Samsung Galaxy S II build and Design

Despite all of its advanced features, last year's Galaxy S looked a lot like the iPhone 3G. The only difference was that it was entirely made out of plastic; one of its greatest shortcomings. Now, just like the iPhone 4, Galaxy S II has developed sharper edges. It is still entirely crafted out of plastic, but seems more convincing this time with solid housing and a modern design.

Its elegant line is evident at first touch, feels light when held, and sounds incredible. Despite the fact that the Galaxy S II has a 0.3 inches larger display than its predecessor, it is significantly slimmer and a few grams lighter. It is 2 millimeters higher and wider with the dimensions being 125 x 66 x 8.5 mm.

Its slim profile is very impressive, and when combined with a large display that takes up nearly the whole front surface of the phone, you get a highly modern and futuristic look. The secret of such a great design is in the Super AMOLED 'Plus' technology, given that it enables the production of significantly thinner screens compared to the Super AMOLED ones, which the "old" Galaxy uses.

The biggest problem with standard AMOLED displays is their drastic loss of contrast when exposed to direct sunlight, making those phones a bad choice for those who spend a lot of time outdoors. This problem was slightly tackled with Super AMOLED technology; however, devices like the original Galaxy S that used it, were still not easy to use in direct sunlight.

Samsung's Galaxy S II comes with the Super AMOLED Plus screen, and progress has been made once again -- the contrast is still lost in sunlight, but not to the extent that using the phone is difficult. Indoors, the Super AMOLED Plus looks very impressive, especially on a lush 4.3-inch diagonal.

Carrier IQ's performance monitoring software has been deleted from the latest firmware update for the HTC EVO 3D smartphone

An earlier Sprint post revealed that the pending firmware version, due for Jan. 12 release, would be a security update. AndroidCentral reported this week that it would also boost battery life and offer an updated Peep client to align with Twitter.

After the version was released, programmers and hackers began delving into it. "Folks who have checked around in the manage applications tab have noticed that 'HTC IQAgent' and 'IQRD,' both of which were Carrier IQ, are no longer present on the device after the update," according to AndroidCentral. 

Sprint, one of several carriers that use the Carrier IQ software, confirmed in December that it had "disabled use of the tool so that diagnostic information data is no longer being collected," according to a story at MobileBurn, quoting from a Sprint email statement.

The HTC EVO 3D update may indicate that Sprint has ordered its handset partners to remove the software entirely. Email requests to Carrier IQ and Sprint for comment have not yet received replies.

Carrier IQ exploded into public awareness in November, in the wake of an online analysis and YouTube video by Trevor Eckhart, a Connecticut-based systems analyst and amateur security researcher. Eckhart claimed that the output of the Android LogCat utility showed that Carrier IQ was a "rootkit" that was collecting a wide range of personal information and, presumably, sending it to Sprint. A firestorm of accusation followed, with Carrier IQ, and its carrier customers, being accused of keylogging, spying and tracking.

But more detailed analysis by at least two other professional security researchers found that Eckhart was confusing Carrier IQ's actions with those of debug statements mistakenly left in the Android code by HTC's own programmers. In fact, Carrier IQ was collecting performance related data for optimizing the end users' experience, no more and no less.

Turn Your Smartphone Into Mobile Hacking Device Through Android App

Mobile Phone Hacking is on its peak so that Smartphone's owners have to look after their mobile phones seriously to avoid dangerous hacking attempts especially "Android Smartphone Users". Because it has been rumored spreading on internet since last weeks about an Android App called Anti or Android Network Toolkit, which perhaps going to launch in Android Market Next Week. This new Android Application Program has been introduced by which Israeli security firm Zimperium which is revealed at the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas Friday and plans to make available to all Android users in coming days, is designed for penetration testing in theory, searching out and demonstrating vulnerabilities in computer systems so that they can be patched. Anti aims to bring all the hacking tools available to penetration testers on PCs to smartphones, with an automated interface intended to make sniffing local networks and owning remote servers as simple as pushing a few buttons. However, the way people tend to use smartphones can also put them at risk. Herring noted that mobile users tend to be in distracting environments, so they generally provide only short bursts of divided attention to their phones.

Nokia Opens Public Voting To Name First Windows Phone Smartphone

As we know soon Nokia and Microsoft is going to launch their first ever Windows Phone Smartphone device in a collaboration and it seems that they want public attention to gain more online presence, So as a first step Nokia's North American Head of Developer Marketing, Chanse Arrington has created a poll which allows people to cast their vote and suggest the name of the first Nokia's Windows Phone smartphone device. The poll is still ON and users can cast their votes with their own choices.name.

