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Guys, Was hearing a lot about NFC and want to try it out personally, so today got my few NFC tags and started using it. There is a very detailed guide available on cnet which explains every step in a very simplistic manner. Want to share some screenshot of tasks I am doing with it: These are the actions which I have set when I reach home. I have pasted the tag on my door and as soon as I reach home, I just put the phone near to the tag and all these tasks gets executed automatically. And these are the tasks which gets executed when I reach office. And these when I leave office: And here is how much time till now I have saved if I had done the activities manually! The possibilities are unlimited and you can also execute various tasks using Tasker!! I just started to explore it...... I am loving the little robot, a lot more

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Hot tip! When booking on Air asia, book going and return tickets separate ly. Because you have an offer of 3k for bali, you say yes for roundtrip and find you get socked for the return leg! Maybe even 7k. Making the fare not such a good deal. Also never take on add ons, except meals (book ahead, especially veg, you can't buy on board unless they have surplus, highly unlikely!) First time i paid for useless stuff like early boarding, and seat neat window. Totally over priced. http://www.nomad4ever.com/2010/11/24/12-tips-how-to-score-cheap-flight-tickets-with-airasia/

Ok, so I got myself an MTS MTAG 3.1 (Huawei C8511)/(Huawei C8500S China Telecom) which was ruim unclocked but data incompatible for Reliance. This guide works for other various Android non-OMH CDMA handsets as well. This is for those whose APN list is not editable or custom APN cannot be saved.Tested. This is my sole invention and work and is not published anywhere else till now. Use is as per your discretion. 1. Make sure the handset is rooted and busybox and SU are installed and updated. 2. Open Root explorer and allow SU permission if opened for the first time. 3. Delete the cust folder in the root system of the device. This folder carries operator files, multimedia, operator apks and NV traces. 4. goto apns-conf.xml in /system/etc folder 5. Longpress on apns-conf.xml and select open in text editor 6. Once the text editor pops up, scroll down and you will see China Telecom, Sprint, Verizon, M-pcs, Virgin, APNs list. 7. Edit the first APN (default one) with Reliance APN settings we all know here. 8. Keep changing all the APNS till down with various settings. Once can edit the defualt value with usr=net/pass=net and the other ones with mdn/mdn combination. 9. Be careful do not put any extra space or delete any comma or double colon. 10. Click to save and exit, original bak will be backed up automatically. 11. Goto root using root explorer and in system folder locate build.prop 12. Longpress and open using editor 13. Goto ro.cdma.home.operator.numeric= ____ change it to 404 00 and ro.cdma.home.operator.alpha=______ change it to Reliance 14. This can be a little troublesome so bak is imp. Click to save and exit. 15. Reboot. 16. In some devices, the APN list in Network settings gets automatically updated, in some you have to put it manually but now the custom APNs will be saved.

^ because there are many ex-rcom employees in mts..

NO.... Million more miles to go for MTS to become Reliance... But looks like surely they have that talent...

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Looking good and high tech. One question though... Can't all this and much more also be accomplished through this brilliant app: Tasker Instead of touching the NFC tag, one may just have to run the task and can be done on all androids without NFC also,

I am one of the first Android users in India from past 4 years plus , I have used almost every android handset but i have to accept that the Motorola Droid Razr XT 912 is the very best out there according to me. I have GSM+DATA, and CDMA only voice right now through CDMA SIM.

FAVI's $50 Streaming Stick Adds Apps, Streaming Services To Any HDTV With Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Source Favi SmartStick Official Website >> http://www.favientertainment.com/v/vspfiles/SmartStick_custom/index.html Why get a Smart TV when you can enhance your existing HDTV with a dongle? That's the precise inquiry FAVI is aiming to answer with its SmartStick, a device that lets you access streaming movies, music, apps, and games just by plugging it into your television's HDMI port. It runs Jelly Bean, the latest Android OS, and supports services like Netflix, Hulu, Epix, YouTube, and Pandora. Other features include a full internet browser, 4GB of memory, and the ability to wirelessly stream media from your computer via its MediaSHARE app. Since it runs Android, you can download apps from the Google Play store as well. The SmartStick's $50 price tag is hard to beat. You can also get a mini wireless keyboard and touchpad mouse for $39.99 for easier navigation. The FAVI Streaming Stick will be available this November, though you can pre-order it now for an October 30th ship date. Check the SmartStick promo video.

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If Jobs was there he would have never allowed such a messed up application to be launched. However much we criticize him he knew what the customer wants. That aura is gone now and Tim Cook simply does not give that level of confidence and charisma when he speaks, troubled times ahead for Apple I guess. Please excuse typos and brevity, sent while mobile.

