Tech Hotfix

These days the mobile phone market is heavily loaded with android phones. The Symbian and Java phones are falling way behind. In fact iPhone is finding it difficult to beat the Samsung Galaxy S-II android phone. So if anyone decides to buy an Android phone, then what are the 5 things you need to know?

1. Sync more than one Google accounts:

Before android, we only could sync one user account to our phone. But this has changes with introduction of android operating system. Using your android phone, you can log multiple accounts of Google in it. Follow these steps to do it:

• Go to Settings > Accounts and Sync > Add account.
• Choose the Account type
• Select Google.
• Enter the details required

As a predefined Calendar event is what the setting the second account will Sync into.

2. Auto correct control:

To build your own words has become easy and fun. The feature of this very common software is enhanced by Android. You can add words to the dictionary as you type. Follow the steps below to do so:

• On typing the new word, tap it on the left side.
• The Pop message is displayed “Tap again to save”
• Tap again and the word gets included in the dictionary.

So now if there is a word which was not present in Dictionary but you would use it very often, can now be easily added to the dictionary and used.

3. Virtual camera for facial feature detection:

Now using Android’s latest flavor Ice Cream Sandwich you can have a very good experience while video conferencing. The software will on its own detect and focus the face of the person speaking on the other end even while moving. Seems to make video conference meetings interesting.

4. Android applications and Customization:

This is a very fond highlight of Android phones. Every android phone manufacturer has their own personalized home screens. And yet you are allowed to personalize it as per your needs. Constant updates on weather, Twitter Facebook, Live widgets, all can be personalized on the home screen. To make it easy to dial to certain frequent contacts, you can add them on your home screen. This allows calling on the tap. This feature really differentiates the iPhone from Android phones. Where on iPhone the personalization is limited by Apple, it has no boundaries in android phones.

Apart from this, you get a huge number of apps for free for your android phones. Think of any app and you will almost find it in the Android store, and more often than not this will be for free.

5. Google integration:

As the basic creation of android O.S was in integration with Google it has endless Google advantages. The search is defaulted to Google Search. Locating your friends is easy using the Google Latitude integration. Google Voice - Internet based voice communication software. This unique feature allows you to communicate over the internet line to other people. This has become a major application for the Android phones. Moreover, every Google’s software is compatible with android phones.