There was a time when Windows Mobile was one of the most used operating system on smartphones and PDAs. But as the carefree times of Internet Explorer went on slipping away, so he went and market share of Windows Mobile. Microsoft had sex again in one ear and woke up that is far behind the competition in terms of technology.

This is going to get too much play to move quickly. Wilt and you put yourself in the race others. Then have to pull hard to recover. So is Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Mobile. Two similar mistakes that, if their interests known, Microsoft would have to make them.

Windows Mobile was a great operating system at a time. Then came Apple and Google with their claims too-zoom and made Windows Mobile look a quaint old man. Microsoft woke up so that Windows Mobile is far behind the times and competition. And so decided it was time to put foot down and come up with something new.

Windows Phone is not a phone

Last week Google kid that we did not find a more inspired name for the buzz. Nor those from Microsoft not seem inspired. Windows Mobile version will be called from Windows 7 Phone.

It is not just a marketing găselniţă inspired. Plus it is clearly the source of inspiration in choosing this name: Google Phone. The difference is that Google chose this name for a phone, even if the phone was manufactured by HTC. Microsoft Phone is given a name Windows operating system, not a phone. That in the future Microsoft could sell under their own brand handsets made by other manufacturers, is nothing.

In other news there will be a Windows Mobile 7, but a Windows Phone 7 Series. Has not yet announced any phone to run this version.
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MWC 2010 HTC has used to announce a number of phones in November. These and HTC Legend, factual and legal successor of HTC’s Hero.

With minor differences, HTC Legend takes his predecessor design. One distinction is the optical trackpad which took place at the HTC Hero existing wheel. Another difference is that HTC Legend is built from a single piece of aluminum. This is shown by the manufacturer and in the video below.

Beyond the technical facilities construction and not very spectacular, HTC Legend is leading a high quality AMOLED screen. In the smartphone operating system behind Google’s Android 2.1 Obviously, the main graphical interface is HTC Sense.

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Although Nexus One is a good phone, his name is more about Google than the Samsung. Thus, the Taiwanese manufacturer has decided to launch version “simple” phone, as the HTC Desire. Obviously there are some external differences, the most obvious being physical buttons, which replace those of his touch and Nexus One’s trackpad, which is now optical. Otherwise, we have the same AMOLED screen of 3.7 “with resolution of 480×800, the same processor at 1 GHz Snapdragon same operating system Android. The latter has reached version 2.1, called Eclair and provide support for HTML 5, and speed optimizations a better virtual keyboard.

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Sony Ericsson has announced not just one, but three new phones to boost their current line-up. First off, we have two new iterations of the Xperia X10 – the X10 mini and X10 mini Pro.

They both come with a 2.55-inch QVGA touchscreen display, 5-megapixel autofocus camera with flash, 600MHz processor, WiFi Bluetooth, 3.5mm jack, UMTS HSPA connectivity, A-GPS and Google Maps, and Android 1.6 as its OS running in tandem with Timescape. The obvious difference between the two is the slide-out QWERTY keypad found on the X10 mini pro which should delight messaging aficionados out there.

The other new phone they introduced is the Vivaz Pro. Just like the X10 mini pro, this baby is a slightly modified version of its namesake, the Sony Ericsson Vivaz, and also boasts of a QWERTY keypad tucked underneath its touchscreen display. With the exception of its less powerful yet still very capable 5.1-megapixel camera, its specs are almost identical with the Vivaz. It’ll ship with an 8GB microSD card, and will be available in black and white colored variations. The press release of the Vivaz Pro can be found here.

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Samsung has announced a new phone, Samsung S5620 and Monte, the company intends to present at the event in Barcelona.

3 inch LCD screen, 3.2 MP camera, wireless option and microSD card slot up to 16GB are just some of the arguments that Monte uses to attract young people. The phone is focused on socialization and has applications for Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Bebo and other instant messaging networks.

