Motorola and Verizon Wireless is all set to roll out Motorola Droid phone by the end of October. It is a smart phone running on Android version 2.0. code name Eclair featuring a 5 megapixel camera with flash. Other standard features include a 3.5mm jack and a full slide out QWERTY keyboard. It provides Google skin and pack. The phone is promoted as an iPod killer.

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Google has recently released improved version of its  e-mail tool Gmail for both the Android and iPhone platform. some of the features of the new Gmail is that its faster and users can check their mails while offline. According to Joanne McKinley, a mobile engineer at Google : “You would definitely find it a lot faster to perform various actions like searching, navigating and opening emails. It will also allow you to open recent messages and compose when there is drop in data network.”  the new application need not be downloaded.  All one need to do is point the browser to gmail.com.  One of the advantage of this app is it runs on Balckberry, Android ,iPhone and later on Palmpre too from Google’s point of view. Some of the other features include

1. Allowing users to select multiple messages and process them to different folders like trash, inbox, sent etc
2. A floaty bar .
3. With the given search bar easier retrieval of old messages.

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Moto W233 is the first cellphone to be made entirely from recycled plastic. The plastic comes from recycled plastic bottles. Its also the worlds first carbon neutral phone. Motorola has offset the co2 required to make , distribute and operate the phone via investments in renewable energy sources and reforestation programs through an alliance with Carbonfund.org.

The W233 earned Carbonfund.org’s CarbonFree Product Certification based on an extensive product life-cycle assessment.  The features aren’t  what many would like to have since it is a basic dual band phone with a 128*128 color display ,WAP browser and the ability to add an additional 2 GB memory. The standout feature is the amazingly high battery life that it offers which includes up to 18  days of standby time.

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Zune HD is being brought out by Microsoft expected to be released on September 15, 2009. It comes in 16 and 32 GB version. Microsoft is planning for a September 15 2009 release. Platinum and lack are the default colors of the music player which is set to compete against iPod range of players. The music player comes with a 3.3 inch OLED touch display with a 16:9 aspect ratio. It runs on the Nvidia Tegra APX with independent processors.  It also has multi touch capabilities. Other features include accelerometer, HD Radio tuner, 720p high definition video output, WiFi connectivity, Web Browser, games and Equalizer. The player promises playback time up to 33 hours for music and video play back up to 8.5 hours. As expected the typical search engine would be Bing. The keyboard can be accessed from the bottom of the screen by swiping up . The keyboard features landscape and portrait mode. Other  features include zooming and pinching due to the built in accelerometer. Other colors will be available through the Zune Originals page from September 15. the market palce will include games and many feature rich applications.

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Nokia has announced it’s new notebook and the specifications by Nokia looks very impressive. this will be the first time that Nokia will be entering into the net book market. the specifications of the phone include 12 hours battery life , 3G/ HSDPA, and Wi-Fi connectivity, HDMI port, a display spanning 10 inches, and A-GPS integrated into it. Prices over the new net book will be announced only after the release of the product into the market. The net book is supposed to be running the Windows 7 Operating System. The expected release of the note book would coincide with the release of Windows 7 Operating System since it seems to run on Windows 7. Nokia’s suits of OVi services will be supported since it is a Nokia product and also support Nokia phones and sync. The 3G has also facility to added SIM directly.

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Mozilla rolled out Fennec 1.0 Beta 3 for Nokia N800 and N810 Internet Tablets. Fennec is the mobile version of Firefox. The latest beta is target for the Maemo operating system based on Linux. (This blog previously carried an article on Maemo). The latest release addresses issues relating to performances, user interfaces and themes refresh. the interface is targeted to the future with the ability to support a large variety of devices and other orientations. It also try to address the issues of slow scrolling and panning. As usual every updates try to improve performance in general and this version too attempts to do the same. It also adds the ability to scroll iframes. Refreshing screens would also take less time with the new image rendering system. the version is rolled out for testers and a desktop emulator can also be downloaded.( Mac OS, Windows and Linux)

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USSD allows for faster communication between the user and the client application. Most of the applications making use of USSD is based on menu and a lot services including chat and prepaid services are offered. The major applications making use of USSD include prepaid roaming and chat.  A menu is used for mobile prepay and also involves a USSD connection if there is a need to call while roaming. The connection is made via a MSC which connects to the Home Location Register in the home network. The request is now routed to the USSD gateway in turn routing the request to the server which hoststhe application. The balance is checked and the server initiates the same process via the same method back to the client additional information indicating the time available is also sent to the user. Mobile chat and other related applications like friends finder can also be put to  perfect use by employing the USSD. The advantage of using USSD is that these applications require a faster connection to interact. Such applications also require additional technologies besides USSD to function, including applications to detect whether users are available or not at cetain particular locations.

