The Samsung Galaxy Note II, a smartphone-and-tablet phablet powered with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, was unveiled in IFA 2012 Berlin. Its releasing news has been spread all around the world. Samsung Electronics shows the world its creative power again, even fresh through the battle with Apple. But most will wonder which is better between Note II and Nexus 7, the latter is also the newly-released top-end tablet with Android 4.1. Nobody can tell you which is better because it depends on your interests and attentions. Now let’s compare some key specs for your reference.

1. Phone or Tablet

Obviously, the Galaxy Note is not just a tablet but also a high-end smartphone, which supports HSPA Plus or 4G LTE. In other words, you won’t miss any call from your friends while playing on it. However, if you just need tablet for entertainment, well you need to consider again because both of two are competitive.

2. Display and Camera

The Galaxy Note 2 features a 5.5-inch HD Super AMOLED with 1280 x 720 resolution and 16:9 aspect ratio, but a 7-inch LED-backlit IPS LCD with the same 1280 x 800 resolution and similar aspect ratio of 16:10 is equipped on Google Nexus 7. We can say they are similar display but different size. 7-inch may be too big for pockets but is more wonderful to play than 5.5-inch. In addition, The NOTE II offers two cameras, 8-megapixel rear-facing and 1.9-megapixel front-facing, and supports 1080p HD video recording. The Nexus 7 features a front-facing shooter for video chatting with 720p video recording.

3. Made for creative inspirations or Google play

As Google says, “Nexus 7 was built for Google Play. With Google Play, all the entertainment you love is right in your hand: more than 600,000 apps and games, millions of eBooks and songs, thousands of movies, and a growing selection of TV shows and magazines.” If you are Android fans and just need tablet, this is your best choice. However, other than playing all Android resources in Google Play, Note II brings you more perfect and amazing experience and powerful performance from the palm of hand. The GALAXY Note II comes with the latest hardware and technologies: 1.6GHz Quad-Core processor, Quick Command, new S PEN and S NOTE and so on. 

4. Battery

The Nexus 7 can house a much better battery than the Galaxy Note 2. The former owns Li-Ion 4,325mAh 16Wh non-removable battery for the tablet and the Li-Ion 3,100mAh user-replaceable faster-charging battery for the phablet.

5. Price

It becomes obvious that the Galaxy Note II will be more expensive than Nexus 7.Note II will has the unlocked version and the subsidized version and both are high price. For the other, the Google Nexus 7 is available for $199(8GB)/$249(16GB). so before deciding which to buy, you should have second thoughts about the money!

At the IFA Technology trade show in Berlin this year, all consumer electronic makers’ wants to show their innovation ability and attract more consumers from the Giants such as Apple and Samsung through unveiling new top-end products. Today we are going to take a look at new smartphones from LG and SONY.

LG Optimus L9

LG, another South Korean phone manufacturer which is trying to run after Samsung, had unveiled another new smartphone Optimus L9 yesterday. This one runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich with a 4.7-inch high-definition IPS display. Its 1GHz dual-core processor with 1GB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage brings users faster and easier performance. Even though it is not equipped with 8-megapixel camera and more powerful battery like Samsung, its 5-megapixel camera and a 2,150 mAH battery are enough for users to enjoy extraordinary experience. Its advantage is the QTranslator function. This built-in translator can instantly translates not only words, but also entire sentences and phrases with a simple scan nearly 44 foreign languages. The OCR technology can recognizes letters through scanning with the camera and translate words, sentences or phrases immediately from dictionary or online.

Sony yesterday added three new smartphones to its Xperia series.
The Xperia T, newly Sony's new flagship handset, is equipped with a 4.6-inch screen offering HD resolution and a 13-megapixel camera. It is powered by a 1.5GHz dual-core processor and can connect to LTE 4G like other Galaxy SIII. Its Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich will be upgraded to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean very soon. And The Xperia V shares many as the Xperia T, such as its 13 megapixel camera, but as the traditional habit of Sony, it comes with a smaller display of 4.3-inch. The Xperia J is aimed at the low-end consumers with a 5 megapixel camera and a 1GHz single-core processor. But it is worth to point out that as we all know Sony has its unique media applications (“WALKMAN”, Album and Movies), which combine the best of Sony’s technologies and connect consumers to a variety of entertainment services. And these devices support ‘One-touch’ functions for content sharing via NFC technology. In addition, all of them will be available in a variety of colors.

