Download In-call Recorder to Record all Incoming & Outgoing Calls in your Android

There are many apps in the Google PLAY Store which claim to be the best in call recorders, but unfortunately most of the apps are ineffective and doesn’t record properly or some apps requires the root access.  A new app has arrived which is developed by Senior XDA Member zakiancel. This app presents itself with an intuitive user interface which is logical and straightforward elements. The best part of this recorder is that it records the calls in mp3 format and also it records in high quality nature. Also, there is an option in this app wherein it has a capability to record all the calls without needing to start the recording every single time. Also, the ‘In Call Recorder’ lets you manage all the audio files conveniently and efficiently. You can refer to the list of features which this Call Recorder app comes with.

Features:

• Two options in Call Recording mode: Manually select or automatically record all calls,
• Recording long periods of time create a small audio file: 1 hour recording ~ 7 Mb,
• Addition of equalizer to the MP3 player to adjust and repair the audio file,
• Creating a new MP3 file from existing one after repairing and removal of a specific section of your choice,
• Continue recording even during incoming waiting call and the transition to her, and identification of the two numbers in the recording file,
• Adding a comment to any recorded call,
• Send files using any sharing software (Whatsapp, Gmail, Dropbox, etc.),
• Select the recording start button placement or activate recording from notification bar (optional)
• Select the recording source: directly from the phone line or from the microphone (not supported on all devices),
• Add a contact from a recording of an unknown number,
• Use voice recorder audio files as ringtones or as notifications sounds.

To Download this Call Recorder app, you need to head over to the XDA Page of whose the link is mentioned below,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2222741

Samsung Galaxy CORE I8262 with 4.3″ Screen and Dual Sim Slot – Specs, Features & Pricing

Samsung Galaxy CORE I8262 is here which is the new Android based smartphone from Samsung Electronics (SEL). While Samsung is still busy with the roll out of Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone Worldwide, it is still pushing various smartphones across the Globe to ensure that none of the country is left with the smartphone action powered by Samsung. Samsung is also currently working to bring an updated sequel editions to its legacy devices like Samsung Galaxy ACE etc. to drive upon the success of past. So, let’s check out on what are the various specs and features of this smartphone.

Specifications and Features of Samsung Galaxy CORE:
Samsung Galaxy Core smartphone comes with the 4.3-inches of WVGA Screen with the display resolution of 480 x 800 pixels along with the Dual Core processor clocked at 1.2GHz and 768MB of RAM. This device is placed in the budget segment and will be priced even below the Samsung Galaxy S Advance smartphone. In terms of camera, this device is pegged to come up with the 5MP of camera and the list of connectivity options include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 and GPS.
In terms of memory, this device comes with 8GB of On board storage and can be easily expanded up to 32GB of storage space with the help of external SD Card. Not to forget, this device comes with the Dual Sim Capability and has the dimensions as 129.3 х 67.56 х 8.95mm and weighs 140 grams. Out of the box, this device comes with the Jellybean 4.1.2 firmware.

• 4.3-inches of WVGA Screen,
• 480 x 800 pixels Resolution,
• 129.3 х 67.56 х 8.95mm, 140 grams,
• 1.3GHz Dual Core processor,
• 768MB RAM,
• 5MP Camera,
• 8GB Internal Memory,
• 32GB Expandable Memory,
• Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 and GPS,
• Dual Sim Capability,
• Jellybean 4.1.2 Firmware

Price and Availability of Samsung Galaxy CORE:
Samsung Galaxy Core will be available for €320 initially in European, Russian and Chinese territories. We will keep you updated upon the latest on Galaxy Core Android smartphone.

NEO N003, World’s Cheapest Quad Core Android SmartPhone for $144 – Full Detail

While there are many smartphones which are having Quad Core Processors but still costs a fraction of Flagship devices like Samsung Galaxy S4 and the names includes from the likes of Nubia Z5, Umi X2, JiaYu etc. but now arrives one more smartphone maker who is here to topple the pricing game by coming out with the World’s Cheapest Quad Core Smartphone for mere $144. So, let’s check out all the buzz which is rolling out with this smartphone. There are two variants of this Neo smartphone which are dubbed as “Neo N003 Youth” and “Neo N003 Premium”. For your convenience, we have also mentioned the detailed comparison of the two devices below;

Specs and Features of “Neo N003 Youth” and “Neo N003 Premium”:
The only difference between “Neo N003 Youth” and “Neo N003 Premium” is that the Youth edition comes with the price tag of $144 and comes with 1GB RAM along with just 8GB of internal memory, but the N003 variant comes with $204 along with 2GB of RAM and 32GB of internal memory.

