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Easiest Way of Wiping Phone Data – Before Selling your Android Phone

Technology is ever upgrading, you buy a mobile phone today and tomorrow there would be another with the latest upgraded versions to meet the future technology. So what do you do with your old mobile phone when you buy a new mobile? Surely you would not throw it away, you would be selling it for the price that it can get to the least on eBay or Amazon online or you would be giving it to your family members or friends or cousin. There are certain thing which you should take care of is to protect your data before you handover the phone to others.

By ensuring the following steps you take security of your personal and private data & information –

Backup Your Data – The important thing is to back up your data so that it would be available to you on your new device. More importantly when you are selling the handset to the strangers, then you need to make sure that your personal & private data is not leaked to them. The easiest way to do it is to simply connect your phone to your PC so as you can make a copy of everything on your phone and thus save a copy of it on your PC. Now when you get the new phone transfer the content to that mobile.
You should be careful of your microSD card and other external storage devices when selling the handset. You should either remove microSD card or format it and give it to the buyer.
Finally, you should be happy to do a factory restore to your phone before handing overyour mobile phone to the buyer.

The above steps will ensure you that none of your contact information, emails history or password are fell into the wrong hands when you switch over to a new device.

Google Android 4.1 Jelly Bean with Improved Features – Project Butter Announced

Google has finally accounced the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean firmware version at the I/O event. Along with this a few statistics were also announced like there were 400 million device activations this year already when compared to 100 million in 2011 which is a huge jump. Along with that there are more than a million devices activated every day which means more than 12 devices are sold every single second.

Now when we get back to the 4.1 version its more like a improvised version of the ICS which has been available to all the latest smart phones. Hence its clearly created above Ice Cream Sandwich giving better experience to the users. The project Butter which is meant for making system faster is going to give you many new features which are mentioned below.

There is support for Arabic with 18 new input languages like Hindi, Thai & Persian. There are a few camera improvements like faster scrolling in the gallery, filmstrip view and also swipe away photos to delete them. Talking about new features in the NFC end, you can now tap the device to any bluetooth speaker to instantly connect them. Also there are new notifications customizations and you can call back someone directly from the notifications area itself.

There is better voice search facility which gives you better presented format of the searched content and better understanding of natural language. The moment you search for something you get answers based on knowledge graph. You can also easily place widgets on the homescreen panes and easily resize or move them around.

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Adoption of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich has fallen short as expected. Neither can you blame the manufacturers nor Google for just 1 % adoption in the market share. By March 2012 we might see many tablets and smartphones out with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Android 4.0 was the biggest Android update as of now and it required a set of minimum hardware profile and that why we see not many mobile phones qualifying for the update. Jelly Bean is named accordingly to the Google naming convention of Android version been adopted.

In the news we have the rumors of Jelly Bean aka Android 5.0 is to be releasing as early in second quarter of 2012. We might also see Android 5.0 entering the notebooks and netbooks markets too. One of the key features of the Jelly Bean might be its ability to run dual boot Chrome OS. Expected that Google will speed up the development of Android 5.0, we might see Google debuting with it in May or June this year. Also this would be launched in competition with Apple’s iOS 5 and Windows 8 as they are expected to be arrive in quarter 2 this year.

It’s expected that Google will include Chrome OS elements in Jelly Bean and there is no other details available about this and we have to wait and watch. We would bring more news about Android Jelly Bean. We might hear more on June 27 when the Google I/O developer events begins.

How to Print from Android Phone with Google Cloud Print

With the arrival of Cloud Print on Google’s Android, you can now enjoy the printing very easily. For all those who don’t know what Google Cloud Printingmeans, the Google Account users need to associate their printers with the Google account via this service after which with the help of cloud technology the documents can be printed from your Google account via the assigned printers. Printers are treated in much the same way as documents are in Google Docs. Therefore, it is very easy to share printers with your coworkers, friends, and family anywhere in the world. No need for complex network setups to make print sharing work! In addition to associating printers with a user’s Google Account, the capabilities of each particular printer model are stored so they can be shown to the user to select appropriate options when submitting a print job.

So, to get started and to print the pages with Google Cloud then you need to first of all registeryour account with the Google Cloud print and then you can proceed for using the Google Cloud Print by using your Google Account. As of now currently this application is available for select countries but will soon be launched worldwide. Google cloud print comes with the support of printing the files which comes with the formats: pdf, jpg, jpeg, docx, ods, xls, xlsx, ppt and odp.

What’s the catch is that you can even print the documents . Not only from Android, but you can also take the benefit of cloud printing for your desktop with the help of Google Chrome. Please note that this application is currently in beta stage and the same can be downloaded from theAndroid Market Place. Please note that to install and make use of this app you will have to ensure that you have at least 2.1 Android version.

Thursday, 28 June 2012

Easiest Way of Wiping Phone Data – Before Selling your Android Phone

Easiest Way of Wiping Phone Data – Before Selling your Android Phone

Google Android 4.1 Jelly Bean with Improved Features – Project Butter Announced

Google Android 4.1 Jelly Bean with Improved Features – Project Butter Announced

How to Print from Android Phone with Google Cloud Print

How to Print from Android Phone with Google Cloud Print

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