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Amazon Kindle Fire is a cheap Android tablet while Apple iPad 2 is an awesome device and Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus is powered by an amazing Honeycomb OS. It’s rather difficult to choose a tablet among them.

The following table shows the comparison between Kindle Fire, iPad 2, and Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus. Hope this information is helpful for you to buy a tablet.

	Amazon Kindle Fire	Apple iPad 2	Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus
Size & weight	190 x 120 x 11,4 mm, 413 gram	241,2 x 185,7 x 8,8 mm, 610 gram	193,65 x 122,37 x 9,96 mm, 345 gram
Screen & resolution	IPS LCD, 1.024 x 600 pixel	IPS LCD, 1.024 x 768 pixel	PLS LCD, 1.024 x 600 pixel
CPU	Dual-core 1 GHz	Dual-core 900 MHz	Dual-core 1,2 GHz
Battery	8h	10h	4.000 mAh
OS	Android 2.1 (customized)	iOS 5.x	Android 3.2 Honeycomb
Camera	No	VGA in front, the camera in the back can capture HD video	2 MP (in front), 3 MP in the back can capture HD video
RAM	512 MB	512 MB	1 GB
Storage	8 GB	16/32/64 GB	16/32 GB
Connection	Wi-Fi	Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G (optional), GPS	Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G (optional), GPS
Price	199 USD	499 USD (16 GB)	399 USD (16 GB)

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Today (Sept 30), Samsung announced their new 7” tablet, Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus, with several improvements compared to the previous 7” version. The design of this tablet is similar to that of Tab 10.1 and Tab 8.9. This tablet is slim (9.99cm) and light (345g). It is powered by Android 3.2 Honeycomb, BXL dual-core processor 1.2GHz, 1GB RAM, 2 cameras (3 MP and 2 MP). There are 2 versions: 16GB and 32GB. The TouchWiz interface also appears in this tablet. Indonesia and Australia are the first two countries will have this tablet in the end of this October.

Specifications:

- HSPA+ (HSDPA 21Mbps/HSUPA5.76Mbps) 900/1900/2100 - EDGE/GPRS 850/900/1800/1900.

- BXL dual-core 1.2GHz.

- Screen:  7 inches (1204 x 600) PLS.

- OS: Android 3.2 (Honeycomb).

- Camera: back (3MP AF and LED Flash Sub), front (2MP).

- Samsun TouchWiz: Live Panel, Mini Apps Social Hub – Integrated Messaging (Email, SMS, SNS, MMS), Contacts/Calendar Sync-POP3/IMAP Email & Exchange Active Sync.

- Connection: Bluetooth® v 3.0, wifi 802.11 a/b/g/n, USB 2.0, Gyro, Digital compass, Ambient Light, Proximity.

- RAM: 1GB.

- Storage: 16/32 GB.

- Size: 193.65 x 122.37 x 9.96 mm, 345g.

- Battery: Li-on 4,000 mAh.

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Tablets using Android Honeycomb are more and more powerful. They usually are powered by dual-core processor and high-performance graphics chipsets. Why don’t we use Android tablets for editing daily photos with following apps.

1. PicSay Pro

PicSay Pro is a well-known photo editing app. It supports many tools for editing color and adding stuffs, such as dialogs and beautiful stickers, into your images. Its simple yet useful interface makes it easy to use. It costs about 5$ on Android Market.

After staring this app, a small dialog display for you to choose an image for editing. You can choose an image from library or from other apps. Since its interface is optimized for Android Honeycomb tablets, it is rather easy to use. PicSay Pro supports following features:

- New Title: add a title to your images with many different fonts. You can input the title in a small textbox. You can move the title by dragging it with your finger. You can delete it by touching it and choosing Delete in the context menu.

+ Word Balloon: You can add balloons into your images. There are several kinds of balloons. To add effects to the balloons, you can double click on the balloons and choose Effects in the context menu.

+ Sticker: You can add stickers to your images. This app provides many kinds of stickers. You can also change the size of the stickers.

+ Effects: the most important feature of this app. You can choose from more than 20 effects. You can draw on the images, add another image to the current one, add color effects, … And, of course, you can change the contrast, brightness, color space, and remove red eyes.

After editing, you can export the resulting images to share on Facebook or send via email or send to other apps. One of drawbacks of this app is the image resolution is reduced when exporting. For example, an original image with 2048x1536 will be reduced to 1067x800.

2. Vignette
Although Vignette is known as a camera capturing app, you can use the photo editing feature in Vignette to edit photos. To choose an image in library to edit, you can touch on Menu, choose Import and choose an image.

Then, you choose Menu > Effects to edit the image. This app doesn’t support preview when choosing effects. However, it supports many good effects such as creating bolder, creating black/white effect, filters, etc.

