Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) – An Overview of Features

Google Android Developer team has made their latest Android Operating System version ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’ more tastier than its predecessors. The unveiling of Ice Cream Sandwich took place on 19 October 2011 in Hong Kong along with the launch of Samsung Nexus, world’s first phone running on Ice Cream Sandwich.

Android 4.0 delivers a refined, unified UI for phones and tablets and introduces innovative features for users and developers.

New features incorporated into Android Ice Cream Sandwich that was unveiled during the presentation include:

• Virtual buttons in the UI, instead of taking up a capacitive screen
• Widgets are in a new tab, listed in a similar list to apps
• Folders are much easier to create, with a drag-and-drop style similar to iOS
• A customizable launcher
• New phone app with visual voicemail functionality that lets you speed up or slow down *voicemail messages
• Pinch-to-zoom functionality in the calendar
• Gmail has offline search, a two-line preview, and new action bar at the bottom
• Swipe left or right to switch between Gmail conversations
• Integrated screenshot capture by holding power and volume down buttons
• Improved error correction on the keyboard
• Ability to access apps directly from lock screen (similar to HTC Sense 3.x)
• Improved copy and paste
• Better voice integration
• Face Unlock, a facial recognition service
• New tabbed web browser, allowing up to 16 tabs
• Browser now automatically syncs your Chrome bookmarks
• Modern “Roboto” font
• Data Usage section in settings lets you set warnings when you reach a certain amount of use and disabling data when you go over your limit
• Ability to kill off apps that are using data in the background
• Camera app: zero shutter lag, time lapse settings, zoom while recording
• Built-in photo editor
• New gallery layout, organized by location and person
• Refreshed people app with social network integration, status updates and hi-res images
• Android Beam, a NFC feature that lets you exchange websites, contact info, directions, YouTube, etc.   

Simple, beautiful, beyond smart

Android 4.0 builds on the things people love most about Android — easy multitasking, rich notifications, customizable home screens, resizable widgets, and deep interactivity — and adds powerful new ways of communicating and sharing.

Motorola RAZR Android Phone – Dual Core 1.2GHz Processor, 1GB RAM, 8MP Camera

Motorola unveiled the New Motorola RAZR ultra-thin, lightweight Android phone. It has a dual-core 1.2 GHz processor with an impressive 1GB of RAM, all powered by Android 2.3.5. It has 8MP rear-facing camera with 1080p video capture for crisp, clear, cinematic-quality images.

7.1 millimeters with sexy curves to boot, this beauty will be available in North America, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Middle East and Africa starting this November. Boasting a gorgeous sculpted glass face, diamond-cut aluminum accents and a hyper-vibrant 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Advanced display for incredibly vivid images. Motorola RAZR also sports KEVLAR fiber and Corning Gorilla Glass to help the screen stand up to scratches and scrapes. In fact, every part of Motorola RAZR is protected by a splash-guard coating – even the electrical boards inside. This work of art is a force to be reckoned with.

With its dual core processor, you will fly through tasks up to two times faster than single-core processor phones. Stream or download music and photos from your home or work computer with the easy-to-use MOTOCAST app1. Watch movies on a screen that sports a wider range of colors than most LCD HDTVs.

Close to Home, Wherever You Go: Your favorite music playlists, from classic rock to heavy metal. Pics of every vacation, from road trip to romantic getaway. With Motorola RAZR it’s all at your fingertips, all the time. With the free preloaded MotoCast app, you can stream content from your computer straight to your pocket (or purse) so your personal content is always within reach. Whether you’re across the street or across the country, you can rock your playlists or breeze through photos instantly – without hogging your device’s memory. And, because you don’t have to upload to a third-party site, you’re saving time while gaining peace of mind. That’s right – your files stay safe because they stay with you.

Solar Vest

Solar Vest is not only a fashionable Vest, but also your reliable assistant for charging the electronic devices of all kinds, when all power sockets are out of reach. Vest is equipped with 4 safely protected weather proof solar panels. You can pull these panels out and leave in the sun – if you are working or relaxing than put it in the open air. The principle of this clothing is as follows: These Solar panels absorbs solar energy and accumulate it in a battery located in the front left pocket. When any of your equipment needs to be recharged, just connect it to the battery. The Solar Vest contains useful tools for managing the solar energy, in its pockets, as well as cables with a variety of power connectors. It fits almost any mobile phone, laptop, camera etc. This hitech clothing can be purchased for only $140 dollars.

