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Motorola buzzed to launch two quad-core powered smartphones in 2012 There still a long way to go before change in calendar to 2012 rumors have already started pouring in. High profile launches include Nokia’s Windows Phone based devices and something very exciting cooking up at Motorola as well. Droid-Life reported that they have been tipped on two new Motorola devices scheduled for a 2012 Q1 launch. These may apparently be the first devices from Motorola to run on NVIDIA’s upcoming Tegra 3 quad-core processor. Motorola codenamed these devices with the names: Motorola Bullet and Motorola Jet. Both the devices will run the Tegra 3 processor and would support 4G LTE capability. There is still a long time before we actually hear this from Motorola itself, so we might see some changes in the specifications when they make an appearance during CES 2012. The Motorola Bullet is rumored to come with a 4.3-inch 960X540 screen and it would be a full touchscreen device. It will have at least 1 GB of DDR2 RAM (or maybe 1.5 GB), 16 GB of internal storage, NFC capability, and a 12 megapixel camera.The Motorola Jet will be a keyboarded version of Bullet. Bullet is supposed to launch before Jet so we might see some differences in internal specifications too. Source.

Notion Ink Adam to get Gingerbread update soon, and unofficial Honeycomb ROM Notion Ink has officially announced an Android 2.3 Gingerbread update for the Adam, complete with the Eden UI. No release date has been given yet however. While the Gingerbread update will bring numerous improvements, fixes and additions to the current interface, from better multitasking, the ability to overclock the Tegra processor, a new native audio-video player with equalizer support, and improved data base support. In the meanwhile however, the obvious question is when Honeycomb support is coming. The move to the Gingerbread OS will bring the kernel closer to Honeycomb than before, allowing for a simple transition to Honeycomb complete with Eden UI. While an official update is still a long way off, with Notion Ink not yet given access to the Android 3.0 source code, it seems a few developers are helping create a port for the Adam. While things might not be perfect yet, evinced by the work in progress video, it seems full-fledged support is not too far off, though it maybe a while new Notion Ink Adam’s will ship with Honeycomb on board. In other news, a Kindle app has been announced for the Adam, which will come bundled with future shipments. Source.

Acer Iconia Tab A500 vs. Apple iPad 2 vs. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 The Indian tablet market sure is heating up, with the Apple iPad 2 recently being officially introduced, as well as the first Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet - Acer Iconia Tab A500 (check out hands-on video!). Samsung is also due to make an appearance with its Honeycomb tablet, the Galaxy Tab 10.1, by July, and the Motorola Xoom is also expected soon. Will the Acer Iconia Tab A500 have enough muscle to take on the Apple iPad 2, and the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 - which boasts of the same dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 processor? We've taken a look at just how well it stacks up against them in terms of specifications, in the table below. While we can't declare a winner just by looking at them, we can safely say that the Iconia Tab A500 is a strong contender, especially at its Rs. 27,990 price point. It will make a major impact in the market as the first proper Honeycomb tablet in the country, and with its solid feature set, and the choice of the upcoming 3G model will only make things very interesting for the consumer. Remember, Acer is also offering a Windows 7 tablet with the Iconia Tab W500, and will soon bring a 7-inch Honeycomb tablet as well, in the form of the Iconia Tab A100: Source.

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^ Repost brother I already posted here.

Upto 2.1 we can use apps2SD application available on XDA and market which does exact same thing, from 2.2 and further this feature is built into android. Infact apps2sd also has option of moving dalvik and cache to SD.

Exactly. Thanks for your efforts in finding this deal and sharing with forum and following up. Cr*p logic.

How to buy, the webpage http://www.mydala.com/archivedeal/Letsbuy_3043 has no option?

Good information thanks.

Had bought pouch from Ebay but seller shipped wrong product not for Epic please suggest what to be done, cannot claim item not received as did receive it, and sending the item back to claim refund would cost same or more as item price.

True I thought it was because of executive assistant but it is issue with stock.

Have been having very poor battery life. Charge dropped by 40% in 5 hours with no calls/data. Battery lasts around 10 hours with 1 hour of data/WiFi, 15 minutes of calls, 30 minutes on NFS, no Bluetooth. Stock EC05 with battery calibration done. Rooted with stock kernel. Set CPU conservative mode. Running services are mostly touchdown, executive assistant (uninstalled just now), maps (how to disable?), DRM (frozen through TB), SNS (frozen through TB), voicemail (uninstalled through TB), kaspersky, lookout, droid stats and TB scheduler. Spare parts screen shot showing phone wake. Please help.

