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A Giant Air Gun Knocks Down A House

2009-08-01T01:01:00.000-07:00

BBC’s newest show, Bang Goes The Theory, is off to what the Brits would call a ’smashing starting’. Last week we saw the show’s host scale a building with what were supposedly home made vacuum cleaner suction gloves. Now he has pieced together a vortex cannon that fires a powerful ring of air that would probably knock most people squarely on their ass.

The Vortex Cannon uses some crazy mixture of gas and when ignited produces a vortex ring that travels at over 200mph. To see the ring in action they shot the below video at 1300 frames per second. What you’re actually seeing isn’t smoke, it a cloud. The cannon is being fired over water and the vortex is actually condensing the moisture in the air.

EzVision - Video Eyewear

2009-07-25T07:03:00.000-07:00

Why get headaches thinking what may the future bring us as you can feel the future today?
The EzVision Video Eyewear gadget makes you travel through time to that cyber community future. This futuristic gadget represents new glasses with a weight of only 68g but with some spectacular features.

First to start it you will have to plug it into your iPod video or into a portable video or DVD player if you wish to watch your movie in a breathtaking way, the same effect you may get when looking at a huge cinema screen.

When you put them on the real world disappears for some time, and you get right into the movie. It is a thing you have never done before. It includes retractable headphones that are already built into the arms of specs.

Now you may watch movies in your bed without disturbing your sole mate’s sleep, you may watch it in the back seat of your car and even when traveling by bus, train, or airplane.

It has a rechargeable battery that lasts up to 8 hours, a volume control, adaptors to connect iPods and DVD players.

Has a resolution of 320*240, a 50 inch virtual screen to watch DVD, TV, videos from the video iPod and even play video games.
Bring cinema to your eyes.

New Motorola QWERTY slider released - Motorola Hint QA30

2009-07-23T02:34:00.000-07:00

Not so long ago we wrote about new unannounced yetsmartphone from Nokia with QWERTY keyboard. Motorola tried to not fall behind its competitor, and officially announced its own QWERTY slider, named Motorola Hint QA30. After all rumors in the past several days, Motorola finally presented its new phone, which is made with text message lovers in mind. Taking in consideration, that Motorola rarely releases something new nowadays, it doubles the interest to its new product.

Phones with QWERTY keyboard have their own piece of market. Modern times developed new type of communication - via text messages and instant messaging applications. It is extremely uncomfortable to type a long message on usual phone keypad, and while many people can live with it, someone can't. This is the audience for QWERTY keyboard enabled phones, like this one. Motorola Hint QA30 is a CDMA cell phone that is a first Motorola slider with full QWERTY keyboard. It has a full set of modern multimedia functions, like QVGA 2.5" display, video and audio playback (list of supported formats include MIDI, MP3, AAC, AAC+, AAC+ Enhanced, WMA v9 for audio and H.263, MPEG4, WMV v9 for video), microSDHC support up to 8 GB, Bluetooth Stereo, 2 megapixel camera with video recording, and 3.5 headphone jack for true music lovers. Internet functions are also present, and they are greatly done - fully featured HTML browser, integrated E-Mail and IM functions (which take full benefits from QWERTY keyboard - text input is greatly faster than on standard phone keypad). 128 MB of RAM gives great possibilities for multitasking; 256 MB of built-in memory leave plenty of space even if you forgot your card at home. Las, but not least - this model has aGPS support, so if carrier supports this function users will be able to track their position on the map.

Battery life is also quite impressive for a 940 mAh battery - up to 4.5 hours in talking mode and up to 15 days in standby. Phone is quite thick (because of sliding keyboard), but overall its size is not huge, so it will fit in almost every pocket: 82 x 61,6 x 17 mm, 120g weight.

This interesting novelty from Motorola will be released in stores in November 28 in USA, no information about other countries yet. Unfortunately, this is not asmartphone, but is has an impressive set of features for a usual phone and it will be popular amongst young and active people, who like to send text messages and listen music.

Nokia 5800 (Tube) released - new model is officially presented

2009-07-23T02:18:00.001-07:00

Nokia 5800, previously known as Tube, gained much attention because it was the first Nokia answer to Apple iPhone - not a rival, but a phone with similar looks and interface. Touchscreen thumb-controlled devices are getting more and more popular, and Nokia's first attempt in this market - Nokia 5800 release - promises to be successful one. As was announced earlier, at October 2 Nokia finally presented its first multimedia touchscreen smartphone on Symbian - Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. We dug into details, which are described below.

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic most interesting side is that it is working on a first Symbian S60 made especially for touchscreen control and big resolutions - S60 5th Edition. It is designed to be controlled either by thumbs or stylus, with ability to choose what you prefer the most (unlike Windows Mobile, S60 5th Edition is fully optimized for thumb usage - although, f you like, you can take the stylus and work with it with no problems. On Windows Mobile all thumb operating features are just a shell that works above stylus-oriented OS). Interesting enough, Nokia oriented this smartphone not as a premium class smartphone but as a middle-class music phone.

iIt comes with 3.2 inched sensor displaywith 640 x 360 resolution, which is bigger than the iPhone's and is capable of displaying movies or images very crisp and bright, 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus and double LED flashlight, GPS. Wireless features include Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, which, in combination with its high-resolution display, makes 5800 great for web surfing. Built-in accelerometer adjusts image on screen if the position of smartphone is changed from portrait to landscape mode, this feature is present in almost every modern multimedia smartphone, so it is not a WOW factor anymore.

While aimed at music lovers, smartphone has all that needed for listening in comfort - 3.5 minijack slot for connecting almost every model of headphones to the device (no adapters or proprietary accessories is needed;, powerful multimedia player that runs smoothly and benefits hugely from the display's size - album arts look lovely, especially if saved in high resolution; expandable memory via microSD cards - up to 16 GB is supported, 8GB card is bundled with the phone. Text input is done fully via touchscreen and virtual keyboard - it has two modes of operation, one for thumb input and one for stylus. Needless to say, phone supports 3G networks and has all that is needed for video calls.

First version of this interesting smartphone will be released pretty soon - models in black, red and blue colors will be sold for attractive price - 279 Euros (approximately 380 US dollars), with special edition "Nokia Comes With Music" launching in the beginning of 2009. It is curious, how it will be compatible with great amount of S60 applications and games that are already released. In any case, expect to see many great applications written to use all of Nokia Tube possibilities.

Nokia 5800 (Tube) released - new model is officially presented

2009-07-23T02:18:00.000-07:00

Miss no calls with water-resistant speakers

2009-07-22T01:54:00.000-07:00

If you are water obsessed, you may be well interested in a new product. This convenient gadget is claimed to be the first waterproof speakers in the world with floating capacities for your convenience. This gorgeous Bluetoothspeaker can be connected to your cell phone to make it possible for you not to miss incoming calls.

How does it work? Once you connected it to your cell phone, you can make yourMP3 music play, and as soon as there is a call, the music will be stopped to let you know about incoming calls. This ideaproves to be very important and useful if you try to combine your summer vacation with your work, or you just want to stay updated.

All you need is just make certain whether or not your cell phone is water resistant as well. You may take it with you whenever you go, a swimming pool to make your friends surprised or to your bath tub. This gorgeous floating Bluetooth speaker features Bluetooth A2DP/AVRCP native profiles, 2 x 2W speakers coming with 8Ohm for fine stereo sound.

Being a water resistant gizmo, this wireless floating speaker is not submersible. These breaking new ground wireless speakers can be connected to your iPhone by means of Bluetooth A2DP to be capable to stream your MP3 music. Having a capacity to know when there is an incoming call, still you will not be able to listen to your phone calls with your wireless speaker nor will you be able to speak.

These water resistant floating speakers are going to have a price tag of just about 40 USD. An important function is when you receive an incoming call, the music stops playing. You can make most use of your cell phone sound output while missing no calls. These nice looking wireless speakers use standard AAbatteries and have an operation range of 10 meters.

Additionally, you may choose pause and play options whenever you are wiling to. These outstanding speakers are compatible with all Bluetooth supported electronicdevices. Besides, the speakers feature next and previous songs option with different volume capacities. Measuring 155 mm in diameter, it is also an easily portable device.

Waterwalkerz to burn off your energy while running on water

2009-07-21T00:00:00.000-07:00

If you want to feel like a hamster, here is a right gadget for you. Called Waterwalkerz, this funny device makes it possible for you to run on water. So if you are interested in burning off a lot of energy while running on water, this beautiful inflatable ball made of plastic will give you up to 30 minutes of free water walking until the air presence allows. Hopefully, you will get enough energy for a crazy running of 30 minutes.

The balls are constructed from plastics known as Thermoplastic polyurethanes to feature elastic and transparent abilities. Besides, the balls are rated to be abrasion resistant meaning you will be able to have fun rolling along the pebble beaches. These rugged balls measure 2 meters in diameter so its size is good enough for being used in swimming pools of just 8 foot in diameter with a 25 meter swimming pool being enough for water running competition of 5 water runners at the same time.

According to its producer, this amazing ball is capable of carrying 90 kg weight limit but those fun loving people with a weight of 110 kg who used a ball had no troubles using it. Waterwalkerz are mostly designed for those who organize parties or team competitions. Waterwalkerz can be had for 710 USD with blowers available for 199 USD. With Waterwalkerz balls, you will be able to continuously and effortlessly rotate whether you are next to a lake, beach or swimming pool.

Did you believe that running on water while being dry was possible? Waterwalkerz are the balls that take your energy consuming fun to the next level. Using these funny balls, you will be also able to stay physically fit. Fitness on water has never been so fun plus a ball is safe and easy to operate. There is no time limit when to use it as it can be used all year round whether it is a swimming pool or a lake.

If you have a child, 5 minutes of using Waterwalkerz will be enough for some exhausting running on water. In addition, it is very durable and trustworthy. You can easily repair it if you get punctured. Among other activities to practice there is football or sumo, fitness or just crazy running. Anyway it appears to be very exhausting but it worth using it.

Ping Pong Door by Tobias Franzel to keep you in good shape

2009-07-20T23:54:00.000-07:00

If you are a ping pong aficionado, this clever gadget will be on your priority list. Designed by Tobias Franzel, it looks like a standard door, but in reality this innovative door can be easily transformed into a ping pong table when you want to improve your ping pong skills while keeping you in good shape. And once your ping pong game is finished you can turn it to a standard door. Are not you fascinated?

This smart Ping Pong door turns out to be a perfect solution if you live in an apartment where free space is limited. So it must be the funniest door ever made. Just keep your paddles handy and stay healthy with this intelligent door. A must have condition is that you should have the adjacent room so that you could have enough space for a game.

Not only is your room able to be decorated by this door but is it a good motivation to keep practicing ping pong. The other side of the door has traditional looks so if you are possessed by ping pong, this futuristic door would certainly be of avail.

iHome iConnect Keyboard - ready to charge your iPhone and iPod

2009-07-19T22:58:00.000-07:00

Revealed by trusted iHome, the iConnect seems to be an iPhone or iPod-ready keyboard coming with integrated dock and making it possible for you to have your iPhone and iPod charged. There are two versions of the keyboard one of which for Windows while another one for Macs.

