LG Optimus 2X is First Dual core phone Certified By Guinness Recod

 You know that LG have made an indelible mark in the industry as being a first one when Guinness World Records comes out to and certify something that’s argued amongst many people. Sure it’s one thing to see LG getting their lovely Optimus 2x as the “world’s first dual-core smartphone,” but it might not be enough to convince some of the pundits out there to actually make them believe it.

  Guinness World Records just recently solidified LG’s remark about their smartphone and finally handed over the certification to the LG Optimus 2x is “the world’s first dual-core smartphone.The first mobile phone to use a dual core processor is the LG Optimus 2X, which was first made available to the public nationwide in South Korea, on 25 January 2011."

 The end of January ushered in the season of the dual-core smartphones, and even though it took some time to see the handset’s variant arrive stateside in the form of the T-Mobile G2x, its entry into the market is still perceived as a landmark event.

Tasmanian woman had jail For Sim Stolen and and 3G Data :

Free Is not Always Free......!

 What is the biggest cellphone bill ever that you have paid or listen to be paid ever come across the world ? My be a thousand dollars? Two thousand, maybe? Well, a Tasmanian lady achieved the unthinkable and  the astonishing amount of about $200,000 worth of 3G data and phone calls over a period of three months without even knowing what she was really doing.

 It all started when Kylie Monks, the protagonist of our story,she  met a guy on internet, and known only as a Freeman, and received a SIM card from him to surf the web with. Little did she know that the SIM card was actually stolen from a power meter that belonged to the local Aurora electric power company. Every single megabyte of traffic was adding $2 to the company's phone bill, which is why only three months later, Aurora received the whopping $193,187.43 in wireless data charges.

 Little did she know that the SIM card was actually stolen from a power meter and belonged to the local Aurora electric power company. Every single megabyte of traffic was adding $2 to the company's phone bill, which is why only three months later, Aurora received the whopping $193,187.43 in wireless data charges.

 Even though she didn't know that the SIM card was stolen, Kylie Monks had  serve her time of six months in The Big House. Kylie admits that besides using the free internet for casual stuff, she also downloaded dozens of movies, which were burned onto CDs and sent over to Mr Freeman. That probably explains where the nearly 100 gigabytes of 3G traffic accumulated from.

RIM says BlackBerry 7 browser is faster than Apple iPhone and Android

  During  BlackBerry's slide presentation at the World conference introducing the new 7 OS, RIM showed off slide which claims that, its new browser is faster than the one on the Apple iPhone and Android handsets.  At one time, the BlackBerry browser would choke on JavaScript and web sites would crawl to a stop while being downloaded. Now, the Sun Spider JS test shows that the browser on the BlackBerry 7 OS executes JavaScript faster than any other mobile browser. 

 According to RIM, the new BlackBerry's browser is, "now one of the best browsers in mobile today" with pages loading 1.6 times faster than seen with the browser on BlackBerry 6 OS. Changes to the software optimizes Web Kit while new hardware increases browser's speed. The faster zooming and panning leads to fewer cases of "checker boarding" or the visual checker board type image that comes when the browser speed is slower than the speed that you are navigating the browser at.

  

BlackBerry

 just announced  Bold 9900 will be powered with same as BlackBerry 7 OS and the average web page loads in 7.81 seconds on the phone compared with 12.4 seconds on the BlackBerry Torch 9800. And as far as the JavaScript readings are concerned, the Sun Spider test showed the BlackBerry Bold 9900 executing in 2.84 second, the Apple iPhone in 3.23 seconds and Android handsets coming in at 5 seconds. The BlackBerry Torch 9800 How about in 10 seconds.

In South Korea Samsung Galaxy S II hit strong initial demand

 A report claims that the first  demand for the Samsung Galaxy S II in the manufacturer's home country has been nothing short of impressive.

  Figures shows that prior to the Samsung Galaxy S II launch in South Korea, Samsung has received not less than 200 000 pre-orders last Monday and its the Day on Friday, April 29, which, if we take into account that this country is home to some 48 million people, is a really good achievement.

  The Korean manufacturer's are putting a lot of faith in its new flagship phone - the promos aside, the Samsung Galaxy S II is to be released in 120 countries.

Samsung stated that it aims to sell 10 million Galaxy S II units by the end of the year. It's yet unknown when this handset will hit shelves in the US.

 

 

Nexus 1 gets Android 2.3.4 OTA upgrade

 Thanks to Android for its stock build, Nexus One still in near to the top of list, when it comes to receiving the latest Android updates from Google. Some of the newer features on Google's open source OS have to be eliminated. For example, while Nexus S users received Google Talk voice and video chat with their update to Android 2.3.4, N-One users will soon get an OTA update to the same Android build minus the Google Talk features. The reason for the lack of video chat on the Nexus One is simple. The phone was launched at a time when front-facing cameras were basically non-existent.

 The update will also improve's the life of battery, also N-One along with improved accuracy for the phone's location tracking services. Some owners of the device complained about the loss of accuracy using the phone's GPS application after Android 2.3.3 was installed.