Archive for April, 2010
Zero Facebook For Mobile Phones
Whether you have the latest smartphone, or the simple candy bar handset, social networking has become an essential element of any mobile phone. This has led to the world’s largest social network, facebook to release a much smaller, text-only version of its mobile site called Facebook Zero.
This low bandwidth networking site has been designed specially for those who regularly use Facebook on their mobile phones. Thus irrespective of the type of mobile and the connection, all mobile users will be able to see the new updates quickly. The new site will be launched anytime in the upcoming weeks.
According to the facebook people, more than 100 million people now log onto Facebook from their mobile phones. Thus the new site will help the operators to free up critical bandwidth on their networks.
Sony Ericsson W205 Review
The Sony Ericsson W205 is an affordable mobile phone, having all the basic features. However, its unique and stylish design together with its advanced music capabilities distinguishes it from the rest of mobile phones.
Measures 92 x 47 x 16.4 mm, the phone weighs around 96 g. The W205 comes with a TFT screen, measuring around 1.8 inches and having a resolution of 128 x 160 pixels.
Some of the basic features of the W205 include an alarm, stopwatch, organizer, timer and notepad. Not to forget, the integrated Walkman player that makes it different from other mobile phones. The player has great sound quality and also includes TrackID which allows you to get all information about a song when it is being played. The phone also features FM Radio with RDS.
Wi-Fi Hack
Wi-Fi systems are quite prone to getting hacked, if proper security measures are no taken and most of the time people are lazy with the security configurations, thus creating potential risk factors for their networks. It takes some amount of time and patience to configure Wi-Fi network securities, however, it does pay off in the end. Here are a few tips that if implemented, you could protect yourself against Wi-Fi hack.
Create Administrator Passwords: Wi-Fi networks use special equipments to be set up and web pages are made that enables users to login to their networks, but these webpages provide default login names, which is usually known by hackers, thus, it is very important that you change the administrator words and passwords as soon as you get access to the network.
WPA/WEP Encryption: Wi-Fi equipments are usually encrypted and the encryption helps the system to be protected and it cannot be read by humans.
Nokia N8, The New Symbian 12MP Camera Phone
Nokia has finally launched its very first 12MP camera Symbian mobile phone with. The set will be first one to come to the market ever since the Operating system went open source.
However, being a Symbian mobile isn’t Nokia N8’s sole specialty, what makes it more unique is the fact that the N8 is going to be the first mobile phone to feature a 12Mp camera.
This will also enable the N8 to capture HD video at 720p resolution. According to Nokia, the N8 is can also be used for watching web-based TV as it offers several services from CNN, Paramount and National Geographic, with added UK-focused TV content available from the Nokia Ovi Store.
Free Operating Systems
Operating systems are now no longer limited to just the Windows OS or the Mac OS, rather there are many operating systems that have come into view and what’s best about them is that they offer it all for free. With the advancement of the broadband internet, many companies came up with their open source operating systems, which could be downloaded from the internet and configured to be used as a regular operating systems. However, anyone using these free wares, must not expect it to perform as brilliantly as the Windows or the Mac OS. They do not have a wide range of technical assistance and all your configuration has to be done based on your research skills about the various operating systems. Given below is a list of operating systems that have got their way about with users and is open source, and you can easily download them.
Free BDS: A Unix descended operating system, the FreeBSD is the abbreviation of Berkely Software Distribution and works just like UNIX, which means it is entrusted as being a very reliable and effective OS.
Hackers Can Install Android On iPhone
There is a buzz going on over the internet that some hackers have successfully exploited a weakness present in the iPhone, by managing to install the Google open source Android operating system into the iPhone.
The hackers have successfully installed Android OS 1.6 on the original iPhone, forming a multi OS device that will be capable of running both the older versions of two of the biggest smartphone operating systems.
The whole process can be seen on a You Tube video, with a step by step process explaining the complete procedure. However, it does not function that well as the camera fails to work and some apps might face some problem running.
Samsung S9402 Ego Dual Sim Phone
The Samsung S9402 Ego is a new mobile phone having a dual sim design. Although the phone may be a little expensive, it will definitely be cheaper than buying two distinct mobile phones.
Having an OLED 2 inch screen and a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels, the screen of the Samsung S9402 Ego provides clear and bright images. Measuring 115 mm x 48 mm x 16 mm, the phone weighs only 140 g. The handset is black in color with the metal being silver.
Being a dual sim phone, the phone has the capability to support two Sims at one time. One sim can support Tri Band GSM 900/1800 and 1900 while the second one is for Dual Band GSM 900 and 1800. The phone also supports WAP 2.0 and xHTML browsing, EDGE and GPRS support. In order to transfer data, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP and USB can be used.
Top Android Apps
Android is now the ruling mobile operating system, as it is entirely open source and each day, new applications are being constantly added to its platform, making it the most flexible mobile OS ever. Though it has been around just for a year or so, it’s applications market has grown tremendously and each day developers are adding to the ever growing list of applications, that could make your cellular life a lot more fun and exciting than just mere phone calls and text messages. It is therefore hard to keep any standard list of which app is the best and which ones score the top ten charts, as each user states his own experience with the various apps. However, here is a brief look into some of Android’s top apps, compiled from hundreds of Android apps.
1). Internet browsers: One of the most innovative ideas is that of integrating browsers such as the Opera Mini and Dolphin browsers to the cell phones. This allows you to have full access to websites just like you do on any regular PC. It is not limited like built in traditional mobile browsers.
Dell To Launch Two New Mobile Phones
After becoming one of the largest computer manufacturer, Dell has now decided to enter the mobile phone market, with the announcement of two new mobile phones known as the Thunder and the Lightning.
Both the phones are expected to be top smartphones but no solid information has yet been disclosed about any of them.
It is being said that Dell Lightning will run on Microsoft’s Window 7 mobile operating system, whereas the Dell Thunder is going to be a Google Android phone.
The Thunder phone will come with a 4.1 inch OLED screen, with advanced support for social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Moreover, the new phone will incorporate a new interface which has been developed especially by Dell, thus extending the capabilities of the Google Android Operating system. However, it seems that the new interface has copied some features from the HTC’s Sense.
What is Android?
Mobile phones are now not limited to mere receiving and making calls, rather it has now become a whole gadget geared with all the tools of communication, music, internet browsing, multimedia applications and an entire virtual world within the palm of your hands. What makes this possible is the use of various mobile operating systems that helps a user to experience something more than traditional mobile services. One such operating system is the Android OS developed by Google and designed specially for mobiles, which aims to provide a rich experience for mobile phone users.
Android was built on the basis of developing applications that could make your mobile phone act like a mini PC, encouraging you to perform multimedia activities, without much of a hassle. Android is built on the open Linux Kernel and it integrates in itself a virtual machine that merges memory and hardware resources in a cell phone.