Both iConnect keyboards from iHome include two USB 2.0 ports with Mac having additional keys to be rapidly accessed with such applications as iChat, iCal, Mail, Safari and Front Row. These handy keyboards are scheduled to be available sometime this summer for a price tag of 149.99 and 299.99 USD respectively.

These keyboards you are not used to see daily look fantastic with the main difference for MAC version, the extra keys for iTunes, Mail and Safari. Also these beautiful keyboards come with media controls and slender design. In addition, the keyboards incorporate speakers and touch sensitive volume controls.

Wireless Keyboard to include touchpad – nice if you don’t like mice

2009-07-19T22:45:00.000-07:00

This is more than just a regular keyboard. Having powerful office function with 87 QWERTY keys, 18 hot keys including an embedded high precision multi touch pad which operates as both keyboard and touch pad. This means, if you want to switch your touchpad into a numerickeypad you will need just one press of a button.

This intelligent keyboard can be operated from a distance with operating distance of up to 10 meters. This wirelesskeyboard features click as well as right click buttons. Its frequency scope is 2479MHz while operating frequency is 2.4GHz ISM Band.

This brand new USB keyboard operates wirelessly which is very convenient for any user. Its touch pad is capable of operating as a numeric keypad. It can be easily used wherever you are as it is an ultra portable, slender and compact device.

Having a price tag of 69 USD, this smart keyboard also features a multi touch function with two and three finger touch capacity. Not that this keyboard is available, you will be able to scroll, zoom, window switching or whatever you might like at a track pad.

If you are the one who likes track pad and not the mouse, this smart touch pad is what you really need. This wireless keyboard measures about 425 x 153 x 18 mm and weighs 462 g. This slim keyboard has a fitted battery LOW LED while having its striking on/off switch design.

Its data rate is FSK/IMbps while device ID length is 32 Bits. Featuring FN which is a num lock change function, this whimsical keyboard supports Window XP/Vista. Once switched, you will have a 10 key number pad. That sounds fantastic for sure.

You will be able to launch miscellaneous programs by 18 hot keys available on this super keyboard. This mighty keyboard has an USB adapter, making your traveling as easy as possible. Released by Brando, this wireless miracle tries to change the future. This Brando keyboard guarantees a better interaction with your PC system.

Pocket Retro Game Emulator – new flame for console game

2009-07-19T07:03:00.000-07:00

The Pocket Retro Game Emulator is an easy to use gaming gizmo which can be kept in your pocket. This retro game can be a lot of fun with any game user. Its amazing looks much the same with Game Boy, but let us do not judge by appearances. Coming with 4 GB storage capacity, this retro game is compatible with NES, SNES, GBA, Sega Genesis, or Neo Geo roms.

This handheld game is an ultra portable and plug and play electronic device being held by the palm of your hand. In addition, this funny game has a mini SD slot giving you a possibility to play right from your gaming consoles. Additionally, you will be able to view movie files, audio files, jpg images or do voice recording.

Besides, this Pocket Retro Game Emulator uses the embedded FM radio and is capable of reading electronic books. You will be delighted by 4 control buttons on the right on its right part and 2 shoulder buttons. Its d-pad on the left part of the console is good enough to combat in fighting games.

This game emulator is capable to manage both 8 bit and 16 bit console games. Its customizable buttons are ready to be used as you wish. When necessary, any game can be paused with capacity to store the game due to its memory capacity.

Once the game is saved, you will be able to once again start playing the interrupted game from the moment you saved your level. NES and SNES roms can be easily downloaded when needed. This gaming system is excellent and can be connected to your Mac computer by USB port.

This mini gaming system is capable to play roms from your game consoles with 8 and 16 bit supporting. There is no need to load any software for your gaming emulator. Its internal storage can be expanded by mini SD. High visibility 2, 8 inch QVGA (320x240) LCD display making its appearance highly noticeable.

Pocket Retro Game Emulator has output to TV by composite video cables included in the package. Another cool feature is its full media player. Sound is perfect due to fitted stereo speakers. The battery life of this game console is from 6 to 8 hours on a single charge with internal li-battery.

Its LCD screen has low temperature PolySilicon while game console is compatible with such video formats as FLV, WMV, ASF, RM, AVI, MPEG, MP4, RMVB, SWF. Pocket Retro Game Emulator comes in stunning black color. The game console also includes an earphone jack with ear buds.

Compatible with such audio formats as MP3, WMA, APE, FLAC, this retro game emulator has mini USB port as well as I/O Slots. Pocket Retro Game Emulator measures 125mm x 56mm x 14mm. (L x W x H). Pocket Retro Game Emulator has AV OUT (output to TV - NTSC or PAL, 16:9 or 4:3).

Among gaming console modes, there is Nintendo Entertainment System - 8bit, Super Nintendo Entertainment System - 16bit, Sega Mega-Drive - 16-bit, Nintendo Game Boy Advance, SNK Neo-Geo, CAPCOM, arcade game systems, 1st and 2nd edition.

While listening to the radio, you will be also able to record the music you liked. Image viewer offers JPG, BMP, GIF and PNG formats while its electronic book boasts text to speech feature. Voice recorder is available at MP3 and WAV formats.

This portable game player has an AC adapter (100-240V 50/60hz), USB cable as well as user guide available in English language. This game console can be helpful during your breaks from your work or wherever you are. This Pocket Retro Game Emulator can be had for 99, 99 USD. As soon as you copied over the roms you may start playing and enjoy new LCD game experience.

Terrific Komodo retro adapter for your gaming delight

2009-07-19T06:50:00.000-07:00

Did you remember your school days playing Nintendo games and how much excitement it has been bringing to you? Komodo solution brings us back to childhood with their high tech product an innovative Komodo’s Retro gamingadapter. With Komodo’s Retro gaming adapter, you will be able to have a lot of fun playing amazing games using your original Nintendo controllers on your Wii.

To be able to play, you will need to connect your NES, SNES as well as N64 controllers to Wii, which now is possible owing to this fabulous gaming adapter. Shaped like a small N64 controller, this gaming adapter also features a trio ports plugs to be suitable for a controller port. The gaming adapter is expected to go on sale for $ 19, 99 sometime in June. So no much time is left for you to have a new retro gaming experience

Wireless spy camera pen

2009-07-18T06:28:00.000-07:00

There is no need to open your own private detective agency in order to feel like inspector gadget. The new wireless pen which is fully functioning as a normal looking pen has a built in mini spy camera.

It is available in red, blue and black colors. For those interested in some serious spying this pen should be used for viewing and recording everything they see. Whip out the magic pen and then twist the cap in order to start the transmission from 10-20meters.

The camera itself is a device of 1/3 inch CMOS and has 60 angular field of view with 3Lux illuminations. The backlight compensation and the white balance of the camera switch on automatically. The S/N ratio is 48db, the transmission operation varies from 5 to 35deg C and the transmission frequency is 2414Mhz.

It has a power adapter of a DC 5V type, a built in microphone and a built in Li – ion battery. This gadget includes also a solar charge unit for an easy and quick recharging of the pen.

The first thing to mention is its memory capacity - 64MB, but let's not forget its external memory SD/MMC Card of 2 GB. The video resolution is 882*240 at 30fps. The receiving frequency is 2.4 Ghz.

The pictures are taken in JPEG format, sound in MP3 format, has a bit rate of 32-320Kbps and can be listened through 1w speaker.

This wireless spy camera is very practical. It has a display where you can choose the languages, demodulation modes, frequency and channels that are in number of four. Has an AV out/in, has two 20 mW outputs for the earphones and an included solar charger.

Eyeball-implanted camera

2009-07-18T06:17:00.000-07:00

A lot of efforts were made to help blind people restore their sight. Yet, despite the fact that many promising ideas appeared it's very hard to find a solution for such a complex problem. But in case we really want to make all those people happy the research on this issue must go on.

Thus, according to the recent patent application implanting a micro-camera directly into the eyeball may be a future solution for restoring sight to blind or people with damaged vision. Actually technology to restore sight to the blind by using electronic retinas was developed some time ago, but the link between the retina and external cameras was involving wires, which represents a significant disadvantage of such a method. But now it's said that the camera could be charged wirelessly and communicate directly with a chip implanted at the back of the eye, so very little external hardware would be needed.

UCLA Optical engineer Michelle Hauer thinks that technology may have advanced enough to insert a tiny camera inside the lens of the eye, capable of adapting for corneal optical effects and perhaps using haptics to stabilize its position. The camera would transmit images to a nerve-stimulating chip at the back of the eye, resulting in a complete electronic vision system.

It sounds great, so if scientists are able to make this technology true in near future, it will be an outstanding achievement. However, it seems a little bit unreal to implement such a perfect technology.

Waterproof Solar-powered Phone from Sharp

2009-07-17T04:01:00.000-07:00

The ability of the sun is an accomplished antecedent of activity and summertime is a absolute aeon back bodies can use accessories based on the sun-power. Keeping with the trends and aliment of the avant-garde world, Sharp in accord with Japanese corpuscle buzz aggregation AU KDDI appear the absolution of its fresh waterproof buzz that can be answerable application sun-power. This abstraction is by no agency new: LG has already appear conception of solar-powered phones. Samsung comes with its Blue Earth solar-powered blow phone. Moreover, Intivation Aggregation has already appear the ZTE Coral-200 and Commtiva Sola solar-powered phones.

It is little accepted of the fresh phone: the alone advice is affiliated with its adequacy to use the ability of the sun. The phone, which is yet unnamed, offers one minute of allocution time or two hours of standby time afterwards actuality beneath the sun for 10 minutes. So, if you are on the beech, you may beddy-bye for an hour or two and again you will be able to allocution for 10 minutes. The buzz receives up to 80% of its allegation from solar power. The solar console is placed on the top of the handset. However, it is not actual convenient, for you will accept to delay for a continued time in adjustment to allocution a little. Thus, this is addition attack to aftermath environmentally affable gadgets. Additionally, it is waterproof.

However, some of the phones mentioned above, accept advantages apropos talk-time: LG buzz offers three account of talking afterwards 10-minute sunlight charging. But while Sharp appear the absolution date of the buzz – June, 2009 – there is no advice from LG Aggregation apropos the date. Thus, Sharp buzz may be advised as the aboriginal waterproof solar-powered handset.

Charge your portable gadgets with the Solar Charger Vest

2009-07-17T03:50:00.000-07:00

Being a aggregate of appearance and aerial technology, this acceptable apparatus is able of charging your admired carriageable accessories on the go. Wherever you go, you can be chargeless from those collapsed array situations. Dubbed the CVFR-S09 Solar Vest, this blooming accoutrement is advised for alive bodies actuality on the move while authoritative your activity easier.

The CVFR-S09 Solar Belong has a lot of pockets for your cyberbanking gizmos and appearance all the cables, array backpack and added connectors that acquiesce charging the best accepted cyberbanking devices. Despite of the fact, the canvas of the belong is bendable to the touch, it is a abiding tissue. Its 4 laminated solar panels are advised to be baptize resistant, so you will not accept to be anguish about your solar belong aback it rains.

When you are central or in a atramentous area, you can calmly abstract the solar panels so as to put them in sun ablaze to accomplish your belong alive alike if you accept a rest. The solar ability is captured by 4 solar panels while you are alfresco with the solar ability actuality stored in a aerial accommodation array positioned in the advanced larboard pocket.

