Sony Xperia SP Review

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he Xperia SP's starts off on a good note. Take the phone out of the box, and what greets you is a rather impressive persona. It looks very good, but feels rather heavy, tipping the scales at 155 grams. Good quality plastic is used, and it’s put together well.

The Xperia SP’s real world performance is something that does justice to a phone that could be sporting a ₹20,000 price tag. In terms of the benchmark tests, we ran into some rather surprising results. In quite a few benchmarks, the Xperia SP was ahead of the like of the Google Nexus 4 and the LG Optimus G! The camera is disappointing in anything below ideal conditions. Call quality is acceptable, and the Xperia SP holds signal better than the Xperia Z in certain areas, surprisingly.
As a primary phone, the SP’s battery lasted a day and a couple of hours. Among all the phones we have compared it with, the Xperia SP has the biggest battery pack, but that still doesn’t translate into a significant advantage.


Sony also retains a simple LCD display. What impresses us is the text readability and crispness. It does fall behind a bit in terms of colour richness, and undoubtedly, the smoothness of the UI and the touchscreen response is slightly better on the Nexus 4 and HTC One X+. The Xperia SP has been priced wrong, and would have hit the sweet spot around ₹22,000.

Specifications

• OS: Android 4.1 with TouchWiz UI
• Processor: Qualcomm MSM8960Pro Snapdragon @ 1.7GHz dual core
• RAM: 1GB
• Display: 4.6inch with Bravia 2 Engine, 1280x720 pixel resolution
• Storage: 8GB with expandable memory
• Camera: 8MP
• Battery: 2370mAH
• Price: ₹27,490

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Social Networking Apps For Android Smartphone

FACEBOOK
The official Facebook app makes it easy to stay connected with your friends on the network. It lets you update your status, share your location and pictures, and chat with buddies.

TWITTER
Twitter’s native app gives you access to your Twitter profile while on the move. You can see your timeline, check messages and tweet.

SKYPE
Skype lets you make free voice calls over 3G or Wi-Fi to other Skype users. You can also make calls to phone across the world at cheap rates.

PINTREST
Pintrest is evolving as an image-based social network. It allows users to pin image and categorize them; users can then re-pin these and follow other users.

LINKEDIN
The LinkedIn app allows you to access your professional network, update your LinkedIn status, view comments and send messages directly from your smartphone.

WHATSAPP MESSENGER
WhatsApp has become the number one instant messaging app for smartphones. The fact that it supports all the mobile operating systems today only adds to its popularity. You can chat with your contacts; share images, audio and video files; start group chats, and do a lot more. It’s also not very heavy on resources.

VIBER
Viber allows you to make free calls, send text messages and share images and files with other users. It’s one of the popular VoIP apps available today.

NIMBUZZ
Nimbuzz integrates all your social networking accounts into one app. It also allows you to make voice calls, send chat messages, share files and do much more.

TWEETCASTER
TweetCaster is one of the more popular Twitter clients, TweetCaster is packed with features. A useful feature is ‘Zip it’, which mutes annoying tweets without unfollowing the users.

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Wish Father's Day - Greeting Cards

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ather's Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. Many countries celebrate it on the third Saturday of June, but it is also celebrated widely on other days. Father's Day was created to complement Mother's Day, a celebration that honors mothers and motherhood.
Also Read: Mother's Day App 2013

Forgot to send a greeting card to someone or you just want to cheer up a friend, girlfriend, boyfriend, or loved one. Then why not send them a meaningful picture greeting card with this picture messaging eCard app (LoveBUG). Get ready for Fathers Day (June 16th) and send a loved one a nice little greeting card to cheer them up

Greeting Cards FishDroid

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Top 18 Features to help You Manage Your Android Device - Android Assistant [ Reviews ]

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ndroid Assistant is one of the most powerful and comprehensive management tools to improve your android phone's performance. It speeds up your phone's running speed and saves battery.

Performs well even when you're not rooted - a test which i do in all performance apps. It passed excellently. Even if some apps cannot be disabled on startup, it politely suggests for you to do a force stop for these apps . This program does the best it can do in a limited unrooted environment. No need to resort to rooting your device. I highly recommend its use.
18 Features of Android Assistant

• Monitor status (cpu, memory, battery)
• Process Manager (Auto Boost and Quick Boost can distinguish different types of processes thus will not kill fatal system processes and apps in Ignore List.)
• Cache Cleaner
• System Clean(Browser History, Clipboard, Market History, Gmail History, Google Earth History, Google Map History)
• Save Battery Settings(bluetooth, wifi, gps, auto-sync, orientation, haptic feedback, screen brightness, timeout)
• File Manager
• Startup Manager
• Batch Uninstall
• Battery use
• Volume Control
• Ringer
• Startup Time
• Startup Silent(Menu->Settings->Startup Silent)
• System Info
• Widget(Quick Booster[1,4], Shortcuts[4])
• App 2 SD(Support android2.2 and later)：Get more free internal phone storage space
• Batch Installation
• App backup and restore

Android Assistant Aaron

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Install Adobe Flash Palyer on Android Device Manually

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s we all know, Adobe Flash Player is used to load flash content in favor of HTML5 on Android Smartphone ans tablets. Sometimes get error while installation of Adobe flash Player on Android Device. So, Today i am going to show you how to install Adobe Flash Player manually on your Android Device.

