Acer introduces 4.5-inch Android smartphone

Computer manufacturer Acer has Friday a new Android smartphone announced. The Liquid E1 gets a 4.5-inch screen and runs on Android 4.1.

It is a mid-sized car with a large-screen ips of 4.5 inches, but also with a narrow for that screen size resolution of 960 by 540 pixels. The dual-core 1GHz processor will speed records do not die.

The Liquid E1 also features 1GB of RAM and 4GB of built-in storage. Using a microSD card has the capacity to expand. Behind the device sports a 5-megapixel camera, while the built-in battery has a capacity of 1760 mAh.

The phone will come with Android Version 4.1.1 and not the latest version, Android 4.2. The unit is just under an inch thick and weighs 130 grams. When and for what price the Liquid E1 on the market, is not yet known.

Facebook for Android is updated and allows you to send voice message

Facebook for Android was updated allowing social network users can record and send voice messages to friends and contacts.

Moreover, as people said Facebook, the official implementation of the social network added some options to enrich the user experience and improved loading speed photographs.

Also incorporated the ability to share content in groups and pages directly from Android. To download the update, you can go to the Google Play Store and check for updates of your apps.

Android users get 50GB free from Mediafire

Not 2, not 5 but 50 GB may also Android users are free to upload the new app from MediaFire.

With most cloud storage services you do not get more than a few GB of free space. Skydrive with 7GB free yet generous, Google and Dropbox offer Drive respectively 5 and 2 GB for free. File Hoster MediaFire going there for a while heavily over. The site launched Wednesday its Android app and new users get up to 50 GB of free space.

Through his site offers Mediafire since last summer free 50 GB accounts, but there were no mobile apps. This autumn there was already an iOS app. And now, the site also houses the 50GB for Android users, with hardly any restrictions. The app can also directly upload screenshots and videos. But an option to automatically save all your photos via wifi to upload, like the Dropbox app, is still lacking. Folders automatically synchronize with other devices, such as Dropbox, MediaFire offers currently.

The app is only useful for those much free storage for files in the cloud will, and who want to share files with others. MediaFire is not suitable for easy syncing with multiple devices. According MediaFire come eventually Dropbox-like sync options, but there may need to be paid for.

The main limitation of the free accounts the maximum filesize: 200 MB. Files are also available with the free accounts to share with others, but they come first or on a page with ads correctly. Accounts that have been inactive for too long by Mediafire removed.

Mediafire is best known as a place where your music, movies or software to download, just like before when Megaupload. But the site wants more known as a personal file vault, a place for your own files. The Dropbox competitor came last week with new features for dealing with saved photos.

Dropbox for Android is updated

Last month we got an update for iOS Dropbox. Today, the company's cloud storage of choice for many, has done the same with an updated version of the Android operating system.

Among the improvements that we can find is the improvements that were already present in the version of iOS, and easily share photos, which will allow Android users to choose which photos or albums you want to share quickly.

Further enhancements include the ability to delete multiple photos at once to save time as well as improvements in the design and interface and correct minor errors.

The download is now available on Google Play, for those who have not downloaded or tested, it might be interesting to know some tricks to get more out of this application.

Android goes into the kitchen

After smartphone and tablets, there is now an oven that runs on Android.

I should have known but it takes me a bit I soon -- may also be concerned about furnaces. Then it is not so much about the liter capacity of the furnace but especially on processors, memory, and operating system.

Dacor Oven Manufacturer has namely launched the first Android-oven at CES. This oven has a 1GHz processor on board, 512 mb of RAM, runs on Android 4.0.3 and has a 7 inch touchscreen. So you can while cooking your Facebook messages tracking, a YouTube video watching and of course your mom Skype.

The Discovery IQ kookapp must ensure that all your cakes and dishes perfectly and never burned out of the oven. The app has a series of pre-programmed recipes oven built. You choose for example a lamb, gives the weight and the oven calculates the cooking time. Your morning the lamb in the oven, but you forget to turn on the timer, you can later in the day remotely turn on the furnace via a smartphone app. Fortunately you can during baking also went with confidence to the neighbors to visit. Once the meal is ready, you will receive a message on your smartphone.

What more could you want from a furnace? Perhaps a little lighter price tag. A single Dacor Android furnace costs nearly 3500 euros and a biplane over 5700 euros. That's a lot for an oven that is not even on Android Jellybean running.

