Archive for the ‘Cell Phone Technology’ Category
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
 With the influx of Android and other smartphones out there, teens are deciding that the normal phone is no longer “cool” or robust as they have a need for Internet to participate in social networks, play games, even manage their lives. Mobile Marketing Watch reports that younger phone users are eager to buy iPhones, Androids or other smartphones in the next six months.
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Monday, April 11th, 2011
Consider the amount of services that are part of the average smartphone. Then, consider the amount of things needed to get separately that are in it: Cell phone, Mobile e-mail reader, Music player, Point-and-shoot camera, Camcorder, GPS unit, Portable DVD player, Voice recorder, Watch, and Calculator. Compiling the price total of all of these surely outweighs the price total of owning a smartphone and a carrier plan associated with it. This article also clarifies our thoughts. But most of all, it pays to buy a smartphone because one will not need to carry any of the items named above. They are already included in the phone. 
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Monday, April 11th, 2011
 When a typical user looks into buying a smartphone, major factors influencing the purchase are price, connection speed, carrier reputation, and the hardware. But what about the availability of the operating system (OS) updates? The Android operating system releases with operating system upgrades about every 3 or 4 months. Usually, devices that are released just prior to a new OS release can be upgraded to the new version if the carrier is planning for this–it is crucial to help buyers know they are getting a phone that will stay current after they buy it. Some carriers don’t perform this upgrade in a timely fashion, even after the OS has been released for a while. This leaves the user with the original OS on the phone, and as time goes by that same phone is prematurely obsolete as higher OS phones come out. We at ClearSync suggest checking for availability for upgrades as this may very well be the key to continue using applications on the phone and have a faster device in general. Android Power by JR Raphael finds that HTC, Motorola and Samsung top the list for timely upgrades to the current operating system on their phone releases in 2010.
http://blogs.computerworld.com/17649/android_upgrades
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Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
These days the ability to take your data mobile and manage it instantly is increasingly required. When it comes to calendar events and contact information, these two are perhaps most important to have available on the go. ClearSync enables you to create multiple calendars and contact lists (personal, work, kids, etc.) and keep them synchronized across multiple platforms and devices including any Android phone.
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Thursday, October 7th, 2010
Developers are Favoring the Android Platform
Developers want to develop mobile applications on platforms that ensure them the fastest development path and opportunity to showcase/sell the application to as many sources as possible. Android provides this with the ever expanding number of devices, intuitive OS, and many ways in which developers could sell paid apps through their Market. ClearSync is happy to be aboard this train.
Have you made the switch yet? When do you plan to get your next (or first) smartphone? What brand will it be? Let us know in the comments…
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Thursday, October 7th, 2010
Android Apps and Data Collection
Recently there’s been some discussion about the applications in the Android Market using customer data in ways that are not as appropriate. Those include data mining and GPS tracking. Generally, customers easily consent with whatever application states in terms of use and privacy. But more often than not, somewhere in the long lines of text there is a statement that the app makers can do whatever they please with customer’s information. ClearSync for Android looks to provide simple and accurate terms of use, so that the user knows exactly what they signed up for and how their privacy is guarded.
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
 When you need to share your calendar with a colleague without a ClearSync account, consider the web widget. The web widget can be configured as a read-only sharing tool that you can give anyone access to. Your spouse or colleague simply follows the link to a web address on his or her web browser, and your schedule or multiple calendars are available for viewing. This works well for coaches and players, schools, groups, or couples who simply want to be able to see what each other is up to. There are two ways to set this up.
- If you would like to begin using a web widget, log in to your ClearSync account and navigate to Resource Views. From there you can choose which calendars to publish, create a URL or HTML code, and send people to the URL (through a link on your site or through an email) or embed the widget directly into your web page.
- You can share with your own Nokia or other phone using Flash Lite by downloading a free Flash Widget and installing it and logging your desired phone device into your account.
Clean and Simple–the choice is yours. Either way, you get up and running quickly sharing your calendar/s with your circle of friends and colleagues.
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
 Most small businesses today are eager to benefit from the growth of smartphone availability and the lower price barriers to achieving potential productivity increases that come with this technology. Large corporate enterprises, with corporate budgets to match, can mandate a single employees mobile solution like BlackBerry and pay for the Outlook Exchange services that make those systems very productive. But small businesses rarely have the budget needed to institute the server/data packages of Exchange. Yet without some standardization, the productivity and connectivity advantages that corporate smartphones bring remain elusive, as maintaining connectivity (e-mail, file sharing, calendars and contacts) between various platforms can easily overwhelm a small business IT resources. The author of this article points to a new trend as small businesses are switching to a one-mobile solution model so that they can operate more efficiently. ClearSync, a cost-effective data server solution, syncs calendar and contacts data across multiple devices and ensures that connectivity maintenance costs stay affordable.
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
 A couple of recent articles highlight some of the benefits of switching from iPhone to Android. The iPhone is Ruining My Life describes iPhone’s dropped call problem. The iPhone inspires strong emotions, pleasure at its elegance and myriad uses, frustration that it isn’t actually a very good, you know, phone. (Remember when we used to buy phones for making phone calls?) A second article, Some Good Signs for Android, makes a distinction between the devices and the platforms. Apple has a better device, it has been in development longer with a larger app pool. But Android has an open source platform, and more developers are developing for the Android OS.
Tags: Android, iPhone
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