Author: Amarnath Natarajan

Firefox for the new Android Tablets is definitely on the road and you can have a first idea of do it yourself, if you’re a little risk tolerance. Firefox Mobile 7 is in fact from the Nightly Build Beta available for download and if you desire and the talent you have, you can also help when debugging. Otherwise you will every night a new update with the latest version recorded and get a hopefully more stable system with Sync function get Firefox and other great features.

Boost Mobile today announced that it is making some adjustments to its Android voice and data plans starting October 6, one day before the Samsung Transform Ultra launches. Boost Mobile is adding a $5 monthly charge to the cost of its Android smartphone plans. Its Monthly Unlimited plans will still include unlimited talk, text, and web. Existing Monthly Unlimited customers will be able to keep their $50 plan without the added surcharge, but any customer who upgrades to a CDMA-based Android phone after October 6 will be subject to the $5 monthly charge.

Most Tablets run with a Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core processor that is clocked at 1GHz. Towards the end of the year we can first smartphones and tablets with the Quad Core processor Kal-El and expect to see as the roadmap, Nvidia is mid-2012 Kal-El + bring to the market. Unfortunately you can not read from the properties of the roadmap, but with Kal-El + it should be, also a quad-core processor that is clocked slightly faster and therefore certainly a plus in the name receives.

There are inventions that would have still been able to give earlier. This includes the Giinii Audiobulb , which is a 5 watt light bulb with a 10 watt speaker leads together. Get over a 2.4 Ghz dual speakers connect via a docking station that will be within reach of 100 feet, and the signal can be the same time still used as a reading lamp. Up to six bulbs can add to the network and divide into two different zones of volume.

No word yet on if the volume peaks at 11, but what Line 6’s new Mobile In offerings will do is turn your iPad or iPhone into a pro modeling amp, with a sick range of amplifiers, guitar cabinets, stompboxes, tones and rack effects. The setup comes in two separate parts: the free mobile Pod app and the Mobile In adaptor, which lets aspiring metalheads (or Fleeting Foxes) connect their guitars to an iOS device using the 30-pin connector. Line 6 says this connection blows similar jack-based apps out of the water, and it’s throwing in 24-bit/48kHz digital sound for good measure.

This AV Controller application will turn your Android device into a Wi-Fi enabled remote control for your YAMAHA network products(*). This Android application provides you the flexibility to control the available inputs, volume, mute and power commands. It lets users change a song from Internet Radio, USB and command FM/AM tuners or any other internally available source.

Naming your flagship handset after a small village in Surrey isn’t what we’d do, but then we aren’t in the handset business. The first full render of the HTC Runnymede has leaked and as you can see, it’s one big heap of telephone. It’s the first phone to benefit from the company’s partnership with Beats Audio and will come with a pair of Beats-branded cans rather than regular earbuds. If you missed the specs first time around, the 4.7-inch, 9.9mm thick phone gets a beastly 768MB of RAM, 1.5GHZ Qualcomm chip and a serious 8 megapixel camera with f2.2 lens and double LED flash round back.

Google Inc. is going to let people with home wireless networks decide whether they want to be lumped into a system that helps pinpoint the locations of people on cell phones. The concession announced Tuesday will give wireless, or Wi-Fi, networks the right to forbid Google from listing them in a vast database that the company has been building in the past few years.

Some whiteboard scribbles behind Microsoft’s Director of Mobile Research back in June revealed that “Voice Typing” is coming in the Windows Phone version after Mango, which is codenamed Apollo, but will most likely be known commercially as Windows Phone 8.Steven Chapman from ZDNet has been pulling out CVs of Microsoft employees, and scouring job listings to find this gem, which confirms the native speech-to-text and text-to-speech integration in the default email client of Windows Phone 8.

AT&T’s announced a new monthly package that may fare well with the nibblers, doling out 250 anytime minutes and unlimited messaging for $25 beginning on September 18th. Two other prepaid services are launching the same day: a $10 international long distance package that includes 250 minutes within a period of 30 days, and per-use roaming in Canada.

US Cellular announced the upcoming availability of the Motorola Electrify, which is essentially its rebranded version of the Photon 4G. The device will be ready for your purchase sometime later this month for $200, which is the same starting cost as Sprint’s variant provided you don’t factor in the initial $100 mail-in rebate. The Electrify is a 1GHz dual-core handset with Android 2.3, a 4.3-inch qHD display, webtop support and 8MP rear / VGA front-facing camera set.

We’ve seen tablet hybrid machines that double up as laptops before. And we’ve seen plenty of tablets that offer keyboard, mouse and docking options, thus creating a makeshift desktop setup.But, until now – and the announcement of the NEC LaVie Touch over in Japan – we hadn’t seen a tablet option that provided a desktop dock with an optical DVD drive.

Kisai Night Vision is one of the easiest to read watches from Tokyoflash Japan. Simply touch the upper button to show the time. Hours are shown in the outer ring in the same position as hours on an analog clock, the flashing light in the ring indicates the current hour. Minutes are shown digitally in the centre. The date is shown in the same way, touch the lower button and the month will be shown in the outer ring and the date digitally in the centre.

Sprint has announced a new app for smartphones that is designed to keep the phone out of the hands of drivers when they are behind the wheel. The Drive First app will automatically lock the phone when a vehicle is moving, preventing the use of the device.The app uses GPS and cell tower triangulation to determine the speed of the vehicle it is in. When the phone senses that it is moving faster than 10 M.P.H., it will lock, preventing any use of the phone’s functions.

The latest version of the popular Android operating system – known as Gingerbread – will help you make the most of your GALAXY Y. It gives you several homescreens where you can put icons and shortcuts to the things you use most often. So you might choose to have news and weather widgets on one screen, your favourite contacts on another, Facebook and Twitter on another and so on. Set up your Samsung GALAXY Y however suits you best.

Big G has updated Google Maps to version 5.10.0, and with the update comes two features that users might just love — the ability to see places you’ve rated 4 or 5 stars right on your map view, and the ability to attach a photo to a place review.Some of us just use maps for the awesome turn-by-turn navigation, or to find that little seafood place your brother-in-law told you about with the great clam chowder, but places and check-ins are another great feature we rarely mention.

Exent is now adding Android content to its huge catalog of titles. The experience Exent has at merchandising and monetizing content fills a void in the current marketplace and helps Android games reach their revenue potential. Exent will select only the best apps to optimize the Android experience for consumers and carriers. Contact Exent to add your apps to the service.

It’s time for users who are crazy on headphones. Sony introduced new noise-cancelling headphones and earbuds to keep you completely sane in loud situations. It’s cost around $200, on-ear active / passive MDR-NC200D headphones, which have a 40mm drivers in each ear, 22-hour battery and folding design. For $150, users wanting portability can cop the smaller in-ear MDR-NC100Ds, which have a lower price tag and 13.5mm drivers. Both headphones feature Sony’s “Artificial Intelligence Noise-Cancelling” technology, which claims to automatically reduce ambient noise by around 98.2 percent — because you know, precision matters.