My wife has been using Samsung Galaxy Ace for a year now. But several
months back she always got an error when switch on portable hotspot
feature. Nothing that I did would resolve it. The original firmware
was 2.2.1.

A week ago I updated the firmware to 2.3.5 and the portable hotspot is
working fine now.

I think the problem lies in the old firmware. Nevertheless I can not
justify what went wrong. Still, it is good to have this feature back.

zenPad is rising against the famous iPad. Price tag? $155 against $499. zenPad option: include GPS for $25, include 3G micro USB dongle for $35. In total: $215.

I'm not sure when this came up, nevertheless Indosat has just launched its Android pages and release five Android phones at once: HTC Hero, Motorola Milestone, Samsung Galaxy Spica, LG GW 620, and Huawei U8230. Prices are ranging from Rp. 3.4 million to Rp. 6 million (around $360 to $640) but Indosat is giving pre-order discount on the above page.

Seesmic has brought its Twitter client to the mobile arena as well with the launch of clients for the Android and BlackBerry platforms. Both apps are available for free

Excerpt from Mashable.

This is great. An alternative to UberTwitter for my BlackBerry, though native RIM application for Twitter that I'm waiting for. Btw, no Seesmic for iPhone?

So far, the results look promising. After selling a reported 100,000 phones over its launch weekend, a new estimate suggests that 250,000 Droids were sold in the first week. Although that’s considerably less than the 1.6 million iPhone 3GS devices that Apple was able to move in its June debut

Excerpt from Mashable.

A new toy, a new gadget for a new year. I think the number will increase significantly, especially in US, during christmas and new year.