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Samsung Galaxy 3 I5801 gets Android 2.2 FroYo update in India + How To
Samsung has finally let out their most awaited update for the Samsung Galaxy 3. Android 2.2 aka Froyo is now available for all those with samsung Galaxy 3s in India and Europe.

To Update your Device

Make sure your device is fully charged!

BE sure to backup all your data!

Step one

Download the latest version of Kies

Step two

Fully charge your Galaxy 3

Step three

Connect via the USB cable to your computer

Step four

Fire up kies and let it search for update

if it does not give you an update, check for update manually by clicking the update button in the bottom row.

Step Five

Follow the steps on the screen and your device will begin the new update.

Few features that are in the 2.2 update –
- A very colorful menu interface
- The ability to Install apps to the SD CARD
- Apart from general Performance boost in processor, better battery and ram management.
- The 2.2 update also adds a lot of bug fixes and tweaks.
Please leave your questions and feedback below.
April 17, 2011
Windows 8 Can be Run from a USB Stick

A leaked copy of Windows 8 spread like wildfire in the recent week. Daily new tidbits and features are being discovered about the new mammoth from Microsoft. The newest information rocking the market is the fact that the user with a retail disk can make actual usb copies of the operating system and carry them, like portable ubuntu.

This could also give piracy a whole new push with cds becoming the old and portable os becoming the new. Bootable Windows 8 on a USB 3.0 drive anyone? As tempting as it may sound, a minimum 16GB pendrive is required for the task and looks like USB 3.0 is yet to be found commercially.

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April 17, 2011
Samsung Galaxy S Gets Gingerbread version of Android in Europe, Coming to India ?

Samsung rolls out the 2.3 Gingerbread update in Europe just ahead of its schedule. We are left with rolling eyes. It’s a limited rollout, benefiting Holland and Germany first. For all those in the EU with a Galaxy S , boot up your phone and connect it to Kies to check for a software update.

April 17, 2011
App a Day: ToonPAINT for iOS and Android
Today we have an image editing software for you which manipulates images and allows you to re-colour them. Like the caricature artists in fairs you too can now cartoonize and re-colour your images from your photo albums or take fresh images from your camera. You can share your images in the ToonPAINT hall of fame, post them directly to facebook, tweet about them and also e-mail them.

Lets look at some of the features of the app. After you’ve selected your image, the app processes the image and you can pan/zoom to the desired region, change shading options and the sizes of various attributes that modify the image. After you’ve set the image the way you want it, we move on to the painting section. Here, you can select colours, set brush sizes and pan/zoom into a section of the image and work your magic.

The palette has a few other options to Auto Colour the image (Available as an in-app purchase) and an Alpha Brush(Available as an in-app purchase), which re-colours your image from the original. Although the interface is attractive, several of the actions are a pain to complete as you must switch between control panels constantly.

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April 16, 2011
Indian Government Bans Nokia’s Push Email Service

Nokia’s upcoming push email service has been banned by the Indian Government. The Ministry of Home Affairs has relayed directives to the Department of Telecom stating that Nokia’s new push email product should not be permitted to launch in India until a system is put in place that will allow the government to monitor communications sent a received on devices.

“In view of the Intelligence Bureau’s report, Department of Telecommunications is requested to advice the Telecom Service Providers not to launch Nokia’s proposed pushmail/powermail service without putting in place monitoring facilities to the satisfaction of the LEAs,” Said the Telecom Department.

A similar thing had happened with RIM’s Blackberry servers, back in 2010.

April 16, 2011
App A Day : Game : Blockees for iOS
Today we have a fun game from Runloop Ltd. called Blockees. This is a puzzle game about uniting blocks of the same colour in as few strokes as possible. It sounds kind of silly but is quite addictive.

The music is very happy happy fun fun at first but gets on your nerves very soon, so this game is best played with the sound muted. It is quite challenging as there are grey coloured blocks which are quite miserable (so says the app) and don’t like to unite with other blocks.

The game comes with 75 levels in 3 level-packs for you to play. It also has a Puzzle Editor section for user created levels so you can challenge your friends. There’s even a pack generator which downloads user-created maps according to your criteria, so you’ll probably be spending a lot of time swiping little blocks around to unite them with their coloured counterparts. All-in-all the app is quite nice and puts a new twist to puzzle games.
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April 15, 2011
Angry Birds coming to Windows Phone 7 Devices May 25th

Rovio’s smash hit Angry Birds game will be available for Windows Phone 7 Devices on May 25th. The game is the most successful application on several app store platforms including Android, iOS and Mac App Store. Although there is no information on pricing, we hope its either free or really cheap.

