HTC – towards an accelerating rise!

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

HTC expects double-digit growth in 2009 despite economy - Just check it out!

The smartphone market truly is gold. HTC has just announced that it is looking forward to a 2009 fiscal year that will grow HTC’s smartphone sales in the double digits. While the rest of the mobile world feels the pinch of a wallowing global economy, HTC’s CEO Peter Chou expects that HTC will tough it out in the short-term but will eek out double-digit growth figures throughout 2009, thanks to the smartphone market’s recession-resistant growth. For comparison, HTC grew 28.65% in 2008.

HTC’s newly leaked 2009 product lineup is looking pretty solid. The form-factors are nothing new - slates, sliding QWERTY keyboards, vertical sliders, and monoblocks - but the upgraded hardware specs should bring HTC’s 2009 portfolio up to speed with the latest and greatest technologies in the mobile space. We’re looking for HTC to possibly unveil their second Android-powered smartphone at Mobile World Congress next month. And with Windows Mobile 6.5 expected to go live in Barcelona, we can see HTC’s WinMo lineup getting a solid sales boost.

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The New Captivating Cyber-shot at a glance!

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

The Cyber-shot C510 will be released in a triple-band GSM single band HSDPA version for Europe, a quad-band GSM triple-band HSDPA, and a triple-band GSM version for China. Feature list includes a 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus; Smile Shutter technology that detects a smile immediately grabs the shot, Snapfish, and YouTube for quick video uploads. The C510 has a seriously sturdy feel to it, button feedback is good, and it balances in-hand comfortably. The Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot portfolio has sold 32 million phones worldwide. The new C510 Cyber-shot will be the most affordable capturing phone in the market.

Specifications Include:

· 3.2 MP AF camera and LED · Face detection · Smile shutter

· Auto rotation when viewing · Cyber-shot™ UI 2.0

· 3.2 MP AF camera · Active lens cover

· 2.2″ QVGA display · QVGA video

· Picture light · 160 MB in-built memory

· Dedicated shutter key · Illuminated imaging shortcut keys

· Face detection, Photo fix · Direct blog short cut key

· Smile shutter · Illumination by different theme/mode

· Print service Snapfish · Blue illuminated imaging short cuts · Download and upload to YouTube

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Choosing the Best Mobile Phone

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Times have quickly changed and almost everyone (if not everyone) you know has a mobile phone. In fact most people are lost without them.

But with all the variety available today it seems to be a difficult decision to choose the right mobile phone or device for you. Figuring out what is right for you is important for several reasons. Are you planning to use your device for a lot of texting, emailing and messaging because then perhaps you require a Blackberry, an iPhone or another Smartphone?

If you are looking for a device to simply make calls than perhaps its best to choose one with the longest battery life. Maybe you enjoy taking pictures and need a camera on the phone. These are all things to consider when making the purchase decision.

Along with getting a new handset it is important to coordinate a plan that is right for you. If you love new technology and are one to always want the newest and coolest gadget than perhaps a pay as you go or month to month plan is right for you. If you are locked into a plan it is often very expensive to keep switching phones once something new hits the market.

If you are looking to purchase a phone in the near future look out for the new Blackberry phone that is currently being launched and also a variety of new phones coming out soon. Whatever you choose: have fun!

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Best Answering Machine for S60 3rd edition

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

Let’s make our lives more convenient by adopting this very useful application. This software is simply awesome as it helps us communicate our messages in an exactly right manner to all our loved ones. It’s especially beneficial for the business professionals who really can’t take time out of their busy schedules. It’s very useful and easy to use and requires no technical assistance. Have a look at this cool application and see how easily it works. The following user guide is of great assistance:

User Guide

Expand the possibilities of your device by one of the most powerful features you could imagine - Answering Machine. Play messages and set up greetings directly on your smartphone. Don’t spend any more money on voice mail!

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Features:

· Ability to set different greetings for contacts, groups and phone numbers; · Intuitive user interface; · Playback of messages directly in the application; · Possibility to define a list of profiles in which the application is active, which allows integration with our Best Profiles for S60 3rd edition software where you can set a schedule for profile switching; Getting started:

To get started with the application working you have to: adjust settings, set up greetings and activate Best Answering Machine. To create a new greeting, choose Options - Greetings, there you can set greetings by “Default”, for persons “Not in Contacts” and with “Private Number”, as well as specify particular greetings for a “Contact”, a “Group” or a “Phone number”.

Settings: In Settings dialog you can set the following options for Best Answering Machine:

· Greetings - allows setting up the greetings played on pick-up; · Active in profiles - defines in which profiles the application will pick-up the phone and record messages; · Storage - allows selecting on which disk the records will be saved; · Pick up after - sets the time after which the call will be answered; · Record time - maximum amount of time the message is being recorded;

· Format - message file format (amr,wav); · Icon - configures the visibility of the icon displaying application activity and presence of new messages; depending on this parameter, can be shown in standby screen only (Phone application) or in any application; · Play volume - play volume for the greeting; · Records lifetime - automatically removes old messages;

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Nokia Vs Apple – Let’s see who wins the race!