Samsung Announces Galaxy SII Plus

It seems that Samsung is making custom pull a "improved" version of its flagship smartphone, as it did at the time with the original Galaxy during CES 2013 now announced it will present a Galaxy SII Plus.

We can say that the Galaxy SII Plus leads the Software within the Galaxy SIII but still with almost the same hardware as your brother IBS, preserving one of the most successful phones by Samsung.

The specifications of the Galaxy S II Plus are:
• Super AMOLED Plus display of 4.3 inches and 480 × 800 pixels
• dual-core processor running at 1.2 GHz
• Jelly Bean Android 4.1.2
• 8 mega pixels camera with LED flash and support for recording in Full HD 1080p
•1GB of RAM and 8 GB of internal storage
• Support for HSPA, 2G and 3G, but not LTE

Interface also incorporates "natural" included in Samsung Galaxy S III along with all the applications you already know. For now is all the information that Samsung shares with us, there is no specific information on availability, or what markets coming soon, what we do know is that it will be available in white and black.

Now to conclude does the Galaxy SII original if you can upgrade to Android Jelly Bean?

New cheap Android Tablet from Acer

Acer Iconia comes in mid-January with the B1-A71 Tablet for only 119 euros.
That the company has announced at CES gadget.

Acer aims cheap Android tablet with a screen of 7 inches for children and people who first want to buy a tablet.

The device features a 1.2 GHz dual core processor and can use a micro SD card have 32 GB of storage. The internal memory is 8 GB. Acer has equipped the B1 with Android Jellybean, but does not it is 4.1 or 4.2.

The resolution of the 7 inch screen comes out at 1024x600 pixels. There is in the tablet just a front camera and 0.3 megapixels. The battery has a capacity of 2710 mAh and the tablet is 11.3 millimeters thick.

The B1 will be sold in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0: update to Jelly Bean (Android 4.1.1) starting

Samsung has already been a number of tablets on the market , the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 WiFi turn to the update to Jelly Bean (Android 4.1.1) to receive. This was announced via the Twitter account of SamsungMobileNL and on our forum, the first message already inside.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 is now relatively cheap Android tablet with a 7 inch screen. This now runs Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) but also in the Netherlands today receive an update to Android 4.1.1. In late November we wrote that the copies issued by Vodafone had received the update. This update is only for the WiFi model of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 (P3110) when the 3G version of the play is not known.

Availability
The update to Jelly Bean (Android 4.1.1) is an Over the Air available for these devices, so it can be pulled automatically through WiFi. In addition, the update also offered via Samsung Kies, the software program from Samsung.

5 recommendations Apps for Your Android Tablet

Discover new music, a better mobile keyboard and a large drawing program: We provide three useful apps for Android tablets. For a lot of fun also provided by two tricky games.

At Edge Extended you push a cube on a free-floating platform to target. Does not fit you, the dice are passed through one of the edges into nothingness. While wanting to look his way, you collect a smaller cubes. Complication in later levels will see a black cube, which makes a difficult life. Since it takes a little skill, so as not to accidentally crash the character hasty. For variety in the puzzle also provide mobile elements, switches - and the extensive soundtrack.
The game costs $ 3.04.

Dot, dot, comma, dash: With Sketchbook Pro can quickly create simple drawings. As tools are pen, ballpoint pen, felt-, brush and airbrush to choose from, thickness and opacity can be adjusted with finger gestures. Is one with a dash or dollop not yet satisfied, one can visualize the recent actions. For even more control ensures the layer technology: Allows you to additions to a new level and can paint existing objects unchanged.
SketchBook Pro cost $4.99

From the Underworld: In "Naught" is best controlled by turning his tablet. The character will run in either direction, it follows gravity. If that is too expensive tablet Gedrehe who can alternatively be Show buttons or tilting the game world by pointing a finger. To explore, there is a mysterious tunnel world, waiting in the surprises - many of them fatal, however. Are 40 levels to explore.
Naught cost $0.99

Indie Shuffle is a music blog from San Francisco, which was founded three years ago by a Google employee. Every day there are new songs presented, the name suggests, the style: Independent of whether now greet rock, electronic, hip hop or folk, blogs like Pitchfork and Stereogum have. With a click you can listen to the songs on Indie Shuffle immediately for free - this is -- an excellent new music. In short texts, the editors explained that the piece for now is so remarkable.

