Is your life only about making money, money and more money? Welcome to my blog, and I hope to share with my money management tips. I will post my money status online, so that you can reivew them. My dreams are to live wealthy, becoming rich, making money online with internet marketing, internet business, and Entrepreneurship altogether.
Life is about finding your dream, and working towards that dream.
This is the video by Google’s Android Team on the HTC Dream or T-mobile G1. It shows some of the products you will see when you initially purchase it. Having introduce these products already on my blog, I’ll touch on some other stuff.
One of the most powerful features is the synchronization with your Google account. (provided you have the data plan) What this means that your Google mail, contacts, and calenders etc etc are always in sync. This is quite a very powerful feature for me, because now I have information always with me.
This is one of the reasons why I bought this Google G1 Android Phone. Because of the way the browser is developed, it allows browsing to be so much easier and simple.
I couldn’t imagine another phone that provides the same functionality. Click on this video and you’ll know what I am saying. One of the best tips and tricks to be use with the Android Browser.
There’s the good stuff about my Google Android HTC Dream phone, and we all thought it was perfect. If you look at some of the reviews in my blog but… the downside?
Few things first.
The battery life. There was one instance where my battery icon was green. Strangely it was green throughout the whole night till the next morning. So I thought, “it must be because I didn’t use the phone.” I was wrong.
There was a problem with the battery icon, in particular the battery life percentage function. So if you look into settings>about phone>status>battery life, you’ll realize its on the higher side.
The next day I did a call on green colored full bar phone and went out. While I was traveling I tried to unlock my phone. Then…
All I see is a red light flashing. Its the first time I saw this, and at first I thought my phone was dead. After trying to revive (by taking out the batteries), I went home without using my phone for a day. A full day went pass without my phone, how bad. Good thing is after recharging the battery, it all went OK.
So perhaps I need a full charge and off my little program called battery graph… was suspecting this little utility here that it is eating or reporting my battery life wrongly.
Reviewing your traffic sources is one of the most interesting and challenging tasks. When you review, in other words analysis your traffc sources, it tells alot about where your visitors are coming from, be it unique or repeatly visitors.
Any types of web traffic, Small and medium enterprises, MNC businesses, retail shops, will face with these types of sources. Typically, there are 3 types of traffic.
Direct Traffic
User types in your domain name and access your site directly. This means the user already knows your site through some other means, like offline advertising in buses, TV, radio media etc
Search Engine Traffic
User types in a keyword in a search engine, search engine shows your site on its page. Another name for this is organic traffic. This is where your keywords are important such that the search engine is able to index it. Both GA and Awstats will track and record the keyword search terms used to gain entrance to your site too.
Referral traffic
User clicks a link on a page that has your domain name on it. This can appear in a simple hypertext link, or a banner ad, or a link in forums or social sites.
Below, I have put in some examples that you’ll see from your Google Analytics. You can gather these web traffic stats from any software that you use to track, but this is more visual viewing and illustrations here.
Onto this web traffic, we see quite a huge traffic coming from search engines. As the traffic is still quite small, and the site is still young, we can’t really say for sure this is the actual web traffic percentage breakdown. Since the nature of this site is of timely updates and videos, it should be expecting more search engine traffics.
We see only 4 direct traffic, which is probably generated by me, and other referral sites, probably from one of the article sites.There can be very deep and detailed analysis about this traffic, and what are the plans to do in 3 months, 6 months, or a year, to improve the traffic percentages.
On this traffic stats, the 3 traffic are split at a bigger pie, with the referrals even bigger. This is due to a lot of “advertising” done on external sites, with links. I expected a bigger direct traffic, because the nature of this site is static and informational, much like a corporate site.
I should be working hard promoting it offline instead, though I recently did an SEO with some appropriate keywords and tags to increase the visibility on the Search engines, so do expect some search engine traffic too.
This site is my baby, because it is a closely related to a hobby of mine. Initially I wanted to put my music site together with this blog, but it ended splitting to its own. In the first 3 months, the site has traffic quite evenly squared out. But now since the site has grown with much content and the search engines has indexed it properly, the Search engine traffic increase by a lot.
I would expect the direct traffic to increase, (it has been increasing slowly) and this means more users have remembered my domain name properly, and wants to access my site directly. This site was meant to be both informational, educational, as well as to share my stuff with others.
These are some kind of reviews to some of my sites, and their traffic analysis to show you how important these sources could tell you about.
That’s all for my post on web traffic sources analysis and review!
The G1 Google android HTC dream phone is different from other phones on the market. The reason is because of its main functionality and open source operating system.
We have seen what the Symbian or S60, Windows Mobile, and Apple’s Iphone OS, and each of these OS does serve a different purpose. If you are like me wondering why you should change to this G1 Android phone, I’ll just list down 10 reasons why you should:
1. You use the internet to at least 3 websites a day
2. You have at least 5 mailboxes across different mail domains
3. You want to change to a new phone
4. You need internet access anywhere (within your telco mobile range)
5. You need a notebook-like device to do your stuff*
6. You need an Iphone similar device (touch screen and accelerometer)
7. You travel around often and so you need a device with travelling Apps with GPS.
8. You are a developer and you have a fantastic application you wish to develop
9. You check the stock market every 5 minutes
10. Finally, you love Google, HTC, Android team, application developers and open source software.
So get yer phone now! I made up some of the reasons, so some were obviously stpid reasonsOr wait for other HTC phones that are launching soon, preloaded with Android.
This post would be more suitable for developers and designers, but its beneficial to see why Android is a better platform for running mobile devices.These videos are made from the developers of the Android Operating system, to show you the architecture of Google’s Android Operating system.
