If until now in a Puma store just to buy shirts and sports shoes, soon you can buy even mobile phones. Over only five days, most likely in the Mobile World Congress, the company will present its first phone Puma – Puma Phone, feature dedicated amateur jogging and hiking. Include: GPS, Bike Training, Running, pedometer, stopwatch. So far nothing special, but also adds an interesting element gadget – solar panel. It remains to be seen how effective it is and under what conditions. Details about Puma phone will be available on pumaphone.com website.

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.
Read more…

Nokia announced the release of the 16 GB model touchscreen X6, which will integrate similar features to those present at the 32 GB version. Wide screen is the same size of 3.2 inches (8 cm), and the same 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optical technology. Battery life will be 18 days of standby time and 11.5 hours in continuous speech. If you want to go non-stop to video on mobile phone, you need to know that you can not because the battery will need recharging after 4.5 hours. And the music will stand run continuously 35 hours. However, when you could hear it only 12% of the 5,500 songs stored.

Curious is that the device will not include Comes With Music. That will have to upload songs in old style phone. If you can not use a phone in a manner so “obsolete” means that no price reduction will not result.

However, if you are interested in mobile gaming, you will smile can pre-download games like Spore from EA, and DJ Mix Tour Asphalt4 from Gameloft.

The phone will come in variations of black, white, white with yellow and white rose in the quarter, and the price to be announced.

Fashion house Versace Italian announced today, that in May, the first mobile phone that will bear the name.

On this occasion, Versace to join in the tradition launched by the competition and enter the world market a new line of accessories and items that luxury last generation.

The phone was designed by fashion house in collaboration with French company ModeLabs, which has made and the house phone
Christian Dior fashion.

Fidel Versace style, the new device will meet some of the elements of the house, such as skin and materials precious.

Already for a long time to speculate that Microsoft is about to launch their latest version of mobile operating system, Windows 7, but it does not make another appearance on the market and so far no concrete information about it have appeared.

But now, it seems that LG has a phone preparation with Windows Mobile 7 and are ready to launch it during September of this year, initially in the U.S. and thereafter an indefinite date in Europe.
Read more…

Korean manufacturer of electronics and appliances, Samsung introduced at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2010 in Las Vegas as a new product, according the company, will revolutionize how the load cell phones.

The product has the form of a Mouse Pad (with dimensions of 320 mm x 250 mm) and Co loading up to 3 mobile phones. Wireless phone battery recharging is done by simply placing it on the device, the user is not forced to use a standard charger.

Also, pad has been designed by Samsung so as not to attract metal objects (coins, keys, etc..) So that you can place easily on your desk for quick recharging phones.

It remains to be seen but if this new product will be adopted by other manufacturers, or will be used only with Samsung brand mobile phones.

Nokia has introduced a prototype phone that could work based on the Coca-Cola. Chinese designer Zheng Daizi created a concept mobile phone that could be supplied with refreshments. Bio-loaded battery hold three or four times longer than conventional lithium batteries. The phone would operate on the basis of batteries that use enzymes to generate electricity from carbohydrates.

“I realized that ordinary phone batteries are expensive, consume significant resources when they are made and a problem in recycling, being environmentally harmful,” said Zheng. “The phone uses a bio-battery instead of traditional batteries which pollute.
Read more…

I know, the news was trying for some time. But always we need official confirmation, and now it is: Xbox Live is moving to a new environment – the mobile phone.

The service will be known as “Xbox Live Games” and will be available only on phones that operate a mobile version of Windows. Information that appears in one of Microsoft’s internal marketing materials and sounds very discouraging. Not mentioned words like “exclusive” or “only”, but the list included only with Windows mobile. And if the service will be sent only to this segment, in fact very small market, the story will be a waste of time.

Back with details as soon as we have.