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iPhone 4S- Keys and Buttons

2012-01-06T11:17:00.000-08:00

Many of you were taken aback when you heard Apple launches iPhone 4S instead of iPhone 5.

The changes that have been done in iPhone 4S with respect to its predecessor:

1) Camera is upgraded to 8MP.

2) CPU-A5 chip Dual Core as that in iPAD

3) GPU is increased 7 times.

4) Siri – the Voice Recognition Service.

The superficial design of iPhone 4S is same as that of iPhone 4 and the covers of iPhone 4 fits fairly well on 4S.

The top of the iPhone 4S contains headphone jack with Power button and a microphone for annulment of noise.

The bottom of phone houses Apple connector and dual speakers whose sound quality is quite descent.

The left side has silencer key on top and two rounded volume buttons. The top of the volume buttons act as camera shutter key too.

The right hand side contains micro SIM card slot which comes out using any included tool or with clips.

Cheers!!!

Ethan

SIRI - iPHONE 4S FEATURE

2012-01-05T10:34:00.000-08:00

iPhone 4S Siri

Have you ever thought of having a conversation with your phone in times of difficulties as there is no one else with you? Only your phone knows what to do. So here iPhone 4S has brought Siri for you. You can place reminders, text messages, make phone calls, to schedule meetings, ask paths and many more with your voice. The answer for everything is Siri. You have any doubt, ask Siri because Siri comprehends what you say, it knows what you ask and sometimes it even talks back. It will be a good experience using Siri.

Ask Siri

You tell Siri as “Remind me to call Honey”, “Tell my Mom I’ll not drink milk”, “Any ATM nearest to this point”. It will answer your questions. You will enjoy your conversation with your Phone.

Reminders

Siri is so clever that it if you ask it “Is there any ATM Machine near this point? So Siri will answer “I found a number of ATMs near you.” If you ask “Is there Axis Bank ATM?” Siri knows that you will ask for particular ATM as you have asked for ATMs. Since it is proactive it will ask you until you get a proper answer.

Text Messages

Siri will also help you to send messages, find directions, setting a reminder.

For eg. To text message say “Text Amit Meet me at Park Street”

To set a reminder say “Remind me to wake up at 6 o’ clock morning”

Weather Reports

This is an exquisite feature which Apple iPhone 4S has featured. You all should try it once. I agree that you won’t be getting everything in it but its good to start with speaking phone generation.

Cheers!!!

Ethan

Batman: Arkham City Review

2011-12-28T09:57:00.000-08:00

After ‘Batman: Arkham Asylum’ now comes ‘Batman: Arkham City’. Arkham Asylum was such an awesome game and its successor is also the same. The game is built on Unreal 3 engine.

When you move in the Arkham City first time, the amazing city will hit as you will try to explore by staring upon the skyline ripe. The city is full of information that it will not take much time to engulf.

The area which they have worked out in this game is the Hero itself Batman’s animations: the way he glide the way he jumps over the building and then from one building to another is fluid. The free flow combat system is awesome that comes with newer moves that looks smooth and natural. Every character in the game from Batman to Joker, all is consummately designed.

The scenery is altered as compared to previous game that is appreciating but the navigation system is not properly worked out. You will take time for finding an objective, for e.g. an entry gate. Every time you go on encircling yourself in the display for finding the entities there that will take time. However you will get familiar to it once you start playing. Another feature which many of you won’t like is the unlock system. The unlock system they have provided is used redundantly as compare to earlier game where you revisited the upcoming areas with improved skills as and when you started.

However no matter what feature you like and what not. This game is a must buy game. Rocksteady has worked hard to produce such an awesome game that a gamer will enjoy playing.

Batman: Arkham City
Price: Rs 2,599 for Xbox 360, PS3 and Rs 999 for PC
Publisher: Warner Bros
Developer: Rocksteady Studios

Cheers!!!

Ethan

How to open a Firefox within a Firefox browser

2011-12-28T00:02:00.000-08:00

Today I will tell you how to open Firefox browser within a firefox. Though this is trick is since the beginning but I think many of you don't know this trick.This will help in following one tab to many tabs options.