Smartphone war pauses as world mourns Steve Jobs

The launch of a hot new Google smartphone was delayed as the world mourned the loss of legendary Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and sales began of the latest iPhone.

Just another Smartphone Application

With the current trends in Smartphone development in its hardware and software component, a far more complex application can also be put inside one of those Smartphone models. The application is for medical use, it works by monitoring the overall health status of a person not just a single item like weight or calorie intake. This application has a hardware part in two different places. The first hardware is located in the phone itself and the second hardware component is located or embedded somewhere in the body of the person being monitored. Sound like Star trek tech but not really, embedded system has been around for some time and has become smaller in physical size enabling it to be place almost anywhere and every item that needs to have a customize programming or set of specific function for that machine.
The embedded hardware component is the main monitoring and alert system for the specific person. It must be capable of reading the current and sudden change in the body physical condition. It must be able to monitor the following Heart beat, blood pressure, pulse, oxygen intake, blood cell count, calories intake, weight, and a whole lot of other stuff that concern a regular person health status. Also these embedded systems must also be able to store information regarding the history of the health of the person to be able to accurately measure what is the ideal health status. It must contain a complete system for data for each individual vital sign of a person.
Another function of this system is the alert function, which means any sudden or gradual changes in the physical health condition must sent to the intended receiver of the data. This can be by communicating with the other half of the application contains in the Smartphone that the person uses. This embedded system must be able to also produce a low emission short wave radio signal that it will communicate with the application inside the Smartphone. Also the application in the Smartphone can access the data collected by the embedded system and display it as human readable form. The alert signal will be sent from the embedded system via the Smartphone then the Smartphone will send the alert signal via text or call or any other form of communication to the intended receiver of the alert signal which is usually a doctor.
Also the application in the Smartphone can also collect and store the information being sent by the monitoring system embedded in the person body and display all them in real time mode. Another thing is that this data can be used by the doctor in determining the treatment needed to cure or correct the situation of a person health. This application must also be affordable so that many people will be able to use them to personally monitor their health status on a daily basis.
The Smartphone application i am blogging right now my exist or not does not exist yet, but if ever it become real in the near future then a lot of people will truly benefit from this and will make the Smartphone become not just a fashion item for some but a necessity for the many people. Also this application will really make a Smartphone a lot smarter and valuable.

SmartPhone or Computer that Do More than Just Make A Call.

How time passes by and so is the development of the technology involved in creating and developing the personal computer and other devices that is associated with it. One example of this is the mobile from it early bulky appearance and call function only, to personalization and fashion style and adding SMS and MMS then again to colour display, MP3 and movie player with powerful camera and an ever expanding Memory card. Now we have packed every imaginable application to the mobile phone and making it a smart mobile phone.

How smart is the smart phone today. First all latest smart phone from Apple I phone 4, Motorola Atrix and HTC to name a few have a single or dual processor in them to run every bit of the phone and all applications installed in it. The latest smart phone is powered by a dual processor, a 5 Mega Pixel and up main camera, the ever expanding memory of 16 Gigabytes or 32 Gigabytes and the latest Android OS version. Plus a host of all types of standard application from WIFI connectivity, GPS tracking system HD display where watching video has become more fun than ever before.

What is the important of having a dual core processor in smart phone; well it can run your favourite games pretty nice and start all those application on a faster mode. The phone can do things simultaneously or it can do multi tasking of all your favourite android base application at one time. More processor also the Smartphone can handle more complex application compare to the regular application let say a weight monitoring and tracking software. A more complex health application would be an application capable of monitoring one’s entire body status from blood pressure and the like to alerting the right Doctor to inform them of their patience condition in real time environment.

Bigger memory means lots and lots of music, picture and video can put into the phone without having to worry of getting it full. Also an application runs and reacts much faster. We can enjoy hours of homemade video via the latest smart phone because it provide a bigger storage area. Plus more new application is being created for the entire latest Smartphone model regardless of manufacturer. Adding to the basic and advance feature of each phone and creating a smarter phone compared to its predecessor.  With all the new and present application plus the always evolving hardware counterpart it has become harder to choose from a simple view of an ordinary user which would not have any clue on how to use all the available application present in the current generation of Smartphone.

All the picture taken and video recorded is also very clear because of the 5 mega pixel camera and watching the playback is also very clear and enjoyable because of the High Definition display for each latest smart phone.

With the current trends in the mobile phone industry, old and new player will continue to churn out more and smarter phone feature and adding or expanding current technology and also developing new technology for this smart phone making them smarter than today latest generation of smart phone. Indeed the computer technology has evolve so much that it created a revolution called the Smartphone which have influenced us very much on how we communicate and do our task every day.