The underlying architecture
How the processes work
And the API
This HTC Dream is loaded with the Android OS, and we can expect more of this Operating system to be installed on new phones in the future. Surprising it is based on Linux 2.6 Kernel, and since this is open source, expect more free software to be built on this platform.
In this second review, I’ll talk more on how great this Google G1 phone can do, with the internet enabled applications.
The most common application used is the Gmail mail client. When your 3G connection is enabled, just sign in with your gmail account. After which, your mailbox will be sync. Other Google services like calender, analytics, talk, feedburner, and etc etc will be sync with yor account. A tip where I use to check all my mails, is to configure all mails to be forwarded to my Gmail account. So when there’s a new mail, I will be notified.
Next comes the browser, where I find it lightweight and fast. With this phone’s fast processing power,
Could open a few windows and browse them in a multiple task environment. To open a link in a new Window, just hold onto the link for a second, and a menu pops up asking you to “Open in new Window” or “shae this link”
2 of my commonly used functions.
There’s also this zoom function, where your text will be enlarge. And when your text enlarges, the browser automatically reformats the text so that the passage doesn’t pops out of the screen, and yo ucan view it top down
The youtube app rocks, because again its fast. On the way walking to train, I’ll click a video and let it load, and once I am on it I can view it.
The Android market lists the games and applications that we can download and use. Again if you do not have a data plan, this application will not function.
And overall I give it 9/10 ! Well if you use this phone as a traditional mobile phone, you ain’t gonna get the best out of it. I receive more emails than SMSes, so put this phone into good use!
After using the Android Phone for a week, I would like to let everyone else who want to get this phone some of my own opinions. I guess that you eagerly want this phone, either because it is a new HTC phone, or because it is running on the one Google Android Operating system on the market now?
Firstly I would like to say that I am most probably stuck with this phone for at least the next year or 2, because I don’t change my phone often. Secondly, the main reason why I changed this phone was because my mobile phone contract has ended, which means I am eligible to change a new phone at a good price. Thirdly I needed a device that could connect to the internet and do my stuff while I commute on the train. A laptop would be too bulky, and therefore, the HTC Dream G1 Android phone was the solution.
Now onto the review.
I’ll break this into two parts. The phone functionality and the internet capabilities. This HTC Dream phone does require you to have constant 3G connection to the internet, or known as the data plan. Without this, the phone is pretty much useless.
Phone functionality
When you search for contacts, the big scroll button will shows up and the letters A-Z appears in the center, making it easier to navigate down and find. If you add contacts, there is a function where you probably can save your contacts address on Google maps. The feature is clean and neat.
The SMS isn’t that bad, but I suggest you to get the ChompSMS application. The reason is you can SMS single handedly, without using your keyboard. The SMS are conversation style, like the Gmail or IM. No more annoying “1 New Message” but rather a new “reply” to your conversation. The bad thing here is, I am unable to select multiple sms and delete them.
Maybe there’s a way, do answer and reply to my comments if you know of any. Overall, the SMS and call function are pretty good, and satisfy the least requirement of a phone.
Other Phone functionality
The alarm clock allows you to add multiple clock reminders, and select which day you want it, by ticking it. This is good for me (who always overslept :p)
The main “desktop” or home screen are divided into 3 screens, as shown in my video. This is great because I can put a logical group of applications s to each of these screen. (Entertainment, phone, internet apps) The apps, shortcuts and widgets can be pulled around the interface, leaving you with a customizable desktop.
The keyboard is not too bad, even with my huge fingers, I can type easily without making too much of an error. The main phone interface is very clean and simple, with 6 buttons. The call, home, mouse ball, back, cancel call / lock, and the menu button. There’s this cool unlocking function where you can draw a pattern to unlock the phone. Unfortunately, I have stop using and instead use the normal unlocking method.
There’s this notification bar at the of the phone, so all of your SMSes, new mails, downloads, and other stuff will show as a notification. When you have that, you phone’s LED will show a green blinking light. That is how I tell if there’s a new “message”.
Security with pattern for unlocking function
Settings…
Inside the settings menu, you can toggle wifi, bluetooth, and airplane mode with the wireless controls. There’s also determine location options, where you choose GPS or mobile network signal to find out your location.
There’s also this “About phone”, where useful information about your phone is shown. The battery level is shown in %, and it falls constantly (vs other phones where you have full bar for 2 days and drops to 1 bar within half day) At a galnce you can see your Android and firmware version etc…
For this week, I needed to recharge my phone every day, so that is something you have to take note. It might be due to the usage of this phone every minute during commute, checking mails and information, writing this blog (Oh yeah), exploring the phone’s functionality, and getting lots and lots of new applications and games for my everyday life.
And so, this will end part 1 of my review. Look out for part 2 in the Categories column !
This is my second review on the Google’s Android G1 HTC Dream Phone.
In this second video review, I have some of the stuff on the internet applications on the HTC Dream phone. There are many cool features with browsing, for those of you who had a hard time navigating around web pages. All this with the HTC Dream powered by Google’s Android Operating System
There are also many other applications that uses the power of the Internet and Google. Just a summary of features I am going to show here:
- HTC Dream G1 Browser
- Browser view transition
- Navigation with Mouse ball Input
- Navigation with keyboard (enter button)
- Navigation by zooming in and out
- Google searching
- Browsing focus function
- New Window in Browser
- Gmail client
- Gmail Calender
- Android Market with applications and games
- Youtube client
This is my first review on my Google Android G1 HTC Dream Phone, recorded with a “not so clear” camera (Bear with me!)
With this video, it shows you the actions of this cool HTC Dream Phone. I just wanna show you some cool stuff after I used this phone for 2 days. Some of these cool features includes:
- LCD Screen sliding
- QWERTY Keyboard
- Unlock phone drawing pattern
- Main interface in three parts
- Drag Icons around
- Dragging menu
- Dragging notification bar
:) 