Instagram for Android is Available for Download

Instagram is photography and social app, its a fast, beautiful and fun way to share your phones with friends and family. Snap a picture, choose a filter to transform its look and feel and post to Instagram. Then share it to Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr, It’s compatible with phones running Android 2.2 or above (wit support for OpenGL ES 2), not compatiable on Android tablets yet.

Features:

• 100% free custom designed filters and borders
• Lux works its magic by making your phones more vibrant and brings out details in your photos you could’t see before
• Instant sharing to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Foursquare (Flicker coming very soon)
• Interact with friends through giving & receiving likes and comments
• Works with Android 2.2 and above that support OpenGL ES 2
• Full front and back camera support

Download it free from Google Play Store

PlayBook OS New Update is Available Now

There is no longer that much anticipation going on around the BlackBerry Playbook now that the OS 2.0 is out and things have been quiet overall. RIM however has now released an update to the tablet that brings the PlayBook OS up to version 2.0.1.358. The update is said to bring about improvements in the web browser, Android app support and optimizations to some of the BlackBerry OS core apps.

Below you will find the detailed list of the updates:

• Browser enhancements to address performance with some websites
• Improvements to support Android apps
• Optimization to Video Chat, PIM and BlackBerry Bridge applications

The RIM team is also suggesting there’s much more to the update, but they are not getting into specifics, so I would presume it’s about general bug fixes.

The PlayBook OS 2.0.1.358 update is now available OTA, if it doesn’t pop up on its own, just check manually for updates in the settings drop-down.

Price vs. Features Compatibility: Android vs. iOS

No doubt that the popularity of mobile apps is soaring ad the demand for them is going to be even higher in the years to come. At the moment, iOS apps and Android apps seems to dominate the apps marketplace. The question is, which is better one is better of the two?

The iOS App Store is home to over 425,000 applications whereas the Android App Market only offers a little over 2000,000. However, as per a couple of websites, the look and feels of iOS applications are better and more appealing as compared to similar applications on Android platform.

Given the variety of apps available, the selection process is relatively similar for both platforms. Though similar apps are widely available for both platforms, there seems to be a lot of iOS overlap in terms of gaming apps. An app that starts out as iOS exclusive will eventually gain popularity and a me-too Android version will be released shortly. Perfect examples of this include Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja.

On the costing front, popular apps on the Android Market are more than 2.5 times expensive on average those of their counterparts on the iOS App Store. Analyst firm Canalys’ App Interrogator study found that the top 100 paid applications on the Android service cost $3.74 on average, compared to an average cost of just $1.47 for the most popular paid iOS apps. The point to note here is the a paid app of Android is not always fully-functional unlike iOS apps. Made to fix example here is an iOS Skype app that enable users to enjoy both video and audio calls while the Android Skype app only allows texting!

Android Market is now Google Play Store

Google has changed their Android Market to Google Play. Google has re branded and include all their digital services, like e-books, music, apps into google Play.

 These changes were made on March 6th, 2012 by Google and now to open Android Market just go for Play Store in your phone and access the re branded app store.

Archos Child Pad Kid-Friendly Tablet Running ICS

Archos announced its new Child Pad, a 7 inches kid-friendly tablet running the latest Android Ice Cream Sandwich. Designed for children, the Child Pad features a kid-friendly user interface with colored icons, home screen folders with direct access to games, entertainment, learning and puzzles; comes with 28 pre-loaded kid apps including Angry Birds, Pig Rush and Flight Frenz. Instead of ordinary Android market, the tablet access to the Kids App store powered by AppLib which is filtered down to 14 friendly categories and 10,000 apps including games, entertainment, communication, multimedia books, comics, sports etc.

The Child Pad powered by 1GHz processor and 1GB of RAM. It sports a 7 inches 1024×600 touchscreen. To ensure a safe tablet environment for kids and peace of mind for parents, the tablet  complies with both CIPA and COPPA regulations. Parental control and safe web browsing functions are of course included.

The Archos Child Pad will be relesed in late March for $129.

Samsung Unveils Flexible Android Smartphone

Think a flexible smartphone is just science fuction? You might have to think again, thanks to Samsung. The Korean company recently unveiled Galaxy Skin, an Android smartphone that can take on different shapes and take on even hammer blows, set begin production in 2012 Q 2 with murmurings of a release sometime thereafter.

So aside from its flexible form, what specs can Galaxy boastof? For startes, it will have a flexible 4″ AMOLED display (800×480) made of plastic polyimide substrate. Samsung already confirmed that they have started production of such screens. This form of AOLED technology consumes less energy but still delivers good screen brightness compared to the normal Samsung AMOLED.