Type in URL chrome://browser/content/browser.xul
and see the magic.

Cheers!!!
Ethan

Nokia Belle most likely to be released in February

2011-12-23T08:53:00.000-08:00

Nokia has announced that Nokia Symbian OS is going to be upgraded to new version called Nokia Belle and its updates will also be available on older Nokia phones such as C7, C6-01, X7, E7, Oro and E6.

Here are some of the features of Nokia Belle OS.

1) It will sport redesigned widgets such as favorite contacts, calendar, clock, email, music players. It can be rearranged as your order need. ‘Toggle’ widget will be there for changing settings and switching on Bluetooth.

2) It will let users swap between live images very quickly showing better multitasking.

3) Unlike Symbian, Belle will have six Home Screens. It will be an expansion from 3 to 6.

4) As it will be having 6 Home Screens so there will be a pull down menu for notifications like missed calls, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and settings from any Home Screens similar to Android and IOS 5.

5) The status bar will have more classy and flat look. There will be changes in the lockscreen too.

6) Belle will contain apps from Microsoft like EAS( Exchange Active Sync ), OneNote, PowerPoint Broadcaster, Lync and Sharepoint.

7) As NFC (Near Field Communications) has been integrated with Belle, sharing pictures, connecting with accessories and check- in will be much more easier and that too with a single tap.

Cheers !!!

Ethan

Nokia Lumia 710: Specifications and Reviews

2011-12-22T07:12:00.000-08:00

DIMENSIONS

LENGTH	119 mm
WIDTH	62.4 mm
THICKNESS	12.5 mm
WEIGHT	125.5 gm

MEMORY

INTERNAL MEMORY	512 MB
MEMORY CARD TYPE	Micro SD
MEMORY EXTENDED UP TO	8GB
Card Slot	No

CONNECTIVITY

BLUETOOTH	Yes,v2.1 with A2DP, EDR
WI-FI	Yes, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
GPRS	Yes,Class 33
EDGE	Yes,Class 33
USB Connector	Yes,microUSB v2.0
2G	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G	HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100
Speed	HSDPA 14.4 Mbps, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps
GPS	Yes,A-GPS support also

VOICE AND CAMERA

Speaker	Yes
3.5 mm Jack	Yes
Mega pixel	5 Mp, 2592х1944 pixels
Autofocus	Yes
Secondary Camera	No
Flash	LED

MULTIMEDIA

FM Radio	Yes
Music Player	MP3/WAV/eAAC+/WMA player
Video Player	720p@30fps, MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV player
Ringtones	MP3, WAV

DISPLAY

Touch Screen	Yes
Type	TFT Capacitive
Resolution	480 x 800 Pixels ,3.7 inches
Multitouch	Yes
Colors	Black, White (front)/ black, white, cyan, fuchsia, yellow (back)
Protection	Corning Gorilla Glass - Nokia ClearBlack display

CALL MANAGEMENT

Contacts Management Tool	Yes
Speed Dialing	Yes
Logs	Yes
Automatic Redial	Yes

POWER

Battery	Li-Ion
Talk Time	6 hrs 50 min
Capacity	1300 mAh

MESSAGING

SMS	Yes
MMS	Yes
Email	Yes
EMS	Yes
IM	Yes

FEATURES

OS	Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5 Mango
Chipset	Qualcomm MSM8255 Snapdragon
CPU	1.4 GHz Scorpion
GPU	Adreno 205
Sensors	Accelerometer, proximity, compass
Browser	WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML5, RSS feeds
Radio	Stereo FM radio with RDS
Java	No
	- MicroSIM card support only - SNS integration - Active Noise Cancellation With Mic - Document viewer/editor - Video/photo editor - Voice memo/command/dial - Predictive text input

Reviews:

The User experience is very nice as there is no stuttering as in Android. The fluidity has surpassed the iPhone. This is not the phone for HD Gamers. It's having a classy Student look and business class persons can use it. Its for them only. Its Battery is replaceable. Its Bluetooth Capability is limited as we can’t share file on it and you will need Zune for PC sync. It has no Front Camera so another limited feature of Video Calling. No Card Slot for memory extension.
Its price in India is Rs.18,999.

