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Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Ringing in the new
Nokia N900
One of the most anticipated smart phones of the New Year will be the latest super charged Internet tablet from the Nokia stables, the Nokia N 900. While the brick top look of the phone might not exactly spell ergonomics, it has definitely generated some rave reviews.
The phone packs neat features in addition to the huge 32 GB on board memory, like the solid feel of the phone, the simple to use on screen menus and a whole lot more. The phone will definitely shrug off its Symbian image, with the Maemo 5 operating system.
The second advantage is the chassis the ARM Cortex A8 600MHz processor that will not only make application switching snazzier but also make it insanely faster. And did we mention the huge screen and the infrared port. The phone could be used for a range of other third party developer applications, for example converting it into a universal remote.
Powered by Mozilla technology, websites would look the way they do on any computer. The N900 will also come with a new tag cloud user interface that will help users get the most out of the 5MP camera and Carl Zeiss optics.
Google Nexus One
The Google phone expected to hit the markets this year, is expected to be thinner than any Android-based phone available now. The Nexus One will give stiff competition to the iPhone, the only other phone that Android competes with. Said to be Google's pure vision of what it thinks the phone should be, the company has confirmed that it will manufacture and retail the units directly.
The Nexus One reportedly measures a little over 0.45 inches thick, and has a 3.7-inch OLED touch screen. It could possibly run Qualcomm's 1GHz QSD 8250 processor, and has 512 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM and a 4 GB microSD card included, expandable to 32 GB. The camera has a 5MP sensor, mechanical auto focus and LED flash, and could also include 2x optical zoom.
Motorola MC3 1000
This one literally will be a transmogrification of the tagline. Is this what computers have become?
There is no official word as to when this particular beauty is going to hit India. But this mobile computing device boasts of superb ergonomics, and a cost effective solution for voice and data communications. Designed keeping both touchscreen and key-based applications in mind, it will work on a Windows Mobile 6.1 platform with a lot of ISV applications that can be navigated with an intelligent UI (user interface).
It also has a real time Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Pro platform for customised applications and also has the Motorola MAX Sensor to ensure that it has motion-sensing capabilities. The device also includes an integrated UHF RFID tag, which ensures that it can be located and tracked via Wi-Fi and VoIP support.
BlackBerry Bold 9700
After a whole range of successful products, Research in Motion promises to come up with the BlackBerry Bold 9700 smartphone in the New Year. The first pictures of the phone look absolutely stunning and the company seems to have worked on the design.
It supports 3G HSDPA networks around the world and comes with a 624 MHz processor, 256 MB Flash memory, built-in GPS and Wi-Fi, and a 3.2MP camera. It is integrated with a touch-sensitive trackpad and a highly tactile, distinctive, fretted keyboard. The dark chrome frame and leatherette back add to the new sleek and elegant look, while the narrow profile, balanced weight and soft-touch sides add to the experience.
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10
The Xperia 10 was released in 2009 with Windows Mobile. In 2010, users can look forward to an Android-based version of the Xperia - X10 which promises to be an excellent phone. A 4-inch touchscreen and an 8.1 megapixel camera seem to be very promising. The Xperia X10 takes communication entertainment to the next level with the Timescape and Mediascape applications.
Timescape lets all your communication with a person come together in one place so that you don't have to open different apps to see what's going on. Online or stored in your phone, Mediascape brings all your music, photos and videos in one place.
One of the most anticipated smart phones of the New Year will be the latest super charged Internet tablet from the Nokia stables, the Nokia N 900. While the brick top look of the phone might not exactly spell ergonomics, it has definitely generated some rave reviews.
The phone packs neat features in addition to the huge 32 GB on board memory, like the solid feel of the phone, the simple to use on screen menus and a whole lot more. The phone will definitely shrug off its Symbian image, with the Maemo 5 operating system.
The second advantage is the chassis the ARM Cortex A8 600MHz processor that will not only make application switching snazzier but also make it insanely faster. And did we mention the huge screen and the infrared port. The phone could be used for a range of other third party developer applications, for example converting it into a universal remote.
Powered by Mozilla technology, websites would look the way they do on any computer. The N900 will also come with a new tag cloud user interface that will help users get the most out of the 5MP camera and Carl Zeiss optics.
Google Nexus One
The Google phone expected to hit the markets this year, is expected to be thinner than any Android-based phone available now. The Nexus One will give stiff competition to the iPhone, the only other phone that Android competes with. Said to be Google's pure vision of what it thinks the phone should be, the company has confirmed that it will manufacture and retail the units directly.