Parameters	Neo N003 Youth	Neo N003 Premium
Screen Size and resolution	5-inch, 1920 x 1080	5-inch, 1920 x 1080
Screen specifications	Corning Gorilla Glass 2 IPS Screen	Corning Gorilla Glass 2 IPS Screen
OS	Android 4.2 Jelly Bean	Android 4.2 Jelly Bean
Processor	Mediatek 1.2Ghz MT6589 quad-core	Mediatek 1.2Ghz MT6589 quad-core
RAM	1GB	2GB
Internal memory	8GB	32GB
Cameras	Front: 0.3 mega-pixel Rear: Sony 13 mega-pixel	Front: 3 mega-pixel Rear: Sony 13 mega-pixel
Battery	3000mAh	3000mAh
Price	899 Yuan ($144)	1299 Yuan ($204)

Price and Availability:
“Neo N003 Youth” and “Neo N003 Premium” comes with the price tag of $144 and $204 and will soon be available in select places around the Globe. As of now both the devices are available in China, we will keep you posted as in when we get more details about its availability.

Exclusive: LG Nexus 4 may get Launched in India around Rs.24,000 Officially

If everything falls in place for LG Electronics, it will soon be coming out with the much waited LG Nexus 4 smartphone which should come out in India within a month’s time. It was in the LG’s Tech Show 2013 which was held in Delhi last week and where we came to know from Company’s close sources that it is very keen on rolling out this device in India soon. Though we don’t have exact launch details, but this time company sources sounded very optimistic about the launch of Nexus 4 in India. Just in case if you missed on the specs and feature list of LG Nexus 4, then you can refer the same below,

Parameter	Details
Firmware OS	Android 4.2
Screen Size / Display Type	4.7-inch WXGA True HD IPS Plus with 1280 x 768 pixels
RAM	2 GB
Dimensions	133.9 x 68.7 x 9.1mm
Weight	139 grams
Processor	1.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor
Bluetooth	Bluetooth 4.0
Storage options	8GB / 16GB
Camera	1.3 MP Front Facing,8MP Rear Camera
NFC	Yes
Ports	3.5mm audio jack, Charger / USB/ Slim Port Port,
Battery	2100 mAh Talk time: 15.3 hours / Standby: 390 hours
SIM Type	Micro SIM
Colors	Black
Additional Details	Speakers are housed at the back Sim Card tray is at the left hand side of the phone, 3.5mm audio jack is placed at the top No, Menu or back button as it comes with just One middle button Supports Wireless charging
Price	Rs. 24,000*

*Approximate (Based on the inputs from Company Sources)
Nexus 4 is expected to be available in either 8GB of 16GB variant for around Rs. 24,000/-. The reason for this higher pricing when compared to US is due to no subsidy from Google Inc. for India sales which is very unfortunate. It’s good for LG Electronics in India if the device from LG is not subsidized as if Nexus 4 in India is priced in India for say Rs. 14 -15K then sales of other LG Phones like Optimus G, Optimus 7 II etc. will get affected.

How to Block Phone Balance USSD Updates as Popup Messages on Android

The USSD / MMI requests are something that could be done when you wanted to perform some network related functions, like checking the balance of your phone, or the IMEI code of your phone and a few internal functions of the phone, but when these requests happen automatically and you see the balance updates every time you make a call or send SMS, it gets annoying. Especially in the Indian networks, once a message is sent, or even when the phone loses the data network connection, the balance is sent promptly and this keeps coming when the connection is glitchy. Apart from that, when you are using some messaging offer and have free messages to send, there isn’t any need at all to get the balance update when you know you are not going to get any deduction in the account balance.
There are several applications in the Google Play Store which would help in blocking the SMS messages or notifications but none of those have been successful in blocking the USSD messages that are sent by the network. One of them which would be making things easier for people is the Balance Update / USSD blocker which targets the notification and message blocking by specific keywords and strings.
   
Using this app, you could block the messages:
- Which contain a particular string that you want to block
- Which contain a list of keywords that are separated by comma
- Which contain specified regular expressions that can be matched to block the messages
The Balance Update / USSD blocker app has got a message log of itself, which stores the latest 25 messages and these come with an indicator whether the message was blocked or allowed to view.
One can choose to show the notifications / balance once a day or week and this would show you the first balance update and then block the other ones for the entire day. This would come to good use when you have got the free message offers and would want to keep a check once a day whether the offer is still active or has expired.
   
