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Review Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

2011-11-26T22:50:00.001-08:00

Review Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 - Having had experienced some form of trimming weight revisions, including a redesign to cut thick body, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 was present in Indonesia. Selection of a wider screen on the basis of the latest android Honeycomb makes this tablet staying digadang as the nearest competitor iPad 2.
Dimensions & Design
Size 256.7 x 175.3 x 8.6 mm, weight 565 grams,
When held one hand, feels Galaxy Tab 10.1 is quite mild. Perhaps because the body wrap plastic material joined to reduce weight. Compared with iPad 2, Tab 0.2 mm thinner and 36 grams lighter. However, the selection of this material is not without blemish. Plastics, especially in the rear casing feels slippery when held and easily scratched. When juxtaposed with iPad 2, it appears that aluminum iPad 2 appears more elegant and sturdy.
Comparison between Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 with iPad II
Display
10.1-inch widescreen display, 1280 x 800 WXGA TFT LCD, 149 ppi, 4-way rotation., Ambient light sensor
Display 16:0 display crisp and clear, both outside and indoors. There is an automatic display setting, adjusting to the light available. Super PLS technology (plane line switching) to make the display remains clearly visible in wide angle and the lighting is excessive. Better than the technology IPS panel that carried the iPad.
Hardware
NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor dual core 1 MHz, RAM 1 Gb, 16 Gb of internal memory, a gyroscope sensor, compass, accelerometer,
No USB ports on the tab, as in the tablet Transformer and Motorola Xoom. Similarly, there is no HDMI port and a micro SD slot. There are only a single 30 pin port on the bottom to connect the data cable and built-hole 3.5 mm audio jack.
Samsung provides the headphones with integrated microphone. There is a pause button / skip the headphones that serves as a pause button when playing music or play. Speaker holes placed on the left and right to deliver good sound quality, while at the top there is the power button, volume and SIM card slot.
Software
Honeycomb Operating System 2.1, Google Mobile Service (Google Talk, Gmail, Calendar, YouTube, Google Maps, Google Latitude, Google Places, the Android Market), the Polaris office (edit and create: PDF, Word, Excel), Samsung Hub, Samsung Apps , Kies via Wifi, Pulse newsreaders
Application keys are placed in the upper right. There are shortcut buttons at the bottom left beside the home button to see what applications we are open. When pressed, the widget will appear that contains the screenshot these applications.
Display similar to the iTunes music application built iPad. In addition to providing the Android market, Samsung has built its own online applications store the Samsung Apps. If you as a user of Samsung used to connect to a PC using software Kies, there are more settings to connect tab with a PC through Wifi connection.
Social Hub integrates social networking accounts you in one widget. If installed on the homescreen, you can see updates at any time A little less ergonomic as possible, that with 10.1-inch diagonal screen and the ratio of 16:9, the virtual keyboard Galaxy Tab becomes longer. It is quite difficult for you when using two thumbs to type, because of the letters that are the center will be difficult to reach by hand sizes Asia
Browser
Multitab Android browser and Flash support. You can use the functions of motion in your browser. When you wish to zoom in or out website, place your two thumbs on the left and right of the screen, then move down to zoom in or to zoom out. Watching Youtube? Can be directly from the browser even if the application is also available.
A somewhat disturbing is when we want to access sites that have a dual version of (web and mobile) such as yahoo, then by default the browser is legible in its mobile version. Waste not, for the 10.1-inch screen size?
Camera
2 MP front camera, rear camera 3.2 MP with LED Flash.
Features camera application fairly perfect, although the size of 3 megapixels considered outdated. You can easily adjust the exposure, resolution, white balance and shooting modes. Back of the camera response is rather slow, sometimes takes a few seconds to snap the object to be a photograph.
Switch from the camera back to the front of the camera or vice versa quite easily by using the switch. The results of the video is quite ideal, even when capturing moving objects sometimes lose focus, but still within reasonable limits
Wireless and Synchronization
+21 HSPA 850/900/1900/2100, EDGE / GPRS 850/900/1800/1900, WiFi 802.11 a / b / g / n dual-band support (2.4 and 5 GHz), Bluetooth 3.1
Internet connection via Wifi running smoothly without any interruption. Tab 10.1 will be read as a € ~ € ™ removable media devices when plugged into the computer operation system Windows. When you log in using a gmail account, you can backup and restore a variety of data such as contacts, application settings, calendar, email and so forth. Remember, there is still a feature-rich software Kies. You can transfer variety of multimedia files, either via a USB cable or WiFi.
Battery
Battery 7000mAh (buit in)
Galaxy claimed to have a battery life of up to 9 hours for normal use. When PULSE test, number 9 hours has never been achieved. The possibility of geographical factors and also the use of a variety of Internet functions also cut the battery life
Performance
Quadrant Benchmark: 2303 points
When hardware performance measurements were taken using Quadrant Benchmark software, very good performance Galaxy, far above the competitors as well as other Android smartphones
Conclusion
Galaxy Tab 10.1 is a tablet with a combination of weights, dimensions, technology and current best design. Which carried its own display technology by Samsung, as well as hard work to bring additional applications such as social hubs commendable. Problem cameras are fairly old school or browser compatibility is rather disturbing. It shall also bring TouchWiz Samsung, the proud is interface completely, because it will be a differentiators between the Galaxy Tab 10.1 with other Honeycomb tablets. Nvidia Tegra-powered performance of 1 GHz is visible both in speed and performance application system.

