Mobile Fizz

Ever wanted to take a screen shot? Well with the Samsung Galaxy Tab you don't have to get it rooted there is a much easier way. Hold down the back button then press the power button and hey presto you have just taken a screen shot enjoy Safe out

This is a quick demo on how to get your phone working when it comes to voice actions, video below.

Personal I loved my journey as a Samsung Mob!ler from reviewing great kit to receiving it in the post. As a self confessed geek I found it great being able to use that love to talk to people all over the world about high tech gadgets. My blog got hits from USA, Russia, Japan, the Middle East and all over Europe which is a great thing to see, and I thank you all for reading I will of course continue to blog about stuff and tech in general. My favourite part of the program was going to the Mob!ler meeting in London and being able to share that passion of tech with other people who also have the same passion. Plus being able to meet the people behind the emails was great too (hi again :-)). As for my favourite mission I would say the first review I did for the Galaxy Tab because it was a device I had been looking at for a while. I even watched the unveiling live online from IFA 2010 earlier in the year. This also answers the question of how I am getting on with my Galaxy Tab because ...

Study Manager As a student I find that something that can help me organise my time would be awesome. That is why I have come up with the concept for a Study Manager app. Which is an app for students where you input the due date of your essays and how many words it has to be. The app then works out how many words you have to write per day to hit the day before your essay is due. At the end of everyday it will ask how many words you have written so far and can give you an estimate of when you will finish if you continue at the current rate. The app could also have a to do list connected to each individual essay allowing you to not forget to include certain references when your laptop isn’t to hand. The app would also include a section where you can use the detection of google shopper to scan the front of books and find out there cost online. This would be used while the student is in the library and wants to buy a certain book that say they cant take away from the library (or a bo...

So you have a Galaxy Tab or your thinking of getting one, and you wanna know "just how do games feel on it?" Well I can safely say that they look great I looked at a couple of Gameloft games and of course Rovio's very successful Angry Birds. While Angry Birds looked great scaled up on the 7 inch screen the Gameloft games including NOVA, Dungeon Master and Lets Golf were made in such high detail that they fitted perfectly on the screen. Now Lets Golf is the perfect example of a game where you can get lost and end up playing for ages, as I found out this week. The game cost $4.99 and is totally worth it because you will get a good couple of weeks of fun out of it. Plus you can always play against others that have the game over wifi, which I find adds a hell of a lot more game time to a game as every game against someone else is different. You don't have to like golf to enjoy playing this game, this is credit to its arcade fee...

Well so far the Galaxy Tab is a great little device, fun easy to use with a great screen. Video below:

Froyo has officially been released by Samsung in the UK so for anyone with an unlocked phone you might be able to upgrade now!! If not then you may have to wait for your carrier to release it, but as of today they now have the updated firmware. :-)

As you may know a couple of weeks ago I had some lovely one on one time with the gorgeous Galaxy Tab. Now i know that Samsung are saying its not a direct competiter to the iPad but lets be honest any tablet that comes out between now and forever will be put head to head with the iPad. So is it a viable competiter to the sucessful iPad? First touch When you first go hands on with the Galaxy Tab you will find that it is quite light, not so light that it feels cheap but more a comparison to the iPad (if you have ever held one). This weight (which i will call close to perfect) means that you can easily hold it in one hand without getting too strained, meaning it can easily be used as an e-reader. Screen This brings me nicely to its screen which is a 7" Super TFT screen with a resolution of 1024 x 600. This means that when it comes to pixel density the Galaxy Tab beats the iPad, so pictures are crisp and bright. The capacitive touch screen is responsive and very pleasing to ...

Asphalt 5 FREE in the the Samsung app store There aren't that many games more pleasing to the eye than Asphalt 5. And the great thing is that with a Samsung Galaxy S its free in the Samsung App store and $4.99 on reugular high end Android phones, you can read up on it at AppBrain . For one this game will keep you entertained for ages!! i have had it on my phone for a good 2 weeks and so far i am about halfway through it and i play it a fair bit. Infact i near missed my stop on the London Underground the other day. So onto the review Gamplay To start of with you have one car a Mini Cooper S and it goes all the way up to a Ferrari FXX, there are over 30 cars to unlock in this game. All done with money you earn through winning races, which you can also use for upgrading your car. When it comes to entertainment this game really does shine through, mainly because it is one hell of a good arcade racer, if you like games like Forza then you might want to try something else. As this game ...