The app is free of ads, and you get to see the options page only when you want to make any changes, or else it would work in the background and you don’t need to be worried about anything once you have set the things up for blocking the balance updates.
Once you install the app after downloading it from the Google Play Store, you need to restart your phone once before configuring or start using it.
Tip for using: To configure or block the balance status messages, you need to specify the keywords that come in those messages and whenever the app notices a message with the same keywords, it would block them. The blocking includes even the USSD message apart from the normal SMS.
The app is available for free in the Play Store. Download it from here.

List of WaterProof Android Mobile Phones in the Market with Prices

Smartphone Industry is becoming very hard to compete in, with various new features being introduced the mobile companies have now entered into the Waterproof mobile phones market. IP 57 and IP 67 are the numbers given to certify a mobile phones as waterproof and dust proof. So if you are planning to buy a waterproof phone make sure you look at this number in the specifications.
These are phones well suited to people like me who are chronic droppers of mobile phones everywhere. So if you don’t want to spoil your mobile phone when you are gardening and drop it in your garden mud or small pool of water, then these are the phones which should be considered.
Sony Xperia Z:
It comes with a 5-inch TFT Capacitive touch screen with a resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels.  1.5 GHz Quad-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor powers the device which has Android v4. 1 (Jelly Bean) Operating System.  Has an impressive 13.1 MP rear Camera with Autofocus, LED flash with Video recording at 1080p HD Video at 30fps and 2.2MP front facing Camera is also present. Sony Xperia Z has got a IP57 certificate as a waterproof and dust proof smartphone.
Sony Xperia Z is priced at $650 or INR 35,000
Sony Xperial Acro S: 
It comes with a 4.3-inch LED Capacitive touch screen display with a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels. The device is powered by 1.5GHz Dual Core Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor having Android v4.s0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) as the Operating System supported by 1GB RAM, 16GB on-board memory. Has an impressive 12MP Camera with Autofocus, LED flash along with 1080p HD Video recording at 30fps and 1.3MP front facing camera. Sony Xperia Acro S has got a IP57 certificate as a waterproof and dust proof smartphone.
Sony Xperia Acro S is priced at $450 or INR 25,000
Sony Xperia GO:
It comes with a 3.5-inch LED Capacitive touch screen having a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels. The device is powered by 1GHz Cortex-A9 Dual Core NovaThor Processor having Android v2.3 Gingerbread as the Operating System supported by 512MB of RAM, 8GB Internal Memory. 5MP rear Camera with Autofocus, LED flash and 720p HD Video Recording at 30fps.  Sony Xperia GO has got a IP57 certificate as a waterproof and dust proof smartphone.  Sony Xperia GO has got a IP67 certificate as a waterproof and dust proof smartphone.
Sony Xperia GO is priced at $280 or INR 15,000
Sony Ericson Active:
It comes with a 3 inch Reality display with Mobile BRAVIA Engine having a screen resolution of 480×320 pixels. The device is powered by a 1GHz Scorpion processor having Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system which can be upgraded to ICS and the operating system is supported by  512 MB of RAM. 5 MP camera with LED flash and 720p video recording at 30 fps and a 1GB internal memory which can be expanded with micro SD card.  Sonr Ericson Active has got a IP57 certificate as a waterproof and dust proof smartphone.
Sony Ericsson Active is priced at $280 or INR 15,000
Motorola Defy Plus: 
It comes with a 3.7-inch TFT Capacitive touchscreen display with a resolution of 480 x 854 pixels. The device is powered by 1GHz Cortex-A8 TI OMAP Processor with PowerVR SGX530 GPU having Android v2.3 (Gingerbread) Operating System. 5MP camera with Autofocus, LED flash and VGA video recording.
Motorola Defy Plus is priced at $240 or INR 13,000
Motorola Defy Mini is also another smaller version of Defy Plus which is also water resistant.
Motorola Razr Maxx: 
It comes with a 4.3 inch super AMOLED Advanced touch screen with a resolution of 540×960 pixels. The device is powered by Dual-Core 1.2 GHz processor with 1 GB of RAM and 16GB of internal memory. It has a 8 MP rear camera with Autofocus, LED Flash and a 1.3MP front facing camera.
Motorola Razr Maxx is being termed as the Strongest Smart phone around because of its Kevlar covering given to the phone which is a material used to make bullet proof jackets.
Motorola Razr Maxx is priced at $560 or INR 30,000
Panasonic ELUGA Power: 
It comes with a 5-inch LCD Capacitive touch screen having a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels. The device is powered by a 1.5GHz Dual Core Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor with Adreno 225 GPU having Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Operating System. With an 8MP camera and 1080p HD video recording at 30 fps and a partly VGA camera in the front. Panasonic ELUGA power has got a IP57 certificate as a waterproof and dust proof smartphone.
Panasonic ELUGA power is priced at $560 or INR 30,000
Samsung S5690 Galaxy X cover: 
It comes with a 3.65 inches Capacitive touch screen and Corning Gorilla Glass with a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels. The device is powered by a  800 MHz Marvell MG2 Processor having Android v2.3 (Gingerbread) Operating system. It has a 3.15 MP Rear camera with Autofocus and LED flash and a VGA front camera.
Samsung S5690 Galaxy X cover is priced at $230 or INR 12400
Toshiba Regza: 
It comes with a 4 inch FWVGA Capacitive touch screen, and be powered by a 1GHZ Snapdragon processor. It has an impressive 12MP camera. The device is having Android v2.3 (Gingerbread) Operating system. Toshiba is trying its hand in the smartphone market with this waterproof smartphone but only time will tell how it will fare in the market.
Toshiba Regza price is yet to be announced
Fujitsu:
Fujitsu has also ventured into the Waterproof and Dust proof mobile phones market by introducing it 2 models Fujitsu F705i and Fujitsu F704i which are not high end smartphones but with basic features of camera, music player and under water resistance upto 3 meters.
Kyocera Hydro Phone:
It comes with a 3.5 inches IPS LCD touchscreen with a resolution of 480 x 320 pixels. It has a IPx5 and IPx7 certification which gives it waterproof credibility. The device is powered by a 1 Ghz Snapdragon S2 MSM8655 processor with 512 MB of RAM having a  Android v2.3 (Gingerbread) Operating system. It has a 3.2 MP rear facing camera with front facing camera.
Lenovo A660: 
It comes with a 4 inch touch screen. The device is powered by 1 GHz dual core processor having Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Operating system 5 mega pixel camera rear side and VGA front camera. It also has Dual Sim GSM + GSM capability. the price of Lenovo A660 will be released shortly after its release.
It comes with a 3.2 inches display with a Asahi Glass similar to Gorilla Display. It works with the 2.3.5 Gingerbread Operating system. It runs on 1Ghz single core processor. It comes with a IP 67 certification which gives Waterproof and dust proof Credibility to the mobile phones
Lenovo A660 is Priced at $ 200 or INR 11000 Approximately
The list of Waterproof phones is going to be increasing in the recent future as all of the mobilephone companies are getting into the competition with many other phones which we will be updating regularly watch this space if you want to buy a waterproof phone.

