Google Now is a all seeing guide in your phone. It knows where you are and where you will be going. It pops up the bus schedule if you are near a bus stop, train schedule if you near a…
Google Now and battery life
New Nexus Devices 4, 10
Google just announced new Nexus devices. There was supposed to be a launch but that was cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy. Nexus 4 is a phone made by LG, 10 is a 10 inch tablet by Samsung. Both will most…
Google Now voice commands
This list is taken off a G+ post. Those commands prefix with a = is from the Nexus Voice Action page. == is a command that I tested. Note to use the voice prompt ‘Google’, the language must be set…
Jelly Bean on Samsung S2
Jelly Bean took a long time to come to Cyanogenmod (CM). It was plagued with memory leaks for sometime. This is because of the Samsung proprietary drivers needed for the CPU. In an interview, one of the key developers, Codeworkx…
Cyanogenmod 10
CyanogenMod 10 or CM10, more popularly known as Jelly Bean or Android 4.1 is currently facing a driver issue. The closed sourced driver is required to implement Project Butter. Otherwise no Project Butter. See discussion here on XDA Developers.
The Android upgrade journey.
I have a Samsung Galaxy SII. It came with a Android OS, Gingerbread version. Slowly all the new phones came out and with the new versions of Android. Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) and now Jelly Bean (4.1). The Cyanogenmod project…
Dear Galaxy (SII) autocorrect
Autocorrect fails. When I type “issit”, I don’t want “oddity”. When I type “lah”, I don’t want “lag”. When I type “liddat”, I don’t want “Lidar”. When I type “simi”, I don’t want “SIMI”. When I type “knn”, I don’t…
Moving from one smartphone to another.
Moving from one smart phone to another.
Android 2.2 Froyo Smartphone
Features in Android 2.2