[Android] T-Mobile To Launch Samsung Galaxy Tab For $399 On Contract/$649 Off? Does It Stand A Chance Against The WiFi/WiFi+3G iPads? [Comparison]

Galaxy Tab Vs The iPads

Comparing this to the iPad, where $499 buys you a comparable WiFi-only 16GB version and $629 for the WiFi+3G one, the Tab fits kind of in the middle. If you go for the contract price, it ends up being $250 cheaper than the 3G iPad. If you, however, don’t like contracts, you pay $150 more than the WiFi-only iPad or $20 more than the WiFi+3G variant, but in either case get to keep the 3G capabilities in case you want to go month-to-month.

Comparing the Tab to the iPad a bit further, we find the Tab having both the rear and front facing cameras, an HDMI output, a better CPU, a MicroSD expansion slot, ability to play Flash content, double the iPad’s RAM and half the weight, not to mention all the other cool stuff that comes with Froyo.

In the neutral zone, a 7" screen, which is 2.7" smaller than the iPad’s, may appeal to some and seem too small to others. I personally would probably prefer something like an 8.5", but if I had to pick, I’d go for the 9.7".

Finally, application-wise, the iPad is currently a clear winner and is likely to remain a winner for quite a while, at least until the Android Market figures out some decent apps and games for the bigger screen factor.

Conclusion

All in all, if the slides are indeed legitimate, I think the price points are a bit overpriced. The verdict, in my opinion, is still out because a lot will depend on the the monthly data costs. A $299 Tab on a contract without voice limitations (i.e. no voice at all) would make a whole lot more sense to me.

[source:http://www.androidpolice.com]

[Android] These 5 Android apps will make you the life of any party

[Android] These 5 Android apps will make you the life of any party

Bartender

Want to know a guaranteed party fact? There are always those one or two people present that don’t drink beer. Hopefully these people let you know ahead of time so you can prepare accordingly, but what if they don’t? Then they’re left at the mercy of whatever random liquor and mixers you have. Well the Bartender app will help you out.

As you can see, the Bartender app has three main functions.

1. Browse – Using the browse feature is pretty self-explanatory, it lets you browse through a very wide selection of drinks. Don’t see your favorite poison? Fear not, it supports the ability to add your own drink to the list
2. Favorites – Do you always forget how to make your girlfriend’s fruity pink umbrella drink? Make it a favorite and save yourself the time in searching through the list.
3. Search – This is probably the best feature in my opinion. You can search for drinks that contain a certain ingredient(s) or you can search for drinks that can be made from the ingredients you have on hand.

Very cool if you ask me.

Download Link

Drinking Games

What’s a good party without a few drinking games? Everybody usually has their own “go to” game that they like to play, but playing the same game all the time can get old pretty fast. Thankfully this app comes with 33 different drinking games, which should be plenty for any party-goer. This app is also great for having a cut & dry set of rules, because you and I both know that not everyone plays by the same set of rules for each game.

Download Link

Google Places

You’re probably asking yourself: “How is Google Places going to make me the life of the party?” Well, how many times has the party been rockin’ and all of a sudden the party runs out of something. Whether it’s ice, mixers, booze, or food, knowing the nearest place to stock up on those items is crucial. Nobody wants to wait around for you to go on your beer run for 3 hours. Not only will the app find the nearest gas station or grocery store for you (as well as a ton of other places) but once you select the one you’re going to, you can then click the map button and get turn-by-turn directions right to it! (for free by the way, go Android!) This is especially useful if you’re not to familiar with the area of the party.

Download Link

doubleTwist

I’ve never been to a good party that didn’t have good music. Sitting around in silence isn’t very fun. doubleTwist is arguably the best media player for Android at the moment. Combine the ability to play music, create playlists, play videos (output music video’s to your TV perhaps?) and the smooth & sleek interface and you have a great media player that can keep the tunes pumping the whole night long. (Much to the chagrin of your neighbors)

Just a note, this app is free for a “limited time” so grab this one for free while you can.

