What's That Flashing Mobile

Flash memory (flash memory) is a type of EEPROM that allows a lot of memory location to be deleted or written in one programming operation. Lay terms, he is a form of memory chip that can be written, unlike the random access memory chips / RAM, this memory can store data without the need for electricity supply. This memory is typically used in memory cards, USB flash drive (USB flash drives), MP3 players, digital cameras, and mobile phones.

Terms Flashing Mobile:

• Firmware: Software / software made by vendors (phone manufacturer) to operate mobile phone features,   which consist of several smaller parts.

• Flashing: The process of inserting the firmware to the phone.

• Patching: The process of modifying some of the firmware by replacing the bytes of data that already exist with the new value, with the aim of manipulating the phone system to get the desired result. For example: new feature, to disable a feature that is considered intrusive, and so forth.

• FS (File System): Part of the firmware that works to save the files settings / configuration for your phone may be used appropriately, which at the same time serves as a place of internal memory / phone memory cell phone.

• MAIN / FLASH: The main part of firmware that serves as an Operating System (OS) that operates the mobile phone functions the phone itself.

• Backup: Make copies of the data-data / important files before any modification to the phone, so if the results are not according to desire / not satisfactory, then the files can be restored earlier already in the backup / on again to restore the phone.

• Restore: Restore the files / data that have been backed-up with the aim to restore the situation as before.

• Upload: Copying files from computer to the FS (File System) mobile phone.

• Download: Copying files from the FS (File System) device to your computer for modified or backed-up.

• Finalize / finalizing: The last stage in the process of full flashing, ie the process of copying the configuration files / settings that most major mobile phones, along with the Java certificate files to the FS (File System) mobile phone, mobile phones to be reused after a full flashing.

• Full flashing: flashing process is performed on the MAIN and FS cell phone.

• Partial flashing: flashing process is performed only on the MAIN only, or only at the FS alone.

• Cross flash: Flashing a type mobile phone using the firmware the other phone types that have the same specifications with a mobile phone them.

Example: Cross flash K750i with W800i firmware.

• Update firmware: The firmware update the phone with newer firmware versions / actual, with the aim of eliminating bugs-bugs in previous firmware versions.

• Bugs: Problems that are not supposed to happen, which is due to the phone firmware error. So that all mobile phones with the same type that uses the same firmware version, will experience the same problem. 

For example: the battery can not charge to 100% full.

• Customize / Customizing: modding done on the FS (File System) mobile phone with the aim customize the phone display. Usually done to replace the menu icons display a standard cell phone with a new look more attractive.

Source: acphoenix.wordpress.com and wikipedia

What is Android - a GPhone?

The weeks and months before Google released the Android SDK there
had been a lot of rumors about a so called GPhone. It was said to be a
mobile device manufactured by Google providing free communication by
showing context-sensitive advertisements to the user on the device itself.

Picture 1 Render of a potential GPhone

But on November 5th 2007 Andy Rubin2 announced:

            "[The] Android [Platform] - is more significant and ambitious than a single phone." 

Google within the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) delivers a complete set of software for mobile devices: an operating system, middleware and key mobile applications. What was released a week later was not a final product, but a "First Look SDK" what many did not realize. Major news sites grabbed the discomforts of some developers who said that Android is full of bugs and heavily lacks of documentation. But the majority says that Android is not buggier than any other software at this stage.

Android from above

Let's take a look at what the OHA emphasizes on its Android Platform:

Openness

    "Android was built from the ground-up to enable developers to create 

     compelling mobile applications that   take full advantage of all a 

     handset has to offer. It is built to be truly open. For example, an 

     application could call upon any of the phone's core functionality such 

     as making calls, sending text messages, or using the camera, allowing 

     developers to create richer and more cohesive experiences for users." 

This is true, as a developer you can do everything, from sending short
messages with just 2 lines of code, up to replacing even the HOME-
Screen of your device. One could easily create a fully customized
operating system within weeks, providing no more of Google's default
application to the user.

    "Android is built on the open Linux Kernel. Furthermore, it utilizes a 
     custom virtual machine that has been designed to optimize memory 
     and hardware resources in a mobile environment. Android will 
     be open source; it can be liberally extended to incorporate new cutting
     edge technologies as they emerge. The platform will continue to 
     evolve as the developer community works together to build innovative
     mobile applications."

Here Google is talking of the so called Dalvik virtual machine (DalvikVM),
which is a register based virtual machine, designed and written by Dan
Bornstein and some other Google engineers, to be an important part of
the Android platform. In the words "register based" we find the first
difference to normal Java virtual machines (JVM) which are stack based.
See the "Dalvik.equals(Java) == false"-chapter for more details on that
issue.

BlackBerry Featured Products

The Items become the mainstay and makes the BlackBerry popular in the market is e-mail rush (push e-mail). This product received as an e-mail hurried because all new e-mail, contact lists, and information on the schedule (calendar) "pushed" into the BlackBerry automatically.

As already mentioned above about the advantages of the BlackBerry, the push e-mail. With push e-mail all e-mail can be forwarded directly to the phone. E-mail also undergone a process of compression and scan on a BlackBerry server, so safe from viruses. Attachment file is a Microsoft Office and PDF documents can be opened easily. An e-mail size 1 MB, if received via push e-mail may be 10 kb with a fixed content. (RBA4762)

Users do not need Internet access the first and opened one by one incoming e-mail, or check e-mail new. This is possible because the user will be connected continuously with the virtual world via mobile phone networks are available. Storage devices also enable users to access data up to when outside wireless coverage services. Once the user connects again, the BlackBerry Enterprise Server will deliver the latest data entry.

Another plus is the ability of BlackBerry e-mail can accommodate up to tens of thousands without any risk of hang, as long as there is still memory left.

BlackBerry also be used for chatting. Similar to Yahoo Messenger, but done through the BlackBerry network by entering the identification number.

All BlackBerry service is known to be very secure e-mail, chat, and browsing. To browse the Internet, the data from the website has been compressed so much faster to open. Bold BlackBerry 9700c

Other facilities are a mainstay of BlackBerry is instant messaging. Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk and Skype have now become partners with the BlackBerry. Current technology is allowing us to "chat" (chat) on the Internet through mobile phones and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). But that is different on the BlackBerry is a complete installation process that it can be done through the wireless network.

Looking at the phenomenon of the popular BlackBerry community because of the benefits of its communications facilities, make a lot of IT companies grow and compete to create the most advanced application for BlackBerry users. One of them is the application Intar.

Another advantage is also present through compression technology that causes the costs of access become cheaper and notification of answer messages through the vibrating alert on the BlackBerry.

Increasingly widespread use of BlackBerry with the presence of connection facilities BlackBerry (BlackBerry Connect). With BlackBerry Connect, users no longer have to use the BlackBerry handheld devices to take advantage of the BlackBerry Internet Solution. Users only need to install BlackBerry Connect on any brand owned smartphone, we can use the BlackBerry Internet Solution.