Samsung Galaxy SL GT-I9003 Review

by Haris on April 2, 2011
in Android, Gadgets

Samsung Galaxy SL GT-I9003 is the latest in the Samsung Galaxy series which is very much a variant of the original Galaxy S with some noticeable changes under the hood.

Not too long ago, Samsung launched the Samsung Galaxy S GT-I9000 phone. It was the fastest and the most powerful Android handset available at that time. You can read our full Samsung Galaxy S review here. Samsung Galaxy SL is pretty much the same, but does this phone really comes up to the mark of the original Galaxy S or not? This is what we’ll see discuss in this review.

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Samsung Galaxy S2 Hands-On Photos, Video

by Haris on March 28, 2011
in Android, Gadgets

Samsung Galaxy S2 is the next big thing from Samsung, which was unveiled at a Samsung Unpacked event last month at MWC’11. This phone features the next-gen hardware, like the dual-core processor, 1 GB RAM etc.

Our first impressions of the Galaxy S2 have been really, really good. The Super AMOLED Plus display totally blows! It has a contrast ratio that could kill your eyes (just kidding!). Amazing screen! Much, much better than the original Galaxy S’ Super AMOLED display.

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XPERIA X10 Gingerbread Update Coming Soon

by Haris on March 25, 2011
in Android, Gadgets, Personal

Sony Ericsson has always been very lazy and slow to roll out Android software updates to its XPERIA series. We all know how long it took Sony Ericsson to bring the Eclair (Android 2.1) update on the XPERIA X10.

XPERIA X10 Ginmgerbread update would certainly be a treat for the X10 users since Sony Ericsson seems to have dropped their plans for the Froyo (Android 2.2) update.

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Samsung KIES Updated for Galaxy S Gingerbread Update

by Haris on March 25, 2011
in Android, Gadgets

Samsung has updated their desktop PC software for Samsung devices, Samsung KIES. It has been updated to be able to get the Android 2.3.2 update for the Galaxy S devices.

Galaxy S Gingerbread update was promised for March 20th by the Samsung Mobile’s Romanian team, but nothing is available so far.

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Android PC Manager: QtADB

by Haris on March 24, 2011
in Android, Freewares

We have covered a list of number of Android PC suit/software before, but I found this recently to use it with my Nexus S.

QtADB is a PC software for Android devices, based on ‘adb’. It requires a working  Android SDK installed on your computer with Android USB drivers installed (command “adb devices” listing your device should work), Qt libs version 4.7, root (not really necessary) and Busybox installed on phone.

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Firefox Mobile 4 RC for Android and Maemo, Now Available

by Haris on March 24, 2011
in Android, Mobile Apps

Firefox Mobile 4 for Android and Maemo is now finally in the release candidate stage, which means the final version is just around the corner and will be available for download, real soon!

This release candidate version is released after 5 beta releases. Firefox Mobile 4 certainly shows many improvements over the previous versions, but is still not the best at the moment.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 8.9 Price, Release Dates

by Haris on March 23, 2011
in Android, Gadgets

Samsung announced the all new Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy Tab 8.9 tablets at CTIA. They are more powerful, thinner and lighter than the iPad 2.

A full pricing list is also available now for both the tablets (WiFi only).

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy Tab 8.9 Announced

by Haris on March 23, 2011
in Android

Samsung announced their new Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy Tab 8.9 tablets at CTIA in Orlando. Both of these new tablets are incredibly thin and Samsung has built a tablet experience on top of Honeycomb, making sure that Android 3.0 remains untouched.

Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy Tab 8.9 has the new Samsung TouchWiz UX which is called as TouchWiz 4.0.

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Download Amazon App Store, Direct Link

by Haris on March 22, 2011
in Android, Tips and Tricks

Amazon App Store for Android has just been launched, but lots of people seem to be having issues when trying to download the Amazon App Store app on their Android devices.

The direct download link for Amazon App Store for Android has been given below after the jump.

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