Motorola has released its latest Android smartphone the Motorola RAZR i. Packing a 4.3in screen into a chassis not much bigger than an iPhone 4S and with a superfast Intel processor, in two color designs -- white and black.

The RAZR i can also capture 10 camera shots in less than a second, something the RAZR M can’t claim. CNET reports that Motorola SVP Jim Wicks claims the RAZR i’s battery lasts slightly longer than its U.S. counterpart’s, which should bring a smile to the faces of Intel engineers; CPU power efficiency is a major advantage for ARM in the mobile arena.

Other specs include 1GB of RAM, 8GB of built-in storage, and an 8-megapixel camera, likely the same underperforming lens found in the Razr i’s U.S. counterpart, the Razr M. The phone will come with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, but will ultimately be upgradable the newest version of Android, Jelly Bean.

Available from October the Motorola RAZR i will be ranged in the UK, France, Germany, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico. Pricing hasn't yet been confirmed.

via: Mashable

Photos and Specs of the new upgraded Galaxy S II called the Samsung Galaxy S II Plus leaks on line.

The Galaxy S II Plus will reportedly feature a 4.5-inch AMOLED display and will run on a dual-core 1.5GHz Exynos CPU paired with 1GB of RAM. Built-in storage will be 16GB but expandable via microSD, and the handset will feature an 8-megapixel rear camera.

Image by GSMArena

Samsung Galaxy S II Plus Specifications:

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
4.5-inch AMOLED screen
1.5GHz Dual-core Exynos CPU
8 Megapixel
1 GB RAM
16GB storage
MicroSD slot

Google Gmail Introduces a better way to type – Gmail Tap.

Gmail Tap replaced the default keyboad and gmail applications with the one only two buttons 2 keys. Good Job Google!! Lol you can tap it at night u can tap in the bathroom lol.

Watch video here:

From Gmailblog:

Gmail Tap takes the keyboard from 26 keys to just two. Every letter of the alphabet is represented by a simple pattern of dots and dashes, and once you know them you can type without even looking at your screen. This makes it ideal for situations where you need to discreetly send emails, such as when you're on a date or in a meeting with your boss.

Tap into the future of productivity with Gmail Tap for Android and iOS. Double your typing speed with this revolutionary new keyboard.

Caterpillar unveils the CAT B10, a new IP67-certified rugged Android smartphone.

The rubberized casing of the phone is built to withstand scratches, dust, and water. The CAT B10 even has the papers to prove it, claiming the industry-standard IP67 certification. In addition to taking a serious beating, the CAT B10 can be submerged underwater, up to 1 m deep, for up to 30 minutes. So feel free to drop it puddles (or a fresh batch of concrete) whenever you feel like it. By the way, waterproofing is a hot trend this year.

The CAT B10, a 3.2-inch display device with a protective rubber covering and a single-core 800MHz Qualcomm processor. The device also has a 5-megapixel camera and a front-facing webcam, though no exact megapixel information was provided. Furthermore, the device is said to come running Android 2.3.5 (Gingerbread), but should get updated to Ice Cream Sandwich “at some point.” No specifics were given regarding said update. As for availability, look for the CAT B10 to hit store shelves worldwide sometime in May, with European pricing set at €379 (around $500) off-contract.


Source: The Verge

Huawei has launched its first tablet with quad-core processor. Here's a full specification, released photos and a hands on video.

The 10-inch tablet comes with an aluminum-alloy unibody design, similar to the one found in the HTC Flyer. It has a 10-inch IPS LCD display that carries a whopping 1920 x 1200 resolution pixels. Powering the tablet is Huawei’s very own K3V2 quad-core processor that is clocked at 1.5GHz bundled with huge 2GB of RAM. Storage-wise, it has an 8GB internal storage and a microSD card slot. Huawei MediaPad 10 FHD will be available globally in the second quarter of 2012.

