It’s hard to imagine a period before cell phones. Our own phones and each of our apps are capable of doing almost anything. Even saving lifestyles across species. They are truly powerful devices.
United kingdom tree surgeon Leon Timms identified a tiny chaffinch lying on the floor. It is thought that the particular bird flew to the solar panels on Timms’ roof or hit one among his windows. The particular bird was dazed along trouble breathing. So Leon brought it in to his home and also started to stroke the bird, hoping to revive it. Luckily he his smartphone together with him.
It could be chance, but that would seem unlikely. At least one chicken owes it’s life to this application now.
“I brought the chaffinch inside and started stroking him on my lap, and then I came up with the idea of playing it the sound of another chaffinch on my mobile phone app. I popped the app on and almost immediately the bird’s eyes opened and he seemed to become more alert … It definitely responded to the sound of another chaffinch.”
Yesterday, we have received reports from lots of Sprint Galaxy Nexus users regarding problems with their data on Sprint’s network. The issue was acknowledged by Sprint and we were informed that they are working on the fix!
Today, Sprint has confirmed that the update is ready, and it is the version IMM76D.L700FD002 update. This will fix the data problems, and has fix fo the devices not displaying the correct network time after activation and also a Google Wallet update.
Sprint also said that the update will be rolled out over at 1 to 2 day period starting from the 1st of May. If you have received the update on your device leave a comment and let us know.
Draw Something is a popular cell phone game where you play with your friends by guessing what they have drawn and drawing something for them to guess. The game was created by OMGPOP- a company that has been bought by Zynga a month ago in a deal which is reported to be worth $180 million, and the free and paid versions are said to be making around $250,000 per day of revenue. It has become a phenomenon and has reached 50 million downloads in just a matter of 50 days. Cool huh? It is such an awesome feat and if the game continues at this rate, most often than not, it could end up being as popular as Angry Birds.
I have heard that this coming Friday, Best Buy will will sell Android powered devices like the Samsung Stratosphere from the Verizon, Sprint, and AT&T for free with a 2-year service pact. I do hope that they will offer Samsung Stratosphere Accessories as well.
By the way, Here are the current list of items:
Dell Streak 7″ Tablet with Android Honeycomb OS – Price TBD
Asus Transformer 10.1 – $249.99 (Door Buster)
HTC Thunderbolt (Verizon) – Free with 2-year contract
Toshiba Thrive 10.1 – $279.99
Acer Iconia 7-inch Tab – $189.99
Droid Incredible 2 (Verizon) – Free with 2-year contract
HTC EVO Shift 4G (Sprint) – Free with 2-year contract
Samsung Stratosphere (Verizon) – Free with 2-year contract
LG Thrill 4G (AT&T) – Free with 2-year contract
Motorola Atrix 2 (AT&T) – Free with 2-year contract
Samsung Infuse 4G (AT&T) – Free with 2-year contract
Via CellPhoneTrek
Samsung has not yet released its Ice Cream Sandwich update to their Samsung Galaxy S II along with other Android devices. Today, the guys from the XDA developers have put together a ROM for the Samsung Galaxy S II.
Samsung hasn’t revealed any information as to when they will officially release its Android 4.0 ICe Cream Sandwich update for the Galaxy S II, but as always, as soon as we get some more details we will let you guys know. Via CellPhoneTrek
A week ago, we have heard reports that Samsung would start selling the new Galaxy Note in the UK on November 17th. It seems to me that Samsung has changed the their mind as the Galaxy Note is reportedly going to be available in the UK from the 3rd of November.
The Samsung Galaxy Note runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread and features a 5.3 inch Super AMOLED display. It will be powered by a dual core 1.4GHz processor and will come with a 2 megapixel camera for video chat, a rear facing 8 MP camera with an LED flash, and will come with a 1GB of RAM.
T-Mobile and LG recently already announced the LG DoublePlay, and now, they said that it will be made available in the US from the 2nd of November.
The LG DoublePlay features dual displays, a main 3.5 inch multi-touch touchscreen display and a smaller 2 inch secondary display.
The LG DoublePlay runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and features a 5 megapixel camera and is powered by a single core 1GHz Snapdragon processor.
Unfortunately, we still don’t have any information regarding its pricing as yet, but we’ll let you know asap, as soon as we get some more information.
Samsung takes its pride in introducing the new Samsung Stratosphere, an Android device that runs Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and that can personalized using Samsung Stratosphere Accessories. It features a large touchscreen display, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and is exclusively over at Verizon Wireless subscribers in the US. It is Verizon’s first 4G LTE smartphone and its accessories are already available over to www.stratoshpereaccessories.com.
Google Nexus Prime seems to be the Android smartphone that everyone is talking about. It is said that it is going to be Google’s latest device in its Nexus smartphone range, and it will either be called the Google Nexus Prime or the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, or both depending on the carrier.
Samsung and Google were set to unveil the Nexus Prime a week ago on the 11th of October, the event was changed to this week and it is taking place in Hong Kong tomorrow.
The Google Nexus Prime or the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, which include the Android Ice Cream Sandwich, a 4.65 inch curved glass Super AMOLED display, a dual core 1.2GHz processor, 5 megapixel camera, and 1GB of RAM.
The Nexus Prime is going to be launched soon, while the Motorola Atrix 2 4G is already available over at AT&T. This can be personalized using Motorola Atrix 2 Accessories and can now be bought for just $99 with a two-year contract. Its accessories are also available over at www.motorolaatrix2accessories.com and it is said that the Atrix 2 is also available over at Amazon also for just $49, provided you can hang tight for another week or two.