Top 10 Water Proof Android Mobile Phones in 2013

Smartphone Industry is becoming very hard to compete in, with various new features being introduced the mobile companies have now entered into the Waterproof mobile phones market. IP 57 and IP 67 are the numbers given to certify a mobile phones as waterproof and dust proof. So if you are planning to buy a waterproof phone make sure you look at this number in the specifications.

These are phones well suited to people like me who are chronic droppers of mobile phones everywhere. So if you don’t want to spoil your mobile phone when you are gardening and drop it in your garden mud or small pool of water, then these are the phones which should be considered.

Sony Xperia Z:

It comes with a 5-inch TFT Capacitive touch screen with a resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels.  1.5 GHz Quad-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor powers the device which has Android v4. 1 (Jelly Bean) Operating System.  Has an impressive 13.1 MP rear Camera with Autofocus, LED flash with Video recording at 1080p HD Video at 30fps and 2.2MP front facing Camera is also present. Sony Xperia Z has got a IP57 certificate as a waterproof and dust proof smartphone.

Sony Xperia Z is priced at $650 or INR 35,000

Sony Xperial Acro S: 

It comes with a 4.3-inch LED Capacitive touch screen display with a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels. The device is powered by 1.5GHz Dual Core Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor having Android v4.s0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) as the Operating System supported by 1GB RAM, 16GB on-board memory. Has an impressive 12MP Camera with Autofocus, LED flash along with 1080p HD Video recording at 30fps and 1.3MP front facing camera. Sony Xperia Acro S has got a IP57 certificate as a waterproof and dust proof smartphone.

Sony Xperia Acro S is priced at $450 or INR 25,000

Sony Xperia GO:

It comes with a 3.5-inch LED Capacitive touch screen having a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels. The device is powered by 1GHz Cortex-A9 Dual Core NovaThor Processor having Android v2.3 Gingerbread as the Operating System supported by 512MB of RAM, 8GB Internal Memory. 5MP rear Camera with Autofocus, LED flash and 720p HD Video Recording at 30fps.  Sony Xperia GO has got a IP57 certificate as a waterproof and dust proof smartphone.  Sony Xperia GO has got a IP67 certificate as a waterproof and dust proof smartphone.

Sony Xperia GO is priced at $280 or INR 15,000

Sony Ericson Active:

It comes with a 3 inch Reality display with Mobile BRAVIA Engine having a screen resolution of 480×320 pixels. The device is powered by a 1GHz Scorpion processor having Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system which can be upgraded to ICS and the operating system is supported by  512 MB of RAM. 5 MP camera with LED flash and 720p video recording at 30 fps and a 1GB internal memory which can be expanded with micro SD card.  Sonr Ericson Active has got a IP57 certificate as a waterproof and dust proof smartphone.

Sony Ericsson Active is priced at $280 or INR 15,000

Motorola Defy Plus: 

It comes with a 3.7-inch TFT Capacitive touchscreen display with a resolution of 480 x 854 pixels. The device is powered by 1GHz Cortex-A8 TI OMAP Processor with PowerVR SGX530 GPU having Android v2.3 (Gingerbread) Operating System. 5MP camera with Autofocus, LED flash and VGA video recording.

Motorola Defy Plus is priced at $240 or INR 13,000

Motorola Defy Mini is also another smaller version of Defy Plus which is also water resistant.

Motorola Razr Maxx: 

It comes with a 4.3 inch super AMOLED Advanced touch screen with a resolution of 540×960 pixels. The device is powered by Dual-Core 1.2 GHz processor with 1 GB of RAM and 16GB of internal memory. It has a 8 MP rear camera with Autofocus, LED Flash and a 1.3MP front facing camera.

Motorola Razr Maxx is being termed as the Strongest Smart phone around because of its Kevlar covering given to the phone which is a material used to make bullet proof jackets.

Motorola Razr Maxx is priced at $560 or INR 30,000

Panasonic ELUGA Power: 

It comes with a 5-inch LCD Capacitive touch screen having a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels. The device is powered by a 1.5GHz Dual Core Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor with Adreno 225 GPU having Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Operating System. With an 8MP camera and 1080p HD video recording at 30 fps and a partly VGA camera in the front. Panasonic ELUGA power has got a IP57 certificate as a waterproof and dust proof smartphone.

Panasonic ELUGA power is priced at $560 or INR 30,000

Samsung S5690 Galaxy X cover: 

It comes with a 3.65 inches Capacitive touch screen and Corning Gorilla Glass with a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels. The device is powered by a  800 MHz Marvell MG2 Processor having Android v2.3 (Gingerbread) Operating system. It has a 3.15 MP Rear camera with Autofocus and LED flash and a VGA front camera.