Download Link

BAC Calculator

Drinking and driving is a big no-no. If you plan on drinking you should NOT plan on driving, get a designated driver. Well now that I’ve said that, let’s get to the app. This app will give you arough approximation of what your BAC will be based on what you’ve been drinking, but please don’t try to use this to prove to Johnny Law that you’re not driving over the limit.

As you can see this BAC calculator is pretty basic, but it contains all the necessary questions (besides asking if you’re a man or woman, which does matter)

Basic Mode (on left):

1. What are you drinking – It gives a decent list with a couple mixers and the most popular alcohols in 1.5oz.
2. Number of drinks – Self explanatory, how many drinks have you had
3. Weight – Also self explanatory. Generally the more you weigh, the longer it takes alcohol to work it’s way into your bloodstream. (obviously there are other factors such as muscle mass that effect this, but i’m just simplifying it)
4. Hours drinking – Obviously, drinking six beers in an hour will increase your BAC a lot more than drinking six beers over six hours

Advanced Mode (on right) might be more useful if you drink one thing the entire night. You simply put in how many ounces of the beverage you’ve consumed, the alcohol %, your weight and the number hours you’ve been drinking. (note the 4% alcohol was what the app suggested for light beer)

Again, this app isn’t the final word in your BAC, that falls to the police and they won’t care what this app says. It only should be used to remind you NOT to drink and drive.

Download Link

[source:http://www.talkandroid.com]

[Android] New features from Android 2.1 to Android 2.2 Froyo

[Android] New features from Android 2.1 to Android 2.2 Froyo

With all the hoopla lately about Android 2.2 (aka Froyo, which means frozen yogurt by the way) I figured I would write a brief rundown of some of the new features you can expect from the latest and greatest version of the Android OS.

Home screen

A new tips widget will grace your homescreen. This widget will assist new users on how to configure the home screen, adding shortcuts, adding widgets and how to use multiple home screens.

Another new home screen feature, as you can see, are dedicated buttons for the Phone, Launcher and the Browser.

Exchange Support

No doubt, one of Android’s most lacking features is exchange support. Well that will be changing with Android 2.2. Froyo’s new and improved Exchange support will include the following features:

• Improved security – Exchange admins can enforce a password policy across devices with support for numeric or alpha numeric passwords to unlock a device
• Remote wipe – Exchange admins can remotely wipe the phone to factory defaults if the device was lost or stolen
• Exchange calendars – Will be supported in the Calendar application
• Auto-discovery – With just your username and password, you will easily be able to set up and sync an Exchange account (requires Exchange 2007+)
• Global address look-up – Will now be available from within the Email application allowing users to auto-complete recipient names from the directory

Camera and Gallery

A new and improved Gallery will allow you to peek into picture stacks using a zoom gesture.

The camera now will have on-screen buttons that will provide easy access via a new user interface for controlling the zoom, flash, white balance, focus, geo-tagging and exposure.

In addition, the camcorder now allows you to easily choose the size and quality desired for your video to make uploading to the web or sending video by MMS easier and more efficient. Shooting video at night or low-light conditions will be better now as well as the LED flash will become a light source when shooting video.

Make your phone a mobile hotspot

Apparently, not all devices will support this feature, but phones like the Nexus One will. When configured as a hotspot, your Froyo device share it’s connectivity with up to 8 other devices. Also, you can use the 3G connection on your phone (via a USB connection) to provide access to the internet on your Windows or Linux laptop. (Yes you can get apps for this on Android 2.1, but it will now be supported natively)

Multiple keyboard languages

Users that speak multiple languages will love this feature. You can now add multiple languages to the keyboard and effortlessly switch between Latin-based input languages by swiping across the space bar. Not only does this effect the keys but it effects the auto-correct dictionary as well.