Well Nokia’s new Smartphone is having a nice classy look but nowadays people want features. In the upcoming days they have to come up with some exquisite features. However, Nokia Lover will love this phone.Nokia Lover can go for it.

Cheers!!!

Ethan

Galaxy Giant Samsung to update its Galaxys to Ice Cream Sandwich(Android 4.0)

2011-12-21T10:15:00.000-08:00

Samsung is looking forward to upgrade its Galaxy SII smartphones and Galaxy Tab to Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) might be starting second quarter of 2012. The up gradation work on both the devices will start in the first quarter of 2012.

The Smartphones which are planned to be upgraded to Ice Cream Sandwich are Galaxy S II, Galaxy SII LTE, Galaxy NOTE and Galaxy R and tablets include Galaxy Tab 10.1, Galaxy Tab 8.9, Galaxy Tab 7.7 and Galaxy Tab 7.0 plus.

Ice Cream Sandwich(Android 4.0) sports a complete redesigned UI( user interface) with enhanced multitasking , notifications, Wi-Fi hotspot, NFC support with complete web browsing experience which make you feel better than other versions. Android 4.0 also sports “People App” that let you browse pictures, messages and social network updates from acquaintances. Another feature is “Face Unlock” that uses face recognition for unlocking the SPs and Tabs.

Cheers!!!

Ethan

Aakash Tab at Rs1138 for Mumbai Students.

2011-12-21T09:25:00.000-08:00

Mumbai College going students will be able to purchase the Aakash tab at a price of Rs 1,138 only but the market price of Aakash tab is Rs 2,500. This is a subsidized scheme for student.

Circulars have been issued to all affiliated colleges and departments for their requirements and the student might get an upgraded version which is going to be launched in February 2012. To get Aakash Tab at this rate a student should place an order with their colleges or departments. With this device student will be able to access online contents mentioned under HRD ministry for Grad and PG courses for free.

For more information go to Aakash Store

Cheers!!!
Ethan

How to get rid of unwanted links,ads,banners while opening a webpage? - Evernote Clearly

2011-12-20T09:41:00.000-08:00

Whenever you go to any websites, lots of ads, links and banners, frustrating backgrounds with links comes up which distracts you and you won’t be able to read the contents properly.

Download and install Google Chrome from www.google.com/chrome and then move to Chrome Web Store. Search for Evernote Clearly- free and easily downloadable. It gets installed as a toolbar button and works in background. When you open a page it will block all the unwanted links, ads banners and the webpage is left with only Genuine Web contents and its images.

It works better on an inside page of a website rather than home page. Another advantage of Clearly is when an article is split into multiple pages, it will combine and place all those contents on one page.

This is one of the best ways to read articles on Websites.

Cheers!!!
Ethan

Steps to Import Emails from other accounts to Gmail Accounts

2011-12-20T09:15:00.000-08:00

1) Sign in to your Gmail account and go to 'Mail Settings'.

2) Select the 'Accounts and Import' tab

3) Click on 'Import mail and Contacts'.

4) A new Window will come up that’s asks you for an email account.

5) Enter the email address from where you want to import data

6) Click on next.

7) A page opens up to enter the password.

8) Gmail will show you options to import mails, contacts and add a specific label to all imported mails from the transferred account.

9) Click on import to start the process.

It can take more than a day to transfer the mails from the one account to other. It depends on the total amount of mails. So if you need to check the status of mail is ‘imported’ or ‘importing’ go to Setting-> Accounts -> ‘Import mail and Contacts’ -> Check along each mails: ‘Imported’ / ‘Importing’.

Cheers!!!
Ethan

Airtel offers iPhone 4S for Rs 3000

2011-12-19T11:04:00.000-08:00

Airtel is offering iPhone 4S for Rs. 3000. The condition is that you have to be with them for 24 months and having minimum bill of Rs. 1000.

