Almost all major mobile industry event last week focused on the 3GSM World Congress 2007. Events outside the exhibition in no way associated with it, it was quite small, since the major players gathered there. But since the exhibition's more than enough. Traditionally, it made the announcements, sometimes true, sometimes it's very preliminary, almost six months ahead. Suppose that we are unable to pay due attention to every deserving event, but that much of them we will hear more than once during the year, then we will discuss them more thoroughly.
Crossbow has become Windows Mobile 6: waited
One of the main event for the world of smart mobile devices in the exhibition's official opening of a new version of Windows Mobile 6. Thanks to all sorts of leaks, the information about it has spread even before the announcement, and a week before the presentation got a massive scale. However, the welding, ceremonial release took place at the opening ceremony. For the most part preliminary information was confirmed. Some revolutionary radical changes have occurred, most version 6 more pulls on the Windows Mobile 5.0 Second Edition, as a fundamentally new release. The benefit of Windows Mobile 5.0 and Windows Mobile 6, even based on one core, not yet released in the past year, Windows Embedded CE 6.0, while the previous version, Windows CE 5.0. We summarize the main official information about the new product.
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Although specifically about this, Microsoft has not disclosed, but the entire documentation new version of the operating system is divided not on Windows Mobile for Smartphone, Pocket PC or Pocket PC Phone Edition, and Windows Mobile 6 Standard, Classic and Professional editions, respectively. That is, devices without a touch screen, smart phones, are working on a version of Standard, and PDAs and communicators with a touch screen - based on the Classic and Professional, depending on the availability of telephone module. Has been updated the whole look, the system looked like a new version of PC OS - Windows Vista. One of the major innovations in Windows Mobile 6 - pre-installed package of office applications in the Office Mobile versions for Smartphones, now called Windows Mobile 6 Standard, which had not previously done Corporation. Thus, smartphones initially appear ample opportunity to read and edit documents that show the original images, and formatting. Has improved access to email, for example, the opportunity to view the e-mail in HTML format with links to Web-and SharePoint-sites. Also, enter your e-mail management and fewer clicks. The system added 9 new features one-touch control, including: "Reply All", "Set flag", "Move to Folder" and "Delete". Exchange Server 2007 users can now set the auto reply. Was added filter system Smart Filter for easier search in the messages. Transformed calendar allows you to quickly find out when the calendar is free time, and with Exchange Server 2007, you can respond to requests for meetings, send them and see a list of invitees. Another innovation - an integrated suite of Windows Live services in a version for Windows Mobile: Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Messenger, Live Search and Windows Live Spaces. Users will be able to keep a unified contact list and view it in Windows Live Messenger. Here, the corporation should be a general trend, at a time when services Yahoo! and Google has already integrated with the interfaces of mobile devices. Call history can be found in the individual contact card. New Tool for synchronizing with computers based on Windows Vista - application Windows Mobile Device Center, allows you to track changes in folders PCs and mobile devices including music, images, videos and information Outlook.
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Were expanded as business and corporate opportunities. Including increased security responsibilities, such as new options Exchange Server in setting policy, encrypted memory card slot and support for removing information from the device remotely. Added support technology IRM (Information Rights Management), it is important for organizations are protected by IRM confidential data on your PC. For devices with Windows Mobile 6 will be installed fresh versions of Microsoft. NET Compact Framework and Microsoft SQL Server. Also claimed to support the integration of VoIP-making. According to plans of Microsoft, the first devices running Windows Mobile 6 will appear in the second quarter of 2007.
Windows Mobile devices: announcements, upgrades, updates
On the first day of 3GSM Congress, was announced the car and small truck of new models of mobile devices such as a Windows Mobile 6 as well as on the previous version of the operating system. The most interesting and significant of them are considered in a separate article, also dedicated 3GSM. Surely we are not just hear about these updates throughout the year, when the company will publish more data about them or to announce the immediate availability. It is quite usual for the 3GSM situation when many new items, first shown on it grows more details and remind yourself at least the first half of the year. The significance of this exhibition is so great that companies often show her model, which is still quite far from the exit and, accordingly, certain parameters, which are still subject to change. As a result, showing a novelty, companies often do not report details about her. Were presented not only fundamentally new models, but the updated one way or another "old". As we learned from most of the press release from Microsoft, upgrade to Windows Mobile 6 is planning to hold an operator T-Mobile for Smartphone T-Mobile Dash, the operator's version of HTC S620 (Excalibur). During the presentation, Microsoft vice president Peter Nook (Pieter Knook) also announced a future upgrade for the Treo 750 smartphone from the company Palm. In addition, it is expected, although the official statement to this effect has not been, an upgrade for these devices? as not so long ago announced 3G-communicator ASUS P735 and JAQ3 from the company i-mate.
