Udah 4 hari ngulik mainan baru yang dikasih Nokia Indonesia tanggal 17 kemarin ternyata masih belum puas juga meski sudah lancar menyentuh lembut touchscreen-nya tetapi belum semua fitur yang ada dicoba baru beberapa aja termasuk instal aplikasi yang menarik.Dan yang bikin penasaran adalah adanya 3 juta lagu gratis yang antri buat didonlod langsung dari Nokia X6 ataupun dari laptop.
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Sorry this one’s late. Internet connection was appallingly bad at the hotel and even worse via SIM cards.
But in case you missed any of these posts, here’s what occured on mynokiablog.com between 14th March – 20th March
My Sony Ericsson C510 was a brilliant phone. It was so good, I never again looked at mobile phone websites or picked up an operator’s catalogue to see what sort of phones now exist on the market. I was so satisfied with everything that it did, it was like finding the love of my life. Never would I need another.
Then came along the sodding 28th of February. Not that there’s anything particularly wrong with that day, in fact, it’s a fine day, it’s my cousin’s birthday. I’m referring to 28th of February, 2010. I thought it would be a spiffing idea to take my family out to dinner and watch that weekend’s big football game. I should’ve bloody well stayed at home, since I saw my team lose 3-0 after a pathetic performance, the dinner was so-and-so yet cost of precious end-of-the-month money, I was drenched in rain and, worst of all, I lost my phone.
For all I know, it was pilfered by one of the shifty thugs that infested the shit-hole of a restaurant my friend with absolutely no sense of taste for pleasant spots chose for us to watch the game. Or maybe it fell out of my pocket as I raced through the downpour and into my car. Perhaps I left it on the table and the waiter didn’t notice and wrapped it up in the paper tablecloth and threw it in the bin. It didn’t and still doesn’t matter. It’s gone, and still aches even today, and it’s not lessened by currently having a similar phone. I now have a Sony Ericsson C902, but I had to go through another mobile first before realising I couldn’t do without the C510’s nifty features.
I decided I would punish myself for being a twerp and losing an object so dear to me by getting a cheap, stripped-down handset. I had only two requirements: it had to have a music player and it had to be a Sony Ericsson. A phone with a media player, to me, is a no-brainer. If the phone’s any good, you’ll all the advantages of a regular mp4 player, with some additional ones, such as the battery life being better and not having to lug around extra devices. And I wanted a Sony Ericsson because I have a data cable, I have the SE PC Suite and using them together, I could recover all of my contacts, photos, videos, notes and bookmarks that I had backed up five days prior to losing my mobile.
I settled on the SE W302, because it satisfied my two basic requirements and, most of all, it was cheap. I blew €200 on the C510, not counting the memory card, and I didn’t feel like squandering that much cash again. So let’s go by bits:
Good
- It’s small and very thin (only 10.5mm thick), and also good-looking. Not having an ugly mobile counts for a lot, since you’ll have to look at it every day.
- Even though the keys are small, I found no trouble in texting.
- It was very cheap. You won’t find a Nokia only 10.5mm thick with a 2.0-megapixel camera, media player and expandable memory for the same price. It also came with a data cable and proper headphones, so for €60, this was a fantastic bargain.
-The texting had the auto-complete function, where it guesses what you’re trying to write and offers suggestions that you can select. Very handu for long words and slow writers, like myself. This is something I’ve missed having since my Motorola V525.
- It can be charged via USB. I cannot emphasize enough how important this is.
Bad
- Only after having bought it did I discover that it wasn’t compatible with the SE PC Suite . This was disastrous, since it defeated the purpose of buying a Sony Ericsson.
- I had to manually import the contacts one by one via bluetooth, because a) it wasn’t compatible with the PC Suite as I’ve mentioned, and b) it wouldn’t accept my Sony Ericsson V600i’s entire address list, only individual entries. This incompatibility between two mobiles from the same brand is unfathomable.
- Each contact had a field for first name and surname, which seemed a good idea. But on ringing someone, it would reverse the proper order, so “Smith John” or “Bloggs Joe” appears on the screen, which I found very annoying.
- Battery autonomy was nothing special. I don’t know how other mobiles in its class fare, but I found it sub-par.
- The 2.0-megapixel camera was overwhelmingly crap. I wasn’t expecting CyberShot quality but my five year-old SE V600i with its 1.3-megapixel camera takes better pictures.
- No notes function, to jot down important tidbits of information. I had to write text messages with the info and save it as a draft. This was annoying also.
- Having the phone save sent text messages taxed the memory in a jiffy. Annoying, stupid and unforgivable.
- Writing in Portuguese requires accentation. Text messages and accents don’t go well together, since having the odd circumflex and such makes a simple, let’s say, 100-character message the equivalent in terms of byte information of three or four text messages. Every other mobile I’ve had allows you to write with accentation then wipes it clean of accents so it’ll be a single message. The W302 doesn’t purge accentuation, meaning what should’ve been a single message is sent as three or four.
Awful
- It’s incapable of delivery reports. In this day and age, a mobile incapable of delivery reports is like a car currently in production that comes with everything except glass windows. It can be done, the car will still work, there’s probably no legislation against it, but it doesn’t make much sense.
