Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro Review-Price-Specification

 Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro is a Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS running smartphone.  What makes this Xperia Mini pro from others is this phone has unique 3 inch touch display with slide out landscape qwerty keyboard. This phone is powered by 1 GHz Snapdragon processor for faster processing of task. This Xperia mini has 5MP camera which is capable of recording HD videos.

Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro

Features of Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro:

• Android v2.3 (Gingerbread) OS
• 3-inch TFT Touchscreen
• 5 MP Primary Camera
• 0.3 MP Secondary Camera
• 1 GHz Scorpion Processor
• Expandable Storage Capacity of 32 GB
• Li-ion 1200 mAh battery with talk time upto 5 hours and standby time upto 331 hours 

Cost of Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro: Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro  price in India is ₹14,795.

Pros and Cons of Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro:

Pros of  Xperia Mini Pro:

• Good and solid buid quality
• Landscape qwerty keyboard
• Compact size without compromising features.
• Android 2.3 OS.
• 5 MP rear camera with HD recoding.
• 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth connectivity options.
• Video calling
• Tethering.

Cons of Xperia Mini Pro:

• Low battery life

 Tips and Tricks of Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro:

• Free download of Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro PC suite is available in Sony Ericsson PC suite. 
• Update the Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro whenever update is available through Sony Ericsson phone update software.

Specifications of Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro:

Phone Memory:512 MB RAM, 400MB storage

Memory Slot: Expandable up to 32GB through MicroSD

Available Colours:Black, Silver, Red

Form Factor:Slide

Sim:Single Sim

Front Camera:Yes

Rear Camera:5 MP

3G Video Call:Yes

Video Playback:Yes

Video Capture:Yes

Zoom:Digital Zoom

Mp3 Player:Yes

FM Radio:Yes-RDS

Ringtones:Polyphonic,MP3

3G:HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps;HSUPA 5.8 Mbps

Bluetooth: Yes, v2.1 with A2DP

Wi-Fi:Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, DLNA

OS:Android OS, v2.3

CPU:1GHz Scorpion processor

GPU:Adreno 205 GPU

Sensors:Accelerometer,Touch

Interface:Android Multi Desktop

GPS:GPS,A-GPS

SMS:Yes-Threaded

MMS:Yes

IM:IM-GSM

EMail:Yes,PushMail

Micromax A70 Review-Price-Specification

  Micromax A70 is newly launched touch screen Android smartphone from Micromax mobiles. After a great success with Micromax A60 and Micromax Bing 2, Micromax mobiles targeting touchscreen Android smartphone sector. This A70 comes with many eye catching features and apps.  This Micromax A70 has 5 mega pixel rear camera and VGA front camera, 3G, GPS, MiFi,WiFi. This A70 is a value for money.

Micromax A70

Features of Micromax A70:

• 8.1 cm Capacitive touch screen.
• Android 2.2 Froyo OS.
• 5 mega pixel rear camera and VGA front camera for video calling.
• 3G,WiFi, MiFi, Bluetooth, connectivity options.
• 600Mhz processor.
• GPS.

Price of Micromax A70: Micromax A70 price in India is 7999Rs.

Pros and Cons of Micromax A70:

Pros of A70:

• 8 Mega pixel rear camera
• Front camera for video calling
• Large touch screen
• WiFi, MiFi,3G connectivity options
• Solid build.

Cons of A70:

• Still using Android 2.2 Froyo Android.
• Camera quality is average.

 Tips and Tricks on Micromax A70:

• Always synchronize your data with PC to avoid accidental loss of data.
• You can use Micromax A70 as modem to connect to internet from PC through Micromax PC suite.
• You download free Micromax PC suite from Download Micromax PC suite.
• Install the apps on SD card to save memory of phone.
• Unless it is too necessary, do not root A70. Rooting voids warranty.

