Mobile Phone 3

The Android Market is an application similar to the Apple’s iTunes Store. It is developed by the Google team for the Android operating system, and for the devices using it. It usually comes preinstalled on the devices using the Android operating system. For even more information about it, go here.

To access the Android Market from any other device other than an Android operating system, you need to go to this web address in your favorite Internet browser. Of course this market has payed for applications as well as free applications. For the top free application, fell free to surf to here.

The kind of applications you can find there are very diverse: all sorts of games, books, live wallpapers (they are very popular), all kinds of media, videos, music as well as various tools to help you out daily: weather, medical, finance and so on. Getting them is pretty easy: pointing at the one you like and then the “install” button underneath it. For an “in depth” guide to the Android Market, there is a Galaxy S user guide, written by the Samsung developers.

What the above guide forgets to mention is the fact that one has to have an email account on Google (Gmail), and only there, any other email will not work. The people over here confirm this “tip”. For those who encounter other types of issues while interacting with the Android Market, this page might be able to help them out. It deals with problems related to installation, using the market, buying from there. There is also a link to problems not listed at the bottom and a troubleshooting page.

Hopefully now you are more prepared to and informed about -how- to use this wonderfull tool which allows you to personalize your Samsung Galaxy device to your heart’s desire.

Thinking there are still people out there who don’t know exactly what “rooting” a smartphone like the Samsung Galaxy s means, this article is meant to help them out. However those who use a Linux operating system might be familiar with the terms as well as with what one has to do.

Before giving the links to some guides on how to do it, you need to know why would you do it in the first place. If you are one of those people out there who want to personalize their Samsung Galaxy S, so that it seems cooler or simply better, or to be able to complete their daily tasks better, then you will have to root your phone.

The first guide comes from the techlivez website. The guide is pretty long, but it has some pictures with images you must encounter during the process, and also it informs you that before taking this action you have to make sure that your phone has root access. It even gives links to guides to how to unroot the Samsung Galaxy S as well as a link to the applications you might want for which you need root access.

The second guide claims to be an easy guide to the Samsung Galaxy S rooting and unrooting. This is a guide for the Windows users, but a guide for the Mac OS is also linked. Both guides are rather short, and if you don’t really seem to understand all the terms and steps, you better do a little more research on rooting this device.

This is in no way illegal,  but it might be dangerous to the files on the phone if done incorrectly. If correctly done, there is no danger, only for the phone to become even better than it already is.

You most likely want to know why would you do this in the first place. You would do it so that you make it easier to send emails from your Samsung Galaxy S or Tab. Since they come with Internet connection you can navigate the Internet, send emails and more. And the Samsung Galaxy’s OS has a build-in mail client, why not taking advantages of it?

The build-in mail client, just like the Microsoft Outlook enables you to compose new mails (or replies to existing mails), even without the Internet access, and when you get coverage you just press the “send” button. If the Samsung Galaxy is synced with the Outlook, then you have the destination already in the mail. Also the mail client will let you know on the spot if there is any incoming mail, which at times you have to read on the spot (therefore, you don’t wait to get to your office to read it).

While searching for ways to sync the device with the Outlook (or even to find out if it’s possible to do so), these are some of the results that came up:

* 2 guides to do it: here and here. These guides have pictures at various steps and step by step instructions which are very easy to follow, even by a beginner.

* this page informs us of 4ways of syncing: by USB, secured hosted wireless (at a price), by WiFi, or via Goggle.

* from the android forums, a user recommends various software to sync the Outlook’s calendar and contacts and those of the gmail, both ways, on an Android OS. There is also a lot of input on the matter from other posters.

* this thread mentions a little problem during the sync itself, which can be avoided if the Outlook application is closed before the syncing.

The call barring means that a person can set up their phone in such a way that no phone calls can be made from the phone, and also blocking all incoming call or blocking them when roaming outside the home PLMN.

When we try to activate this service on the Samsung Galaxy phone most of the times we will be requested to provide a password. This password is not the PIN code used to unlock the phone when turning it on, nor any of the other PINs used throughout the various settings of the phone.

The Samsung mobile website has a guide for calling options settings, found here. The guide covers the barring option almost at the end of the page, and says that the password needs to be set up by the user in the moment of activating the call barring option. However, many people found out that no password is accepted (just like mentioned above), for more details go here. Some users on this forum suggest that this feature might not be available. Some user say we should get it from the carrier of the phone (or the service provider).

