Google provides a total of five home screens, which you can easily customize Sony VGP-BPS9 Battery with widgets. We also like the new selection of live animated wallpapers, including the trippy and colorful Microbes. We'd like to see the ability to Sony VGP-BPS9A/B Battery toggle the Wi-Fi, 3G, and other wireless connections right from the notification area, like you can with Galaxy S phones.

Sony VGP-BPS13 Battery Keyboard
One of the best features of Android 2.3 is the new keyboard design. Although the letters themselves are smaller, the increased Sony VGP-BPS9/B Battery space between the keys and improved multitouch support allowed us to enter text faster and more accurately on the Nexus S than Sony VGP-BPS9/S Battery on most other Android phones. We found ourselves turning the phone sideways to use landscape mode less often, which is a Sony VGP-BPS8A Battery testament to how good the typing experience is

On the more practical side, you can now manage applications more easily just by clicking the Menu button from the home screen. Sony VGP-BPS8 Battery From there you can see what's running and stop any resource-hungry apps. If you want to drill deeper and see which apps are using the Sony VGP-BPS2 Battery most power, the retooled battery use utility provides a neat visual readout with a graph and Sony VGP-BPS2A Battery percentages.

Google has also tweaked the suggested word area so that the options are easier to read and select. Plus, you can enter numbers and other special Sony VGP-BPS2B Battery characters just by long pressing one of the keys in the top row and then sliding your finger to the desired choice. Same thing Sony VGP-BPS2C Battery goes with the punctuation key.

Copy and Paste
Google has done a nice job revamping text selection Sony VGP-BPS21A/B Battery within Android 2.3, but its implementation isn't consistent throughout the OS. In the web browser, pressing and holding on the screen launches an improved text selection tool with two markers you can easily drag. Clicking again copies the text to the Sony VGP-BPS21/S Battery clipboard. Too bad you can't select text using this method when reading an e-mail; you need to click Reply before the markers show up. Sony VGP-BPS21 Battery In the Messaging app, the markers don't show up at all; you have to select the menu button and then hit Copy Message Sony VGP-BPS21A Battery Text.

Android OS 2.3 and Interface
Google wants the world to know that it has paid great attention to detail with its new software, and it shows. For example, the modern-looking Sony VGP-BPS21B Battery signal strength meter turns white when your Google account info isn't in sync and back to green when it does. When you get to the end Sony VGP-BPS13A/Q Battery of a menu or web page, you'll see a glowing orange bar that serves as a visual cue. And both the notification bar and Sony VGP-BPS13A/B Battery dialer are now done up in a sleeker black, which saves battery life. We especially like how the screen zaps off like an old-school TV when you press the power button or the display times out.

In less than a year, Kobo has made some major changes to its eReader. Shortly after Amazon and Barnes & Noble dropped the prices Sony VGP-BPS13/B Battery on their flagship devices, Kobo announced both a price drop and a new model with Wi-Fi connectivity. At $139, the Kobo Sony VGP-BPS13B/B Battery Wireless is just as affordable as the Kindle and Nook, but it comes up short.

The ports remain the same; an SD card slot on Sony VGP-BPS13B/Q Battery top (up 32GB capacity), and a miniUSB port on the bottom for charging or connecting to a computer. The only small change is to the buttons that line the left edge of the device: Display has been replaced by Shop, which pops up a menu that takes users to Sony VGP-BPS13A/S Battery the Kobo storefront screen or, if already in the store, offers further navigation Sony VGP-BPS13/Q Battery options.

The only way to turn pages is with the D-Pad on the lower right side. Though the pad offered good battery spring and feedback, the setup kept us from holding the device in a way that felt natural. We much prefer eReaders with page turn toshiba laptop akku buttons under both the left and right thumbs, as on the Kindle 3G or Nook. Since the Kobo Reader is so light, holding it by the bottom edges wasn't strenuous, but it also wasn't comfortable.

Design
The updates to the Kobo Wireless are mostly internal, leaving the outer design much the same as the original. This is a good thing, dell laptop akku as we liked the original Kobo's slim profile--7.2 x 4.7 x 0.4 inches--and very light weight: just 7.8 ounces. The reader also retains the soft-touch, acer notebook akku quilted back that makes it so comfortable to hold. One nice addition is a range of color choices beyond the original's white front apple notebook akku nd silver backing. Now customers can choose from all black (Onyx) or white with a lilac back.