Nvidia expand market

2011-07-19T11:34:00.000-07:00

As a manufacturer of graphics cards, Nvidia has triumphed not only satisfied in the realm of computers. Taiwanese manufacturer is also the ambition to master all the devices that have screens, including televisions. Nvidia has indeed carved a long history of technological Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) on your computer, and now they began to expand into the area of handheld devices starting with the presence of Nvidia's Tegra chipset.

Nvidia serious effort to work on any market smartphone evidenced by continuing to develop their technology, after just merged with Nvidia Tegra 2 is now ready to release their most annyar chipset, Kal-el. "Kal-el is a breakthrough in mobile devices technologist, has a quadcore cpu chips, 12 cores Nvidia GPU and its performance is 5X faster than Tegra 2," explained Jeff Yan, Senior Technical Manager Marketting Nvidia APAC.Nvidia Tegra 2 itself claimed to be very successful in the market. According to Nvidia, marketed since January 2011 up to now such chips already shipped 10 million units.

HTC Sensation Review

2011-06-26T05:47:00.000-07:00

The market share of smartphone with Android operating system is increasing. According to a report released by the research institute iResearch, Android smartphone market share will reach 50 percent in 2015. Visible trend of increasing market share from the many manufacturers that continue to deliver a smartphone with an operating system that handled by Google into the market. Included in the homeland.

For example, the HTC Corporation, as one of the producers who also pursue business smartphone Android smartphone now returned to update the HTC touch screen by presenting a Sensation in Indonesia. With 1.2 GHz dual core processor from Qualcomm, HTC Sensation using 4.3-inch display with a resolution up to 540x960 pixels. With an 8MP camera, this phone can display and record video in full HD or 1080p resolution.

"HTC seeks to continue to revolutionize mobile multimedia and pocket-sized entertainment center," said Agus Sugiharto, Country Manager for Indonesia today launched the HTC HTC Sensation in Jakarta. "With the latest HTC, we will provide a better user experience for customers," claims Agus. Agus said, HTC took Telkomsel as a provider of telecommunications and data services. For information, to connect to the Internet, in addition to Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n, HTC Sensation supports 14.4 Mbps HSDPA and 5.76 Mbps HSUPA. "To be more comfortable in using the HTC Sensation, smartphone users can get unlimited data service for free for 6 months," said Gideon Edie Purnomo, Vice President of Channel Management, Telkomsel. Gideon sure, its cooperation with manufacturers like HTC will also make the Android market share in Indonesia has increased. For information, Telkomsel users who take advantage of Android-based smartphone has now reached 180 thousand users. "This figure continues to grow significantly," he said.

In Indonesia, a smartphone with Google's Android operating system 2.3 (Gingerbread) is marketed through Grapari Telkomsel in price Rp5, 499 million from the end of June 2011.