The Nexus One reportedly measures a little over 0.45 inches thick, and has a 3.7-inch OLED touch screen. It could possibly run Qualcomm's 1GHz QSD 8250 processor, and has 512 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM and a 4 GB microSD card included, expandable to 32 GB. The camera has a 5MP sensor, mechanical auto focus and LED flash, and could also include 2x optical zoom.
Motorola MC3 1000
This one literally will be a transmogrification of the tagline. Is this what computers have become?
There is no official word as to when this particular beauty is going to hit India. But this mobile computing device boasts of superb ergonomics, and a cost effective solution for voice and data communications. Designed keeping both touchscreen and key-based applications in mind, it will work on a Windows Mobile 6.1 platform with a lot of ISV applications that can be navigated with an intelligent UI (user interface).
It also has a real time Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Pro platform for customised applications and also has the Motorola MAX Sensor to ensure that it has motion-sensing capabilities. The device also includes an integrated UHF RFID tag, which ensures that it can be located and tracked via Wi-Fi and VoIP support.
BlackBerry Bold 9700
After a whole range of successful products, Research in Motion promises to come up with the BlackBerry Bold 9700 smartphone in the New Year. The first pictures of the phone look absolutely stunning and the company seems to have worked on the design.
It supports 3G HSDPA networks around the world and comes with a 624 MHz processor, 256 MB Flash memory, built-in GPS and Wi-Fi, and a 3.2MP camera. It is integrated with a touch-sensitive trackpad and a highly tactile, distinctive, fretted keyboard. The dark chrome frame and leatherette back add to the new sleek and elegant look, while the narrow profile, balanced weight and soft-touch sides add to the experience.
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10
The Xperia 10 was released in 2009 with Windows Mobile. In 2010, users can look forward to an Android-based version of the Xperia - X10 which promises to be an excellent phone. A 4-inch touchscreen and an 8.1 megapixel camera seem to be very promising. The Xperia X10 takes communication entertainment to the next level with the Timescape and Mediascape applications.
Timescape lets all your communication with a person come together in one place so that you don't have to open different apps to see what's going on. Online or stored in your phone, Mediascape brings all your music, photos and videos in one place.
Google unveils Nexus One 'superphone'
Google Inc took the wraps off the first of its smartphones on Tuesday, a device with speech recognition that it hopes can take on Apple's iPhone over time and help shore up the company's dominance in Internet advertising.
Analysts say the phone -- to be sold directly to consumers -- is not expected to dramatically alter the carrier-hardware vendor relationship the industry relies on, nor is it likely to yield a revenue windfall in the short term, though executives said it could be profitable.
Google plans to use what it calls a "superphone" -- the first of many types of smartphones that it will make -- to expand its reach from the PC to the mobile world and ensure its online products and ads get prominent placement on a new breed of wireless Internet devices.
The highly anticipated Nexus One, which marks the first time the 11-year-old Internet search titan has designed and sold its own consumer hardware device, could provide Google with a viable challenge to the iPhone and Research in Motion's BlackBerry.
It "wasn't the game-changer people thought it could be," Canaccord Adams analyst Jeff Rath said. Google could have shaken up the industry by offering the device for free, but instead chose more traditional pricing, he said.
Rath added that though his early impression was that the Nexus One was a good phone, it was unclear how much better it was than Motorola's Droid, released last year and that also runs on Google's Android operating system platform.
"It's very close to the Droid, some people will debate whether it's better. But it looks like an incremental improvement rather than a blow-the-doors-off improvement," Rath said.
The Nexus One, which was garnering favorable first reviews on tech Websites and forums on Tuesday, ships immediately from Google's online store for $179 with a two-year contract from Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA, or $529 without a service plan.
Executives said the phone will be carried on Verizon Wireless's network in the United States, and eventually on Vodafone's in Europe. Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Vodafone and Verizon Communications.
WAIT AND SEE
Investors are taking a wait-and-see view on Google's first effort to sell a hardware product directly to consumers.
Google's stock has risen about 7 per cent since the start of December, setting a 52-week high of $629.51 on Monday. But analysts say that was driven by improvements in its core business of Internet search advertising, rather than the prospect of tapping a new pool of revenue selling smartphones.
Its shares closed 0.44 per cent down at $623.99.
The Nexus One phone comes a little more than two years after Google jumped into the mobile market with the announcement it was developing a free smartphone operating system. Google's Android software is currently available on more than 20 phones from vendors including Motorola and Samsung Electronics.
