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Software Updates For Mobile Devices
Thursday, May 26, 2011
These days, smart phones such as the Motorola Atrix, the HTC Thunderbolt, and the HTC Inspire are more popular than ever, and it is easy to see why. With such high tech gadget on the markets, it’s possible to do things with smart phones today that were only possible in the imagination a few short years ago. Whether it’s checking mail, sending texts, surfing the internet, downloading music, or sharing movie and pictures with your friends, it seems liked there’s almost nothing that these phone’s cannot pull off. At the heart of these phones is their software, and there are a number of accessories you can purchase to help keep the software in your mobile or smart phone up to date. Some of these will be discussed in the article to come.
One of the first things you’d want to get are memory cards. Every smart phone has some kind of internal memory storage that it uses to keep track of information essential to the phone itself, such as the phone’ number, the services it is connected to, the cellular network it uses, and so forth. These memory cards are used to store all kinds of miscellaneous data files, such as the movies you want to download, the lists and appointments you make and keep, and the phone numbers you keep close by for friends and family.
However, the more information you store on your phone, the less room there is for vital system and software updates. This is precisely where memory cards come in. When you purchase a memory card for your phone, you provide it with extra storage space for all of your essential and nonessential software packages. Adding this to your phone is like discovering a basement that you never knew you had.
It can also be to your advantage to purchase extra headsets or Bluetooth technology for your smart phone. This is because new software in your phone often requires new hardware to take full advantage of it, and Bluetooth is widely becoming one of the most popular forms of communication for accessory and software devices on the market.
Similarly, you should also look into extra batteries to keep your mobile phone’s software up to date. This is not quite as intuitive as the memory card storage direction, but it makes sense when you think about it a bit more. More software means more processing power. And if you run your phone’s processor more, you will naturally need more energy than you used to use. An extra battery is needed when you are on the go so that you can power all of the software that you want to run.
As you can see, it’s worth keeping an eye out for some of the many Motorola Atrix accessories, HTC Thunderbolt accessories, and HTC Inspire accessories on the market. While not every accessory available will have some usefulness for your particular phone, if you are willing to do some shopping and testing, it shouldn’t be too hard to find one that offers some advantages to your current mobile phone.
The Newly Released Motorola Droid Pro
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Motorola has had a major success with its line of Android powered Droid line of phones. Starting with the release of the original Droid, complete with a marketing campaign as massive as anything that the iPhone has had, the handsets have rooted themselves in the public consciousness as a true competitor to the iPhone. When the Droid Pro is released later this year, it will finally serve as a replacement for the aging Milestone (which is the original Droid sans the branding).
According to many sources that seem close to the material, the currently unreleased Droid Pro will be the international version of the US only Droid 2. The major difference will be in the radio used to make the calls: while the Droid Pro uses the GSM/HSDPA radio that is most common throughout the World, the Droid 2 uses a CDMA radio that can be used on Verizon. The device, like the Droid 2, should look almost identical to the Droid/Milestone. This is handy because when shopping for Motorola Droid Pro accessories you can use the Droid/Mileston’s options. The dock for both the original Droid and the Droid 2 have the same capability; it is likely to be the same for the Droid Pro and the Milestone. This makes shopping for a Motorola Droid Pro cases quite simple because you already have a large selection of compatible options on the market.
Even today, people still consider the Droid/Milestone to be a fairly powerful device. While its OMAP processor is technically slower than the more common 1 GHz Snapdragon, a different processor design enables the Droid/Milestone to compute more efficiently. So in testing, calculations performed on the slower OMAP happened just as fast on the faster Snapdragon. However, the Droid 2/Droid Pro uses a 1 GHz OMAP processor. This means that performance on the handset is better than any other current option. In addition, the Android 2.2 “Froyo” is now available on the handset. In addition to several interesting new software features, this newer version of the operating system bring a much better performance over those older versions. All told, the Droid 2/Droid Pro flies.
Like the original Droid/Milestone, the new Droid 2/Droid Pro has an 854 x 480 resolution screen. This is somewhat smaller than the new iPhone 4, but the difference is not all that noticeable. This screen is fairly small in the current crop of Android devices at 3.7 inches, but this serves to make the pixels more compact. Also, many prefer the smaller size to the recent massive 4-4.3 inch screens. Touchscreen performance is just as good as it was on the original and is not likely to even be reduced when using Motorola Droid Pro Screen Protectors. One major complaint about the original Droid/Milestone was its keyboard. Considered a major differentiator, the keyboard suffered from flat, indistinguishable keys that were laid out somewhat oddly. The Droid 2/Droid Pro fixes this, doming the keys so that you can get a feel of each one and improving the layout. The differences are not massive, but then the Droid 2/Droid Pro is meant as an evolution of the Droid/Milestone rather than a brand new device.
Motorola’s new Droid Pro will definitely bring that much needed refreshment to Motorol’as Android line of handsets when it gets released. Althought the Droid Pro is more of an evolved version of an existing model opposed to being a brand-new model, its features and improvements are still significant enough to warrant purchase.
