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

Nokia’s ‘Smart Phone Beta Test Is Over’ Is FUNNY! – Nokia recently came up with a new marketing campaign to promote their Nokia Lumia series with ‘The Smartphone Beta Test Is Over’ which claims that smartphone users in the world since 2007 were in a BETA TEST, and now the test is over which produces the ‘ultimate’ Nokia Lumia Windows Phone.

Why is it funny?

Apparently, Nokia Lumia is not the best phone in the world despite the good review of Windows Phone and a beautiful design. Windows Phone still lag of powerful applications, Nokia Lumia is not widely available around the world and it has older generation of hardware. I still have hope in Nokia, looking forward to the better Nokia Lumia, not Lumia 800, or 900.

Check out the videos below:

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.

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.

Flickdroid – Batch Upload Photos To Flickr On Android – Flickr is my favourite online photo sharing and storage site. I often upload my photos to Flickr to share with friends and family. I realised that the Flickr For Android app does not allow batch upload, uploading photos one by one is a pain. Later then, I found an app – Flickdroid which allows me to upload photos to Flickr in batch. This is so much easier and faster.

Download Flickdroid for free on Android Market.

Google’s Android Market Is Now Google Play Store – I was downloading apps from the Android Market, and suddenly a request on screen asking me to switch to the Google Play. Later then, all the Android Market logo has changed to a new Google Play logo. The name ‘Android Market’ could not be seen anywhere on the phone, it’s ‘Play Store’ now.

After checking out on the net, Google’s Android Market has gone, ‘Google Play’ is your latest store on your Android device. Besides app, you can find eBooks, rent movies, and buy music tracks. It’s all under one house of ‘Google Play’. It combines Android Market, Google Music and the Google eBookstore.

Besides that, you can download apps, music, eBook on your desktop via Google Play and it will appear on your on your Android device – phone, tablet.

With Google Play you can:

• Store up to 20,000 songs for free and buy millions of new tracks
• Download more than 450,000 Android apps and games
• Browse the world’s largest selection of eBooks
• Rent thousands of your favorite movies, including new releases and HD titles

Check out Google’s Blog for more information about this or Google Play website now..

Action Snap Pro – Fun Android Camera App – Action Snap is a fun camera app on Android which allows you to capture action and movement. The app can capture images a few times, then combine into different collage to showcase the action. This app is very fun to use as you can ask your friend to pose differently for Action Snap to shoot.

Action Snap available in free and paid version, Action Snap Pro. The pro version supports front camera, flash light, digital zooms and no advertisement. Currently, I am using the Pro version downloaded from Blackmart.

Download Action Snap now on Android Market and Action Snap Pro for free on Blackmart.

Qvod Android – Watch Free Movies & TV Series On Android – Qvod user on the PC who also owns an Android phone can rejoice as Qvod is also available as a mobile application on Android too! For those who doesn’t know what Qvod is, Qvod is actually a media P2P (peer-2-peer) streaming software which streams movie, and tv shows (mostly Chinese).

Qvod is similar to Bit Torrent’s technology, but it’s faster because it is very famous among Chinese user. If you have an Android device, this is a good app for you to watch movie. Upon installing the app, you can search for the movie name in the in-app browser, then you just click play like how you do it on the PC. I just used it to watch Laughing Gor. =D

If you can connect your Android device to the TV, then it’s wonderful. I don’t recommend watching movie on a small mobile device.

Download Qvod Android for free on Android Market.