How to order:

1) Go to http://www.airtel.in/iphone-files/special-offers.html

2) Select iPhone 4S

3) Select one out of 16GB, 32 GB and 64 GB. Select Region, City and Postpaid/Prepaid. Click on Next

4) Check your savings in 24 months, i.e. how much you can save on purchasing iPhone 4S in market and with Airtel. If you want to check additional charges. Click on Additional Charges.

5) Click on back button of your browser and then click on “I am interested in this offer”. A window will come in which you have to register your Name, Email id, Mobile no. Airtel will contact you.

MT S is also offering the same on the HTC Pulse.

How to register for HTC Pulse via MTS:

1) Go to http://www.mtsindia.in/smartphone/products.htm

2) Click on “Pre-booking your phone”. Register there and MTS will contact you.

There are various Smartphone that you can get at good discount, for e.g. Huawei’s ID 280 that you can get via Idea at half of its price.

The only condition is you have to stay with these networks for a minimum amount of month and pay a minimum amount of bill.

These types of schemes are referred to as reverse subsidy options where you can get the costliest Smartphone at 30%, 50% discount or some of them are almost free.

Some of the schemes are as Airtel is charging, apart from Rs 3000(only in the beginning) , Rs 1000 per month in which they are offering 1500 local minutes, 600 sms (local + national), 3072 MB Data(3G) free which costs Rs 2000. But we have to pay Rs 1000.

MTS is offering minimum bill of 1500 per month for 1 year to buy HTC Pulse who’s market cost is around 18K.

If you really want to purchase iPhone 4S, you can go with the schemes of Airtel and HTC Pulse of MTS.

Cheers!!!

Ethan

eBook Reader Kindle Vs Tablets

2011-12-16T11:21:00.000-08:00

eBook Reader Kindle

Tablet

1) Kindle has a display ink, eInk, uses less power so that the battery can be used for a week on single charge.

2) You won’t get eyestrain while reading books.

3) While reading magazines or having color images in PDFs, it’s difficult to read as eInk display is grayscale.

4) External Lighting is necessary. It can’t be read like a book is read in dark.

1) Tablets can be used in recording images surfing net, playing music, watching videos, video chats.

2) Magazines and PDFs with embedded images can be read comfortably.

3) It is expensive

Share Files Having Size Greater Than 25MB Easily and Securely

2011-12-16T10:05:00.000-08:00

I have accounts on Gmail and Yahoo but I am unable to send files larger than 25MB. Yahoo has an app which allows me to send files greater than 25MB. But the question arises whether it is trustworthy.

Here are some of the trustworthy sites with steps where you can share the files of heavy sizes

1) Go to www.supershare.net

2) Upload your file.

3) A download link will be shared with you.

4) Copy the link and paste it over email.

5) Send the mail.

6) Download the file through this link

7) Option will arise to manually delete the file.

Various other available sites are:

1) www.dropsend.com (DropSend)

2) http://explore.live.com/skydrive (Windows Live SkyDrive)

3) www.box.com

4) www.gigasize.com (Gigasize)

5) www.boxify.com (Boxify)

These are the sites which you can use for uploading file whose size is greater than 25MB and share it within a group of people by providing them the link.

Working is so easy with larger files if we have such sites in knowledge. J

Nokia launches Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 in India

2011-12-16T00:26:00.000-08:00

Nokia has launched its first Windows Based Smartphone , the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 in India today, as a price of Rs.29,999 and Rs.18,999 respectively.The phone is available in the metropolitan cities now and will be heading towards other big cities within few days.

New Methods Nokia has applied for promoting Lumia in 6 metro cities:

Delhi: Vehicles passing through Delhi-Noida-Delhi road are exempted from paying toll tax from 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM. Blue Santas are going to give their mall customers some chocolates and coupons. Artificial snow zone is recreated at certain PVR outlets; there will be a music concert and lucky draw winners will receive their Nokia Lumia 800 at F Bar.

Bangalore, Chennai & Hyderabad: The Winners of lucky draw are being picked up in luxury cars from where they will get luxurious 30 minute helicopter ride. Some winners will get a chance to ride on BMW car. Two other lucky winners in each city are going to get a individual personal dance class and luxurious dinner. Others enjoy a parasailing session, catamaran ride, and luxurious dinner with their families.

