Samsung Challenge Apple's Retina Display

Samsung's latest tablet to be launched in February, reportedly willuse a different special display of the tablet on the market today.

Rumors that had long grown to mention, Samsung is developinga tablet with a thin display. Samsung's latest generation of tabletsightings are expected to appear the first time at Mobile World Congress next February.

Compete with iPad 2, Samsung tablets measuring 11.6-inchscreen has a resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels. For comparison, the iPad 2 offers a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels in size 9.7-inchscreen. Samsung also seems prepared to compete with the arrival of the new iPad that uses retinal display.

Boys Genius Report reports that quoted on Monday(12.12.2011), claims, Samsung's latest tablet will be based on Android 4.0 or known as the Ice Cream Sandwiches, and offers a16:10 aspect ratio when running using dual-core processorsExynos 5250 at 2GHz.

Samsung itself has not given an official statement responding tonews that was developing. Samsung representatives whoquestioned refused to comment.

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Monday, December 12, 2011

100 Thousand Trojan will Assault Android in 2012

Security firm Trend Micro said the mobile realm will be the focus of security in 2012. Where Android predicted would become the main target of the attack of malicious programs more than 100thousand trojan.

Raimund Genes, Trend Micro's Chief Technology Officer statedthat the year 2011 as 'Year of Breaches'​​, with a large variety ofdata breaches in the government sector, commercial andindustrial technology.

But in 2012, the threat began to shift toward mobile platforms,especially Android. Google's operating system that has beenincised fairly rapid growth during 2011. With a market share rosefrom 25% in 2010 to 56% today.

With a growth rate of the examples of new malware today, Genespredict will see more than 100 thousand malicious trojan thatappears on Android until December 2012 when the growth ratekept going.

Another concern is the proliferation of APT or advancedpersistent threats, Genes predicted to be more focused and willincreasingly threaten SMEs.

"Where SMEs typically have a higher risk to the security ofintellectual property," added Genes, in his statement on Sunday(11/12/2011).

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Ready to Experience the Honor Huawei Android 4.0

Many devices that want to run Android handset Google's latestoperating system, Android 4.0 on the device, one of Huawei.Chinese handset manufacturers are releasing OS Ice CreamSandwich (ICS) ROM for one of its smartphones, Huawei Honor.

Reported by Softpedia on Monday (12.12.2011), Huawei Honorusers can download and install the Android 4.0 ROM, which shows some of the features in the operating system. Althoughreleased in beta version, Android 4.0 ROM can be downloadedfrom the Huawei site with a size of approximately 148 MB.

Unfortunately, the download speed is very long because of the high traffic, so you could say until now there is no handset makerswho managed to offer users a stable ROM ICs.

Even so, Huawei still provide the option for users who install theHuawei Android 4.0 (beta) ROM, to return to the Android 2.3Gingerbread.

Huawei provides instructions on how to install the beta version of the ICS, as well as the process to return to Gingerbread.

Early last week, Huawei also offers a beta version of theGingerbread ROM for Huawei Ideos X5. However, the ROM is immediately withdrawn because it was found a few bugs thatwere reported by owners Ideos X5.

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Kindle Fire "cracked", Can Run Android 4.0

Fire from Amazon's Kindle tablets gain popularity in the U.S. thanks to a high enough price is cheap. So far, the Kindle Fire still running Android version that has been speciallyadapted (customized) by Amazon.

However, as quoted by PC World, a pengoprek named Steven claimed to havesuccessfully run Android Ice Cream Sandwich in the Kindle Fire. He also shows the resultsoprekannya it in a video on YouTube and submit it on the XDA Developers Forum.

Indeed, the results are still not perfect. Audio support, WiFi, accelerometer and light sensor can not be found on the device.

Steven reportedly intends to publish open source projects specifically to run the Ice CreamSandwich in the Kindle Fire. He will share the code he used in the demo on this project.

So far, the Kindle has succeeded in Fire-root to install the Android Market. Supposedly,Kindle Fire only provides access to Amazon AppStore. In addition, CyanogenMod7custom ROM (based on Android 2.3 / Gingerbread) is also available to install on KindleFire.

Amazon seems not much to react to these actions. They had issued OS updates that disable root access. But users can still perform root device reset.

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Friday, December 9, 2011

Tablet Android "Scented" iPad

A tablet from China vendors J910 issued a tablet that runs on the Android operatingsystem. Uniquely, the tablet has a user interface very similar to the IOS from Apple in order to attract buyers.

As quoted by Kompas Tekno from Ubergizmo, Chinese people are not going to bother with a patent dispute between Samsung and Apple. As is known the two vendors have a patent dispute related to product design as well as some applications are embedded ineach of its products, both of which run on Android and IOS. Thus, tablets Bamboo Curtain country of origin is fixed pitch "mimic" the IOS interface.

This initial tablet comes with a 7 inch screen size 1024 x 600 pixels resolution. The designalso did not want to emulate the Samsung Galaxy or iPad, but the J910 has a newerdesign and reflects the tablet products from East Asia.

On the side of the tablet there is a MicroSD memory card slot and SIM card slot. With theSIM card allows the phone features, like Samsung Galaxy. Camera there are two, namelyfor front-resolution VGA camera and rear camera with 2MP resolution.

The tablet is also equipped with GPS, WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity. Android operatingsystem is still 2.3.5 Gingerbread with Marvell PXA910 805MHz processor. Apparently, the tablet is a cheap alternative other than Samsung Galaxy that could be used to make andreceive calls.

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