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Nokia N Series: Multimedia in Your Hand
Jul 29th
Nokia N Series: Multimedia in Your Hand
The mobile technology started in 1968. The Nokia mobile manufacturing company came in 1992 and attracted the whole mobile phone market. Today, Nokia is world’s number one mobile phone manufacturing company. In 2002, Nokia launch its first 3G Technology mobile phone and never looked behind after this success.
The Nokia N-Series was launched in 2005. It is a world famous series and it was the first time that all types of multimedia feature like camera, Bluetooth, MP3 player came embedded in an sleek and compact device. Nokia’s main aim is focused on providing best features embedded mobile phones and offer better customer satisfaction. Nokia makes all types of mobile phone like CDMA, GSM, 2G and 3G phones, the latest trends in the mobile market for different types of customers.
The high features N-Series range of Nokia phones has expanded again to include the new Nokia N85, a full multimedia mobile phone. The Nokia N85 comes in vibrant copper colour with ultra-stylish design. It has WLAN Wi-Fi technology GPS navigation system with A-GPS function, 3G HSDPA technology, 5 mega pixel autofocus camera with 20x digital zoom and facilitates video recording with 8x digital zoom with image stabiliser. The music quality of this phone is also good with playlist and equaliser mode. The music player of this phone supports all famous audio format such as MP3/AAC/AAC+/eAAC+/WMA player files which gives users to enjoy music any time, anywhere. It is a light weighted handset and weighs only 128 grams & let the users to carry it easily even in a tight jeans. This is an amazing sliding mobile phone, which comes with 2.6 inches of large screen, offering a crystal clear display to the users. It comes with 85 MB internal memory and the users can expand memory with a microSD (TransFlash) card up to 8 GB. The great 5 mega pixel camera of this phone gives a resolution of 2592 x 1944 pixels and the world famous Carl Zeiss optics provides sharp images every time.
The Nokia N96 mobile phone is one of the part of the Nokia N Series. It is a 3G enabled phone which comes with a sliding mechanism. This phone has dimension of 99 x 53 x 21 mm and weighs just 120 grams, making it a sleek and elegant mobile. It come in five vibrating colour include silver, plum, pink. red and black. The Nokia N96 has 160 MB internal memory, 64 MB of SDRAM memory and dual ARM 11 332 MHz processor. The best connectivity device comes with 3G, Bluetooth technology, USB 2.0 port, EDGE technology, HSCSD and Wi-Fi network. The Bluetooth technology allows you to connect with the internet and transfer/receive file from another Bluetooth device. The latest gadget comes with superb sound quality features, which include the music player with MP3, AAC, AAC+ and WMA file formats. It has a 5 mega pixel autofocus camera which gives a resolution of 2592 x 1944 pixels and facilitates the video recording in VGA mode at 30 frames per seconds.
The Nokia N95 is an superior mobile phone with full stylish features. It comes in two different versions of N95 and N95 8GB. Both handset are same in features but the main difference is only of the internal memory. The N95 has a 5 mega pixel autofocus camera and eye catching sleek, elegant looks. It is GSM enabled handset for seamless connectivity. It comes with dual slide design. The Nokia N95 8 GB weighs only 120 grams with 99mm tall, 53mm wide and 21mm thick dimensions. It comes with 160 MB of internal memory and memory can expand with a microSD card. But Nokia N95 8GB comes with an internal 8 GB memory, that comes without a microSD card slot because 8 GB is memory is enough in itself.
All the above mentioned Nokia N Series phones are extremely featured, incredible and making a choice is very difficult. Because the N-Series phones are fully loaded with multimedia features.
Nokia Mobiles are the Best for Its Functions and Reasonable Price
Jul 29th
Nokia Mobiles are the Best for Its Functions and Reasonable Price
Mobile phones fill the gap between two persons, they bring two person so closer, as if they are residing nearby even though they can share, talk any thing at any time without facing any sort of problems. We know that there are numerous number of brands and people are trying to grab the mobile phones of these brands.
These phones are equally embedded with high-end technologies and are quite reasonable in price. In this section of discussion, we can get to know about the Nokia mobile phones. The Nokia mobile phones are known as the best mobile phones in the field of mobile communication. Every one knows that Nokia is a well-known brand in the mobile communication industry. The latest and newly launched handsets have marked a progress in the segment of mobile phone communications. The latest mobile handsets of Nokia have a perfect blend of high-end technologies with amazing performance and excellent imaging capabilities.