Samsung Electronics, a global leader in digital media and digital convergence technologies, today has announced three powerful mobile devices in IFA Berlin just after a battle with Apple. It makes the most of its innovation capability worldwide. Now let us appreciate these three great products!

GALAXY Note II
This new Galaxy Note II comes with 1.6GHz Quad-Core processor and Android 4.1, which allows users easier and faster multitasking. Thanks to other powerful creative features, the Note II offer users perfect and unique viewing experience and unleash their inner creativity. 140.9 mm (5.55") HD Super AMOLED with 8 megapixel rear-facing and 1.9 megapixel front-facing camera helps users see everything clearly and vividly. Larger screen with new features of new Popup Note and Quick Command, and new longer S Pen lets users accomplish more tasks quickly and design freely wherever and whenever. Moreover, HSPA Plus or 4G LTE connectivity with a 3,100mAh battery, allow users enjoy multimedia content without worrying about power limitation. It will go on sale in Europe and Asia in October.

GALAXY Camera
With the latest Android 4.1 platform, wireless network connectivity and new smart features like voice-controlling, the GALAXY Camera change the way we photograph and communicate. The Voice Control option allows the user to control a number of functions such as ‘Zoom in’ and ‘Shoot’ through voice. Users also can keep up with the new trends of backing up data into the cloud and share photos with friends on social networks.

Samsung ATIV S
The smartphone becomes the first one running Windows Phone 8 ahead of Nokia's version which once was the only and first highly anticipated Windows Phone 8 smartphone. No doubt, its announcement surprises the world and push huge stress on Nokia. The ATIV S will come with 1.5GHz dual-core processor and HSPA＋42 connectivity, combines with the great entertainment and work feature of Windows Phone 8, and bring users impressive and perfect experience.

How long does your phone bear not to call “BATTERY LOW”. Have you ever noticed where does the Battery juice goes? Who does sucks up these juices?

These are some questions that may not come to everyone’s mind everyday but they bear a lot of importance in your life. If your battery runs out too quickly, you to find out some feeding point

 wherever you are. So here I am to guide you through how to save your battery power of Android device making it run longer. Below are given remedy steps to save the battery juice intact for longer time until it demands an immediate feeding point.

• Check out who feeds on your battery the most

The very first thing you require to find out the culprit behind sucking on the battery the most. You can check that when you open the About phone section of your Android device in the setting area and check out the Battery Use there. This part lists the items that suck your battery and also the percentage of battery they are constantly feeding upon. Here you will also see time passed since it was removed from the charging point.

• Adjust Device’s Brightness Level

In the previous step, you must have seen that the one, which consumes battery the most, is the display almost all times. The display of Android devices are quite bright and that much high level brightness is not required all of the time (at least when you are inside a building and not outside in Sun). Hence you can adjust the brightness at a low level at which the display is clear as well as the battery usage is decreased considerably. For this adjust brightness of the display in the Display Setting of your device.

•  Automatic Brightness Setting

Not at but some of the Android devices will show a setting know as Automatic Brightness which enables the phone to adjust the brightness level according the level of light in the surroundings. Here the user will not have to adjust the brightness whenever goes out in the sun or comes back inside. This option is available in the Display Settings of Android device.

• Turn off 3G Network

If you do not access the high speed 3G network all the time, you can simply switch it off whenever you do not use it. For such actions, you will find an option in the Mobile Networks section in Wireless settings. This will save battery not much but does contribute.

• Black Background for AMOLED Screen

When you have an Android device with AMOLED screen, remember to keep a background that is quite dark and preferably Black. This will help save battery power of your Android device. Also if you surf Google through bgoog.com, this link will provide a black background.