The problem might be this one: the call barring might not be activated in all the countries where the Samsung Galaxy phone has been released, or any of the other Samsung phones (if you already had a Samsung phone, you might know better).

After reading this article, and after researching a lot on “what is password for default call barring is, on a Samsung Galaxy”, you probably came to the conclusion that there is no such thing. Of course, not until this feature will be enabled for all the countries (if that’s the case) or by the phone’s carrier in your country. Until then, you can choose to divert calls or to create a list of numbers to be automatically rejected when they call you.

What we all want for our phones is more and more (free) ringtones, in order to make sure it is our phone ringing and not somebody else’s.

Most of us will want and prefer to download a ringtone for free. There are many websites out there that claim you can download a ringtone for free, for your Samsung Galaxy phone. One such site is this one and it offers ringtones, wallpapers, videos, games, and more. You can even choose the music genre: country, blues, hip hop, alternative, and many more. Another way to arrange the ringtones is by popularity, by top rated/ commented/ downloaded and few more. You can even choose to have the family filter on or off.

The site mobiles5 also has free to download ringtone for your favorite new smart phone, as well as themes, wallpapers and screensavers. As a plus, you can choose to listen to a part of the song before downloading it as a ringtone. And of course, even this site has more than 12,000 pages of free ringtones for you to choose from, and each page has 15 songs listed.

If you are not satisfied with these options, you can try to to make your own ringtone, by downloading a free software from here (of course, if you are talented enough). The site is hoping for donations, but they are not a must.

The website knowyourmobile has an easy to follow guide on how to change the ringtome on the Samsung Galaxy S. And here you can find further instructions on how to adda or even replace the default ringtones on the Samsung Galaxy phone.

And right now, there is no excuse for you to still keep the default ringtone active on your Samsung Galaxy S smart phone.

The Samsung Galaxy Vibrant is just another touchscreen, smartphone released by the Samsung company. So you do not get confused, this device has this alternative name: Samsung T959 Galaxy S. Reading all the technical specifications it seems like “THE” phone to have. Let’s also take a look.

If you want to know the opinion of its creators, the Samsung website has it right here. The page a various demo video in order to enhance the good parts of the phone. A really nice feature of this phone is the possibility of typing in it without lifting the fingers from the screen, using the SWIPE texting technology. And basically you can get all the information you might wish for from there, including the user’s manual.

The gsmarena website is always a very good one for when you want to get precise information on any given phone. This is because this site doesn’t only say the features of the product, but it also mentions the unsupported features, in order for those reading to be sure what the specifics are. Moreover, there are pictures offered, price range and comments from various user, which at times are useful. This is how we find out the price mentioned for the Samsung Galaxy Vibrant is a 7 out of 10 (pricey?)

This is how we know the phone doesn’t have a secondary camera, that it comes with a 2GB microSD and that it is available in 2 colors: black and gray. It doesn’t have a radio nor an infrared port.

This page features various websites which sell this Samsung Galaxy Vibrant and accessories for it, at a starting price of just US$1.

If you choose to buy it in-store, make sure that it has all the features you want it to have, because sometimes the online reviews can be wrong, or read as many as you can in order to get the best image on the product.

Sometimes we encounter problems when we try to connect the Samsung Galaxy to the computer or laptop, in order to sync it, or to transfer various items from one to the other. There are many times when this problem is encountered because the driver got messed up (by mistake or otherwise). Sometimes our computer simply doesn’t detect the new attached device.

If one gets to the conclusion that it is indeed the driver causing all the trouble, there is no other choice but to either update it or to roll it back to a version that worked (if the current version was an update). The second option is also called a “re-installation”. This is most of the times an easy to do task, however instructions and tutorials, as well as information and tips given by various people on forums, should be read before proceeding.

Maybe one of the basic actions that should be taken before trying to fix the driver for the Samsung Galaxy is to back-up the data on it, because you might lose it in the process. Another tip is to make sure the driver version you download is compatible with the operating system on your machine.

Of course that the Samsung website should be your first stop when searching for a drive for your Galaxy device. For the Galaxy s, there is support and some hardware downloads here. If you need a driver for your Windows x64 version (be it XP, Vista or 7) then you can get it from here. For the x86 version, then visit this page.

