An attractive feature of a smartphone is the media experience. They way you relate to your Android phone contends with any desktop system when you consider audio and visual prompts such as perceptible alerts for system IU events.

Manipulating your Android tablet or phone to give you a confirming sound when you press a button or perform any other action is simple. Go to your settings and locate the "Sound" access area in the menu list. You will find an icon where you can set the required ringtone and notification. Scroll down the menu and you will find the section that allows you to enable or disable the audible prompt depending on the function you require it for. You can customize the sound settings to get only what you want.

Finally, press the back button to leave the settings menu.

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In a world plagued by data caps and slow-to-respond telecoms, using your Android device as a mobile hotspot can be a dangerous game of cat and mouse between you and the background download actions of the system and various apps. In order to limit this issue, Android 4.1 comes equipped with a little known feature which allows you to designate mobile networks beforehand and customize the options that the attached devices must follow if they want to stay connected.

If both devices are running Jelly Bean (Android 4.1+), the one looking for a connection will automatically know it's hooked up to a hotspot rather than a WiFi router. However if you're trying to run a Mifi or non-Android tablet/phone/music player, you'll need to make sure Android knows to place a limitation on them ahead of time. Go to Settings > Data Usage, and hit the three dots in the top right corner. From here, press the button labeled Mobile Hotspots, and check off the mobile hotspots in your list of saved networks.

From here on out Android will limit the data usage on your selections by default. Music streaming apps won't activate in the background, and mobile data restrictions you've set on the phone will apply network-wide to anyone who's tethered up.

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According to new figures from analyst Strategy Analytics. The analyst estimates that 152.1 million Android smartphones were shipped globally in the quarter, nearly double the amount shipped in the year ago quarter, around 80.6 million, bringing Android's global smartphone market share from 51% at the end of 2011 to 70% at the end of 2012.

iOS saw modest gains, with 47.8 million units shipped up from 37.0, but failed to top out at even one third of Android's marketshare. Every other platform barely registered. Symbian, Windows Phone, BlackBerry and Bada struggled to hit 7.9 percent marketshare.

The global smartphone shipments for the full year 2012 reached a record 700.1 million units.

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A report by strategy analytics today confirms a shipment of about 1.6 billion mobiles in the year 2012. An increase of two percent from the numbers shipped last year. Samsung was the top brand to be shipped all around the world with nearly 400 million phones shipped during the year, 396.5 million to exact. 1 of the 4 mobiles shipped was relating to Samsung, which allowed them to snatch 25 percent market share in the world of cell phones.

The main reason behind Samsung's successful campaign in 2012 was its beautifully designed Galaxy series. Nokia was the second best brand of 2012 shipping 20 percent of total mobile phones shipped. Nokia was 2011's number one brand but due to Samsung's Galaxy series the demand for its handsets went down during the year. Strategy analytics declared Samsung, Nokia and Apple the top cellular brands of 2012 which was quite obvious after high demands were observed throughout the 2012 for the brands.

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There was a time siri was one of top Android features. It was the feature which created a unique selling point for Apple iPhone 4S. But, it's now has become nearly worthless especially with a number of top Android features designed and available too.

A report tells the brief history of this wonderful feature that we would like share with you. It all started with siri the Android flagship for all the Verizon devices. But, suddenly Apple came in and began to ask for complete sell of siri to them, it only took a single concise chat between CEO of Apple and the siri's developer to get the deal done. But, in all this developer failed recognize how precious this feature is for Android devices, this is what allowed Apple to enter into the Smartphone market and maximized its revenues. We would like here to add that siri was powered by Google and the difference between both Apple and Google in the Smartphone market is probably due to this one decision

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