• Task Manager to view if any App is on unnecessarily

Like the computer we also have the Task Manager for our Android devices that displays the number of programs that are open in the device. Open Task Manager of your Android Device to view if any App is on unnecessarily. It is a one stop solution to switch off all the Apps that may be on. Task Manager is available in the Menu of all Android devices.

• Adjust Screen Timeout

You must have observed that the screen brightness goes low if the device remains idle.  Android devices come with the functions to set these screen timeout according to the requirement of the user. You can easily adjust the screen timeout from the Display Settings section and adjust it low so that the phone dims the brightness earlier than before. This will help save battery power for longer time.

• Do Not get Pinged for every 2 Minutes

The Android device has so many features, why not exploit them. But if tweet, emails and similar stuff keeps you updated every 2 minutes, soon you will get bored and every time with this you also constantly lose your battery power. So to save battery power and concentrate, decrease the frequency of updates or notifications related with any apps.

• Turn Off Wi-Fi

The Wireless connection to the internet can be provided by the Wi-Fi services of the Android device. If an area where you are has connectivity to the internet through Wi-Fi services you can access the services on your device as well. But all the areas that you visit may not have Wi-Fi services and also you must not be accessing the internet through Wi-Fi all day long, so it would be better if you switch off the Wi-Fi connectivity when not required. Believe me, this will greatly enhance your Battery output for longer time.

• Turn Off Bluetooth

The Bluetooth services mainly provided you access to send and receive files that are not very big in size with another device or computer. But there is an often mistakes by many of us, that we forget to switch off the Bluetooth when not in use. Please make a note of this and always switch it off after your file sharing work is complete. This will save battery of your Android device as well as save your device from unauthorized access that someone may attempt to do while your Bluetooth is on.

• Turn Off GPS

GPS is a very useful and important service that our Android devices provide. The GPS will guide you through to your destination and let you know how to reach a particular place in an unknown region. Again this service is like that you may be using it all the time; hence turn off the GPS when not in use to save battery power from reducing at a faster rate.

• Keep your device on Stand By

Whenever you are not using your device, keep it on Stand By mode. This will again help you save battery power.

• Screen Widgets and Live Wallpapers

Screen Widgets look so beautiful and also provide an easy access to your various apps and programs that you may use very frequently. And not to forget those Live Wallpapers that add more beauty to the home screen. Both of these things make your home screen adorable but side by side they suck upon your battery juices and finish it very fast. If not possible to remove all the screen widgets on home screen than at least make a choice to keep only those without which you can’t live. And the live wallpapers I would say are worth replacing with the normal wallpapers but don’t make the home screen dull and ugly. Have a good collection of wallpapers and if you do not have search it on the internet and download but better avoid live wallpapers.

• Screen Auto Rotation

The screen auto rotation is a motion sensor feature of Android Devices and lets the devices change the view from portrait to landscape and back to portrait by just changing the style of holding the device. But the Android device is so configured with resolution that it will automatically show the stuff in portrait or landscape form according to stuff it has to display. Likewise you will find that some of the apps play in Portrait form but others may play in Landscape form and there are a very little number of apps that can be played in both the forms. So to switch on this feature is not of much use. So save battery by switching it off.

• Auto-sync Turned Off

If you are not a great user of Google stuff all the time, like Gmail, Calendar, etc. then it would be good for you to switch off the Auto Sync function. This will save battery juice for longer time. You can sync your contacts with manually after a fixed interval of time every time, so that if you lose you device anywhere you have those precious contacts with you. My Settings is that app which will help you switching off the auto sync feature. This app also has many similar features.
Download it Here.

• Put device in Best Reception Of Signals

Another parameter that matters for battery is good reception of signals. You can actually experiment this parameter. Keep your device in a place where there are plenty of signals of good strength are available, your battery will definitely remain active for longer period of time. In other case, the battery drains out at a faster rate. Antennas is an app that help you find good reception area.
Download it Here.

