Indosat Android Expo

Sebagai provider pertama di Indonesia yang memperkenalkan teknologi bergerak Android, Indosat secara serentak di tujuh kota mengadakan Indosat Android Expo dari tanggal 3 – 7 Maret 2010. Semarang sebagai salah satu kota untuk expo ini mengambil lokasi di lantai dasar DP Mall Jl.Pemuda Semarang.

Pembukaan dilakukan pada tanggal 3 Maret 2010 di stand dan dilanjutkan dengan media gathering untuk Indosat Android Expo 2010 ini. Ada enam ATPM handset yang bekerja sama dengan Indosat untuk memperkenalkan tekhnologi Android ke masyarakat Indonesia. HTC – Hero, Motorola – Milestone, Samsung – Galaxy, Huawei – U8220, LG – GW620, dan Sony Ericsson – XPERIA X10. Masing-masing ATPM juga telah membuka kesempatan pre-order di www.indosat.com/android dari tanggal 23 – 28 Februari 2010 dengan harga special. Khusus di stand Semarang, beberapa ATPM juga menawarkan paket pembelian ditempat dengan cicilan 0% hingga 12 bulan dengan kartu kredit tertentu.

Indosat sendiri juga telah menyediakan paket-paket Internet Broadband yang menunjang kinerja handset dengan sistem Android. Matrix Broadband, Mentari dan IM3 tersedia pada expo tersebut dengan harga paket khusus. Matrix Broadband dengan kecepatan up to 7,2Mbps bisa didapatkan dengan Rp.90.000,-/bulan untuk 500MB pertama dan Rp.0,5,- untk per kb selanjutnya. Paket unlimited Matrix Broadband dibundling dengan harga Rp.175.000,- per bulan. Sedangkan untuk IM3 dan Mentari cukup reload pulsa dan mendaftar ke *777*1*5# dengan pilihan quota dan unlimited [paket IM2 inside].

Terbukti antusiasme warga Semarang akan Android cukup besar. Selama expo tercatat 36 unit handset secara cash terjual dan 46 unit masih indent. Sebanyak 65 aplikasi Matrix Broadband juga telah terdaftar dan aktif.

INFO : www.indosat.com/android

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Google Gains, Apple Stays Steady, And Palm Loses In Smartphone Share

No wonder Apple is suing HTC for patent infringement over its Android phones. In the three months between October and January, Android’s overall share of smartphone subscribers in the U.S. rose 4.3 points to 7.1 percent, according to mobile market share data released by comScore.  Android showed the biggest single gain of any of the top five smartphone platforms.  Apple’s share was virtually flat at 25.2 percent (up 0.3 percent), while RIM’s Blackberries saw a 1.7 percent gain to 43 percent.

Overall, 42.7 million people in the U.S. owned a  smartphone during the period, up 18 percent. So even though Apple’s relative share didn’t go anywhere, it still grew with the market.  But watching RIM and Android phones take share cannot be pleasant for the folks at Cupertino.  The iPhone still rules the mobile Web, but again here Android is catching up fast.  Time to release a new iPhone.

Meanwhile, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile and Palm saw drops in their shares.  Windows Mobile was down 4 percent and Palm was down 2.1 percent.

Top Smartphone Platforms

3 Month Avg. Ending Jan. 2010 vs. 3 Month Avg. Ending Oct. 2009

Total U.S. Age 13+

Source: comScore MobiLens

Share (%) of Smartphone Subscribers Oct-09 Jan-10 Point Change Total Smartphone Subscribers 100.0% 100.0% N/A RIM 41.3% 43.0% 1.7 Apple 24.8% 25.1% 0.3 Microsoft 19.7% 15.7% -4.0 Google 2.8% 7.1% 4.3 Palm 7.8% 5.7% -2.1

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Google TV search

Ever wondered if you can search some of your favorite TV shows or channels on your TV like how you search YouTube videos in the internet. Well, this will soon be a reality as Google is now testing TV Search with Dish Network Corp that would allow subscribers to search for and create their own lineups of shows and online content by typing on a keyboard instead of using a remote control. The new search service would run on Internet connected set top boxes loaded with Google software. Google, the search engine giant is now targeting search advertising to the TV audience as well. The set-top box would run on Google’s Android operating system, providing additional markets for the platform beyond smartphones and mobile devices. Check out this video:

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Forget the iPad -- Who's Gaming on Android?

