Finally the first official gameplay trailer for Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 has been unveiled and its looking quite smart. This may be down to the help of the new CryEngine 3 City Interactive have thrown into the game.

Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 has a January 15th 2013 release date.

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Here is the update to Nintendo eShop for the 26th of November 2012

Title	Platform	Available on	Price Point
Super Pokémon™ Rumble (Nintendo)	Nintendo 3DS (Card/Download)	Nintendo eShop	€44.99 (£39.99 UK Only)
Game Description: Super Pokémon™ Rumble allows you to battle against waves of opposing wind-up Toy Pokémon, and connect with a friend to battle together. With over 600 Toy Pokémon to collect, including those from the Pokémon Black Version and Pokémon White Version games, it's going to be a Super Pokémon™ Rumble.
AERO PORTER™ (LEVEL-5)	Nintendo 3DS (Download Software)	Nintendo eShop	€4.99 (£4.49 UK Only)
Game Description: AERO PORTER is an airport simulation and puzzle game that will have you sorting luggage, expanding your airport's operations and avoiding security mishaps. As your airport gains passengers and prestige, you'll be faced with more planes to load and more luggage to colour code. And that's to say nothing of all the special requests and suspicious packages you'll have to deal with. You can even exchange aircraft with your friends via StreetPass as you put your airport on the map and help it grow from a few sleepy regional terminals to a bustling international hub.
DotMan (Agetec)	Nintendo 3DS (DSiWare)	Nintendo eShop	€1.99 (£1.79 UK only)
	Nintendo DSi (DSiWare)	Nintendo DSi Shop	200 Points
Game Description: Finally, a chance to drive as fast as you can with no regard for the law. Put the pedal to the metal and collect all the coins on each stage as quickly as possible. Execute evasive moves and collect essential items to help you dodge the police and escape being caught. Be careful though, get caught by the police three times and it’s game over. Perform last minute lane changes, stealthy u-turns and determine the rate of speed, but keep in mind, once you start going there is no stopping. DotMan is a non-stop action game that takes you back to the golden years of arcade gaming.
THE "DENPA" MEN: They Came By Wave (Genius Sonority)	Nintendo 3DS (Demo)	Nintendo eShop	Free
Game Description: A bestseller in Japan and widely acclaimed in the US, Denpa Men is a fun, new Dungeon RPG involving mysterious creatures that float around radio waves in your daily environment. Catch the Denpa Men to form a party, but bear in mind - each radio wave territory has its own unique Denpa Men so if you want to find Denpa Men with different skills, you’ll need to go to a different place in real life.  Take your Denpa Men on a variety of adventures and save your loved one from the King of Evil.
Nintendo presents New Style Boutique™ (Nintendo)	Nintendo 3DS (Demo)	Nintendo eShop	Free
Game Description: In Nintendo presents: New Style Boutique you take on the role of a shop assistant. Give customers advice and put a look together for them to work your way up and eventually own your own boutique. There are thousands of items and accessories to choose from, and you can also get judged on the looks you put together, great for anybody wanting to unleash their inner fashionista. Reach the top of the style stakes and take the fashion world by storm.

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Have you ever wondered how a company goes about testing their products to make sure they are fit for its customers uses? Well Samsung have posted up a cool little video to show you how they go about such things.

Short of doing the "does it blend" test they do show such things as water resistance, scratch and can it be sat on tests. It's a must see if you like these things and if you just wanna see something blend, well I've provided that option too.

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Mad Catz^® Ships Licensed Kunai^TMStereo Gaming Headset For Wii U^TMConsole and Nintendo 3DS^TM Hand-Held System

New TRITTON^TM Headset Compatible With Wii U Chat and Everyday Audio

San Diego – November 14, 2012 – Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. (“Mad Catz”) (NYSE MKT: MCZ) announced today the shipping of the Kunaistereo gaming headset being released under the Company’s TRITTON audio brand and compatible with the Wii U console and the Nintendo 3DS handheld entertainment system.


“The launch of Wii U marks a new generation of video game systems and we’re excited to have a licensed headset available at launch.” said Darren Richardson, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Mad Catz Interactive, Inc.  “We believe the ability to use the Kunai both for gaming and as an everyday set of headphones will appeal to the passionate gamer and allow us to grow market share at this crucial time of the formats development.”

The Kunai headset is available in three striking colors: gloss-white, gloss-red and gloss-black.  The Kunai features high quality 40mm neodymium speakers and a removable mic, proving ideal for gaming and everyday audio.

Additional information available at:www.madcatz.com/kunai 

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PlayStation^®Vita version 2.00 System Software Update brings PlayStation^®Plus to fans of portable gaming

Current PlayStation^®Plus Subscribers can now enjoy PlayStation^®Plus exclusive benefits on their PlayStation^®Vita at no additional cost

London, 13^th November, Today, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) announced that as part of the version 2.00 System Software Update for PlayStation®Vita (PS Vita), they will be bringing PlayStation ® Plus (PS Plus), a subscription service package from PlayStation®Network, to PS Vita. Allowing fans to get even more from the world’s most powerful portable system the subscription service will be available on PS Vita from the 21^st November and it will be available to existing PlayStation®3 (PS3)subscribers for no additional cost.