So already your cyberbanking gadget’s array is dead, you may calmly affix it to the array to absolutely allegation it. The CVFR-S09 Solar Belong is bung and comedy accessory advancing with a rechargeable array with 8 800 mAh of power. Solar panels accept 6W with 3.7V with voltage acclimatize option.

The CVFR-S09 Solar Belong appearance 8 ability connectors and 7 accessory connectors, 8 advanced pockets, 1 aback pocket, Zipper and Velcro fastener. The Solar Belong is accessible in atramentous and amber colors with a amount tag of 140 USD.

The CVFR-S09 Solar Belong comes with ablaze indicators with blooming animated aback ability is added than 80 per cent, orange lighting aback ability is amid 30 and 70 percent and alarming red for accessories that accept beneath than 30 per cent of power.

A carriageable concoction charger measures 120 mm in length, 70 mm in amplitude and 22 mm in bore while solar console ambit are 135 mm in breadth and 600 mm in width. The CVFR-S09 Solar Belong measures 600 mm in breadth and 600 mm in width. Added appearance accommodate AC Input Port, USB Ability Input, DC Achievement 1, DC Achievement 2, 5V, 6V, 9V and 12-20V output.

With calefaction protection, acquittal protection, over allegation protection, abbreviate ambit protection, this catchy apparatus appears to be actual safe and clever. This environmentally affable apparatus comes with USB addendum cable as able-bodied as English manual.

This aperture watering apparatus turns out to be an ideal band-aid for about anybody whether you like camping, fishing or added alfresco activities or you charge to break in acquaintance all day long.

2009-07-16T00:45:00.000-07:00

HTC is ablution a fresh smartphone from Touch series, a buzz that is aggressive appear ball functionalities.

Taiwanese aggregation HTC expands its cardinal of Touch alternation smartphones with the archetypal Touch HD a buzz that combines appearance and architecture with high-end functionalities.

Being a allotment of a ample cardinal of Touch phones, this assemblage has a touchscreen with WVGA resolution (480 x 800) and a accustomed HTC interface, TouchFlo3D that offers fast and automatic admission to the buzz functionalities.

Connectivity of Touch HD includes GSM/EDGE, 3G with HSDPA, WiFi 802.11g and A-GPS in accession with Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR. The buzz includes a 5 Mp camera and a accessory aboveboard VGA camera for video calls.

Other characteristics are centralized anamnesis of 512 MB ROM and 288 MB RAM, abutment for microSD cards, 3,5 mm audio jack. Battery offers 6,5 hours of 3G calls, or 2 hours for video calls.

HTC Touch HD will be bartering in Europe in the alternating quarter.

HTC MAX 4G - powerful communicator with WiMAX

2009-07-16T00:38:00.000-07:00

While accomplished apple enjoys the advantages that 3G networks bring, including video calls and fast Internet connection, it's time to attending avant-garde into the future. Not so continued time ago, fresh advice accepted hit the attic - it was alleged WiMAX, and it is the best avant-garde wireless internet technology up-to-date. It is like a WiFi, alone way faster, and the breadth is huge - 75 km ambit compared to alone 1 km of WiFi. This avant-garde technology can advice in overextension Internet affiliation over the accomplished city, abutting it into WMAN (Wireless Metropolitan Breadth Network). Several companies in Russia already put their stakes on it, and they got a appealing acceptable advantage in the better cities. One of these companies, Yota, alike contacted HTC, better PocketPC smartphones manufacturer, for absolution a appropriate smartphone for their WiMAX network. And actuality it is - fresh able smartphone from HTC, with abounding WiMAX possibilities and abundant hardware, absolute to Russia-only.

New archetypal from HTC is alleged HTC MAX 4G, and it looks like an HTC Touch HD aftereffect with WiMAX and hardly altered design. Best of the appearance are the same: able Qualcomm ESM7206A 528 MHz CPU, 288 MB of RAM, 256 MB ROM, 8 GB congenital beam memory, big 3.8 inched LCD with 480 x 800 resolution, rear camera with autofocus and aboveboard camera for video calls, accelerometer, and abounding set of wireless interfaces (maybe the fullest on market) - Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 900/1800/1900 MHz + WiMAX 2.5 - 2.7 GHz. Operating arrangement is Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, which is accompanying with absorbing and appealing TouchFLO 3D interface from HTC. With its huge affectation and able CPU it can be alleged an ultimate multimedia center; it plays agnostic video files with no glitches at all, has FM radio and supports a array of audio formats. With GPS abilities, due to its big screen, HTC MAX 4G can serve a acceptable job as navigator, either for car or for travelling by foot.

With this apparatus HTC accepted the chat "Innovation" in their slogan. They absolutely can innovate, and they do attending avant-garde into the future. At this moment WiMAX networks are not broadly spread, but who knows what will be afterwards year or two? HTC MAX 4G is a actual able anchorperson with a able accouterments and appropriate characteristics. It will never be as accepted as Apple's toy, it is aimed at business articulation and it will abide there. Maybe abutting smartphone from Apple will be iPhone 4G? HTC MAX 4g is appointed to absolution at the end of November 2008 in Russia only, estimated amount - 1090 dollars.

Calvin Klein USB Sunglasses to store your data

2009-07-15T00:20:00.000-07:00

Calvin Klein has apparent its fresh eyes of affected sunglasses alleged USB sunglasses. Not alone are these acute sunglasses assure your eyes from the chancy UV application but additionally are they able to abundance the data. These fashionable sunglasses affection a USB beam drive positioned in the arm of the sunglasses and accommodate 4 GB accumulator capacity.

The Calvin Klein USB sunglasses appears to be a able way of autumn your abstracts acknowledgment to its disposable appropriate arm which can be calmly adapted into a beam drive. So you can calmly and cautiously go for a airing in brilliant canicule with these appealing sunglasses to get aback home application your beam drive attainable to operate.

The Calvin Klein USB sunglasses are accepted to hit the bazaar in October with a amount tag of 199 USD. This appealing nice summertime sunglasses can be readily acclimated wherever you are after charge to chase for your beam drive.

The advantage of the USB sunglasses is that you abrasion beautiful sunglasses while actuality adequate from the hot sun. These astonishing USB sunglasses could appear in attainable while accepting a sun tan on the bank with an calmly attainable beam drive.

CTA Digital USB travel kit for smart traveling

2009-07-15T00:10:00.000-07:00

If you are the one who needs to accept all your USB accessories handy, actuality is a absolute idea. Called CTA agenda USB biking kit, this all-in-one comfortable apparatus comes with USB mouse, Ethernet cables and ear bud headphone which are retractable for accessible commuting. Well, all the technologically accomplished travelers would be admiring to use it already outdoors.

The CTA agenda USB biking kit is accessible for 34, 15 USD. This acute biking kit offers 4 accessories for abutting all your USB devices. Its headphone, USB abrasion and Ethernet cable all appear able with retractable cords.

Whatever USB peripherals you accept got, this ultra carriageable biking kit will accomplish your airing advantageous and comfy. Its Ethernet cable makes abiding your abutting to an Ethernet arrangement is actual automatic while traveling with this amazing biking kit will accomplish you an alive USB user on the move.

Thanko's new slick and slim Video Camera Spy Pen

2009-07-14T00:57:00.000-07:00

Thanko lights the day up again. Its most recent apparatus - Video Camera Spy Pen actually gives me animality mania. The abbreviate and beautiful pen contains accessories with which alike Mr. Bond would be complexly satisfied. All what we knew about antecedent Thanko accessories is embodied in the Video Camera Spy Pen, but is better, has college affection and is up to alive longer. Still, the best affair about it is that we do not accept to delay for it to appear out. The apparatus is already accessible in Japan for 6,980 JPY (75.5 EUR or 55 USD). Full specs follow.

Let's alpha with video capabilities. Thanko Video Camera Spy Pen can shoot 736 x 576 video in .avi architecture at 19 to 22 frames per second. Unlike Panasonic HDC-HS350 we accept afresh reviewed, Thanko's pen will abrasion the array bottomward afore you beat anamnesis space. Now in course: onboard array activity is bound to 3 hours back centralized anamnesis has 2GB. Anamnesis amplification is accessible via MicroSDHC agenda to 10GB overall. Charge is done via USB. Spy pen can additionally shoot photos in 1280 x 960 resolution in .jpg format.

In rest, you get a accustomed ball-point pen with 6 months assurance (!), appealing slick, abbreviate and stylish.2e7hq8b9gt

Lighter USB Spycam to give you first hand evidence

2009-07-14T00:46:00.001-07:00

Have you anytime dreamt of acceptable a cool detective? Here is addition spy apparatus authoritative it easier for every detective to accomplish their duties. This appears to be a accepted lighter of Zippo appearance but it incorporates a adapted spy camera inside. This spy camera is able of recording video in a 640 x 480 pixel resolution at 16 frames per second.

This catchy apparatus can be actual important in our lives, as it can accord us aboriginal duke affirmation of what was happening. Once you started recording video, it will be stored as an AVI book while the accumulator accommodation of your accomplished lighter would be of 2 GB. This lighter USB Spy camcorder appearance breach lens, blush video camcorder as able-bodied as lighter spy camcorder.

You will not accept troubles application it, as this is an accessible to use gadget, authoritative it accessible for you to abduction video by a distinct columnist of “ON” button. This advantageous spy camcorder additionally has a fast acknowledgment time. Not alone is it able to almanac video but additionally audio will be recorded. This USB Spy camcorder measures 5.3 x 3.7 x 1.2 centimeters, what makes it an ultra carriageable camcorder. This accessible Lighter USB Spy Camcorder can be castigation for 66 USD.

iPhone vs. Samsung F700: What is better?

2009-07-13T01:02:00.000-07:00

iPhone has been arise a few weeks ago and a lot of bodies were cat-and-mouse for it to appear. It is one of the best acute phones in its class. However, there is addition acute buzz that is on the aforementioned akin as the iPhone. Samsung F700 was arise after again the iPhone about it beats iPhone in several characteristics.

Samsung phones become added acceptable and added acceptable every day and the iPhone is about the best buzz in the world. These phones could be alleged accessories because they are top leaders in corpuscle phones industry.

It is absolute adamantine to analyze and accept one of these phones if you appetite to shop for a acute buzz of that level. We will try to advice you with that.

Which touchscreen is better?

The admeasurement of the iPhone's touchscreen is bigger again the Samsung's one and it measures 3.5 inches as against to Samsung's 2.8 inches display. Admeasurement does amount nowadays: added and added we watch movies and appearance pictures application our phones and added carriageable devices. Sometimes it is acute to accept a big awning alike if it involves accretion the admeasurement of the device. This agency that you are activity to accept a bigger gadget.

The resolution of the awning is a absolute important affection that a smartphone needs to accept because best of them accept awning keyboards and it wouldn't be so air-conditioned to blazon back you accept tiny buttons displayed. iPhone's display's resolution is 480 x 320 pixels and it is absolute alarming for a phone. The resolution of the Samsung's F700 awning is not abundant abate and it is 440 x 240 pixels, besides it has a abate screen.

