MWC 2012: New Protective Smartphone Coatings

Look at devices treated by these companies to see the way they react to liquid. You can decide for yourself if this technology is going to be a must-have for phones in 2012.

Of course, that might depend on whether you store your tech devices in a bowl of water. HzO decided to show that a Samsung Galaxy Tab can perform perfectly with HzO's protective coating, even while sitting in a bowl of water. Removing the back of a phone won't cause problems as the treatment coats both the inside and outside of the device.

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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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New Samsung Galaxy Note Preview 2012

 

 

Network

    HSPA+ up to 21Mbps 850/900/1900/2100

    4G LTE

    EDGE/GPRS 850/900/1800/1900

※ Network differs by country

Processor

    1.4GHz Dual Core Processor

Display

    5.3” WXGA (1280 x 800) screen*

    HD Super AMOLED

Platform

    Android™ 2.3(Gingerbre

Camera

    Main(Rear) : 8 MP with LED Flash / Front : 2 MP

    Action Shot, Beauty, Panorama Shot, Smile Shot

Video

    1080p Full HD video recording & playback

    Recording: 1080p@24~30fps/

    Playback: 1080p@30fps

    Codec: MPEG4/ H.263/ H.264/ DivX, WMV, VC-1

Audio

    Codec : MP3, AAC, AMR, WMA, WAV, FLAC, OGG

    Music Player with SoundAlive

    3.5mm Ear Jack, Stereo FM Radio with RDS

Multi Input

    Full touch

    + S Pen (Advanced smart pen)

Connectivity

    Bluetooth® technology v 3.0 + HS

    USB 2.0 HOST

    Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct

Sensor

    Accelerometer, Digital compass, Proximity,

    Barometer,Light

Memory

    16GB Internal memory

    + microSD (up to 32GB)

Size

    146.85 x 82.95 x 9.65 mm, 178g

Battery

    Standard battery, Li-on 2,500 mAh

Value-added Features

    Samsung Touchwiz/ Samsung Live Panel UX

    S Memo/ S Planner/ S Choice (Apps for GALAXY Note)

    Samsung Apps

    Samsung kies 2.0/ Samsung kies air

    Social Hub, Readers Hub, Music Hub

    Google™ Mobile Services : Gmail™, Google Talk™,

    Google Search™, YouTube™, Android™ Market,

    Google Maps™ with Google Places™ and Google- Latitude™

    A-GPS, Glonass

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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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Galaxy Nexus

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus offers the best accessible technology in every facet of its hardware. The screen has advanced feature, with AMOLED technology providing an approachable and instinctive means to navigate the applications and interface. It is a pretty large screen with 4.65 inches, so can do better than several competing handsets such as Galaxy S2. Of course, it is good news for users who likes to watch video, view photo, surf the web and play games on their phone. There is lots of space for storing the files like these, with both 32 GB and 16 GB version available. Although it has less micro SD slot, but it is not a problem for users to internal storage. The Galaxy Nexus phone has competent camera. Though it has 5 mega pixel camera which gives 2592x 1944 resolution, but still it has all features that give an excellent quality images and 1080p HD video. Led flash and auto focus are included with face detection. It also has a front facing camera to self portrait photos and video calls.  3G coverage of phone allows the user to stream data, and put it on the level of Galaxy S2, which is seen as benchmark Smartphone on this respect.

But the most worthy feature of screen is its resolution, with 720x 1280, it is a first mobile to improve over Apple’s “retina display” that found in iPhone 4S and iPhone 4.

The Samsung Nexus has specs to avail fast internet surfing. It also provides Wi-Fi connectivity, and Wi-Fi hotspot feature that allows user to utilize the handset to avail Wi-Fi to other device like laptops or tablets.

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HTC Sensation Special Update

The HTC Sensation runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread with the latest HTC Sense UI skin on top. The new Sense UI features HTC’s active lockscreen which serves live information, like weather and stock prices right without the need to unlock the phone. In addition the active lockscreen allows you to unlock straight into an app by dragging its link into an unlocking circle.

The Sensation features a 4.3-inch qHD Super LCD screen with Gorilla Glass that displays a whopping 540×960 pixels. The display also features a contour design along the entire edge of the screen which HTC claims lend a premium feel to the device while at the same time protecting the screen from grit and sand when it’s placed screen-side faced down.

The HTC Sensation also brings with it HTC Watch video store which allows users to download movies and television shows by renting or buying them directly from the device. We doubt that this feature will be of much use here in Malaysia.

Processor-wise the Sensation is packing a 1.2Ghz dual-core Snapdragon with 768MB RAM and 1GB of internal storage. In the camera department, there’s an 8MP rear camera with dual LED flash and 1080p HD video capabilities. HTC says the camera offers instantaneous shutter response allowing you to capture images and videos faster. At the front you get a standard VGA resolution camera.

In addition the the plethora of wireless connectivity the Sensation supports both HDMI and DLNA output as well. Powering all this is a 1520mAh battery.

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How To Upgrade Samsung Galaxy Y 5360 To Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread

• Step 1: Enable the USB debugging mode on your device, for enabling the USB debugging mode navigate to Settings –> Applications –> Development.
• Step 2: Extract the DDLA1 update package which you have downloaded earlier.
• Step 3: Turn off your device and reboot it into download mode, to do that just press the home button (middle one) along with down volume key and press the Power button.
• Step 4: Now Run Odin3 on your local computer.
• Step 5: Connect your Samsung Galaxy Y 5360 phone to your computer, Odin3 will automatically detect your device. Just check for the yellow ID:COM in Odin3 (which means that the drivers are successfully loaded).
• Step 6: Later in Odin3, just load the following files (PIT  –  totoro_0623.pit, Boot Loader  –  DefaultCalDataWithBoot_S5360DDLA1_REVO5.tar.md5, PDA  –  PDA_S5360DDLA1_REVO5.tar.md5, Phone  –  MODEM__S5360DDLA1_REVO5.tar.md5 and CSC  –  GT-S5360-MULTI-CSC-ODDLA1.tar.md5) which are available in the above downloaded packages.
• Step 7: Now under “Option” in Odin3, just check “Auto Reboot” and “F.Reset Time” and uncheck rest of the selection lists.
• Step 8: Everything is set to proceed further, just click on Start button to initiate the upgrade process. If everything goes fine your will be successfully updated after the reboot.

Additional Steps

• Step 9: Turn off your mobile phone and turn it on to enter into recovery mode (refer step 3).
• Step 10: In recovery mode just select “Wipe Data/Factory Reset” and “Wipe Cache Partition” and reboot your device for cleaning up all the additional files which are loaded while upgrade.
• Step 11: Now to confirm the update, just navigate to Settings –> About Phone –> Firmware version and notice for “Android 2.3.6 DDLA1″.

Congrats for successfully upgrading your Samsung Galaxy Y S5360 to Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread build DDLA1, do let us know if you encounter with any of the errors while upgrading we will glad to help you out with the settings to proceed further.

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