And it offers an app is compelling. Also free, the indie shuffle app plays just like the players on the site, either from specific genres, news, trendy pieces or a random selection. This works as it should, the music continues even when holding the phone in your pocket or plugged using another app. If one uses as Indie Shuffle radio on the go, but you should have an appropriate data plan - or go to the network via Wi-Fi.

Android JellyBean now at 10 percent devices

All sweets which Android versions are named to be sticky, but the Gingerbread remain so far the largest number of Android users stick.

The latest version of the Android operating system, Jellybean, has now - six months after the official launch - a market share of 10 percent, according to figures from Google. Gingerbread, that especially in many forerunners of the real smartphone is included, still has a market share of 47.6 percent. Even Froyo, the forerunner of Gingerbread, still has a market share of 9 percent.

Gingerbread was also on new phones come long after the modern versions as Android Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich available.

Telecom Providers slow modernization
Android does not have the automatic upgrade system such as Apple iOS has. Telecom providers have the opportunity own customized versions of Android version to distribute the devices that they issue. It is much cheaper for them even older Android versions to deliver the adjustments which they have carried out, soon after the introduction of a new Android version to develop a custom version.

Moreover, the precursor of Android Jelly Bean, Ice Cream Sandwich, there are 9 months to get a market share of 10 percent to reach. The flow seems better to get started. That's good news for developers of Android apps, not only with a highly fragmented market hardware to do but also take into account at least 5 different versions of the operating system.

Polaroid Junior: An Android Tablet for kids

In the crowded tablet market manufacturers do everything to make their products stand out from the competition. One way to do this is tablets target a specific audience, such as children. After all different kid-friendly tablets of including Archos, Meep and LG launched its also comes with a Polaroid tablet for children.

Polaroid Junior
The new Polaroid tablet, Polaroid Junior inherited the name and both in software and in hardware optimized for young children. The tablet is equipped with a protective rubber boot which is quite robust and is thereby enabling a waterproof glass lemonade no danger.

  Furthermore, the tablet on minimum specifications as a 7 inch display with a resolution of 800 by 480 pixels, a 1GHz ARM processor, 512MB of RAM, 8GB of storage memory and an SD card reader. At the back of the tablet is a 2 mega pixel camera for taking photos.

The Polaroid Junior runs on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and the company with applications and settings that focus on the use by children and parental controls. The tablet should soon appear on the market at a price of $ 149.

You are child-friendly tablet
If you already have an Android tablet and want to make it suitable for children then you will find more information in the article "Make your Android tablet for kids with apps and settings"

Ubuntu runs on Android device

The Ubuntu operating system is adapted so that it can run on smartphones. With the Linux-based software allows users desktop apps running on their telephone, they can be used as a PC by linking them to a monitor.

The source code of the modified version of Ubuntu will be released as a file that initially only suitable for Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone. Users who install the file on the device thus replacing the default Android system on your device.

Although several analysts question whether consumers are waiting for a phone system that has the power of a full computer, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth said in talks with several device manufacturers for installing Ubuntu on smartphones. He expects the first Ubuntu machine within one year.

Shuttleworth admits that the innovation in the first instance be limited to 'enthusiasts and hobbyists', nevertheless he expects that in the future a wider audience gets. "It is unbelievable that we are on the point that the power of the phone is crossed with the basic processing power of a standard laptop," said Shuttleworth told the BBC. "We take advantage of them so you for the first time in history have access to a consumer PC platform on a phone.

Next week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the first phones shown running under Ubuntu.

ASUS confirms arrival Nexus 7-dock mid January

The Nexus 7 is already available for several months and still proves very popular tablet. ASUS Benelux has just to Android world confirmed that mid-January a dock for the Nexus 7 on the market will come.

Nexus 7 dock
The Nexus 7 is the value for money and the fact that very soon new updates a very popular tablet. It was a matter of time before official accessories would be available such as a dock where you can put the tablet. We have the dock for the Nexus 7 a number of times pass by on websites of retailers, but have just received confirmation from ASUS that from mid-January in stores will be.

Availability
About the price, we have no definitive answer given, but the price is expected to be € 29.99. From mid January from the usual outlets and the ASUS Shop.