Huawei MediaPad 10 FHD Features and Specifications

Touchscreen
Smartphone
3G/4G
GSM/EDGE/GPRS
Android OS(v4.0 Ice Cream Sadwich)
8 GB storage(Micro sd slot available upto 32), 2 GB RAM
8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash Camera/1.3 Megapixel Front Camera
HD Video Recording
AGPS
Android Market for Downloading Mobile Apps
CPU Quad-core 1.5 GHz (Claims to be the fastest in the world due to their own chipset Huawei K3V2)
10.1-Inch 1920 X 1200 IPS Display
2GB RAM
Wi-Fi
Bluetooth 3.0
Battery Life 9000+ mAh


Watch a nice hands on video here:

Here's the video of Ubuntu for Android, Ubuntu Desktop Running On Android.

This is the best "Right place at the right time" Ubuntu will ever have for getting into the mainstream. Forget the desktop!

That sounds like a good idea.

Watch video here:

Linux-based operating system for mobile devices Android no need virus security?

Team Google's Linux-based Android company that sells antivirus criticized, with claims that the Android, iOS, and the BlackBerry operating system will run without best antivirus software.

From Device Magazine:

Google’s open source software team has come out in the open, criticizing firms selling antivirus software for Android and other mobile devices. The company has claimed that Android, iOS, and RIM Blackberry operating systems do not need antivirus software.

Chris Dibona, Program Manager of Google's open-source reacts to the news about the fragility of open-source software such as Android and Apple's iOS creations.

He clarified so beware of vendors trying to sell something that it says could protect the Android, BlackBerry, or iOS, because maybe it was just a hoax.



Although he did not mention any antivirus vendor company, the comments could be directed at Symantec, McAfee F-Secure, and Kaspersky.

Mobile operating system is not totally safe from attack, but rather than a PC, the system is still more secure.

Dibona went on to say that no phone is suffering from a virus problem as experienced Windows and some Mac software. Security breach that occurred was not too far because of the use of the sandbox model and the nature of the underlying kernel.

Software store by Google for Android OS devices reign — will soon overtake the App Store.

Google offers some of the most popular games and utilities for 33 cents on the occasion of crossing the threshold of 10 billion applications downloaded.

In the accompanying chart above we can see how it looked in the sales of Android Market applications. Downloading the application of the first billion took 21 months, and another 9 billion just 17 ​​months. Currently downloading the application (paid and free) is the speed of one billion per month.

At this rate soon overtake the Android Market app store for iOS. Android Market after several difficult years in the end facing the people and can equal footing to compete with the App Store. The origins of app store on Android were not all roses, and for some still are not.

Android application developers do not earn them as much as their colleagues who write them on the IOS, and the Android Market, customers had to wait two years for adding a search function applications. This seems to be absurd for someone who knew, from what Google began to build his power. That which is not only to me the most is missing in the Android Market, it is clear the check which applications are designed for tablets, and the popularization of the payment system Google Wallet (until recently Checkout).

Offering games for funny money (equivalent to two boxes of matches), it may be a shot in the nomen omen eye. [Source: GoogleBlog]

For the China market, Philips introduced the Android smartphone W920. The Philips W920 has 4.3 inch touchscreen LCD with a resolution of 800 × 480 pixels, mononuclear Qualcomm QSD8250 processor clocked at 1GHz, memory, RAM 512MB and 5 Megapixel camera with LED flash. The battery is 1280 mAh and runs a version of the operating system Android 2.2 Froyo.

The Philips W920 is enabled with a 4.3-inch TFT touchscreen LCD display with 262k colors and resembles a display resolution of 800 x 480. The device comes provided with a Joy Stick and is equipped with a 5 megapixel rear-facing primary camera having a camera resolution of 1280 X 960 pixels. Certain more camera features includes auto-focus and flash and offers with the connectivity options of 3G HSDPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, WAP 2.0, USB connectivity ports.


In addition the device runs on Android 2.2 Froyo Operating System with Adobe Flash support but there is no information related to what processor will this handset be powered with? But we expect that it will carry a 1GHz CPU Processor. Besides, this smartphone comes embedded with 512MB of RAM and has an attractive look in its gold and black enclosure. Certain other features resembling the device are such as Photo caller ID, T9/iTap predictive text input, comes with the applications of Alram, Calculator, Calender, Clock, Photo-video Editor, Handwriting Recognition, Photo Album, supports MicroSD card, add on of Fm Radio, Games, Screen Savers, Wallpapers.