Specification

Primary Function: Solar Battery + Charger Vest for Portable Electronics

Solar Charger Specifications:

- Four Solar Panels
- Capacity: 8,800mAh
- Solar panel: 6W
- Voltage: 3.7V
- Inputs and Ports: AC Input Port, USB Power Input, DC Output 1, DC Output 2
- Switches: On/Off, Voltage Adjust
- Light Indicators: Green: Power more than 80%; Orange: Power between 30% and 70%; Red: Power less than 30%

Walk to Charge your Cell Phone

Charge your Cell Phones by wearing these special shoes, developed by Tom Krupenkin and J. Ashley Taylor at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Tom Krupenkin who is a professor of mechanical engineering, describes in an article in Nature Communications paper about the energy-harvesting technology known as “reverse electro-wetting” a phenomenon discovered by the two researchers. Electro-wetting is when “the shape of a liquid droplet sitting on a liquid-repelling surface is charged by applying voltage to the surface. Krupenkin and Taylor’s technology, however, reverses this principle.

Both the scientists now aim to commercialize their technology at the company they have recently founded – InStep NanoPower. Krupenkin and Taylor expect the energy harvester to be ready in two years. They developed this technology with a grant from the National Science Foundation.

How it Works:

The mechanical energy is converted to electrical energy by using a micro-fluid based device, consisting of thousands of liquid micro-droplets interacting with a nano-structured substrate. Placed in a shoe, the device captures the energy of moving micro droplets and converts it into electrical current.

USB Solar Charger HUB for Mobiles and Gadgets by DTech

In principle, this 4 port hub can be used in the traditional way. You can connect it to your computer easily. But why, if it can be charged from the Sun? Very convenient that the lithium battery can store charge and release it later – at the right time. This solar charger can be recharged through direct sunlight, AC power or car power.  The set contains a hub with 6 connectors for most popular types of mobiles.  It can charge mobile phones and other digital devices/gadgets with USB-interface, no need to worry anymore about gadget power issues during travel or while on a picnic. It is a portable, environment friendly, lightweight, durable and versatile solar charging product. The cost of this Solar USB hub is only $20.

Features: 
Portable and convenient power back up for your devices
Use the sunlight to charge your mobile phones, PDAs, MP3 players, MP4 players, PSP or NDS Lite
Built-in lithium battery can be recharged by sunlight, AC power and stored
USB 2.0 4-Port hub
Fully compliant with USB 2.0 specification
Backwards compatible with USB 1.1
Plug and play
Supports Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Mac OSX and Linux
Dimension: 64 x 64 x 16mm (approx.)
Weight: 54g

New Android based Smart Phone – HTC HERO

HTC from Taiwan has announced the release of its next smartphone HTC HERO which is based on Android platform. It has the new user interface “Sense UI”. HTC HERO is 1st of Android based devices to support Adobe Flash. In addition, the smartphone has following features;

• It is equipped with a 3.2-inch HVGA 480 x 320 resulotion display with a special anti- fingerprints coating and Teflon coated external body
• 5 mega pixel camera with auto focus lens
• AGPS (Assisted Global Positioning System)
• Compass
• Accelerometer
• 3.5 mm output for headphone
• Customizable search buttons
• The device has 512 MB of memory, expandable through microSD card
• 288 MB RAM
• 528 MHz Processor by Qualcomm
• The Smart Phone HTC HERO will be available in Europe and Asia in this summer, its actual price is still un-known

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Mozilla to Develop OS based on android!

Mozilla, who are renowned for their successful internet browser, are entering the mobile race, developing a new web-centric OS that will directly compete with Google, Apple and Microsoft.

If the name Mozilla rings any bells it's because they're the tech boffins who put together Internet Explorer, the browser that Windows defaults to. Mozilla took the leviathan computing company on with its Firefox browser, and today it stands as the second most popular browser worldwide.


Now the company who was underdog to Microsoft looks to be playing the same role, but this time against internet mogul Google.


Announced on the Mozilla discussion forum, Mozilla have begun coding for phones and tablets. The BBC revealed the mobile operating system will draw on Android code, with Mozilla writing as much fresh code as possible. The hybrid-like operating system will be named Boot To Gecko. 


It is an unusual name for an OS, until you remember Gecko is the rendering engine employed by the Firefox browser that interprets web page coding and displays it in a screen-friendly format, a homage to its origins.


Even though Android coding will form the operating system's foundations, Mozilla hope to add a much more open wrapper around it than Google currently do, making it more versatile as an operating system.


Its shared foundations will also make Boot To Gecko compatible with the same phones as Android, competing as a direct alternative to Google.


Often, when you select a link from an application native to the Android or iOS market, the operating system will have to open a new webpage in the browser. Boot To Gecko aims to limit this by making applications much more web-centric.


If the venture proves successful, Mozilla will be waging war against industry giants, with Google, Apple and Microsoft dominating many facets of the technological world.