Samsung S5690 Galaxy X cover is priced at $230 or INR 12400

Toshiba Regza: 

It comes with a 4 inch FWVGA Capacitive touch screen, and be powered by a 1GHZ Snapdragon processor. It has an impressive 12MP camera. The device is having Android v2.3 (Gingerbread) Operating system. Toshiba is trying its hand in the smartphone market with this waterproof smartphone but only time will tell how it will fare in the market.

Toshiba Regza price is yet to be announced

Fujitsu:

Fujitsu has also ventured into the Waterproof and Dust proof mobile phones market by introducing it 2 models Fujitsu F705i and Fujitsu F704i which are not high end smartphones but with basic features of camera, music player and under water resistance upto 3 meters.

Kyocera Hydro Phone:

It comes with a 3.5 inches IPS LCD touchscreen with a resolution of 480 x 320 pixels. It has a IPx5 and IPx7 certification which gives it waterproof credibility. The device is powered by a 1 Ghz Snapdragon S2 MSM8655 processor with 512 MB of RAM having a  Android v2.3 (Gingerbread) Operating system. It has a 3.2 MP rear facing camera with front facing camera.

Lenovo A660: 

It comes with a 4 inch touch screen. The device is powered by 1 GHz dual core processor having Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Operating system 5 mega pixel camera rear side and VGA front camera. It also has Dual Sim GSM + GSM capability. the price of Lenovo A660 will be released shortly after its release.

It comes with a 3.2 inches display with a Asahi Glass similar to Gorilla Display. It works with the 2.3.5 Gingerbread Operating system. It runs on 1Ghz single core processor. It comes with a IP 67 certification which gives Waterproof and dust proof Credibility to the mobile phones

Lenovo A660 is Priced at $ 200 or INR 11000 Approximately

The list of Waterproof phones is going to be increasing in the recent future as all of the mobilephone companies are getting into the competition with many other phones which we will be updating regularly watch this space if you want to buy a waterproof phone.

How to Enable or Disable Apps running in Background on Android Devices

With over 450,000 apps and counting on the Play Store, there are many applications which run in the background without the permission of the user, making the phone much slower and also sometimes, by collecting some data in the background etc.

For this purpose, one could use Task Managers or Task Killer applications which are available aplenty in the Android Play Store or even some widgets which can kill all the running apps in the background in one click. However, sometimes it might be disadvantageous. Say Skype is running the background and you want to kill it, one could do so manually or use a third party task manager app. However, some of these apps from unknown developers do not kill just the app but also some processes that are used by the app which are also required for the phone’s normal functioning. By disabling the app, it totally disappears from the app drawer as well and no third party app can execute it.

Thus, it is recommended to use trusted Task manager applications or the default one in Android, which is the best alternative. To use this, follow these instructions :

1. Open the App drawer from your home screen and choose Settings. Alternatively, ICS devices also have a quick shortcut to settings from the notification bar when pulled down from the top.
2. Once you’re into settings, choose ‘Apps’ from the list there.
3. Here, you will see three tabs on the top namely ‘On SD Card’ , ‘Running’  and ‘All’ .
4. Tap on All and you’ll be taken into the screen displaying all the installed apps on your phone along with default stock apps of Android.
5. Choose the app that you want to stop and you’ll get two boxes named ‘Force Stop’ and ‘Disable’ .
6. Tap on the ‘Disable’ button and a warning notification pop-up box might come up asking if you’re sure in executing this action. Tap ‘OK’ .
7. Now the app is disabled and is pushed towards the end of the list. To enable, choose the app again and choose Enable.

Note that by disabling the app, the app will disappear from the App drawer until it is enabled once again in the settings page. To temporarily stop apps, you should choose the ‘Force Stop’ button while disabling it totally stops the app from being executed or functioning till it is enabled manually by the user.

source : http://androidadvices.com/enable-disable-apps-running-background-android-ics-devices/

2013 top Desktop Management Tool for Android Smart Phones

Managing a Android Device generally is a mess because they don’t have a uniform software application like the iTunes for iOS based devices. If you would like to manage your Smart Phone by backing up the data, Installing / Deleting Applications then its quite hard because you will have to install respective software for the same and generally not all of them offer perfect management for these devices. Here is a solution for all these issues, called as Moborobo which is a All In One PC Manager for your Android Devices.