Nokia VS Apple

2011-06-15T10:32:00.000-07:00

Nokia Versus Apple -Nokia and Apple recently announced the signing of a patent license agreement between the two. With these agreements, patent related legal issues between them was finally ended. In the Apple deal is required to pay some royalties to Nokia. Royalty payment was made once before and will continue to be paid in accordance with the agreement of both parties.
The two companies did not disclose how much the royalties to be paid Apple to Nokia. But according to analysts from Deutsche Bank, Kai was quoted as saying Korschelt via BGR, it was reported that according to Nokia estimates is reimbursed for $ 608 million in compensation patents.
Do not leave it at that, Apple also required to provide a royalty fee of 1% of profits from sales of the iPhone. With the iPhone's sales growth rate continued to increase since it was first launched. Estimated to raise $ 138 million dollars per quarter or $ 550 million annually will flow into the pockets of Nokia as royalties

Lenovo develop video games console

2010-08-30T08:31:00.000-07:00

Lenovo is currently completing the development of their video game console called the "eBox '. The console is part of the company's efforts to expand their product categories.

"Lenovo set up a company named Beijing eedoo Technology will manage the development of the entertainment console, eBox," said Jay Chen, a spokesman for Lenovo, as quoted from the Wall Street Journal, Monday, August 30, 2010.

Console, according to Chen, originally developed internally by Lenovo. "The company formed a team to create a prototype of the console, after it separates into a separate company, earlier this month," Chen said.

Although no further details about the new game consoles made by Lenovo, the eBox Chen says that the prototype has a similar motion based control technology owned by Microsoft Kinect platform.

In addition, Chen said, eBox is expected to circulate in China in late 2010 before the market presence in other countries. Therefore, the possibility of eBox would be classified as a Plug 'n' Play, not a home game console which is a prohibited device in China.

Version of Yahoo Mail iPad

2010-08-19T10:06:00.000-07:00

Yahoo's email service brings them back. This time the device is being targeted is the Apple iPad. Version of Yahoo Mail for HTML-based iPad-5 and looks similar to Yahoo Mail for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

According to Lee Parry, Product Manager of Yahoo Mail, which provided the difference this time is just Yahoo Mail has been optimized for widescreen owned by iPad.

As quoted from Mashable, Thursday, August 19, 2011, features in Yahoo Mail is the local version of the iPad caching that allows users access to email and do a search when the user is not connected to the internet.

There is also a feature to view attachments full size image in his or preview directly from inboks view. Features a dual pane view is also provided to allow users to see their email inboks.

Full Search Through the facility, the owner of an email account can do a search message, folder or Smart Folder with messages from people that are considered important by the users.

To try this service, you need to open the address http://mail.yahoo.com using the Safari browser on your iPad.

Google Celebrate Independence Day Indonesia

2010-08-17T01:46:00.000-07:00

Google Indonesia (Google.co.id) this morning helped celebrate the independence day of Republic of Indonesia. Search site page is now adorned with red and white ornaments.

Right on August 17, 2010, Google had put Doodle with a combination of red and white letters, which the letter 'O' shaped flowers, while the letter 'G' shaped figure of a woman with traditional dress and shawl.

Doodle, usually used Google to celebrate something important, such as to mark the holiday, or national holidays.

Google and Skype is also under threat blocked

2010-08-16T11:02:00.000-07:00

India may be blocking Google's services and telephone messaging services and Internet-based Skype because of concerns about national security. Used for the same reasons as in the BlackBerry service. The report cites the minutes of the meeting on July 12, 2010 between security officials in the Ministry of Telecommunications of India with an association of operators.

"Previously there was consensus that there is more than one type of service that the road to the outside should be considered. Some of them are BlackBerry, Skype, Google and others," according to minutes from the ministry quoted by Reuters on Friday (13/08/2010) from the Financial Times newspaper reports. According to these minutes, it was decided that the first BlackBerry service followed and then another.

On Thursday, the Government of India became the latest countries that threaten to break the services of Research In Motion (RIM), as surel (email) and encrypted instant messaging service to BlackBerry, when a Canadian company is not taking action against national security issues.

India has set a deadline until August 31 this year to RIM. They want to access in a format that can be read on the BlackBerry communications encrypted, by reason of such communications may be misused by Islamic extremist groups. Pakistan-based guerrilla groups using cellular and satellite phone on the attack in Mumbai in 2008 which claimed 166 victims. Previously, RIM had proposed tracking emails without telling details of encryption, but it is still not enough for India.

India Requests submitted after the agreement with Saudi Arabia, which according to a source, RIM agreed to give authorities the code for BlackBerry Messenger users. United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, and Algeria also requested the same access

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2010-01-10T06:34:00.000-08:00

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2009-02-13T12:45:00.000-08:00

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2009-02-04T14:36:00.000-08:00

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