Posts Tagged ‘iPhone’

When we say “full touch we think of a gadget with only a few buttons to be used in navigation, or even one, see the iPhone, all other commands are given on the touch screen.

Synaptics Fuse is a concept that would lead to sensitive gadgets to another level. It comes with an AMOLED WVGA touchscreen, a Cortex A8 processor and PowerVR SGX graphics chip.

In addition, however, the phone has almost all the back turned into trakpad, that is also a touch sensitive area for 2D navigation and the sides are placed touch sensors, but also pressure, so call me when it is tightly in hand.

The interface of this phone was also tailored to match, icons ready for the increased activation in a kind of 3D animation, which looks like when it is tight, your whole curve.

Although this phone is a concept as can be spectacular but it does not seem to be more practical and more mobile than existing full touch now on the market. To operate trackpad the back of the phone it takes two hands, and commands given by means of pressure sensors, although funny in a first phase, it could become tiring on long-term. That only if users are not somehow to keep a phone that instead of practicing device for forearm muscles.

A more extensive Fuse concept will be made to major exhibitions profile next year in Las Vegas and Barcelona.

Mozilla Firefox for mobile phones could be launched before the end of this year, reports the BBC, quoting Jay Sullivan, Mozilla vice president of Mobile.

Mobile version of Mozilla, called Fennec, is currently in the last stages of testing and will be released until December 31, 2009, as told by Sullivan. “Lanser could be delayed only in case of unforeseen emergencies,” he said.

Fennec will be able to synchronize with the PC version, that is Mozilla Firefox, transferring the information necessary to continue the session started, from PC to mobile.

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Hero is the third device of HTC with Google Android operating system. Besides technical facilities rich, HTC Hero is the first to benefit from HTC Sense custom interface.

The phone has a medium size, in keeping with all-in-class smartphone: a length of 112 mm, a width of 56.2 mm and 14.4 mm thick and weighs 135 grams, so it is convenient to pocket or purse. The phone is found in a wide enough range of colors: white, black, pink, brown and gray.

Using the Google Android operating system, you will find main functions: Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar, Google Search and YouTube. In addition to those listed before returned to the office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF.

Presents a multitude of apilcatii, because there are downloadable from Android Market has everything you need, many applications are free. HTC Hero is and GPS. The application used here is Google Maps. It does not support multi-touch, which means you do not zoom with two fingers.

The camera has 5 megapixels and has autofocus and is able to record video. Use the camera interface is similar to that of the iPhone.

Chapter connectivity, HTC Hero sit very well. Have to be available for Internet WiFi, HSPA with either 7.2 Mbps download and 2 Mbps upload.

Music player recognizes most popular formats (MP3, AAC, AAC +, AAC-LC, AMR-NB, WAV, MIDI and VMW)

htc-hero-white-allStrengths of the HTC Hero:

+ Android OS 1.5
+ 3.2 inch touch screen
+ WiFi and GPS
+ Multi-touch
+ 3.5 mm audio jack
+ Web browser with Flash support

HTC Hero is a smartphone with a multitude of functions able to satisfy the needs of every type of person, so for web browsing, gps, photo and video or office!

Aside from lacking flash support, the iPhone doesn’t also do Bluetooth filetransfer. Well, thanks again to jailbreak and the hardworking developers out there, this sorely missing feature may soon be available on the iPhone as developer MeDevil is currently working on one. The video above shows its potential, and once it’s done and ready, it’ll be available as part of the iSpazio repo. PMPToday guess its apps like these that make jailbreaking totally indispensable. Great work guys, keep them coming!
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Google has been working on a new voice-recognition search application for the iPhone (Google Mobile App) for some time now. Rumor had it that the new app would have launched this past Friday, but sometime on Friday Google found out that Apple wouldn’t be pushing it out, despite getting the thumbs up for Friday earlier in the week.

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The good news for Google and all that were eagerly awaiting this app, is it will likely become available come Monday. This news comes from a source with insider knowledge of the situation (according to a report at TechCrunch). Google has apparently had little contact with Apple during this period, and have been getting updates on the situation via the iPhone developer tool which has had a status of ‘in review’ for the last few days.

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Samsung Omnia

Whatever your prejudice may be to Windows Mobile devices, the Samsung Omnia wants you to change your mind. On the outside, this 3.2-inch touch-screen phone is just another iPhone clone, Instinct 2, if you will. Omnia’s features, though, is on a league of its own.

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RogersRogers has just released a slew of new BlackBerry data plans for your emailing and browsing pleasure. There’s still no unlimited BIS option, which is a bit confounding given the upcoming unlimited iPhone Data plan, but this is Rogers after all, so we’re not terribly shocked. The new plans breakdown as follows:

$30 – 300 MB
$60 – 1 GB
$80 – 3 GB
$100 – 6 GB

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Japanese store

We know that Softbank, not DoCoMo or KDDI, the number and two carrier in Japan, will release the iPhone to the Japanese. But few have realized the implication of this. An online study conducted by iSHARE illustrates what exactly this means: iPhone will not be a big sell in Japan. Only 9% of people between 20 and 49 says they will buy an iPhone. Now, unless Japanese teens have money for a smartphone and the older Japanese population gets interested with multi-touch and the virtual keyboard, the iPhone is destined for semi-anonymity there. Unless Apple decides to put in a 1-SEG tuner. Even in Japan, the iPhone screen resolution is quite advanced, if nothing else meets Japanese requirements.