Facebook Home, Now Available Internationally – Download Now

Ever wondered on what exactly is meant by “Facebook Home”, unfortunately for all the facebook fans who were expecting a new phone or an OS, it’s neither of them and it’s just an app but not an ordinary one though. So, let’s check out in the due course of this article on “what is facebook home” and how it changes your device’s framework with an all new refreshed UI. Faceboom Home is a new app for your Android which aims to turn your smartphone into a social phone. This is an all  new front end UI which actually lets users to get all the latest from their newsfeed and messages right on your home screen without you needing to open an app.

Facebook Home is built around your friends and puts them at the centre of your phone. So, let’s check out on what are the interesting features of Facebook Home;
Cover Feed:
Cover feed transforms your device with the fresh stream of photos and updates the same with the newsfeed. So, once you wake your smartphone from the idle mode, Cover Feed is there in front of your eyeballs. You can stay up to date with all the latest happenings with your friends in a real time manner as in when they update their status. All you need to do is to just swipe through to see more on photos and updates. The best part of this is that you won’t miss any of the latest updates from your friends.
Notifications:
Just in case if your friend posted something on your timeline, then you will receive the notifications with their profile pictures. For opening the notifications, all you need to do is to just tap on them and also alternatively you can swipe through to hide them and keep flipping through the cover feed until you want them back. Notifications of this all new facebook home is so awesome that it’s the next best to Google + when it comes to the rich user interface.
Chat Heads:
You can keep chatting with your friends even when you are using other applications. When your buddy sends you a message you get to see your friend’s face so that you exactly know with whom you are chatting with at that point of time.
App Launcher:
For getting into your app is never too late as it’s all in front of you. You can swipe up to see your favorite apps in the launcher. Also, there is a screen which consists all your applications and you can drag all your favorite apps to the launcher.
So, now the question is “How can you get the Facebook Home”?
Starting April 12 2013, you can download the Facebook Home application from Google PLAY Store and will work initially on Galaxy S3, HTC One X PLUS, Galaxy Note II, HTC One and also with Galaxy S4. Home will also be available pre-installed on phones through the Facebook Home Program. HTC has launched its first phone with Facebook Home name “HTC First”.

Download APK Files via modaco:

The Main Facebook app (‘katana’)
Now-integrated-with-your-SMS Messenger App (orca)
Home / Launcher ‘shell’ App (home)