Enterprise Services for T-Mobile Android users

Are you using an Android handset on T-Mobile? Are you concerned about security for your company's data? Then Good Technology has the solution for you! Good has announced a new partnership with T-Mobile to offer its Good for Enterprise services to T-Mobile customers with Android phones.

The Good for Enterprise service promises security and management for IT departments. It allows users to bring their own devices to the network, but still provides control for the IT team.

T-Mobile business customers can contact their sales rep to learn more about the Good for Enterprise services.

Sony Ericsson Xperia phones getting NFC

Sony Ericsson has announced that they would bring NFC to the upcoming Xperia series of Android handsets. The NFC is chip is manufactured by NXP semiconductors, global leader in NFC solutions.

The Google Nexus S, that was launched at the end of last year, recently announced Blackberry Bold 9900 and the Samsung Galaxy S2 has NFC. The Google Wallet that turns your phone into a wallet, also uses NFC.
The upcoming Sony Ericsson phones plans to use NXP PN65 NFC chips. Near Field Communications (NFC) would allow the users to connect or purchase items from the point of sale (POS) terminal, carryout mobile transactions, get tickets from the ticketing terminal and read a location-based promotional tag.

This chip also uses advanced cryptography and high security while performing the contact-less banking transactions and in e-passports and e-ID cards. NXP semiconductors also expects that this move by Sony Ericsson would increase their revenue from 1% to 2 to 4% in the second half of 2011.

Even though the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc skipped NFC, the next NFC enabled Sony Ericsson Xperia phone might come within this year.

Android 2.3 hits Sprint HTC EVO Shift 4G

Android OS powered phones are available in wide range of variety, like you can get a high-end Android phone as well as a mid-range powered phone too, all depends on your budget. High-end comes with everything latest and they are always running on the latest OS version, and mid-range devices are sometimes missing it. Android 2.3 a.k.a Gingerbread is the latest version of Google Android OS and high-end devices are shipping with it, also some mid-range devices too. It’s also rolling it to devices running on old software version and now it’s HTC EVO Shift 4G turn. HTC EVO 4G recently received it and now Shift 4G will start receiving Android 2.3 from June 20th and it will be an over-the-air update. Shift 4G is a QWERTY slider phone, and it’s actually Sprint version of Desire Z.

If you are just like me and can’t wait to try Gingerbread then just go to Menu>Settings>System updates>HTC software Update and the manual update will start, you can do it right now. It will bring Gingerbread features to Shift 4G as well as Swype text capability.