Thanks ananth. After fiddling and experimenting I got my EVDO working today morning. Thanks to Parin bhai for providing me my NV dump file again and again upon request. My 1x was always working, that is even after the update. My NV items got jumbled up. And that is the reason my EVDO was not registering. I'm on LG8 now. I will update to the new LI3 and try again. The new modem is supposed to be better. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

Hi Hitesh. You have a good budget, don't worry. With my experience of 3-4 package tour and 2-3 self planned tour, I will try to answer your questions. 1, You should prefer package tour. After going out, specially with family and a small kid, you don't want to waste time in finding good (or Indian) food, cabs, locations. You will be confused what to seee and what to leave. You will spend almost 1/3rd of your day in logistics and trying things. It will be expensive also. Whereas in package tour, all the must visits places will be covered plus you have free days to cover your own preferred places and for shopping, etc. Just make sure you book your package with all means(if not, at least all dinners, breakfast is anyways included in all the plans), even if you pay 4k extra per person, you are going to save at leastt 15-20k in total. 2. I think it is covered in point one. No? 3. Location... depends, if you want a peaceful vacation, nothing comes close to Mauritius. If you want high rise building, brigt shining lights, massive infrastructures, lots of shopping of clothes, electronics - Singapore+Malaysia (one package) will be good. All these are will be in your budget. 4. Well, in Delhi, there is DPauls Travels. Don't know if you can coordicate with them from Jalgaon. They are quite good. At times, you will be upset of very minor things but when you come back you will not remember anything unpleasant. There are very reasonable too. If you want to anything specific, please let me knopw here ot through PM. I have visited all the coutries suggested in my/ others' posts.