Mumbai: There will be a dance performance at the famous Blue Frog club. Free food and drink offers at PVR cinemas.

Kolkata: Salt Lake is going to be a ‘winter wonderland’ created with artificial snow.

5000 of Nokia's best retail outlets across the country will be get an upcoming Nokia Windows Phone “Amazing Everyday” branding.

Cheers!!!

Ethan

Nokia going to launch Window platformed LUMIA in India today.

2011-12-15T23:05:00.000-08:00

Indian past phone market giant Nokia is going to launch Windows based Smartphone Lumia on Friday 16^th December,2011 in India.

Nokia expects it’s going to change there destiny - constantly threatened by Google Android phones. Nokia LUMIA is going to be the first smartphone launched against top google android phones and apple iPhone.

If Nokia hat to sustain in market it must go a hit. Nokia will do every possible thing for making this Smartphone successful.

However the competitor feels that it wouldn’t stand infront of their top phones.This is the first product going to be lauched with Nokia-Microsoft partnership. Nokia is having high stake.

Cheers!!!

Ethan

Facebook's Timeline is like a Scrapbook

2011-12-15T10:34:00.000-08:00

Whenever I posted any videos or shared some pics that remained there at the top for few hours but after sometimes it got buried under the recent updates. I felt so sad and abashed. But now thanks to Facebook which has introduced new profile design, Timeline, in which each of ours entire history of pics, videos and whatever we had shared on FB would be accessible by single click.
The old FB profile page displays item in terms of most recent updates or top most updates. Now Timeline will assemble pics, videos, links and updates for each month and then roll it up for years, just like a scrapbook of what you shared categorically.
Timeline is introduce in late September during FB’s Annual Developer Conference where Mark Zuckerberg described it would be more systematic portrait of a FB’s user than just going through updates and profiles.
This FB profile in Timeline is just like year by year your scrapbook all placed at one place. So what you are pondering now, go and activate Timeline.
For activating Timeline just go through facebook.com/about/timeline or you can wait for FB to alert you on your Profile for switching to Timeline.

Cheers!!!
Ethan

Akash Tab on sale for Rs 2500 Online

2011-12-14T23:44:00.000-08:00

Datawind, the company that made world’s cheapest tab, has put up 30,000 Akash tabs on sale online for just Rs 2500 per tab. The delivery period is 7 days.

Aakash's new version ,Ubislate 7, having a faster processor, is predicted to be launched in the end of January.

Ubislate 7, said to have 700 Mhz processor as compared to the 366 MHz processor in Aakash Tab. It will be put up for a price of Rs 3000 for sale online.

If you love tab and your budget is only 3000. Go for it. Lets see how a Rs2500 Tab works :)

How to Purchase: Goto Akash Tab Fill the Form you will be contacted when there is a sale.

Cheers!!!

Ethan

Creating and Mounting a VHD on Windows 7

2011-12-14T11:00:00.000-08:00

Now we can create a system image with the help of Windows 7 backup tool that also allows VHD format.
For those who don’t know what a VHD is. Let me tell you about VHD. Virtual Hard Disk, what we call as VHD, is a disk image file format that stores the complete content of hard drive irrespective of how many OS installed and that too strictly isolated from each other. This image is also called as virtual machine that can be stored anywhere.
Disk Management Applet takes care of mounting the VHD in Windows 7.

Steps to Mounting the VHD:

1) Start->My Computer-> Right Click->Manage

2) Computer Management Window opens up. Click on Action Menu.

3) There are various option, “Attach VHD” and “Create VHD”

The above step can be shortened by: Start-> Run. Type diskmgmt.msc

You can attach VHD image to it that will be mounted to a drive after sometime or you can create a VHD image of your own.

Creating a VHD on Windows 7

1) Start->My Computer-> Right Click->Manage

2) Computer Management Window opens up. Click on Action Menu.

3) Click on Create VHD

4) Create and Attach Virtual Hard Disk Window will come up

5) Choose the location where you want to create

6) Specify the Virtual Hard Disk Size in MB GB or TB as in the dropdown menu of Size.