Specifications of Micromax A70:

Form Factor:Bar Style

Band:GSM: 850/900/ 1800/1900MHz WCDMA: 2100MHz

Weight:85gms

Dimensions:111mmx58mmx13.5mm

Display:262K TFT, (320*480 pixels) 8.128cms;Full Touch Capacitive Screen

OS:2.2 (Froyo)

HSDPA:7.2 Mbps

Processor:600MHz

Rear Camera:5MP

Front camera: VGA;0.3MP

Audio Player:Yes

GPS:Yes

WiFi:Yes

Video Streaming:Yes

Video Player:Yes

Video Recorder:Yes

Bluetooth:yes.2.1v

GPRS/WAP/MMS:Yes

Expandable Memory: Upto 32GB through micro sd

Battery Type:1450 mAh Li-ion Battery

Talk Time:Up-to 4 hours*

Standby Time:Up-to 7 days*

Reverse tethering- Using Windows as WiFi hotspot

  The windows 7 laptop with WiFi can be used as WiFi hotspot connect your smartphone to internet. This will be very useful if you have purchased new mobile and not yet subscribed to data plan. This method is working for all the smartphones which is WiFi enables such as Galaxy Ace, Galaxy Fit, Galaxy pop, LG optimus, Dell XCD 35 etc.

Steps to make Windows laptop or PC as WiFi hotspot (Reverse tethering):

• Download the  software from notify users.
• Install the software
• Double click on shortcut of notify users application.
• Open the settings.
• Fill up the space with the information such as 
• WiFi Name: The name used to identify the WiFi network from your phone or any WiFi enabled device
• Password:The password of WiFi network you want to set for authorization.
• Internet: The internet you are using for Connecting
• WiFi hotspot is ready.

Importing Contacts to Android phone

 When you are upgrading the phone you might be thinking on how to import contacts to your new Android phone. There are several ways to do this. However easiest way is to sync with gmail and importing to your mobile. So below is the steps to import contacts into Android phones such as Samsung Galaxy S2, Samsung Galaxy pop, Samsung Galaxy fit, Samsung galaxy ace, Dell XCD35, LG optimus.

Steps to import contacts into Android phone:

• Export your contacts from your old phone in csv format. This can be easily done  in PC suite of your phone.
• Import your contacts in csv format to gmail contacts.
• Connect your phone to internet and go to gmail and sign in to your account from your android device.
• In gmail contacts, go to settings-> Display options->Select only contacts with phones then in google --> Manually select all groups and then synchronize.
• Use your email apps to setup your office or school emails. Use exchange settings or imap to ensure read status of your mails are sync with your phone.
• Install Gtask apps to synchronize your task with google tasks.

Importing contacts from Facebook or twitter:

• Install the facebook and twitter apps to your phone.
• In apps select to import the contacts. This will import pictures and other address data automatically into your phone.
• Select the interval for synchronizing to 4 hours to avoid draining your Android device battery.
• Facebook sync settings are available in Contacts-->Settings--> Accounts.

This will be useful if you are having duplicates in your contacts and if your looking to remove duplicates. Sync and backup will help when you lose contacts in any way. So always backup your contacts.

Installing Apps on SD card without Rooting the phone

This post will demonstrate on how to install application on SD card of Android smartphone without rooting the phone.  This method is one of the safest way to do as this method does not contains any rooting. This method of installing Apps on SD card without rooting works for most of the Android smartphones such as Samsung Galaxy Ace,Samsung Galaxy Fit,Samsung Galaxy pop, Samsung Galaxy S2, LG optimus 2X, Dell XCD 35 and most of the android devices which uses Android Froyo or above.
For installing apps on SD card of android device we need to have latest Android SDK on a computer which  we use to install apps on smartphone. So let us start with installing Android SDK.

Downloading and Installing  latest Android SDK on PC:

• First download the latest Android SDK from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html .
• Extract the package in your desired folder of PC.
• Run SDK manager.exe.
• New windows command prompt pops us. But nothing to do with that. Hence close that command prompt.
• In SDK and AVD manager explorer screen under available packages, select only USB driver for windows option and xxx.revision 5 .
• Click on  install selected packages.

Steps to install Apps on SD card:

• Enable USB debugging on Android phone. Go to Settings--> Applications-->Development--> USB debugging.
• Now connect your phone to PC through USB cable. Do not open PC suite of your phone such as Samsung kies.Do not mount the device. Just connect your phone to PC.
• Windows OS will prompt for new driver install.Choose to install them from the android-sdk-windows/extras/google/usb_driver folder.
• Run the command prompt as administrator.
• Type the code given below one by one and end each line add ">"(Without qoutes) 

           "cd C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools"  (" Here i have given C: drive path which consist android         sdk. If you have installed on other path make the changes on path)

           "adb devices"
            "adb shell"

            "pm setInstallLocation 2"  

          Use the these codes without quotes and end each line by >

• Close all the open windows and disconnect the phone from PC.
• Restart the phone.
• Now your phone is ready to install apps on SD card.