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Apple Will Own 40 Percent of the Smartphone Market By 2013

Little-known research firm Generator Research, which also counts Apple as one of its customers, is predicting that in the next four years, Apple will surpass Nokia and as the largest smartphone company and that it will own 40 percent of the global market. If you don’t believe it, here’s how they justify it: the report said Apple has “the resources, competencies and motivation to invest in the mobile sector just at the time when the economic climate is forcing many established players in the mobile industry to cut back on product development.”

Even more, it said Nokia’s marketshare could fall from 40 percent today to 20 percent in that same period. Of course, Apple won’t get there with one measly iPhone 3G. Generator predicts that in order to sell 77 million iPhone in 2013, Apple will have a range of different models to address different market segments. Plus, the App Store will be a critical component, similar to iTunes for the music player, which made the music industry rewrite the rules. In 2013, the App store will be “developed to the point where third party developers have access to network assets that will allow them to write programs that can send messages and establish voice calls between different iPhones.”

Even if these predictions are completely off the wall, it should make everyone think hard about what the wireless industry will be like should Apple dominates it. Wireless carriers and others should in particular question Apple’s motives, and perhaps as a contingency plan, think about partnering more with Nokia as it rolls out its Internet services, so there’s not just one dominate company going forward.

For Reference see

http://www.moconews.net/entry/419-in-steve-jobs-dreams-apple-will-own-40-percent-of-the-smartphone-market/

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SonyEricsson W595 – The Walkman Phone your new Music companion on the go!

The W595 has a nice metallic steeel border which gives it an oh-so-sleek look.There are stereo speakers at the top and bottom of the phone.The connection for USB and headphones for the phne is one the left,while the volume and the ‘walkman’button is on the right.The phone feels prety sturdy,but let’s see if it really is.

Each of the buttons has a subtle, yet noticeable out line of a reflective turquoise blue colour.The distance between the buttons are enough to get used to,but you need to put in a little effort into pushing the buttons to use the phone.

This phone has features like youtube streaming,RSS feed reader,OPer browser,but sadly no WiFi.Even so it has WAP.GPRS and EDGE support.Many of the applications use the shake feature as an accelerometer.There is a bobble head wallpaper which on swaying the phone,moves in the opposite direction while bobbing.There is also an application called Walk Mate,which is good for he fitness fanatics out there.The sound quality on the headphones is better than the speaker.The call quality is pretty decent and we had no issues with the reception

Cherish your friends

Share your favorite sounds through the built-in stereo speakers. Or let a friend listen in from an additional headset via the stereo Share jack. Songs in store

Find and buy songs via TrackID™. The included 2GB memory card stores up to 1900 tracks (assumes eAAC+ encoded files).

Shake to change

Change your tune, pump up the volume - and do it the easy way. With Shake control, all it takes is a flick of the wrist.

Screen

- QVGA (320×240)
- 18-bit (262k) colour TFT

Memory

- 40 MB Phone Memory
- Memory Stick Micro™ (M2™) support (up to 8 GB)

* Actual free memory may vary due to phone pre-configuration.

Networks

- GSM 850
- GSM 900
- GSM 1800
- GSM 1900
- UMTS 2100
- EDGE
- HSDPA

Available colours

- Active Blue - Cosmopolitan White - Jungle Grey - Ruby Black - Peachy Pink Possible limited market availability.

Sizes

- 47.0 x 100.0 x 14.0 mm
- 1.9 x 3.9 x 0.6 inches

Weight

- 104.0 gr
- 3.7 oz

Please note that local variations may apply.

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Get Some Cool ebook Reading Stuff, This New Year!

Friday, January 9th, 2009

BlackBerry EBook MegaPack
This best selling software at youpark possesses a unique combination of Adventure, Autobiography, Horror, Science-Fiction, Sherlock Holmes & Personal Development e-books. All in one pack, so that you can obtain a great variety of good ebooks of your own choice. The lucid explanations, deep and powerful ideas with appealing graphics take fast reader grip. This e-book mega pack contains some cool reading stuff having brilliant visuals and easy-to-understand language. The amazing mobile application comprehends a brilliantly crafted and highly readable work that will appeal to fans of readers, especially children, kids and students.