Philips W920 measures for a dimension of 11.45 cm x 1.65 cm x 5.6 cm (H x D x W) and weighs about 136 g. It’s very unfortunate that price range of the device has not let out yet but for a guess it would cost around $300 unlocked.

The Android mobile operating system has an impressive set of keyboard shortcuts to help you fly through your phone without digging through the menus. A couple of quick key presses are all you need for most common tasks.

On a tablet, other than the screen, the next most used item is the keyboard.

See Best and FREE Keyboards Apps for Android Tablet below.

Hacker Keyboard

Hacker Keyboard mimics the physical keyboard so you don’t have to learn a new keyboard layout and get confuse over the position of each character. Hacker Keyboard supported 24 Language.

A full 5-row keyboard including arrow and Esc/Ctrl keys, intended for tablets. Are you missing the key layout you're used to from your computer? This keyboard has separate number keys, punctuation in the usual places, and arrow keys. It is based on the AOSP Gingerbread soft keyboard, so it supports multitouch for the modifier keys.

This keyboard is especially useful if you use ConnectBot for SSH access. It provides working Tab/Ctrl/Esc keys, and the arrow keys are essential for devices such as the Xoom tablet or Nexus S that don't have a trackball or D-Pad.

MultiLing Keyboard

MultiLing keyboard is particularly useful for those whose native language is not English. This keyboard allows you to switch keyboard language with a quick swipe on the space key.

MultiLing Keyboard supports a lot of languages, but they are not installed by default. Once you have installed the main keyboard app, you have to go to the Market and download the plug-in for the language you want.

Best of all, you can configure the gestures and its respective actions.

GO Keyboard

The GO Dev team has to be the most prolific and popular dev team in the Android community, having released the popular GO Launcher and many other useful GO apps. The GO Keyboard is another of their great product.

The GO Keyboard is a hybrid of Swype and Hacker Keyboard. You can swipe to form word, or type one character at a time. It also comes with auto-correction, text prediction and support for multiple languages (dictionary has to be separately downloaded).

GO Keyboard is the best and the most popular keyboard on the android market！GO Keyboard can make your typing faster and smarter. It is a essential choice for android mobile.

Follow the 4 Set Up ways on Samsung Nexus S.

1. Download the custom ROM
XDA-Developers and download the Nexus S custom ROM (v2, “no need for wifi patch”).

Hit up XDA-Developers and download the Nexus S custom ROM (v2, “no need for wifi patch”). If you have a 4G Nexus S, you can download the appropriate custom ROM.

2. Root your phone and install ROM Manager
If you’re already using CyanogenMod (which hopefully you are), your phone will already be rooted and have ROM Manager installed.
The best way to do this is to follow a video guide, but googling for “how to root nexus s” works as well.

3. Make a backup!

Scroll down in ROM Manager and select “Backup Current ROM.” This will back up all of the system and app data on your phone — but not any data on your SD card, such as photos or music. This backup is saved on your phone’s SD card, in the “clockworkmod” directory — and once it’s done, you should copy this to your computer via USB. You will need this backup if you want to restore your phone to its pre-ICS state.

Installing ICS on your Nexus S should not affect the contents of your SD card.
Please bear in mind that installing this build of ICS will completely wipe out your installed apps.


4. Install Android 4 on your Nexus S

Now, from ROM Manager, hit “Install ROM from SD Card,” and surf to the zip file on your SD card (“ics-crespo-aosp-4.0.1-v2-unsigned.zip” or similar). Select “Wipe Data and Cache” and “Wipe Dalvik Cache” from the menu and press OK (see right).

ICS will now install. Your phone will reboot, and in about 60 seconds you’ll be greeted by Ice Cream Sandwich’s phone setup screens, and then some basic tutorials.

Welcome to Ice Cream Sandwich! This build is pre-rooted, so to revert to Gingerbread you will simply have to re-install ROM Manager and restore your backup.

