After all those rumours and leaks (some more accurate than others, of course) since several weeks already, the successor of the Samsung Galaxy SII is finally here! This smartphone, which has got around 9 million pre-orders, was announced as the best smartphone of all times. 4.8 inches screen, 1.4 GHz quad core processor, 12 MP camera were mainly what we expected from it and it finally turned out that our leaks were quite accurate. Here are the actual specifications of the Samsung I9300 Galaxy S3 : -

Dimensions: 136.6 x 70.6 x 8.6 mm (133 g)
Screen: 720 x 1280 pixels, 4.8 inches (Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen)
Memory: 1GB RAM – 16/32/64 GB storage
Camera: 8 MP (Rear), 1.9 MP (Front)
CPU: Quad-core 1.4 GHz Cortex-A9
OS: Android  v4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich)

You should agree that this is quite an impressive specs list despite the fact that some of you will be a bit deceived by the rear camera for which we expected an increase in resolution. From a design perspective, the Galaxy S3 has more in common with the Galaxy S than the Galaxy S2 with its curved edges and looks really beautiful. Many of us expected some voice control feature to compete with Siri. Samsung brought us S Voice. Sincerely we don’t believe that it will be as good as Siri but we sincerely expect it to be better than the voice control of the Galaxy S2. Another interesting feature brought about by Samsung is mirroring where you can send whatever is on the screen of your Galaxy S3 and have it show on a larger display and with this eventually your phone could be used as a game controller.

If we consider the specifications, this actually looks like the best Android phone which we ever had and I’m sure that you are as eager as me to hold one of these jewels in your hand. But we are a bit sceptic specially concerning the battery life. More processing power and improved GPU could suck power a little too dramatically and we still need to actually see if S Voice is worth it. So just keep in touch for a more detailed review.

Finally  a date…3rd of May 2012!! This is the rumoured release date for the Samsung Galaxy S3, the smartphone that you are all waiting for. Apart from the release date, there were other breaches which gave us some interesting details about various features of what is certainly the most anticipated smartphone. [Read more...]

Android 4.0 aka Ice Cream Sandwich apparently has not conquered so much hearts as expected. Consequently, there were rumours about Android 5.0 which would be codenamed Jelly Bean. Rumours which have recently been confirmed by one of the vice-presidents of Asus, Lin Benson who also said that Asus is supposed to release one of the first tablets powered by this OS. But apparently Google doesn’t want to stop here. As soon as a rumour has been confirmed, another one pops up. [Read more...]

This week we are going to meet someone among the thousands of Android users in Mauritius. His name is Thierry and he has been using Android for two months now. Thierry actually has chosen the Samsung Galaxy S2 which according to him is the best phone of the moment. When asked the reason why he has chosen this phone, here is what his answer was:

“Actually I liked the look of the phone. But that couldn’t be my only motivation. However, after reading some reviews over the internet, I finally made my mind to purchase the Galaxy S2. [Read more...]

Android 4.0 aka Ice Cream Sandwich became available in November 2011. Now, only four months later, DigiTimes is announcing that Google will be launching Android 5.0 Jelly Bean in the second quarter of 2012! Is this only a hoax? [Read more...]

One of the main reasons why people buy mobiles today is because of handset improvement and cool mobile phone applications. Mobile phones are quickly adopting the features of personal computers and the actual mobile applications are capable of doing all the functions that popular software on computers perform. Moreover, there are plenty of areas such as business applications, education/knowledge based applications or remote controlling applications that need new mobile apps. So, if you have an app idea that you want to develop, there are a lot of mobile platforms for you to choose from. Here I am going to tell you why Android can be seen as the best of these platforms. [Read more...]

Today your smartphone already lets you manage nearly all aspects of your life from meetings, music, photos, movies and games to contacting friends and family no matter where you are. So, you might be asking yourself what the next step is? Google already gave the answer in May last year by annoucing the Android@Home project. Since now, the Android operating system was best known for powering smartphones and tablets but Google sees a future where it could also help devices communicate at home turning them into one connected device. [Read more...]

Written in the previous post by cedric: “The best thing would be to make your own opinion by actually using it. There are two ways to do so. By either buying an Android phone that runs Ice Cream Sandwich (e.g. Samsung Galaxy Nexus) or by upgrading your Android phone to Ice Cream Sandwich.”

That’s a fail, because you can try Android Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) without the need of even owning a smartphone. The requirements are a computer running on major operating system with virtualbox (or any other virtual machine software) installed on it, some IT knowledge and an internet connection to download the Android 4.0 Ice cream sandwich x86. Choose the version that suits you best and enjoy the screenshots below.

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