It’s already been 9months since we got a taste of Gingerbread topped with an icing of dual-powered CPU. LG Optimus 2X is the first Android device to be baked such recipe, followed by the Motorola Atrix. Early adopters are nothing to compare if you see what Samsung and HTC are offering today. There are roughly 3 months left before 2012, and what we gonna see is Ice Cream Sandwich with probably a quad-core processor and a higher resolution of 1280×720. This year is all about Gingerbread with dual core processor, next year you gonna see Ice Cream Sandwich with quad core processing engine, interesting eh? Anyway, you won’t be seeing these new generation of Android superphones with Ice Cream Sandwich in your stores pretty soon, here are some of the best Android phones you can grab right now. Continue Reading »

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So you have finally made your choice in choosing between HTC Sensation and  Samsung Galaxy S II? Found yourself having to recharge your new Android device every 8hours? You’re not alone. Some users reported to have a poor battery performance for their Android phones. Older device ranging from HTC Desire, Motorola Droid, Samsung Galaxy S, Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 to the latest dual-core Android phones; LG Optimus 2x, Motorla Atrix, HTC Sensation, and Samsung Galaxy S II, are not sparred with complains of poor battery life. However, Android itself is not a power hogger, or call it battery juice sucker if you like. Many users were able to get their Android device up and running in a single charge up to 3 days(gosh I missed the good old Nokia 3310-era).There are many factors in leading to poor battery life. The very main reasons are the display and unnecessarily turned on features, which some users don’t have a clue in turning it off. If you are happened to be one of the Android users not happy of the current battery performance, or you simply just want to improve the extra mileage of your Android device’s battery performance, here are some tips in improving the battery life of your Android phone. Continue Reading »

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You are annoyed by the new Facebook chat. You can’t find which of your friends online and you can’t even hide away that annoying Facebook chat bar. If you have Googled around of how to get back the old Facebook chat you’ll be dissapointed by the profound technical terms in the step by step guide; install, script, add-on (yeah, i’m trying to be as Layman-friendly as possible). Anyway, you don’t even have to install or tweak any stuff at all. There is a simple workaround to get back the old Facebook chat. Here how it is being done. Continue Reading »

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When it comes to buying a new smartphone for yourself, you might be in a tough situation of choosing in between almost-similar-specs phone. That’s especially true when it comes to Android platform, the most popular smartphone OS thus far. Recently, HTC and Samsung releases their flagship product; HTC Sensation and Samsung Galaxy S II respectively. Both are the new top of the line Android smartphones released by the no.1 and no.2 smartphone manufacturers of yesteryear. Both sporting new dual-core chip with a chance of putting the 6months old nvidia Tegra 2 to shame. Both equally powerful and both sporting some specifications which missed from one to the other. This puts potentially new buyers in a dilemma in choosing between Sensation and Galaxy S II. If you’re facing the exact situation of what I described here, read on. Continue Reading »

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I’ve preview the latest Asus Eee pad Transformer here. The specifications of Asus Transformer is pretty standard, but what distinguish itself from the rest of the Honeycomb tablets is the pricing and the innovative keyboard dock. The keyboard dock itself is already a winner as the physical keyboard provides the way to do input to your device far superior than any onscreen keyboard. On top of that, the competitive pricing at $548 (with the keyboard dock) give Apple iPad2 a run for its money. Well, that doesn’t mean Asus Transformer is the winner tablet now, it all boils down of what you really need.

The specifications of Asus Eee Pad Transformer can be viewed here. So, the question is what are the pros/advantages that this Asus Eee Pad Transformer has over Apple iPad2? Before that, it is best to list out the pros and cons between these two tablets, I’ll start with Apple iPad2.

Apple iPad2 is the 2nd generation tablet from Apple. It was first launched in the United States on 11th of March 2011. Here are the summarized pros and cons for iPad2. Continue Reading »

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One of the best Android phone of 2010 comes from Samsung. The Galaxy S series, where some countries getting slightly different version, is one of the best selling Android phone last year. Physically, the design did reminiscence to the iPhone, but who cares? Much powerful and tweakable alternative to iPhone. But it was plague by slow updates from Samsung and the recent Android 2.3 Gingerbread update was being pulled off by Google.

