Gingerbread Theme for Windows Mobile Phone

by Haris on March 17, 2011
in Gadgets, Mobile Apps

If you’re one of those who still love to use Windows Mobile 6.5.x phone, then this post is for you. Some developers over at XDA-Developers have worked on a Honeycomb theme for Windows Mobile 6.5 devices and in some way, it works a lot like the original Honeycomb (Android 3.0).

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 Teaser Video

by Haris on March 16, 2011
in Android, Gadgets

Samsung will be unveiling their 8.9″ Galaxy Tab and their new Samsung Unpacked website for the tablet now shows a teaser video of what we should expect on the Samsung Mobile Unpacked event.

Galaxy Tab 8.9 is expected to be a tad bit smaller version of the Galaxy Tab 10.1, which was announced along with the Galaxy S II at MWC’11.

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Camera Zoom in Nexus S Fix Coming Soon

by Haris on March 14, 2011
in Android, Gadgets

EXCLUSIVE: Hard to believe, but the Google Nexus S does not have the ‘zoom’ feature in its camera app. In fact, the hardware doesn’t support zoom at all.

I tried a few third-party apps, thinking the stock Gingerbread camera app is buggy, to make the zoom feature work, but even they said “Camera does not support zoom”.

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Samsung Galaxy Player 70: 5-Inch Display, Android 2.2

by Haris on March 8, 2011
in Android, Gadgets

Samsung released some photographs and a brief description of their next device in the line of Galaxy series – Samsung Galaxy Player 70.

This new media player will sport a 5-inch display screen (Super AMOLED Plus? Maybe.) and will have Android 2.2 onboard.

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Samsung Galaxy S Android 2.3.2 ROM Leaked

by Haris on March 2, 2011
in Android, Gadgets

We knew the day won’t be far when we’ll see a leaked Galaxy S i900 Android 2.3.2 ROM. And today is the day when the first Gingerbread (XWJV1) leaked build makes its way on the Internet.

Samsung Galaxy S has always had a good record of leaked ROMs before the official release. Froyo roms started showing up 8 weeks before the official update was out via Samsung KIES.

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Nexus S with Android 2.4 Early Build Spotted

by Haris on February 23, 2011
in Android, Gadgets

Nexus S with Android 2.4 has been spotted by some Chinese consumers who recently bought the device, which in fact, has Android 2.4 on board.

Android 2.4, as far as we know, is not coming anytime soon as the Gingerbread update just started rolling out. This could be Android 2.3.2, spoofed to look like Android 2.4, but that is hard to believe.

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Motorola Xoom, No Adobe Flash at Launch

by Haris on February 21, 2011
in Android, Gadgets

Motorola XOOM is expected not to come with Flash Player on-board. This comes as a surprise when all the manufacturers have been advertising that their Android tablets can run Flash content.

This was spotted at the Motorola Xoom pre-order site: “Adobe Flash expected Spring 2011″. Sad news, really. I hope Adobe manages to release Flash Player real soon for all the Android tablets.

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Dell Streak 7 Review by Ubergizmo

by Haris on February 21, 2011
in Android, Gadgets

Dell recently introduced the all new Dell Streak 7, which is a successor to the previous tablet from Dell, the Dell Streak. This tablet goes head to head with the other tablets of its generation, the iPad, Galaxy Tab etc.

Dell Streak 7 has been extensively reviewed by Ubergizmo explaining design, display, performance and many other factors of the device.

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BlackBerry Storm 3 Video Leaked

by Haris on February 21, 2011
in Gadgets

If you thought BlackBerry will be done with touch handsets after the failure of BlackBerry Torch 9800, well, it doesn’t seem like that. A video was posted on YouTube of an unannounced BlackBerry device, rumoured to be the BlackBerry Storm 3 – but was soon pulled off.

This device has been codenamed Monaco and is Verizon branded with a very early OS build running on it. You can clearly see the lag in the menus.

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