Improved Performance

Performance increases are coming from all over with the Android 2.2 update, here’s the highlights:

• Browser – By enabling faster loading of JavaScript, the V8 engine will boost the speed of the browser
• Dalvik performance boost – in CPU-intensive duties, an increase of 2x to 5x can be seen
• Kernel memory management boost – Memory reclamation by up to 20x. Applications will switch faster on devices with less memory

Flash!

Flash game addicts rejoice! Adobe just recently released Flash 10.1 for devices running Android 2.2 (there are some beta builds of the OS out there). So not only will you now be able to play flash games on your Android 2.2 device, but any type of interactive content will now work flawlessly on your device.

There is one downside to this though, you will now see those annoying flash ads when browsing the web. But in this writers opinion, it’s a small price to pay for the many other benefits of flash.

Misc Improvements

Bluetooth

• Share contacts with other phones
• Voice dialing
• Support for BT enabled car & desk docks
• Improved compatibility with car kits & headsets

2.6.32 kernel upgrade

• HIGHMEM support for RAM > 256MB
• SDIO scheduling and Bluetooth improvements

Applications

• App Error Reports – A new bug reporting feature enables developers to receive crash and freeze reports from users of their Android Market apps
• Apps can be installed on external storage (microSD card for example)
• Apps can participate in data back up and restore, allowing users to reset their device to factory defaults and not lose any personal data

Cloud to Device messaging – Android apps can use the Android Cloud to Device messaging to allow mobile alert, send to phone and 2-way push sync abilites

Camera/Camcorder

• Video FPS doubled from 10 to 20
• Camera now supports portrait orientation, zoom controls, exposure data and a thumbnail utility
• Camcorder also allows apps to determine hardware capabilities

User Interface – Users are now able to select “car mode” and “night mode” controls to configure their UI however they like.

Looks pretty good doesn’t it? No official word has been said on when the Android 2.2 update will be pushed out over the air, but the word around the web speculates it to be within a month. So cross your fingers and keep checking back with TalkAndroid as we’ll be sure to make a lot of noise when the official update gets rolled out.

[source:http://www.talkandroid.com]

[Android] HTC EVO 4G Spesification

[Android] HTC EVO 4G Spesification

Phone Type		Smart phone
Network type & bands		CDMA 1900/800
Design	Form Factor	Candybar
	Dimensions (LxWxD)	4.8×2.6x.5 in (122×66x13mm)
	Weight	6oz (170g)
	Antenna	Internal
Display	Type	Color
	Technology	TFT
	Resolution	480×800px
	Physical Size	4.3in (109.22mm)
	Colors	65,536
	Touch Screen	Capacitive
	Proximity Sensor	Yes
	Light Sensor	Yes
Battery	Type	Li-Ion
	Capacity	1500 mAh
	Talk Time	?
	Stand-by Time	?
Android Version		2.1
Performance	Processor	Qualcomm Snapdragon
	Processor Speed	1GHz
	Memory	512MB RAM / 1024MB ROM
Storage	Expansion
	Slot Type	microSD/microSDHC
	Maximum Size	32GB
Camera	Camera
	Type	Immobile
	Resolution	8MP
	Flash	Dual LED
	Features	Auto focus, digital zoom
	Video
	Video Capture Resolution	1280×720 (720p HD)
	Additional Camera	1.3MP
Multimedia	Music Player
	File Formats	MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA, AMR, MIDI
	Video Playback
	File Formats	MPEG4, H.263, H.264
	Radio
	Type	FM
	Streaming	Yes
	Youtube Player	Yes
Internet Browsing	Supports	HTML
	Built-in Online Services	Facebook, Flickr, Twitter
Location Based Services	Type	A-GPS
	Navigation	Yes
Phonebook	Capacity	Depends on system memory
	Features	Ring ID, Picture ID, Search by first & last name, multiple #’s per contact, Caller Groups
Organizer	Calendar	Yes
	Alarms	Yes
	Tasks/To-Do	Yes
	Other	Calculator, World Clock, Notes
Messaging	SMS	Yes
	MMS	Yes
	Templates	Yes
	Pre-installed IM	Google talk
Connectivity	Bluetooth
	Version	2.1
	EDR	Yes
	Profiles	Advanced Audio Distribution (A2DP)
	WiFi
	Type	802.11 b/g
	WiMAX	Yes
	USB
	Type	microUSB
	Version	2
	Features	USB Charging, mass storage device
	Headphone connector	3.5mm
	Charges via	microUSB
	TV-Out	Yes
	Computer Sync	Yes
	OTA Sync	Yes
Notifications	Polyphonic Ringtones	Yes
	Music Ringtones	MP3
Other Features	Voice Dialing	Yes
	Voice Commands	Yes
	Voice Recording	Yes
	Sensors	Compass, Acceleromoter