• Device Vibrations

The device vibrations are very useful like you may be in a place where you do not want your phone to shout when you receive a call, sms, email or something like that. Also there can be places where you require the ringtone to ring for you whenever call or similar things happen. So it depends on the place you are in that you require the ringtone or just the vibrations to work for. But one thing is that vibrations consume a lot of battery power. So do not keep your device on vibrations unnecessarily. Also there may be Apps and Games that shake your device at instants while playing, so it will be better to switch vibration for these stuff.

• Air Plane Mode

There is mode called Airplane Mode on your Android device. You should switch to this mode while travelling in airplane. This will also help you save battery on your device. If you are not interested in using your device in the airplane, it will be best you switch off the device. While in airplane mode your device will not be able to receive or perform call like features but will be fully functional for those tasks that do not use the network connectivity.

• Keep Your Device’s charger and USB cable always with you

It may happen with you that you do not find time to charge device when you are work or you may field work and travel a lot and so not able to charge the Android device. For that case, you must always carry the charger and the USB cable with you, so that you can charge the device whenever you find time. USB cable is also helpful at lot of places to charge the device like the Airports where they have charging ports that work with USB cable.

Apps that will help you Save Battery

• Juice defender

This is a wonderful and mighty app which has a lot many features to help you in saving the battery juice of your Android device. The app has the power to make a huge difference in the power consumption that you make now and that after using its features.
Download it Here.

• Go Power Master

This app is also very cool and provides a great help in your motive to save battery power. The app is very interactive and user friendly.
Download it Here.
You may try each and every remedy provided above, but trying at least 5-6  will make a considerable difference to battery consumption.
Have Fun

Nowadays almost every person likes to keep his personal documents, videos, images, or audio files on their computer hard drive. Compared to the old ways of storing data like paper or diary, hard drives have a limited lifetime which is around 5-10 years.

But the fact that hard drive doesn’t fail without a host of signs, thus giving you signals to store or backup your precious data.
If you really unsure about the signs of hard drive failure, then read this articles to find out what signs may reveal hard drive failure.

Signs of hard drive failure

Slow Computer with Frequent Freezes and Blue Screen of Death



These signs are very unspecific as they can be cause by millions of different reasons. But whatever be the reason be, you should immediately backup your data. After making a backup try formatting and a fresh installation of Operating System on your hard drive. If the problems still persist, the cause behind is hardware failure, thus possibly a failing hard drive.
Corrupted Data and Lots of Bad Sectors on Hard Drive


If you’re unable to open a saved file, even if the file was saved without any error whatsoever or the files are disappearing, then it may be hard drive related problem. So, you should backup your data and try a fresh installation of your Operating System as problems like these can be virus or malware related. If the problem still persists, then your hard drive is prone to fail.
Bad sectors are those parts of a hard drive where it cannot maintain data integrity. It is very difficult to find bad sectors as they are automatically masked by Operating Systems. You can check your hard drive for bad sectors by Right-Clicking on any hard Drive partition and choosing Properties. Now Select Tools tab and click on Check Now, to check your hard drive for bad sectors.


Strange Sounds made by your Hard Drive
If your hard drive is making strange sounds or noises, then it may be too late already. This repetitive sound is also known as click of death which is caused by the head as it tries to write data and recovers from error while doing so.
If your hard drive is making grinding or screeching sounds or noises, then there is a hardware problem, like spindle motor or bearing are failing.
What to do when you think your hard drive is going to fail
I think the best available option for you is to make a backup of your personal documents, images, video or audio files. I would also add that you should always keep a secondary drive as a backup hard drive, just in cases like this.
Closing Words: You shouldn’t rely on software and signs to tell you that your hard drive is going to fail, a occurrences like this comes unexpectedly. So all you can do is do more reliable like keeping a backup of your personal data first hand.

Hey guys, This is mTz and today I'm gonna post one of the most gorgeous rom that is available for out little Y :)

As you all people know that ICS is not yet fully functional on our Y, so this ROM is to fool your friends that you are running ICS/JellyBean.


