Nexus tablet late in July, will cost less than 200 €?

There are new developments on the forthcoming tablet branded Nexus. New rumors reinforce the assumptions of the past few weeks, which saw a collaboration between American and Taiwanese giant Asus, chosen to produce an economic model of 7 ".

The principal novelty is the release date, not May, but July. A delay apparently justified by a rethinking of both parties, who preferred the redesign of specific tablet cheaper. No more than $ 249 (190 €) as initially planned, therefore, but a more attractive price range within a band of $ 149-199 (realistically about 200 €, euro euros less than) that now includes Kindle and Nook Fire Tablet.

Unchanged specifications, which continue to seek a faster Tegra 3, a 1280 × 800 and the inevitable Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4. For now we just have to wait in any case promises to be an interesting year, with Google and Apple (at work on an iPad "nano") ready to do battle in tablet low cost.

Google will produce and will be selling a tablet on its own

The rumors of a return on the consumer market, Google has been chased for months and the Wall Street Journal gets on the bandwagon, making it more credible because of its influence and showing off "rumors", "credible sources" and "some well-informed": the second tested the Google project is that someone had already envisaged, namely to sell its own tablet.

With the purchase of Motorola and a few "chats" with Samsung and Asustek, sembrebbe that Google considers to be ready to address this market, which in the field of consumer technology is perhaps the most dangerous of all.

In the world of the tablet at the moment there are only three names that can boast of real gains or a significant penetration of the market: in the first place we have with Apple's iPad, which has defined the market and continues to reign undisturbed. In second place is Amazon, which apparently does not earn directly with its cheap but good Kindle Fire, but has spread like wildfire and basa their fortunes on the content. In third place is Asus, which with its products such as Transformers Prime was able to carve a niche and gain the trust of customers, but that is very detached.

Android Smartphone in Indonesia developed severe

According to International Data Corporation, smartphone shipments to Indonesia continued to grow in the fourth quarter of 2011. This is because mobile phones are becoming cheaper prices, but demand remains strong.
IDC, a research body of information and telecommunications technology known in the world, gave a statement that the smartphone shipments from manufacturers to Indonesia rose 28 percent in the fourth quarter compared with the third quarter, and by 61 percent over the same quarter the previous year.
It also said, the major retailers in Indonesia has made great steps in its influence on the development of smartphones in Indonesia.
Indonesia analyst IDC named Darwin Lie stated, "We see two lists of mobile phone retailers, Erajaya and Telesindo, the Indonesia Stock Exchange. These steps increase their capital and allowing them to invest more in their retail channels to expand their reach. "
Also reported that the Android-based smartphone is the best selling smartphone in Indonesia. Android smartphone prices are sold in the market range from U.S. $ 130 or 1.2 million dollars and retailers really know the market situation by using a base medium to low-income customers.
Android smartphones to grow to 22 percent in Indonesia, and there is potential for Android to dominate the market in the coming quarters. As for the mobile phone is not a smartphone, edged down by 4 percent compared with third quarter. Whereas earlier in the third quarter, an increase in mobile phone shipments to the vendor is very large, namely 30%, and controls 89% of all mobile phone shipments in Indonesia. Although in the fourth quarter fell 4% yesterday Still, Indonesia is still a huge market for this regular feature phones.
Approximately 44 million mobile phone units shipped to Indonesia last year, with smartphones represented 13 percent of market share. BlackBerry dominates smartphone market but Samsung's shipments grew too large, namely 116 percent and do not rule out that Nokia remains the largest player for regular feature phone.

Angry Birds Already Glide Space

After long-awaited, Rovio has finally released the latest series of the popular game besutannya, Angry Birds Space. For fans 'angry birds' that, now can download the game on multiple devices.

This new game is available for the iPhone and separately with the HD version for iPad, as well as for the Android version. As for the PC version, rumored to be selling Rovio game from its online store and the Mac version can be downloaded at the Mac Store.

So what's different from this new game? Still the same 'formula' of this game bird that is cast into pigs that became his enemy. But that is different and there are new gameplay elements including the gravitational field. There was also a new power-ups and Space Eagles can be obtained by playing or the user must spend to buy it.