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• How to Set and Clear a Default App
• How to Share Mobile Data Connection
• Top 5 Best Android Tablets from Samsung

• Unlock your android device.
• Go to Settings >Application Settings in your android device first.
• Tick the Unknown source box if it is unchecked.
• Now Open Firefox in your android device.
• Next you need to do is to click on this link.
• Scroll down to the Android 4.0 archives.
• Click on the first link on it to start your download. Otherwise Follow Below links to download
  
  • Flash Player 11.1 for Android 4.0 (11.1.115.63)
  • Flash Player 11.1 for Android 2.x and 3.x (11.1.111.59)
  • Flash Player 11.1 for Android (11.1.102.59)

Note: Google chrome or the browser already in your phone will not support Adobe flash player. You should have a Boat browser or Firefox to work it out.

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Top 5 Best Android Tablets from Samsung

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pen source Android operating system has invited lot of manufacturing companies to adopt it and introduce new smartphones and tablets. The new Android version Jelly Bean had widely gained acceptance and works truly on concept of buttery smooth. Because of the smoothness and easy user interface Android tablets sales are running almost close to Apple Tablets. It won’t be amusing that with its new version of Key lime Pie, Android might overrun Apple sales.

Samsung has taken a lot of profit share in manufacturing best quality Android Tablets. It has almost captured the top notch class of Android Tablets share available in retail stores. Samsung has tablets with varied price range and different screen size. This allows targeting various segment of buyer with different needs. Here is review of top 5 Android Tablets from Samsung:
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Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0

Galaxy Note 8.0 was launched in parallel with iPad Mini. It is highly portable and has much better display than iPad mini. It has display of 800x1280 pixels with density of 189 ppi. It offers the S pen functionality for better functionality. It runs on 2 GB RAM with Quad-Core 1.6 GHz processor, which means extra fast. It has front camera for video conferencing or video chats with family and friends. It is priced at $399.

Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1

This is the latest model by Samsung with a bigger screen size of 10.1 inches. It also comes along with S-pen and has introduced a new word “phablet” with it. It has 1.4 GHz quad-core processor and 2GB RAM with 16GB and 32GB of storage option. Price for 32GB note is around $550. The silver trim edges give a distinct look to it. It allows external microSD card slot where you can expand the memory till 64 GB. IT has different models with WI-FI and 3G options. It weighs less than 600 gram and has battery life of 8-10 hours.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1

This tablet was launched in direct competition with iPad and almost succeeded in all departments. It has only 16 GB memory and Wi-Fi option. Though it supports microSD card upto 64 GB. The pricing is also low of around $250. With no 3G functionality it was beaten by latest iPad. But it has the best audio speakers and delivers amazing sound quality. This tablet if for people with limited budget and basic functionality.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0

Priced at only $250 it provides the amazing Android 4.2 experience. It is fairly thin and has weight of 335 grams. You can add microSD card of upto 32GB and comes pre-installed with Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0.3). It has 1GHz dual-core OMAP 4430 CPU and 1GB RAM. It comes with Wi-Fi-support and battery life is around 7 hours.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7

It has unique and beautiful AMOLED screen with amazing contrast ratio. It has dual speakers and microSD card slot on the bottom of the tablet. Camera is only 3 megapixel but with a price tag of $279, this is a good deal. This tab comes with front camera of 2 megapixels thus video chat can be done easily, though not of great quality. It does not have HDMI port thus videos can’t be watched on different screen. Though with latest launches of better tablets by Samsung this is losing popularity.

Natasha Bollinger is a technology blogger who writes about various products available in the market for cheap tablet pcs available from companies like Samsung, Sony, Karbon. etc.

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How to Set and Clear a Default App

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et and Clear a Default AppIn Android, you can set a file to open with a certain program by default as you do in Windows. For example, if you have installed an image viewer such as QuickPic, the system will ask you to select an app when you try to open an image file (See the screenshot).

How To set a default app

• Open the file, check 'Use by default for this action' before you tap that app.
• The next time you tap an image file, it will always open with the app you've selected without asking you again.

How to clear Default App

• Run the Settings app and tap Apps under DEVICE.
• Choose the app you do not want to launch by default.
• Tap 'Clear defaults' under LAUNCH BY DEFAULT.

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How to Turn Off Auto-Correction

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uto-Correction When you are typing through, the system checks your spelling and suggests a few words. Unless you've selected one of them, the highlighted suggested word overwrites your word when you finish typing it followed by a space, punctuation mark or return character. If you feel that's annoying, you can turn off Auto-Correction.

How to Turn Off Auto-Correction

• Open the app Settings and select 'Language & input' under PERSONAL.
• Tap the Quick Settings iconQuick-Settings.png next to 'Android keyboard'.
• Select 'Auto correction' under TEXT CORRECTION.
• Select 'Off' to turn off 'Auto-Correction'.

Note: As an alternative, whenever a word is replaced not to your liking, you can tap the Delete key immediately after which and the system returns the word you've typed.

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