VERSION 2.0 (Codename : JELLY BLAST):

New Features:

• Totally Jelly Bean themed!!!!
• Jelly Bean live wallpaper!!!
• Tons of beautiful wallpapers!!!!
• New ICS themed file explorer!!
• Themed CHROME browser.(Lightning fast!!!!)
• New ICS/JB messaging app!!!
• New ICS/JB keyboard!!!!
• New Jelly Bean bootanimation!!!
• Includes full fledged office suite!!
• More transparent status bar!!! (If you want Next2ICS 1.0 status bar only then flash the second zip..else no need..)
• The stable edition does not include swype to remove notifications, but has a "CLEAR BUTTON" which does the same job with a single click!!
• JELLY BEAN LOCKSCREEN!!!!
• Fixed all bugs in 1.0!!!
• Enjoy!!!

SCREENSHOTS:

            

DOWNLOAD:

• Root your phone. If already rooted, proceed to the next step.(How to root or unroot Galaxy Y-click here)
• Place the three files below to your sd card (NOT IN ANY FOLDER!!!)
• Switch off your phone.
• Go to recovery mode by pressing power button + Volume up + Home button
• Use the volume keys to move up and down.
• Wipe data and cache.
• Now choose: Install zip from sd card.
• Choose JellyBlastGenED.signed.zip
• Choose "yes"
• It will be Installed. Now reboot your phone.
• Please wait until media scanning is completed.
• Repeat the above steps to flash any other zips you want from here (downloads and Addons).
• Enjoy!!!  :P

The Best and the most stable ROM is here again but in a different form.... all are familiar with this but some are not.
So Ill just post it...
This is a DEODEXED STOCK ROM DDLE1

and what more... ITS CWM FLASHABLE!!
1. wipe data n cache...
2. Install Zip...
3. to check if its a success... flash a 14toggles zip... here :P

Link...----->>  Download... 

All credits go to the DEV who did this... :)

Any questions??? visit HERE and call me out!!! :D

Can you imagine that in the future, we can control everything we use in daily life? Time will tell us the answer! Even though you are far away from home, most home appliances will listen to you whenever, from doors, home utilities to multimedia system and more. That day will be true mobile smart life. As the open-source Android system more and more popular, many smart apps with Android has been developed and changed our life. Today we introduce two of best home automation apps for your Android.

Panasonic Smart App
Panasonic just announced a new Android app, called the Panasonic Smart App, which is designed to help with home automation. It makes the utmost of NFC technology and network connection. We can communicate with any smart appliances, such as washing machines, refrigerators, and air conditioner. We can operate them and modify settings anywhere for our android devices. We will open air conditioner earlier we reach home, wash dishes after dinner on our phones. What a pity is that this app will be released only in Japan so far. We believe someday soon we also can get this perfect Android app.

Nexia Home Intelligence Mobile
Lacking of Panasonic smart app, we also have other home automation apps to choose, like Nexia Home Intelligence Mobile. This app can help us set the heating and cooling system, set temporary passwords of door for different guests and record video in real-time to take care of things and the people in our home from your Android phone. Moreover, we also can control Schlage Home Keypad Locks and other Z-Wave devices via phones wherever.

There are still many other home automation apps for android devices we haven’t mentioned. Some of them are free and some charges. There is no doubt that it is a long distance from the day mobile apps penetrates every aspect of our daily life, but it is a great future for developers and us and worthy to look forward to that day!

   Video Tutorial:

 Android phones are so popular that some people around us certainly own one android phones, and they have become our essential part of our life. But accidently problems may come with our phones and bring us trouble, for example, water damage, battery life and data lost. As owners, we should have some ideas of maintaining your android phones. Here are some tips to three kind of frequent problems for your android phones.

Boost Your Android Phone's Battery Life
As we know, the latest smartphones are thinner designed with less room for batteries, larger and brighter screens, faster dual-core processors, more software that runs in the background. Sometimes our battery life is used up to end, but we are in the habit of recharging it at night. So we need to expand the battery life for our android phones

     1. See what consume the battery!

Navigate to Settings > About Phone > Battery Use If you see an application you barely use or a feature you never use, uninstall the app or turn off the feature.