7) Click on VHD Format: Dynamic Expanding or Fixed Size

8) Click on OK

9) Microsoft VHD HBA driver is loaded(if you are creating it for the first time)

10) In the Computer Management window right click on the new unallocated VHD Disk

11) Click on “Initialize Disk”

12) Initialize Disk Window will open. Check the Disk#

13) Chose the Partition Style MBR(Master Boot Record)

14) Click on OK.

15) Right Click on the disk again and click “New Simple Volume”

16) In “New Simple Volume” Wizard you have to select the volume size, drive letter, format, and disk block size.

17) Click Finish

18) A new disk volume will come up similar to other disk volumes.

19) This is a new VHD file which looks like a disk.

20) Right Click on it you will see the Detach VHD option.

Attaching the VHD is quite easier. You just have to specify the path.

I hope this article is helpful for mounting a VHD on Windows 7.

Cheers!!!

Ethan

Badoo surpassed 130 million users

2011-12-13T22:55:00.000-08:00

Badoo, a social networking site, has surpassed 130 million users becoming world’s 4^th largest social networking sites. Badoo is compared to Facebook but this social networking site is for sex as in a poll 85K British members told that 30% of users had ‘met someone for sex’ via Badoo.

You can log in it via FB account or normally sign up. During signing up it asks for Intersted in ‘Men’ or ‘Women’.

More than 1.25 lacs people join it daily and 51 million people take the service every month.
Badoo is now top 65 most visited website in the world.

It is very popular in countries like Indonesia, Mexico.

Either user finds someone add them in to their profile chat with them and chose to meet or they might pay to Badoo for letting them introduced to people at monthly rate.
From my perspective, you can use it whichever way you want. The probability is very high for horny users.

I came across this news so I thought of letting you all know that there is also a Social Networking site Badoo exists.

I have registered it today for letting you know how it looks when you sign up. Some of the snapshots are below.

This is how your profile looks when you sign up and add picture like Facebook

Normal or Paid

Cheers!!!

Ethan

Burning ISO image to CDs/DVDs on Windows 7

2011-12-13T11:09:00.000-08:00

Computer professionals usually need to burn ISO image to CD or DVD. In Windows 7 we can directly burn the ISO images to DVDs or CDs without the help of third party.

1) Right click on ISO image

2) Choose “Burn Disc Image

3) Windows Disc image Burner(WDIB) is launched

4) Choose the option from Disc Burner from dropdown. CD/DVD

5) Check “Verify Disc after burning”. This is optional. If you check it will verify whether the Device is burnt correctly or not that will take extra time.

6) Click on Burn

If you burn DVD RW and there is data inside it the WDIB will prompt to overwrite it. This is a useful feature to make you sure that no data could be accidently overwritten.

Cheers!!!
Ethan

Apple to buy Israel's Anobit firm

2011-12-13T10:42:00.000-08:00

Apple Inc is going to buy Israel's Anobit, flash storage making technology at the cost of around $500 million. The Calcalist financial daily wrote that Apple is in negotiation with Anobit for buying cost between $400million and $500 million.
Anobit has developed a chip that increases the flash performance with the help of signal processing. This drives is already in use in Apple Devices such as MacBook Air, iPad and iPhones.
If this deal happens, it will be the largest acquisition in Apple’s history and the virgin deal in Israel and that too in hardware as usually apple buys software companies.
Apple is showing their interst in the new chip technology to double the memory capacity in their products such as iPads and MacBooks.

Cheers!!!
Ethan

iPAD Rumours: New iPAD is expected to launch in 2nd quarter of 2012

2011-12-12T22:33:00.000-08:00

When everyone was worried what would happen to Apple after Steve Jobs. But life goes on and so the companies. Here we got some news of new iPAD in the midst of all the new gadgets launching day by day.
The next generation iPads are going to be in the market in the next 4 months as the team which make iPad has already started giving the parts and components for the new one to OEM contractors .

The production of OEM for iPad2 was high near about 14-15 million units in 4^th quarter of 2011 but sharp decline to 4-5 million is expected in the first quarter of 2012 that makes the way for the new launch.

