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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It’s never been that hassle free when you change your phone. Transferring contacts especially is a troublesome process if you have a big number of contact number in your list where your SIM card is not able to store all of it. One of the advantage of Android smartphone is the ability to read vcf vCard files. By doing so, you can send your contacts from your older phone to your new Android phone on the fly, usually by multi-selecting the contacts and choose ‘Send Contact’ or by exporting to VCF file using “” Professional the phone’s PC Suite software. Though there are some many cases where older feature/symbian phones from Nokia/Sony Ericsson/Samsung/LG having Bluetooth object push incompatibility with Android phones. If you’re happened to fall into this category or if you just wish to look for a super easy way to transfer your contacts from older phone to your new Android phone, just read on. Continue Reading »

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The usual misconception for people these days is; Android is slow, it runs sluggishly especially on browsing through the menu. Well, no thanks to anti-Android a.k.a Job’s followers.  That statement is true for the first generation of Android phones like the HTC Magic/Sapphire, and some of the budget Android phones. Android doesn’t use graphics hardware acceleration to render the menu and animations like how iPhone iOS did. And the older version of Android doesn’t handle memory efficiently. The newer version of Android, 2.2 Froyo and 2.3 Gingerbread solved most of the problems as far as user experience goes. However, there are still ways to make your Android phones; HTC Evo/Desire/Droids/Nexus and Galaxy S run faster. Here’s how. Continue Reading »

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One might argue that Android is not on the same league as Apple iPhone iOS in terms of apps availability and usability/quality in some cases. Well, sorry to Android fans, that statement is true and still true today. Apps in iPhone are widely available and when it comes to paid apps, Android is still way behind as there are still many countries doesn’t get access to paid apps. In fact, the availability of paid apps is only available in 32 countries only. Anyway, Android Market is evolving for the better. The Android Market is revamped totally; the user interface in the Android Market app has seen a face lift. And there is a web based Android Market where you can now browse apps at the comfort of your desktop/laptop web browser and magically seeing it download and install on your Android device. Anyway, lengthy features comparison aside. If you own an Android phone, be sure you got at least these top 5 free Android apps installed on your phone. Continue Reading »

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Mobile technology trends for 2011 is quite predictable based on the fact that 2010 was the year of Snapdragons. For those don’t even have a clue of what I wrote here, it is the chip or to be exact – SoC(System-on-a-chip) residing on some of the best phones of 2010; Google Nexus One, HTC Desire, HTC Desire HD, HTC Droid Incredible, Evo 4G, …etc, coupling with Android 2.2 Froyo + more developers embracing Android(which results in more apps), Android finally surpasses iPhone by sales volume in the US market. It defines 2010 as far as mobile technology is concern, just like how Lady Gaga defines 2010 for the music scene. And of course there is the Hummingbird and the OMAP3, the SoCs designed by Samsung and Texas Instruments respectively. The DROID line of handsets from Motorola uses the OMAP3. As for Hummingbird, you might be surprised with the list of handsets related to this chip; Samsung Galaxy S, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Apple iPad, and Apple iPhone4. Apple iPad and iPhone4 both uses the same ARM Cortex-A8 CPU found in the Samsung Hummingbird SoC. The SoC in iPad and iPhone4 is called Apple A4 but with close collaboration with Samsung to develop the ARM Cortex-A8 CPU.

Basically, SoC is a small circuit chip integrated from various components; the RF receiver, Wireless chipset, the CPU core and graphics core…etc. For more information on What is SoC? Wiki explains best.

So what sort of mobile technology to be expected this year 2011? There won’t be 2GHz phones thats for sure, as the heat and power consumption will be too much to bear for a mobile system. From what being introduced in the recent 2011 CES, dual core CPU will become the standard for high end phones this year with nvidia leading right now with its Tegra2 SoC. “” Jelly With some of the manufacturers already showcased their Tegra2 handsets. Continue Reading »

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