operating System is already used on the BlackBerry Playbook long enough. And now RIM chose this OS for smartphone in the future development.

BlackBerry 10 performance became one of the emphasis has to offer. By developing an OS that makes an application to access the full hardware capabilities and a powerful combination with hardware, this can be obtained. Seeing that the base used is QNX OS, it is very likely to be reached.


Along with BlackBerry Playbook, the use of BlackBerry 10 combine with dual-core processor and PowerVR GPU is seem very convincing. During the BlackBerry DevCon Asia 2011 in Singapore, Blackberry Playbook performing a combination of hardware and the OS 10 does not need to be doubt

As new OS, BlackBerry 10 applications development for flexibility must be considered to gain widespread support from developers. So RIM has to prepare a variety of ways for application developers to create applications that can be paired with BlackBerry 10. Starting from the support C, C + +, to the ease of developing web based applications and HTML5 for BlackBerry 10. RIM also claim that Adobe AIR also supported by BlackBerry 10. This will make developers choose the base application more easily.

There is one interesting stuff, that Blackberry Playbook users may have never known that there is an Android application that can run on the Playbook. This extra benefit will be built on BlackBerry 10. So it should be able to run Android runtime environment for Android applications! And finally GL acceleration game can be run on Blackberry Playbook

Is your Android applications that you use can not display the Flash Player 10.1? Please note if the Android device that you use is a middle / low-end smartphone, does not support Flash 10.1. So then  the Flash Web content can not be generated. When Adobe released Flash Player 10.1, it is said that the Flash version is not compatible with smartphones that use ARMv6 processor line. If the Android device that you use are having problems with Flash content in it then surely it uses ARMv6 chipset line (ARM 11). 

Fortunately there are a number of developers from China who successfully cracking Flash 10.1 that can be used on Android devices with ARMv6 processors. For that you need to download and try it out. Previously make sure you have "Unknown Source" in a way a check in the setttings> Applications. 

Download Flash Player 10.1 for ARMv6 Devices Froyo and Gingerbread Users who have installed Flash Player 10.1 is reported that all applications can run well and can display Flash content. But if after install you experience browser crashes, you should immediately uninstall it.

The examples of some android smartphones that use ARMv6 processor, including:
- LG Optimus One P500
- LG GT 540 Optimus
- Optimus v LG
- LG Optimus t, v, s
- Samsung Galaxy 3
- Samsung Galaxy 5
- Samsung Galaxy 551
- Galaxy Fit
- Samsung Galaxy Pop
- Samsung Galaxy Ace
- Samsung Spica
- Samsung Galaxy Apollo
- Galaxy Samsung i7500
- Sony Ericsson Xperia X8
- Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini
- Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro
- HTC Wildfire
- HTC Wildfire S
- HTC Desire
- HTC Legend
- HTC Hero
- xcd28 Dell
- Dell xcd35 aka Orange San Francisco aka ZTE Blade
- Spice Orange aka MI-300 Boston
- Huawei Ideos
- Micromax A60
- Micromax bling 2
- Acer beTouch E110
- Motorola quench

A few days ago came the news that  Microsoft statement about Windows Phone has support NFC technology. Head of Microsoft products in the United Kingdom Will Coleman in a discussion last Friday declared if Windows Phone already support NFC. WP7 Software has supported this wireless technology, but of course the WP7 phone manufacturers should applies NFC in your phone. But on Windows Phone handset currently  there none has the main supporter of the NFC, or even in Nokia series of Lumia.

Today Microsoft is forced to issue a statement to confirm the error of Coleman comment and hope this issue is sorted out. Microsoft spokesman's statement to the WinRumors is:

Microsoft would like to correct a previous statement about technology Near Field Communication.Although the NFC now have not supported Windows Phone 7.5, but support it will come soon. We expect Windows Phone devices with NFC will arrive next year.
A new rumor suggests that Microsoft will bring the NFC features to Windows Phone 8 platform (codename Apollo) which will arrive in the middle of next year. The source of the rumour also States new details about the mobile phone Nokia flagship, Lumia 900.

Microsoft strategy to offers free Windows Phone handsets to the users affected Android malware attacks  has been found on Twitter some time ago. This Microsoft promo was stated by Ben Rudolph through Twitter with the DroidRage. He write a request for  Android users malware affected to tell the story of their malware, and they could have won the phone for replacement windows.

We can tell that Microsoft marketing strategy seems like what Samsung did to iPhone when first generation of iPhone 4 got antenna gate, Samsung via Twitter also offered the same thing to iPhone 4 user . We think this have something to do with malware on Android application called RuFraud. 