 Other known specs of Galaxy Skin include 1 GB RAM, 1.2 GHz processor, 8 MP rear camera an VGA front camera with auto focus, self-portrait, stop motion, action shot, and Panorama shots, and 1500 mAh battery. Connectivity-wise, it has Bluetooth 3.0, USB 2.0, and Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n features. It will reportedly run on Android Jellybean (the next Google OS version after Ice Cream Sandwich), but there are speculations that Google will make a special version for it, namely Android Flexy.

PAC Launched First Commercial Tablet

Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) Kamra has launched first Pakistani Tablet with the collaboration of Chinese  company Innavtek. In fect three electronic products have been launched which are Computing Tablet, Notebook, eBook reader. The manufacturing  responsibility lies with PAC, where as Innavtek will be looking after marketing and promotion.

It is a good news for Pakistani people that Pakistan has now started such technology products. PAC is planning to produce such more products and also trained the people to manufacture these. When there will be a huge number of production then there will be a tablet in every Pakistani’s hand rather than a mobile phone.

The Pakistani Tablet have these characteristics:

• Vibrant crisp color display
• Professional grade performance
• Full computing power in a tablet format
• Understanding web browsing and downloading
• Multi-touch  screen
• 7 inch LCD display with full HD resolution

Acer Iconic Tab A200 with Ice Cream Sandwich

Acer Iconic Tab A200 is getting the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OTA update. Tje 10.1 inches ablet is powered by NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 1GHz dual-core processor with 1GB of RAM. It comes with 8GB or 16GB internal memory for you to store apps, music and videos and there is microSD/SDHC card slot for expansion.

 The Acer A200 tablet has a 10.1 inches 1280×800 WXGA touchscreen, a front facing camera, dual speaker, Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity. The Iconic Tab A200 is available in titanium gray and metallic red colors. You can get a 8GB from Amazon for $329.99.

Samsung Galaxy Y Duos

General:
2G Network: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 -SIM 1 & SIM 2
3G Network: HSDPA 900/2100
Announced: 2011. December
Status: Available. released 2012, February
Body:
Dimensions: 109.8 x 60 x 12 mm
Weight: 109 g
Display:
Type: TFT capacitive touchscreen, 256K colors
Size: 240 x 320 pixels, 3.14 inches (~127 ppi pixel density)
- Samsung TouchWiz
Sound:
Alert types: Viberation, MP3 ringtones
Loudspeaker: Yes
3.5mm jack: Yes
Memory:
Card slot: microSD, up to 32 GB included
Internal: 512 MB ROM, 348 MB RAM
Data:
GPRS: Yes
EDGE: Yes
Speed: HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps
WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot
Bluetooth: Yes, v3.0 with A2DP
USB: Yes, microUSB v2.0
Camera:
Primary: 3.15 MP, 2048×1536 pixels
Features: Geo-tagging
Video: Yes, QVGA@24fps
Secondary: No
Features:
OS: Android OS, v 2.3 (Gingerbread)
Sensors: Accelerometer, proximity, compass
Messaging: SMS (thread view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS
Browser: HTML, Adobe Flash
Radio: Stero FM radio with RDS
GPS: Yes, ith A-GPS support
Java: Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
Color: Black
- Dual SIM (dual stand-by)
- SNS integration
- MP4/WMV/H.264 player
- MP3/WAV/eAAC + player
- Organizer
- Image/video editor
- Document viewer
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calender, Google Talk,
Picasa integration
- Voice memo/dial
- Predictive text/input
Battery:
Standard battery, Li-Ion 1300 mAh

US Judge Orders Google & Motorola to give Apple their Android Secrets

A breaking news that US Court Judge Richard Posner has ordered Google and Motorola to hand over development details of Android OS to Apple

Not only that, but Motorola Mobility must also provide Apple information regarding its pending acquisition by Google.

The judge said, “Google’s employees and documents are not within ‘possession, custody, or control’ of Motorola, and Motorola cannot force Google to produce documents or witnesses over Google’s objection.

It is rather strange that a judge should ask for Motorola and Google to hand over critical Android development information to Apple, which is their direct competitor not only in the smartphone market, but in the tablet one as well.

This is going to be an interesting one.

Price vs. Features Compatibility: Android vs. iOS

No doubt that the popularity of mobile apps is soaring ad the demand for them is going to be even higher in the years to come. At the moment, iOS apps and Android apps seems to dominate the apps marketplace. The question is, which is better one is better of the two?

The iOS App Store is home to over 425,000 applications whereas the Android App Market only offers a little over 2000,000. However, as per a couple of websites, the look and feels of iOS applications are better and more appealing as compared to similar applications on Android platform.