Recently launched, the Nokia N-series handsets are marvellous phones for their multimedia functionalities as they come with a digital camera, GPS navigation system, music player, FM Radio player, games and extensive messaging options.
Nokia mobile phones, one of the most sought-after latest mobile phones, are easily available with various number of dealers and offers. The smart mobile phone deals are contemplated as the best ways to get a latest handset at a low price.
The Nokia N95 is a 3G and highly efficient camera mobile phone, which comes with a magnificent two-way slider opening structure. This phone even known as 3G Smart phone comes with a large 16 million colour TFT screen display and a 5 mega pixel camera feature. It has high-quality specifications which provide an easy-to-use connectivity options, fast transfer rates and high speed downloads to its users. This Nokia product can be a perfect personal or business mobile phone when any one is on the move.
The Nokia N95 comes in two versions, they are – the Nokia N95 and the Nokia N95 8GB which has 8 GB memory. Another product from the house of Nokia, Nokia N78, and yes this phone also comes under the N-series handsets of the Nokia mobile phones. The Nokia N78 is also a 3G Smart phone which has ache style and comes in a fashionably sleek framing. The gorgeous handset has a sleek solid design which comes with rounded ends. Thus, one can easily say that the Nokia mobile phones are useful options for all those who think about technologies at their very best.
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Android Enthusiasts Push for Paid Apps
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Android Enthusiasts Push for Paid Apps
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Watkinson’s conclusion? It’s hard to justify Android app development as a full-time job. The Dell Inspiron 6400 Battery Pledge is meant to convince Android developers of people’s willingness to buy. The movement is gathering a bit of steam, with supporting blog posts on Phandroid and Androinica, and Tweets from app buyers still rolling in. But satisfying developers and encouraging sales will take more than a grassroots effort. The Android Market has problems that Google needs to address if it wants to attract more development. Don’t just take my word for it. Look at what some developers have said over the past couple of weeks: Simon Judge is frustrated with Android Market’s lack of a PC Web interface for browsing apps, delays from Google in enabling new phones to access the market, and caps on the length of written app descriptions. He also notes piracy problems, credit card processing issues and the inability for users to Inspiron 1545 Battery their app reviews, even after an error or bug has been fixed. Jon Lech Johansen accused Google of failing to curate the Android Market. He pointed out, for example, that the market’s multimedia category is dominated by ringtones
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Wow, Should I Get Samsung Pixon or Nokia Xpressmusic 5800? Which One?
Jul 29th
Wow, Should I Get Samsung Pixon or Nokia Xpressmusic 5800? Which One?
Further to the short video demo that I uploaded yesterday, here is the point by point analysis of the phone. I hope you enjoy it.
1. Samsung has clearly taken the pole position in the phone-camera category. In a short span of months, Samsung has pushed out her second 8 megapixals (MP) camera – Samsung M8800 PIXON after i8510 INNOV8. Clearly, no other phones except LG perhaps can come close to Samsung in this area. PIXON is the slimmest phone with a 8 megapixals resolution, a record previously held by LG RENOIR KC910 (a successor to LG KC990 VIEWTY).
2. PIXON is a 3.2 inch touchscreen phone but it’s not the first touchscreen phone launched by Samsung. However unlike OMNIA, M8800 PIXON is not a windows mobile phone. It is also not using Symbian OS which is the OS for INNOV8. Instead, it uses Samsung’s proprietary TouchWiz interface (I’ll touch more about the phone OS and applications in the later section)
3. Let’s talk about the camera feature first since this is the key USP for PIXON. The new PIXON is equipped with the core functions that you will find on any Samsung’s low end point and shoot range camera. PIXON’s camera features include auto-focus, 16x digital zoom (which, to me, is pretty useless if you want a high quality shoot. Optical zoom will be much more important), fast-shutter and face detection. And of course, being a phone, it provides the geo-tagging function and easy uploading via the mobile internet.
4. It’s natural that that we compare PIXON to LG RENOIR since both have 8MP camera. While I have not tested LG RENOIR, I learnt from third party sources that RENOIR uses Schneider-Kreuznach lens and Xenon flash. PIXON on the other hand uses plastic lens and dual LED flash. In addition, RENOIR has active autofocus whereas PIXON uses passive autofocus. But the report also commented that camera speed-wise, PIXON has an edge over RENOIR and PIXON has a more friendly user-interface. (http://technorati.com/posts/OpbBYGK7SrgKE3pAz_SSxWJrJcNHyvOX4y9G993i3j0%3D).
