Unofficial video announcement of Motorola
Last year, Motorola has demonstrated the consequences of the long overdue crisis, moved from second place among manufacturers of mobile devices in the third. This year the American manufacturer of well made at the January CES show by presenting a conceptual music phone ROKR E8 and smartphone RIZR Z10, but rather sluggishly said at the February Congress MWC 2008 and has traditionally ignored the March CeBIT. The fans expect from the company's achievements and sensations that will restore her good name, good in the beginning, the show go one by one. The closest thing now show CTIA Wireless, starting April 1, in which Motorola is not a sin to speak, because it takes place in Las Vegas. Here it should be noted that since last year in the network are rumors about a whole range of very interesting devices that Motorola has reportedly released in 2008. Last week was published on YouTube video, from which it was possible to gather more information about future updates. Of course, modern technology make it easy to make a fake, but analyzed the video journalists lean to the conclusion that the device in the video look quite realistic and, most importantly, confirm what was known about the updates before.
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| Motorola X Pixl with integrated 5-megapixel camera Kodak |
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| Music slider-style PEBL |
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| Motorola Z9 Slider |
First of all, the video shows a few simple phones, not smartphones and communicators. It is possible to see the highly anticipated Motorola X Pixl cameraphone with built-in 5-megapixel camera Kodak and changing the keyboard, like the Motorola ROKR E8, slider Motorola Z9, early release is not in doubt, since it has recently been approved by the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC), as well as a music slider style reminiscent of PEBL. For us, particular interest are two new smartphone. One of them, this is a smartphone with a QWERTY-keyboard, codenamed Motorola Genghis, the next heir to the famous Motorola Q. Presumably it will be called Motorola Q10, and running the new operating system Windows Mobile 6.1, which is to start CTIA may already be presented formally. The second device is the successor MOTOMING (marking model A1200), which became in time a sensation in the Asian market. We call it conditionally smartphone, because in trying to precisely categorize this direction Motorola phones already broken a lot of copies, but attributed it to the category of simple phone with a clear conscience can not. Motorola A1600, as well as the MOTOMING, a single touch screen, disguised transparent flip and work with a platform based on Linux. Smartphone Motorola MOTOMING is proposed as an alternative to actual devices based on Windows Mobile and Symbian. It is expected that Motorola A1600 will be equipped with a fast and CPU performance.
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| Motorola Q10 |
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| Motorola A1600 |
It is interesting that the video is no sign of the flagship Motorola Z12 smartphone codenamed Scarven. Announcement of this device have been waiting long and impatiently, as among the alleged characteristics mentioned 2.8-inch touch VGA-display with "Finger" interface, the camera c optical zoom and a resolution of 5 or even 8 megapixels, GPS-functions and other pleasures of life. Despite the lack of mention of Scarven in the video enthusiasts not lose hope to see him at the show. While it is difficult to say whether Motorola was able to gather strength to actually produce all these models. Wait and see. In any case, April 1, promises to be interesting:)
The intrigue of the week: VGA or QVGA?
One of the main intrigue of the week was a rumor about a possible upgrade Smartphone ASUS P750. English-language resources are pleased to play up sensational news: a smartphone actually equipped with a screen resolution of VGA (480x640 pixels) and only the marketing machinations ASUSTeK have reduced him to the unenviable status of QVGA (240x320 pixels)! Beginning of the story was put on the Russian forum Asus Mobile Club Russia in late February, when one user posted the official description of the company's display TD026TTEA1 TPO Displays, which is used in the device. In the description immediately struck by nuance - the display has a resolution of VGA, but can also operate in the mode QVGA. Thus, theoretically, ASUS P750 is able to work with a resolution of VGA. The most meticulous and interesting even found with a microscope that is now the minimum unit of the screen image ASUS P750 is the point with a side of 2x2 pixels. Of course, once kindled debate whether the software "fix" the screen resolution from QVGA to VGA, simply, to create (or wait until a) a special driver for full-resolution display, or whether there are any additional hardware limitations that will not allow a brute upgrade your device. There are additional points of contention, for example, will there be enough computing power device for processing VGA-image. Precise answers to these questions have not yet found, some of the most practical users urged not to have illusions. ASUSTeK itself refrains from official comments, the same individual company representatives report that the VGA mode can not be used as "screen resolution sewn, it does not specify the software or hardware limitation is meant. The moral: it is possible for folk art and not be "treated with a file" ASUS P750, but it makes sense to wait for an updated version of Communicator, some ASUS P755, with a completely honest and work permits VGA. Such a move is quite natural, because in the portfolio of communicators under the brand ASUS still does not have models with similar features, meanwhile, as our competitors ASUSTeK they have ceased to be exotic. If, indeed, appear heir ASUS P750 with VGA-screen, it almost would not have analogues. Recall that the model is implemented as a candybar with a numeric keypad. Communicators in this form factor, in principle, not much, but the models with VGA resolution, comes to mind except that i-mate 8150 Ultimate.