Given the variety of apps available, the selection process is relatively similar for both platforms. Though similar apps are widely available for both platforms, there seems to be a lot of iOS overlap in terms of gaming apps. An app that starts out as iOS exclusive will eventually gain popularity and a me-too Android version will be released shortly. Perfect examples of this include Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja.

On the costing front, popular apps on the Android Market are more than 2.5 times expensive on average those of their counterparts on the iOS App Store. Analyst firm Canalys’ App Interrogator study found that the top 100 paid applications on the Android service cost $3.74 on average, compared to an average cost of just $1.47 for the most popular paid iOS apps. The point to note here is the a paid app of Android is not always fully-functional unlike iOS apps. Made to fix example here is an iOS Skype app that enable users to enjoy both video and audio calls while the Android Skype app only allows texting!

iPhone is more Popular than Android for WiFi

It is said in a survey that iPhone users use more WiFi network than Android users as Android users prefer their own mobile network whenever they feel to need to browse the internet.

The study however is not a general way to represent a global specimen, but based on user of smartphones in America only. In terms of percentage, 9% of iPhone users use mobile networks, while 68% of the ANdroid users are on ot. Comparatively, 71% of the iPhone users use WiFi and only 32% of the Android users are into it. This only shows where the trend for the advertisers must head to.

However in UK, WiFi is big with Android users, but at the same time, it is huge with iPhone users too, who also use mobile network equally. It then goes down to habit of browsing the internet basically or it could be about the strength of the WiFi connection and mobile networks services in these two regions while creates the difference.

Here below is the result of iPhoen and Android users WiFi usage survey in US and UK:

Instagram for Android is Available for Download

The wait is finally over for Android users, Instagrap is available for download from Google Play store.

Instagram is photography and social app, its a fast, beautiful and fun way to share your phones with friends and family. Snap a picture, choose a filter to transform its look and feel and post to Instagram. Then share it to Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr, It’s compatible with phones running Android 2.2 or above (wit support for OpenGL ES 2), not compatiable on Android tablets yet.

Features:

• 100% free custom designed filters and borders
• Lux works its magic by making your phones more vibrant and brings out details in your photos you could’t see before
• Instant sharing to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Foursquare (Flicker coming very soon)
• Interact with friends through giving & receiving likes and comments
• Works with Android 2.2 and above that support OpenGL ES 2
• Full front and back camera support

Download it free from Google Play Store

Android Stealing iOS Story dismissed by Larry Page

Steve Jobs was known for his fanaticism for his own ompany Apple, which is why he was such a technoly innovator and a genius. His authorized biography written by Walter Isaacson, shows that Jobs was angry with how Google supposedly stole certain aspects of the iOS mobile platform for Android OS. According to Jobs biography, he told the writer:

“I will spend my lasy dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong.”

Jobs expressed his extreme side saying:

“I’m going to destroy Android… I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.”

The reason as to why Jobs would do this according to Larry is:

“For a lot of companies, it’s useful for them to feel like they have an obvious competitor and to rally around that.”

It is strange that technology innovators would need negative sentiments too motivate their own team rather than asking them to make the world better on their with technology regardless of who else is copying them. Google’s Larry wants to stand clean on this and said that t was his privilege to have met Jobs during his last year in life.

Amazon Appstore now supports in-app purchases for Android devices

A feature that has been in Google Play’s Store for a while now is making its way to the Amazon Appstore, as developers now have the ability to integrate in-app purchases into their apps.

In-app payments can be in the form of additional features or subscriptions, as well as bonuses and upgrades for games.

Why is this important when it’s already available for Google Play apps you may ask? For one, it offers developers the ability to target users with custom Android devices able to use only Amazon Appstore as their app market, such as the Kindle Fire. It also offers the same for Android devices not approved by Google to access the Play Store.

Android App Design Guidelines Update

The Googlers over Android Design have just put up some new sections into their guide for Android developers.

Highlights include a brand new section on how to create a design layout for application settings, as well as how to link other Android applications and how to navigate to your app using widgets.

In case you haven’t checked it out. Android Design is great place to start if you’re looking to create your own app, or just want to fiddle around with their design templates. you can get started here, or jump yo whats been updated here, here and here.

3G Licence Auction to Welcome Global Telecom Giants in Pakistan

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As you know 3G Auction is being held on March 29th of this year. All the telecom giants in the world has been invited for bidding process by 3g?4G/LTE advisory comittee.

A reported by Dawn News, these giants included:

• AT&T of USA
• Japan’s DoComo
• British Vodafone
• Qtel of Qatar
• Roshan Telecom from Afghanistan

The report more said that Warid’s un-fit financial position for the bid, also Warid can possibly make a joint bid with some telecom firm from Malaysia. Qubee is also reported to be talks with current market players for a joint bid.