Gaming on a larger, higher resolution display already has some salivating over the iPad’s potential. Kotaku today shares the “first ever gloriously big, gloriously detailed” pics of game specifically headed for Apple’s newest creation, and they do indeed look good. I tend to keep my gaming life separate from everything else, so I rely on an Xbox 360 (s msft) — I play a mean Hofner bass in Beatles: RockBand, for example. But I dabbled with a few iPhone games when I had the device. Now that I’m solely using a Google Nexus One (s goog), I haven’t even looked into any gaming — I had it in my head that all the good games were in Apple’s ecosystem and that Android couldn’t possibly have much to offer. After installing the free trial of HomeRun Battle 3D this past weekend, I realize that I’ve been walking past a mobile gaming opportunity.

The first thing I noticed about this game is how well the graphics look on the high-res Nexus One display. It certainly doesn’t hurt that this handset offers enough horsepower to make the game run smoothly. Although simple in style, I’d equate the look to be at least as good as that of a Nintendo DS title, if not better. Have a look at this video to get a feel for the gameplay and the visuals on a Motorola Droid — I balked at doing my own vid because I’m not that good just yet.

This same title is available for iPhone (s aapl) and it was wise of the developer to offer cross-platfrom, multi-player support. An iPhone gamer can play locally against an Android slugger, for example. I haven’t done that just yet, but I did play seven rounds with someone in South Korea. Why so many? I lost the first six rounds — ’nuff said.

I have little doubt that games on the 1024 x 768 iPad screen will shine, and I’m sure to check them out when the device hits stores. But I incorrectly assumed that Android didn’t have anything to offer in the way of gaming entertainment. Back in January, this video of 50 different Android games didn’t impress me that much. Between my HomeRun Derby 3D experience and videos of other new games like ExZeus and others, I’m coming to appreciate what game shops can do with Android. No, one game doesn’t make it a winning platform by any means, but there’s far more potential here than I expected to find. I’m sure we have some mobile gamers out there, so I have to ask — what other games should I be looking at on my Nexus One? I’ll let you compile a list while I head virtually to South Korea for an eighth match.

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Related research on GigaOM Pro (sub req’d):

Could Games Redeem Windows Mobile & Palm’s webOS

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Desktops Gone With The Cloud - Think Smartphone

by Elias Shams

On my way back to DC from NYC  yesterday, I read an interesting article about one of Google’s vice-president, John Herlihy and his view of desktops vs smartphones.  He is predicting the desktops will be irrelevant in three years time and the Smartphones will take over. Well, given they are not in PC business, but aggressive plan to push their Android Operating System and Nexus One, no surprise there for his prediction.  Frankly, this was expected. In fact, I covered such prediction a few times on my blog. I guess we should thank Apple, Google, and RIM for the launch of their iPhone, Android, Nexus One, BlackBerry, and now iPad which has significantly contributed the path to such direction.

The rise of Cloud Computing in conjunction with widget-style applications developed for the mobile phone platform have contributed to faster adaptation of doing many tasks via our smartphones.  I think the testosterone war between Apple and Adobe over HTML5 vs Adobe’s Flash that began since the launch of iPad last month will be a factor in such transformation.!–more Read more…–>

Anyway, what does all this mean to the corporate market? How would they know which smartphones to pick for their employees? Once such transformation kicks in, how about blocking certain sites on smartphones that you can do with the desktops in corporate networks today? How would they stop the employees from watching porn during working hours? If you are a man reading this, you know what I am talking about. On average, how much do we spend on porn? 101% of our time!<

Such phenomena will certainly be a big headache for the CIOs and CTOs of the companies responsible for thousands of the corporate employees. Not to mention the installed base of applications, the data, platform transparency, the firewalls,  intrusion detection systems (IDS) at VPN endpoints, and file structure coming with transformation which I will address- in a different post.

