HERE Maps beta by Nokia now available for Samsung smartphones

Nokia has released their HERE Maps, a clear competitor to Google Maps, for the Samsung smartphones on the Samsung Galaxy Apps Store today. The HERE Maps app is absolutely free for all the Samsung smartphone users.

The main advantage of HERE Maps over Google Maps is that HERE Maps allows its users to access maps offline, which implies no data connection required once you have downloaded the required maps. While Google Maps allows only some segments of its maps to be downloaded for offline usage, HERE took a step forward.

It is expected that Nokia would expand HERE Maps services

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Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom to receive Android Kitkat 4.4.2 update

Samsung’s first camera smartphone, the Galaxy S4 Zoom is now set to receive the Android Kitkat 4.4.2 update.  The update is currently rolling out in Russia, with more regions to follow in the next few weeks.

The update brings the build number of the phone to C101XXUBNF4 and is said to include improvements like improved speed in performance, redesigned status bar, full screen album art, a camera shortcut on the lock screen and wireles printing support. The camera shortcut on the lockscreen and the wireless printing support is surely to be welcomed by all the people who love capturing photos on their Galaxy S4 Zoom.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab4 7.0 available for purchase in India

Customers of India can now buy the smallest of the Samsung Galaxy Tab4 series. This tablet sporting a 7.0 inch display is now available in Indian markets after the company has launches the much hyped tablet, the Galaxy tab S (8.4 inch and 10.5 inch models).

The company has made Galaxy Tab4 7.0 available in 3G enabled variant keeping in mind the lack of easily accessible Wi-Fi hotspots in India. The tablet is priced at Rs.17,825 and can be chosen from the Black and White colors. The tab can be bought online from the online retailer Flipkart as the official Samsung website has still not listed the Tab4 7.0 for direct purchase.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab4 has a 7 inch LCD (1280×800) display, 1.3 MP front camera, 3 MP rear camera, 8 GB of built-in storage expandable with a microSD slot. It is powered by 1.2 GHz quad-core processor and 1.5 GB RAM and a 4,000 mAh battery and it runs on ANdroid 4.4 Kitkat.

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How to hard reset Samsung Galaxy Grand duos GT-I9082

Hard resetting a phone is generally done by typing a certain code or pressing a specific combination of keys on the phone. Knowing how to perform hard rest of a phone comes handy when the phone suffers a virus attack or if the device freezes and becomes unresponsive. Hard reset can also be done if user wants to sell the phone and he needs to erase all the personal data. But before performing a hard reset on any phone, ensure the following:

• See that the battery of the phone is at least 70% charged.
• Backup all necessary data if possible from the phone because hard reset wipes away all the data from the phone.
  For any phone, backup should be done on an external storage device like a hard disk.

How to hard reset Samsung Galaxy Grand duos GT-I9082:

1. Power off your phone.

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Android 4.4.3 update for Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Play Edition

It was just yesterday that we have seen that the Android 4.4.3 update is being rolled out to the Nexus devices over-the-air (OTA). Now, it’s time for the Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Play Edition(GPE) users also to check for updates on their phone and update it to Android 4.4.3 via OTA update.

It is still not clearly known which Google Play Editions (GPE) are going to receive the update as there are many manufacturers like HTC, Motorola, Samsung and Sony who released the GPE editions.

Meanwhile, there has been an announcement from Motorola that the Android 4.4.3 update will be released OTA to the Moto X, Moto E and Moto G smartphones.

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How to save contacts from Android

This article continues on the methods to save contacts from Android phone. How to backup contacts from Android phone to Gmail is given here: How to backup contacts from Android

Steps on how to backup data from Android phone have been given here: How to backup Android phone
In this post, how to save contacts from Android phone to SIM card and memory card will be discussed.

Save Android phone contacts to SIM card:

A SIM card (Subscriber Identity Module) can usually store up to 250 contact details. The details it stores include only the contact name and their number. It does not store the contact photo, email address etc.
So when transferring contacts to SIM, sometimes the message “some information will be lost” appears. This message implies this same thing that it will save only the contact name and number.Nothing more and nothing less.
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Steps on how to perform a hard reset on Android phone is given here: Hard reset Android
How to save all the Android phone data into the memory card will be given in the later posts.
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Samsung Reset codes…

Most of the Samsung old featured phones which were operating with Samsung stand alone operating system can be reset with a master code when the phones are facing the following problems:

• Phone hanging
• Gallery problems
• Phone switching off automatically
• If Security code is unknown and to reset the phone to factory reset options

For all the above mentioned problems, this master code or also called as full reset code can be applied.

When ever this code is executed, the phone data which includes phone book data, personal data like images, videos etc.. will be erased totally. So be careful and try to take back up of personal data if possible before executing this code.

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Galaxy S5 Experience App..

Before Samsung Galaxy S5 gets available in the stores in India, Samsung has launched the “Galaxy S5 Experience” app on Google play to make the users experience what it would be like on the actual Samsung Galaxy S5.  Samsung  mentioned that this app “provides interactive introduction on GALAXY S5 and Wearable Devices(Gear2 , Gear Fit) with 4 different categories such as Camera / Speed / Fitness / Life”.

Using this app, one can have the experience of different charecteristics of the Galaxy S5, Galaxy Gear2 and Gear Fit.It emphasizes on the features like camera, Speed, Fitness, Dust and water resistant and more.Through the “Gear” feature, users can know the features of Samsung’s Gear2 smartwatch and Gear Fitness band.

This Galaxy S5 experience app supports the devices with the following specifications:

• Android Smartphone(4.0 or above)

• 800×480 Resolution

• 1.0 Ghz CPU

• 1GB RAM

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