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The company i-mate also introduced a small update to its slim Smartphone i-mate SPL, however, at first glance unrelated to the operating system. Just on sale soon appear smartphones this model in red, pink and blue version, in addition to black. However, eyewitnesses have reported show that they have seen this model works on Windows Mobile 6 Standard, rather than Microsoft Windows 5.0 for Smartphone as it should be, which gives hope for an early upgrade.
The Chinese company, Lenovo is also not spared the 3GSM and demonstrated two mysterious devices, smartphones and communicators based on Windows Mobile 6. On them is not known yet no further details. Curiously, one of them, namely smartphone flaunts russified numeric keypad.
Windows Mobile in Korean: the main, well hidden?
An interesting strategy to choose for themselves the company Samsung Electronics, has presented a couple of new products-communicators. Samsung Ultra Smart F700 and the Samsung Ultra Smart F520 - it's definitely the model is very extraordinary, unusual and interesting. F700 involuntarily compare with who are already iconic iPhone from Apple, he also uses touch screen and an interface that focuses on managing your fingers rather than stylus. Differences, of course, weight. Samsung products largely loses the iPhone in terms of innovation, but it has many pros. For example, a device from Samsung has a sliding QWERTY-keyboard, but the display itself while far less - a diagonal of 2.78 inches at a resolution 440h240 pixels. Also, there is no impressive amount of internal memory, but offered a slot for cards microSD. Great emphasis is placed on the standards of new generation - supports GSM / EDGE and UMTS / HSDPA. Also built-in 5-megapixel camera with autofocus. Special mention deserves interface «Drag and drop», through which you can drag objects on the screen.
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Samsung F520 made in the original form-factor "double" slider. That is, you can push down the keyboard with navigation and numeric keys, and extends from the side QWERTY. As well as the F700, the novelty is equipped with a touch screen, here it is even more - 3 inch and slightly higher resolution 480x272 pixels. Also highlights the management of a finger without the stylus. This model can also work in networks GSM / EDGE and UMTS / HSDPA. It features a simple 3-megapixel camera.
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There is a F700 and F520 additional charm given to touch of mystery. The fact that a company called novelties Ultra Smart, clearly alluding to their affinity smartphones, but it conceals the fact on what kind of platform they are built, and in press materials did not mention no small importance of this information. The reports of the visitors, however, reported that Asians are sneaky created them based on well all the familiar Windows Mobile, placing on top of its own interface shell. All true messaging port that the manufacturer of "closed" platform and the ability to install standard software created for Windows Mobile third-party developers, is not supported. The user remains the only option to install Java-applications.If this is true, and Samsung will not change its policy at the time of registration or later, the way she brings down the new items to the class of 'simple' phones, but not advanced communicators. However, some basic features incorporated in them, still it is not just a "dialer" and the model of high-end, designed to work with multimedia content, internet and so on. Among the declared functions - document viewing MS Office, Internet surfing and e-mail activity, work with media formats MPEG4, H.263, H.264, Real Video, MP3, AAC (+), eAAC + and Real Audio. It should be noted that the focus highlights the telephone and the lack of support networks, Wi-Fi, which has already become almost a standard for honest communicators based on Windows Mobile. F520 and F700 will appear on the market in the third quarter of 2007, probably closer to the release of the situation with them to clarify. If the models at the time of registration will be open to third-party software, you will be able to position itself as a "killer" models such as HTC TyTN, but if not - will simply expensive and must pay tribute, beautiful toys.
In the environment: the best "mobile office" according to Nokia
By Nokia, of course, do not miss 3GSM Congress, and fired a series of smartphones based on S60. She updated the E-series business smartphones, and introduced a smartphone and smartphone-navigator middle class, sharpened for mobile TV. New business smartphones Nokia E90 Communicator, Nokia E65 and Nokia E61i positioned as the second generation of E-series combines advanced technology and new functionality. Curiously, all three new items are equipped with cameras, of which the company had previously tried to refrain, at least, offering a camera as an option. Here, the ban on camera in business models cast out. The king of the trio looks Nokia E90 Communicator - universal device with impressive features. It is quite capable to get producers to think of communicators based on Windows Mobile devices to increase functionality and to spur them into development. It's funny that in the positioning of Nokia E90 Communicator is identical with the communicator-monster HTC Advantage based on Windows Mobile 5.0, also announced at 3GSM. And Nokia and HTC presented with their offspring as the best solution for the "mobile office". Both solutions are large, despite the difference in form factors, they are almost the same length (134 mm and 132 mm), but the Nokia E90 in the folded state at 4 cm already. By weight difference noticeable - Nokia lighter by about 140 grams. Thus, in comparison with the HTC Advantage model Nokia E90 will be an order of magnitude easier to use it as a phone, but he is smart and that the heart be far more phones than PDAs. Despite the hopes of many, the Nokia E90 screen is not touch-sensitive, this causes the Platforms. In many respects the decision by Nokia and HTC intersect in "collateral" is not the main, the functions, for example, have a GPS-module and a 3-megapixel main camera.