PS Plus offers subscribers even more with the release of PS Plus on PS Vita. As part of the Instant Game Collection, subscribers will be able to enjoy PS Vita titles including Uncharted: Golden Abyss™, Gravity Rush and Chronovolt. Members will have access to four games per month, as well as to a multitude of other perks such as free play, exclusive discounts and online storage.

PS3 fans can rest assured, if they’re already a PS3 owner with an existing PS Plus membership, they will be able to enjoy PS Plus features and services on both PS3 and PS Vita - at no extra cost.

The Instant Game Collection across both platforms means players will have a constant library of 14 games and at least five new games a month, which means over 65 games a year for PS3 and PS Vita. Gamers will also receive automatic updates with the service to ensure they are on top of the latest PS3 and PS Vita game and software updates.

Other cross platform benefits mean players can set their trophies and game saves to synchronise automatically, and access to online storage like never before will give fans up to 2GB of game saves online (1GB on PS3 and 1GB on PS Vita).
Commitment to PS Plus is also convenient with subscriptions ranging from 90 days for £11.99 / €14.99 and 365 days for £39.99 / €49.99. An annual subscription available for just €49.99 will give users access to 65 games and equates to a very reasonable €4 a month.

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STARCRAFT^® II: HEART OF THE SWARM^TM INFESTS STORES MARCH 12, 2013

Next chapter of Blizzard Entertainment’s StarCraft^® II saga introduces key new online features and continues the epic story of Kerrigan, Queen of Blades

Heart of the Swarm™ Digital Deluxe and retail Collector’s Editions revealed

Digital presales NOW LIVE at StarCraft2.com

PARIS, France – November 13, 2012 –Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced that StarCraft^® II: Heart of the Swarm™, the first expansion to Blizzard’s award-winning real-time strategy game StarCraft^® II: Wings of Liberty^®, will be available in stores and online beginning March 12, 2013. Heart of the Swarmfeatures a new campaign continuing the epic story of Sarah Kerrigan, Queen of Blades, as she gathers the remnants of the zerg Swarm and plots her revenge against the treacherous dictator of the Koprulu sector, Arcturus Mengsk. It also introduces several new multiplayer units and features that enhance the acclaimedStarCraft II online experience.

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm will be available on DVD-ROM for Windows^®XP/Windows Vista^®/Windows^® 7/Windows^® 8 and Macintosh^® at a suggested retail price of £32.99. The expansion will also be available digitally directly from Blizzard’s StarCraft IIwebsite (www.StarCraft2.com) at an expected price of £32.99

Blizzard is offering a Collector's Edition of Heart of the Swarm loaded with digital and physical bonus items, available exclusively at select retail stores for a suggested retail price of £59.99. Players will also have the option of purchasing a Digital Deluxe version of the expansion, which will include all of the digital items from the Collector's Edition. The Digital Deluxe version will be available directly from Blizzard viawww.StarCraft2.com at an expected price of £42.99 Players who purchase the standard edition digitally or at retail will have the option to upgrade to the Digital Deluxe version at any time (for as long as the standalone Digital Deluxe version remains available) for an additional £10.

Presales for the standard digital and Digital Deluxe versions of Heart of the Swarm are now available. Players who would like to purchase either version and be ready to play the moment the expansion launches can do so now by visiting www.StarCraft2.com. For players who pre-purchase, the expansion content will automatically be digitally delivered via StarCraft II’s streaming launcher prior to the release ofHeart of the Swarm. Players who would like to preorder the standard box or the retail-exclusive Collector’s Edition can do so by visiting their local retailer.

“With Heart of the Swarm, our goal has been to expand on the multiplayer action and cinematic storytelling of Wings of Liberty,” said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. “Combined with features like unranked matchmaking and our new leveling system, this expansion elevates the StarCraft IIexperience for players of all skill levels.”

The Digital Deluxe version of Heart of the Swarm includes a full digital copy of the expansion along with the following in-game bonus items:

-          StarCraft II Torrasque: Crush the enemies of the Swarm with the indomitable Torrasque, a fearsome new look for your zerg Ultralisks.
-          StarCraft II Battle.net^® Portraits and Decals: New Swarm-infested Battle.net portraits and decals help you customize the look of your online profile and in-game army.
-          World of Warcraft^® In-Game Pet: The Baneling companion pet is bursting with enthusiasm and ready to explode onto the Pet Battles scene.
-          Diablo^® III Blade Wings and Banner Sigil: Grow zerg-like wings in honor of the Queen of Blades, and unfurl an exclusive banner sigil to mark your allegiance to the Swarm in Sanctuary.