This malware  will send a short message service to a premium number so it charges so high. This RuFraud malware targeting Android users in Europe, Asia and other markets outside North America. This malware offering wallpapers art from famous movies, horoscope reading and popular games for android user. The good news is that  recently Google has remove RuFraud malware from Android market to anticipate the spread to another countries. 

This situation can only get worse with a report from Juniper Global Threat Center, which states that there is an increase of 472% of malware since last July. According to researchers, Google is not too tighten screening applications so that more potential malwares slip into to the Android Market. We can say that Android OS also has even defeat the Nokia Symbian OS mobile as the most targeted malware. So from now on malware hackers are pointing their target to Android OS. 

Android Tablet user has been looking for an audio dock for listening music with advance audio output like iPad audio dock which is really entertaining. If we take a look in back in the android market, there were no tablet audio dock available yet.

But this is for sure a good news for Samsung Android tablet user that iLuv Creative Technology, a famous provider of the most complete line of accessories for the mobile lifestyle, has introduced the world's first and only audio docking station for Samsung GALAXY Tablets, the iSM524, ArtStation™ Pro. The iSM524 combines superior aesthetic design with jAura Sound Technology and cinematic sound quality to heighten your Samsung GALAXY Tab music and movie experience.

The iSM524 dock's arm can be rotated from portrait to landscape viewing modes and tilts so you can get the best possible angle for watching your favorite movies or Live Music Concert Video of your favorite band . This iSM524 audio dock station  also  equipped with an IR remote and a 3.5mm auxiliary input to boot. 

iLuv claimed that this Samsung Galaxy Tablet ArtStation pro will play nicely with the entire Galaxy Tab family. You can buy this amazing gadget within this month for the price $149 . So if you have Samsung Galaxy Tablet  10.1 or the 7.0 plus, no need to worry now for enjoying new sound and movie experience, just look for it in the market. 

T-Mobile and Nokia is planning to release entry level smartphone soon. While the Lumia 800 is their best windows phone for high class level, they named the entry level smartphone as Nokia Lumia 710 or Nokia Sabre. The Nokia Lumia 710 uses 512 MB RAM , operated by Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, has 3.7 inches powered by 1.4 GHz Scorpion processor and Adreno 205 gpu. When we see the design, it is little bit similar with Lumia 800. We can say it is as a cheaper alternative to the Lumia 800 with colorful design .On an event next week Nokia 710 will hit the US local operator, AT&T.

Well Indonesia is a largest of Blackberry market as for now we get information RIM has sold the phone over 4 million units just in Indonesia. We can tell that Blackberry is a rich folks trademark in Indonesia. Few weeks ago RIM has sold the Blackberry "Belagio" for just 50% off the normal price. And you know the day before there has been thousand people waiting to buy it. This might be one of a kind event in Indonesia which no other vendors has done that.

Anyway the Indonesian government now is threatening to ban BIS and BBM services within the nation if RIM doesn't build its data center server in Indonesia. It seems that Indonesian government are upset that Research in Motion will be building its new data centers in Singapore, rather than in Indonesia.

RIM is aware that Indonesia is a huge market, but unfortunately under-appreciated. "The money obtained from these countries are also big, so contributed a server in Indonesia also for the benefit of their markets in the future.

Righ now the current BlackBerry users from all over the RIM's partner operator , such as Indosat, Telkomsel, XL, Three, Axis, Bakrie, and Smartfren, has 10 million subscribers. Soon if this banned executed, Blackberry will be just an ordinary smartphone just like the others.

Android as an open source operating system for mobile devices has been developed with many versions. The Android version 3 which is claimed by Google as the best OS for tablet is called Honeycomb. This Honeycomb has been released together along with Motorola Xoom on February 2011. And now many vendors also adapt the Honeycomb for their tablets.

Recently Chitika as Advertising Network has been going on research on the Android version which has dominate the mobile devices OS right now. The result is that Honeycomb OS for tablet only took place 1% of the tablet market. The biggest percentage is taken by Gingerbread with 65%, then Froyo with 28% and the rest is cupcake and donut .

Why Honeycomb which is claimed the best OS for tablet only get 1% on the market? Some people says probably the reason is that when the first released of Honeycomb along with Motorola Xoom, google has not provide the source code itself to developer and the the lack of applications supports for Honeycomb. Unlike Apple which has first introduce the IOS few months before releasing the iPad, so the applications for IOS has been prepared and ready. Also many analyst argue that the lack of supported game on Honeycomb is one of the main factors.