Having a touchscreen on your buzz is air-conditioned and convenient. These two companies accept altered solutions for their touchscreens. iPhone has the touchscreen with Multitouch action and Samsung awning has the Drag and Drop function.

See what is added acceptable to you. I anticipate that a bigger affectation would win the battle.

Connectivity

There is annihilation abundant to say about it we aloof charge to account you the appearance the phones have. iPhone works with Quad-Band GSM (850, 900, 1800, 1900), it has EDGE, 802.11 b/g, and Bluetooth 2.0. As against to Samsung F700 it has Bluetooth and it is an advantage, we think.

Samsung F700 differs from iPhone with: Tri-Band GSM, 7.2 Mb/s HSDPA, and it has additionally EDGE. It does not say annihilation about Bluetooth; maybe it does not accept it. It is not a acceptable affair because it is one of the best means to affix to added devices.

They both accept Full HTML browsers so you will be able to get online accessible and fast.

Keyboard

There are abounding discussions about the keyboards and which one is better. iPhone has a bigger affectation and it has an On-screen keyboard and has no absolute keyboard. On one duke it is added acceptable to use a absolute QWERTY keyboard again the one that fits on a affectation and this is the advantage of Samsung F700 keyboard. However, on the added duke the cardinal of buttons is bound if you accept a absolute keyboard, as against to programmable keyboard of iPhone. So there are two abandon of the bread in this case.

Camera

We do not agnosticism that Cameras and video capturing is absolute acceptable on these phones about iPhone has done one not absolute acceptable thing. They acclimated 2.0 MP camera in their buzz as against to 5 MP camera of Samsung F700. See for yourself 5 MP or 2 MP this is accessible that Samsung's camera is better. Besides, Samsung was consistently authoritative acceptable cameras and acceptablecomputer application to use them. It does not beggarly that iPhone has a bad camera but it is not as good.

Codec Support

Why are you affairs a smart-phone? Of advance you appetite to accept acceptable multimedia functions congenital in. And it is a amount of how abounding book types you can open, run or use with advice of you smart-phone. iPhone has all the accepted iPod files abutment and it does not alter from a video iPod in this case. However, Samsung can exhausted iPhone actuality because it supports added book formats: MPEG 4, H.263, H.264, Absolute MP3, AAC+, eAAC+ and photos.

Storage

A lot of accumulator space, that is what we all appetite to have. And there are additionally some differences and advantages of one apparatus appear another. First of all iPhone has a drive for 4 GB or 8 GB and you accept what you want. It is appealing abundant amplitude however, there are no amplification slots in it. So you will not be able to aggrandize your accumulator space.

On the added duke Samsung F700 has micro SD amplification slot, but there is no advice about the onboard anamnesis so we cannot say annihilation about that. I anticipate that it is added acceptable to be able to use a anamnesis stick but you accept to pay added money to shop for it.

Both acute phones deserve to be alleged one of the best ones.

iPhone has advantages and beats its adversary with admeasurement and resolution of the screen, storage, google maps, advance email, HTML Email, and of advance it is still iPod.

However there are some air-conditioned things about Samsung F700: Added acceptable camera (5 MP), it supports added formats than iPhone, it has absolute keyboard, and it has 3G connectivity.

	Apple iPhone	Samsung F700
Screen Resolution	480x320 at 3.5-inches	440x240 at 2.78-inches
Touchscreen	Yes, With Multitouch	Yes, With Drag and Drop
Connectivity	Quad-Band GSM (850, 900, 1800, 1900), EDGE, 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.0	Tri-band GSM, HSDPA, EDGE
Camera	2-megapixel	5-megapixel with Auto-Focus
Keyboard	Touchscreen/onscreen	Slide-out qwerty with VibeTonz
Email	HTML Email	Unknkown (probably not HTML)
Browser	Full HTML Browser	Full HTML Browser
Codec Support	Standard iPod Support	MPEG4, H.263, H.264, Real MP3, AAC+, eAAC+, Real
Storage	4-8GB	Unknown onboard + microSD expansion

Nokia N95 vs Samsung i8510 - which one is better?

2009-07-12T04:02:00.000-07:00

Nokia N95 was, and absolutely is, the best avant-garde smartphone in the S60 lineup. After a while Nokia appear adapted version, N95-8 which had 8 GB of centralized accumulator and a beyond display. However it is a aberration to anticipate that N95 will be unrivaled. Samsung Company afresh appear its acknowledgment to Nokia N95 - Samsung i8510. This smartphone on S60 belvedere has amazing specifications, and has all affairs to become a absolute "N95 killer". Let's attending afterpiece on both smartphones (N95-8GB adaptation and i8510), analyze them, and decide, which one will be the champ of this comparison.

Design and controls

Both phones attending actual similar, both are fabricated in form-factor of sliders. However, while N95 can accelerate in two positions, absolute multimedia buttons or cardinal keys, i8510 is bound to accepted one way of sliding. It is adamantine to tell, whether this is an advantage of N95, but it absolutely is an aboriginal way to ascendancy your music or added media functions on the phone. Aside from two bendable keys and punch / adios buttons beneath them, there are two unlabeled areas that attending like buttons. Alike because them as alien buttons, N95 has two times added buttons on its front, 8 buttons against to 4 in Nokia i8510. Both phones accept 5-directional abyssal button.

Interesting enough, both phones accept an adumbration of how abundant anamnesis they accept left, it is placed on top larboard bend of the avant-garde part. They are hardly altered on the aback part; Samsung i8510 camera can be bankrupt to abstain lens damage, while N95 has no aegis on camera lens at all. Samsung additionally has two holes for congenital dynamics on back.

Hardware

While attractive similar, they are actual altered inside. Both phones accept aforementioned affectation admeasurement and bulk of colors they can show, but they alter in all the rest. Samsung i8510 has a alert bigger centralized accumulator accommodation - 16 GB, and a microSDHC slot, so you can bifold its accommodation by application 16 GB microSDHC card, which will be astronomic 32 GB! Shame for Nokia, they alone amplification aperture on their 8 GB model, which leaves you with alone 8 GB with no adeptness to aggrandize it.

While camera on N95 was advised one of the best buzz cameras for now, Samsung tries to exhausted it not alone with affection but additionally with the resolution - i8510 will accept 8 megapixel camera on board, which makes it the best "megapixeled" smartphone. Every affection that is accepted nowadays is present, such as autofocus, LED flash, alike smile detection. Video recording is the same, QVGA and VGA resolutions supported.

On the multimedia side, both phones attending actual advanced, with a big account of accurate audio and video formats and FM radio with RDS, both accept the approved 3.5 inch headphone port. i8510 appearance centralized cartoon accelerator, which can be acclimated after in games, and accelerometer aloof like the N95, so the buzz can adjudge whether to affectation angel in mural or account mode.

Connectivity options are similar, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0 support, such as 3G networks. We charge apprehension that both phones are quad-band, so they will assignment all over the world. GPS affection is present in both of them, so there is accessible to geotag the account you made, and use abounding aeronautics programs accessible for S60.

The array in both phones is of the aforementioned accommodation - 1200 mAh. Official columnist absolution of i8510 states that it has an Optical abrasion feature. What it can be? Could this smartphone be acclimated as a abrasion for your laptop? If it can, it will be a actual absorbing affection to have. It can be acutely seen, that in accouterments action Samsung i8510 is a bright winner, debauchery N95-8 in about everything.

Software

On the adverse with the hardware,computer application ancillary is what makes this phones attending about absolutely the same. Both are based on Symbian, which agency that they accept one belvedere and the aforementioned programs. However, it is still alien which adaptation will accept this fresh Samsung smartphone. It will accept two preinstalled games, FIFA 2008 and Asphalt, which absolutely use abilities of its dent cartoon chip. While it is unknown, will thecomputer application from N95 be accordant with i8510, the afresh launched N-Gage 2 belvedere amateur will best acceptable do not assignment on it, authoritative them absolute to Nokia smartphones.

Conclusions

Of advance the accurate abstracts can alone be fabricated back Samsung i8510 is appear to the public, but alike now we can see that Samsung is absolution a actual able competitor, which overcomes N95 in abounding domains. It is still too aboriginal to say that i8510 will be more good than N95, but according to the specs it will best acceptable be the accurate long-awaited "N95 killer". Let's delay for the August, this is back this smartphone from Samsung is appointed for release.

Samsung Instinct vs Apple iPhone comparison

2009-07-12T03:57:00.000-07:00

When the iPhone aboriginal debuted in 2007, it was about assertive that this accessory from Apple would accept an appulse on the corpuscle buzz and smartphone market. Of course, the abstraction of blow awning is not new; it has been in PocketPC's for ages. However, Apple fabricated a actual absorbing accommodation - they fabricated a blow awning accessory that is absolutely feel operated, and that fabricated a success. Multi-touch technology is not the point; the capital point is that you do not charge a stylus to assignment with your buzz anymore. Certainly, afterwards the success of iPhone, abounding added brands approved to accomplish article similar. HTC Touch, smartphone based on Windows Mobile, fabricated a little footfall avant-garde to the feel navigation, but it bootless this task, not because the archetypal is bad, but because the OS it uses is not actual finger-friendly. Therefore, in account part, the Apple smartphone does not accept any competitors. Or does it?

One of the added acceptable corpuscle buzz manufacturers, Samsung, celebratory the success of iPhone and arena on the beachcomber of nowadays fashion, appear the fresh model, absolutely finger-operated, which can be alleged accurate battling of iPhone. It is alleged Instinct, and is currently awash beneath Sprint carrier brand. It uses the aforementioned aesthetics according to user interface as iPhone - feel aeronautics and complete bounce of stylus. So, we absitively to analyze this two absorbing corpuscle phones and analysis the advantages and flaws of each.

First, we will alpha from basics.

Design

When it comes to design, it is assertive that there cannot be one accurate answer, which buzz looks better. Everyone has altered tastes, so it is added acceptable to analysis some of the architecture specs this phones have. Aboriginal - the curtailment of adamantine aeronautics keys. iPhone has alone one button on its face, while Instinct has three. It is arguable what band-aid is added useful, but in any case, these phones are touchscreen operated, so there could be no adamantine keys at all, every activity can be done via basic buttons on the screen. Both phones use agnate appearance for icons and menus, however, Apple iPhone icons attending somehow added polished. In any case, the architecture ancillary of accessory is absolutely a amount of taste.

Display

When it comes to display, this is area the differences begin. The Instinct has a haptic touchscreen, which is actual altered compared to iPhones multi-touch. It can imitate the feel of approved button press, which is actual advantageous for sensor awning devices; the capital botheration of basic buttons is that they are unreal. Providing "real" acknowledgment from apprenticed button is actual nice affection than iPhone lacks. However, the iPhone gets it on the multi-touch ancillary - clashing Instinct, it can be operated appliance two fingers, which makes the aeronautics abundant added automatic and simple. Which one to choose? It is up to you. The affectation resolution is added acceptable on the iPhone though: 480 x 320 adjoin 432 x 240 in his competitor, and it is 0.3 inches bigger.

