I came across a website yesterday that allows you to customise your own Android smartphone in a very similar way to how you can customise a Dell laptop to your personal requirements. This is interesting as traditionally the only thing that you might be able to differentiate in a mobile device is the included amount …
Tag: Android
Oct 28 2010
Save Battery Life on Android – Turn Off Unused Radios
- By Boydo in Android, Batteries, Operating Systems, Power, Technology
Leading on from yesterday’s article, sometimes you need to be a real power miser if you are nowhere near a power socket or you have forgotten your charger. I’m sure many of us have undergone the humiliating scrounge around the office begging for a charger. Worse still, there are people that will simply help themselves …
Oct 27 2010
Save Battery Life on Android – Check Background Services
- By Boydo in Android, Batteries, Operating Systems, Power, Technology
Whilst Android had the one up on iOS for a while with its multitasking ability with user applications it did come with a few drawbacks one of which was an impact to battery life. This can occur when you leave applications running without quitting them or when an application has a background service component that …
Oct 24 2010
Free Your Android Device of the USB Cable with SwiFTP
- By Boydo in Android, Connectivity, Interfaces, Operating Systems, Technology, USB, Wi-Fi, Wireless
Here’s a quick tip for those who are prone to losing, misplacing or hate using cables. There’s a great app called SwiFTP (a contracted form of “Swift FTP”) which basically install a compact FTP server on your phone. Then you can connect to it using your favourite FTP client (such as FileZilla) and drag and …
Oct 23 2010
How to Flash Unofficial Firmware on a Samsung Galaxy S
- By Boydo in Android, Flash, Operating Systems, Storage, Technology
At least in Australia, Samsung Galaxy S owners have been let down by ongoing delays with regard to the release of the Android 2.2 update (AKA Froyo). This has been of particular frustration for users with Android 3.0 (AKA Gingerbread) due to be released by Google before the end of the year. However, there is …
Oct 22 2010
WINAMP for Android Released!
- By Boydo in Android, Apple, iPad, Operating Systems, Technology, Wi-Fi, Wireless
From what I have gathered reading numerous forums and blogs, finding a good media player has been somewhat a quest for the holy grail for Android users. DoubleTwist has been popular as it can be paired up with client software on a regular computer for content management however it has not been without its problems …
Oct 19 2010
Facebook Privacy – Check Your Facebook Phonebook
- By Boydo in Android, Apple, Communications, Facebook, iPhone, Legal, Operating Systems, Privacy, Social Networking, Technology
These days, Facebook is very much the social hub for the digital life for the average connected person. What people may not realise is that Facebook makes it keep by finding ways to use our personal information, be it for targeted ads or suggested content. It probably goes without saying that the more detailed information that can …
Oct 10 2010
Google Engineer on Windows Phone 7: The World Doesn’t Need Another Mobile Platform
- By Boydo in Android, Apple, iOS, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Technology, Windows Phone 7
In a PCMag interview, Andy Rubin (a Google Engineer) made a statement in response to Windows Phone 7 in that “the world doesn’t need another mobile platform”. Of course, a statement like that is like rattling a hornets nest for fun and has certainly created some conjecture about the topic in general. What has drawn …
Oct 05 2010
Skype Arrives on Android – Finally!
- By Boydo in Android, Communications, Connectivity, Instant Messaging, Mobile, Skype, Skype, Technology, VoIP, Wi-Fi, Wireless
Just a quick one for tonight. For a while, many Android users have been left out in the cold without an official Skype client. Instead, users have had to resort to hacking crippled clients from other Android handsets that were originally bound by various carrier restrictions (such as limited Skype minutes). Well, Skype has literally …
Oct 01 2010
Tethering – Should it be a Fundamental Feature in Smartphones?
- By Boydo in Android, Apple, Bluetooth, Connectivity, Interfaces, Microsoft, Mobile, Operating Systems, Secure, Technology, VPN, Wi-Fi, Windows Phone 7, Wireless
Tethering with mobile phones has been around for a while although back in the early days of GPRS it was often worse than dial up (not to mention an order of magnitude more expensive). These days with USB, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity it seems odd that some smartphones have been slow to allow users the …
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