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Samsung Mobile’s Product site has outed the Samsung Galaxy S II or S2 variant for the Sprint Nextel, the Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch. According to specs reveled as of now , the Sprint Nextel Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch will sport a bumped up 4.52-inch Super AMOLED Plus screen instead of the original 4.3-inch size, 1.2 GHz dual-core processor under the hood, an 8-megapixel camera, 2-megapixel front-facing camera, Android 2.3 with Samsung's TouchWiz 4.0 UI and 4G network speed, which is the WiMax connectivity (not relevant in Indian shores). Unlike the original Samsung Epic 4G, the Touch doesn’t have a physical QWERTY keyboard. This might be a deal-breaker for some users as many people still prefer the hardware keyboard over the touch screen. Source : Phonedog First Look @ PcWorld Hands On @ Slashgear Launch date - September 16th

@Notam & FEVIN-RAJ I also called up Sony India and asked the same question. The policy is that they will honour the warranty if the product has Sony India's Official Warranty Card stamped by the seller and the product has come from Sony India's official distribution channels. I was told that there is nothing like a blanket ban on warranty for products purchased online. Of course they won't honour warranty for grey market direct imports from Thailand and other countries like lot of Sony TV's sold on Ebay India and in Delhi Markets. Anyone buying any Sony product from Letsbuy or any other online source should confirm before hand that it is through Sony India Official Channels and contains Warranty Card for India.

Samsung Galaxy S II of CDMA is about to be released on Sprint. Samsung reveals all specs - Eye popping 4.52" screen and 129gm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.samsung.c.../SPH-D710ZKASPR Features - http://www.samsung.c...ZKASPR-features Specs - http://www.samsung.c...710ZKASPR-specs

My daughter came to meet me today in my clinic for the first time riding her cycle alone on her own, ;-)

Ye shayad tumhare liye nahi hai... I think you are talking about having EVDO on your imported Hero? Please read point 4 of the opening post, Implies that is is not meant for imported handsets EVDO activation. And Reliance is the only CDMA Operator having it's own sick defination of OMH. In India as well as across the world having an OMH handset means EVDO will work out of the box. But Reliance thinks otherwise and keeps EVDO off by default for every subscriber. So even people buying OMH SIM card capable phones (Anyway very less number of phones are OMH Sim capable) have to run around for EVDO activation on their number. Something which should work out of the box becomes a Reliance "Meherbani" and harrowing experience for the Customer because their CC's most of the time have absolutely no clue what the Customer is talking about!! So instead of that running around behind Reliance Customer CC for OMH Sim phone holders, Amitji will take the requests here and forward to Reliance for EVDO Activation (Because he has Reliance CC Module being a Franchisee?). A nice praise worthy initiative to save whatever bachi kuchi "aabru" Reliance has from CDMA old timers & this forum lovers.. Whatever few CDMA loyalists Reliance is able to hold on to is because of few such people here.. Amitji can correct if i have understood wrongly..

Create Your Own Custom Animated Live Wallpapers And Download Them To Your Android Device For Free Android-based mobiles phones and tablets have been flooding the market of late. The operating system is an open-source Linux-based program and is free for use. Not only can the operating system be tweaked for performance, but it can also be customized for eye candy. Several Android customization applications are available in the Android Market in both free and paid versions. One visual customization application that everybody loves to have on their Android devices is live animated wallpapers. Although live wallpapers are known to consuming a significant amount of battery life, it depends purely on the widgets included within them. Live wallpaper applications are available on the Android Market and they are either free or fairly expensive. In this workshop, we'll show you how to create your own custom animated live wallpapers and download them to your Android device for free. Getting Started Log on to the www.ownskin.com. The website is designed to help you create your own personalized live wallpapers online and share them or download them to your Android devices. You'll first to register yourself on the site, which is free. Once registered, your dashboard will give you options to create live wallpapers and watch a few video tutorials on how you can create one yourself. There is also a section that highlights the live wallpapers you have created. To begin creating your own wallpaper, click on the 'Create Livewallpaper' icon. Note: you will require the latest Flash 10.1 update installed on your PC. If you don't have it, you can freely download an update from www.adobe.com. Once you have signed in, on the first screen, click on the screen resolution of your Android device. The options are '240x320', '240x400', '320x480', '480x800', '480x854' and '600x1024'. If you don't know your screen resolution, click on the link just below the list of the available handset models. Once you have clicked on the resolution type, you will be shown the previous wallpapers created by you, if any. Click on the 'Create New' button for a new one. A new window will pop up asking you to upload an image of your choice in JPG, JPEG, GIF or PNG format. Browse to the required image and click on 'Open'. The next window will highlight the area you need to crop so that your picture can fit on your screen. Crop the picture accordingly and click on the 'Save' button. Choosing and editing images Give it a random name tag of your choice. Select the 'Share' checkbox if you wish to share your creations with others online. In the new window towards the extreme top-right corner, you can select the number of desktops you want your live wall paper to be spread out on. You can choose between one and seven pages. Each page can be customized for different widgets. The slider on the bottom can help you show the current desktop. Next, you can select animated stickers of your choice by clicking on the 'Stickers' button below. You can only choose from a few characters, props, designs and graphics listed there. Select any number of stickers and place them on your screens as per your choice. You can also resize and edit the stickers to your liking. Next, you can select an analog clock of your choice. These are small clock widgets of different types, which will update in real time by synchronizing with your device's clock. Two pages of cool animated clock widgets are available at your disposal. Select, resize and place them on your desktop as you like. You can also choose to edit the settings for each widget for wrap-around, sound and movement options. You can also add a digital clock if you wish. In a similar manner the other widgets, such as calendar, battery icons, compass and photos can also be applied. Note: The more widgets with real-time updates you add, the more battery they will use up, so choose smartly. If you do end up selecting too many, you can always edit the wallpapers at a later time. Adding widgets A 'Play' button is available at the right of the window using which you can see the wallpaper work before creating the final APK file. If you are satisfied with your work, simply click on the 'Save' button. You will be asked for details, such as wallpaper name, description, tags, category and permission to share with other users on the Android Market. Fill in the details and click on 'Submit'. Once you have created the live wallpaper, it is now time to download the APK file onto your Android device. For this, you will need the Ownskin application installed on your Android device. All you have to do is download the free DIY Live Wallpaper app or simply search for 'Ownskin' on the Android Market and install it on your phone. Once installed, you will need to login using the same credentials you entered on the website. In the application on your phone, click on 'Download' and then 'Sort' and choose 'My Creation' from the list. This will take you to the 'Login' page. After logging in, you will see the list of wallpapers you had created on the website. And that's it Click on the wallpaper and it will download it to your device. Set it and enjoy your wallpaper. You can also edit the widgets on your device after downloading. Source:Tech2

