Samsung Galaxy S2 gets Android 4.0 Ice Cream Update with help of MIUI Rom

We all been waiting see our blazing fast green robot Samsung Galaxy S2 with the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.But we don't have the exact information when Samsung would release to our device.The developers had made it possible by the blazing fast MIUI Rom.

By installing this ROM the performance on the Samsung Galaxy S2 was up to 2x performance and made a remarkable benchmarks results by crossing the 5000 when compared to the stock ROM which was given by the Samsung galaxy s2 it was just 3500.(Higher is Better)It almost given the double the performance when compared to the newly installed firmware on our green robot.
And the Sunspider JavaScript results were all unbelievable when compared to the old java script results.which was testing on the Gingerbread 3385, now on this new firmware it was 1774 (Here lower is better)
One thing we need to check on this is the developers had overclocked the speed to the 1.6Ghz as the performance of the GPU will be gone for about 30% performance.And the bad news here is the we can't experience the whole UI interface which was shown on the Android 4.0 update. That wasn't a big news. if you want to take a try on this MIUI Rom go on try it yourself by clicking the source link.It will void your warranty.

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Officially announced Google Nexus One will not get Ice Cream Sandwich

The first smartphone of the Nexus family Google Nexus One. Even now it has its own identity when compared to other smartphones. Pretty disappointing news to the Nexus one users.Because the Ice cream sandwich Android 4.0 will not be updated on this Android Smartphone. According to the Hugo Barra ...Product management director at google had told that the hardware of the device was too old to run the latest update.As it is officially a no go to the Ice cream Sandwich but there is always a unofficially way of porting the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. As we can see on the below video which some of the dev teams had made it possible to run the Ice Cream Sandwich on the Google Nexus one. And the next Nexus S will be updated to the Ice Cream Sandwich as it was announced soon after releasing the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

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Face unlock in Samsung Galaxy Nexus

New way of unlocking our device. we have seen the bio metric thumb recognition in the Motorola Atrix. Now the Samsung and Google had a new way of unlocking the device with the face recognition in the upcoming beast Samsung Galaxy Nexus. This made possible with the new announced Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.Actually we can set up the face unlock from the settings and we can also keep the unlock pattern if we have the second thought. Because if the lighting conditions are absoultely fine there wont be any issue of face detection. If there is not an enough light to recongize your face then this pattern lock would be taking the chance to unlock the device. And most of people might be afraid what would happen if the device would unlock on showing the picture of the person. Google had assured us they have already taken care for that. And also said it wont recognize the picture if you show to the front facing camera.Pretty cool..Check this video. How to unlock the device.

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Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich got announced and Review

Google had made an remarkable history in growing their Android Green Robot with many Changes in them. Only in the life span of three years they became the toughest competition to the other platforms.Today they have stepped ahead and introduced the most awaiting update which is optimized to both tablets and Smartphone none another than the Android Ice Cream Sandwich(ICS).Android was the leading OS in the present smartphone world.Every day millions of activation's being done. These Android Ice Cream Sandwich was introduced throught the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. This was the First device to taste the Android Ice Cream Sandwich Android 4.0.

New updates with ICS:

•    Optimized for both tablets and Smartphone
•    Face Recognition to unlock the phone
•    Improved Google Voice Input
•    Re sizable widgets,Seen in application Menu
•    Improved Notification area
•    Introduced Android beam for NFC for transferring Data
•    New improved web browser which can save web pages and can open in incognito mode
•    Updated Gmail and Calender App
•    Monitoring the Data usage and controlling 
•    Split view in Gmail application
•    Improved Multitasking which are seen on Honeycomb tablets
•    Built In Screen Shot Utility
•    New User interface which was called "Roboto" with updated animations, live wallpapers, transition  effect and multi-touch gesture support
•     Improved in spell checking and while typing 
•   Improved home screen Folders and favorites tray
•   Updated Camera app which have face detection and panorama mode
•   Continuous autofocus and zoom while video recording and shoot time lapse video and snapshot while recording
•   New peoples App
•  WiFi Direct and Bluetooth HDP support
•  Improved gallery app with photo editor
•  Visual Voice mail

User Interface:  This was the whole new face to the Smartphone world with the new  "Roboto" it made complete the device. The UI was looking similar to the Honeycomb tablets the blue color theme which was set on the device looks so cool while compared to the other platforms. Android was the only platform which updated their new looks without getting us bored on seeing the same old look on our smart phones.

Notification Area:  They keep on updating the notification area from the starting which was improved very well. From this notification we can actually control the Music app without going to the application.Cool isn't? Now the notification area will been shown with the small pic what the notification was about. For example.. if we got a missed call it will show a missed call pic and also the picture of the contact person. Really Cool feature is being updated and lot more improvements are done in the notification area.

Multitasking:  The whole new type of multitasking been introduced to the Smartphone with the Android Ice Cream sandwich. This multitasking is seen on the honeycomb tablet. As the Android Ice Cream Sandwich is the combination of both Honeycomb and gingerbread we can except this feature on this. This was whole new multitasking feature

Face Unlock: This was the first device which had made the Face recognition unlock possible. Anytime Android would try to do the things in innovative way they stepped ahead an introduced the facaial recognition to unlock the phone. And they also guranteed us the device would not unlock with the persons picture or wallpaper.So many people where afraid of this type if anybody would bypass their lock.

Phone Unlocking: Unlocking the device had improved in this version. This type of unlocking had been seen on the HTC and Samsung device with their Sense and the touchwiz. Now this unlocking had made built in on this ICS. We can actually open the camera app without unlocking the device.

Contacts : The whole new interface will be seen on the contacts with the big picture of the contact person and now the contacts are called as Just People. we can now integrate with new list of google+ and the Gtalk status messages. Contacts look and feel was so good.