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich aboard are easily the biggest news surrounding the release of Google’s newest mobile OS, it would seem that Google is already ramping up its efforts to show off the tablet-based capabilities of the system. After Samsung Galaxy Nexus finally launching with the brand new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich now seeing what appears to be our first actual glimpse of Ice Cream Sandwich on a tablet, even if it’s just a render.

Honeycomb looked like on the tablet, complete with the three buttons in the lower left (updated to reflect the change in icons now) as well as the slightly more cyan-colored accents. Icons sit on the first homepage as they would otherwise, and the time in the lower right-hand corner is updated to the new font made specifically for this system alongside a wi-fi signal and a full battery. You’ll find an apps button in the upper right, and a simple Google search widget in the upper left.

As an added bonus here is our hands-on videos of the Galaxy Nexus and Ice Cream Sandwich for your viewing pleasure.

Christmas or Christmas Day is a holiday generally observed on December 25 (with alternative days of January 6, 7 and 19) to commemorate the birth of Jesus, the central figure of Christianity. The exact birthday of Jesus is not known, and historians place his year of birth some time between 7 BC and 2 BC.

The App Store has a great selection of Christmas care apps, covering everything from holiday music to greeting cards. While these apps are not delivered by Santa and his reindeer, they are a festive addition to your iPhone or iPod touch this holiday season.

Advance Merry Christmas!! Check out the best free christmas apps.

Free Christmas List
Brilliant easy and quick to use. Nice pictures. Great that list can be emailed. Only wish the birthday app was this good too.
Santa has his, where's yours?
Your Christmas List or Santa's List
Features include:
-Gift Tracking by Person
-Gift Cost Tracking
-Cost Summary
Upgrading to the Pro version adds:
-No more annoying Ads
-Password protection options

Christmas Ringtones
Christmas Ringtones and Soundboard. Customize your phone with Christmas spirit.
Merry Christmas! The most popular Christmas Ringtones and Soundboard. Customize your phone with Christmas spirit by downloading FREE Christmas ringtones for your Android phone. To use favorite clips as ringtones, long-press and hold down the button and click save. Go to choose ringtones from phone settings and you will find your new Christmas ringtone.

Countdown to Christmas
Countdown to Christmas Tells you how many sleeps there are until Christmas. Plus Santa sightings.
Tells you how many sleeps there are until Christmas. Also has some special sightings of Santa taken by our Tracking Team. Check out Santa Tracker for more information.

Christmas RADIO
Enjoy Christmas more with Christmas Radio for Android! Listen to over 40 XMAS radio stations from all over the world where ever you travel! We found for you webradio stations playing: Traditional X-Mas music, X-Mas rock, Religious X-Mas music, X-mas jazz.

Christmas Story Books Free
Christmas Story Books is a growing collection of Christmas stories for children of all ages. Just as a stocking filled with toys and goodies this app comes filled with Christmas stories. This app includes Christmas books of different kinds - classics, tales that are passed on from generation to generation and beautifully read with professional voice over.
Each book comes rich with vibrant pictures, engaging narration and lively music. The app comes with all the cool features of the iStoryBooks platform such as.

Eset has released the final version of its security suite Eset Mobile Security for smartphones based on Android system. The new application, in addition to protection against malicious programs, offers a set of features to lock the phone remotely, its location, or delete saved data in its memory.

EEST Mobile Security is a program known phone users running Symbian and Windows Mobile. Now, with the possibility of a modified bit applications can benefit holders of smartphones running Android. ESET Mobile Security scans all received and sent files and messages for the content of malicious code. The application also provides a user-theft protection, which consists of four features:

• Fitting the SIM cards - SIM substitution identifies a protected smartphone, informing about the event indicated by the owner of your person, by sending it an SMS message, which includes defined number of new SIM card.
• Remote blocking access - allows you to block access to the phone and data stored on it via SMS, containing the appropriate command and a predetermined password.
• Remote data delete - to delete from the phone memory and memory cards of all the collected data - including photos, videos, MP3 files, contact details and SMS messages and MMS.
• GPS location - allows you to determine your GPS position of the protected equipment.

The program also offers protection that prevents accidental or intentional deletion of a smartphone program.