     2. Turn unnecessary hardware features off

Some like Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth are not necessary to be activated in 24 hours

     3. Set display brightness to adjust automatically

Save your phones after water spilled or drunk into water
This situation happens often, but not all android phones are water proofed like Motorola Defy. The follow tips may help you to rescue your phone.
     1. Pull out the battery and SIM
     2. Leave it near sunlight for 24 hours or put it in a bowl of uncooked rice.
     3. Do NOT put your battery back until the 24 hours are up.

Recover data from your phones or SD card
We often delete some files to get more memory, but someday we find that the files deleted are important and we need them back. What should we do? Usually expecting accidental file formatting and deleting, our phones also face problems such as virus attack and power failure, improper operation, and these activities possibly cause our data lost. So we also have to know how to recover deleted files.

Are you fans of WWE? You certainly want to watch WWE superstar fighting on the scene! But you were not there every time and you were on one-track mind, latest news from WWE. What could you do especially you are out of door with no TV or radio. In Aug.17 the official WWE app was released on Google Play store. All android users can keep up with all latest news on phones. The following Android apps will assist you to have better experience with WWE. 

WWE
This official WWE app brings you breaking news, WWE videos – current and classic – along with 1000s of photos. You can get instant access to your favorite WWE superstar on Superstar pages and save their profiles. And The WWE app is your handy tool to have your voice heard and participate in live WWE programming. In addition, you are allowed to build a virtual community of WWE fans in your area to keep the conversation going after the bell, even set reminders and order tickets!

WWE Trivia
Do you want to check which level you are in among all real WWE fans? Here comes the opportunity! Install this WWE Trivia for your android devices and you will be taken to challenge best questions about WWE, from the real name of WWE superstar Edge to how many times John Cena has held the WWE championship. You will get lots of fun with it.

WWE Raw Live
As the developer says, lay the Smackdown on your friends with everything you need to know about the WWE! With this app you could get different experience from other WWE apps. Favorite superstars entrance themes, many funny interviews, smack talks, most amazing moments in WWE history will be on your hand. You also can keep up on all the hottest news, rumors, and even results.

Google Nexus 7 android tablet, special of its kind as it doesn’t support any call facility as HSPA or LTE data connectivity options are missing. As Nexus 7 is not like other tablets as we see in market like Samsung Galaxy Tab which supports making call facilities instead of that, Nexus 7 is a very basic android tablet which allows you to surf internet, play games, email your contacts, video chats on Skype/Gtalk. Supporting only Wi-Fi services, Nexus 7
users find it troublesome for making calls. Here is a solution, we will let you know a hack after which implementation you can use Google Voice now to Make / Receive Calls from Nexus 7.


Note that this hack only works on rooted Nexus 7 so do root it before you proceed with our hack guide. You’ll also be able to make free calls via Google Voice on Nexus 7 over Wi-Fi in US only.

You need a rooted Nexus 7 for this hack, so rooting will void your warranty. If any complications in your Nexus 7 arise due to below described steps, we shouldn’t be held responsible.

How to use Google Voice on Nexus 7 for making Calls  i.e. incoming and outgoing calls free of cost all over US ?

• Process starts with setting up a VoIP account on CallCentric.com and then an account on ipkall.com (to get a free incoming number) which will allow us to receive VoIP calls for free of cost. When you are adding host name on ipkall.com while making account, note server is “in.callcentric.com”. After making account, you will get an IPKall phone number as: 253-802-XXXX
• Download and install a SIP app on your Nexus 7 i.e. CSipSimple from Google Play store. After installing app, set it up with the CallCentric.com account, kindly use your “Username” as your number on CallCentric.com
• Now add the number got from IpKall on your Google Voice account (open Google voice account on your PC) under settings option as “Add a new number“. Number verification will be done and and your tablet will ring up.