Sharp plans to bring its 3D phones to the U.S., India and China

It looks like Japanese electronics manufacturer Sharp is going to bring a few of those groundbreaking 3D phones to other parts of the world as well. The technology that produces glasses-free 3D images is called autostereoscopy, and the two first phones featuring it, the Galapagos 003SH and 005SH with 3.8” screens and Snapdragon CPUs, will debut next month on Japan’s Softbank network.

For the good of mankind, Sharp has now announced that it intends to bring its 3D phones to the U.S., as well as China and India in 2011. No word yet on whether other parts of the world also will see some Sharp 3D action eventually, but if all goes well; hopefully the company will begin to release phones globally.

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LG Optimus One sales top 1 million units

LG announced Tuesday that sales of its entry level Optimus One smartphone hit 1 million units within the first 40 days of availability. The LG Optimus One is an affordable smartphone powered by version 2.2 of Google’s popular Android operating system. With the device, LG shows us once again that there is still very high demand for capable devices that are also affordable. While the bulk of sales likely fell outside of the U.S. LG’s Optimus One features a 3.2-inch HVGA touchscreen display, a 600MHz processor, a 3-megapixel camera, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS and microSDHC support.

Tips to save battery power on your phone

Normally a smart phones battery holds up to 2 days max. But here is some tips to save battery to get double the battery life.

1. Screen Brightness 15%
2. WiFi = OFF
3. GPS = OFF
4. Auto-sync = OFF
5. "Enable always on mobile" = OFF
6. Background Data Usage = OFF
7. Use only 2G Networks = YES

Remember also if you play music, videos or games it takes more battery.

Angry Birds for Android gets over 1 million downloads in one day

There is no denying the Angry Birds. phenomenon. Rovio Mobile, the developers behind the multi-platform Angry Birds app, have just announced a staggering stat over 1 million Android downloads in 1 day.
Following yesterdays launch, GetJar had brief outages due to overwhelming traffic. Android users were told: "The page you are looking for is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later ". iOS users have had the one up on their Android counterparts for a while now. However, with these
impressive numbers, and given Android 's growing smartphone market-share, there seems to be no stopping the avian juggernauts.

Older Versions of Android Are Recei

Over the weekend, older versions of Android started receiving automatic updates for Market, bringing it into line with the Froyo look and feel of it. If you haven't already, fire up the Market and take a look, as chances are you haven't spotted it yet. (There was no alert to this update due to its automatic nature). You can now add a widget to your homescreen for the Market, and browse apps via the new tabs.

Windows Phone Marketplace will have 2000 apps at launch of Windows Phone 7

Today is the official launch of Microsoft's latest mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7, and that means the rest of the day is liable to be chalk full of news, opinions and commentary about the software and hardware that will make up the backbone of a make-or-break effort on Microsoft 's part to regain any semblance of credibility in the mobile market. That's not to say there isn't still navel-gazing and rumor-mongering to do, though.

According to a tipster writing to Engadget, one good piece of news when it comes to Windows Phone 7 is that when it launches, there will already be 2,000 applications waiting to be bought and downloaded from the Windows Phone Marketplace. Okay, that's just a drop compared to the overflowing ocean of content provided by Apple's App Store, but given how important apps are to a smartphone's success these days, Microsoft at least is trying to make a strong showing out of the gate. Ultimately, though, what will matter isn't whether Microsoft launches with a small but respectable app library … it'll be whether or not developers continue to make new content for
the marketplace. Until Windows 7 Phone handsets actually start shipping, that will continue to be the big unknown … and no matter what Microsoft announces today, only time is going to tell.

Facebook working on their own phone?

TechCrunch broke the news and Business Insider is also reporting that Facebook is working on their own mobile handset. The first report claimed that Facebook's Joe Hewitt and Eric Tseng (previous Facebook iPhone app developer and previous Senior Product Manager for Android at Google) are heading up the project. When Business Insider chimed in however, the scope of the project seemed to make more sense than Facebook creating a mobile OS from
scratch — they're rumored to be using Android as the base layer and heavily customizing the UI, applications, and experience. Before you get too excited, it's being reported the project won't be ready until late 2011, and even better, Facebook PR has chimed in saying that they are "not building a phone." If this does pan out to be true, is a Facebook-heavy Android-based handset something that would interest you?