Among other features worth mentioning Mobile Security is the ability to define phone numbers from which calls and messages to be automatically rejected. It is possible to determine the numbers that you should not have phone contact with which the connection attempt will be automatically blocked.

The program's functionality requires a device running Android 2.0 or later. The application does not work with smartphone-based Android Honeycomb 3.0. The application is available in Polish. eset website:

RAZR is back. Faster, Thinner, Smarter, Stronger. Motorola just come back to the new RAZR branding which was popular once when it was used on the the slim razor-like clamshell handset. The Motorola Droid Razr is an Android 2.3 handset and is now the company’s flagship phone.

Motorola Droid RAZR Key Features:

IMPOSSIBLY THIN
With an impossibly thin design, RAZR is a marvel of engineering — one you’ll want to show off to the world. Thinner than your friends’ smartphones, it’s better looking too, with sculpted glass and diamond-cut aluminum accents.

SUPER STRONG, NOT SUPER SIZED
Thin no longer equals frail. We made RAZR strong with KEVLAR® fibre, while Corning® Gorilla® Glass helps the screen stand up to scratches and scrapes. Spilled coffee? Caught in the rain? No problem. RAZR is protected with a splash-guard coating — even the electrical boards inside.

DUAL-CORE POWER
Full-tilt boogie is just your style — and RAZR can keep up. The powerful dual-core 1.2 GHz processor lets you act as fast as you can think (finally), while the 1GB of RAM keeps the momentum going.
Have a Look at the Introduction video here:


MOTOCAST™: ANYTIME, ANYWHERE ACCESS
MotoCast, a free Motorola app built in to RAZR, lets you safely and effortlessly stream music, movies and more from your Personal Computer. Across the street or across the country, you can rock your playlists or flip through pictures, without using up your phone’s memory.

A DISPLAY TO PUT ON DISPLAY
Whether you stream or download movies, the hyper-vibrant colours of the Super AMOLED Advanced display make watching flicks on-the-go just as thrilling as watching at home on your HDTV. And zero motion-blur technology keeps the action smooth, so you can focus on the story.

DUAL CAMERAS: LIFE HAS NEVER LOOKED BETTER
Capture the excitement with the 8MP camera and 1080p HD video recording, for crisp, clear, cinematic quality images. Your video captures will be especially smooth, thanks to technology that helps stabilize the camera. And, see things eye-to-eye on your next incoming call with the front-facing HD video camera.

SMART ACTIONS: ALWAYS OPTIMIZED
The Smart Actions app on RAZR helps you with everyday tasks, to keep your phone — and your life — optimized. Turn down the ringer when you step into work. Adjust settings when home to save battery. Send a text to your wife if you miss her call.

SECURITY: YOUR SECRETS ARE SAFE
Your whole life is in your phone, and some of that (OK, a lot of that), you’d like to keep private — especially when it comes to work stuff. But don’t worry. Government-grade encryption protects your email, contacts and calendar. Even your strict IT manager will be impressed.

Motorola Droid RAZR Price As to pricing, nothing’s definite yet but in the US it’s $150 on a 3-year contract.

New MOTOROLA RAZR TV Ad video:

AppsFire announced that there have now been more than 1 million apps published to the Apple App Store and Android Market combined.

The company is quick to point out that not all of those apps are active (downloadable), with the total number of active applications sitting at around 80%. Of the combined number of apps published to either the App Store or Android Market, iOS accounts for 52% (roughly 520,000 apps) of the million titles published, whether they are active or inactive.


AppsFire tracks each app entering either the App Store or Android Market, using algorithms and friend recommendations to suggest apps that smartphone owners might be interested in.

The company looks forward to tracking 1 million live apps combined on iOS and Android, then 1 million apps by operating system. via blog.appsfire

Opera continues to work on improving its alternate browsers, most recently releasing a versions of Opera Mobile for Android containing an assortment of bugfixes and security improvements.

Opera Mobile 11.1 update 2 tightens-ups the security of the browser's cache files.

Update contains a fix for a security issue, with thanks for Roee Hay of IBM Rational Application Security Research Group for reporting; Apps on Android are supposed to be isolated, so that in general, they cannot access files belonging to other apps.