10 Alternative Apps For Android Phones Even if your phone features a customised interface, the Android market has a variety of alternatives to the pre-installed applications. As bound in open source awesomeness as Android is, using some of the default applications can be a less-than-exciting experience. The stock applications offer basic features and although they work well enough, there's always something better out there. For instance, the default Webkit-based internet browser with Android is free and fast, but it doesn't have a whole lot of interesting things to fiddle around with or anywhere close to a genre-defining feature set. In case you're worried about experimenting, everything is reversible. If you don't like the alternative browser, email client or media player, you can always choose to uninstall and get back to the default application. So, if you wish to get more out of your Android device, a bit of an OS refresh maybe, here's a bunch of 10 alternative applications. Alternative Keyboard Application SwiftKey ($3.99): A slightly larger and a much more useable version of the Android keyboard, SwiftKey is a decent offering that introduces a whole lot of features, including a revolutionary text prediction option. It doesn't just predict the word you're typing currently, but also uses a pre-set algorithm to guess the next word. Over time, it 'learns' how you write and becomes more accurate. You can try it out for a month before you buy it. Alternative Email Application K-9 Email (Free): The default Android email client is very basic. It serves the purpose, but some complain that it feels and looks rather bland. K-9 Mail on the other hand does the job in a better way, and it allows you to customise pretty much everything according to you taste. You can edit colours and fonts, combine multiple inboxes/accounts, use various gesture options and even set individual view options for every folder. Alternative MP3 Player MortPlayer (Free): MortPlayer is specifically made for people with enormous MP3 collections, gathered over time and put together by folders. It doesn't work by the way of tags or playlists; it just boots and loads up the content of a particular folder and plays whatever is in it. No fancy stuff. It is considered a great tool and application simply because it bridges a tiny gap. Alternative IM Application Nimbuzz (Free): Standalone messengers are good for what they do, but what do you do when you have friends who prefer separate IM clients? You can get Nimbuzz, a cross-platform all-in-one messenger app which is regarded as the most complete and feature available in the Market. It supports the likes of Google Talk, Facebook, MySpace, Skype and many more such services. Better yet, it's free! Alternative Video Player RockPlayer Universal ($9.99) (Free ad supported version also available): RockPlayer is a high-performance alternative to the stock Android Video Player, specifically optimised for mobile devices. It supports a variety of video formats such as avi, rmvb, flv, mkv, mp4, mov, wmv, asf & ts. It also features a resume feature, subtitle support and accurate audio encoding. Alternative Texting/SMS Application ChompSMS (Free): The stock Android messaging application is incredibly basic, nothing more than a collection of bits of plain text on a plain background. ChompSMS not only manages to add some design flourishes, but also introduces a whole list of features such as chat-style bubbles, contact pictures, signatures, quick reply, templates, blacklisting, themes, and loads of customisation options. You can also bypass your service provider and send SMS using the ChompSMS network (over a data connection) if you buy credits from them online. Alternative Internet Browser Application Opera Mini 5.1 (Free): The default browser does the job well, but Opera Mini does the same job a lot better with a radically different approach to browsing. It's blazing fast because it compresses data and it comes with the option of different layout modes: desktop and mobile, allowing you to override the view as per your choice. It also supports Opera Link, used for syncing bookmarks with a desktop PC. Alternative Camera Application Camera Zoom FX ($4.50): Take a look at this if you're not fully satisfied with the results from your Android device's camera. Camera Zoom FX is not just an enhanced tool for zooming in, but it adds a variety of features such as image stabilisation, burst mode recording, geo-tagging, sound activation, customisable grid-overlays, and lots more. Alternative Home Screen/Launcher Application ADW Launcher (Free): ADW Launcher is a revolutionary home screen replacement application that not only changes the layout of the desktop/home screen itself in so many different ways, but is actually faster and much more responsive than the default home-screen launcher. It features new floating docks, cool visual style icons, themes and also rearranges the app drawer as per your requirements. To put it in simple words, it's like having a new phone, only in app form. Alternative Music Application TuneWiki (Free): It's hard to give the crown to any music application in particular as there are so many contenders for the top spot, but if we were to recommend just one, TuneWiki would be it. It is a solid, usable player that packs a simple user interface, a nice widget for the home screen, Twitter and Facebook integration and real-time maps of what kind of stuff fellow TuneWiki users might be listening to. It can also provide timed lyrics for songs in more than 40 languages. Source:Economic Times