If you are an enterprise IT manager trying to make sense of all this, and trying to figure out which smartphones to select for the employees who need one, here are a few tips for you to consider.

Before getting into specific device choices, you need to define the criteria and the needs:

First, the frequency that employees will need to carry or access phones for voice calls, text messaging, and in some cases, email, calendar, phone book, and other applications.

Second, the type of information needed to access? Are they the information stored on the open Internet or behind the company firewall, or whether the employees need to create work while in the field, and if so, what type of work. Any needs to access data collection, PowerPoint presentations, or long memos or other documents?

Third, whether the employee and the employer understand the basics about wireless and Internet access, as Internet is not a mission-critical network, and Wireless connectivity is not always available. Our wireless devices can best be described as being always on and ‘most of the time connected’. There is no guarantee of connectivity, nor is there a guarantee that you will always be able to access the information you want and need when on the road if you are connected. Data that resides only in the cloud or behind your corporate firewall is not always accessible.

Once the criteria are defined, you can then evaluate different types of wireless devices in the hands of the right employee. To make such determination, you really need to evaluate the right Smartphone OS (operating systems). Questions like:

a) Are they business friendly?

b) Which ones provide easy set-up and access to corporate email and information, support data encryption?

c) Which ones can be remotely managed by IT departments?

Based on my own personal experiences and coverage of BlackBerry, Android, iPhone, and reviews on other type of smartphones, here is how I would rank them for business use:

1. RIM (BlackBerry OS)

2. Microsoft (Windows Mobile OS)

3. Nokia (Symbian OS)

4. Apple (iPhone OS)

5. Sprint (Palm OS)

6. Google (Android OS)

Although, I have an Android myself, it is certainly not made for the enterprise. Even Google says so. At least for now. Android does not support most of the business functions listed above. They say they will offer that in the near future. So, for now, they are at the bottom of the list. You need to follow their progress very closely.

While, Android, Droid, iPhone, and Nexus One are the most popular smartphones for the consumers, they are not for corporate use yet. They can’t handle the corporate email, calendar, and address book functions quite well. All of the other operating systems provide solutions that will work in the corporate environment, some with more capabilities than others.

BlackBerry is primarily for the enterprise market for its robustness – particularly its awesome synchronization with the corporate applications. The downside to the BlackBerry platform is its weakness in browsing the Internet. The screen size and the slow page download times make- the BlackBerry not nearly as robust as the iPhone or Android.

As for Windows Mobile Phones, I never had one. My evaluation is based on reading reviews and feedback from former colleagues who had one. Microsoft certainly lost some ground in the mobility space in recent years. They do a good job of integrating desktop and server-based Microsoft applications with those on the handheld. It will continue to be a player in this space and perhaps gain more market share when it releases Windows Phone 7.

As for Nokia Symbian OS, I would say they do most of the functions as Windows Mobile Phones and BlackBerry, but not quite all the goodies offered by other two.

As for the iPhone, I would say their third version is decent for the enterprise market. The first version of the iPhone was pretty much a consumer oriented product and not at all business friendly. However, with the 3GS model, it is a solid choice for business customers, partly because of improvements to interface with Microsoft Outlook and partly, because of it is ease in writing company-specific applications-. Not to mention the iPhone’s ability to multitask. You can send and receive messages while on a voice call, which works very smoothly on the iPhone today and will become commonplace for all smartphones in the near future. [As far as I know all the smartphones can do that – I can certainly do that on my Nokia]

Here are a few interesting related surveys I found conducted by ZDNet UK late last year. Looking at the statistics, it appears that the smartphones are breaking out of the ‘only-for-the-suits’ niche they occupied. That said, many companies are still conservative when it comes to anything that smacks of consumer frippery, with the usability of the iPhone almost counting against it in some circles, where seriousness goes hand in hand with complexity and a poorly thought-out user-interface.