"This launch marks a major step we as a company and our entire team and partners have come together to produce exciting," said Chief Executive Rovio, Mikael Hed, as reported by the Guardian, Thursday (03/22/2012).

"We hope our fans will find all the nice things Angry Birds in Space as that of other Rovio family," he added.

Rovio can expect new games or continue to provide huge growth for the Angry Birds, which has more than 700 million times downloaded on all platforms, the last time the company released data.

"This is the first time for us is to have all the things available on launch day, ranging from animation, toys, books, candy and more. And this is only the first phase of our space program, because there's more to come next, "said Peter Vesterbacka of Rovio.

Rovio previously promised an official guide book published by National Geographic as well as animation and retail elements for the launch of Angry Birds.

Ads Android apps burdensome

A team of researchers from Purdue University and Microsoft have found the results of research on the consumption of advertising on Android applications. It seems that in addition to irritating pop up ads from Android apps were consuming power applications up to 75%.
This research uses the energy measurement tool called EProf that can analyze and monitor the power consumption of any existing applications on the Android operating system. The research was conducted on the device that uses the Nexus One Android OS 2.3 and measure the energy consumed when using applications such as Angry Bird, FreeChess and New York Times.
When testing the application Angry Birds, it was found that the game itself only consumes 20 percent of the total power applications. The rest is used to display advertisements. This happens because the smartphone devices have to upload the user's location to the server and then download ads via the data connection. Upload sites occur only once, but the data download ads keep coming again and again. Similar results were obtained with FreeChess applications as well.
Battery Manager on your smartphone will not be able to display information such comparisons because usually you only show the total power used by the application, excluding the power used by the ad.
So basically, if you tell your smartphone apps Angry Birds that use 30 percent of cell phone batteries, only 20 percent of 30 percent is used by the game and the rest is used to serve ads to you.
Google seems to find a way to optimize the use of the power of advertising is an application for Android. Through this research is also expected that application developers can develop their applications to be more power efficient and also find better ways to generate revenue than display ads.
EProf application to measure the use of battery power will soon be available for download under open source licenses. The team is also currently working to bring it to Windows Phone.

Retirement Android Market, Google replaced Play

Google has taken a major step in bringing all the latest 'contents of his gun', ranging from the Android Market by Google into Google Music Play. Starting today, Google will begin rebranding Android Market, Google Music and Google Books.

Until now, everyone connected with the content under the banner of the Android Market. So with this new step, it looks like the company was interested in making the user understand the content as a whole.

Reported by The Verge, Wednesday (03/07/2012), a spokesman for Google said that Google's Play is the evolution of the Android Market. Play or be referred to Google Google Play Store, will be the single destination for all enterprise content, thereby Android books, music and video applications will become Google's Play Books, Music and Google Google Play Play Movies.

Google Play is intended to unify the content offered by the internet giant, not only for mobile devices but also the browser.

Meanwhile, Android device running version 2.2 or later will have their application automatically Android Market, which will be updated in the coming days. Then the name of the Android Market will retire, though it looks like users will not miss too considering similarities to Google's Play.

Google seems to be a concentration on the Google service is cloud-based Play and create connected content. In a statement on its blog that wants to help the user, to understand that Google Play is similar to Apple or iTunes iCloud Match.

But the service is only available in the United States, while still limited in other countries. So terlpeas of finite existence, Google Play now would be the official destination Android applications.

Android will surpass iPad Tablet in 2015

According to the IDC study, the greatness of the iPad will not be able to stop the dominance of Android tablet within 3 years from now. Although Apple currently dominates the tablet market, iPad share of the worldwide market will be eroded because of lower prices than competitors such as Amazon Kindle Fire.

IDC report said the fourth quarter of 2011 yesterday that Apple controls the tablet market worldwide with 54.7% rate, which means more than half of world market share of tablet users. But that figure is predicted to continue to decline through 2015.

As a single vendor for the delivery of IOS product, Apple will remain dominant in terms of unit shipments worldwide sales. However, many vendors are shipping Android-based tablet with low prices, it could allow the OS from Google is to overtake Apple in market share around the world in 2015.

