The first T-Mobile Android smartphone G1 has blasted the market while ago. Now T-Mobile will launch even more powerful and snappy device that is the Samsung Vibrant. Like the other Carrier launch such as the Sprint Epic 4G, AT&T Captivate and Verizon Fascinate, the Vibrant is originally a Samsung Galaxy S device.
With few minor difference, basically the Vibrant caries out Samsung Galaxy S main feature like great screen, processors, Android OS and user interface.
Dealing with screen the Vibrant sports the same 4” super AMOLED display. This screen stuck in a very sleek and slim yet light body. Though it is a bit plasticky but the in-hand feels really sturdy.
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AT&T launch great Android smartphone at last, it is the Samsung Captivate. However it is stlll indoubt wheteher this phone will stand up against the iPhone 4. This device features great 1GHz Hummingbird processor, 4” super AMOLED touchscreen and TouchWiz 3.0 UI.
The Samsung Captivate originally Samsung Galaxy S has also released on few other carrier arround the world with different names like T-Mobile Vibrant, Samsung Fascinate and Sprint Epic 4G.
This device will slip between the other Android phones and later it will make space with all the great feature this phone has to offer including 512MB of RAM, and 16GB of internal memory which 1.7 gigabytes are available to store applications.
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Preview version of the latest Windows Mobile OS, the Windows Phone 7 is released. Installed on Samsung Taylor phone, some developers impressed but some other are not. Now based on the previewer let’s compare WP 7 with iOS 4 shall we?
- User Interface, WP 7 uses new UI called Metro UI, some previewer from Engadget and ZdNet consider it to be nice flowing, snappy UI with the multi-touch ability provided as well. Not ground breakings feature though, since iPhone already had it for quite some time.
- Homescreen, WP 7 has new widgety things called tiles that contain many shortcut and widget that you can customize as you please, on other side iOS 4 has the homescreens icons for all apps and also customizable.
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If you are running iOS 4 on your iPhone 3G and it was not as snappy as you expected to be, stop using it. iOS 4 is designated for iPhone 4 that has better processor and RAM, but if you persistently want this OS on your iPhone 3G/3GS these steps could be a way around it.
- Hard reset your iPhone 3G
By doing hard reset it clear out the busyness ever engaged off your phone, in this case do it twice. These are the steps to do it:
1.press and hold home button and sleep/wake button until the phone shuts off and restart.
2.Let go the buttons when the Apple silver logo appears. Now your phone had been hard reset.
- Disable the backgrounds
Backgrounds and shadow processing that give the icon looks better, sadly takes some amount of memory usage. It makes the iPhone rather slow. Disable it by following these steps:
1) SSH in as root and install ericas utilities
2) Go to System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app
3) Convert the plist we need from binary to xml so you can edit it in a text editor:
plutil -convert xml1 N82AP.plist
4) Edit N82AP.plist file, and change this line:
<key>homescreen-wallpaper</key>
<true/>
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The upcoming HTC Vision news was out few weeks ago. Now the rumors rise again with the added information that the HTC Vision will be launch in T-Mobile with different name. We already know that this QWERTY phone will have 480 x 800 pixel resolution, now that it’s getting closer, new information gathered that this phone will have 3.7” screen.
More, this device will run on Android 2.1 Eclair and sports a 1GHz processor. We are not sure which T-Mobile will launch this device but according the previous news it will storm the UK market by October probably with the name G1 Blaze.
Following the previous T-Mobile G1, G1 Blaze is a wakeup call for HTC to build another Android QWERTY phone. Anyway, yet this is still only a rumor gathered from few source, the HTC has not yet confirm it or giving word about it.
Following the rumor that we wrote about the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Q last month, now we got more leaked about the specification of this BlackBerry challenger phone. This new addition phone to the Galaxy family brought specification as follow:
* 3-inch with 720×480 pixel resolution Super AMOLED screen
* 1 GHz Hummingbird processor
* 8MP camera with LED flash
* 1.3 mp front-facing camera
* QWERTY keyboard
* Android 2.2
* 16GB internal memory (Micro SD expandable to 32GB)
Most likely the Galaxy Q is designated to battle in the market with BlackBerry QWERTY, bringing somewhat more powerful and better specification it will certainly makes BlackBerry fans turn their gaze to this phone.
We know that Android phones have many top features. And it requires more power. In result, the Android contributes to a phone short battery life. Some users are good to go with this issue as they need to recharge their device every time, but some people are frustrated by it.
We found some ways to disable some of Android features to save battery life. Some might argue that this method makes Android crippled but some might also find this helpful.
Here they are 14 tips to save your Android device’s battery (We are using HTC Desire as sample)
1.Disable Always-On Mobile Data
This always-on option is default, but you can do disable it from Settings > Wireless & networks > Mobile networks > Enable-disable always-on mobile data as it will decrease the battery use.
2.Turn off Wireless Network Positioning
You can change this option from Settings > Location > Use wireless networks. Using GPS surely will drain your battery; use it only when you need it badly instead you use Assisted GPS.
3.Always Keep Bluetooth off When Not in Use
You can disable it from Settings > Wireless & networks > Bluetooth. Bluetooth is obviously draining your battery if you keep it on all the time.
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