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LG Optimus One (P500) Hands-on and Review [With Pics]
Our rating: (3.5/5) A decent budget phone from LG, though lacks a few features. It’s a good first Smart phone with Android 2.2 with auto focus camera. Approximately a year after releasing it’s first first Optimus phone (GT540), LG has learnt on how to build Android phones which won’t suck. LG Optimus One is a…
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Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) scheduled for March 2011
The next major Android release of Google’s Android Operating System is scheduled for March 2011 if rumors are to be believed. In a report Digitimes said the following. On the other hand, MSI is set to display its 10-inch Wintel-based tablet PC as well as engineering samples of its ARM-based Google Android model. MSI is…
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A Mobile Phone with Customizable Form Factor, and Keypad!
Samsung’s Zeal is a phone that aspires to join The Transformers some day. Unlike normal (read lesser) flip phones, it flips both ways – horizontal and vertical! It doesn’t just stop there, it features a smart keypad where every gel-like key is a tiny E-Ink display that changes the keys as required. For e.g. if…
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nVidia’s Tegra is the reference design for Android 3.0? [Rumors]
Seems like nVidia is getting back in the game. While Apple might be deciding to dump them for the next gen of Macbooks, nVidia might have found success in the smartphone and tablet market. The Tegra chipset, which they claim to be the world’s most advanced mobile processor, has found lots of friends in the…
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How much do Smartphones actually take to build?
Tableau has release this interesting infographic that shows the cost of hardware parts used on 3 common smartphones – iPhone 4, Blackberry Torch, Google Nexus One and Nokia N8. Pretty much everything costs around $190 to make. Ofcourse this doesn’t include the cost of research and software development. Interesting tid-bits: Nokia N8 has the highest…
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Install Gingerbread keyboard on Eclair/Froyo devices [Android]
An XDA developer has ported the new Gingerbread stock keyboard for Eclair and Froyo devices. We’ve heard only good things about it, so there is no harm in giving it a try. It definitely is much better than the previous Stock keyboard. I personally use and like the HTC_IME keyboard but I’ll give this a…
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Google Maps 5 for Android brings 3D, offline support
Google has released 5.0 version of their Maps application for Android devices. This is the most feature rich update to Google Maps since long. Maps in 3D Maps 5.0 now includes 3D viewing support for buildings and structures. From this version, instead of showing some images for different zoom levels, they actually draw Maps using…
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LG unveils World’s First Dual Core phone [Android]
While people are still struggling on slow single core processors, LG has announced the world’s first Dual Core phone. The appropriately named Optimus 2X is the most powerful phone we’ve seen yet and it runs on nVidia’s Tegra 2. It features an 8 MP camera that can also record 1080p videos. The other specs like…
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Nexus One to get Gingerbread, in the next few days!
The next major Android release called Gingerbread (v2.3) will apparently be released in the next few days. It was mentioned by @kron0x who, as per his LinkedIn profile, has a Leadership and Usability position in Android Open Handset Alliance. Which simply means that we trust him on this. It was apparent that Gingerbread is coming…
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Send & Receive SMS and MMS from your iPad 3G
SwirlyMMS, a popular jailbroken app for iPhone to send MMS is now available as SwirlyMessage for iPad 3G for $12 on the Cydia store. In addition to MMS, SwirlyMessage also lets you send SMS from your iPad 3G (if your 3G sim supports sending and receiving SMS and MMS).