While all progressive humanity celebrated New Year, grants the consumer electronics industry prepared for the first major exhibition of the year - CES 2007 (Consumer Electronics Association), which usually takes place in Las Vegas from January 8 to 11. Most announcements are usually right before the show or on her first day. Meanwhile, as to many significant exhibitions, there is increased activity of fans of individual producers, intensely discussing what surprises they have prepared and dividing at the same time sometimes really exclusive information.
Nokia E65: image model for business users?
Continues to receive information about new E-series smartphones from Nokia, the company still must submit to the public. Following the addition of this family business smartphones will be three models - E61i, E65 and E90. Recall that these three new items a few extend the previous concept of E-series. For example, they are all equipped with built-in cameras, while still in this series smartphones camera has only one model - E70, and even for a model Nokia E50 camera is offered as an option. Last week, the Slovak internet resource MobilMania.sk published photos and a detailed description of the smartphone Nokia E65. As anticipated earlier, the smartphone is really made in the slider, which is also unusual for the E-series. Plus, this he received the camera, however, despite the support of third-generation networks, Nokia has not become embedded in his front camera for video calls, apparently judging that one camera for the business model and way more than enough.
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Despite belonging to a business line, this unit is a tendency, usually more typical image model. In the design of the body apart from plastic used materials such as metal and leather (although it is possible and the option with the imitation, the Slovak language somewhat complicates the understanding of the moment, but this is unlikely). In addition, smartphone-slider phone is very thin. If the information provided MobilMania.sk, be true, then we have no standard corporate model that large companies buy for their employees in "organized" manner, but more a status product. This approach Nokia looks reasonable enough - at least there are many workers, the image of which is directly related revenue. An example of such a worker can serve as Sales Manager, working with global and large customers. Investing in tools work for such employees, emphasizing their status and importance in society, will be repaid in full. From this point of view also seems logical availability of good, for mobile phone, main camera (2 Megapixel) and the lack of camera for video calls. At the moment, video telephony is not widely used and is more of a plaything for those who wish to join the high-tech than the required function. In addition, important client does not necessarily see what kind of situation he found companion, in most cases will be enough that he will answer a representative, well-trained voice. At the same time, simple camera for photography is essential in many situations, the business of life - take a picture card, a satisfied customer, and something else, for example, for the record.
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Initially the model was compared with the E65 Smartphone N80. She was supposed to inherit some of its features.If we take only the design, the future of innovation is more like a slider Nokia 6280 is not a smartphone, although no-one similarity. Earlier rumors claimed that the E65 will QVGA (240x320 pixels) display, but is now reportedly on the resolution of the display as the model N80 - 352x416 pixels, but with support for 262K colors longer, and 16M. In size E65 is longer, but already much thinner than the N80 - 106h47h14 mm against 95.4 h50x23, 4 mm. In the expanded state the length of the smartphone is 137 mm. Weight slightly larger than the N80 - 140 g vs. 134 of the supported standards, networks and interfaces source indicates GSM / GPRS / EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz), WCDMA (2100 MHz), IrDA, Bluetooth, Wi- Fi, POP Port (USB 2.0). Built-in memory - 70 MB, of which 52 MB available, plus a slot for flash cards format microSD. Despite a rather pronounced image-oriented, it is expected that the smartphone would not be particularly expensive - about 340 euros (about $ 448) excluding taxes at the time of the sale. For comparison - the recommended price for a smartphone Nokia 6290 is positioned by the manufacturer as a model of mid-priced segment is 325 euros, without taxes. Tentative release dates - the second or third quarter of 2007.
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Nokia N800: the first model of the N-series based on Linux
Another product from Nokia was declassified by nosy reporters - a new representative of the N-series. To publish a blog Ring Nokia photos already packaged for sale copies can be found a lot of information about him. This is more than unusual for the N-series model. In earlier rumors device was called the Nokia 870 and discussed as a successor to Internet Tablet Nokia 770, which was released in late 2005. The main features of the Nokia 770 was the work of Linux and the lack of native support for cellular networks. Nokia N800 Internet Tablet, as is called the new model, inherited both of these features. The box shows a cheerful penguin, proving that not all "multimedia computers» N-series work based on Symbian. Also from the inscriptions on the package you can extract the following information. To connect to cellular networks is required to use a cell phone or modem. Naturally there are built-in support for wireless networking Wi-Fi. In addition, Nokia N800 boasts a Web-camera-resolution VGA. The display has a resolution of 4.13-inches, he - and touch-widescreen. In addition, the marked-in stereo speakers, a connector miniUSB, interface support Bluetooth.
