I was shopping for a memory card the other day and got the chance to speak to a guy who was looking for laptop. His requirements were pretty simple: Watch high definition movies and surf internet. He was not going to do any coding or development apart from creating couple of excel or word documents or may be edit some images and videos. [More]

There are no two thoughts about Apple's quality and hence its dominance in the mobile market. But, given the competition and the quality products available from other vendors, it becomes absolutely sensible to compare before showing more loyality to Apple than the your own pocket!

If you are a proud owner of iPhone 4 and looking to buy 4S, i would say that giving a thorough look at the new offerings in 4S as compared to 4 would make sense. This is because, i don't see major changes as far as upgrade is concerned. If you are a first time buyer, you should offcourse go for it after giving a chance to similar offerring available in market.

Here are some of the key differences and commonalities that i think matter. [More]

If you are using a Samsung's Android based SmartPhone, then there is a good news for you. You can leave your USB data cable aside and simply access all your mobile's content via internet browser like Google Chome, MS Internet Explorer or any other browser.
Kies AIR is an application developed by Samsung and supports thier own SmartPhones. You simply need to download and install the application on your mobile from Samsung applications site. [More]

Did you know that Adobe has a Photoshop Express application for Android and its FREE too.
The app. lets you do the basic photo editing like crop, adding borders, changing brightness and couple of other things.

Many times, we feel the need of polishing an image before uploading it on Facebook in mobile itself.
What is better than taking a picture with mobile camera, quickly edit it and upload it then and there. [More]

How to configure custom email account that you have set up with Google Applications to receive mails on Gmail application available for Android. [More]

Android services and applications consume internet data in background. Use a data management application to find out the exact usage and block any unwanted applications to use excess data to reduce costs. [More]

Looking out for a smartPhone, i was always having a question mark in my head about the difference between the three types of memory generally advertised by manufacturers i.e. RAM, Internal Storage and External Storage (SD card). I did a bit of research and tried to find the difference and relative importance to make a purchase decision. Here are the things explained in simple english for your reference. [More]

If you already use a SmartPhone, then you probably know about the usability and the various costs attached to it. You can therefore make the decisions of upgrading to the latest and upcoming SmartPhones in a much better way. So, if it is about buying a new iPhone 5 or Samsung Galaxy S II, you can very well compare the features that the new ones have as compared to your existing phone.

This article is particulary aimed at noting down the points which a normal phone user (simple and basic mobile phones) should think about before making a purchase. [More]

A much cleaner and better option of solving this error than Offline download is to set Up Proxy server settings in Eclipse and then download the Android components.

You do have options to set proxy server in 'SDK manager' but that does not allow you to set user name and password if your proxy server requires you to. Hence, that does not work. [More]

Want to install android SDK components offline? But why? Well, there could be number of reasons like your machine is behind a firewall and hence is blocked from online installations or you don't have an active internet connection. The reason could be any but the answer is that you can download SDK components offline and install them on your own. Here is how you can do it. [More]

You have downloaded and configured the Android SDK and Eclipse and now ready to explore the sample projects provided by Android. But have you tried importing them into Eclipse?

If yes, then you would have faced an issue which Eclipse reports by saying that it could not find any projects when you specify the project directory for import. [More]

Swype is one of the amazing text writing application specially designed for touchscreen devices. SmartPhones with touchscreens follow the conventional method of tapping the virtual keys on their screen to type in any text. Swype on the other hand does not require you to even tap the keys. Simply moving your finger across the keyboard can help Swype guess the word you want to write. i.e. Instead of hitting each key
individually, you just move your finger or thumb over the keys in succession. The software will draw a line that follows your movements, tracing your finger through the keys. When you lift your finger after tracing over a word, the software will compare the traced letters with the contents of its dictionary and look for a match. [More]