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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This is the question of the year, is AMD Bulldozer faster than Intel Core i7? Or you could be asking, is Bulldozer faster than Sandy Bridge. Based on the some of the early indications and some rumoured leaks, I could give some very early insight of what to be expected from AMD next generation CPU architecture. 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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That’s a shocking news. It sends wave of disbelief among tech enthusiast, especially among the sub-group of Android people. Some history about this Xperia X10. It was released back in mid of 2010. Locally, it was selling at RM2,999 when launched. It comes with Android 1.6 Donut and a 4inch LCD screen without multitouch support. These are the main reasons it couldn’t sell well. Thats why just after roughly 9months, you are seeing this Xperia X10 selling at RM1,400. Dropping 50% of price in just 9months is horrendous for gadgets. Continue Reading »

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What “” price is the minimum graphic hardware requirement to run Crysis 2? This is the question every avid PC gamers are looking for an answer. Can my ancient ____( fill in the blanks with the card you own ) able to run this next generation graphic engine from Crytek? The very first installation of Crysis was released back in the end of year 2007. The graphic is superbly beautiful, but it comes at a cost that it requires very powerful graphic hardware which current generation of graphic processing unit at that time could only run at miserable Buy “”, Buy “”, Buy “” Without Prescription frames per second at max settings. And console users can’t even get a chance to taste the game as Crytek released solely for PC only. Well, fret not. Crytek have learned their very own mistakes. Crysis 2 will be available to all three major platforms Playstation 3, Xbox360 and PC. On top of that, the graphic is tweaked and optimized to a level that it surpasses the first installment of Crysis’ level of graphics detail. More questions were popped in PC gamer’s mind when the screenshot of the new Cryengine 3 graphics were released which revealed more jaw dropping level of effect. Can it run on my ancient graphic hardware? Read on. 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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All rumours reported few weeks ago turned out to be true, the new phone from Google is indeed the Nexus S. It is the successor to the Nexus One or some might call it NX1 in short. Anyway, The Nexus S is build by Samsung. It might reminds you of Galaxy S as far as naming convention is concern. I would say it is a big brother to Samsung Galaxy S. It (Google Nexus S) sports almost similiar hardware configurations like the 4inches 800×480 Super AMOLED display, 1GHz Samsung Cortex-A8 Hummingbird processor and 5MP camera with a VGA front camera. In Nexus S, you’ll get the flash light for the camera which Galaxy S pathetically lacks. And a much touted feature called NFC Near Field Communication, a technology which provides a new level of interaction.

Google Nexus S, image courtesy of Engadget

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For some applications like Mozilla Thunderbird, it was poorly designed as so that it doesn’t minimized to system tray. Which can be a nuisance and consuming your taskbar spaces as you don’t need the application to sit on your taskbar at most of the time. Most applications now supports minimized to system tray; even my favourite web browser Opera supports it. But with the advent of Windows 7 pin-to-taskbar feature, this has become less relevant as the pin-to-taskbar provides great usability. Anyway, for some programs or applications, minimizing to the system tray is better, or if you are still using Windows XP, it gives more reason for you to do so. Here’s how. Continue Reading »

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This phone from Huawei might trashed the budget Android phones I mentioned earlier here. In terms of hardware, it is more or less the same as HTC Wildfire and Samsung Galaxy 3. Both target at the budget segment. However Huawei Ideos take a much budget-friendly approach, costing way below the likes of Wildfire and Samsung Galaxy 3. Continue Reading »

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