5. Putting aside the camera feature, I tend to compare this to Nokia XpressMusic 5800 as well. Both are very lightweight (PIXON 121g and Nokia 109g). Both have long battery life with Nokia winning by a slight margin (Samsung has talktime of upto 3 hours and 40 minutes and standby of 290 hours; Nokia has talktime of up to 4 hours and standby of upto 300hours). However, unlike Nokia, Samsung has only 256k colors. Nokia 5800 by contrast, supports 16m colors.
6. Some other similar features are the accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate and full virtual Qwerty keyboard and built-in GPS. PIXON uses Google Maps whereas Nokia has its own Nokia MAPS (which requires a subscription). However, Google maps is free and to me Google maps serves my purpose as I don’t need a turn by turn voice navigation.
7. Samsung PIXON also uses a resistive screen and as mentioned in my earlier post on Nokia XpressMusic 5800, I am not very used to the “touch” on resistive screen. It requires you to exert pressure on the screen to scroll down. It requires more deliberate efforts to scroll than the multi-touch capacitive screen on iPhone.
8. PIXON uses proprietary headset jack. But all is not lost. You are able to connect a 3.5mm normal earphone to the connector provided by Samsung. The only thing is you can’t afford to lose this connector. In addition, the phone also has the ability to do TV out. You have to purchase the accessories separately.
9. PIXON has an internal storage of 200M (much larger than Nokia 5800’s) and similar to most phones today it has an expandable memory slot using microSD card.
10. In terms of its speakers’ quality, Samsung included its own SRS (surround sound system). By comparison, I feel that Nokia 5800 is a cut above Samsung when I play the same song using the speakers. The music player also boosts some presets (in total 8 of them). However, unlike Nokia’s XpressMusic, you can’t change the presets to customise your own. (More about this in the later section)
11. While PIXON has a 3.2 inch screen, its browser is not friendly. You can’t open several tabs at one go. And because it has resistive screen, it is not using to navigate with fingers as you need to press against the screen as you move around on a web page. But what I like about the phone is that you can zoom in and out by using the volume up/down button or to use the virtual buttons on the screen. Both are easy to control. I don’t’ encourage you to buy the phone if you intend to browse a lot. Besides the less-friendly browser and browsing capability, PIXON does NOT support WiFi. WiFi is important for me because I tend to put my phone on WiFi when I’m at home or in the office so that I don’t have to pay for cellular data charges. PIXON is not the right phone for web-browsing. iPhone or G1 are clearly far better choices.
12. Last but not least, PIXON has several physical buttons to provide one-click access. It has 3 buttons at the bottom of the screen. The left and right buttons are self-explanatory (making and ending calls / power switch). The middle button is NOT a home or menu button. Rather it is a “Back” button. I had thought it would be easier to have a Menu button but Samsung has designed the Menu button as a virtual button (read on to find out). On one side of the phones are the camera button and the volume buttons (which can act as zoom in/out and and scroll up /down depending on the application that you are running). On the other side of the phone are the hold button and a menu button that provides a virtual menu for quick access to “call”, “music player”, “messages”, “browser”, “main menu” and back.
Phone OS and Applications
1. As mentioned earlier, the phone uses TouchWiz OS. It has several widgets on the home screen that you can pull out from the side of the screen to the main screen. Some neat widgets include Google Search, Weather Channel, Favourite Contacts, Photo Album, Music Player and others that are already pre-installed on the phone and many more that can be downloaded from Samsung FunClub website.
2. Pixon’s organizer application comes with some handy tools such as Calendar, Memo, Task, World Clock, Calculator and Converter.
3. For the music player, the interface is very friendly and easy to use. You can set any piece as voice or video call ringtone or caller ringtone. You have the option to decide whether to allow background music playing. It has an additional feature similar to the Shazam. PIXON has this application called the “Music Recognition”. It will try to identify the song that you are playing. I have not tried out too many songs (in fact, only a few), hence it’s not fair for me to comment on the accuracy. So far it recognizes most of the songs I bought from iTunes. Between the two phones, I’ll recommend Nokia XpressMusic 5800 over Samsung PIXON for music not just because Nokia 5800 has better music player features and speakers but also because Nokia is targeting squarely at the iTunes market with the music store via its Come with Music service.
4. Nowadays most phones have both music and video players. Given the 3.2 inch screen size, it’s comfortable to play a video or movie on