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Like the previous series of Representatives Nokia Communicator, such as the Nokia 9300 and Nokia 9500, E90 smartphone running the operating system Symbian OS, but these two predecessors were based on the Series 80, and new works on the S60 3.1 Edition (Symbian OS 9.2). Consequently, the program will be presented to her in abundance. In general, the basic similarities to its predecessors is in the form factor - the horizontal clamshell with two displays and keyboards, but otherwise it's completely updated unit. Displays both internal and external best quality.External display is comparable with the main screens of ordinary smartphones - the resolution is 240x320 pixels, resolution internal display - 800h352 pixels, both support 16M colors. Communications capabilities are spreading from the GSM / GPRS / EGPRS (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) and WCDMA / HSDPA (2100 MHz) to Wi-Fi (802.11g) and Bluetooth 2.0. Also noteworthy Stereo FM-radio. The amount of memory for applications and user data reaches 128MB, can also be used cards microSD. Battery capacity 1500 mAh, according to the manufacturer, provides up to 5 hours of talk time and up to 14 days standby time. On sale this toy begins to appear in the second quarter, and the massive sales start in the third. The declared cost of the framework - from 750 to 800 euros, about $ 985 - $ 1050 and is still without taxes.
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Others presented smartphones are not so daunting. Nokia E65 - an attempt to add a fashion trend in the E-series. It is the first slider, which appeared among business smartphones from Nokia, a relatively thin for their capabilities, the thickness is 15.5 mm. Otherwise, it is fairly standard for Nokia. The smartphone is also capable of working in networks GSM / GPRS / EGPRS, WCDMA / HSDPA and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. There is also a camera, here is a 2-megapixel. The display has a native resolution of QVGA (240x320 pixels), Memory - 50 MB, there is a slot for cards microSD.
Nokia E61i is a long-awaited update your smartphone with a QWERTY-keyboard Nokia E61. To him, finally, added a 2-megapixel camera, which many did not have enough, diminished rigor in design and slightly changed the control buttons. There are other, less visible changes, such as a slot for cards microSD, not miniSD. This smartphone is also able to work in a standard HSDPA, in addition to GSM / GPRS and Wi-Fi.
Anyone who remembers the good old Nokia 6110, lived in a time when telephones were big, certainly surprised at the appearance of its namesake with the declared navigational functions. Smartphone Nokia 6110 Navigator, in truth, has nothing to do with his namesake, an old. It's a slider on the platform S60 3rd with integrated GPS-functionality. For the navigation device, perhaps, he has too little screen - 2.2 inches diagonal, perhaps, to use it will not be too comfortable. However, the solution is able to help out in difficult situations, it is quite acceptable.
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Smartphone Nokia N77, as expected, is designed to carry a mass of mobile TV. He is regarded as an affordable model. For N-Series smartphone he's really quite simple. Nokia N77 is designed as a classic candy bar, equipped with a tuner, DVB-H and 2,4-inch display with 16M colors. It is also based on S60 3rd edition and can run third-generation networks.Recommended price for it is 370 euro (excluding taxes), it is hoped that users will share with the producer views on the "affordability" price.
Neonode N2: addition to the family or Neonode degenerates
The company Neonode still wait for addition to the family - "pregnancy" chief designer Bjorn Svensson (Bjorn Svensson) was completed successfully and he "give birth" Smartphone Neonode N2.
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Despite the fact that the company promised something new, some revolutionary innovations failed to notice. However, the old virtues of the family Neonode have been strengthened and expanded. Smartphone was even smaller and lighter than its older brothers. Dimensions were 77h47h14, 7 mm and weighs about 70 grams. True, this has decreased and the touch screen - 2 inches diagonal become instead of 2.2, the resolution remains the same. Steel support miniSD card format instead of SD. The camera has been upgraded to a 2-megapixel. Another innovation - the application WRR (Web Radio Recorder) to download and record music from Internet radio channels, although with mandatory connection to a PC. Connectivity options are limited GSM / GPRS (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) and the interface Bluetooth, which seems to have replaced the old IrDA. MP3-player supports MP3, WMA, WAV. Recall that a smartphone based on the core Windows CE platform Neno, proprietary Neonode. Open platform and third-party developers can create software for it.
