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Best Samsung Galaxy S II Aftermarket Battery Capacity Comparison

Battery life has been the crux of smartphone weakness since their inception. Users around the world have tried all sorts of different power management techniques, software modifications as well as tricks and gimmicks (all black themed UI) to try and extend battery life. While some of these may work, there is no substitute quite like [...]

Read the full article → December 29, 2011 Reviews

How To: Extend/change the length of your Galaxy S II ring duration before voicemail

Is the time to answer a call on your phone so short you can’t answer the call in time? Searched all around your phone settings but can’t find where you can increase the ring duration before your caller is direct to your voicemail? Here is the solution to your problem! 1. To modify the ring duration, [...]

Read the full article → November 4, 2011 How To

Tip: Samsung Galaxy S II Advanced WiFi Settings Sleep Mode Policy

As I wandered my way through the first layer of Android’s swath of menus and settings, I felt the urge to go deeper… and there I discovered a menu within a menu—a place where you can change your phone’s Wi-Fi sleep policy… Tier 5 of the Menu World… we must go deeper The WiFi sleep [...]

Read the full article → October 6, 2011 How To

Tip: Samsung Galaxy S II Power Saving Mode

One of the oft overlooked but extremely important hardware specs on today’s do-everything smartphones is its battery life. As you can see in the ‘Power saving tips’ above (it can be reached through Settings > Power saving mode > Power saving tips), there are multiple points of power management that can be addressed. We at [...]

Read the full article → September 14, 2011 How To

Tip: Android Keyboard, Extended Numeric Keys Shortcut

For those of you who prefer the simplicity of the stock Android Keyboard over the plethora (check out our 14 keyboard showdown) of competing input methods out there, here’s a quick and useful tip to help maximize your mobile WPM (words per minute)! Activating the extended row of number/symbol keys is very simple on the [...]

Read the full article → August 9, 2011 How To