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iPhone vs Android OS

So…I know this topic has been written about on almost every tech and gadget site on the web. Well I’ve been thinking a lot on how I can familiarize you the reader, with myself. So I’ve come up with some topics which will hopefully give you an insight into my likes and dislikes in the tech and gadget world. I hope it will in turn, bring back some like minded or critical readers to my blog, and spark up some great conversation.

To start off, I have both the iPhone3GS and a Motorola Droid phone. While I’ve only had my droid now for 2-3 months, I’ve had an iPhone for over 2 years. I do like both phones and will cover what I see as strengths and weaknesses of each. One topic I will not cover is the At&t vs Verizon debate. I know that both companies have their own opinions but where I live I am blessed to have both carriers equally strong and relatively no difference as far as I can tell. My argument for which OS is the better all gravitates one argument.

iPhone… I still remember the night I purchased my first iPhone. It was a gadget lovers dream. I looked at every app which is pre-installed with awe and wonder. Sending a text, email, entering a calendar event or even dialing a phone number was a new and life altering action. The one thing which really overwhelmed me was the App Store. I couldn’t believe how many different apps were available. I think the first one I downloaded was the zippo app. I starred at it for hours. Jump forward to today the iPhone has grown into a monster. The one strength that puts it over the top is also it’s greatest problem….the app store. While it has way more apps than the android market, its lack of open development will always hinder it. With the controversy surrounding the apple app approval process, I feel the iPhone will have a black mark on its record. Don’t get me wrong, I couldn’t exist without my iPhone. I just feel it could be 2x as big if it did allow open development.

Android… When I got my Droid I was very impressed with it. Not like my iPhone experience, but I still could appreciate it. I waited for the Droid to be released because I was not at all impressed with the other Android OS phones. The Droid was the first phone with the power I need behind my mobile device. The greatest advantage of the Android market is it does allow open development and you can tell by the more popular apps. The first ones I bought were the Nintendo and SNES emulators, and while I still play the old games often, I had a emulator on my Treo before I got my iPhone. Which brings me to my biggest problem with the Android OS, its just too late. I feel if google had waited any longer than what they did to get in on the mobile app market, they would have fell flat on their face. Luckily for them, they do allow and promote an open market. Which will always give them a place in the mobile phone market.

To sum up what I feel is the biggest factor when deciding which OS is the better and ultimately wins the argument is the App Store and App Market. I give the advantage to the iPhone and crown them the victor. Though I will say, even though google does lack in comparison, the one advantage to it’s market is what will ultimately keep Android in a close 2ND. And who knows…with time and great planning they could possibly over take Apple.

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Let me introduce myself.

My name is JMSN for Android. I was born to serve MSN Messenger to Android users. Look around my features.

Invisible Login

You can sign in your password with invisible status.

Display Picture

You can set your display picture (aka. avatar) in JMSN. Select ‘Change Picture’ in menu or just Touch your default profile image (upper left corner), and you can select your favorite photo in the media gallery. Then, JMSN will automatically resize your photo to fit your network volume. and send that to your all contacts.

Of course, you can show your contacts’ display pictures. If you connected to MSN network via WIFI, all pictures will be automatically downloaded and displayed on the buddy list screen. and will update when contacts change their photo.

Be careful. If you are in 2G or 3G network, you may not want to download display picture, and don’t want to send your display picture to your friends. In Settings, Pictures on 2G, 3G option will help you to prevent swallow your traffics.  This option value is off in default.

Swipe among chats

When you chat with 2 or more friends, it is very boring job to change windows. Touch a menu..and touch a friend you want to chat.. No more! just swipe chat window. toward left, and right. It is very easy than Alt+Tab

Block and Super-Block

Of course, you can block a contact in context menu. but think about you want to block all of your coworkers. and the number of coworkers is 30. Block them all with 30 operations? ridiculous. In JMSN, just select a group you want to block, and choose Block all in this group. that’s all!

More…

I will have more features such as Viewing Chat histories, Viewing Multiple Buddy List views, Export Chat Logs to SD card or your Google Docs, Enhanced Chat Windows..  etc.

I have to consider user experience and performance so feature updates won’t be deliver. be patience!

Any suggestion? Let me know what you think.

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