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  • wakeop 9:47 pm on January 6, 2013 Permalink
    Tags: Android, , YotaPhone   

    YotaPhone: dual screen smartphone with e-ink 

    It’s coming in 2013. It’s dual-screen, with electronic paper display at the back side, and is Android-based. It’s YotaPhone, yout next smartphone.

    “The YotaPhone is a powerful Android-based phone with extended touch areas and HD resolution display. The electronic paper display (EPD) is your personal space for receiving notifications, linking to your social media, reading news as it happens or simply displaying your favorite pictures. The two sides are linked together to open a new world of unlimited user experiences.”

    Read all at yotaphone.com

    Technical Specifications

    • Platform: Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM 8960 Dual Core 1.5 Ghz Krait
    • OS: OS Android, 4.2 Jelly Bean release
    • EPD: Eink, 4.3”
    • LCD: JDI, 4.3” 1280×720 (HD)
    • Memory: 32 or 64 GB Flash, 2 GB RAM
    • Connectivity: LTE (bands 3, 7, 20 MIMO), 2G, 3G, 4G, Wi-Fi (Direct), BT, NFC
    • Controls: Gestures on the extended capacitive areas. Touch strip for EPD control.
    • Keys: Power and Volume Keys
    • Connectors: Magnetic Adaptor for charging and data, Audio 3.5mm
    • SIM slot: SIM slot combined with Power key button
    • Battery: 2100 mAh
    • Camera: 12 MP main camera, HD front camera
    • Weight: 140 grams
    • Dimensions: 67×131(7.3/9.9) mm

    About the company

    Based in Moscow, Russia, Yota Devices is a private company dedicated to mobile communications and connectivity devices. The company developed its first connectivity device in 2009. In 2012, Yota Devices sold more than 1 million modems and routers, representing 6% of the global LTE devices market.

     

     

  • wakeop 7:26 pm on July 31, 2011 Permalink
    Tags: Android   

    Wordoholic addicted! 

    We bought a cheap 7-inch Chinese tablet with Android 2.2. Apparently we do not intend to use it for reading, but curiosity prevailed and after a brief overview of this topic in the mobileread.com forums got Kindle for Android, FBReader, Cool Reader, Aldiko Book Reader, Nomad Reader and… just because it was easy – Wordoholic Reader.

    Frankly, the functionality for reading, Wordoholic Reader was comparable with the other applications tested. It  supports feedbooks.com as online catalog, there are enough options and modes which are typical of most of the applications for e-book reading:
    • Day / night reading mode. In both modes you can change the color scheme, the background color and font color.
    • Set the folder in which the books are. As it turned out – very important setting if you have uploaded several applications to read, each of which has its own opinion about where the library should stand.
    • Changing the size and type of font, line spacing, page orientation, etc.
    • Disable animation when browsing pages (might be fun the first 20 minutes but after that it starts making you tired).
    • Use Volume Rocker to flip pages: this is very convenient in a “Learner” mode because browsing through the touch screen becomes quite complicated when we will select words for translation. Can be switched on and off settings.

    “Learner” and “Reader” mode

    This is the extra feature, which makes my Wordoholic more convenient than others. In reader mode it will mark the words and can be turn pages with the convenient touch screen. In Learner mode, however, while selecting the word Wordoholic is pulling my proposal to translate it, and the installed Wordoholic Dictionary shows its importance according to all set to use dictionaries, which I installed.

    In fact, Cool Reader also correlates with dictionary (Fora Dictionary or ColorDict), but the word choice is done by putting a sub-menu, which is a little embarrassing to me, especially when I often have to translate something from the text.

    Wordoholic Dictionary

    Installing dictionaries is very simple: find your needed dictionaries in .dsl or. xdxf format, copy them to a folder /wordoholic-dictionary/import and choose Import from the menu of Dictionaries.

    Wordoholic Dictionary is standalone application, but Wordoholic Reader integration is done well and is comfortable to use. From the dictionary there is a link to another application – Wordoholic Learner, which I have not tried yet. Compared to the Fora, in Wordoholic Dictionary there is only one significant drawback: the relationship with Google translator is there only if I use the dictionary as a standalone application. When translating the word by marking the reader it can only be used offline dictionaries installed.

     

  • wakeop 9:05 pm on June 12, 2011 Permalink
    Tags: Android,   

    Nook Touch rooted 

    Good news on the new Nook Touch reader – it runs Android 2.1. This means that apart from most other Android applications, the reader will be able to boot an alternative software for reading – such as FBReader, Aldiko or via Kindle for Android.

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  • wakeop 10:14 pm on March 6, 2011 Permalink
    Tags: Android, malware   

    DroidDream Malware Found in Official Android Market 

    Multiple applications available in the Official Android Market were found to contain malware which could compromise a significant amount of personal data. More than 50 applications, released under the developer names “Kingmall2010″, “we20090202″, and  “Myournet”,  have been found to be infected with a new type of Android malware called DroidDream.

    See The Lookout Blog for the full list of apps.

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