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It turns out, the company can talk about any number that is the progenitor of "Finger" interface that Apple and LG phones with their iPhone and Prada assembled, the concept is at Neonode, but to release something really competitive, concept and sets the tone for years to come she is now unable to. Smartphone Neonode as he was, and remains a toy for the few fans of unusual decisions and miniature fans. It seems that this case could serve as further evidence that trust men to give birth should not be better to leave this busy professionals;)
PlayReady: new paranoia from Microsoft
Try to imagine a situation. Teen sees on TV or in magazine advertising directory of pictures or ringtones for cell phones and it includes a desire to diversify the contents of your mobile phone. Or he goes out of the theater and see ads mobile operator offers to download the appropriate content. Then, instead of the move to send an SMS for a few cents and get your favorite tune / picture, he rushes to friends looking for exactly the same. Hard looking for a few days, miraculously finds, it suffers by trying to smuggle the desired on your phone, and finally, deeply moral satisfaction from illegally obtained copies. We should not forget that this whole saga is the presence of a telephone on which all this time you can send SMS or climb on a Wap-portal and get a like new mobile art for a few cents in just minutes.Sounds a bit unrealistic, but it seems that Microsoft is seriously believes in the reality of such situations, as in that it causes serious financial damage to cellular operators and content providers. Piracy - the old fad software giant, with whom he is competing in the best of my ability. At the 3GSM World Congress, Microsoft made happy mankind new technology to access multimedia content and protecting it from unauthorized copying, simply put, DRM (Digital Rights Management). "New" is intended for use in the field of mobile and can be used with many types of content: music, video, games, ringtones and pictures. Against DRM, this plague of the modern world distribution of digital content, has openly Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, which owns the most successful to date online music store iTunes. One of the main reasons Steve Jobs in his call to abandon DRM was that this solution does not cope and never fail in its primary task - the fight against piracy. Nonetheless, Microsoft continues to believe DRM acceptable output, which once again proved the release of the new DRM-system PlayReady. Incidentally, in his perseverance she is not alone, according to Microsoft, novelty is going to introduce the world's leading operators, including Telefonica, O2, Verizon Wireless, Bouygues Telecom and Cingular Wireless, now become AT & T. As the developer promises, PlayReady can be implemented on any mobile hardware or software platform, even the class low-end. The technology is backward compatible with Windows Media DRM 10, which will allow PlayReady-devices work with Windows Media DRM content. The technology must be made available for implementation in the first half of the year.
GoForce 6100: The first application processor from Nvidia
The company Nvidia, well known in the field of programmable graphics processors, has made unexpected progress and submitted its first application processor GoForce 6100, designed for handheld devices. According to the creator, the GoForce 6100, the first in a planned series, more than twice as reduced power consumption compared with any applications processor available on the market today. The list of key features of the processor include: core ARM1176JZ-S with a frequency of 250 MHz, hardware acceleration for all the "heavy" multimedia features and data protection Adapter Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / i / e, and analog signal amplification module, working with H .264, WMV9/VC-1 to VGA-resolution at 30 frames per second, camera support up to 8 megapixel, support platforms, Linux, Windows CE 5.0 and Windows Mobile, support is available DRM formats, an integrated TV encoder and DACs, integrated USB 2.0/OTG. As reported by the developer, GoForce 6100 is designed for fast time to market is the best mobile products in 2007 and 2008. At the exhibition the company showed a concept phone Quark, created to demonstrate the GoForce 6100.
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ACCESS Linux Platform is on the way
Operating System ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP), is actually the receiver Palm OS, was announced by Access and PalmSource, now merged in the Access, has at last year's 3GSM World Congress. One of the main features of the OS that it is based on the kernel Linux, as well as the stated compatibility with programs created under the Palm OS. Consolidating the good tradition of making announcements about the ALP at 3GSM, a developer at this time, announced the official name of its operating system, actually it has not changed - ACCESS Linux Platform, and also announced the start of licensing of PDK (Product Development Kit) for ACCESS Linux Platform 1.0. In addition, a distribution of pre-release version of the SDK (Software Development Kit) and a tool to check compatibility with Garnet OS (until recently known as Palm OS Garnet). In more simple terms, this means that developers have had the opportunity to begin to create products using the ACCESS Linux Platform.