The Collector’s Edition of Heart of the Swarmincludes the full version of the game on DVD-ROM and contains the following exclusive bonus items, in addition to the content from the Digital Deluxe version:

-          Behind-the-Scenes DVD and Blu-ray: Immerse yourself in the StarCraft universe with developer commentary, interviews with voice actors, and an in-depth historical retrospective on StarCraft’s eSports legacy narrated by key members of the community.
-          Collector’s Edition Soundtrack CD:Enhance your Heart of the Swarm musical experience with this collection of more than a dozen tracks from the game .
-          Heart of the Swarm Hardcover Art Book: This 144-page tome features never-before-seen art from the expansion, including early concept sketches and meticulous 3D renderings.
-          Zerg Rush Mousepad: This Collector’s Edition mousepad depicts the Terran Dominion holding out desperately under the onslaught of the Swarm.

Heart of the Swarm picks up the story ofStarCraft II where Wings of Liberty left off, focusing on Kerrigan's quest to reunite the Swarm and exact revenge on Arcturus Mengsk. Over the course of 20 campaign missions, players will follow Kerrigan as she sweeps across the galaxy, incorporating a variety of distinctive zerg species into her brood. Kerrigan will grow in strength from mission to mission, and players will be able to customize her with powerful new abilities, as well as evolve various zerg strains into fearsome new subspecies to suit their play style.

New weapons of war also debut in Heart of the Swarm's multiplayer, including new units such as Terran Hellbats, Zerg Swarm Hosts, and Protoss Tempests, while certain existing units from Wings of Liberty will be updated with new capabilities. New features will enhance the game experience, including group and clan systems; unranked matchmaking; Global Play, enabling players to battle others in different regions around the world; additional stat tracking; user interface improvements;an enhanced physics system, for more visceral looking battles; multiplayer replays,to watch replays with friends; a leveling system that gives Heart of the Swarm players a new way to earn customization options for their online profiles; and much more.

Heart of the Swarm has received a 16 rating from PEGI. In addition to the English version,Heart of the Swarm will be fully localized into Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, European Spanish, Russian, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Italian, and Polish. Availability of Heart of the Swarm in mainland China will be announced at a later date.

To learn more about StarCraft II and Heart of the Swarm, visit the official website atwww.StarCraft2.com. To set up a Battle.net account and to opt-in to Blizzard Entertainment beta tests, please visit the official Battle.net website at www.battle.net.


 
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We've managed to get our grubby little paws on Microsofts latest Xbox, the Halo 4 limited Edition console. So for your viewing pleasure we decided to film ourselves opening it up for you. Enjoy.

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Except the phones which come with the QWERTY external keypad, the Android phones have the onscreen keyboard using which the users can type the text, in any app like Text Messaging, Google Talk, Gmail or any other application which needs the user to enter any text. In some applications and sections, the keyboard automatically opens and in a few you need to click on the blank area of text to activate the keyboard.

Every Android phone has its own interface, and the way the keyboard works, differs from one another. The most simplest and standard keyboard is of the TouchWiz UI in the Samsung Galaxy devices, with the latest operating system version even having an extra line of numbers along with the qwerty arranged alphabets in the keyboard. There are several settings one could play around with, to make the typing experience better and get the best out of the keyboards of the Android smartphones.
The option to select a language to enter the text is usually given on the space key, or in a dedicated key adjacent to the space key, rather than being hidden in the settings. Sliding the finger on the space bar or the entire keyboard would help in opening the list of languages available to type.

There are several languages one can use while typing on the Android keyboard, and there are options to select the language either from the settings or directly by swyping on the space bar.

Most of the Android keyboards have a corner left key indicating “?123″ which is the shortcut to open the keyboard inner pages having the numbers and other symbols and characters. It wouldn’t open any pop-up but would just replace the normal keys with the characters and numbers in the same place of the keys. There are several characters and symbols, usually arranged in 2-3 pages.

These are the various symbols and characters arranged in various pages on the Android Keyboard. Clicking on the 1/3,2/3,3/3 would help scrolling through the symbol pages.

The last page of the symbols has the characters which combine to form the smileys or emoticons for text messaging or chats. Though they can be selected through the options menu where there is a separate section for the smileys, one could easily use the keyboard to create the smileys in a faster way if they know the right combinations.
Various settings and advanced features of Android Keyboard
A typical Samsung Android phone based on the TouchWiz UI would have the following settings one could play around with, for a better keyboard typing experience:
Portrait Keypad Types – There are several types of keyboards that could be used by the Android user, and that could be the QWERTY keypad, or else the 3×4 keypad where the traditional rectangular arrangement of keys as in the old standard phone is presented for users who were always using such phones, or there are even the Handwriting boxes where you draw a word as if you are writing on a note, and the phone tries to recognize the handwritten text. Apart from all these, one of the advanced and best ways of typing is the Swype method and its availability for users depends on the device and the Android version.

XT9 Predictive Text Input – This is again something that we have seen in the basic phones too. The text prediction while you are still typing a word, and it comes handy when you are using the standard English words while typing. The keyboard tries to recognize and guesses the word while you are typing, and if it shows the correct word before you entered it completely, you need to just hit the space bar to select the word and write the next word. For example, if you are writing “Telephone”, once you start typing “Tel” it would start suggesting by showing options like “Tele”, “Telecast”, “Telecom” etc. until the “Telep” is entered by you and that would make the prediction easier for the phone.

The other settings in the Android phone keyboard include Keypad sweeping, Character preview, Auto capitalization (where the first character after a full stop is capitalized automatically), option to disable or enable the Voice Input where the text-to-speech input works.
Auto-full Stop – Any sentence would end with a full stop, but searching for the same and hitting it would be a tough task for a few, and that’s where the Auto-full stop option would come into place. this feature would recognize where the line ends and would place full stop there, or in a few Android phones hitting the space bar twice would result in a full stop.

To make the users understand what and how the Android keyboard in their particular device works, there is a tutorial in the settings section where all the basic tips on entering the text is given. The basic tips include opening the keypad, closing it, changing the mode of text input, moving cursor and selecting text, changing the input method and settings of keypad.

Keyboard in Android 4.1 Jellybean OS Samsung Device
With every Android update, there are changes in every small aspects and the keyboard is always enhanced and made better. One of the latest devices, i.e. Samsung Galaxy Note II has got Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and its keyboard is very much changed. It includes even the numbers along with the alphabets in the same screen without having to go to the options and opening the inner sections. This might be coming in the larger screen devices which can accommodate more keyboard area.

In the latest updated operating system versions, you would see the Numbers on the top, common in all the keyboard pages including the alphabet and symbol pages, unlike in the previous versions where the numbers were in the inner symbol pages.

In the bottom line of the keys, there is a key indicating next to “Sym” which indicates the shortcut to open the Handwriting box, where you enter the text in your handwriting, and the phone recognizes it. It could be just a single letter or an entire word, and we have tried different handwritings, all of which were well picked up by the system.

Swype vs Continuous Input
Continuous Input is something totally similar to Swype, where you have to continuously swype the finger over various alphabets to make a word. There is no much difference between both, except that continuous input is seen in devices where the Swype functionality is not available. We would be explaining about Swype in detail later on.
Move Cursor while typing text
The typing cursor is located at the end of the typed text, and if you need to move the cursor to somewhere else, the handle needs to be held and can be dragged to the target destination. Holding the cursor or the text area continuously for more than a second would bring out two handles so as to select any particular text area. Both the cursor handles can be moved to anywhere and once done with the selection of the text, the user can choose whether to cut/copy the text.

Once you have selected and copied the text, to paste it somewhere you need to long-press the text field, and it would show you the option to paste the text. The copied text stays in the clipboard until the next text is copied.
Opening the Keyboard Settings
Apart from what you can see directly on the Android keyboard, there are quite a few settings that you can change. To go to the settings, you need to check for the Wrench icon on one of the keys in the bottom line, or hit the menu key on the phone to open the onscreen menu, which would have the shortcut to go to the Android Keyboard settings.
Keyboard in Motorola Android Phones
As said above, the keyboard and its settings change with every device manufacturer and Android version, and a few notable changes in the Motorola based Android devices include the Language setting which can be opened by long pressing the Z key instead of going to the settings. Above the QWERTY keyboard, there are the ^ v < > arrows which would help in navigating the cursor to the destination place in the particular text if you wish not to hold the cursor and move it.
Voice input is available in most of the devices but the functionality, and voice detection is different and would require no keyboard usage. The Motorola Android phones have the Swype functionality where you can enter the text by running the finger continuously on the desired alphabets to form a word which the phone would automatically detect, and give you a few other predictions to select the one you intended to type.
Android Keyboard External Apps
There are several excellent applications available through the Google Play Store for the Android users to get a better experience and easier typing where a few of which would even predict the next words based on the sentence you are forming. A few apps that one could try using include – Swiftkey, Go Keyboard, SlideIT keyboard, Smart Keyboard Pro, TouchPal keyboard. A few of them have fully featured paid versions too, and they are quite worth the price when you are a frequent user of Messaging or Text chat apps.

The Android phones come with a few physical buttons and a few touch-sensitive keys, the latter being usually below the screen. These keys have their own function, and that changes with the way you press them, i.e. normal touch/press and the long press. The standard buttons that are seen below the screen are the Home, Menu, Back, Search, Recent apps etc. and these are not all present in every phone, but the number usually ranges from 3-5 buttons.
The guide below would help you understand what the keys are helpful for, and what would the combinations do, but there is no hard to-be-followed guide hidden below.

Buttons / Keys below the display screen

Back button / key – Takes you to the previous screen where you were there, but won’t take you directly to the home with a single press. When you are typing on the onscreen keyboard and want to close it, hitting the back button would do that.
Menu button / key – The Menu button in the phone opens the options menu of the particular section where you are currently hitting the button. If you are on the home screen and hit the menu button, it would open the options like editing the home screen by adding widgets, shortcuts or changing wallpaper. If you hit the Menu button while inside an application, it would open the options for that app.
Home button / key - Pressing the home button would take you to the home screen, either from anywhere within the app, or from the left or right extra home screens to the center home screen. Pressing and holding the Home button for more than a second opens the list of recently opened applications or the most frequently opened applications and it depends on the phone.
Search button - The search button not just opens the Google search when you are on the home screen, but when you are within any application, it would open the search box to help search within the application. By pressing and holding the Search button, it would open the Google voice search where you talk to make the phone recognize what you said and type that automatically for you.