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The Palm Pre  is a smart phone featuring   a capacitive touch screen. The phone was out in the market on June 6 and runs on Linux based Web OS and is the  first phone from Palm inc to feature this OS. It is loaded with all the features  a multimedia phone can boast of. The phone also multiplies as multimedia player,a camera with 3 mega pixels, a GPS navigator and also as an internet client (Wi-Fi enabled).

The capacitive touch screen interface measures 3.1 inch diagonally over a 24-bit color 320 x 480 resolution and the display is HVGA liquid-crystal display. The phone also features a “gesture area” below the display with led illumination behind that allows additional touch commands. As all other palm phones the Palm Pre also sports a complete qwerty keyboard which slides downwards. the phone features three different sensors including an accelerometer which responds to the position of the phone, an ambient light sensor which adjusts the light automatically and a proximity sensor which disregards touch while the phone is held close to the face.

The phone features 8.0 GB of inbuilt memory and 256 MB of RAM. The phone is powered by a 600Mhz texas Instruments OMAP 3430. It was the frst phone to feature wireless charging. Additional memory enhancement is not supported.

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Skyfire web browser for mobile promise to offer the best of PC browsing experience on a mobile phone. All Windows mobile based phones and Nokia phones featuring Symbian series 60 edition 3 can support Skyfire.  The browser supports all the latest plug-ins including Adobe Flash Player 10. It can handle Ajax and can stream Silverlight 2.0 video. According to Skyfire chief executive Nitin Bhandari “As web content continues to include more Ajax applications, JavaScript, video [and] Flash 10, and web pages double in complexity every 12 months, there will always be a gap between phone and PC capabilities,”. Nitin Bhandari also feels that Web technology will be rapidly expanding and wont wait for the mobile world to catch up.He claimed that Skyfire’s architecture keeps pace with the web technologies and seamlessly bridges the gap. The browser also supports social networking capability and that it has inbuilt capability to include updates from Twitter and Face book in the RSS news feeds and to posting updates on these two site takes only a click. The company claims that the browsers beta saw a  million downloads and all the popular sites popular on PC was also popular on Skyfire attributing it to the browsers capability to handle web 2.0 sites and services. Version 1.0 is currently available for download and a version for Balckberry is currently under closed alpha testing according to highly placed sources.

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HTC S740

The HTC S740 is the latest offering from Orange. It succeeds the S730. The form factor is candy bar and sports a sliding Qwerty keyboard. It runs on a variant of windows mobile OS 6.1 for non touch screens. The S740 measures 116mm by 43.4mm by 16.6mm and weighs almost 140g. The phone is considerably slim even though there is  a slide out Qwerty keyboard  and this slide out keyboard explains why the phone is out of proportion and wedge shaped. The phone sports a glossy black front and diamond cut  shaped backplate which means one has to pick up the phone to use it. One cannot operate the phone keeping it on a table due to the uneven backplate.

The number pads are spaced evenly and the soft home and back keys are comfortable even for the stout fingers. With a large navigation button which is raised along with the select button the ergonomics is to be much appreciated.The slide out Qwerty board is also easy to use .All the keys are well shaped and are placed independently. The keys are  quite responsive and has solid feel to it. A dedicated key for SMS/MMS application stands out. There are also keys for caps and a function key for special characters.THe unique touchFLO system of HTC has not been implemented in this model. The phone sports a 240 by 320 pixel  2,.4 inch display.

Navigation to the desired areas is with the hep of the navigation key.To access Windows Mobile’s programs and settings areas we amke use of the Start soft key.256MB of ROM and 256MB of RAM are the storage specifications out of which 82 MB is available. The processor which powers this phone is the 528MHz Qualcomm MSM7255 processor.It supports HSDPA  and is a quad band handset.Blutooth and WiFi is integrated and the phone sports a 3.2 megapixel camera with no flash unit. The battery life is excellent.The only nagging feature is probalble the diamond cut backplate.

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