10 ways Android beats the iPhone 5 Apple may have mollified the masses by adding significantly better specs to its smartphone offering, but when it comes to innovation, the iPhone 5 just can’t compete with the latest Android handsets. Sure a larger screen, 4G LTE support and a faster CPU are welcome additions to the world’s number one phone, but Apple is a year late and $199 short, because Android has provided all these features and more for some time now. In fact, even after Apple’s johnny-come-lately improvements, Android phones have a number of key advantages over the iPhone 5. Screens larger than 4 inches Apple may be patting itself on the back over its move from a 3.5-inch to a 4-inch display, but in the smartphone size race, the iPhone 5 trails the field by a wide margin. In the Android world, the 4.3-inch Droid RAZR M is considered a "compact" phone, the 4.8-inch Galaxy S III is mainstream and the 5.5-inch Galaxy Note II is large. Why would you want a phone with a larger screen? A larger display makes videos more exciting, text easier to read, and keys on the keyboard easier to target with your finger. And if for some reason that doesn't appeal to you, the Android ecosystem also has smaller phones. NFC support If you own an iPhone 5, you can just forget about using mobile payment systems that let you touch your device to a reader in order to conduct a transaction. Instead of MasterCard's Tap and Pay, you'll be using tap and pray as you rap your fingers on a table and hope that Apple provides NFC support on the iPhone 6 in 2013. With NFC support, the latest Android phones can not only send out payments, but also share photos, contacts, videos and more, just by tapping their backs together. Since Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the OS has built-in NFC sharing software called Android Beam that any third party application can use for seamless sharing. Task management appAny.Do even lets you beam assignments to friends and family. I'm sure Apple will add this functionality just in time for iOS 8. Custom widgets on your home screen Congratulations iPhone 5 users! You now get an extra row of icons that you didn't have with the iPhone 4 and 4S. That means you can see your TweetDeck icon and tap on it without scrolling over. The Times Square billboard writes itself: "iPhone 5: Now with More Icons!" However, if you use any Android phone, you get more than just a static set of application icons on your 5 to 7 home screens. You have a working desktop you can fill with interactive widgets that show everything from the weather to your latest social media updates. I particularly dig thecircles widget that Motorola includes on its Android phones, which shows you battery life, time, text alerts and local weather. A micro USB port rather than a proprietary connector If you're like me, you have a drawer full of USB cables and, if you can't find one, you can always buy another on any street corner. When you upgrade from an old phone to a new one, you can still use the same old wires and charging plugs, because micro USB is a standard. In fact, the European Union requires phone manufacturers to use micro USB for charging, because it reduces waste as users hold on to their old cables rather than tossing them in a landfill. Unfortunately, the iPhone 5 uses a proprietary connector it calls "Lightning" instead of standard micro USB, but gets around the EU regulation by offering an adapter.Why not just use micro USB like every other company? Then you couldn't make a mint selling proprietary wires and making every iPhone 4S owner that upgrades buy new accessories, because older iPhones had an even larger proprietary dock connector. Third-party software keyboards With the iPhone 5, you can have any keyboard you want as long as its the stock iOS 6 keyboard. If you're using Android and you don't love Google's default layout, you're free to install a third-party keyboard that suits your needs. Some of the best Android keyboards include Swype, which lets you create words by tracing between letters on the keyboard, and SwiftKey, which predicts the next word in your sentence to save you keystrokes. Heck, you can even buy an Android slider like the Motorola Droid 4, which has a real physical keyboard. What if you need to send your boss a PowerPoint presentation, a Word doc or some other type of file? You will need to have an app that opens that kind of file, go to that app and send the file from there. In other words, there's no way to simply attach the file(s) of your choice when composing email in iOS mail. There are workarounds and third-party apps that address this problem, but Apple's approach here could not be lamer.Attach any files you want to your email Apple doesn't gamble on immature technologies so perhaps its understandable that the company has yet to include this new-fangled thing called "email attachments" on its iPhone 5. While previous versions of iOS Mail didn't even present you with any attachment options in its message composer, the new iOS 6 mail on the iPhone 5 gives you the option to attach images or video only. Just like Windows or Mac OS, Android allows you to attach any files you want to any email message. Whether you're using the Gmail app, its stock email app or any of a dozen third party email clients, there's always a prominent attachment option on the composition screen and, when you hit it , you're able to browse your gallery, your file system or any other apps you've installed that organize files (Dropbox, Quickoffice, etc). Share using any service you want With Android, every relevant app from the browser to the photo gallery includes a share button. When you tap share, you're given an extensive and universal list of apps you can share with. And that list grows, depending on what software and services you have installed, from Facebook to your SMS messenger to Bluetooth transfers. So if, for example, you join Pinterest and install its app, you can share directly to that from any app with a search button. Rather than providing you with one share list to rule them all, the iPhone 5 lets each app developer create his or her own share menu, which has a finite list of services that developer feels like supporting. The default Safari browser and iOS photo gallery apps can only share to Facebook, Twitter, email and messaging. Google, Flickr, Pinterest, Google Talk and any of 100 other services need not apply. Laptop Visible file system Try plugging an Android phone into your PC and mounting it as a storage device. You'll have access to all the files and folders, just as you do when you browse through your WIndows computer's C drive. So, if you want to copy a raft of MP3s or PowerPoint presentations to your Android handset, you can just drag and drop them. Say you record a memo with Droid Record and want to grab its output files. You can navigate down to its folder and move, copy or share them directly from there. If you run a file browser on the phone itself, you can also dive into the file system from there. So what happens when you plug the iPhone 5 into your PC? You get access the digital camera (DCIM) folder only so all you can do is drag and drop pictures. Yes, you can iTunes to transfer media files back and forth, but you still can't go directly into file system because Apple just doesn't trust you enough to let you see the folders on the iPhone 5 that you bought from them. Whose phone is it anyway? Haptic feedback Most Android phones offer optional haptic feedback, which allows you to get a nice tactile vibration when you type, long press on the screen or tap the navigation buttons. While some people dislike haptics, the vibrations give you a strong acknowledgement that your touch has registered so you don't have to tap twice. Unfortunately, with the iPhone 5, you don't have a choice; just a flat screen that provides no feedback. Pen support "If you see a stylus, they blew it," Steve jobs famously said of pen-enabled computing and, like its predecessors, the iPhone 5 does not support pen input. Yes, you can get third-party capacitive styluses that will work on the iPhone 5, but these little sticks do nothing more than give you a thinner finger. Want to scribble down some notes like you do on paper? On Android, you can. Samsung's Galaxy Note and LG's Intuition both offer large screens, active styluses and deep pen integration into the operating system. On the upcoming Galaxy Note II, you can hand write notes on your calendar, on the backs of JPGs and in half a dozen other places throughout the OS. You can even get previews of emails, photos and videos by hovering the Galaxy Note II's stylus slightly above the screen. 10 ways Android beats the iPhone 5 - GadgetBox on NBCNews.com Another major thing the author missed is PRICE!!!

I can agree the decision of apple to stop AirHell from bringing iPhone5, as they will keep price ridiculously high and LOCK it also and hence very low sales (relatively to unlocked) figures... But Aircel has done good sales by keeping price low (though model is outdated), the only reason I can guess is "Aircel may have diluted brand value by selling for very cheap"... ------------------------------------------------------------ Reg Benchmarks, I don't care much about Antuntu, pontuntu, nenebench or any sh!tty benchmarks.. For me the real life benchmark for a high end phone for day to day life is:- 1) Playing 1080p videos without breaking sweat (Max load, I love to give my phone) 2) Multitasking without slowing phone So my current RazrMAXX and GNexus are more than enough for me wrt performance and iPhone is NO-NO for me (I hate fake-mutitasking)... I don't care if the phone comes with OctoCore or 256Core CPU... ---------------------------------------------------------------- @Dipan ji, I agree... Initially, I don't have any hard feelings for iPhone/iDevices.. Just that, iPhone is NOT for me due to its closed nature... But now I have started hating iDevices due to the unethical nature of the apple...