We wish that the software gave us more options for sorting or organizing books, such as user-defined collections, as the basic By Title/By ibm notebook akku Author/By Last Read options can be tedious to browse, especially with a large library. Since the Reader comes with 100 public hp notebook akku domain books pre-loaded, this is an issue right out of the box. At least the software allows users to skip to the letter they want when sony notebook akku sorted by title or author.

Unfortunately, the Kobo Wireless still suffers from the sluggishness we noted with the previous version. We noticed the lag most when moving asus notebook akku from different areas (such as from within a book to the Home screen) and we found ourselves pushing buttons more than once fujitsu notebook akku because we weren't sure the first press registered.

Kobo has made a few tweaks to the software that runs the toshiba notebook akku Reader, mostly having to do with the new functionality. Most functions are only one or two button pushes away, which we appreciated. Within any screen, users can hit Menu for more options (including the Display functions, as they no longer have a dedicated button).dell notebook akku The Menu also shows the battery life and Wi-Fi status at the bottom.

Gone is the awkward Bluetooth-to-BlackBerry connectivity of the original Kobo Reader, replaced by acer battery 802.11 b/g wireless. Though it's limited to one function--accessing the store--and doesn't offer any other benefits such as web apple battery browsing, at least owners can buy and download books without having to connect to their computers.

The first time users access the Store on the Kobo Wireless, they're prompted to enable the wireless radio and connect to a network. ibm battery This process doesn't take that long, but it forces you to step through several screens when it could just involve hp battery one.

Once we actually got to the Store, the experience was mostly straightforward. Kobo has more sony battery than 2.2 million paid and free titles available through its online store, with New York Times best sellers starting at $9.99.

New to the store is the addition of periodicals. asus battery Currently, there are only 13 newspapers and 13 magazines, including The New York Times, The Vancouver Sun, Reason Magazine, and The Nation.

The Reader is also able to access eBooks from Borders Books natively as that bookseller utilizes Kobo's catalog and software. fujitsu battery Due to its support of the ePub and PDF formats, users can buy eBooks from other stores and public library systems that sell/loan books in these formats toshiba battery that utilize Adobe's DRM technology.

If the device falls asleep or the user turns it off, the dell battery Wi-Fi turns off and doesn't come back on automatically when you turn the device on again. Instead of assuming you want to turn the wireless on and connect to a known network when you choose "Shop Now," the Reader makes users go through each step acer laptop battery every time.

When Google pulled the plug on the acclaimed Nexus One, it was only getting out of the game apple laptop battery of selling phones itself. The concept of a pure Android experience lives on in the Samsung Nexus S ($199 at Best Buy with a two-year ibm laptop battey T-Mobile contract), a smart phone that combines a head-turning curved display with Google's new Android 2.3 software. Codenamed Gingerbread, this OS packs plenty of enhancements, including a faster multitouch keyboard, improved cut and paste, sony laptop battery and interface tweaks that add up to a more polished experience. Plus, the Nexus S has an NFC chip built in, which will let users instantly look up or saus laptop battery exchange information with a tap. But is this enough to crown this handset the new king of Android phones?

Despite the fact that this black glossy phone is all plastic, the 4.5-ounce Nexus S feels fujitsu laptop battery solid. It sports a welcome ridge on the back side toward the bottom that makes the device easier to grip. Just beware of fingerprint toshiba laptop battery smudges. A volume rocker lines the left side of the device, and the right side houses the power button. We would have preferred a camera launch/shutter button as well. Some might wish that the headphone jack were located on top, but we don't mind that it's dell laptop battery on the bottom with the microUSB port.

Four capacitive buttons sit beneath the eye-popping, 4-inch Super AMOLED display acer notebook battery (800 x 480 pixels). From right to left, there's Back, Menu, Search, and Home. While responsive, these buttons aren't easy to make apple notebook battery out when you're outdoors. The display itself is just as brilliant and rich as the panels found on Galaxy S phones.

Design
At first glance, the Nexus S looks very similar to Samsung's Galaxy S phones, but when you pick it up you notice that it has a slightly ibm notebook battey curved shape. Samsung calls this a Contour Display, which is supposed to give the device a better feel in your hand and against your face. We sony notebook battery didn't notice much of an ergonomic improvement, but we have to admit that's it's a nifty aesthetic fujitsu notebook battery touch.

The Nexus S sports two cameras: A 5-megapixel saus notebook battery shooter with LED flash sits on the back, while a front-facing VGA camera rests above the display to the right of the earpiece.