Fast Hands-On: HTC One X - I just tried the latest flagship device of HTC One X at the PIKOM PC Fair this afternoon, it’s gorgeous! This device sports a 4.7″ Gorilla Glass display with 720×1280 pixels, super fast 8-megapiel camera, 32GB storage, Quad Core Tegra processor and Android 4.0 ICS software.

Well, the phone is very sleek and has a nice design. Despite its big screen, it feels good on hand with the build quality. What I like and amazed the most is the huge 4.7-inch screen with 16M-color Super LCD 2 capacity touchscreen technology, it’s super sharp, in term of color and pixels. Frankly, the screen is even better than the iPhone’s Retina display. The camera is very fast as advertise with no load time. In term of speed, the quad-core processor do serve well with no lag, perhaps there’s no application installed on the phone which explain the smoothness, but then software technology is getting better on Android.

Overall, the HTC One X is currently the best Android smartphone at the moment, to me, it’s even better than the Sony Xperia S. Right now, I am looking forward for the Samsung Galaxy S3, to see how it’s gonna compete with the HTC One X.

ICS MiUI V4 on Samsung Galaxy S2 – MiUI is a custom ROM for the Android which emphasize on a simple and beautiful UI and it’s ‘Made In China’. Yesterday, I’ve finally upgraded my MiUI Gingerbread version to the latest MiUI V4 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) version. I was reluctant to upgrade previously because that it’s not stable when it’s first release and there’s no DarkKnight custom kernel for it.

I full-wipe, clear cache, clear dalvik cache, and installed a clean version of it, then recover the backup from the Gingerbread version that I did before wiping. If you are on MIUI, you can Backup directly in the phone, or if you are coming from other ROM, you can use Titanium Backup to do backup.

The current version of ICS MiUI is stable now, and I am using Siyah kernel on my phone. Battery life is not as good as DarkKnight kernel. The UI is polished to be even better with the use of Roboto font and new Clock, Music & Gallery app.

Another thing I realised is it’s not as smooth as Gingerbread, I wonder is it rom problem or hardware problem, but everything is still acceptable and good. ICS features are all in and what I want now is a kernel with a better battery life. Check out more of the screenshot below.

Messaging and Contact.

Pull-down Notification and Setting Toggles.

Home screen.

Multi-task menu and Browser.

Camera and Calculator.

Alarm and Stop Watch.

Music app which I like the most, new UI with auto find lyrics, album arts and you can search for music on the Internet.

Notes app which you can sync to the cloud with Xiaomi account and the File Manger app.

You can download MiUI ROM here and Siyah Kernel here (Your phone must be rooted and have Clockwork Mod Recovery). Now who says iPhone or Windows Phone has the best UI? =D

Studious – Awesome Student Planner For Android – Why bring a planner for your school and class when you have an Android smartphone? Studious is a very cool student planner and notebook which allows you to setup class timetable, record notes with text and photos, record assignments and due dates as well remind you when homework and tests are due.

One cool feature is that you can have your phone automatically turn into silent/vibrate mode when you are in class with the Studious app.

The app is very user friendly and very clean. Best part of all, it’s free, but with ads at the bottom of the page.

Download Studious app for free on Android Google Play.

Facebook Buys Instagram, What Do You Think? – News just reported about Facebook buying the social mobile photography app – Instagram for freaking 1 billion US$! That’s a big sum of money. For a company which has less than 10 people, and producing an app that has more than 15 million users around the world and with no profit (at the moment), that’s really a surprise that Facebook would pay US$1b for it.

Well, I think Instagram itself can be better without the acquisition, but then US$1b is a big money. Soon, you will see more Instagram photos on Facebook, Facebook for sure will tweak the very special app to be usable on all device, and desktop, Instagram will be another photo-editing app instead of a social network (that’s not cool).

What do you think?

I Like Instagram For Android – After two years for dominating the iPhone world, Instagram, one of my favourite photography social app is now finally landed on Android. I was kinda disappointed in waiting for the app already, but in a sudden, it pops up in the Google Play Store with surprise.

I downloaded it right away and found out that it’s pretty same with the iPhone version with less sharing option. After all, you still will see a wonderful experience on it with the cool filter effect for your photography. After the release of the app, my friends followers increased and also many iPhone user dislike about the release of this app because they think that this makes the iPhone no difference and special anymore.

What do you think? Download Instagram for Android now on Google Play Store.

Cool HTC Video – ‘Welcome to HTC One’ – In conjunction with the new release of HTC latest flagship device, HTC One series, they have created a video ‘Welcome to HTC One’, which shows you a phone which was designed with the belief that no one person is the same as everyone else. Check it out.

Pre-Order HTC One X & One V With DiGi Now - Interested in the new HTC One X & HTC One V? You can now pre-order them now with DiGi from as low as RM1,249 for HTC One X and RM299 for One V. It seems kinda good price when you buy from DiGi with the subscription of the DG Smart Plan 48, 68 or 88 with 12 months or 24 months contract.

HTC One X

DG Smart Plan 48 (12 months) – RM1,699
DG Smart Plan 48 (24 months) – RM1,599

DG Smart Plan 68 (12 months) – RM1,649
DG Smart Plan 68 (24 months) – RM1,399

DG Smart Plan 88 (12 months) – RM1,549
DG Smart Plan 88 (24 months) – RM1,249

HTC One V

DG Smart Plan 48 (12 months) – RM799
DG Smart Plan 48 (24 months) – RM649

DG Smart Plan 68 (12 months) – RM699
DG Smart Plan 68 (24 months) – RM449

DG Smart Plan 88 (12 months) – RM599
DG Smart Plan 88 (24 months) – RM299

Pre-order now and receive your device on 6th April 2012. Besides that you can check out the launch on 2nd April at Pavilion. Head over to DiGi’s page now for more.

Temple Run For Android Is Finally Here – My favourite game on the iOS – Temple Run is now available on Android Play! I am playing it on my Samsung Galaxy S2 and it feels good, but then it seems like a little more sensitive than on the iPhone. It’s a very addictive game that you keep running and avoid obstacles.

Download now from Google Play for free.

Instagram For Android – Registration-Of-Interest Page – Finally, finally, Instagram has finally put up a page for the Instagram for Android, nothing much, just a Registration-Of-Interest (ROI) page, sign up yourself and you will get to know when it’s released. I’ve done, how about you?

KuGou – Free Music Download & Cool Music Player 酷狗 – KuGou is another cool Chinese app on the Android which allows you to listen to free music, download music, and also works as your phone’s music player. It’s all in one, search, download and listen.

In PC, I like to use KuWo to listen and download music, but on Android, I prefer KuGou because it’s faster and the interface is a lot nicer than KuWo’s. It’s fast and you have access to millions of song on the Internet. So, when you are out there, and suddenly think of a song, you can quickly search and download via KuGou.

Download KuGou Music for free on Android Market.