Android Latest Update 2012 : How to Make Your Android Faster in 7 Steps

There are a variety of tweaks you can put in place to make your Android feel faster. Here are the steps:

1. Disable screen animations (Settings: Display: Animations)
2. Disable browser plugins (Browser: Settings: Plugins)
3. Use a third party launcher like LauncherPro or ADW Launcher
4. Turn off live wallpaper
5. Reduce the number of widgets and icons on your home screens
6. Uninstall any unused apps
7. Reduce frequency of data updates (Settings: Accounts)

Source Website: http://pocketnow.com 

 

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Android latest update 2012 : UbiSlate 7+ and aakash tablet

 













Specifications
    Android OS 2.3
    Cortex A8, 700 Mhz Processor with HD Video Co Processor
    256 MB RAM
    Storage: (Internal) 2GB Flash / (External) 2GB to 32GB Supported
    Peripherals: 2 Standard USB Ports (Ver. 2.0)
    Audio Out: 3.5mm jack
    Display and Resolution: 7" Display with 800x480 pixels
    Supported Document Formats: All Version Office Document formats and many more
    High Quality Video Streaming & HD Quality Video Playback
    Input Devices: Resistive Touch Screen
    Connectivity with GPRS & WiFi IEEE 802.11 a/b/g
    Battery: Upto 180 minutes of battery, AC adaptor 200.240 volts

Official Website for UbiSlate 7+ and aakash tablet http://www.ubislate.com/index.html

UbiSlate 7+ and aakash tablet Videos Here

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Wifi Hotspots + USB Tethering Samsung Galaxy S2 Android

Wifi Hotspots + USB Tethering Samsung Galaxy S2 Android 

What is Android Tethering?

Android Tethering is a way to access internet on your computer with the help of your Android smartphone. USB and Wi-Fi access point tethering is natively supported from Android Froyo 2.2.

USB tethering

For USB tethering you must have root access to the phone and a USB cable to connect your phone to computer.

Step 1: First of all you will have to enable USB debugging on your Android. Go to Settings -> Applications -> Development -> USB debugging and enable it. After enabling just reboot your phone.

Step 2: Connect your phone to computer using USB cable.

Step 3: Now enable tethering option from your phone. For this go to Settings -> Wireless & Networks -> Internet tethering and enable it.

Step 4: Open up terminal on your computer and run the command given below

Video Here

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More than 300 million Android devices activated.

Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2012 - MWC 2012

Google has announced that they are now activating more than 850,000 Android device per day which is up 250 percent from the previous year and there are now more than 300 million Android devices activated.

We wonder how long it will take the company to reach the 1 million activations per day mark.

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Galaxy Nexus with Android Ice Cream Sandwich

The Google Nexus Prime (aka Galaxy Nexus) and Android Ice Cream Sandwich will be the two most important announcements that Google will make this year. While we’re still some hours away to the event unconfirmed specs of the new device has been leaked.

• Model: GT-I9250, GT-I9250T, GT-I9250M, SC-04D, SCH-I515
• Dimensions (length x width x thickness): 136.0 × 68.0 × 8.8 fine piece – 11.5 thickest part
• Weight: Approximately 135.0 (g)
• OS: Google Android version 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
• Chipset: Texas Instruments Omap4460 CPU: ARM Cortex-A9 MP Core SMP (Dual-Core) CPU operating frequency: 1.2 GHz
• RAM: 1GB
• GPU: PowerVR SGX 540 Immage Technologies
• ROM: 16/32GB
• Display: AMOLED HD: 4.65 inches Resolution 720 x1280)
• Main camera: 5 megapixel CMOS camera with LED flash Video recording 1080p HD (1920X1080 pixels)
• Front camera: 1.3 million pixels CMOS
• NFC
• Micro USB 2.0
• Communications Bluetooth 3.0 + HS
• Wireless a/​b/g /n (2.4 GHz Dual-Band 5.xGHz)
• Tethering
• Wi-Fi Direct
• Battery Capacity: 1750mAh
• Notification LED

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What is Android?

What is Android?

Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications. The Android SDK provides the tools and APIs necessary to begin developing applications on the Android platform using the Java programming language.
Features
Application framework enabling reuse and replacement of components
Dalvik virtual machine optimized for mobile devices
Integrated browser based on the open source WebKit engine
Optimized graphics powered by a custom 2D graphics library; 3D graphics based on the OpenGL ES 1.0 specification (hardware acceleration optional)
SQLite for structured data storage
Media support for common audio, video, and still image formats (MPEG4, H.264, MP3, AAC, AMR, JPG, PNG, GIF)
GSM Telephony (hardware dependent)
Bluetooth, EDGE, 3G, and WiFi (hardware dependent)
Camera, GPS, compass, and accelerometer (hardware dependent)
Rich development environment including a device emulator, tools for debugging, memory and performance profiling, and a plugin for the Eclipse IDE

Source : http://developer.android.com/guide/basics/what-is-android.html

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