LG GD580 Lollipop Fashionable and User-friendly Phone

LG has now brought another mid-ranged flip style mobile phone with the name “LG GD580 Lollipop”. This stylish gadget can be bought in blue, pink, black colored casing. It is not that much attractive but users will like it for its flip style design.
Measuring 10.83cm high by 5.15cm wide by 1.34cm deep, the handset is around of 90 grams in its weight. So far as the display is concerned, it has 2.8 inches TFT screen on the facade that comes with 240 x 400 pixels resolution and exhibits 256K colors. Apart from this, there is an external hidden OLED display, QWERTY keyboard and Trackball navigation also included in the phone.
It is rendered with a WAP 2.0 browser that offers XHTML & HTML web browsing techniques. So updating your online status and surfing web will be a great experience. 60 megabytes memory is inbuilt in the widget plus the given MicroSD™ memory card slot supports up to 8 GB memory cards to be accepted.
LG GD580 Lollipop works over tri band technology (GSM 900, GSM 1800 & GSM 1900) and also supports HSDPA 2100. 3G HSDPA technology is making it a fast phone and its connectivity features include USB, Bluetooth® A2DP, GPRS and EDGE. If you are traveling in a bus, train or plane and want to communicate with your friends but without disturbing other travelers, you can talk to your friends through Text Messaging, Multimedia Messaging, Email with the help of Predictive Text input method.
The fitted 3.1 mega pixel built-in camera of the handset is very good for taking snaps at up to 2048×1536 pixels resolution and videos too. While Digital Zoom, Camera Key and Photo Album are few of its features. Users can stay entertained with Radio Jockey chat programs by using Stereo FM Radio RDS and LG GD580 Lollipop music player serves MP3, WAV, AAC+ & WMA songs and MPEG4, H263, H264 & WMV are the file formats that are supported by its given video player.

Best Android Smartphones of 2010

The smartphones are on the rise. This year, a number of mobile phone manufacturers are sporting the Android operating system in their latest releases. This, thanks to the success of the first release of the OS with the HTC phone “Dream” back in 2008. With the operating system now ranked fourth among other smartphone OS in terms of global sales, technology pundits are expecting that Android may soon be on top of the list.
In the US, there is a huge jump in market share for smartphones running Android, from under 5% in the third quarter of 2009 to 28% at the end of the first quarter of 2010. In contrast, sales for the iPhone and other devices with Windows Mobile OS and Palm’s WebOS systems decreased during the same period. Blackberry devices, which run the RIM system, slowed down gaining just 1.3% although still maintaining its leadership in the market.
Sales for Android smartphones is predicted to continue to grow exponentially in the coming months. This is due to the fact that handset development behind the OS is robust and relatively faster than that of the iPhone and the Blackberry. The development of new applications for the Android is also growing at a faster rate compared to its competitors. If you are looking to join the bandwagon, here are the top Android smartphones released for 2010.
Google Nexus One
The Android OS is of course backed up by search giant Google. It is therefore not surprising for Google to release its own line of smartphones. Although manufactured by HTC, Nexus One is designed and branded by Google. It runs on a 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor with 512 MB of RAM built-in. It includes 4GB of SD memory with a capacity of up to 32 GB. The 3.7″ touch screen is wider than most phones in its class. It also includes a 5-megapixel camera. Among the features of Nexus One are voicemail transcriptions and GPS navigation via Google Maps with audible directions.
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10
The Xperia X10 is the first Android unit for Sony Ericsson. It also runs on a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor but is limited to 384 MB of RAM. It has a generous microSD memory of 8 GB, upgradeable to 16 GB. True to form with regards to Sony Ericsson’s adherence to developing camera phones, what excels for the Xperia X10 is its 8.1 megapixel camera with flash and video light. Even more, Sony Ericsson’s smile detection technology allows you to setup the Xperia to automatically snap a picture when your subjects smile.
Motorola Backflip
Known for their innovative design, Motorola again came up with a device that would have consumers flipping over in delight. The Motorola Backflip was released for the AT&T network and is the only unit with a full QWERTY keypad on the reverse side of the screen when the device is folded. Loaded with a 5 megapixel camera, the Backflip presents a unique option for consumers. One downside to the Backflip is that AT&T has blocked non-market apps, which is perceived to be a move that would undermine the expandability of what the phone can do. Preinstalled in the device is Motorola’s MOTOBLUR which integrates a person’s updates and messages from various social networking sites into a single streaming feed.
HTC Desire,  Legend and Droid Incredible
Taiwan’s HTC is arguably the leading manufacturer of mobile devices geared towards the Android operating system. For 2010, HTC already released the Desire, Legend and the Droid Incredible. HTC Legend works on a 600 MHz processor and 384 MB of RAM, which are lower specs compared to the Desire and the Droid Incredible. The Desire has a slightly larger touch screen at 3.7″. The Droid Incredible boasts of an 8 megapixel camera.
More smartphones are expected to be released in the last two quarters of 2010. As people eagerly await the release of the next generation of iPhones from Apple, Android-based devices are already in the pipeline with such HTC phones as the EVO 4G to be released by June 2010 and the HTC Wildfire set to be out in the market by the 3rd quarter of the year. Expect even more Androids to invade tech stores soon!
This Article is written by John C Arkinn from News.PrintCountry the contributor of PrintCountry News Articles.