Laboratorium Rahasia AS Disusupi 'Hacker'

Sebuah laboratorium rahasia milik Amerika Serikat (AS) menjadi korban serangan cyber. Diduga serangan itu juga dilancarkan ke berbagai lokasi sejenis.

Serangan yang belum diketahui asal-usulnya itu berhasil masuk dalam sebuah komputer yang dikelola Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Laboratorium itu memiliki banyak data-data rahasia terkait riset teknologi dan sains untuk Depatermen Keamanan Dalam Negeri AS.

Pelaku serangan berhasil masuk dengan membuat pesan e-mail tipuan yang ditargetkan khusus pada pegawai pemerintahan AS. E-mail tersebut mengandung program jahat yang pada akhirnya berhasil mencuri data pengunjung laboratorium itu selama 14 tahun terakhir.
Menurut Direktur Laboratorium itu, Thom Mason, tak kurang dari 1.100 percobaan dilakukan pihak tak dikenal itu sebelum akhirnya berhasil menyusup. Menurut Thom ada sekitar 11 pegawainya yang tertipu dan akhirnya 'membuka pintu' untuk masuknya pihak asing ke jaringan mereka.

Meski terjadi penyusupan, komputer yang mengandung data-data sangat rahasia tidak terpengaruh oleh serangan itu.

E-mail Selamat Natal 'Berhadiah' Trojan

Awas...virus natal mulai menyerang...baca neh...
Jakarta - Menjelang Natal dan Tahun Baru, biasanya orang kerap dibanjiri dengan e-mail spam alias e-mail sampah. Momen ini pun dimanfaatkan para pembuat virus untuk melancarkan aksinya.

Sebuah spam bertemakan Natal diketahui beredar sejak Senin lalu. E-mail tersebut rupanya mengangkut sebuah Trojan yang merupakan varian dari Storm Trojan. Storm Trojan sendiri merupakan trojan terbesar sejak kemunculannya pada awal Januari 2007 silam melalui pesan ber-spam.

Lebih lanjut, dikutip detikINET dari PCWorld, Selasa (25/12/2007), e-mail tersebut menyandang subyek seperti "Find Some Christmas Tail", "Warm Up this Christmas" dan "Mrs. Clause Is Out Tonight!".


Dalam e-mail tersebut, diselipkan sebuah link dengan nama domain Merrychristmasdude.com. Sekali meng-klik link tersebut, sang calon korban akan digiring ke sebuah situs bertemakan Natal yang dilengkapi dengan foto perempuan yang nyaris telanjang dan menawarkan download gratis sebuah program.

Menurut perusahaan keamanan F-Secure, program itu merupakan sebuah program jahat yang dijuluki Email-Worm.Win32.Zhelatin.pd, yang akan terhubung ke sebuah jaringan peer-to-peer dan akan mulai men-download banyak malware.

Pengguna diimbau untuk mengunduh antivirus yang mampu mendeteksi keberadaan Trojan ini. Beberapa vendor antivirus yang disinyalir berhasil memblokir varian terbaru dari Storm Trojan ini termasuk Kaspersky, Microsoft dan Symantec. Sementara itu SANS Internet Storm Center merekomendasikan agar para administrator memblokir e-mail dan situs yang mengakses ke domain Merrychristmasdude.com.

dari www.detikinet.com