Internal hardware

While both accessories can accelerate and accept calls, they do this in a actual altered way. iPhone use GSM connection, while Instinct is absolutely CDMA phone. Of course, Edge, acclimated on iPhone, is far beneath accelerated than EV-DO on the Instinct, but Apple buzz has Wi-Fi, which is faster than both are. The camera on both is about according and has 2-megapixels. Instinct is a little added avant-garde in this area - it can almanac video in QVGA resolution, 15 FPS. While iPhone uses triangulation as its GPS, and can draw a amphitheater on map with about 1km radius, area you are continuing now, Instinct has a accurate GPS dent that can acquaint your abode far added precise. Instinct additionally has a aperture for microSD cards, and its anamnesis can be broadcast up to 8 GB. Not bad, but iPhone had 8GB appropriate from the start, and now there are alike 16 GB models on the market. The alone acceptable ancillary of microSD cards is their replaceability, so you can backpack several cards and change them as you like. Moving to the agreeable side, both accessories accept 3.5 mm minijack for accepted headphones, which accomplish this phones attending adorable for bodies who like music. Still, the headphone jack in iPhone is a little specific - it is sinked a little so alone specific headphones can be plugged! There are bags of accessories that are acclimated like adapters, but in any case, it is abundant added adequate to aloof bung your headphones and go afterwards charge in purchasing some third-party adapters.

Software

The Apple smartphone is powered by distinctively redesigned Mac OS X, which will be accustomed to all Mac users. However, it is not a archetype of desktop edition; it is a actual altered product. While it has a achievability to assignment with installed applications, Apple blocked abroad this adeptness until absolution of iPhone SDK. Alike now, back SDK is already released, it is not accessible to aloof address your own affairs for iPhone - you charge access a affidavit from Apple first. Hackers already managed to affected this limitation (trick accepted as "jailbreak"), but still it banned abilities of the device. Instinct is not a smartphone; it uses its own proprietary operating system, so you can balloon about installing anycomputer appliance on it. It still has BREW though, acclimated for aeronautics application. Moreover, it absolutely is abyssal software, not aloof Google Maps account that iPhone use.

In added domains, such as audio and video software, photo arcade and such, they are about the same. iPhone is absolutely iTunes compatible, so if you already purchased your music at this store, you can consistently upload it to the iPhone. Instinct has its own music store, powered by Sprint, and abounding added Sprint casework such as Sprint TV.

Unfortunately, Instinct lacks all that absorbing appearance that are accessible on the iPhone acknowledgment to multi-touch. Alike if you are not appliance this affection often, it is added acceptable to accept this possibility. Safari is additionally Apple exclusive, so on Instinct you are larboard with a proprietary internet browser, which is far beneath automatic and fast as Safari is.

Taking in application iPhone's iTunes compatibility, it absolutely has one of the best audio playercomputer appliance in the avant-garde devices, simple and finger-friendly, as best of Apple accessories are. Both phones abutment about every multimedia format, afterwards some about-face of course. Widescreen affectation aspect arrangement and aerial resolution accomplish these accessories absolute for the role of carriageable multimedia centers. Let us not balloon Instinct TV services, which makes it alike added multimedia-oriented.

Conclusions

These two phones cannot be compared directly, because they accord to the altered types: iPhone is a smartphone with a growing account of applications, and Instinct is a accepted buzz based on touchscreen. However, it is absolutely accurate that Instinct is the best carrier buzz from Sprint. iPhone lacks 3G capabilities, but it is already anchored in fresh model, which has GPS and 3G functionality, so Instinct wins this annular alone compared with aboriginal iPhone 1G. It is adamantine to acknowledge the winner, so it will be the best to say that you should try both and baddest one that fits you the most.

Next Sony Ericsson XPERIA is expected with Android 2.0

2009-07-12T03:46:00.000-07:00

Another Android smartphone is leaked, but abominably we can't say that it is activity to alpha its sales any time soon. This time it's Sony Ericsson who adorned Android for its top ambit adaptable phone, for abutting XPERIA analysis archetypal to be precise. Parallels with HTC Hero actuality are possible, of course, but I abhorrence they would be abortive because Rachel, so is its codename, sports some absorbing appearance that accomplish it angle out a bit.

There is not abundant to say about the abutting Sony Ericsson XPERIA, but we already apperceive that it ability advance Hero's nose. Aboriginal of all, SE is advancing an 8 megapixel camera with autofocus. Nothing with added apprehensive pixel body was accepted for the XPERIA because guys at Sony Ericsson were consistently taken up with cameras. Which apparently explains an over 12 megapixel buzz from them by the end of the year.

Now, there is more. HTC Hero comes with 528MHz processor. The XPERIA in about-face is accepted to be adapted with a most recent 1GHz processor. That of advance would accomplish a aberration no amount what the buzz will be acclimated for.

The aftermost affair so far is the OS. SE Rachel is accounted to be one of the aboriginal accessories out there with Android 2.0. This actuality arises questions like whether it will accept article at atomic accidentally like Sense UI? Or one which is alike added actual: how continued to delay for it? All we apperceive is that Android 2.0 comes in autumn, hopefully Rachel also.

Gateway NV notebook series, we say bargain

2009-07-11T01:34:00.000-07:00

Gateway rolls out its beginning alternation of actual bargain-like notebooks. With prices capricious amid $499 and $599 you get decidedly more good specs than not appreciably cheaper Asus Eee PC 1008HA Seashell. The battle is obvious, about it is still a catechism whether Geteway NV alternation is accessible to leave with. But as far as I can tell, NV's architecture is more good than the other's in this amount group. NV alternation notebooks will be accessible some time soon. Specs follow.

Gateway NV5214u is what you get for $499. It has a 1366 x 768 resolution 16 : 9 HD Ultrabright LED display, 4GB Dual-channel DDR2 arrangement memory, HDMI and VGA ports, four USB ports, 6 corpuscle battery, 802.11a/b/g/Draft-N WiFi, 320 Gigs, congenital webcam – a lot of altered stuff. The abutting Gateway NV5807u archetypal for $599 has all the aforementioned except for processor – 2.1GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T6500 against AMD Athlon 64 X2 QL-64 Dual Core with aforementioned alarm speed, but we all now for what we pay here, right? As you ability accept already guessed, chipsets are additionally different. But that's not all. Gateway additionally equips these two models with altered GPUs. Its Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD (NV5214u) against ATI Radeon HD 3200 (NV5214u). All in all abundant of aggregate to run preinstalled Windows Vista Home Premium. Final verdict: bargain.

Mercedes-Benz folding bike to hit the roads

2009-07-11T01:12:00.000-07:00

Well accepted German car ambassador Mercedes offers a atypical Mercedes folding bike for UK commuters. This admiration appearance an 8-speed consecutive manual which appears to be clamp less, absolute advanced and rear abeyance as able-bodied as boss disc brakes for aerial akin of security. What makes it angle out in a army is its portability as it can be calmly stowed in a arranged alternation or a car boot.

When absolutely folded, this astonishing Mercedes folding bike measures aloof 80 x 80 x 35 cm while its aluminum anatomy makes it an accessible affair to carry. The Mercedes folding bike comes in two colors including argent and white. This environmentally affable Mercedes folding bike is priced at 1 099 GBP while alms a airy joy ride instead of active your car.

This absorbing folding bike appears to be acceptable for burghal commuting. The Mercedes folding bike is accessible to accomplish with aloof few abnormal bare to use one of two assorted bankrupt positions for adequate parking. If the Shuttle position is used, the bike will be calmly pushed or steered which makes it awful maneuverable.

Offering a blooming driving, the bike additionally allows blockage physically fit while actuality mobile. The abeyance biking of the aluminum anatomy is 40 mm at the rear and advanced so you may acclimatize it so that you could drive comfy. Additionally, this active curiosity offers an ergonomic duke grips, adjustable gel saddle, folding pedals and Continental tires advancing with cogitating ancillary walls.

In addition, there is a ancillary stand, a careful metal cover, a baggage arbor for accessible carriages and a sprung flick bell. Sustainable benumbed is affirmed as the replica produces no carbon emissions. So if you are able to get out of you car and alpha benumbed already in a while it will be benign to our attenuated earth.

Nokia N85 Nseries Reviews

2009-06-29T18:12:00.000-07:00

One of the most the Nseries from Nokia, got a new high-end device that strongly resembles the older Nokia N81. The fresh N85 kept the same slider form and keypad layout as its N81 predecessor, but this time, Nokia made an effort to get some stylish look into the handset. Also, the new Nseries device will be available on the market at a much lower price, even though it is stuffed with all the "goodies" of a usual high-end mobile phone. Announced in August 2008, Nokia N85 was made available on the market in October 2009. There are two colors available for users : Copper and Black.

Design

The Nokia N85 smartphone features a stylish slider form, but misses the 'wow' factor so needed for the latest phone to be able to have some success on the market. While most Nokia slider phones are not that appealing in terms of design, compared with other brands, users’ interest for quality is still more powerful. I think that Nokia N81 can be considered a failure in terms of design and functionality, thus I didn't expect to see another Nokia handheld with almost the same design. I was pretty reluctant at first, but after spending a few minutes with N85, I could notice the improvements Nokia did compared with previous sliders.

The big 2.6-inch display makes a good impression at first glance and is well protected against scratches. Above the screen, there's a secondary videocall camera, the earphone speaker, and a very small light ambient sensor. Below the display, Nokia kept almost the same layout of the keys as N81. Unfortunately, this doesn't go well in terms of ergonomics. The Accept and Reject calls key have been placed on the edge of both sides of the phone and are somewhat tricky to use.

The Navi-wheel has been improved and can now be used to browse the menu much easier. The Shortcut key has been placed to the right of the Navi-wheel, while the Symbian menu key can be found to the left. The numeric keypad is revealed when you slide up the device. Nokia N85 is a dual slider introduced by Nokia when launching Nokia N95 on the market. The right side of the phone features two stereo speakers, a dedicated camera key, a dual volume key and a Lock/Unlock key. The left side of the smartphone only includes a small microSD memory slot for storage space expansion.

On top of the phone, there's a Power on/off button, a 3.5mm jack port and a small microUSB port that is used for charging or synchronizing the phone. The 5-megapixel camera on the back of the phone features dual led flash and Carl Zeiss optics. I have noticed that the phone lacks the usual charging port, so you'll have to use the microUSB port to charge the phone, either through the PC or you can use the charger that comes in the sales package. Overall, Nokia N85 will probably not attract people that are interested in design, but visual improvement compared with N81 is clearly one step forward for Nokia.

Display and Camera

Nokia N85 features an AMOLED screen that measures 2.6", supports 16 million colors and a 240x320 pixel resolution. The AMOLED screen features an accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate, but as with all AMOLED screens, it doesn't have eligibility under sunlight. Even if it can barely be used outdoors, the large display performs very well when the phone is used for Web browsing, movie watching, or gaming.

In terms of image quality displayed, it is excellent. The 5-megapixel camera embedded in this Nseries device seems to be much better than N96's, but also much lower in quality than N82's. Featuring Carl Zeiss lenses, auto-focus and dual LED flash, the module camera appears to be a little bit smaller than that of N95 (5.45, compared with 5.6). While not the best 5-megapixel camera on the market, compared with N96 camera, you can actually take decent pictures with N85.