Upload To Flickr From Android Phone

Do you find uploading photos to your Flickr profile cumbersome? Do you want a better, faster and easier method of uploading photos to share with your friends and family? How about uploading directly using your mobile phone. Well yes, here is a new Flickr app that enables the user to upload photos directly from the mobile.
Flickr launched the app a few weeks ago, which is available for download. The app works only with mobile phones based on Android 2.2 platform. Users can easily download the free app by going to m.flickr.com from their Android 2.2 based mobile device.
So, here is how it works. As soon as you  log on to Flickr from your mobile phone, you’ll see a download link right on the homepage. This will take you to the mobile upload page where you will see an option of “Choose File”. Selecting this button will give the user access to the gallery from where photos can be easily uploaded and shared. So enjoy uploading photos without e-mailing. The catch here is that the app works only with Android 2.2 based phones. For other users who have Android 2.1 (or lower) will have to wait for any other update.
Source: mobiletipstricks.com

How Are Cell Phones Different From Smartphones?

While we all know what cell phones are, we don’t always know how to differentiate them from smartphones. Here’s how.
Smartphones Have a Mobile Operating System
You can think of a smartphone like a miniature computer that can also place and receive calls. Though there lacks an industry-standard definition of a smartphone, the simplest way to tell a cell phone apart from a smartphone is to determine whether or not the device has a mobile operating system.
A mobile operating system is much like what’s powering your personal computer at home or at work. In the mobile world, though, the software goes by different names. While cell phones don’t have operating systems at all, smartphones can be powered by:

1. Windows Mobile
2. iPhone OS
3. Google’s Android
4. Symbian OS
5. RIM’s BlackBerry
6. Palm’s WebOS
7. Linux

The iPhone OS comes from other operating systems that are related to Unix. Palm’s WebOS and Google’s Android are built on top of Linux. Smartphones can typically view and sometimes edit documents (i.e. from Microsoft Office). Cell phones cannot.
While many cell phones now have full QWERTY keyboards, this is a basic requirement for smartphones. The keyboard is much like your computer’s keyboard. On a mobile phone, it can come in the form of hardware (i.e. a physical but small keyboard) or software (i.e. tapping digital keys on a touch screen such as with the iPhone 3G).
Cell phones can typically send and receive text, picture and video messaging. Many cell phones can email, too. Smartphones, though, typically go a step further by syncing with the email server of your personal or corporate provider.

Cell Phone Settings to Save Battery Life

Here are a few tricks to maximize your cell phone battery life.

1. Turn off your cell phone during the night while you sleep. It will reserve some battery power for you, but if you have emergency calls at night, this might not be applicable.
2. Set your network mode correctly. If you have a 3G cell phone, you have three options: Dual mode, UMTS and GSM (depending on the cell phone you have), if you are using 3G or 2G, select the mode accordingly, never select dual mode. Because every time you turn of your cell phone or lost signal, it has to search for the network and this process consumes battery power a lot.
3. Disable vibration, keypad sound and backlight. While some prefer vibration and need backlight to read, but these features requires much battery power to work, if your disable them, your battery will surely last longer.
4. Turn off Bluetooth, WiFi and GPS until you need to use them. They will drain your battery quickly.
5. Reduce the apps running in the background. Unnecessary features like camera and mobile internet are those features will tremendously consume your battery power.
6. Decrease the brightness of your cell phone screen. Turn down the brightness is up till now the most effective way to save your battery life, and you will surely see a huge increase in the time of use.