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April 15, 2011
Apple updates iOS to 4.3.2 for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad

Apple on Thursday released iOS version 4.3.2 for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The only changes noted by Apple are bug fixes and security updates including the Facetime crash fix and the connectivity issues faced by iPad 2 users.

April 15, 2011
App A Day : Sleep Cycle For iOS
Do you have erratic sleep patterns? Do you suffer from sleepless nights and drowsy days? Then Sleep Cycle is the iOS App for you. This is one of the most innovative ways to incorporate the device’s accelerometer to monitor your motion patterns during sleep. This alarm clock helps keep us on our toes even if we have been busy all night.

The app monitors your sleep pattern throughout the night and will ‘wake you up when you are in the lightest sleep phase’. When we sleep, we go through phases of light sleep and deep sleep. Which phase you wake up in results in the kind of mood you will be in all day. If you wake up in your deep sleep phase you will find your self dull and sleepy throughout the day.

The app works brilliantly, and takes upto 4 days to register your sleep patterns, once they are fully registered you will find yourself waking up on time. The only catch is that the app requires that you plug in the iPhone all night leave the app running and place the iPhone on your bed upside down, so that the accelerometer can monitor your movement. The good thing however, is that the app uses the proximity sensor to turn off the display.

The App also gives you a report of your sleep patterns over the period of use of the app. With this you can monitor your sleep time and deep sleep patterns.

The disadvantage : if you leave the app to do some other activity the alarm is reset. However it should be used as the last point of interaction.
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April 14, 2011
Windows Phone 7 upcoming features introduced at the MIX developers conference

Microsoft demoed the upcoming version changes on the next generation of Windows Phone 7 Devices , major features including multitasking, background audio, push notifications and raw sensor data (not to mention over 1500 new APIs) in the next version of Windows Phone. Check out the video below courtesy of Engadget.

April 14, 2011
HTC Sense 3.0 only for newer Devices Past Generation left out

Here is a big bummer from HTC, all devices including Desire HD, Incredible S or any other handset that doesn’t ship with it preloaded will not be getting the Sense 3.0 update. The company claims that the new Sense is Hardware intensive and will not work properly on last generation phones. This move could go both ways for HTC, loyalists will upgrade to new handsets and angry old customers will shift loyalties. what do you think?

April 14, 2011
Samsung Galaxy S 2 Benchmarked

Looks like the Galaxy S 2 is running Benchmarks all round, the device beats any stock device in current benchmarks. Scores are coming in over 3300 thanks to the dual core processor.

The Samsung Galaxy S 2 was launched Yesterday in India, check out our coverage of the launch with hands on Here

April 14, 2011
App a Day: MicDroid for Android

Hi Guys,

Today we decided to review something fun for you. Here’s MicDroid from the Android Marketplace. Its a audio recording software which auto tunes your ‘be-sura’ voice into a one hit wonder. We had quite a lot of fun while playing with this app. It can provide random entertainment while your waiting for a bus or a train or in line for your movie tickets.

Features:
-Automatic pitch-correction
-On-the-fly pitch correction
-Email recordings
-Set recordings as ringtone
-Disable/enable ads in settings

The best thing about this app is that its FREE! So record yourself, your friends and even your dog and post the links below in the comments. Although the app is still in Beta, it promises to have an exiting future. You can get a free audio hosting account from Chirbit and upload files in multiple formats.

Here’s a sample of us singing a popular song from Youtube.
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You can download the app from this link or scan the QR code below from your phone.

April 13, 2011
App a Day: Times of India

We’re starting a new section to review apps from various mobile app marketplaces. These will include the latest and best releases from Android, iOS and Windows Phone 7 Marketplace.

Todays App is the Times of India App.

This particular app is a portal for the Times of India website on your mobile device. Reading news and staying up to date with current events has never been easier. It features many sections to segregate news for easier reading. You can customize what news you receive on your front page and you can also download news for off-line viewing.

The app also shows a nifty live Sen-sex ticker in the top right corner and has a separate section for Photo galleries and Video news. The only feature we thought was lacking was a citizen journalist section to report news as it happens live around you. All in all this is a must have app for your device to keep yourself up to date with the changing world around you.

Stay tuned for tomorrows app review.

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April 12, 2011
BlackBerry Bold Touch 9930 gets caught on Video

The all new Blackberry Bold 3 aka Bold 9930 we spoke about earlier has now got some hands on time courtesy N4BB the device runs latest BB OS 6.1 and shows off quite a responsive capacitive screen. check out the video below.

April 12, 2011