Blackberry Ebook Viewer features:
· High quality fonts to increase readability
· Bookmarking support
· Easy scrolling
· Progress indicator
Following EBooks are included:
· A Smaller History of Rome
· Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
· As a Man Thinketh
· Beyond Good and Evil
· Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery
· Common Denominator of Success
· Dream Psychology
· Think and Grow Rich
· Forbidden Books of the Original New Testament
Adventure Ebooks
o Around the World in 80 Days, By Verne, Jules
o The Journey to the Centre of the Earth, By Verne, Jules
o Treasure Island, By Stevenson, Robert Louis
o Five Weeks in a Balloon, By Verne, Jules
o The Mysterious Island, By Verne, Jules
o Robinson Crusoe, By Defoe, Daniel
o The Three Musketeers, By Dumas père, Alexandre
o Tarzan of the Apes, By Burroughs, Edgar Rice
o Twenty Years After, By Dumas père, Alexandre
o Return of Tarzan, By Burroughs, Edgar Rice
o Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, By Burroughs, Edgar Rice
o Jungle Tales of Tarzan, By Burroughs, Edgar Rice
o The Jungle Book, By Kipling, Rudyard
o Kim, By Kipling, Rudyard
o The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, By Defoe, Daniel
o The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, By Pyle, Howard
There is a lot more to read..Find out on your own. Have fun!

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VoIP – Just Got Easier, Have a Look!

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Porcini BBNA - A VoIP quality boosting appliance.

In today’s ever enhancing speedy lifestyle, VoIP mobile service is becoming more and more common. It has brought us more comfort and freedom to stay connected with our loved ones. We can now make cheap international calls through the VoIP service enabled operators. Vopium is one such great instance. Vopium, a Copenhagen based firm, provides this service and works well on more than 500 different mobile handsets supporting Symbian, Windows Mobile, Java and Blackberry. Incase of Blackberry phones, Vopium is currently available in beta version for Blackberry Pearl, Curve and Blackberry 8800 series. The users can also enjoy the trial of Vopium by taking 30 minutes free. Just check it out.

There are two major factors that affect the quality of voice in the VoIP service. First one is the priority that is given to the VoIP packets that are generated within the office network. If any non-real-time traffic takes priority over the real-time traffic such as VoIP, the latency of VoIP packets will increase and therefore the quality will degrade.

The second factor that is affecting the quality of VoIP is the INBOUND delays and jitter that the incoming VoIP packets experience. Especially during heavy inbound traffic, the delay experienced by the inbound VoIP packets may become so high that the voice quality of the VoIP application may become unbearable.

Mushroom Networks broadband bonding appliance, the Porcini BBNA, among other functionalities, is a network appliance that addresses the two issues mentioned above. Built in QoS of Porcini BBNA ensures that any VoIP packet that is generated within the office network gets priority over any non-real-time traffic. This is not an uncommon functionality found in QoS capable high-end routers. The inbound latency problem however is difficult to address as there is no direct control of the traffic that is pumped into your last mile Internet line from the outside (such as an employee downloading a large file). With Porcini BBNA network appliance, the inbound delay of VoIP packets is managed via elegant algorithms that manages the inbound traffic dynamically in such a way that the VoIP packets get minimum amount of delay starting from the queues in the core network. These proprietary algorithms enables the inbound VoIP traffic to experience the minimum amount of delay and therefore the highest possible voice quality.

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ActiveStealth - Safety Camera Alert Software

Get fixed speed and red-light camera alerts
on your mobile phones or PDA!

If you have ever found yourself thinking “I don’t remember driving that last stretch of road,” then Cheetah’s brand-new driver safety software could be just the product to help your PDA or Pocket PC Phone keep you safe and ticket-free on the

ActiveStealth is safety camera alert software for Windows Mobile devices that is designed to protect you, your livelihood and your licence in the USA and the UK and Europe. Voice alerts, a visual display and warning tones notify you of approaching accident blackspot areas, speed cameras, red light cameras or other road hazards. Advance warning of high risk zones like these can help you stay focussed and enhance road safety and the highly accurate GPS speedo also helps you to become more aware of your speed.

Speed camera and red light camera warnings in the USA, UK and Europe can even be linked with radar detectors and laser jammers.

Just check out this smart mobile travel software and feel safe and secure on the go!

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BlackBerry exclusive handheld for 2009!

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

RIM BlackBerry Curve 8330 (Verizon)

BlackBerry brings you the latest handheld for the upcoming new year. The newTop of Form 1 BlackBerry Curve 8330 is the CDMA variant of the curve family. Small phones with track ball, camera 2 megapixel and memory card slot.RIM may have scored a bull’s-eye with the Pearl but it is the Curve that brought multimedia enhancements to corporate and power users who needed a full QWERTY keyboard. By comparison, the new Curve 8330 piles on the features, including a 2-megapixel camera with an enhanced LED flash, stereo Bluetooth, a 3.5mm headphone jack, video recording.

An excellent addition to Blackberry’s range. So, don’t miss to check this latest handheld from BlackBerry.

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