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Nokia N800 has the following specifications: - Operating system Internet Tablet OS 2007
- Processor clock speed 320 MHz
- Touchscreen 4.1-inch display with a resolution of 800x480 pixels, 65K colors
- 128 MB RAM and 256 MB ROM
- Two slots for SD and RS-MMC
- Wi-Fi (802.11b / g), Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0
- Built-in VGA camera
- Stereo speakers
- Dimensions - mm 144h75h13
Weight - 206
He also said the indicative price - $ 400. Thus, we see increased compared with the Nokia 770 memory, more nimble processor appears Web-camera and a slot SD (most likely card miniSD). All these changes seem to be quite logical - the camera will allow video-conferencing, SD cards are more common than those used in the Nokia 770 cards RS-MMC, and more memory that device never hurts.It should be noted that all this information has not yet officially confirmed. According to certain information at this time, we get something more modest in size and cost than the ultra-mobile PCs UMPC, although it loses on parameters such as computing power. Before modern PDA running Windows Mobile in this model has several advantages, not least of which - the size and display resolution.
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QIP PDA updated
Another notable event of last week - updated version for smartphones and PDAs cult ICQ-messenger QIP. Recall that the first beta version of QIP PDA was released on December 12, that is, given the holidays, the rate of release of update - just wonderful. It should be noted that while the changes / corrections made too much, it is not about quality improvement, but the trends are encouraging for updating. As explained by the developers, feedback and error reports were received more than they originally expected, and will now gradually be made revision and added the necessary functions.
Of the reported innovations are implemented as follows: - toolbar to display the status and fast access to its changing
- the ability to open a conversation by pressing the OK button on the contact
- the ability to view history after leaving the network
- the ability to change the font for your contact list
- the ability to change font message box
- the ability to send messages by pressing / double pressing Enter (OK)
Also there was the possibility of folding the messenger in the system tray, but so far little use of it does not have - when an incoming message is fed only sound, no visual reminders or notifications. In addition, developers have corrected some errors and shortcomings, and have made some updates.
Among them: - (Upd), a message box: the PPC-version changed the element to enter text
- (Mgr) appearance of the second record of contacts in the CL exit in "offline"
- (Fix) the problem with the Russian team name and contact
- (Spanish) spontaneous recording outgoing messages when disconnected stories
- (ISP) settings dialog connection
- (COI) encoding problems when receiving messages from certain clients
- (Spanish) spontaneous output of some dialogs when you cpetsknopki
- (Fix) the font size in full-screen menu.
Thus, probably soon, we got a really stable and functional version of QIP for devices on the platform Windows Mobile. Recall that the QIP PDA is in the variations for both the Pocket PC, and Smartphones based on operating system Windows Mobile 2003 and 5.0. Version for smartphones and communicators on other platforms is not planned yet. The program is free.
Briefly about other events of the week
Soft-panorama of the week
Mobile Office is now open for UIQ3 platform file format for storing and exchanging office documents, OpenDocument, is famous not only on desktop computers. Company Odendahl SEPT-Solutions introduced a beta version of its Mobile Office applications for the platform UIQ3. This viewer, text documents (. Odt), spreadsheets (. Ods) and presentations (. Odp), supports some additional features, such as search and view the changes. Subsequently, plans to introduce features to edit and create documents OpenDocument. At the moment, Mobile Office also has a version for smart phones running the Symbian operating system based platform S60 (including 3rd Edition), further version is planned for the platform Series80.
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Positioning without GPS, Navizon version three solutions from the company Mexens Technology enables users of smartphones based on S60, as well as mobile devices running Windows Mobile to determine their whereabouts, despite the possible lack of built-in GPS-capabilities and additional GPS-instruments. The program provides Navizon "virtual GPS» service allows us to obtain the coordinates from the data base stations, Wi-Fi or GSM / CDMA. The system is simple. Members with a GPS device can use the free version of Navizon and thus participate in the creation of a database for the paid version of Navizon Virtual GPS ($ 19,99), simulating GPS-functionality.