However, this study still predicts Apple, as a single vendor's IOS, it will be at the top of the list with the largest income and the market leader for a long time. Apple will only be overtaken if the comparison between Apple users with Android users around the world in 2015. Well, we'll see.

Here's the latest video output Apple iPad is predicted to dominate the Tablet PC market,

Instagram ready present in Android

Instagram is a photo sharing app from Apple's IOS, which was used by 27 million users. In the near future, Android users will also be able to enjoy the service. In fact, the popular photo-sharing application that was reportedly in some ways be better than the version of IOS.

Instagram Founder, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, explained to the South by Southwest conference presentation that the Android version is eagerly awaited from Instagram is almost here.

Systrom explains, "In some ways, Instagram Android better than we IOS application. It's crazy. "Currently Instagram for Android is in beta and pegujian reportedly soon to be released.

During the question and answer session, he added that Android apps are very fast, it works equally well on a variety of larger screens, and have a function shared by Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks.

Regarding the issue of Instagram that looks very old to be present in Android, it was denied by Systrom. "I do not think it's very long. We only have priority. Had we tried it on Android and IOS at the same time, it would be difficult to innovate in ways that we have, "he added.

When Instagram first launched in 2010, there were about 25,000 users and that number continues to increase rapidly. Instagram now has 27 million registered users. Much of this growth, they said, since the launch of the iPhone 4S and Apple awards given to Instagram as "App of the Year" 2011 yesterday.

U.S. senators ask FTC to investigate Apple and Android

FTC (Free Trade Commission in the United States) were asked to investigate Apple by one U.S. senator, Democrat Charles Schumer. The investigation was based on suspicion and reports from the public about the application on the mobile platform that can steal your photos and personal contacts then export their data to an external server.

Schumer said in a letter to the FTC, "The application is beyond the reasonable understanding of the users and they can not agree just when there is an application that allows to access data on the phone for the purposes of certain app functionality."

Schumer believes the smartphone makers have to improve security measures to ensure third-party applications can not violate the personal privacy of users with pictures or steal user data, and then disseminated to the public. It is an obligation for them to protect consumers that their privacy is maintained.

Android Mobile Browser Opera drop position

Android again proved its success, this time Google's operating system that manages to be mobile browser is the most widely used. Android managed to depose the Opera browser and the peak position for mobile devices.
Reported by Mashable, Tuesday (03/06/2012), according to data from StatCounter, in February, the Android mobile browser has a market share of 22.67 percent, followed by Opera with 21.7 percent of the only slightly with the Apple browser, Safari on iPhone with 21.6 percent.

While Nokia and BlackBerry are still sitting in fourth and fifth respectively can only be earned 11.24 percent and 6.53 percent.

It is seen from the data StatCounter, Opera has the lead over the last 12 months, seems to start losing market share quite quickly in January. While Safari and Android worked very well in a period of two months.

Even so, the thing to remember is often not precise measurements, especially when it comes from the Internet and mobile devices. What's more figures from StatCounter, an estimate based on survey of Internet users.

However, at least the core of these data serve to illustrate Android growing massively and if not today, then it is likely soon Android mobile browser will become the most widely used.

ZTE Era, Android phones in class Thin Quad Core

ZTE Corporation some time ago in the Mobile World Congress 2012, Barcelona, Spain introduced its newest product, ZTE Era. Android phones ZTE party claims as the slimmest designs in the class quad-core Android.

ZTE Era is packed thin, only 7.8 millimeters, but with a range of multimedia capabilities of high definition. Android phones are taking mobile quad-core processor NVIDIA ® Tegra NVIDIA ® 3 and Icera 450 plus HSPA + modem. 4.3-inch QHD screen (960 x 540 pixels), 8GB of memory which can be added, and Dolby Sound HD Voice. ZTE Era has been using the latest Android OS Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich).

For matters of an image, armed with ZTE Era 8 megapixels resolution for the main camera, and VGA to resolution secondary camera equipped mobile access support broadbnad HSDPA 21 Mbps, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps, and of course WiFi connection to the standard b / g / n.