Apple has successfully sold 6.9 million iPad units in the last quarter. Users of Windows Phone, BlackBerry, and Android also is rumored to still vying for the iPad. We hope that Ice Cream Sandwich can change the market share for Android in 2012, lets see.

Being the most choosen OS of Smartphone and Tablet, recently Android OS from Google is reach about 10 billion downloads in Android Market. Google is celebrating the android market for 10 billions download achievement. Some of the applications are sold at $0.10 like

Shazam Encore
Sentinel 3: Homeworld
Baseball Superstars® 2011
Spirit HD
Jelly Defense
Paper Camera
My Beach HD
Farm Frenzy
Toddler Spanish: 100 words
NEED FOR SPEED™ Shift
Game Dev Story

You can buy and download some valuable applications with cheap price at Android Market right now

Android ver. 4 or Ice Cream Sandwich OS has a reputation as a high end mobile devices OS. Google is trying to make android as market leading OS for smartphone and tablet pc. For this reason Samsung and Google produce Samsung Galaxy Nexus with built in ICS. Other vendors also adapting this ICS OS for their mobile devices. One of them is Sony Erricson.

Sony Erricson is preparing an upgrade for their Android Gingerbread based, Sony Erricson Xperia to Android Ice Cream Sandwich. Anyway Android ICS is optimized for Samsung high end mobile devices like Galaxy Nexus. While Sony Erricson trying to make an upgrade, recently they are having difficulties to upgrade Android Gingerbread to ICS as this OS is optimized to be use with Texas Instrument for the OMAP chip.

Sonny Erricson with Xperia is using Qualcomm MSM8255 chipset so they are planning to change few hardware of it to work with ICS OS. Sony Ericsson engineers are required to change some parts of the ICS source code and coupled with the source code of Sony Ericsson as well as trying to eliminate some problems that may arise.

Sony Erricson also must make sure that all features and functions of the hardware of the phone can work well as a camera, bluetooth, WiFi, GPS, sensors, drivers, and others. Once everything is tested then the next stage is to receive official certification, and for Sony Ericsson they explain that to products launched globally they need a certification at least up to 80 countries.

So for Sony Erricson Xperia user should be patience to enjoying new Android OS as we know that many amazing features are available in ICS like face recognizing and many more. 

The Blackberry Playbook with OS 7 is having an update to covered the security hole which is a patch to access the root. This broken security hole patch is made by a security hackers to easily rooting the playbook.

While RIM is releasing an OS update to cover it on their web, the Dingleberry, a security hackers, has been succeeded again to break into an updated playbook with new exploit. Just only a few hours later after PlayBook get updated OS which is claimed to cover the security hole is successfully broken again. The RIM trying hard to survive and the hackers tries to strike back.

Amazingly it happened just a few hours after RIM gave a new OS update for the Playbook. But blackberry users do not have to worry, this broken security hole is only happen with playbook. After all playbook users should be patience while RIM fix this problem. We say this is new lesson for vendors that hackers is spying their product to find the weakness of their product.

We can tell this will be a challenging for RIM and is a tough work for immediate repair and cover vulnerabilities that exist on the BlackBerry Playbook.

We can tell that as far we know Android Ice Cream Sandwich is a platform for high end mobile devices. But recently in China a tablet pc which is operated with Android ICS available at price $99. This cheap Android ICS tablet is manufactured by Ainol company in china, named Novo7, has 7" capasitive touchscreen display. Soon Novo7 will be available in worldwide market.

The Novo7 is powered with 1 Ghz MIPS single core from MIPS technology. MIPS Technologies is an American leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores that power some of the world's most popular products for the home entertainment, communications, networking and portable multimedia markets.

Some of the features of Novo7 are : 

• 1 Ghz MIPS single processor
• Front and Rear camera 
• 7" display with Capasitive Touchscreen
• 3D Graphics rendered capability
• 1080p HD Video
• HDMI port
• 6 hours of video playing or games
• Runs Google Maps, Gmail, Google Music, dan Google Talk.

This inovation is proudly brought to middle end user for a prove that Android is a smart choice for people from high to low class segmentation. This will make the competition of mobile devices vendors become very tight and grows rapidly. 

The Novo7 tablet will be available in China via Aionol Electronics now and soon available too in 8" and 9" version in world wide market in the next couple months via Leader International and OMG Electronics.

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.

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.

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. 

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.