Web browsing is improved by the existence of the accelerometer that rotates the picture with your phone. Monte includes support for Google’s GPS Latitude, as well as Exchange ActiveSync and GoogleSync.

Price was not mentioned, but Sony will have time to present the phone in detail and provides information on the marketing of the Mobile World Congress which will take place in Barcelona between 15-18 February.

Legend has recently been the emergence of the Internet with two photos of the device itself, the photographs that help us get an idea about the construction of the first device.
As you know, Samsung Legend will be based on the Google Android operating system. It will use the interface Samsung Sense, one of the most successful graphical interfaces of intelligent field devices. In the picture appears on the back of the device we realize that we have to do with a solid end, literally. At least back piece seems to be constructed of aluminum.

Chapter technical facilities did not appear any new information on that occasion. From what I knew before, Samsung Legend will have a thickness of 11.4 mm. The display will measure 3.2 inch and has a 5 MP camera.

When will be released and how much will it cost Samsung Legend are questions whose answer remains unknown at this time.
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The difference between a smartphone and a regular phone is primarily an operating system, the facilities it offers. A smartphone is guided by the same principles as a computer. You can install programs that interest you and you provide a high level of configuration. Another advantage is the easy synchronization of information, either a PC or an online service.

With proper application, a Nokia smart phone can be synchronized with a program like Outlook, or an online application such as Google contacts agenda. Let us now the first choice, synchronize phone data with Outlook, the Microsoft Office suite.

What you can synchronize and why

What is the logic, you can synchronize only information covered by two instruments – the phone and schedule. In addition to e-mail, your Nokia smartphone and Outlook’s share three elements: book contacts, calendar with your tasks and notes of sites. Therefore, these three types of data can be synchronized – manually or automatically – from a Nokia smartphone and Outlook.

The reasons why you resort to such synchronization are multiple. One would be that you need for meetings in your calendar or notes to appear on the laptop or PC. Another reason, as thoroughly, is that you need to be stored as contacts on both phone and computer. This means that you always provide a backup for unexpected situations (loss of contact, phone, etc. change.).

What you need to sync

You need three things, of which two are obvious as possible: a Nokia smartphone (Symbian S60 operating system) and a computer on which you installed Microsoft Outlook.

The third requirement is the application Ovi Suite or for older phones, Nokia PC Suite. It acts as an intermediary and is, in fact, that makes all the work. If you installed both programs you can go for it.

Add phone to Ovi Suite

This is the first step you do, usually right after you buy your phone and install Ovi Suite. Application of the Nokia is very simple process:

* Follow the path Tools – Add new device
* Choose the type of connection (cable or Bluetooth)
* Attribute name a phone after it is detected

Configuration synchronization process
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The American group Google develop a program for first mobile phone able to instantly translate a foreign language during the call, and the system could be operational in the next few years, according to newspaper The Times.

Developing existing technologies of voice recognition and translation, Google could bring major changes communication between the over 6,000 languages spoken worldwide.

Google has created already an automatic translation of text for computer, which is constantly improved by scanning millions of websites and documents in different languages. PC program covers, at present, 52 languages, the latter Haitian Creole, added last week.

Also, the group also owns a voice recognition system that allows mobile users to search the Internet without using keys.

IT giant is working to combine the two technologies to obtain a software able to recognize the voice of a person and transform it into a synthetic play in a foreign language. As a human interpreter, the program will analyze longer sequences of speech, listening to understand the meaning of sentences and phrases before attempted a translation.

“We believe that voice translation will be possible and it will be acceptable in a few years. To go well, it takes a combination of translation and voice recunasterea, both with high accuracy, exactly what we are now developing“, said head of Translation by Google, Franz Och.

If the automatic translation of text is acceptable efficiency, development of voice recognition software presents several difficulties.

“Everyone has the voice, accent and tone different. But recognition should work on mobile phones, because they are personal. Cell phone owner should know the voice of voice search previously completed,” added Och.
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