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The updated service Navizon 3.0 obtained interesting new features.Among them - their own maps, on which users can navigate more comfortable and also see where there are friends, creating groups of users "of interest" that may be useful, for example, organized by taxi drivers when a call comes, the creation and viewing of geographic labels that is convenient for information about such facilities, such as restaurants or just interesting places.
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Updated Virtual Earth Mobile Virtual Earth Mobile Application updated to version 1.69. It shows maps, satellite photos, as well as the location of some objects in the field, all of which are completely free. Data loaded from the server MSN Virtual Earth, as necessary, and not hang in the memory initially. Provides search capabilities, works with GPS-devices and so on. The new version finally had the ability to move maps with a stylus, introduced an option specifying the direction in text form, and also fixes some bugs. Application is suitable for Smartphone and Pocket PC based on Windows Mobile 5.0 and 2003.
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Update Antivirus Antivirus Airscanner Airscanner Mobile Antivirus is updated to version 3.0. The program is designed for devices based on Windows Mobile (Pocket PC and Smartphone). Anti-Virus provides the definition of malicious code that monitors and scans the files. The new version introduces the following features: scheduler for automatic updates and scheduled scanning, continuous scanning in the background, an improved task manager to debug and remove the questionable applications, tools, information display system, a new user interface, support for Pocket PC and Smartphone Windows-based Mobile 5.0.
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Blyudzheking in Russian Russian software developer 0vZ released version of the application "Terminal for PDA", previously available for smart phones, as well as new program Smart File Acceptor. Both applications are designed to work with mobile devices via Bluetooth. The terminal is designed to access resources on cell phones via Bluetooth, and Smart File Acceptor - it's actually part of the "Terminal". The second program - more quickly and easily allows you to receive files as well as the "terminal", but in addition, it has a useful feature - it can be very sort out files into folders depending on their type. Both programs are free for Russian users a fee for foreigners.
Hard-panorama of the week
MicroUSB for the smallest organization USB-IF (USB Implementers Forum) has decided to bring more diversity to the connectors for mobile devices. Mini-USB connectors seemed to her too big and it has announced a new standard, however, has no specific details. It is assumed that the Micro-USB connectors are smaller, so the will fit the current trends towards universal minityuarizatsii. Despite the declared miniaturization, such connectors require technology support USB On-The-Go (OTG), which allows portable devices to communicate directly without having to use the computer as a staging point. Connectors will be manufactured using stainless steel, which should increase their longevity (up to 10 thousand cycles of insertion), provided a passive latching mechanism which prevents accidental disconnection.While it is difficult to say if this is good or, on the contrary will, more confusion and hence inconvenience to end users. However, in a press release quoted in support of the new standard made by the representative of Nokia, which is still rarely used a standard USB-connector, preferring its traditional jacks Pop Port. Support from the Finnish giant could make a strong case for the wide dissemination of the standard. Two-sided display from Samsung, Samsung continues to develop the direction of displays for mobile phones. At this time, she presented a display that can display two independent images on both sides of the matrix simultaneously. In the words of the developer, the world's first LCD-display capable of displaying not only on its back side, "reverse" image, but also play independent of each other's image. This display can be useful, for example, when creating a phone clamshell. Now for them usually use two displays. According to Samsung, the use of bilateral matrix will reduce the thickness of the devices, as well as cost. The display has a diagonal of 2.2 inches, the thickness of 2.6 mm and a resolution - QVGA (240x320 pixels), supporting the ability to display 262K colors. Mass production of such displays are planned for the first half of 2007.
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SanDisk SSD: flash memory instead of hard disk drives based on flash memory continues to war with drives based on magnetic hard disks. Both solutions have pros and cons. , SanDisk introduced a 32 GB SSD (solid state drive) drive based on flash memory for use in portable electronics, particularly in the ultra-mobile PCs. Hopes SanDisk, she was able to overcome one of the main drawbacks of these drives - the cost - and this decision could become economically viable. Progress, of course, there is, yet to win more away - projected to SanDisk, the cost of a laptop with this drive instead of hard drives will increase for the end customer by about $ 600. The appearance of products with a 32 GB SSD-drive from SanDisk is expected in the first half of 2007.
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