The camera features geotagging and protection for the lenses. The user interface boasts extensive settings, much like Nokia's N95 8GB camera interface, but you can now choose what settings you want to be displayed on the toolbar. Camera activates pretty fast when you slide down the lid covering the lenses. The same goes for the video camera, which can capture VGA (30fps) clips in MP4 format or 3GPP, depending on the quality you choose.

Menu and Software

Nokia N85 runs the Symbian 9.3 operating system, with an S60 3rd Edition and Feature Pack 2 interface. Feature Pack 2 brings both visual and performance improvements, which otherwise wouldn't be available for devices that only run Feature Pack 1, unless they're updated. This does not mean that you can get all the features of the FP2 on FP1 devices, as there are still exclusive ones that you can only take advantage of on an FP2 handset, such as Nokia N85 or N96. The latter enables users to bring up on the Home screen a lot more shortcuts than usual, such as game, application and link shortcuts. The Task manager now appears on top of every menu option that the user opens. The main menu can be accessed by pressing the left key, right next to the Navi-wheel controller. In addition to the usual options and applications that we find in almost all Symbian-powered handsets, Nokia N85 features Search and Maps utilities. Maps is used together with the GPS receiver and enables owners to use Nokia maps, localization and directions when they're on the go. Lots of maps can be downloaded from Nokia's website and then used to pick the shortest route from one point to another. Under the Office category, we find QuickOffice applications, used for reading Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. Users won't be able to edit any files without upgrading the application, which, of course, costs money. There's also a PDF reader, a notepad, a Zip archivator, and a currency converter.

The Video center connects the phone to a bigger screen (projector, monitor, or TV) through the TV-out cable, in order to get a better view of the videos. The phone features a wide range of 3D games (trial versions) when the N-Gage menu is accessed.

The most thrilling feature of the device is the Motion sensor that grants it the Automatic rotation ability. This means that, every time you want to use your phone's screen in landscape mode, you'll only need to turn its upper left side down, and the interface will automatically reshape in landscape mode. Compared with N95, the accelerometer now works with all menus and applications compatible with this feature, which is a great asset.

The phone includes everything a user may need on the road or in the office, pre-installed on the handset: email, web, calendar, organizer, IM, office tools, messaging, applications manager, connectivity wizard, synchronization tools, GPS navigator, themes, profiles, and even more. Nokia N85 seems to be what its predecessor N81 should have been.

Communications

Nokia N85 is a quad band GSM (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900) handset, HSDPA compatible, which features GPRS class 32 (107 kbps), EDGE 32 class (296 kbps), High-Speed Circuit-Switched Data (57.6 kbps) and Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g. Tested on the EDGE and 3G networks, the phone has performed pretty good, as you can see from the screenshots.

The WLAN wizard helps you search and define your WLAN network connection settings. You can do that by going to the Main menu / Tools / Settings / Connection / Access points, and define which access point to be used whenever a network connection is required (Main menu / Home network / Settings).

Other connectivity tools include Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP support, and microUSB for PC synchronization (charging included). When connecting the USB cable, you'll be able to choose from four modes: PC Suite, Mass storage, Image transfer and Media transfer. In terms of messaging, the phone accepts all available message types, but, given the not-so-friendly keypad, it will be hard to enjoy texting. Anyway, the handset includes no less than four message editors, one for each type: SMS, MMS, audio message and e-mail. The message client works with POP3, SMTP, and IMAP4 protocols, and supports more than one email account. The quad-band (GSM 850 / GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900) network compatible slider has a very good GSM signal reception. UMTS signal reception is likewise excellent. Processor and Memory

Nokia N85 is powered by a dual ARM11 family processor running at speeds of up to 369 Mhz. I have noticed some lags and hiccups during games. The handset embeds an 85 MB user free internal memory and 128 MB SDRAM memory. Furthermore, the device comes with an 8GB microSD card in the sales package, so there's no need for supplementary expenses.

Multimedia

Nokia N85 is a multimedia device, thus the 3.5mm jack port doesn't come as a surprise. The jack port enables users to attach any compatible headphone, which will improve their experience. The integrated music player looks very cool, and supports almost any type of music file you can think of: MP3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, WMA, M4A, as well as playlists. Files are automatically sorted by artist, genre, and albums, or by using the PC Suite.

The music player can be easily controlled with the Navi-wheel, but you can also take advantage of the four music keys, which are revealed when the phone is slid down. There's also the option to take advantage of the Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP support, which will enable users to listen music wirelessly.

The music player features all kinds of options and settings: Equalizer, Visualisation, Balance, Loudness, Stereo Widening, or Shuffle. Some of these are also available for the included FM Radio, which can memorize up to 50 base stations and features RDS and Visual radio capabilities.

Battery

The 1200 mAh Li-Ion (BL-5K) battery has an officially stated life expectancy of 363 hours in standby (360 hours for 3G) and of about 6 hours and 50 minutes in talk-time mode (4 hours and 30 minutes for 3G). Impressions

Nokia N85 seems to be a good choice for slider fans, especially as it includes so many features at a decent price. The Good

Everything stuffed into this smartphone works pretty much above average, except maybe the screen, which is low consuming (AMOLED), but can barely be readable outdoors. Nokia N85 is solid built and offered at a decent price, which should attract more people than the actual design. I should enlist almost all the technical features that the phone includes, but also the quality of music sound.

The Bad

I think the layout of the external keys, the Navi-wheel, which is still hard to control, as well as the AMOLED screen are the only letdowns of the device. Also, I was surprised to find that Nokia dropped the usual charging port and chose the microUSB port as the only method of charging.

Available sales package :

Nokia N85 handset
Nokia Battery (BL-5K)
Nokia Travel Charger (AC-10)
Nokia Video Connectivity Cable (CA-75U)
Nokia Connectivity Cable (CA-101)
Nokia Music Headset (HS-45, AD-54)
Nokia 8 GB microSD card (MU-43)

Review N97 Nokia series

2009-06-25T08:03:00.000-07:00

The Nokia N97 combines a large 3.5? Nokia’s flagship N series device introduces leading technology - including multiple sensors, memory, processing power and connection speeds - for people to create a personal Internet and share their “social location”. With the Nokia N97, Nseries leads the charge in helping to transform the Internet into your Internet”.

The Nokia N97 introduces the concept of ’social location’. With integrated A-GPS sensors and an electronic compass, the Nokia N97 mobile computer intuitively understands where it is. Nokia N97 Mobile Phone With Widescreen - Internet and entertainment

The home screen of the Nokia N97 mobile computer features the people, content, and media that matter the most. Friends, social networks and news are available by simply touching the home screen. The 16:9 widescreen display can be fully personalized with frequently updated widgets of favorite web services and social networking sites . The Nokia N97 mobile phone is also perfectly suited for browsing the web, streaming Flash videos or playing games. The Nokia N97 Mobile Phone supports up to 48 GB of storage, including 32 GB of on-board memory, expandable with a 16 GB microSD card for music, media and more.

Samsung Pixon12 Shows Up in Alive Images

2009-06-20T00:32:00.000-07:00

Samsung's aboriginal adaptable buzz to backpack central a 12-megapixel photo snapper (soon to become the aboriginal 12MP cameraphone accessible for acquirement on the market), the Samsung Pixon12 has been acutely alien at the alpha of the month, and now we apprentice that the aboriginal alive images with the high-end accessory are accessible on the Internet.

The South Korean adaptable buzz maker, as abounding of you ability already know, brought the 12MP behemoth forth at the ComunicAsia 2009 bazaar in Singapore, area these images were taken. Fortunately for us, now we are able to booty a afterpiece attending at some of the capacity of the Pixon12, including the microSDHC anamnesis agenda aperture on the larboard side, the covering blanket on the lower aback side, or the microUSB anchorage on the top of the device.

At the aforementioned time, the company's already appear TouchWiz 2.0 interface can be acutely spotted on the adaptable phone, akin the attending that it has on added handsets that accommodate it, such as the anew appear Samsung Jet. At the aforementioned time, we can additionally accept a attending at the capabilities of the 12-megapixel camera the buzz packs inside, through a alternation of images taken with it.

According to the account on the Web, the interface of the phone's camera is rather simple, alms a advanced ambit of options, including altered cutting modes, arena settings, and added others. The accessory additionally sports a 3.1-inch AMOLED WVGA screen, as able-bodied as abutment for amusing networking sites like Facebook, Picasa, Flickr, MySpace, Photobucket or Friendster, acceptance users to calmly upload there the images taken with the phone's camera.

According to some of the contempo rumors on the Web, Samsung ability additionally basic the absolution of a additional cameraphone that sports a 12-megapixel camera, admitting annihilation has been accepted until now. Another handset to accommodate such a high-quality camera should be the Sony Ericsson Satio, which was ahead accepted as Idou, and which should acreage in the fourth division of the advancing year.

Sony Ericsson W902 Review

2009-06-18T23:17:00.000-07:00

One of the nicest surprises advancing from Sony Ericsson aftermost summertime was its top-of-the-line Walkman-series handset – W902. Alike admitting the Walkman alternation focuses on multimedia features, the W902 includes some Cyber-shot ancestry such as 5 Megapixel camera with geo-tagging, autofocus, LED beam and angel stabilization.

Moreover, the affection of the bore camera seems to be on par with high-end Cyber-shot-series handsets, which makes it the aboriginal adaptable buzz that can be tagged both as music accessory and a camera phone. Add to that the aberrant angle included in the amalgamation and the 8GB M2 anamnesis agenda and you accept one of the best able handsets advancing from the Swedish-Japanese company.

Announced in July 2008, Sony Ericsson W902 was fabricated accessible on the bazaar in October the aforementioned year, and alike if it seems to accept been discontinued it can still be bought for about 450USD apart and chargeless of plan, but that depends on the location. Users can accept one of the three accessible colors, namely Volcanic Black, Wine Red and Earth Green.

Design

This is one of the capital problems that the Swedish-Japanese collective adventure had in the accomplished with its handsets – arid and anachronistic designs. Well, that hasn't chock-full its admirers from affairs its product, which assuredly propelled the aggregation on a admirable third abode afore the bread-and-butter crisis crash. Nevertheless, aback again SE sales accept gone bottomward and article fresh and avant-garde had to be bound begin and exploited. Today, architecture is one of the best important appearance for a fresh phone. Unfortunately, Sony Ericsson seems to accept started to affliction about that alone afresh and the W902 is one of the aboriginal to booty advantage of this change in the company's views. Alike admitting the buzz still resembles its Walkman-series predecessors, it approaches a fresh anatomy that is declared to accomplish it angle out from the crowd.

Medium sized (110 x 49 x 11.7 mm) and belief a little bit beneath 100g (99.8g including battery), Sony Ericsson W902 distinguishes itself through its alien music controls that can be begin all over the appropriate ancillary of the device. To be abiding that these can be acclimated alike with the buzz kept in a pocket, Sony Ericsson adopted to add 1mm to the admeasurement and accomplish the controls billowing from the capital anatomy of the handset. Starting from the top, you'll be able to calmly acquisition the bifold aggregate keys, Forward, Play/Pause and Previous music keys and a committed camera key. The larboard ancillary alone appearance the accepted proprietary Sony Ericsson anchorage for allegation and PC synchronization. On top of the handset you can apprehension addition committed music button that opens the music player. It looks aloof like a ability off/on that is usually begin on Nokia devices, but this one appearance an inscribed Walkman icon.