The four keys that are discussed above, might come as a touch-sensitive one in some, and might be the physical keys in a few phones, though lately it has been mostly the touch-sensitive transparent keys which might not be visible until the display is activated and the light in the background highlights the keys.

Buttons / Keys on the Side Panels

Power button / key - The power button is located usually at top left / right, or on the right side panel and it performs a couple functions, based on the time it is pressed. A normal button press of the Power button would turn off the screen. Long press the power button and it would open the options to switch off the phone, enter the phone into Flight mode, Silent mode and a few other options based on the phone interface.

Volume Up / Down buttons - The volume rocker keys are located on the side panel, and they do what they are named – Changing the volume levels. When the volume down button is pressed for long, it would activate the silent profile. When the phone is ringing, pressing any of the volume keys would silent the phone and this comes handy when you are in a meeting and forgot to keep the profile as “silent” and wouldn’t want to answer to the incoming call.
While you are in an application, music player or the video player, pressing the keys would influence the media volume rather than the Ringer volume.

Camera button - If at all there is any dedicated camera key provided on the right side panel, you could use it to activate the camera and click pictures. When the video recording mode is turned on, the camera button would help in start and end the recording. As a matter of fact, the camera dedicated key has been quite scarce now in Android phones, and most of the phones would need you to do the capture using the shutter icon on the screen itself.

Combination of buttons – Different Functions

The individual buttons function normally with their single job to do, but when combined with any other button, the functioning changes and there are several things that can be usually done by pressing two buttons at the same time. For example, the default Android Phone which has the Android version of 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich would need the Power Key and the Volume Down key to capture the screenshot, while the button combination would be different based on the phone manufacturer.
The HTC devices with Android 4.0 or later has two options of capturing a screenshot, and all it needs is a key combination. When the Android phones are switched off, it would require you to hold even more than two buttons / keys together when you are doing any developer options like recovering or updating a phone while it is connected to the computer.

Just like the Android Home Screen, the Android phone external buttons and the notification panel, the menu options are equally important and they serve their own purpose in many ways. For some of the interfaces, there is no menu at all on the home screens, for example, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus there is no menu key at all and what you see are the three touch-sensitive keys for Home, Back and Search. When there is a menu key provided on the phone, it serves a lot of uses – On the home screen, on the app pages and within the applications also.

The menus in the Android phones would help in most of the functions and options within the interface of the phone or application. The menu usually opens when the bottom menu key is pressed on any particular screen or application, or when the item is pressed for longer than just a touch.

The menus are of two types:

• Options Menu
• Context Menu

The options menu contains the tools of the particular application or the ongoing activities on the current screen. The menus can be activated or opened by pressing the Menu button that is usually one of the keys below the screen. These menus appear only if there are some additional tools or functions available for the particular application or screen. The menus have a maximum of 6 menu items in two rows, and if there are more options in the list, they would appear under the “More” item that is the bottom right menu item in the list.


The context menu is something that applies to some specific area or item that you are using on the screen. To make it clear, if you are using the phone application and there are a list of contacts, long pressing a contact name would open a popup box of options and this is the content menu, which wouldn’t have opened if you had pressed the Menu key in the bottom. The Menu key would open the menu for the entire phone app, and the long pressing of the particular section in the same app would open the options for the same.

For example, when you long press on a contact in the phone app, it opens the list of options which generally include Call, View Contact, Edit number before call, Send text message, Remove from call log.

When you are in an application that opens up advertisements before the app even opens, you are left with no option on the screen to exit that ad and move ahead in the app, except the Menu button which gives the option to skip the ad.
It isn’t a necessity to categorize the menus but to understand the Menus better, the larger and generalized menus are the options menus while the ones that appear within the app are the context menus.

The first time a newly purchased Android phone is powered on, it would show you the large Android robot which has to be pressed to initiate the phone functioning, and as it is your first time with the Android phone, you would be taken through a few instruction steps which you could follow or skip one by one, but most of these would do all the initial start up of the stuff that would come to use when you are using the phone.
These are the few different steps you would go through:
Changing Language: Some would want to have the phone in their own language, and not English. On the first screen itself when you are touching the Android robot, the bottom right section has the option to Change language and you could select the preferred language here itself, so that the entire instruction process too opens in the language you want.

The first time you startup your Android phone, you are welcomed with a screen asking you to select the preferred language.

Connect to Wi-Fi: This is generally asked when you have started up the phone for the first time without the SIM card inserted in the phone. The Android interface wants you to connect to the Internet for the setup of the Google account.
Connect to Data network or Wi-Fi: When there is a SIM card inserted and you are starting up the phone for the first time, it would prompt you to connect to either the Data network or Wi-Fi, based on your choice.
 