Note: 

• Even though apps are getting installed on SD card, each app store some .odex on phone memory to speed up phone booting. So more the apps you install, the phone memory becomes lesser.
• This method only enables SD card installation of Apps and does not move any apps. 

Motorola Droid 3 Review-Price-Specification

Motorola Droid 3 is equipped with 1Ghz dual core processor TI-OMAP chips. This Droid 3 is a successor Motorola Droid 2.  Acording to Motorola droid 3 is 30% faster graphic chip compared to Droid 2.  This Droid 3 is equipped with 4 inch qHD display,  large 5 row QWERTY keypad, 3G, Video recording at 1080p and 8 mega pixel rear camera. The droid 3 is the first verizon phone capable of video recording at full HD 1080p.

Motorola Droid 3

Features of Motorola Droid 3:

• 1Ghz dual core processor
• TI-OMAP chip
• 8 mega pixel rear camera
• Large 5 row QWERTY keypad
• 4 inch qHD display.
• Video recording at upto  1080p
• Android Gingerbread OS
• GPS with VZ navigator.
• Axillary sensors.

Price of  Motorola Droid 3: Motorola Droid 3 price starts from $199 with verizon contract.

Pros and Cons of Motorola Droid 3: 
Pros of Droid3:

• Good five row QWERTY keypad.
• Dual core processor for faster processing.
• Android Gingerbread OS.
• Good build quality.
• 8 Mega pixel rear camera
• Front VGA camera for Video conference.

 Cons of Droid 3:

• Droid 3 lacks 4 G support.
• Battery life is not long enough.

Tips and Tricks of Motorola Droid 3:

• This Droid 3 come with tethering support.
• Even though Droid 3 do not support Virizon 4G LTE, the phone offers hotspot  capabilities upto 5 devices. For this one should purchase mobile broadband plan.
• Motorola PC suite is called as Motorola Phones Tool. For more info on downloading Motorola Phones tool visit Latest Motorola phones tool . This MPT5 enables you to synchronize your data with PC, Connecting your Motorola phone to internet, Tethering, photo editing and many more things you can do.

Specifications of Motorola Droid 3:

• Dimentions:
• Width*Depth*Height: 2.5inch*0.5inch*4.9 inch
• Weight: 5.9 Oz
• Processor: 1 Ghz dual core processor.
• Rear camera: 8 Megapixel with Autofocus and LED flash.
• Front camera: VGA with LED indicator.
• HSPA: Yes. HSDPA 14.4Mbit/s and HSUPA:  5.76Mbit/s
• Internal memory: 16GB
• External memory: Upto 32 GB
• RAM: 512 MB.
• 3D graphic card accelerator: Yes
• Music player codec support: MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, WAV, AMR, OGG, MIDI
• Video playback codec support: MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV
• Email:IMAP, POP3, SMTP, Microsoft Exchange
• Youtube player: Yes

Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ20 Review-Price-Specification

Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ20 is a feature packed camera with great performance. The Lumix DMC-TZ20 comes with 14.1 megapixel MOS sensor with 16x optical zoom and 24mm wide angle lens. This DMC-TZ20 comes with features like 3 inch TFT LCD touch screen, dedicated button for video recording, 3D photo capabilities. This Lumix DMC-TZ20 can record video recordings at upto 1080p.
  The camera is capable of focusing on an image and capturing it by tapping the screen.  Using the GPS module pictures can be geotagged.  The TZ20 comes with 895 mAh lithium ion battery which can last for 2 days on heavy usage.

Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ20

Features of Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ20:

• 3 inch TFT LCD touch screen.
• 14.1 megapixel MOS sensor.
• 16x optical zoom.
• 24mm wide angle lens
• Video recording at upto 1080p
• 3D Capabilities.
• 895mAh battery.
• Telephoto zoom.
• GPS function.

Pros and Cons of Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ20:
Pros of  Lumix DMC-TZ20:

• Great images even in indoors.
• GPS module for geotagging of photos.
• Upto 1080p video recording.
• Touch screen.
• 3D capability
• Long battery life.

Cons of  Lumix DMC-TZ20:

• A bit expensive. However with features price is justified.

Price of Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ20: Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ20 price in India is 27,990Rs.

Specifications of Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ20:
Dimensions: 
W*H*D: 105*57.6*33.4
Weight: 219grams.
Resolution: 14.1 MP
Video recording: Upto 1080p @30 fps.
Optical zoom: 16x
Display: 3 inch touch screen.
Battery type: Li-ion
Battery: 895 mAh.
Storage: SDHC