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Surreptitious advertising MID from Apple
During CeBIT, Intel introduced a new brand of Atom, which will be used for platforms and processors of mobile Internet devices. The presentation was a slide show showing the present and the future segment MID-devices.This year will have produced devices based on the platform Menlow, the functions of navigation systems, portable video players and internet tablets. Now these devices are announced, many companies release for sale should start in the second half of the year. In the future, will be released on the platform Moorestone a mobile internet device with the functions of the second generation of smartphones. Careful examination of materials from the presentation showed a small sensation: as an illustration for a new generation of smartphone shows the device with an easily recognizable design mobile phone from Apple.
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This unexpected find approved journalists at the thought that the future generation of iPhone will go on to the platform from Intel. In fact, rumors about such a gadget, go for a long time in various forms - from the successor to the Newton handheld computer tablet iTablet. If one of the future generations of the iPhone will be made on the basis of Moorestone, it will be a fundamentally new device, because Moorestone has x86-architecture and is a cost effective solution for creating a truly mobile computer. The platform was created using the 45-nm process technology, it is a SoC-solution (system on chip) with a central processor, memory controller, graphics processor and the engine to work with video on a single chip. Intel considers Moorestone as a basis for mobile devices with support networks Wi-Fi/WiMAX, this is one of the main components of the concept of "Internet in your pocket, however, the option of mobile 3G-networks as well there. Presentations on such a level of accidents do not happen. In fact, we can assume confirmed plans to release MID-device from Apple. Upsets only one - platform Moorestone scheduled for release no earlier than 2009, which means that the next mobile revolution Apple is delayed at least a year.
April Fool Update Nokia N810
On April news resources related to telecommunications is not for jokes: the day starts CTIA Wireless, one of the largest exhibitions of the industry. It is likely that it is on it will be launched to provide services in the U.S. network Sprint Xohm, built with support for standard mobile WiMAX. Running services are not possible without the user's equipment, and their operator Sprint should provide the company Nokia. The official announcement of specific devices Finnish manufacturer has not yet made, but has repeatedly promised that the models supporting WiMAX will be released in 2008. According to an Internet resource Boy Genius Report, CTIA will host a presentation on Internet Tablet Nokia, optimized for use in networks WiMAX. It is expected that the specifications it will be all the same model Nokia N810 with the added support of WiMAX. May not change even marking devices, although other sources report that the official name of new items will be Nokia N830. Recall that the Internet Tablet Nokia N810 much functional than its predecessors, he had a slide-out QWERTY-keyboard and support for GPS-functions. Support for cellular networks is not included in the concept of Internet Tablet from Nokia, and updating will be no exception. Even if support for WiMAX will be the only improvement in the new internet tablet, it can be considered a worthy competitor to first signs of class MID. In addition to Nokia for the Sprint network planned to release notebooks and ultra-mobile PCs with WiMAX support such companies as Acer, Asus, Lenovo, Panasonic and Toshiba. Perhaps, at CTIA we will see presentations and demonstrations of some of them.
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Android and iPhone: who wins?
At the conference, eComm (Emerging Communications) Rich Miner (Rich Miner), head of mobile platforms at Google made an interesting statement about the prospects for Android.He expects the device based on Android will surpass sales volume popular iPhone. In general, the prediction is quite natural, because with all the marketing power of Apple spreads her phone with a mass of limits: iPhone legally sold so far only in 6 countries and only one operator in each of these countries. Plus to this, iPhone - it's only one model, designed for a well-defined segment of society, while devices based on Android will have a different design, different features and targeted at a wider audience. Already, developers of Android demonstrated two types of smartphones - with QWERTY-keyboard and touch screen. On the creation of Android-run smartphone giants such as Motorola, HTC and Samsung, do not disregard the new platform and many other manufacturers of mobile devices. By and large, iPhone and Android are simply designed for different market segments.
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In addition to these factors, Miner said a number of additional deficiencies, you see them in the iPhone and absent in the platform Android. For example, the recent sensation, packet iPhone SDK to develop applications by third-party developers, according to Miner significantly restricts freedom of action and does not allow to create many useful programs for the iPhone: "Many of the useful things that people create with the first version of Android SDK, it seems, can not be done with the iPhone, at least for the moment. " Of course Android is an open-source project, and rightly so. On the other hand, iPhone SDK still available as a beta release and the release of restrictions might be lifted. In this case, Miner can not be accused of bias, at last, he said that if he was a software developer, it would have worked on applications for both platforms. The authors, translation: