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Update: Samsung Galaxy Portal/Spica and Android Eclair/ Froyo

by Sujoy on June 3, 2010

**Update**

The Android Eclair (2.1) is available for upgrade on the Samsung Galaxy Portal, for T-Mobile UK. If you are facing difficulties, or need help on how to do the upgrade, please follow this ‘How-To’ document,  which explains the process of upgrading the Samsung Galaxy Portal to Android 2.1 using Samsung PC Studio  in easy steps.

Seriously though. It is a big disappointment that ages after launch, my poor little Android phone – Samsung Galaxy Portal is still stuck with Android 1.5- Cupcake. I mean, it’s ok, but it is just that. It certainly isn’t the fancy Eclair flaunting Droids and Nexus. Hell, it is not even 1.6. Add to that, Google has already launched Android 2.2 – Fro-yo. And we still have no signs of T-Mobile UK showing any indications of when my phone is getting an OS upgrade.

Samsung Galaxy Portal

According to this article from ElectricPig, T-Mobile initially had plans of upgrading the OS for its lineup of Android phones by May. And it is already June, and we have no signs of it at all. The initial plans read:-

The HTC Hero / T-Mobile G2 was supposed to get the Android roll out by end of April to beginning of May, which is yet to happen. The T-mobile pulse mini gets the Android 2.1 flavour on April 23 expectedly, and Samsung Galaxy Portal in late May.

Now since, Hero is still yet to see the Eclair roll-out, are we expecting Galaxy Portal’s rollout to be postponed till eternity as well? Also, 3′s launched Galaxy Portal as well in the UK, and from what I’ve heard, all of them run Android 2.1 out of the box.

And seriously, why not let us jump to Froyo straightaway. By the time we are trying to catch up with 2.1, feels like we are obsolete all over again. Thanks T-Mobile, much love.

[ P.S. I tweeted T-Mobile UK asking about the Eclair rollout, no replies yet, and I am sure they will not be replying either].

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Top 100 Tools for Learning : 2009 Edition

by Sujoy on January 17, 2010

C4LPT did a compilation of the Top 100 tools for learning for the year 2009 on the basis of Top 10 Tool contributions from 278 learning professionals worldwide.

The list of the Professionals can be found here [ Top 10 Tools lists ]

The following embedded presentation enlists all the awesome tools that made it to the Top 100 in descending order.

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009

So according to the list, Twitter comes at the top, followed by popular sites such as Delicious, YouTube, Google Reader, Google Docs, WordPress, Google Search etc making it to the Top 10. Quite surprisingly, Open Source sound editor – Aduacity is ahead of resources such as Wikipedia, Blogger, Skype and Flickr.

What do you think about this list? Shout it out in the comments.

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So how much does the iPhone really cost on Vodafone UK?

by Sujoy on December 21, 2009

In an earlier post [ Compare the UK iPhone price war: O2 vs Orange vs Tesco] we compared the actual price of an iPhone in the UK on the three carriers. Today, Vodafone released its tariffs for the iPhone. The question remains that whether the fourth addition to the iPhone carrier range really adds value for the customer or is it just yet another player which doesn’t add any significant change.

The data download limit for Vodafone remains capped at 1GB per month. Compared to the Orange data plan which allows 750MB download per month, it is not much of an improvement. But what about everything else? Let’s find it out.

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Bring Everything To Your Homepage: 44tips.com Review

by Sujoy on November 29, 2009

So we do have our own daily visited websites. I can’t live without my daily dose of Techcrunch and Lifehacker. And then, there are the usual ones – Facebook, Twitter, GMail etc. Now, although browsers like Chrome, Opera and Firefox with addons do allow users to have a start up Fast-Dial page which has links to those highly visited links, there is still a big link missing in the amount of stuff we want. Of course, that void has been filled to some extent by the father of all start-up pages – iGoogle. iGoogle is highly customisable, with gadgets, widgets and feeds. You can add a lot of stuff to keep your iGoolge engaging, but again, adding too much stuff makes it cluttered and takes ages to load. And not to forget, you have Themes on iGoogle.

Enter a new alternative to iGoogle – 44tips.com, a website run by some awesome developers at picturesque Amsterdam [ I am imagining that they have an awesome view in their office :) ] The first thing you notice about the UI [user interface] on 44tips is that the site design is simplistic, clutter-free and quite minimal – yet, pretty. The colours are basic dark grey and Orange with a twang. Both remind me of Firefox somehow, which means-it works for me. Let’s explore the usability and the features on this website, and if it is worth making it your homepage. Shall we? [Continue Reading]

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