So you want to root your phone? Or your not sure what it is, well here is a quick and simple rundown on why and how you would want to do that. First off as per usual you do this at your own risk i am not responsible for your bricked phone. Now what is rooting? Well it is basically giving yourself more control over your android phone. For example i am not the most extreme rooting person in the sense that i haven't put a custom ROM(Custom Operating System) on my phone. So for me i have two main apps that need Root access those are SetCPU($1.99) and drocap2(free). SetCPU does what it says on the tin, it lets you reduce the CPU of your processor. For me when i want to save battery power i set mine to 800MHz as that is plenty to keep things moving, also keep it on conservative setting for maximum stability :-) plus i would suggest not having a profile for when the screen is off as i have found that its a bit unstable with that on. Drocap2 is a handy app for taking screen shots of what...

Forgot to mention here are some photos of my 2 weeks in NYC taken with the Samsung Galaxy S And i have to say the photos on the Galaxy S are pretty damn good. Only problem i found is in the dark because it doesn't have a flash so don't expect miracles in low light conditions. The 5 mega pixels the camera provides is more than enough for the times when you don't have your main camera to hand. click here for the whole album

great illusion done with the magnetic tape of a cassette pretty darn cool

Well mission 2 for Samsung is complete. I decided to video a squirrel in Central Park NYC in High Definition using my Samsung Galaxy S phone. This really does show the great quality you get from the galaxy s So i suggest heading to youtube and watching it in HD. If your too lazy here is the video

I was very lucky this last week to be in NYC for University, and decided to go down to Samsung Experience to check out some of their gear. Samsung Experience is like a showroom for all the newest and coolest stuff that Samsung make. And what I didn't expect was to find the Galaxy Tab sitting there, almost 12 of them! So I took it upon myself to have a little play and see what it is like, and in short its ace. A more in-depth review to follow after I get more time on it when it comes out on November the 1st.

The Android operating system is an open platform developed by Google and is currently in many phones including the Samsung Galaxy S. It is based on the principle of openness and personalisation, meaning that no two people’s phones will look the same. It also means that you will be able to tailor the phone to exactly how you want it, giving you a much greater feeling of control. The Samsung Galaxy S is currently on version 2.1 Éclair, which is the most current stable build, and has Samsung’s Touch Wiz 3.0 interface over the top of standard Android. Touch Wiz 3.0(TW3) allows you to manage your screens with ease. TW3 allows for a fast and fluid experience moving between screens and applications, watching HD videos and listening to music is also made easy too. Android allows users to better utilise the 7 home screens with the use of widgets and shortcuts. Say you are on the bus and just want to quickly check what people are saying on twitter. All you have to do is go to the home screen wit...

  Microsoft Surface computer at JWT New York lots of fun to use

cool place which shows tweets mentions and 4Square sign ins on a massive screen (4food in Manhattan) enjoying NYC plus getting a chance to try out the US versions of the Samsung Galaxy S pretty cool gonna go and try the Epic 4G later at Sprint that i guess is the most different with the sliding keyboard. other than that got my new Samsung Wave through the door so expect reviews and comments soon

i made it to the top 20 i am now officially a Mob!ler which means gadgets a plenty. will now be reviewing Samsung products and writing reviews and who knows what else :-D plus going to NYC on tuesday to visit a bunch of ad agencies as part of uni so all in all cant wait for it all to kick off

if you have an android phone and are running a normal task killer stop and use Watchdog. Mainly because in android ending tasks is not a good thing, where watchdog is different is that it looks at tasks that are using too much cpu power and power. then allows you to end that bad app

just got an email from samsung saying i made it to the short list to become a samsung mob!ler! just need to right a short review on the galaxy s or the wave, to be in the top 20 and therefore get free gadgets to test and review. how awesome is that!! really excited just need to make that final jump to the top 20. btw if you have an android phone i would download "double twist" as soon as possible cause its free at the moment and might be moving to become paid for. its basically itunes but for android, and allows you to sync music, photos and videos to your phone.

This new site lets you keep up with googles amazing speed of development. Check it out http://www.google.com/newproducts/ and something else quite cool if you fancy cutomising your oyster card and putting it into something a bit cooler like a sweat band, have a watch

Looks like the galaxy s is going to get foryo 2.2 at the end of the month but i have heard that that wont be a complete version and that samsung will still be working on it. Spain and India say mid or end of October while the US realise is set for end of October beginning of November. Sorry folks but if you have a galaxy s looks you will have to wait a little longer (and yes i know how it feels as i am waiting with you)

here is a video of me playing cod 4, this was a quick edit enjoy