Either of the cases above are for the GSM phones, as the CDMA won’t require the SIM card for the connecting to the mobile network, so you would be asked only about the Wi-Fi connectivity if you wish to use that. In order to sign into your Google account for the syncing, you will have to setup a Wi-Fi connection.

Connecting to a Wi-Fi network is mandatory (if you are not using data network) if you want to start the syncing of the accounts from your phone.

Sign into your Google Account: The Google account is required to use all the Google features at once, i.e. Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Talk. The adding of Google account now or later would be totally necessary as Android takes the basis of this account to backup your phone settings to the Google servers, make the Google Play Store accessible for the users and for the users to take the advantage of the various Google services on the phone.

Tips for Google Account:

• You don’t need to create a new Google account in the computer, as you can do the same on the phone.
• If you have an Google enterprise account, the signing in would not be possible directly and you would need to follow a few different instructions to login through your Google enterprise account.
• If you were using an Android phone previously and had made a few settings, added contacts to the Google account, and now would want the same stuff in the new Android phone, you need to add the same account in this new Android phone and those settings are downloaded to the new phone.

If you skip logging into your Google account during the initial startup of the phone, you would need to login when you open any application that requires the same. A few apps which would for the first time, ask you to login to the Google account are Gmail, Google Talk, Android Market etc.
Privacy and Legal Form
This is a form you are introduced to, by the company of the phone and you need to agree to the policies and Terms & Conditions given by the manufacturer.

Google services setup
When you log in to your Google account in the new Android phone, it would take you through a few steps of service settings, which include the Location, Backup, Date and time.
Location settings: The Google’s location service is something that would come to good use in many applications including the Google Maps, which need the GPS sensors for tracking the location, and Google acts smartly on providing search results in accordance to your location. The location options to either keep the service active or deactivated, would be available later on in the “Location & Security settings” too.

Backup service: Many settings, personal data can be backed up to the Google servers when you have your Google account added to the phone. Some of them include the Browser bookmarks, User dictionary with the saved new words, Wi-Fi passwords etc. Backing up would not just help restore the data when you have reset the phone anytime, it would also restore the same data into any other phone when the same Google account is used in a new Android phone.

Date and time: Manual setting of the date and time is asked by the phone when you haven’t connected it to the mobile network. When the phone is connected to the mobile network when the SIM card is inserted, then you could choose to use the networks’ time accordingly, and it would be helpful when you are on roaming.
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Tips:

• You could use either the phone’s normal touch keyboard or the Swype keyboard. Check Page no. on the options of using the keyboard.
• If you lost your Google account password or forgot it, you would ned to go to Google.com and click on Sign in, and click on the link “Can’t access your account?”, which would take you to the steps which would help in resetting the account password.
• Apart from the Google account, one could add their other accounts like Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, Facebook, the Email account of your phone etc. too when you add your Google account, but if you choose to do that later you can do that through the “Accounts & Sync” settings.

LG Optimus V VM670 is here which is powered by Virgin Mobile. It has just arrived and its now can be rooted easily which we will see in the due course of the article on how to root he same. Please note that Rooting allows you to further customize your phone by so that you can install the latest custom ROM and also apart from the you can install the applications which need the root access. The only disadvantage of rooting is that rooting voids the warranty. Please note that you need to follow the instructions carefully so as to ensure that the phone gets rooted safely.

Disclaimer: Please note that we should not be held liable or responsible in any manner in whole or in parts if anything wrong happens to your device which is the most unlikely if you follow the instructions as prescribed in the due course of this article.

So, before exactly checking out on how one can root their LG Optimus V VM670 device, you need to first go through the list of pre requisites which you need to follow and after which you also need to check out on the procedure in the next page.
Quick Pre Requisites:

• Charge your phone with the minimum of 60% so as to ensure that the device doesn’t turn Off in the middle of rooting process.
• Backup all the data present in your phone memory so as to ensure that just in case if the data gets corrupted or deleted, the same can be restored easily with the help of below mentioned tips. Please note that you should not backup the data using the PC Suites as it may or may not support after rooting.

Notes – Backup in the mail so that you can then restore manually
SMS Messages – Use “SMS Backup & Restore app”,
Contacts Stored in Phone Memory – Sync with the Gmail application,
Call Log - Call Log and Restore
Videos, Images, Videos & Files etc.– Copy to internal / External SD Card,
Internet & MMS Settings – Backup all the settings from “Applications > Settings > Wireless and Network > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names”

• Enable the USB debugging from the path “Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging” and Close all the tools like Firewalls, Antivirus suites and also the PC Suites in your computer or else these tools will tend to interrupt the process of rooting.

