What is Stock Android and is it worth it?

Google yesterday announced it will be launching Samsung Galaxy S4 with stock Android. What is stock Android. Well in simple words the raw un customized version of Android is called stock android. One of the most popular devices of stock android is the Google Nexus series which is gaining huge popularity.

So while some people may be very thrilled to get stock Android many wont even think of buying this version of Galaxy S4 because all the software's added by Samsung, such as support for multiple apps on one screen, eye tracking-based scrolling, AirView etc will be missing from this version of S4.

So what are pros and cons of stock Android.

Pros:

1. It is unpolluted raw version of Android some people refer to it as Pure Android Experience.
2. You will receive automatic updates in the Android OS from Google.
3. It may be faster than customized OS.
4. Stock Android is very popular with android development community for App development.

Cons:

1. Sometimes manufactures do really cool customizations on Android all are lost.
2. Some manufactures integrate Android experience with the advance hardware capabilities in the smartphone all of them are lost.
3. Stock Android even though fast in performance may not look very appealing to many users.

So the biggest question is it worth buying stock Android devices?

Well answer is a Yes and No. Based on what will be your preference. The biggest USP of stock Android is that auto updates periodically and you may find really cool performance fixes in future where as in non stock Android the process is very slow and rare as its manufacturer dependent.

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How to change language in Videocon DTH?

If you are using Videcon DTH and not sure how to change the language or any channel then here are the simple steps.

Go to the channel.
Click on the yellow button
Chang the language.

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Does Installing too many apps on your smart phone make it very slow?

Are you wondering why your smart phone has suddenly started slowing down and being less responsive? Do you think that installing too many apps is slowing it down?

Well the truth of the matter is its all about demand and supply. What that means is if your smart phone has the proper hardware and software resources to accomplish these tasks (Apps) then you may not encounter this problem.

In case you have less resources and more apps then you may find your Smart phone slowing down due to resource constraints. Mind you software i.e. OS is equally important here. If your hardware is state of art and software is incapable of delivering the goods then you may still find a slow smart phone experience.

Most smart phone Operating Systems like Android iOS and Windows Phone OS now a days handle multi processing well and hence it will be necessary for you to choose a smart phone which has the best hardware and computation power i.e. minimum 1+ GHZ and dual core processor configuration.

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Bing Search Crawls Facebook Fan Pages better than Google

All Webmasters focus on Google for Search engine optimization. But Social Media optimization is also equally important. Google and Bing have always locked horns over search results and after Facebook became popular Google had to come up with some answer.

Google did respond in time and launched its social media platform Google+. Since Google is king in search it smartly integrated Google +1 with Google search relevance hoping that it will force people to adapt to using Google+ over Facebook.

Google modestly achieved their target but Facebook is still number 1. When  Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates realized that there is a very great potential in becoming partners they were quick enough and Facebook exposed itself for better crawling with Facebook pages and profile.

Today you can actually use Bing to really do smart queries on Facebook. I will cover that at a later stage. So the crux of the matter is Bing shows Facebook results better in web search. Well one very basic example is Latest Tech tips Facebook fanpage.

Google Search
Here is the Google search result for "Latest Tech Tips". Google naturally focuses on +1s on Google+ even for a Facebook Fan page result. However it makes the search result less intuitive.

Bing Search
Since bing has collaboration with Facebook it shows a more natural search results. Bing even goes upto the extent of showing total Facebook likes as well as number of people talking about the fan page. This makes the result more natural.

Even though both search results look extremely similar their Social media priorities are clearly evident and webmasters also must consider the Social Media SEO in mind and give some effort for Bing optimization.

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