This is a very small sized desktop based application which supports is which is compatible with all the iOS and almost all the Android based applications. To know more first of all you need to download the latest version from their website and try it out since its a totally free application.

After you Install the software the first screen which you would get would ask you to connect your Smart Phone with the software either through USB or Wifi which is certainly an amazing feature because most of the software’s only support USB option. Lets go ahead with WiFi Option and show you how you can wireless sync your phone with the system.

Here you need to Install the Mobo Daemon application by scanning the QR Code shown on the software which you can do by using applications like “QR Droid” available in the Play Store. Following this the browser would access the moborobo.com website and try to download a apk which would be the MoboDaemon.apk file. Select OK and meanwhile go to the Settings of your phone, Check on the option which says “Unknown Sources” because we would like to Install this APK onto our Phone.

Following this you would be taken to a quick tour on your phone followed by a welcome screen showing you the WiFi Connection Information and also asking for the Validation Code. Tap on Enable and also ensure that your phone is connected to the same WiFi as the desktop or your computer. At this step you need to visit back to the Desktop based application and click on Next, it would ask you to Enter the Validation Code which is displayed on your Phone.

Welcome Screen : Click on the Connect button and it would initialize the connection and ask you to Install a update onto your current ‘Mobo Daemon’ Phone Application. Following which you are ready to go with the Phone’s detailed information displayed to you. You can manage multiple devices and in this article we are going to show you the Nexus 4 as an example.

To start off you can first select the option of ‘Backup / Restore ‘ and proceed with securing your Important Phone Information. This option wont be available to you under the Wifi Mode because of the amount of data you have on your phone and it would be only available in USB Mode.

Phone Cleanup : This is a Interesting feature which allows you to improve your device performance by cleaning the cache files and this could be done by removing the App Installation Remaining Files which are generally left by the apps which you would have Uninstalled.

Market Place : The Next Interesting feature is access to another Market Place which comes with many useful and not so easy to find applications most of which are free. Called as the ‘Moborobo Android Market Application’ which you can again download onto your phone through this desktop application would give you access to all the apps. Fnd apps based on the Top ranked and rated and then download onto your phone.

Free Wallpapers : You can not only access the Images on the Device under the Camera, Device Gallery & Wallpapers section but also access the Wallpaper Center through which you can find hundreds of beautiful wallpapers which you can easily preview and download, which would automatically download first onto the desktop and then transfer to your Phone and get Installed.

Free Ringtones : Looking for a lot of ringtones? Not to worry because this application also features a dedicated area for Music, where in you have access to a section under ‘PandaApp Ringtone’ which is a huge database of ringtones where in you can select your favorite ringtones, listen to them and then set them as a ringtone directly onto your phone from your desktop.

So overall this application not only offers the backing up of the data but also offers some amazing features which are generally not found on the respective phone’s original software and the best part is that this is a universal application.Download Moborobo Now & Enjoy all the above Amazing Features.

New source : http://androidadvices.com/moborobo-desktop-management-tool-android-smart-phones/

Galaxy S3 with Paranoid Android 3 Jellybean 4.2.2 Firmware

For a pure Android experience on your Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone, we will in the due course of this article will be checking out on how to update the device with the Refreshed version of Paranoid Android custom ROM firmware which comes with the new set of theme and user interface which can be checked out in the form of screen captures. For your convenience, we have also done a short Video on how to update the same in your Galaxy S3 smartphone which we will be mentioning here shortly. So, let’s check out on how you can update your device with the latest Paranoid Custom ROM firmware.

This version of firmware comes with the jellybean 4.2.2 firmware and comes with all the goodness of user interface, apps support etc. There are many custom ROM firmwares for Galaxy S3, but this Paranoid 3 version comes with stability and hell lot of other hybrid options and preferences.

Quick Pre Requisites:

Not with the KIES or ROM Manager, create a backup of all the data with the help of below mentioned manual steps.
SMS – Use “SMS Backup & Restore app”,
Contacts – Sync with the Gmail application,
Call Log - Call Log and Restore
Images, Songs, Videos, Files – Copy to internal / External SD Card,
APN and MMS Settings – Note down from the path “Applications > Settings > Wireless and Network > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names”

As this is the custom ROM firmware, you need to make sure that
Enable the USB Debugging Mode in your computer from the path “Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging”. Make sure that your Samsung Galaxy S3 is left with the minimum of 40% battery or else the device might just get turned Off in the middle of firmware update.

Source : http://androidadvices.com/update-galaxy-s3-paranoid-android-3-jellybean-422-firmware-guide/