 

LG Optimus Me P350, We Missed It? Not really, as we are here with the coverage for users having this phone. In the due course of this article, we will be checking out on how to Root your phone with a simple tutorial in the due course of this article. Just in case if you are new to Android then welcome to the world of open source and glad that you have chosen Android as your preferred choice of OS. For all those who doesn’t know what exactly rooting is, rooting is basically a technique wherein the system files are provided with the access by third party files so that required customizations can be made. Once you root your phone, you can make the most out of your device as you can install themes, custom ROMs and also the apps which need the rooting access. Please be informed that as soon as you root your phone, the warranty will get void. The only way with which you can get back the lost warranty is by applying the stock / default update again in your phone. Not to worry as to make things simple, we also covered on how to Unroot LG Optimus Me P350 in the due course of the article.

Disclaimer: Please note that we should not be held responsible in any manner in whole or in parts if any damage is done to your device caused by updating the firmware which is a very unlikely event if you follow the instructions as mentioned in the article including the pre requisites and the procedure to update the phone.

CAUTION: This update should not be applied to the phones which are NETWORK LOCKED DEVICES, if you still continue to update your phone then we cannot guarantee on the consequences.
Essential Pre Requisites:

• Backup all the data present in the device so as to ensure that the data present in the device stays safe. Just in case if any data is lost / corrupted, the same can be restored easily with the help of below mentioned steps.

Notes – Backup in the mail so that you can then restore manually,
SMS Messages – Use “SMS Backup & Restore app”,
Contacts Stored in Phone Memory – Sync with the Gmail application,
Call Log - Call Log and Restore Videos,
Images, Videos & Files etc.– Copy to internal / External SD Card,
Internet & MMS Settings – Backup all the settings from “Applications > Settings > Wireless and Network > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names”

• Ensure that you have ADMIN privileges in your computer so as To get the full USB read / write access. Close all the tools like Firewalls, Antivirus suites and also the PC Suites in your computer or else these tools will tend to interrupt the process of rooting.
• Also, you need to ensure that the phone is left with the minimum of 50% battery charge so as to ensure that the phone doesn’t get turned Off in the middle of rooting process.                    
  
  Procedure to Root LG Optimus Me P350:
  
  
  
• The tool which we will be using to root LG Optimus Me P350 is Gingerbreak, so first download the same in your computer. Now, connect your phone to the computer in the mass storage mode and copy this downloaded file to your phone.
• Now, remove the USB cable and enable the USB Debugging from the path “Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging”.

• Now, open the file which you placed in your phone and then all you need to do is to tap on the option of “Root Device” to root the phone.

• Just in case if the rooting process is interrupted in the middle then you just need to re follow the whole procedure from the start to root your LG Optimus Me P350.

To unroot, all you need to do is to just tap on “Unroot device”. Do let us know just in case if you face any issues in the process of rooting or un rooting as we will try to fix the same as soon as possible

For all those who are having LG Optimus 2x smartphone, you can now root your phone with the help of simple instructions which we will be checking out in the due course of the article.  Rooting will power you to install many custom ROMs including the latest one that of Cyanogen Mod 9 firmware which ropes in the goodness of ICS Android 4.0 firmware. Also, most importantly this only works on the LG Optimus 2x unlocked devices, not on any other LG handsets. Also, once the device is rooted, you can install many applications which need rooting access.

Disclaimer: Please note that we should not be held liable or responsible in any manner in whole or in parts if anything wrong happens to your device which is the most unlikely if you follow the instructions as prescribed in the due course of this article.

• Backup data present in your phone with the help of below mentioned steps so as to ensure that just in case if the data gets lost or corrupted, the same can be restored with the help of below mentioned steps.

Text messages – Use “SMS Backup & Restore app”,
Phone Contacts – Sync with the Gmail application,
Call Log - Call Log and Restore
Pictures, Music, Videos, Files etc.– Copy to internal / External SD Card,
Internet & MMS Settings – Backup all the settings from the path “Applications > Settings > Wireless and Network > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names”

• After this, enable the USB Debugging Mode in your phone from the path “Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging. Ensure that the USB Debugging option is ticked as shown in the below screen capture.

Charge left in your phone should be a minimum of 60% so as to make sure that device doesn’t get turned off in the middle of rooting process.
Procedure to Root LG Optimus 2x P990:

• Download and Install ADB in your computer safer which you need to download Busy box, Psneuter and Super user package from here to your computer.
• Download and install the LG Device drivers from here to your computer.
• Up next, unzip psneuter, busybox and superuser package from here to your computer and copy the contents to the folder in adb present in the path /platform-tools folder.
• Connect your LG Optimus 2x device to the computer with the help of the USB Cable and open the terminal window or the command prompt in your computer to enter the below mentioned commands as mentioned below one after another

adb push busybox /data/local/
adb push psneuter /data/local/
adb push su /data/local/
adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/busybox
adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/psneuter
adb shell
/data/local/psneuter
adb shell
mount -o remount,rw -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk0p25 /system
mkdir /system/xbin
/data/local/busybox cp /data/local/su /system/xbin/su
chown 0:0 /system/xbin/su
chmod 6755 /system/xbin/su
ln -s /system/xbin/su /system/bin/su
exit
adb push Superuser.apk /system/app/Superuser.apk

After this, the device will be rebooted and you will see that the phone has been successfully rooted. Just in case if it prompts you for the
Do let us know just in case if you face any issues in the comments section just in case if you face any issues in the process of applying things as we will try our level best to sort out the same.