Foxconn Electronics(FE) will start their production for new launch in Jan.

The estimated production of this new launch is expected to touch 9.5-9.8 million units.

Sales of iPad in expect to touch 40 million units in 2011 within 3 quarters it has already touched 25 million-25.06 milion to be exact.

Cheers!!!
Ethan

Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830: Contacts,Messaging,Connectivity

2011-12-11T10:03:00.001-08:00

Contacts:

Making a phone call from Ace is quite easy as Samsung has tried to remain it simpler.We can add contacts easily to FB, Twitter and the Google accounts, because of TouchWiz 3.0 which is really comfortable for Social fad guys. Scrolling through the contacts is a quite slower due to 800MHz processor which can be frustrating sometimes. History tab is quite comfortable as it shows logs as well as messages. The volume can go higher but the quality of sound decreases as the loudness increases. Sometimes it pinches your ears.

Contact Tabs

Keypad Shot

Messaging:

The Samsung Galaxy Ace in respect to messaging is cozy to use as there are not much messaging tools available. Swype is the tool of the Samsung which is used for texting/typing. The users who are comfortable to Portrait Window Texting can use the advantage of portrait window. But probability of making mistakes is higher in portrait window texting than landscape texting.

Portrait Mode

You can also use messaging in landscape mode.

Landscape Mode

Connectivity:
It is easy to use webmail and email as they are quick to exchange new messages.
It comes up with a Social Hub tool that sync all the social media messages as well as SMS at one place but this can only happen when the Web Browser is opened. The web browser is quite abashing as you read heavy web pages you have to adjust page and screen by zooming a bit so that you can have a vivid look. This is quite annoying. Flash is not supported but with respect to price it can be compromised. You can’t have everything in a midrange price.

The GPS signal, 3G and Wi-Fi is strong enough that can be like an avatar whenever needed.
There are lots of applications present in the Android market from where you can select and download.
It also has an FM which works with earplugs/headphones only.

Samsung has also included “AllShare” function in this phone. This function allows you to browse and receive files from an in-range computer and vice versa. You can also stream a big TV with help of this function.

All Share Tool

I hope you have enjoyed reading. Keep Reading!!!!

Cheers!!!

Ethan

The Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830 : User Interface

2011-12-10T06:57:00.001-08:00

The Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830 is built on the Froyo, Android 2.2, OS with the TouchWiz 3.0, found in other Galaxy S and Wave 2.

There are four main applications

1) Calling

2) Contacts

3) Messages

4) Menu

These are found at the bottom of the screen

These are separated from other application found at the top of these applications.

It has a helpful task manager widget which tells you what is still running in the background. This helps in making our battery life better by telling us the same.

Wi-Fi , Bluetooth(B/T), GPS, Silent Widgetsare the battery life protecting widget which we can switch off/on when required.

It has five Home screens, but there is a time lag when we swipe among them. This is because of 800 MHz processor. Processor Frequency matters Boss.

Also disappointments for gamers as there are four games pre-installed that blocks the space on the menu screen.

In a nutshell, the UI is quite compact and simple to use.

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Cheers!!!
Ethan

Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830: DESIGN

2011-12-09T10:59:00.001-08:00

The Samsung Galaxy Ace size is 112.4 x 59.9, perfect for our palm. Its thinness is 11.5 mm. Its weight is only 113g. Its textured black cover is icing on the cake over its look. Although it’s capacitive touch screen sizing 3.5 inch is good at response, the light behind the screen last only for 6 seconds which is very agitating for the user if he doesn’t know the menus on the screen.

Its front end is quite similar to Galaxy S. The only difference is that it got the silver piping included. On the upper part of the cell lie a 3.5mm jack and micro-USB charging socket plus a moving cover which provides extra protection from dust.

There are three physical buttons on the cell, power button on right side, volume rocker on the left hand side and the middle Home button on the front.

There is a micro HD slot on the right hand side of the cell. It has 158 MB RAM, 2GB internal memory which can be expanded up to 32 GB via microSD card.

There are yet more review to come for Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830.
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