On the basal of the handset there's a small-sized gap area the mic has been placed. Above the 2.2-inch affectation there's a accessory videocall camera and a baby ablaze ambient sensor. The keypad blueprint doesn't appear up with annihilation new, except for the actuality that you can now bang every key with ease. The alone affair I begin a little bit annoying were the controls about the baby joystick. There are three accessible keys awash on anniversary ancillary of the joystick: 2 bendable keys, Accept and Reject calls keys, Shortcut key and C (Delete) key. Otherwise, the keys are a little bit adamantine to press, but you will get acclimated to it appealing fast. On the aback ancillary of the buzz Sony Ericsson included a 5 Megapixel camera, and the alone aegis adjoin scratches seems to be the actuality that it has been anchored a little bit lower into the anatomy of the case. Above the camera there is a LED flash, while on the basal larboard of the aback awning there is a nice loudspeaker. Unfortunately, I anticipate Sony Ericsson could do abundant added acceptable in agreement of actual acclimated for manufacture, which is a attenuate plastic. A little bit of brownish actual would've fabricated it added desirable.

Still, Sony Ericsson W902 is a footfall advanced in agreement of architecture and ergonomics. While, the candybar hasn't been too absolutely built, it feels appealing bunched in hand, with the barring of the aback cover, which seems rather flimsy.

Display and Camera

The alone disappointment apropos the W902's affectation is its rather baby size, at alone 2.2 inches. Coated in mineral glass, which makes it added aggressive to scratches, the awning supports 262K colors and a 240x320 pixel resolution. Contrast and accuracy are awfully good, but the capital allure is the actuality that it is altogether arresting in the sunlight. For added all-embracing advice apropos performance, analysis out the benchmarks below.

Menu and Software

Sony Ericsson W902 appearance the company's proprietary GUI, which has become accepted over the advance of time. There are some updates in agreement of accessory personalization and looks, but basically there's annihilation absolutely new. The aforementioned Media centermost alien calm with the K850i archetypal has additionally been added to W902, including the auto-rotate feature. There's additionally abutment for Beam Lite 2.0, so users can now booty advantage of assorted activated themes, but additionally of some added Flash-based ball utilities. They get to accept from bristles altered themes, anniversary with its own specific abilities.

The capital card blueprint can be afflicted in accordance to the theme, or by allotment one of these options: grid, alternating and distinct icon. Wallpaper, startup awning and awning saver can additionally be alone according to the user’s need. Also, there are seven profiles to accept from, added accurately Normal, Meeting, In car, Outdoors, Handsfree, Home and Office. Besides these, W902 additionally includes a Flight mode, in case users don't appetite to use the GSM action of the handset.

There are a few abundance accoutrement that can be employed, such as Alarms (limited to 5), Tasks, Notes, Calendar, Timer, Stopwatch, Calculator, Light, AccuWeather, Music Quiz, Standby World, WalkMate, Code announcement and a basal Book manager. Besides these the candybar appearance a committed Java YouTube client, which enables users to watch and upload clips. The Internet icon, as the name suggests, gives admission to basal Web browsing. Sony Ericsson W902 appearance the best recent Admission NetFront HTML browser 3.4, which seems to accessible any webpage, no amount how abundant it is. I accept noticed that it takes always to accessible a webpage back application the EDGE connection, so I advance application the 3G arrangement back browsing the Internet, as speeds are abundant better.

Multimedia

Sony Ericsson W902 belongs to the Walkman series, which makes it excel in multimedia features. Afterwards all, the best music phones are Sony Ericsson's Walkman-series devices, and W902 is not too far from the top. Boasting the acclaimed Walkman 3.0 music player, the complete affection is impressive. Users can booty advantage of a advanced ambit of equalizers, which accept been able with abounding decision art this time. It supports about all accessible music book formats accessible on the market: MP3, AAC, AAC+, E-AAC+, WAV, WMA, M4A and MIDI. Furthermore, the music amateur is accordant with Album art action and, acknowledgment to the chip accelerometer, it takes advantage of the Shake ascendancy feature.

Battery

Sony Ericsson W902 appearance a 930 mAh Li-Polymer array that has an official lifetime of about 380 hours (360 hours for 3G) in standby approach and 9 hours (4 hours for 3G) in talk-time mode. Afterwards application the buzz for at atomic 1 ages I accept absitively that the battery's activity is alone bisected of what the official numbers show. Still, that is a actual acceptable freedom for a medium-energy battery. If you are a abundant user you'll best acceptable allegation to allegation it every 2-3 days, but a bendable user will accept no agitation befitting it for a anniversary at least. The music playback time is of about 18 hours with the affectation in standby mode.

The Good

Surprisingly for a Walkman phone, W902 additionally distinguishes itself through its camera quality. Gathering capabilities of both acclaimed alternation bogus by Sony Ericsson, Cyber-shot and Walkman, W902 becomes the aboriginal amalgam buzz accessible for SE fans. Alike if the amount is still high, all the appearance included are up to the accomplished standards: camera, music sound, battery, abstracts alteration speeds.

The Bad

I accept that a abundant added acceptable CPU would've been appropriate for an activated GUI. Also, I anticipate that the buzz still lacks boldness in agreement of design. While it may assume to be bunched and ergonomic, afterwards application it for added than a ages I anticipate the architecture of the handset is not up to the standards of the blow of the features.

Sales package

Sony Ericsson W902 Handset

8GB M2 anamnesis card

930 mAh Li-Polymer Battery

Data Cable

Stereo HPM-77 headset

Travel Charger

CD-Rom

User Manual

M2 USB adapter.

Review : BlackBerry Bold 9000

2009-06-12T18:26:00.000-07:00

Recently entered on the touchscreen smartphone market, RIM decided to give one more shot to its traditional smartphone lineup with no-touch displays. One of the last such devices was BlackBerry Bold 9000, which should've been one of the best in its line. Thanks to PureMobile, we will see whether or not this good-looking smartphone rises to the challenge of its touchscreen disciples. Boasting a full QWERTY keyboard and a nice leather-like material, BlackBerry Bold 9000 is a business-oriented smartphone that intends to offer its users, above all else, a complete email solution.

Announced in May 2008, BlackBerry Bold 9000 hit the shelves in August 2008. There's only one color available for this product and as a business phone this should be Black. Blackberry Bold is no cheap smartphone and even today, one year after its launch on the market, you can buy it for at least 500USD unlocked and without any plan.

Design
There's not too big a difference between BlackBerry Bold 9000 and its older predecessors, except maybe for the leather-like compound of the back cover. The same 'pie form' so recognizable from afar and the same medium-sized weird display are still among the main attractions of the smartphone. Measuring 114 x 66 x 14 mm and weighing 133g (including battery), RIM proved that it could shorten the size of its devices, even though it kept the same form factor. The handset feels great in hand, but I have noticed that the back cover is slightly moving, like it's not firmly fitting into its slot.

The right side of the smartphone features a dual volume key and dedicated camera key. On the left side there's a lot of activity, which implies a 3.5mm jack port, a small miniUSB port, a dedicated Voice command key and a microSD slot. On top of the phone there a special button that locks the keypad, while on the button there's a small slider that opens the back cover. The 2 Megapixel camera embedded on the back of the phone features flash and is protected by a wide metallic frame. The same metallic compound surrounds and covers the edges of the smartphone, while the back hood is made of a leather-like material that feels exceptional to the touch. The QWERTY keyboard features 35 keys, which have been wisely placed.

Still, the numeric keypad has been moved to the left side, which makes it a little bit annoying for left-handers. The keypad benefits from a great and even backlighting, which makes the use of the phone in dark areas perfectly possible. Between the display and keyboard there are four buttons common to almost all BlackBerry devices: Accept Call, Menu key, Back key and Reject call. In the middle, the famous trackball that make browsing through menus very easy.

The 2.6-inch display is covered by a protective foil, which can be removed as the device is not a fingerprint magnet. Above the screen you can notice the usual earpiece and a status LED, which blinks when you have a missed call or you have received a message. There is definitely some classy look here, but I could not get past the fact that Bold 9000 doesn't feel too solid and compact. Nevertheless, I'm almost sure that BB fans will be happy to find it much better looking that its predecessors.

Display and Camera
Blackberry Bold 9000 features a 2.6-inch display, supporting 65k colors and a 240x320 pixel resolution. The secondary one also supports 65k colors and 480x320 pixel resolution. The medium-sized screen does its job very good. Just wide enough to provide a smooth Web browsing experience, with excellent brightness, vivid colors and very good contrast, the screen is perfectly visible in strong sunlight, which has become quite a standard for Blackberries lately. The two themes included with the operating system make the phone's interface even more appealing. Overall, the quality image is quite high for a Blackberry business device. In terms of performance, you can check out some of the tests I made below.

The 2 Megapixel camera isn't worth too much attention, but for a business phone this is not such a tragedy. Without being the lowest in terms of performance, it only meets the minimum requirements for a user who intends to take some pictures. The device features flash and 3x digital zoom, but lacks autofocus capabilities. Overall, images are saved pretty fast, but most of them aren't focused and the noise effect is at a high level.

Menu and Software
Blackberry Bold 9000 runs Blackberry 4.6.0 operating system, platform 4.0.0. This is one of the latest OSes from Blackberry, but if you have an older one, it's usually better to update it to the latest version. The interface of the smartphone hasn't changed and if you already own one of RIM's devices this won't come up with anything new in terms of productivity tools.

The only improvement that you cannot miss is the look of the interface, which is more eye-candy than its previous versions. Colors of the icons you'll find in the main menu are softly lighted in contrast with the dark background, and make a very good impression on the user. The usual Office package, called Documents To Go, developed by DataViz, is also included in Bold's operating system. Unfortunately, as you can see from the screenshots, you can only read or edit Word docs, Excel docs, and PowerPoint presentations, but need to pay if you want to make new documents.

Instead of getting more new features that might not come in handy at all, RIM preferred to keep all the old stuff and give everything a shiny look. Not too bad, as Blackberry's all productivity tools are pretty solid. The phonebook can store an unlimited number of contacts, as long as your available memory allows it. Each contact can be filled with multiple numbers, e-mail addresses, birthday and anniversary information, a picture and a slot for both work and home addresses.

Communications
Finally, one of RIM's few devices that include the whole connectivity package: HSDPA 3.6 Mbps, Wi-Fi, EDGE and GPRS class 10. Fans of the brand can now benefit from any of the above-mentioned connections when needed. Although the integrated browser is not that good, as rich-in-graphics pages are loading pretty slowly, you can easily change it for the MiniOpera browser, which is perfectly compatible.

Tested on EDGE and HSDPA networks, the device's results were pretty good: 120 Kbit/s download and 79 Kbit/s upload (EDGE), 1117 Kbit/s download and 321 Kbit/s upload (HSDPA).

