Ok… this was weird. If you make an outbound call on your Samsung S3 (running Android 4.0.3 or newer) and after about 1 ring, your S3’s voice mail picks up AND this behavior does NOT happen from other land lines or cell phones you likely have accidentally enabled CALL REJECTION […]
Gartner predicts Android will pass 1 billion users across all devices in 2014 | MobileSyrup.com http://mobilesyrup.com/2014/01/07/gartner-predicts-android-will-pass-a-billion-users-across-all-devices-in-2014/
If you have upgraded your Android device (in my case a Samsung S3) to Android 4.3 you likely have found that the camera flash goes off randomly. Well, it is not so random after all; I found that on the 4 Galaxy S3’s that I experienced this problem, the camera […]
QUALCOMM (apparently) accidently released a 2013 product roadmap showing Android 5 (code named Key Lime Pie) being released sometime between April through June of 2013. The Samsung Galaxy S4 is supposed to be released in March of 2013 and I just can’t imaging the S4 not being capable of running the […]
A BLOCKING MODE icon on the Samsung Galaxy S3 Notification Screen has replaced the DRIVING MODE icon and so you may wonder what BLOCKING MODE is and what happened to DRIVING MODE. DRIVING MODE is still available on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean but it has been buried under SETTINGS > LANGUAGE AND INPUT > […]
A BLOCKING MODE icon on the Samsung Galaxy S3 Notification screens toolbar has replaced the DRIVING MODE icon and so you may wonder what BLOCKING MODE is and what happened to DRIVING MODE. DRIVING MODE is still available on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean but it has been buried see urtech.ca/2012/08/solved-samsung-galaxy-s3-driving-mode-google-maps-notification-volumes/ BLOCKING MODE turns out […]
ANSER: The week of November 20th! Late yesterday Telus told me “off the record” that the update will be released the week of November 20th. This morning I received an official notice from Samsung business support. Jelly Bean ver. 4.1.x being released by all carriers commencing sometime during the second half […]
After much work and about an hour with Microsoft I determined that the nut of the problem was the automatic setup on the Galaxy S3… don’t use it, click MANUAL SETUP. But first… make sure your phone is patched to the current build as Samsung had a few issues prior to […]
This is not hard to do but it is easy to make a mistake. If you want to view your email inbox folders on a Galaxy S3 Android 4 all you have to do is open your email and: Click the folder select box at the top Click SHOW ALL […]
Android (Google Inc.) — 104.8 million units, 68.1% share (46.9% a year earlier) iOS (Apple Inc.’s iPhone) — 26.0 million units, 16.9% share (18.8% a year earlier) BlackBerry (Research in Motion Ltd.) — 7.4 million units, 4.8% share (11.5% a year) Symbian (mostly used by Nokia Corp.) — 6.8 million […]
Avast! Mobile Security for Android is fast, free and comprehensive. Just click on this comparison grid below (from www.androidpolice.com ) to see how it stacks up against AVG, Norton, Kaspersky, Lookout, McAfee and others. On the Avast site it is rated 4.7 out of five by end users and you […]
You likely know, unless you believe Apple advertising, that Samsung alone has ball crushing sales numbers. Samsung’s Android business is larger than Apples iPhone… and that is just Samsung; there are dozens of notable Android manufacturers so it should come as no surprise how much Android dominates. The iPhone 4 […]
“…The company said that the player could help encourage more native app development on the PlayBook. There are currently 10,000 apps in the BlackBerry App World, including the Android apps, making it smaller than even the fledgling Windows Phone platform, which has 65,000 apps in its store. …A lot of […]
“…My reaction mirrored many others this week. Apple’s big iPhone holiday quarter seemed simply unbelievable — 37 million, up 128 percent year over year. But Samsung was close. Real close: 36.5 million smartphones, according to Strategy Analytics. Together, the two companies accounted for 47 percent of fourth-quarter smartphone shipments. The […]
“…That’s 700,000 a day, 21 million a month or 63 million per quarter. What about iOS? Apple won’t likely reveal numbers until January, when announcing holiday quarter results. Don’t expect them to be anywhere near as high, but not trailing way far behind, either. Android activations are lopsided, mostly from […]
…But Canadians hoping to get their hands on Amazon’s hotly anticipated Android tablet will have to keep waiting. The device will launch November 15th in the United States — and the U.S. alone. …International availability was not discussed… …The device looks strikingly similar to another 7-inch tablet, Research In Motion […]