You may need sometime to be familiar with this app because the interface is rather difficult to use. One of good features of this app is you can save effects or borders to favorite that will be applied to other images. The image resolution isn’t changed when exporting.

3. BeFunky Pro
The interface of BeFunky Pro is easier to use than that of Vignette. In the main interface,  main features are placed on the top. BeFunky allows modifying images captured directly from camera or in library. This app is rather strange because it doesn’t support landscape interface mode.

Main features of BeFunky:

- Edit: edit the details of images. You can modify the brightness, change the contrast, or rotate or crop images, and sharpen images.  The Smart Sharpen feature of this app is rather good.

- Effects: BeFunky provides about 50 effects that are classified into: Instant, Old Photo, Basics, Pop Art, Cartoonish, Toycam, Pinhole, Grunge, B&W, Cyanotype, and ViewFinder.

BeFunky Pro also provides many frames for you.

After editing, you can upload and share with your friends on Facebook, Flickr, or the website of BeFunky.

 

4. Adobe Photoshop Express
This simple version of Photoshop contains most of basic photo editing functions. This app has a similar interface for both smartphones and tablets.

 

5. Photo Editor of Samsung TouchWiz UX
If you have a Samsung Android tablet with ROM TouchWiz UX, you can find and install the app named “Photo Editor”. This app is available with Samsung tablet and has most of basic functions for editing photos.

With this app, you can choose a specific image region that you want to edit.

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Although there are many good Android devices in the market, many more Android smart phones and tablets supporting 3D display and 4G connection will come soon! If you are a fan of Android, save your money from now ^^

1. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (LTE)

Galaxy Tab 10.1 wifi version has been released but the LTE version is even more awaited. With a slim design, excellent display, and high speed LTE connection, this tablet may be a good competitor with iPad 2. It will be available in the market in this summer.

2. Motorola Droid 3

Since the first Droid smart phone appeared in the end of 2009, it has shown us the power of Android OS. After almost 3 years, Droid 3 will be announced with several improvements, such as new keyboard design, qHD 16:9 wide screen, and powerful dual-core processor.

3. Samsung Galaxy S II

The users in Europe has been touched to Galaxy S II. However, fans of Galaxy S II in other regions must wait some more time. Galaxy S II owns a beautiful and big Super AMOLED screen, allowing to watch videos and surf web more enjoyable! It’s also very powerful and light.

4. Motorola Droid Bionic

Droid Bionic is a new version of the successful Droid Incredible. Similar to other upcoming devices, Droid Bionic owns a dual-core processor and high speed LTE 4G connection. It has a big screen and is installed the latest Android OS. It will be available at the end of 2011.

5. Toshiba Thrive

If you want to have many connection ports on a tablet, Toshiba Thrive should be such device for you. This device has one full-size USB, one SD slot card reader, and one HDMI output port. With Toshiba Thrive you can connect with most of other devices. It also has a good file management software. This tablet may be a good alternative to netbook.

6. HTC EVO 3D

Now you can hear about 3D everywhere. If you want to have a smartphone having 3D capability, HTC EVO 3D is a good device for you. You can capture 3D images and videos with this smartphone. However, don’t expect to much about the 3D quality because we are in a early stage of 3D technology. 3D also make your eyes tired if you watch videos in a long time.

7. Motorola Photon 4G

This is the first Motorola smartphone supporting WIMAX. This phone has a dual-core processor as same as Motorola Atrix. This phone will run Android 2.3 OS. If you want to play games with a big screen, you can connect this phone with TV.

8. Nexus 3 (4G)

Not much information available about this smartphone. It will be announced in the end of 2011. Nexus 3 (4G) will be the first smartphone run Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) OS. This new OS will reduce the gap between Android OS based smartphone and tablet.

9. Asus Padfone

This device contains an interesting design. A tablet and a smartphone are combined in a same device. The smartphone will be placed in the back of the tablet. When the smartphone is docked in this place, you can use this tablet will all functions supported from the smartphone. We need more time to evaluate its applicability.

10. Motorola Xoom 2

Motorola Xoom has been not successful as expected. However, at least, we can have some experience about Android 3.0 OS with this device. From leaked information, Motorola may announce the next version Motorola Xoom 2 soon. Hope there are many new features in this device. This new device may own a very powerful quad-core Tegra 3 and become the most powerful tablet.

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If you have a tablet running Android 3.0 but want to use the interface of Android 2.3, you can activate the hidden Gingerbread interface by increasing the dpi of the screen.

The main requirement is that your tablet has been rooted. You now can download and install the LCDDensity for root. After choosing the dpi > 170 and restarting you device, the Gingerbread interface will be displayed. We don’t know the reason why Google includes the Gingerbread interface in Android Honeycomb. May be Google prepares it for the next version: Ice Scream Sandwich.