1. 27 October 2009 · 02:55 PM · 1 note

    Sony Ericsson Satio

    Sony Ericsson is also one of the main players in the Mobile Market. Ericsson would be one of the oldest mobile phone manufacturing companies in the world. Ericsson had then, in the year 2001, merged with Sony to form the brand Sony Ericsson under which the mobile phones are being sold now. Sony Ericsson have long ago shown that they are not afraid of any challenge, producing handsets that have claimed a top spot on the market. There are still plenty of fans from those good old days that would love to see another market-leading device thrown their way. However, Sony Ericsson has been going through some tough times.

    Sony Ericsson has now come out with a technological wonder, the Satio. The Satio is the kind of touchscreen experience needed to bring back trust in Sony Ericsson. Though it uses resistive touchscreen technology the phone is extremely responsive. You do need to give the screen a gentle push when making selections, rather than just touching the screen as with capacitive screen technology, but it is a very gentle push and the extra effort will help you to not make selections accidentally. The 3.5-inch display is bright and richly coloured and is a pleasure to use. The screen was difficult to read under sunlight at 50 per cent brightness, but this is par for the course with most mobiles. Around the edges of the phone you’ll find a number of buttons and sockets, including dedicated camera keys and a microSD card slot. The Satio’s lack of a built-in 3.5mm headphone socket is a disappointment and the absence of an adapter in the box with the headphones is a major oversight.

    Key Features:

    • 3.5” 16M-color resistive touchscreen of 640 x 360 pixel resolution
    • 12 megapixel state-of-the-art autofocus camera
    • LED and xenon flash, active lens cover
    • VGA@30fps video recording
    • Symbian OS 9.4 with S60 5th edition UI, spiced up with a home-brewed homescreen and media menu
    • ARM Cortex-A8 600 MHz CPU, PowerVR SGX dedicated graphics accelerator and 128 MB of RAM
    • Quad-band GSM support
    • 3G with HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA 3.6 Mbps support
    • Wi-Fi and GPS with A-GPS
    • microSD card slot with microSDHC support
    • Built-in accelerometer
    • TV out
    • Stereo FM Radio with RDS
    • USB and stereo Bluetooth v2.0 
    • Web browser has full Flash support
    • Preinstalled Wisepilot navigation software
    • Office document viewer
  2. 27 October 2009 · 02:23 PM ·

    The New Nokia N97

    Nokia is one of the leading players in the Mobile Phone market. They have launched mobiles with customer needs and feature oriented. Nokia has now come out with their flagship mobile phone, the Nokia N97. The Nokia N97 smartphone and one of those products that falls into the “iPhone-killer” category - phones that pack in a suite of features that you’d typically find on Apple’s trend-setting mobile.

    The phone sports a distinctive fold-out screen, which transforms it from a standard “candy bar” form into a “butterfly” with a keyboard and screen in landscape mode.
    The phone itself ticks off most of specs you’d like to find in a modern smartphone: 5 megapixel camera (with zoom and flash), video, removable battery, a big 3.5-inch touchscreen and a physical keyboard.
    Plus it has 32GB of internal memory that can be topped up with another 16GB of external memory using the microSD memory card.

    Key Features:

    • Slide-n-tilt 3.5” 16M-color resistive touchscreen of 640 x 360 pixel resolution
    • 5 megapixel autofocus camera with dual-LED flash and lens cover (VGA@30fps video recording)
    • Symbian OS 9.4 with S60 5th edition UI
    • Slide-out three-row full QWERTY keyboard
    • ARM 11 434MHz CPU and 128 MB of RAM
    • Quad-band GSM support and 3G with HSDPA support
    • Wi-Fi and GPS with A-GPS (plus 3 months of free voice-guided navigation via Ovi Maps)
    • Digital compass
    • Class-leading 32GB onboard storage
    • microSD card slot with microSDHC support
    • Built-in accelerometer
    • 3.5 mm audio jack
    • TV out
    • Stereo FM Radio with RDS, FM transmitter
    • microUSB port and stereo Bluetooth v2.0 
    • Web browser has full Flash and Java support
    • Nice audio reproduction quality

  3. 27 October 2009 · 01:17 PM ·

    Windows Mobile 6.5 Operating System

    Windows is an operating system that is familiar to all. Windows operating system in mobiles is called Windows Mobile. The latest Windows is called Windows Mobile 6.5 which is a highly graphic oriented and feature rich operating system. It is similar to the desktop Windows with regard to features. The new Windows has gone through a major uplift compared to the previous version.