You are correct in your case my backup pro would suffice and for messages etc. you can also use SMS backup and restore and G backup full.

See this MIUI ROM for Galaxy S I900 brilliant work. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=992251 If only this could be ported to Epic, ahmgsk (member here too) has been working on one but it is not yet as complete.

Josh why would you need RUIM or OMH just for corporate number? Sorry but unable to understand why a MEID registered imported or official non RUIM handset would not work? OMH or RUIM handsets are not that good specs wise.

Here is a completely alternative, and disappointing for India, view regarding Pakistan's role in this. http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110504/jsp/frontpage/story_13936650.jsp

I presume so, here is post by Parin with process For RUIM based imported set I doubt if you would get good sets except the ones mentioned here already.

Dominos buy 1 pizza and get other pizza free AL0139 ADV01 Have not tested myself please post if they work. Had found out some other discount coupons through permutation when ordering, will post.

CODE: 1811GEB004 10% off. Max. Discount Rs.1,000. Valid on any purchase on GEB Valid Till: May. 9, 2011 http://mail.ebay.in/r/mail/1a165II143161II17820af7921 Confirmed as working, thanks Aalok bhai.

Welcome back.

Did it work?

^ The SIM slot in TP is not out of the box, it has to be made by cutting the plastic though easy videos are there but does not seem good option.