Happy news for all the users of LG Optimus LTE LU6200 as you can now root easily with the help of below instructions which we will be checking out. Just in case if you didn’t knew then once the device is rooted, you can then easily install the custom ROM firmwares as well as the other apps which need the root access. Very soon we will be coming out with different custom ROM firmwares which will completely redefine your mobile experience.

Disclaimer: We should not be held liable for any damage caused in the process of applying this rooting process in your device. It is very unlikely that your device will be damaged if you follow all the instructions to the point which are mentioned in procedure.

Rooting Information: Please be informed that once the device is rooted, the warranty will get lost and the only way with which you can reclaim the lost warranty is by re applying the firmware update of ICS 4.0.4 which is an official release.

• Enable the USB Debugging in your phone and ensure that your phone is left with the minimum charge of 60% so as to ensure that the phone doesn’t get turned Off. Also, disable all the security / antivirus apps as these may interrupt the process of rooting.

• (Optional) Though it’s not a compulsion, you can back up all the user data or the data present in your Phone memory with the help of below steps so as to ensure that the data remains safe.

SMS – Use “SMS Backup & Restore app”,
Contacts – Sync with the Gmail application,
Call Log -Call Log and Restore
Images, Songs, Videos, Files – Copy to internal / External SD Card,
APN and MMS Settings – Note down from the path “Applications > Settings > Wireless and Network > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names”

• Enable USB Debugging from the path “Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging”. The USB Debugging option should be ticked.

So, let’s head to the procedure on how to Root LG Optimus LTE LU6200 Android smartphone on any firmware.
Procedure to Update LG Optimus LTE LU6200 Android Smartphone:

• First up you need to Download the LG Optimus LTE LU 6200 Rooting Package from here to your computer and extract the same with the help of WinRAR. Please match all the extracted files with the help of below mentioned screen capture so as to ensure that all the files are extracted successfully.

• Up next, you need to connect your phone to the computer with the help of original USB cable and open the “runme.bat” file in your computer.

• Once downloaded, you need to open the “runme” executable and press “Enter” to root your device. If there are any prompts then you need to accept the same.

• Once the process is done, the phone will be rebooting. To check whether the device is rooted successfully or not, you can download “Root Checker” app from Google PLAY Store and check with the same. Once rooted, you then need to download the Super user application from the PLAY Store and install all the libraries in it.

Note:  Just in case if the device booted up or gets into the boot loop mode then you need to re follow the above mentioned steps with the help of above mentioned instructions.

Do let us know in the comments section just in case if there are any issues faced in the process of rooting your LG Optimus LTE LU6200. Congrats you have rooted your LG Optimus LTE LU6200 with the help of simple steps.

LG Optimus Slider from the house of LG Electronics and Virgin Mobile can now be rooted so that one can make the most out of it by installing the custom ROM firmwares which we will be coming up with the same very soon on Android Advices. Please note that you need to ensure that once you root the device, the warranty will get void. The only way with which the warranty can be reclaimed is by re applying the device with the official firmware update.

Disclaimer: We should not be held liable for any damage caused in the process of applying this rooting process in your device. It is very unlikely that your device will be damaged if you follow all the instructions to the point which are mentioned in procedure.

Though it’s not compulsory but it’s highly recommended that you back up all the data present in your device with the help of manual steps mentioned below. Don’t backup the data with the help of PC Suites as it may not be able to detect after installing the custom ROM firmwares which we will be coming up in few days.

SMS – Use “SMS Backup & Restore app”,
Contacts – Sync with the Gmail application,
Call Log -Call Log and Restore
Images, Songs, Videos, Files – Copy to internal / External SD Card,
APN and MMS Settings – Note down from the path “Applications > Settings > Wireless and Network > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names”

Download & Install all the drivers for your LG Optimus Slider as it’s a must before you could proceed to the detailed guide. Enable USB Debugging in your LG Optimus Slider from the path “Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging”. The USB Debugging option should be ticked.
So assuming that you have followed all the above mentioned instructions, you can now proceed to the next section below where we have summed up procedure to Root LG Optimus Slider.
Procedure to Root Virgin Mobile – LG Optimus Slider Android Phone:

• Download the LG Esteem Root.Zip from here to your computer. Once downloaded, you need to then extract the same and match all the files as shown in the below screen capture.

• Please note that even if single file is missing then you need to again extract the same. Connect your device with the computer using the Original USB cable.

• Now, you need to open the “Run” executable file from the extracted files after which you will get to see the Window as shown below.

• Press on the Enter button to start the process of rooting and once the device is rooted, the phone will be rebooted.

• If the device doesn’t boot up or gets into the boot loop sequence then you need to re insert the battery and follow all the steps from the start.

So there you go, you have now successfully rooted your LG Optimus Slider device. Do share with us in the comments section just in case if you face any issues as we will try our level best to sort out the same at the earliest.