Also, if you find other websites claiming they have driver installation kits, better make sure they are free of viruses before download and installation, because you can lose all the data on the phone or even on your computer.

The tablets are the latest rage in the gadgets world. These tablets are like a book reader, a mini laptop, smart phone, music player and maybe more, all gathered into one device. Most of the major mobile phone or music players producers released one. We will take a look at two of them: the Blackberry Playbook and the Samsung Galaxy Tab, and see what sets them apart and what makes them similar.

The screen and overall size:

They both have a 7inch touch screen, 1024×600 resolution and they weight is of 400g for the Blackberry Playbook and of 380g for the Samsung Galaxy Tab. As dimensions: 193x130x10mm for the Playbook and 190.09×120.45 x11.98mm for the Tab, which makes the Playbook bigger, but the Tab thicker.

Operating system and applications:

The Tab runs on Android 2.2 while the Playbook runs on own Tablet OS and both of them support Flash. There are many applications available in the Android Market, while for the Playbook there are much less available, however its developers promise more to come.

Storage, memory, battery life and more?

Both have either 16 or 32GB, but the Tab also has a microSD card slot, while the installed RAM is of 1GB for the Playbook and only 512MB for the Tab (so guess which is better at multitasking?). As long as the battery goes, the lifespan is of 7hours in video for the Tab, and for the Playbook it hasn’t been announced. More? You get more with either of these two tablets for they both have a primary and a secondary camera, and they both connect to the Internet by Bluetooth or Wi-Fi.

However the Blackberry Playbook is not yet available, but here we can find out more on the release date and the price, however the release date seems to have been postponed? But for now you can compare the prices for the Samsung Galaxy Tab over here, if you live in the United States.

So you are probably here because you are one of the people who bought the Samsung Galaxy Tab and you just noticed that you can not make video phone calls with the preinstalled Skype software. Skype is well known in the United States for the possibility of video chatting with anyone. However the video calling is not currently enabled or supported by the Samsung Galaxy Tab’s operating system, Android.

There are users over the world that do not have access to the Skype application because in those countries the access to Skype is blocked altogether. That may be one of the problems you encountered with your device and this Skype official forum has more information on this issue.

If you live in the United States and have a Verizon contract, then you have to know that Verizon Wireless doesn’t allow the Skype application to function (with the video call?) over the 3G on the Samsung Galaxy Tab. Here you can find more information about this big problem, which can lead to less sales of the Tab through the Verizon company.

The users in the Skype’s forum recommend another software in order to make the video phone calls or to video chat with others over the Samsung Galaxy Tab, ooVoo or Fring. The ooVoo program can be downloaded from here, but you need to make sure that the Tab or its OS is compatible. The problem with the Fring program is that is not compatible with other similar software as some say, but the site says differently; in any case you can learn more about it from here.

So it seems that no matter the reason for your unhappiness with your latest purchase, there are at least two other solutions which are cheaper or even free, so you better consider those instead.

The Samsung Galaxy Apollo is also known as Samsung Galaxy 3 or as Samsung Galaxy i5801, and it has been released in the summer of 2010.

Nobody wants to hear bad reviews on any product that can be bought, be it item or service; and most definitely its producer will not tell them. However the first few buyers will review the new products and they will reveal the flaws they find, this not meaning that all of the users will have the same problems. And truthfully, there is almost no product out there to be able to satisfy the needs and the preferences of everybody.

Some of the users who tried this phone placed some opinions on the mobilefonereviews website. Most of them would complain about the battery’s lifespan and closely related fact that the level of energy left in the battery shown on the screen is not correct. Several people will point out the fact that the phone will connect to various applications by itself, either because the touchscreen is too sensitive either because of some factory settings.

Several user in another forum are complaining about the phone calls being “dropped” or stopped with no apparent reason. If you bought this Samsung Galaxy 3 and you believe you have this same problem, better check out this thread in the Android forums.

If you didn’t buy this phone yet, and you plan on buying it, remember that a cheap or a medium price range (like this Samsung Galaxy 3 is) will not give you full satisfaction. However if you don´t search for full satisfaction, and if you are truly impressed by the features presented by the company and by the positive reviews it got, there is nothing to stop you from getting it, from here eventually, or from other operators if they have it.