    The new Windows features:

    • New Today screen: Though the “classic” Today screen is still available, 6.5 introduces an all-new version that somewhat closely approximates the Zune’s home screen experience (whether that’s a harbinger of things to come remains to be seen). Perhaps more than any other single feature, the new Today screen gives 6.5 a freshened look — but ironically, many users will never see it because it’s often replaced by a manufacturer customization (in HTC’s case, TouchFLO).
    • “Honeycomb” Start screen: The main menu of old — a white screen with a grid of boring, old icons — looked like a relic of Windows 3.1. Happily, it’s gone here, replaced with a themed alternating list of thoroughly modern images for default apps. The Start menu is gone, too — pressing the Windows icon in the upper left of the screen now leads straight to the new Start screen.
    • Finger-friendly UI elements: Windows Mobile’s notorious for being unable to shake the stylus, but 6.5 makes some additional baby steps to help fingertips do all of the work — inertial scrolling in many screens and a redesigned context menu style both help here.
    • New lock screen: Though not revolutionary, Microsoft put a commendable amount of thought into this one — instead of merely settling to give the user one way to get back into their device, 6.5’s lock screen gives you multiple points of entry depending on the current status; if you’ve got a new text message, for example, you get a separate unlock slider that can take you straight to it.
    • Revamped Internet Explorer: Bringing a “desktop” browsing experience to the pocket has been a big focus for mobile platforms over the past couple years, and Microsoft’s been lagging desperately in bringing a version of Internet Explorer Mobile that’s both easy to use with a few swipes of a finger and also capable of digesting thoroughly modern pages using up-to-date standards and technologies. The company’s made it a big focus for 6.5, adding a new, prettier UI, a zoom slider, better support for full HTML, and a new JavaScript engine.
    • Windows Marketplace: The biggest news in 6.5 might not be a 6.5 specific feature at all, ironically. Windows Marketplace finally takes WinMo into the all-important world of consolidated, managed mobile app stores, but it’s only exclusive to 6.5 for a few weeks before being made available to 6 and 6.1 later this year.
    • Exclusive content: It’s hardly a platform “feature,” really, but Microsoft is making a pretty big deal of the fact that it’s signed on a number of internationally recognized designers like Isaac Mizrahi and Vera Wang to craft themes for 6.5 that ship with the platform free of charge (we’re not sure if you’ll find them on every 6.5 phone to be produced, but they came loaded — albeit turned off by default — on our Pure).

    Snaps of Windows Mobile 6.5

  4. 25 October 2009 · 10:26 PM ·

    Android Operating System

    Nokia is one of the largest player in the mobile phone market. Everybody by now must have been used to the Symbian operating system. For years together Symbian has been used in mobile phones and we have seen it evolve from one version to another. At present we are at the Symbian Series 60 5th edition which is used in touch-screen mobiles. Symbian was mainly seen in Nokia mobiles until a few years ago when Samsung also started using Symbian. The other mobile companies preffered to stick with Java. Today, a new operating system has been launched which is now being used in many mobiles across all mobile companies. It is called the Android Operating System. Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications. The Android SDK provides the tools and APIs necessary to begin developing applications on the Android platform using the Java programming language. The striking feature of Android is it’s Graphical Interface. Android graphics are powered by a custom 2D graphics library and OpenGL ES 1.0 for high performance 3D graphics. Android does not differentiate between the phone’s core applications and third-party applications. They can all be built to have equal access to a phone’s capabilities providing users with a broad spectrum of applications and services. Android breaks down the barriers to building new and innovative applications. For example, a developer can combine information from the web with data on an individual’s mobile phone such as the user’s contacts, calendar, or geographic location to provide a more relevant user experience. With Android, a developer could build an application that enables users to view the location of their friends and be alerted when they are in the vicinity giving them a chance to connect. Android provides access to a wide range of useful libraries and tools that can be used to build rich applications. For example, Android enables developers to obtain the location of the device, and allow devices to communicate with one another enabling rich peer-to-peer social applications.

    Android Operating System currently used in HTC, Motorola, LG and Samsung phones.