Showing posts with label ii. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ii. Show all posts
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Samsung Reported To Update Galaxy S II And Galaxy Note Smartphones To Jelly Bean
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Samsung Galaxy S II owners are probably content enough to have gotten the Android 4.0 update but those same owners will certainly be giddy after hearing this tidbit of news. According to SamMobile, Samsung is currently testing the preliminary builds of Android 4.1— also known as Jelly Bean. In fact—the same source claims testing has gone well for Samsung and Samsung should release the latest version of the Android OS (Android 4.1.1) by September or October— if all goes well. Of course this is expected to apply to the international variants of the smartphone— so you American owners of the device will have to add a few months after the initial launch.
Oh and you Galaxy Note owners won’t be left out of the blue either as that device is set to receive the Jelly Bean update as well— though a specific time frame for that device is anyone’s guess. If this is indeed true Samsung— well done to you. Well done.
( Source: SamMobile )
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Samsung Galaxy Note II
Samsung officially announced the Samsung Galaxy Note II at IFA in Germany. The new note has a larger 5.5-inch display as compared to the 5.3-inch display of the previous model. But the Galaxy Note II will be easier on the hand being a few millimeters narrower. This is because instead of the 800 x 1280 display on the old Note, the Note II gets a 720 x 1280 display. This makes the new note taller but a bit narrower.
Like the previous Note, the display is a Super AMOLED display. Those hoping for a Plus display, it looks like that might be a thing of the past.
Physically, the Galaxy Note II takes its design queues from the Galaxy S III. It comes in white and titanium grey.
The Note is all about the S-Pen, and Samsung has improved the S-Pen with the Note II. Samsung has made the S-Pen longer, making it more comfortable to use. The S-Pen now has a rubber tip, to give it a more pen like feel when writing on the slippery glass. Pressure sensitivity is now up to 1024, from 256 of the previous Galaxy Note. This is of interest to those who like to do a little art work on their note. The S-Pen being so important, the Note II will actually warn you if forget leave the S-Pen on a table somewhere and start to walk away.
The Note II has also been given a feature called "Air View" which allows the S-Pen to interact with the UI by hovering over the screen in addition to touch input. This sounds similar to Sonys floating touch technology on the Xperia Sola.
Inside you find the same quad-core Exynos chipset you find in the Galaxy S III, but this one is clocked at a faster 1.6 GHz. RAM is upped to 2 GB. Combined this makes the Note II, Samsungs most powerful handheld device. The battery size has also been increased from 2500 mAh to 3100 mAh.
Its other specifications match the original Note, with an 8MP primary camera, secondary camera 16 GB of internal storage, expandable via a MicroSD slot and HSDPA+ connectivity. My only complaint about the new model is that, it still uses a physical and two dedicated capacitative buttons.
All-in-all, the new Samsung Galaxy Note II is a significant upgrade from the original Galaxy Note. I expect it to hit Philippine shoes by October, with a price somewhere north of Php35,000.
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Enjoy Jelly Bean Custom ROM On Your Samsung Galaxy S II and Galaxy S III UPDATED
[ Update: Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean is now available for Samsung Galaxy S2 GT-I9100 ]
After The release of Android Jelly Bean OTA update by Google at I/O 2012 event, XDA Developers are working hard for porting their favourite Android phones to latest Android Jelly Bean 4.1.
As HTC ONE X was updated with jelly Bean within 24 hours of release of Jelly Bean .Now its the turn off Samsung Galaxy S II and Galaxy S III The updates were little buggy developers are working on it.These updates are Alpha version.
So far all Quad-core Android smart phones and tablets are getting the official update, OTA updates are already rolling out for some devices like the Nexus series.
As you all know the Samsung Galaxy S2 is going to get a taste of the Jelly Bean with the CyanogenMod 10, the following video shows XDA member, Hands on Samsung Galaxy S2 Running on Android Jelly Bean 4.1 ALPHA which is basically a ported ROM from the Galaxy Nexus with a modified kernel so it could run on the Galaxy S2.
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