In terms of messaging Bold 900 features the standard Blackberry package. Should you either want multiple emails or instant messaging, this smartphone has it all. Unfortunately, you will be limited to BlackBerry Internet Service email accounts on the Storm. The same goes for the instant messaging application, which only features a proprietary BlackBerry service. Furthermore, to fully integrate the BlackBerry into a company's system, the installation of BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) is required. Synchronizing the smartphone with the PC can be made very easily with the Blackberry Desktop Manager. The transfer is very fast, should you either be syncing emails and messages or simply filling your smartphone with music files.

If that is still not enough for you, then note that Bold 9000 also features a built-in GPS receiver with A-GPS support and BlackBerry Maps. The GPS module works perfectly and completes the technical features of a smartphone that has all the BB fans wanted included in a single device.

Blackberry Bold 9000 is a quad-band GSM (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900) and tri-band HSDPA (850 / 1900 / 2100) smartphone, which features GPRS, EDGE, and HSDPA. Other connectivity tools include the Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP and the miniUSB for PC synchronization (including charging). The call quality is exceptionally good, almost impressive. You'll thus be able to talk on the phone even in more crowded areas. The GSM signal is also very good on the EDGE network, as well as on WCDMA.

Processor and Memory
Blackberry Bold 9000 is powered by a single Intel XScale 624MHz CPU, which makes it one of the fastest BlackBerries up to date. While modern Blackberries incorporate ARM9-family processors, there are some that are added ARM7 CPUs, which are a little bit slower. Unfortunately, this is showing especially when browsing the menu, using multiple applications and especially when 3G connectivity is used. I have experienced some lockdowns when I have tried to open multiple apps within the device's menu. Overall there are some hiccups that could've been avoided if a more powerful CPU had been embedded.

The smartphone embeds 1GB user free internal storage memory and 128 MB Flash memory, which makes data processing much faster. Storage space can be expanded up to 8GB through the hot-swappable microSD slot card. The sales package also contains a 1GB microSD card, depending on the location.

Multimedia
There's not much to tell about the multimedia just that it bears the same conservative and business-like look, which is quite understandable as it comes from a business smartphone. The built-in music player supports album art features, but lacks any Equalizers. It supports MP3/WMA/AAC+ music files, which can be sorted by Artist, Albums and Genre. Users will be able to make their own playlists within seconds. Furthermore, even if these are only basic features, I was surprised to find out that the quality of the sound was pretty high, especially when using your own headphones. Thanks to the 3.5mm port you can now change the included headphones, which are not that bad though. One more drawback that I noticed was the missing Repeat feature, which was present in previous models.

Battery
The 1500 mAh Li-Ion battery has an officially stated life expectancy of 310 hours in standby, and of about 5 hours in talk-time mode. Our test unit made it for about 4 days at medium use. Heavy users will need daily charging or 2-3 charges per week. The autonomy is pretty acceptable for a Blackberry owner that only uses the specific Blackberry services, namely messaging capabilities.

Samsung A867 Eternity

2009-05-27T17:14:00.000-07:00

The new Samsung A867 Eternity was developed with US network operator AT&T and will be exclusively sold under the carrier's brand. The handset was made to fill in a niche of buyers that are looking for a cheaper handset version of Omnia. Samsung Eternity is not a business phone and has no operating system, it looks almost the same in terms of design. Samsung Eternity is mostly sold in the United States, but unlocked versions of the device can also be bought from Europe, Asia or any other continent, as the phone is quad-band. Pure Mobile was kind enough to borrow us a brand new final version of the bar phone, so we're now able to test and review it.

Samsung A867 Eternity was announced in November 2008 and made it the next year, in January 2009. AT&T as US Network Operator began to sell the phone for $149.99 for locked version, and the unlocked version can be acquired for around 400USD.

Nokia E52, Metal Without Qwerty!

2009-05-22T12:13:00.000-07:00

Create your Nokia phone fans, please prepare budget to replace the phone with the latest model that is quite sophisticated and elegant, this. The Nokia recently introduced a range of business-class mobile phone, the Nokia E52 with you metallic body design. -Called also as a mobile phone of E51, E55 series is similar, but without the QWERTY keyboard equipped by.

Nokia E52 is a phone that has 3G HSDPA connectivity support and WiFi, and GPS. In addition cam 3 megapixel phone also has a feature to display the accelerometer automatically over.

This phone for the young professional segment, though not a premium class, but the feature is equivalent to the mobile-phone premium class.

Following specification is:

Display

* 2.4 inch display

* 240 x 320 pixels

* 16 million color TFT screen

Network and Connectivity

* USB high speed

* 3.5 mm audio connector

* Bluetooth 2.0 A2DP

* UPnP support

* WLAN 802.11 b / g

* GPRS class A, multislot class 32

* EGSM class A, multislot class 32

* WCDMA 900/2100 (Nokia E52-1)

* WCDMA 850/2100 (Nokia E52-2)

* HSDPA maximum speed: up to 10.2 Mbps

* HSUPA maximum speed: up to 2 Mbps

* SMS

* MMS

* IM (Windows Live, Yahoo IM)

* Email - POP3, SMTP, IMAP4, Nokia Messaging, Microsoft ActiveSync.

* Integrated Nokia Mobile VPN

GPS and Navigation

* A-GPS with Compass

* Nokia Maps application

Camera

* 3.2 megapixel still camera with 4x digital zoom

* LED Flash

* Video: VGA recording up to 15fps

Software

* S60 Edition 3.2.3

* Symbian OS 9.3

* Java

* Flash Lite 3.0

* PDF viewer

* ZIP manager

* Quick Office

HTC Hero!

2009-05-21T12:09:00.000-07:00

In addition to Magic HTC, HTC diisyukan also will release Android devices that HTC is named Hero. Photos from this HTC Hero has recently circulating on the internet, and it appears that the Android will have this new design is different from the Android G1 has a QWERTY keyboard and trackball button. From the images also seem to circulate, akan Featured Hero HTC touch screen.

With 5 buttons underneath, and body size has a more sparse. It also will be included for the 3.5mm earphone slot, which had previously not found on the Android G1. Because it has not been officially announced, but not much is known about the full specifications of this HTC Hero. Also mentioned that there will be released during the quarter 3 2009.

Motorola is not the mystery that are losers, but their latest handset to be the savior. for released in Q2, Motorola Calgary will run on the Android OS. Motorola handset will bring in a touch QWERTY slider. Keyboard available in Calgary did not use the button. Instead the key physical, Calgary uses the same system as rokr E8, the tactile touchpad.

With the QWERTY keyboard, Motorola seems to create a fever Cagalvy to support social networking, blogging, and chat is in the youth of late. As shown in the picture, Motorola Cagalvy will be released exclusively through U.S. mobile operator, Verizon Wireless. Both Motorola and Verizon has not provided official announcement on this plan, but can be Cagalvy will be available in the middle of 2009

UCWEB Browser Applications For Symbian

2009-05-20T11:57:00.000-07:00

UCWEB is a mobile application for the WEB and WAP browsing, in addition to browsing UCWEB also features support for downloading and uploading. This application is already sizable popular browser in the phone, because the application is faster than other browsers. For lovers of Opera Mini, the UCWeb will feel foreign. UCWeb still less in comparison with Opera Mini.

At the time of page loading and also the view of a browsing problem. But do not be seen to the eye, UCWeb applications also have this advantage. One of them is a good Download Manager. When we download a file with this application, we need not fear akan HP DC or dead when download is not yet complete. Because the menu on the download manager resume.

Website to download the application:

http://www.ucweb.com/English/index.shtml

Cheap Smartphone, Nokia Subduct Weapons Market

2009-05-19T23:01:00.000-07:00

Although the king as mobile phones, Nokia Pamor not too classy in the smartphone segment. Evidence, sales volume and market share in the smartphone market has decreased, digempur competitors such as Apple and Rim. It may be this is a consequence seems reasonable considering the Nokia smartphone develop less aggressive.

At least until the second half of 2008. However, at this time, security is primarily with the popularity of the handset E71 and 5800. The two handsets are sold in demand in various parts of the world., With more than a million units a month. The success of vendor origin Finland this seems triggered by relative cheapness price their smartphone. And in the future, Nokia will continue to promise menggelontorkan row smartphone with affordable prices for the retake market share from competitors' hands.

Nokia N97: a multimedia mobile phone with a large

2009-05-17T11:49:00.000-07:00

Nokia finally launched a truly mobile multimedia best to compete kedigdayaan iPhone 3G. At the Nokia World 2008 event in Barcelona, Nokia finally announced the newest product in the class Nseries.

Given the name of Nokia N97, mobile phone with touch sliding sail akan this has all the best in its class, including the internal memory capacity of 32GB and additional external SDHC memory cards up to 16GB total memory, so make that can be taken by N97 is the 48GB! The amount that can not even didekati by the 3G iPhone with a maximum of 16Gb.

In addition, the N97 is also equipped with features HSDPA connectivity, Wi-Fi, camera 5 megapixels, Ovi (multimedia features such as N-gage gaming platform, Nokia Maps and Nokia Music Store), and So-Lo to refer to the ability of the N97 can be N97 allows users to update their status in the virtual networks (eg Facebook) in real-time.

Planned this phone will be present in the region Europe and Asia, including Indonesia, in Quarter 2 2009, or around April. Available colors are black and white. Basic price offered is EUR 550, or with the exchange rate is now around 8.4 million AUD. Of course, price is not binding. What is the answer for the N97 multimedia needs and your social network?

Recognize Gadgets

2009-05-17T11:12:00.000-07:00

Never heard the term gadget? The word "gadget" is often used in the mass media and electronic media. If we find in the dictionary, usually defined as a practical tool. In English about the gadget is: A gadget is an object (or electronic equipment) that have smaller technology-specific functions, but are often associated as an innovation or new goods. In the wikipedia website gadget in Indonesia is defined as follows: " Gadget is a term that comes from the English language to refer to a peranti or instruments that have the purpose and function of specific practical and helpful, usually given to something new. Gadget considered differently designed and more sophisticated technology than is normal at the time of creation. "

"Gadget" Threatens the Future Internet?

Increasing sophisticated equipment (gadgets) such as the iPhone, Blackberry and Xbox, that threaten the innovation that has been running dozens of years in building the Internet, said a renowned academics through new books. Professor Jonathan Zittrain says the sophisticated equipment "must have" close and prevent the creativity and change into the passive consumers of technology. Zittrain is professor sector role and Internet regulations in the Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University.

"What with the computer, a gadget that can not be the Intenet means utak especial progress toward collaboration and technology," he said.

Gadget, excessive regulation, and fear of the Internet, which can destroy the system during this call. "I do not want in this world there are only non-specialists and experts, specialists will live while the only thing stuck in between that they do not understand and that restrict them, "Zittrain said in an interview with Reuters.

Zittrain is the professor's role and areas of Internet regulation in the Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University.

Amateur fans create a lot of new ideas to the Internet from personal computers, on the other hand, many peretas create interference because they exploit the structure of the Internet loose.

Prof. Zittrain cite striking difference between the first personal computer, Apple II, which created an 70-year, with the latest tools from Apple, iPhone. Latest gadgets that he lukiskan as "equipment that glued".

"They are easy to use but difficult to be a tool utak especial. They glued because it's easy to just replace it after the goods are no longer sold."

Tools that, according to Zittrain, far from the "generative Internet," a term he used to describe the creative approach, open, innovative, that have helped shape the Internet.