This is a security feature of Android that is intended to provide some level of protection against malicious apps, preventing them from being able to modify the behavior of other apps. via Opera

HTC Corporation unviel its new flagship Windows Phone 7.5 handset, the TITAN, Including a massive 4.7-inch qHD display with WVGA resolution, and its beautiful, slender aluminium unibody design.

The HTC Runnymede will be the first mobile phone from HTC which is the result of collaborating with the Beats Audio.

Picture has been release by pocketnow.com of the HTC Runnymede, and if you’re familiar with the specs of the TITAN, you’ll know most of the Runnymede’s story already.

HTC Runnymede: the 4.7” 1.5GHz TITAN with Android 2.3 Specs:
Display
»Resolution: 480 x 800 pixels
»Physical Size: 4.70 inches
»Touch Screen: Yes (Capacitive)
»Multi-touch: Yes
»Light sensor: Yes
»Proximity Sensor: Yes
Software
»OS: Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread
»Processor: Single core, MSM8255, 1500 MHz
»Memory: 768 MB RAM
Camera
»Camera: Yes
Resolution: 8 megapixels
Flash: Yes (Dual LED)
»Video capture: Yes
Resolution: 1280x720 (720p HD) (60 fps)
»Additional camera: Yes (1.3 megapixels)
»Video Calling: Yes
Multimedia
»Music Player: Yes
»Video Playback: Yes
Memory
Built-in: 16384 MB
Connectivity
»USB: Yes
Type: microUSB
Version: USB 2.0
Features: Mass storage device, USB charging
»Headphones connector: 3.5mm
»DLNA: Yes

Runnymede will be available with two internal storage options, and preliminary pricing for the UK market has been revealed: the 16GB version is expected to cost £499 (around $790USD or €578EUR) off-contract, or free on a £40 ($64/€46) per month two-year contract; the 32GB version should be priced at £530 ($840/€614) at retail, or £49 ($78/€57) on a £40pm two-year plan.

Toshiba Europe has just unveiled its 7 millimeter-thick Android 3.2 AT200 tablet.

Android tablet offering, the Honeycomb 3.2, 10.1-inch AT200. Measuing in at a mere 7.7mm thick, the Toshiba AT200 comes in as one of the thinnest Honeycomb slates yet, making even the anorexic Galaxy Tab 10.1 look like a whale.

Tucked within the tablet is a 1.2GHz TI OMAP 4430 CPU, 5MP and 2MP cameras, and up to 64GB of on-board storage. The new Toshiba offering is decked out with microUSB, microHDMI, and microSD support.


The Toshiba AT200 allows users to enjoy videos at home and while out and about. It features a brilliant 25.7cm (10.1″) high-definition screen that displays pictures with crisp colours and in full detail.

The Toshiba AT200 is scheduled to be released in Europe in the fourth quarter of 2011. The price has not yet been announcedo.

Tablet maker X10 claims it has “the best tablet on the market for under $200″ in the AirPad, a 7-inch tablet that runs on Android 2.3 and is equipped with 1.2 Ghz Rockchip 2918 Cortex A8 processor, 4 GB memory expandable up to 32 GB via microSD, and a 2 megapixel camera.

X10 says you “won’t find a better tablet at a better price”.

Excluding the discounted $99 HP TouchPad, X10′s AirPad indeed looks to have the best set of specs for the price. The AirPad is now available in the US.


X10 AirPad 7-Inch Android Tablet Specifications
•1.2 Ghz Rockchip 2918 Cortex A8 processor + 600 Mhz DSP
•7″ 800×480 resolution TFT LCD screen
•Capacitive multi-touch, 5 point touch
•Android 2.3, with Flash 10.1
•2 Megapixel camera with video recording and playback
•3-axis accelerometer
•512 MB
•4 GB onboard, up to 32 GB with microSD card
•6 hours movie, 6 hours music, 4 hours WIFI Internet access
•WiFi (802.11b/g)
•HDMI supporting 1080P output, USB
•195 mm x 120 mm x 13 mm, Weight 400g (14 oz)
•4000 mAh rechargeable lithium polymer