Browser Opera 9 goes mobile
Last year was the released version of Opera 9. On the eve of the exhibition 3GSM developer Opera Software said in general, the expected news - will create a mobile version of Opera Mobile 9 for major mobile platforms. The main highlight of renovation will be support for widgets and functions of the Intelligent Zoom. Widgets were introduced in version 9 of Opera for PC, Intelligent Zoom first appeared in Opera for a game console Wii. Widgets are small Web-based applications that run outside the browser. They allow users, manufacturers and service providers to create and personalize services, providing such information, such as weather, news and e-mail. Widgets are available directly, without launching a browser. Intelligent Zoom feature allows you to view the entire page, as if in a reduced form, and then you want to increase her site. In an environment where not all Web-site address the needs of mobile devices, it is very, very useful.
Video content with Flash Lite for mobiles
Flash-based content is very popular in the network, Flash-video often published example, such well-known services like YouTube. As reported by Adobe Systems, the third version of the Adobe Flash Lite for mobile devices will be integrated with support for video content. Flash Lite 3 will not only support the same video formats as Adobe Flash Player, but also be able to play the video streams that are downloaded from Adobe Flash Media Server. This will allow users of mobile phones to watch video clips, streaming video and so on. It should be noted that Flash Lite runs on multiple platforms, including Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile 5. Release of Adobe Flash Lite 3 is scheduled for the first half of this year.
HD-video on mobiles by the TI
Another company has demonstrated its development of Texas Instruments. OMAP3430 processor is considered as the first application processor, capable of playing HD-video 720p (1280x720 pixels) on mobile phones-class high-end. OMAP3430 also positioned as the first application processor that supports the standard OpenGL ES 2.0, which allows us to achieve live 3D-graphics on mobile devices. OMAP3430 processor is based on the core ARM Cortex-A8, which provides enough performance for demanding games in real time. In addition, TI introduced two new products in a family of OMAP 3 - OMAP3410 processor and the OMAP3420, which are built on the same core, but are intended for use in devices other price segments. Delivery prototypes OMAP3430 processor has already begun, and the OMAP3410 and OMAP3420 will ship later this year. The first phones based on the OMAP 3 is expected early next year.
Kaspersky Anti-Virus Mobile for Symbian and Windows Mobile
Well known developers Kaspersky Laboratory has released the market Kaspersky Anti Mobile, product designed for the protection Smartphone and PDA-based platforms, Symbian and Windows Mobile. Kaspersky Anti-Virus Mobile combines the constant anti-virus protection and scan on demand, mobile device protects against spam, coming in the form of SMS / MMS-messages, through entry of unwanted numbers in the blacklist.Control of the viral threats in real time by both over wireless connections, and over EMS / MMS-messages, as well as data obtained as a result of synchronization with the PC. Supported devices based on Series 60, 80 or UIQ, as well as Windows Mobile 2003 (for Smartphones, Phone Edition) and 5.0.
4 GB microSD card from SanDisk
The news is not revolutionary, but definitely will please many owners of advanced mobile devices. , SanDisk introduced a memory card microSDHC (microSD High Capacity) 4 GB. For a long time for the tiny microSD memory card limit on the amount of spaciousness was 2 Gb, and yet they are used in a variety of new models of phones, smartphones and communicators. In January, a similar capacious card company announced Kingmax, but without any details about plans to release. SanDisk also plans to release a 4-gigabyte microSD memory card in the second half of 2007.
In RoverPC S5 simplified camera
And, finally, a couple of events with our Palestine. The company Rover Computers has decided to release a simpler, more accessible version of Communicator RoverPC S5, which is now equipped with a 4-megapixel CCD-camera. In early March, will begin selling the variation of device with a 2-megapixel camera. Otherwise it will remain the same, with all its plusses and minuses, including the operating system Windows Mobile 5.0, Intel PXA270 processor 312 MHz, Bluetooth, and the lack of Wi-Fi.
Ogo from VimpelCom
Became aware of plans to release the operator Vimpelcom communicators Ogo and services from the company IXI Mobile for its corporate subscribers. To date, camera mobile phone version, exactly as communicators and smartphones, are not very developed in the Russian market, but regular attempts in this direction are being made. Ogo communicator can use the service Push email, work with ICQ-messenger, RSS-feeds, and view graphics, documents, Word, PDF and PowerPoint. It is expected that one of the main advantages of this innovation will be a small price - around $ 100, however, the issue of price has not yet been clarified. Also, it is not clear which model is chosen, and they are very different in features. The older one, for example, it meets the modern requirements, has a color QVGA-display, 32MB RAM and 64MB ROM, has a slot for microSD, Bluetooth 2.0 Interface, in addition to GSM / GPRS / EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) and Wi -Fi (802.11 b / g).
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