Archive for March, 2007
Friday, March 23rd, 2007
Nokia today announced that the Nokia N95 started shipping in European, Asian and Middle Eastern markets. The Nokia N95 is an all-in-one multimedia device with a unique 2-way slide design, integrated GPS functionality, a 5.0-megapixel camera and support for high-speed mobile networks.
Designed for High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) networks and with support for WLAN, EDGE and WCDMA networks, the Nokia N95 provides excellent coverage and connection speeds. Browsing the internet and subscribing to favorite news feeds is a pleasure using the Nokia Web Browser with Mini Map.
The Nokia N95 offers entertainment with a sharp color display, built-in stereo speakers, a standard 3.5 mm audio connector and support for compatible microSD memory cards. With powerful 3D graphics, the N95 has a user interface that makes it intuitive to find the features and services.
With its integrated GPS and Nokia Maps application, finding the way is easier. The Nokia Maps application includes maps for more than 150 countries, enabling users to explore the world, find specific routes or locate services such as restaurants and hotels and covering more than 15 million points of interest. They can also purchase additional features, such as city guides and voice guided navigation.
The 2-way slide design is easy to switch between different modes, going from reading maps to watching a video with a simple slide. With Carl Zeiss optics on the 5.0-megapixel camera, consumers can capture print quality photos and DVD-like quality video clips.
The Nokia N95 is based on the S60 software on Symbian OS, enabling users to personalize their device from a wide choice of compatible applications that can be downloaded to the Nokia N95, including games, navigation, entertainment, productivity and creativity.
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Friday, March 23rd, 2007
T-Mobile today began distributing an Over-the-Air (OTA) software update for the Sidekick 3. Over the next month, the OTA update (officially called Release 3.4) will provide a variety of enhancements including the ability for T-Mobile Sidekick users to get myFaves on their device, when they choose a myFaves plan. Some of the new features and improvements include:- myFaves: Now T-Mobile Sidekick 3 users can have the myFaves experience by choosing from a range of myFaves plans to get unlimited calling to those five designated people - to any number in the U.S. - even landlines (excluding toll-free and 900 numbers). The myFaves interface, which features icons or photos on the home screen for five ‘Faves,’ also enables the user to access a straightforward communications menu for calling, texting and multimedia messaging. To turn on the myFaves interface, customers will need to accept the OTA update and call T-Mobile customer care or go online to choose among the myFaves rate plans.
- Active Address Book: Call, text, email, or IM a friend directly from the address book with the press of the trackball. Users can even map their address.
- Text message character counter: So customers know when they’ve said as much as they can say in a single text message.
- Ability to save photo attachments from emails to a photo album on the Sidekick.
T-Mobile cannot give a precise date or time when Sidekick 3 customers will receive the update on their device. Over-the-Air updates are sent out in blocks to prevent overload to the wireless network. All devices that require the Over-the-Air update will receive it.
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Friday, March 23rd, 2007
T-Mobile today announced the exclusive availability of the Motorola RIZR Z3, the first GSM slider in the U.S. Featuring premium communications and multimedia features, the RIZR Z3 is offered in a vibrant pearl blue exterior with soft-touch finish.
The RIZR Z3 also integrates a 2.0-megapixel camera with 8x zoom, high-intensity camera light, landscape view finder and dedicated external camera button, giving users the experience and benefits of a functional digital camera, with the capability to shoot and share photos quickly.
Sharing pictures is simple using T-Mobile’s My Album, a personal online album that stores pictures, video and voice messages for easy viewing and sharing. Customers can access the My Album link built into the RIZR Z3, and quickly access their myFaves contacts to send fun picture messages, as well as video, text and instant messages.
Users also can rock to favorite tunes with a built-in music player that supports a variety of audio formats and stereo Bluetooth wireless technology for hands-free listening. Storage space for music, photos or files is expansive, using the microSD slot for up to 2 GB of optional removable memory. The RIZR Z3 is equipped with video capture and playback, quad-band technology and USB 2.0 connectivity for file transfers and data access.
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Monday, March 19th, 2007
The DUALphone 3058 was announced by RTX as its second generation DUALphone that combines both a cordless Internet phone and standard telephone into one. This device is a cordless Internet USB phone that works with the Skype internet communication service. This device is designed thus that you can use this handset in the home or office to make free Skype calls and users can view other Skype users on their contact list. In case the other user do not use Skype you use your regular landline phone.
DUALphone 3058 has the following features: hands-free speakerphone, color display, wideband audio for superior Skype sound quality, Internet communications via Skype, Standard landline communication via Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), and support for Windows Vista.
The RTX DUALphone 3058 will be available for a retail price near $120 dollars. at www.skype.com/shop around April 1st.
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Monday, March 19th, 2007
A very popular and wide spread Bluetooth chip will get an upgrade later this year. This chip is embedded in over 1 
billion devices. Kevin Keating, senior marketing manager for the Bluetooth SIG says that Bluetooth may be used by as little as 30 percent of those that have a device with the wireless capability. Bluetooth Version 2.1 + Enhanced Data Rate is the upgraded name and the capabilities are aimed on ease of use, improved performance, and power savings. Keating also noticed that the Bluetooth SIG, has more than 7,000 vendors in telecommunications, computing, and consumer electronics industries, hopes that the ease of use will spur more adoption by end users.
Bluetooth, after an improved pairing will give users the possibility to connect to another Bluetooth-enabled device in two to three steps rather than the previous version, which could actually take as many as 20 steps to connect two devices, said Keating.
The pairing has now the ability to automate securing the link and authenticating the devices as well pairing offers protection against so-called “man-in-the-middle” attacks.
While on a demonstration, Keating took a picture with a Bluetooth cell phone and paired it to a portable printer, so only with one click on the cell phone to accept the pairing before the printer printed out the picture.
Another good feature is that power consumption was also reduced by about five times putting the chip to sleep when not in use.
Version 2.1 Bluetooth will be backward-compatible with older Bluetooth devices.
As the Bluetooth Sig states the future roadmap have the use of ultra-wideband technology that makes a “Bluetooth channel” interoperable with ultra-wideband technology.
Version 2.1 is expected to ship to device manufacturers in two months.
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