Messaging: From the messaging point of view nothing is being changed major change in this was the improved spell checking and improved voice input. Tired on typing on the keyboard and switch on too the voice input which was improved a lot it keeps on recording the speech to text.

WebBrowser: This was improved a lot when compared to the previous versions of the stock browser. Now we can save the webpages from it. and also improved multi tasking to the new windows. And another major update was we can open the web browser in the Incognito mode so many people was not interested to see other people what they have opened through. where no history was saved on the application. And the browser was so fast when compared to the previous version.

Camera: we can actually open the camera app without unlocking the device which was probably seen on the other devices too.But in this camera app we can actually see pretty new features like continous autofocus while video recording and also can detect the face detection and which can shoot in panaroma mode. and also snapshot while recording in time lapse video shooting. 

By this features we can actually thing google are not backing down they are keep on making smiles forever.From this updates we can actually think they are some more features which are not introduced now they will keep on updating the whole new features with whole new interface.

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Samsung Galaxy Nexus is Announced with ICS(Android Ice CreamSandwich)

Most awaited Smartphone which would probably running the first Google's Android OS Ice Cream Sandwich is being announced officially by the Samsung today.
This device is the first android device with Super Amoled Plus With HD display with a 4.65 inches of display size, and having the resolution of 720 * 1280(quite impressive). And with the processor  T1 OMAP 4460 platform with 1.2Ghz dual core A9 based processor, and having the 1 GB Ram, and it is very responsive. Internal Storage of this piece will be having 16/32Gb and microSD slot is missing. 
It has 5 MP camera at the back which can shoot 1080p video recording and the front camera with 1.3MP which can be used for the Video chatting. This device is having 1750mAh battery which could last one full day.But it depends upon how we use the Smartphone as per needs. we can shoot in panorama mode and shoot a time lapse mode video and zoom while video recording.

This Galaxy Nexus is supporting both LTE and  NFC on board. which could serve google wallet pretty good. and the bottom of the device there is a green glowing notification area which will notify us when we receive a message, missed call or an E-mail. The look of the device was so unique and doesn't have any hard buttons to go to the Menu. All the icons are displayed on the screen itself. Though it is combination of both Gingerbread and Honeycomb. This Android Robot will probably be released in coming November.

Adobe Flash Player 11 and Air 3 updates for Android and Desktop, Stage 3D comes later

Adobe had promised us they will introduce the next generation Adobe Flash Player 11 for the Android and the Desktop.We could make the performance much better than the previous versions of the Adobe Flash Player used by our Android Green robots.Last night  the updates are started rolling out from the Adobe.Now the device could update their Flash player 10 to 11.

The change log of the Adobe Flash Player 11 is main features are the better compression, enhanced high resolution bitmap support, JPEG-XR support, Support to 64 bit Operating System and 64-bit web browsers Mac Os, Linux and windows. Even new features been introuduced with Air 3 like supporting Front Facing camera support, Background audio Playback support and new lists go on.

 Stage 3D is now available for the desktop it is not rolling out now to the Android Green Robots. we will soon update the information once it got official release from the Adobe.To see the full changelog click on the souce link.

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HTC Desire S Gets Gingerbread 2.3.5 Update

HTC Desire S is getting the Gingerbread 2.3.5 update.Some of the users in the UK got the pop up to update the firmware to the Gingerbread 2.3.5. Isn't that great. HTC Desire S had came out with the 2.3.3 out of box with Sense 2.0. As the HTC had promised that they would support their device as much of they can. So the Gingerbread 2.3.5 update with new Touch Sense 3.0 is started rolling out of this firmware update.

Only few of the users got this update.But it may take some time with some of the carriers, when the firmware update is going to be rolling out to their android device.By this update HTC Desire S will be bumped up to 2.3.3 to 2.3.5 and with new Sense improvements. By this update we will get the new interactive locks, new animations, and with improved GPS connectivity and all the new widgets and even the latest version of the Andorid Market. As of now we dont have the information about the carrier locked Roms when they are willing to update their HTC Desire S device with the new Gingerbread 2.3.5.Once the news is official we will update the news as soon as possible.

Best Video Streaming Apps for Android

Google Apps starting to rise quickly and giving the tough competition to the iOS platform. Now a days each android device was bumping its hardware and with large display. So everybody might be lookout for the cool video streaming apps on their android smartphone. So that we can play videos, stream video, watch TV, watch Movies and Youtube etc. These are some of the Video streaming applications found in the Android Market

yxFlash : This is the first android application which can Mpeg 1/2/4, Flash, Divx, Xvid, WMV and Ipod Format and share music and video and network streaming

Tv.com: Tv.com brings you the TV to your android Device with WiFi and Cellular networks. From this we can actually watch all our favourite channels and favourite Tv shows anytime anywhere without any interruption. No Subcripton fee.

Howcast.com : This is actually the video streaming application on the android market which can be used to know how you could the things.Search your need on this application and play your videos. Ex: How to become a fashion photographer,How to use a Flash, How to use a portrait.This could be the easy application if you are away from the desktop.

GiantBomb Beta: If you are a Game lover this application makes you happy. You can watch all your favourite games video from this application.

NetFlix : This is one of the best rated application on the Android Device which can stream all your favourite TV shows and Movies

There are plenty more application can be found on the Android Market which can play all your Tv Shows and movies. This application makes you much closure to your Android Device. This are  some more applications names which you can try for Hulu Plus, Crackle-Movies and TV, Tscinema, Ehow mobile, UstreamViewer, Fox News, Nasa App,Vivo, DogCatcher, MotherTed,SPB TV,VLC Stream and convert,yxplayer...etc.If we count on it goes on.It happens only with Android Market.