It pits Google -- the world's No. 1 Internet search engine, with annual revenue of about $22 billion in 2008 -- against a variety of more experienced players in the increasingly crowded smartphone market, including Palm Inc and Nokia.
Some analysts were positive on Google's effort to continue to establish the Android as a popular operating system for smartphones and wireless devices.
"It will help them keep consistency for Android platform," said Jim McGregor, Chief Technology Strategist for In-Stat.
The new phone helps Google "get their partners all on developing a single platform that applications can be developed on."
Motorola, which is banking on the Android system to power a new generation of smartphones to revitalize a flagging business, said on Tuesday it welcomed the competition. Co-Chief Executive Sanjay Jha told Google's audience he did not see the Nexus One as a threat, but as an expansion of the market.
Google worked closely with HTC to develop its phone, which uses a 1 gigahertz Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm Inc. The Nexus One is 11.5 millimeters thick and weighs 130 grams -- which executives said was lighter than a Swiss Army knife and no thicker than a No. 2 pencil.
The phone will feature a 3.7-inch (9.4 centimeter) touchscreen display. It will run the 2.1 version of the Android operating system and feature OLED display technology, a trackball for user interface control, an accelerometer chip, and a 5 megapixel camera.
Analysts say the phone -- to be sold directly to consumers -- is not expected to dramatically alter the carrier-hardware vendor relationship the industry relies on, nor is it likely to yield a revenue windfall in the short term, though executives said it could be profitable.
Google plans to use what it calls a "superphone" -- the first of many types of smartphones that it will make -- to expand its reach from the PC to the mobile world and ensure its online products and ads get prominent placement on a new breed of wireless Internet devices.
The highly anticipated Nexus One, which marks the first time the 11-year-old Internet search titan has designed and sold its own consumer hardware device, could provide Google with a viable challenge to the iPhone and Research in Motion's BlackBerry.
It "wasn't the game-changer people thought it could be," Canaccord Adams analyst Jeff Rath said. Google could have shaken up the industry by offering the device for free, but instead chose more traditional pricing, he said.
Rath added that though his early impression was that the Nexus One was a good phone, it was unclear how much better it was than Motorola's Droid, released last year and that also runs on Google's Android operating system platform.
"It's very close to the Droid, some people will debate whether it's better. But it looks like an incremental improvement rather than a blow-the-doors-off improvement," Rath said.
The Nexus One, which was garnering favorable first reviews on tech Websites and forums on Tuesday, ships immediately from Google's online store for $179 with a two-year contract from Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA, or $529 without a service plan.
Executives said the phone will be carried on Verizon Wireless's network in the United States, and eventually on Vodafone's in Europe. Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Vodafone and Verizon Communications.
WAIT AND SEE
Investors are taking a wait-and-see view on Google's first effort to sell a hardware product directly to consumers.
Google's stock has risen about 7 per cent since the start of December, setting a 52-week high of $629.51 on Monday. But analysts say that was driven by improvements in its core business of Internet search advertising, rather than the prospect of tapping a new pool of revenue selling smartphones.
Its shares closed 0.44 per cent down at $623.99.
The Nexus One phone comes a little more than two years after Google jumped into the mobile market with the announcement it was developing a free smartphone operating system. Google's Android software is currently available on more than 20 phones from vendors including Motorola and Samsung Electronics.
It pits Google -- the world's No. 1 Internet search engine, with annual revenue of about $22 billion in 2008 -- against a variety of more experienced players in the increasingly crowded smartphone market, including Palm Inc and Nokia.
Some analysts were positive on Google's effort to continue to establish the Android as a popular operating system for smartphones and wireless devices.
"It will help them keep consistency for Android platform," said Jim McGregor, Chief Technology Strategist for In-Stat.
The new phone helps Google "get their partners all on developing a single platform that applications can be developed on."
Motorola, which is banking on the Android system to power a new generation of smartphones to revitalize a flagging business, said on Tuesday it welcomed the competition. Co-Chief Executive Sanjay Jha told Google's audience he did not see the Nexus One as a threat, but as an expansion of the market.
Google worked closely with HTC to develop its phone, which uses a 1 gigahertz Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm Inc. The Nexus One is 11.5 millimeters thick and weighs 130 grams -- which executives said was lighter than a Swiss Army knife and no thicker than a No. 2 pencil.
The phone will feature a 3.7-inch (9.4 centimeter) touchscreen display. It will run the 2.1 version of the Android operating system and feature OLED display technology, a trackball for user interface control, an accelerometer chip, and a 5 megapixel camera.
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