Despite enjoying huge success with Windows 7 and the Xbox 360, there are several other products that Microsoft would probably rather forget about... 10. PlaysForSure Launched in 2004, at the height of the music industry's fears about piracy and illegal filesharing, the PlaysForSure format was Microsoft's attempt at a useful digital rights-management offering. Microsoft certified dozens of portable media players, network-attached receivers and mobile phones to support PlaysForSure music, and added the encryption to songs purchased from the MSN Music Store. Unfortunately, when it launched the Zune in 2006, Microsoft's attempt to take on the iPod didn't support the PlaysForSure format, leaving people with hundreds of songs they couldn't use on their new MP3 player. It was something of an own-goal for Microsoft, and highlighted the folly of DRM encryption. 9. Windows Mobile Microsoft's attempts to replicate its desktop computing success on mobile devices has proved something of a mixed bag. While the platform has undoubtedly offered much in the way of power and functionality, allowing users to get their emails on the go and edit documents on the move, the tired graphics, nested menus and clunky performance have blighted the brand's reputation. Indeed, mobile phone makers such as HTC have built a business on their ability to successfully 'disguise' the Windows Mobile OS, by overlaying the platform with their own user-friendly 'skin'. Even Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, admitted the company had "screwed up" with its mobile operating system. Thankfully, Microsoft has gone back to the drawing board for Windows Phone 7 Series, its next-generation operating system. The entire platform has been reimagined for the mobile generation and features tight integration with social-networking sites, the ability to easily share content with friends, and a new look and feel that distances the operating system from the desktop. 8. Zune The launch of the Zune in 2006 was Microsoft's attempt to take on Apple's all-conquering iPod. Things haven't quite gone according to plan; during its first week of launch, sales of the first-generation Zune were dwarfed by those of the five-year-old iPod, while Microsoft's decision to offer the first-gen Zune in a fetching shade of poo brown also drew sniggers from the technology community. Despite an intense marketing campaign, and vast improvements to the device line-up in recent years, the Zune is still only available in the US and Canada. That said, more recent versions have won plaudits for their ease of use, the well-stocked and competitively priced Zune Marketplace for music, movie and TV show downloads, and an impressive list of features, including wireless syncing and so-called "social" features that allow Zune users to share songs with one another. 7. Microsoft Bob In 1995, the home computing revolution was in full swing, with Windows 95 proving hugely popular with consumers. But Bill Gates worried that computing newbies might still find the Windows OS confusing and off-putting, and encouraged his company to come up with a solution. That solution was Microsoft Bob, a non-technical computing interface designed to replace the Program Manager. Bob included a word processor and a finance tool, while the user interface resembled the inside of the house, with various rooms representing different applications. Users could decorate each room, adding and removing objects, opting for chintzy florals or minimalist splendour. It quickly became apparent to the Microsoft bigwigs that the house analogy didn't work, and that in some cases, Bob made life more confusing for computer users rather than simpler. Microsoft Bob was quietly put out to pasture in 1998; the greatest surprise was that he had limped on for so long. 6. Microsoft Ultra Mobile PC Microsoft's admirable attempt to launch a range of mobile personal computers never really got off the ground. The clunky, inelegant devices relied on fiddly stylus input, while battery life meant you could never stray too far from a plug point. In many ways, Microsoft was ahead of its time, fostering the idea of mobile computing before the technology was really there to support it. UMPCs have been superseded by netbooks and ultra-portable laptops, while new tablet-style devices such as Apple's iPad could mean the UMPC is consigned to history. Microsoft hasn't given up on the idea entirely, though; it's rumoured to be building it's own touch-screen, dual-display device, the Courier, which could blow competitors out of the water. 5. Windows Me Poor old Windows Millennium Edition, caught between two stools. The launch of Windows Me seemed curious at the time – it hit shops about eight months after Windows 2000 (the operating system that millions of Windows 98 users rushed to upgrade to) and barely had time to find its feet before Windows XP went on sale in 2001. The operating system failed to set the world alight – many users criticised it for being unstable and unreliable, frequently freezing and crashing, while a problem with System Restore often meant malware was reinstalled on the machine after a user had deleted it. PC World called Windows Me the "Mistake Edition", and its short shelf life and small user base seems to confirm that it was little more than a stopgap as Microsoft moved on to bigger and better things. 4. Microsoft Mira It seemed like a good idea at the time – a so-called Smart Display that could connect wirelessly to a desktop PC, allowing users to tap out emails or letters without being tied to their desk. Code-named Mira, the Smart Display was a battery-powered LCD monitor with a touch-screen interface. Users could type on it using a handwriting-recognition program or an on-screen virtual keyboard. Companies such as Fujitsu, ViewSonic and LG threw their weight behind the project, but it failed to resonate with consumers. One of the main problems was the fact that the display had to be tethered to a PC – they were not computers in their own right. And they were expensive, with the LCD displays costing almost twice as much as Microsoft had estimated, meaning it was cheaper for consumers to buy a fully functional notebook rather than a Smart Display. Mira's lack of success served only to show how much of a struggle Microsoft was finding the move from desktop computers to mobile machines. 3. Microsoft Office Assistant The Windows operating system was most people's only experience of home or office computing, and Microsoft took its responsibility to aid the masses very seriously indeed. The Microsoft Office Assistant, though, was its hand-holding nadir. The Assistant is better known as Clippy the Paper clip, an annoying animation that would pop up almost as soon as you created a new Word document. "It looks like you're typing a letter," Clippy would postulate at the first sign of a keystroke. "Would you like help with that?" No, cried a million computer users, as they bashed their keyboards in tearful frustration at the paper clip's constant, unhelpful interjections. Microsoft wisely switched off Clippy by default in Windows XP, but not before the little paper clip had passed in to .2. Internet Explorer 6 For millions of computer users, Internet Explorer 6 was their gateway to the web. The browser, released in 2001, was easy to use, and had some nifty new features. Unfortunately, it also had some serious security flaws, so much so that in 2004, the United States advised computer users to use any other browser in order to avoid the thousands of Trojans, viruses and malware programs being written for the platform. Until relatively recently, IE6 remained the world's most-used web browser, thanks in part to the fact that so much early software was built to work on the platform – in 2006, it accounted for 90 per cent of the global browser market. Some businesses continue to install IE6 on their office computers to support older websites and legacy systems, and despite campaigns such as Bring Down IE6, the browser shows no signs of fading away. Microsoft has done a good job of moving users to new and improved versions of Internet Explorer, but IE6 remains a vice-like grip over some parts of the web. 1. Windows Vista Launched in January 2007, Windows Vista was to be the computer operating system for the internet generation. It was designed to make it easier to share media and files between computers at home, featured a swizzy new graphical user interface and desktop "widgets" for at-a-glance weather updates and news headlines, and improved security and stability. For many early adopters, though, Windows Vista was nothing but a headache. Many users found that their printers, digital cameras and MP3 players didn't work with the operating system, because manufacturers had not had enough time to create and publish new drivers; those with older computers complained about how processor-hungry Vista was, making it almost impossible to use on anything but the newest, fastest computers; while others complained bitterly about the number of pop-ups and dialog boxes that formed part of the new User Access Control security feature. Microsoft's reputation for building solid desktop computing software was dealt a severe blow by the fallout from Vista. Executives at the company have acknowledged that the launch had been less than perfect, and although a number of problems were resolved by subsequent service packs, the lingering sense of disappointment remained. The successful launch of Windows 7 late last year went some way towards repairing that damage; lessons had clearly been learned, and Microsoft worked more closely with manufacturers to ensure the upgrade process was as seamless as possible. What do you think is the winner of Microsoft hall of shame? Source: telegraph.co.uk

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Great work Rajan much appreciated.