ASUS Padfone at MWC 2012

ASUS has shown its form-changing Padfone at Mobile World Congress.

Quick Overview

• the Padfone can slide into an optional station that effectively allows you to use it as if it were a 10.1-inch tablet.  
• will have a stylus 
• ASUS confirmed that the Padfone will ship in April.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1: An overview

Quick Overview

• 10.1” PLS LCD 
• Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
• 1280 x 800 pixels (same as previous 10.1 tab) 

How to play DOS Floppy Disk Games on Android

To play old school games on Android tablet,  you can use Android app port of DOSbox. It can be done by connecting an external floppy drive via USB to Samsung tablet by way of a docking station and a powered USB hub the tablet had the proper drives to operate the drive. 

Intel Medfield Android smartphones coming to India

 

Lava is partnering with Intel to bring its Medfield CPU to Android smartphones.

Samsung Galaxy Beam with PICO projector

Quick Overview-

• The Beam is your standard dual-core Android phone.
• It has a 15 lumens projector, which will let you project your video clips, maps, and presentations as an image up to 50-feet wide. 
• It’s designed to work well in your home, lecture hall or conference room.

Santa Clara: Intel's Atom-powered smartphone from Orange

Box offers 50 GB of FREE cloud storage

Cloud storage and sharing service Box is has removed the “.net” from its name and changed the design of its popular Android app. And, it’s enabling all Android users to receive a free 50 GB of data for downloading the new app.

Acer's Liquid Glow NFC smartphone

Acer has just announced the Liquid Glow with following specs -

• Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
• 3.7-inch display
• 5-megapixel rear camera
• NFC capabilities

Samsung Rugby Smart on AT&T

Samsung Android phone Rugby Smart is available in US now on AT&T. It is dust proof, shock resistant, and can be be submerged in 1m of water for 30 minutes. Extreme temperatures are also handled by the device.

Specs wise ->

ASUS confirms Transformer ICS update in US

The update to Android 4.0 ICS for the original ASUS Transformer tablet will begin rolling out in the US starting tomorrow.

HTC One X (Endeavor) leaked image

One of HTC's 2012 flagship devices is just leaked. See its image above. Meet the phone that Pocketnow is calling the One X, which we've heard a lot about over the past few months under the names- Edge or Endeavor

Samsung’s Zipel oven and Android

Samsung ZIPEL, model number MC368GAAW5A is a smart oven, one that can communicate with your Android smartphone via Wi-Fi.

LG 4X HD - quadcore

LG is the first who is bringing a quad-core Android phone. See more on specs-

Asus Transformer ICS update for UK in February

Now the UK branch of ASUS says that the ICS update is coming before the end of this month. Asus assures its customers that they’re working hard and still aiming for a February release,It probably means that the update for North America will come at the same time.

Asus Transformer Android 4.0 update started in Taiwan

After months of delays the Android 4.0 update started today in Taiwan and will follow in ‘’other regions soon after’’.

The Asus Eee Pad Transformer will be updated to the 9.2.1.11 firmware version and, the main changes should be -

• browsing speed and multimedia performance 
• redesigned and improved user interface

Google’s Flight Search on Mobile now!!

Flight Search is finally coming on mobile devices everywhere. The mobile flight search is said to have the same features as its desktop counterpart and they include:

N7 Music Player for Android

Features:

• Multi-touch music albums plane
• Music catalog for artists, genres and albums
• 5 band graphic equalizer
• Automatic and manual album art download
• Filtered file browser
• Lockscreen widget

Sending real postcards from Android

Touchnote Postcards is easy way to send postcards from your Android device. Here is free download link-

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.touchnote.android&hl=en

Using Web CAM as Home security CAM

There are many softwares available for turning your laptop/desktop web cam into home security cam, but I think the best one is -

http://www.vitamindinc.com/store/pricing.php

Using Android tablet as extended display monitor

If you want to use your Android tablet as extended monitor with Windows or Mac computer, then you need to download (paid app) following AirDisplay app from market -

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.avatron.airdisplay#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDIxMiwiY29tLmF2YXRyb24uYWlyZGlzcGxheSJd

Android 5.0 jelly bean coming in Q2 2012

There are much news in the market that Android 5.0 jelly bean version is coming in q2 this year.  Google wants to throw it in the market soon to compete with MS windows 8.