Anyway, Cyanogenmod, the techno-friendly (or call it hacker mod) mod from www.cyanogenmod.com is finally available in at least 3 of the Galaxy S series; Samsung Captivate, Samsung Galaxy S and Samsung Vibrant. If you’ve already rooted your Galaxy S, you can head straight away to download the ROM, reboot in recovery/clockworkmod and flash it. Of couse, please backup all your apps and data with Titanium Backup first. These are the links to download the latest Cyanogenmod for your Android phone Samsung Galaxy S. Continue Reading »

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Asus has released its own Android device in the guise of a tablet. The Asus Eee pad is a tablet running with Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system. Though it wasn’t the first Android Honeycomb tablet, but it was the first that garnered much positive reviews from tech websites. The first Android Honeycomb tablet is the Motorola Xoom, the very reason why it fails to impress is the pricing. Asus priced this Eee Pad Transformer at a very competitive price, making Apple iPad2 irrelevant unless you are in a different needs. Anyway, these are the specifications of Asus Transformer. Continue Reading »

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Next quarter will finally see the effort paid off by AMD’s acquisition of ATI 5 years ago. What I mean is the most talked about Llano APU, the Fusion project that was hyped all the way back during AMD worst time, the first true CPU-GPU combination into a single chip for the desktop variant. Brazos platform with the Zacate/Ontario APU and the Fusion hub controller (Hudson) is cater for the Netbook/CULV segment which single handedly beats down Intel Atom platform. Intel Sandy Bridge offers great graphics performance by having infused both CPU and GPU together with the same chip, the graphics performance increased is unquestionable as the graphics processing unit is being fed with data at much higher bandwidth thanks to the resource sharing with the CPU. With AMD’s expertise in the graphics development, we can expect the Llano Desktop processor to be even faster as far as graphics performance is concern than what Intel is able to offer in Sandy Bridge. Llano could redefine this whole budget desktop PC segment and make some of the budget discreet card irrelevant and redundant. Anyway, this is best reserved for debate when Llano is available to the mass. If you are looking for a budget desktop right now, Llano is not the option at least for these 3 months as it wasn’t available. How about Sandy Bridge? Although it is available right now, but I recommend something more on the budget side. Read on. Continue Reading »

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Root access or simply put root user is the term for Linux operating system environment which allows full read and write access of all commands and files in the system. From a tech perspective, it is termed as Superuser. For Microsoft Windows, it is called Administrator account which is familiar for most people. That’s vastly different from Linux where you don’t get Superuser a.k.a root access by default on your Linux machine, be it Mandriva, Red Hat, SuSe, Ubuntu or Fedora just to name a few.

Windows’ administrator:

• superuser, full control of the system
• ability to setup administrator rights to different account

Linux administrator:

• non-superuser, most system files doesn’t permit read and write access.
• ability to setup administrator rights to different account

As were mentioned earlier, Superuser/root access is not enabled by default across all Linux distributions. In fact, you were given only Administrator access in Linux environment which is suffice for most users actually. It was an added security measure to prevent users from tinkering the system which might cause severe system failure. Fortunately, there are ways to enable root access and one of them is simply by going to the Linux terminal and enter “sudo root password” without the quotes. The root access is limited to only one account, incidentally name “root” as well.

But what does this techie stuffs have to do with rooting an Android phone?  Continue Reading »

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Root access or simply put root user is the term for Linux operating system environment which allows full read and write access of all commands and files in the system. From a tech perspective, it is termed as Superuser. For Microsoft Windows, it is called Administrator account which is familiar for most people. That’s vastly different from Linux where you don’t get Superuser a.k.a root access by default on your Linux machine, be it Mandriva, Red Hat, SuSe, Ubuntu or Fedora just to name a few.

Windows’ administrator:

• superuser, full control of the system
• ability to setup administrator rights to different account

Linux administrator:

• non-superuser, most system files doesn’t permit read and write access.
• ability to setup administrator rights to different account

As were mentioned earlier, Superuser/root access is not enabled by default across all Linux distributions. In fact, you were given only Administrator access in Linux environment which is suffice for most users actually. It was an added security measure to prevent users from tinkering the system which might cause severe system failure. Fortunately, there are ways to enable root access and one of them is simply by going to the Linux terminal and enter “sudo root password” without the quotes. The root access is limited to only one account, incidentally name “root” as well.

But what does this techie stuffs have to do with rooting an Android phone?  Continue Reading »

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