ZTE parties not divulge how much the phone is sold but will they been scheduled Era ZTE plans circulating in Europe and China in the second quarter of 2012.

Android is a mobile web browser is most popular

Android has become the most dominant mobile devices on the planet, and now Google's operating system is also web browser has officially become the most widely used mobile. The facts reported by StatCounter.

Android shift the Opera browser in the first rank in mid-February. Mobile Internet browser usage graph for the last twelve months showed significant growth of Android. Last year a new Android was in fourth place shifting the BlackBerry web browser and now ranks first for the mobile browser.

Opera, which is very popular in Africa and Asia, sits in second place and the company will increase its share of the newly released beta version of its developer is popular Opera Mini Browser. This Scandinavian company does not have its own device, but thanks to a deal with companies like Samsung that have preload Opera to his mobile features, the browser is used well by many people.

Web users of Apple devices like the iPhone is also not being too far with Android. StatCounter found that users of the iPhone web browser deserves first place because when compared with the Android units in circulation nearly 300 million units worldwide the percentage of iPhone users who use the web browser more than Android users. Google is also reportedly ready to push the Chrome web browser to the mobile version of Android that may be of interest to users of Android devices for browsing.

From the above chart the data can also be seen how the BlackBerry and Nokia becoming obsolete for Web browsers on other mobile devices. Graph continues to show this decline should begin to think about those who want to attract consumers to use their mobile web browser.

Key Lime Pie, the name of the next version of Android after the Jelly Bean

The latest rumor says Google has set the name of the latest version of Android that will come after the operating system Android 5.0 Jelly Bean. The most recent version that will be named "Key Lime Pie".

This is quite interesting because the version of the Jelly Bean has never shown any at all. Unclear as to what the details and will use any number for subsequent versions, a new possibility of this rumor can be confirmed at the end of 2012. Judging from Google's habit of launching the latest version of the OS every year, most likely successor to the Jelly Bean will be released in 2013.

The name of Google's Android OS has always inspired dessert (dessert), and some sources say this new version will use the letter 'K' as the letter before him, and 'Key Lime Pie' is a leading name to be used as a call to this latest version.

Squids: the role-playing game that combines the mechanics of Angry Birds

He has been termed as "the best cross between Angry Birds and Final Fantasy Tactics", comparing him to two giants of the gaming might seem risky but actually Squids has what it takes to give several hours of fun for fans of the genre.

The frame of the game is the ocean floor and the characters are cute and stout squid starfish. The gameplay is organized in shifts, your characters will be launched just like the Angry Birds to defeat literally "tested" the opponents scattered around the levels or even the intention to explore. Each character has its unique abilities to use during the launch of the same character or earlier.

The graphics engine relies on complex three-dimensional or amazing light effects: the top view in two dimensions, accompanied by lively colors. The game is localized in Italian, but is not free from errors of translation. But you close one eye very well, as the game is available to download for free (as of IOS is being sold at $ 1.99). Of course there is a system of in-app purchase for the purchase of additional items (credits to unlock characters and special equipment).

Opfake: the first polymorphic malware on Android

Yes, the details published in the pages of Symantec Security Response does not seem to give rise to doubts in the world, Android is the first officially appeared less naive malware characteristics of its predecessors.
Android.Opfake.B is a trojan horse from disturbing behavior, seems to have been written with an algorithm that can change shape over time, so to avoid any detection by the antivirus.
The virus hides within four. Apk (at least those are the ones detected by Symantec so far): BatteryOptimizer.apk, icq.apk, OperaMini65.apk, SkypeMobile.apk, of course, no risk for those downloads only from the Market; the (full) name of the package is rather com.load.wap. Basically, installing any applications that contain the trojan, install also the same who, as is customary for all applications, ask for confirmation on the following permits:

    Access information about networks
    Check the phone's current were
    Open network connections
    Send and receive SMS messages
    Write to external storage devices
    Install and delete packages
    Read contact data
In the time it is executed, the trojan opens a screen with text in Russian (the question should give birth to already strong suspicions about the quality of the application), after confirmation screen shows a list of installed games and applications software. This can be considered the front of the Trojans, despite the undoubted capabilities relative goodness, does much more than bring the user to easily download applications using a single click.
The previous version (identified with the suffix A) did not raise particular concerns as this variant B, discovered last month, on the basis of permits required during installation might be able to open a backdoor on our real smartphone waiting to receive commands via SMS to automatically start some of the following actions:

    Send information on devices such as IMEI and IMSI
    Remove any filters and send SMS messages to numbers also pay
    Send details of the book
    Reconfigure the URL that communicates with the server "evil"
     Download files. Apk and install on SD card
Potentially, therefore it is a sufficiently serious threat if it were not for the fact that, unlike similar in desktop environment, this virus can be removed simply by removing the package from the application handler of Android.
Symantec recommends that you install the course of its Norton Mobile Security for effectively removing the threat.
As a matter of "political correctness" we refrain from further reflections on the "we all know what" and we hope that the readers of AW to make their thoughts in the comments section.

Majel Assistant and will be renamed later this year

We have spoken several times of the project Majel, the assistant according to Google Voice, and in recent times we also suggested that the change in privacy policies BiG was all in his prerogative, and now it seems that we have to wait a bit 'longer than expected before to see him at work and that, although we liked a lot, the name Majel will be abandoned, replaced by much more mundane "Assistant", at least according to Alexia Tsotsis of TechCrunch.
According to its source the project, whatever his name not be revealed prior to Q4 2012 and will be developed based on 3 key elements:

    Enclose the world's knowledge in a format that a computer can understand.
    Create some "customization layer". I +1 + and Google have a way of collecting data on how users interact with content
    Building an "execution engine" ("Do engine") mobile voice-activated ('Assistant'), which is not so much in return the results of a study in how to respond to real needs

Amit Singhal, one of the engineers working on the project, he described a scenario of use in this way: "I will be able to go to a computer and say 'Hey, what is the best time for me to plant in India, as the monsoons are ahead this year? '. "

MLB at Bat 2012 app out for iDevices and Android

It's that time of year when the hot stove league spring training Gives way to, and people start talking less about Things like El Hombre's move to LA and more about batting averages and home runs. Thus Spake, MLB has unleashed the MLB At Bat 2012 app to keep you up to date on your favorite squads and stars, and unlike previous iterations IOS, this time it's free. That free version Gives users limited info (scores, standings, news, and team content), but Those willing to drop $ 14.99 get full access for the year, the which includes audio game casts, live game video look-ins and the game of the day . 

Additionally, there's a $ 2.99 monthly subscription option if you find forking over for the full season distasteful. Unlike the IOS version, Android users currently only have the $ 14.99 option, though the same interface is present in both apps to Provide a consistent UX. Subscribers of MLB.tv get all of what At Bat 2012 has to offer for free, with Android users Gaining access through the existing At Bat Lite app. Sound good.

Android Market statistics make it easier to cut obsessed performance of your application

Hey publishers, breathlessly need more ways to track just how well your app is doing on the Android Market? Fear not, the store is getting a new number of observable metrics. Publishers can now track Their app's performance by unique users and unique devices and break things down by mobile carriers and app updates. The has-been Redesigned UI as well, making it faster and more compact, while adding a timeline That Gives users a quick view of Their app's performance.

Ubuntu coming soon to Android devices multi-core

Popular open source operating system, Ubuntu, will be coming soon to Android multi-core devices. Users will be able to use their smartphones and Android on Ubuntu serves as a desktop, when the Android smartphone together with keyboard and monitor. Both operating systems will run concurrently on the same device and have the ability to share contacts, messages and other public services.

When the Android device is connected to the computer screen, you will see the Ubuntu desktop on the computer screen. This is exactly the desktop is used by millions of businesses and home users on their Ubuntu PCs, which includes hundreds of certified applications, from office productivity to photography, video and music.

The company plans to provide a direct demonstration of Ubuntu that runs on Android devices later this month at the Mobile World Congress trade show February 27, 2012 later in Barcelona.