- The sound. Whether it’s a phone call or music, whether with the headphones or speakers, the sound quality is terrible. There are lots of options for playback equalising, with it being a Walkman phone and all, but the sound always has a nasty metallic echo to it. Basslines when listening to music are barely perceptible, and you can crank it up to maximum volume and you won’t hear much, and what you do hear lacks any quality. And it’s a mobile PHONE, so you should be able to hear and be heard during phonecalls.
So, the trial E72 from WOMWorld is already in my town. Been reading reviews yesterday and this morning too, and I have a feeling my love for it will be mostly defined by the following:
× Nokia Messaging. Supposedly, the E72 comes with lifetime subscription, which is a good thing since it’s not free here anymore. Sure, I COULD pay for it, but a) why should I pay for something that I think should be default in today’s mobiles, especially at the high-end level? And b) because I’m not on contract but on a pre-paid package, it’s technically not possible for me to subscribe to it. Now, one could say they aren’t bothered by it, but frankly, I’ve been banging my head into the wall/desk/whatnot after seeing how the N900 was able to fetch my emails automatically and the N97 is just plain unable to do that. Annoying much? Yes, for me it is. (And another part, I can finally try Messaging IM which is for some mysterious reason still only available for a very few Eseries model.)
× QuickOffice. Another thing I think should be default at least on full-QWERTY models, yet not only does Nokia not include a full version on its flagship Nseries device, they don’t even seem to care to at least offer the latest version of the viewer. So, the N97 lacks editing capability, but what’s even more frustrating, it also lacks Office 2007 support. In 2010. Idk about others, but if I have a full keyboard, I want to be able to mess around with documents (especially on such a big touchscreen as the N97’s.) And no, I don’t wanna PAY for yet another should-be-basic thing, mainly not when it only installs to the phone memory which is just inferior on the N97, as we well know.
× HSxPA. It’s 2010, with 4G/LTE/whatnot knocking on the doors, and what does the N97 have? 3.6Mbps HSDPA module, and that’s it. The E72’s 10.2Mbps HSDPA / 2Mbps HSUPA capability will be a welcome change, I’d say.
× And while I’m at it, I’d mention the PDF reader: N95 had the full app, which only came reduced to a ridiculous 15 day trial in the N97. As far as I know, the E72 has the full version of that as well – another thumb up.
Beyond the hardware under the hood, I guess the like-factor comes very much down to services. I at least can’t say I like a device that flips me the middle finger every second time I’d want to get something done with it. Am I right in any way?
This article is a fictional work of my overactive imagination depicting how the smartphone market might appear in 2015. Don’t count on it turning out this way…
Ah, how time flies! It feels like only a few months ago that Microsoft announced Windows Phone 7 Series and fans lined around the block for Apple’s iPhone Evolution, yet five whole years have passed since then. During these telling years the smartphone market has truly evolved. Vertical platform integration, wider corporate adoption and growth in the tablet market have been kind to Microsoft, Apple and Google at the expense of the RIM, Nokia and Palm.
With the benefit of hindsight it should have seemed obvious that as vertical platform integration improved, the smartphone market would come to resemble what used to be called the desktop computing market. In the last five years the Microsoft, Google and Apple smartphone platforms developed such successful integration with their desktop siblings that corporates would logically align their end user computing platforms to the corresponding mobile offering. Chrome OS & Google Apps to Android, Windows to Windows Phone 7 Series and OSX & iPad to iPhone.
Meanwhile the once-strong RIM fell increasingly out of favor with corporates during 2012 and 2013 as Microsoft re-entered the mobile space with its well received Windows Phone 7 Series. Microsoft successfully marketed the new platform to corporates as a cost conscious work-play device; cheaper to administer than BlackBerry, more appealing to staff due to its Zune, Xbox and social networking features and fully integrated with the Corporate Cloud concept.
At home the tablet market, initially a niche, became better adopted by consumers as they looked to leverage their substantial app investments. As personal devices grew further in complexity and platform app stores grew in content, consumers chose to leverage their app portfolio by settling on one platform. Apple led the way with the iPhone/iPad combination, later enhanced by the iPad 13 and the OSX branch of the App Store. Microsoft followed suit with Windows Phone 7 Series Tablet, which complemented its smartphone platform with screen sizes of up to 12 inches and Android developed in a similar, although less structured, way. Models such as ‘buy a phone app and get the large screen version for half price’ or vice versa were pervasive by 2012.
Consumers also became weary of learning new smartphone operating systems as each release became ever more complex. As each of the Big Three came to offer similar functionality with different app portfolios, consumers inevitably wanted to learn one preferred system and stick with it to protect their time investment.
Of course there continue to be enthusiasts and switchers who hop around; that population continues to do so and hopefully always will. Main Street however has emphatically shown itself to value platform alignment. These days you’re either a Googler, an iBod or someone who uses Windows stuff…since nobody’s been able to coin an easy term for a Windows Phone 7 Series user.
RIM suffered from both corporate market share erosion and difficulty in convincing consumers with its Storm range and Hurricane (2010 touchscreen slider). In 2013 it refocused its efforts upon streamlining its messaging backbone to create lower internal throughput cost along with developing cheaper devices. The gamble has worked well so far for RIM, which has become a mass market player in emerging markets where bandwidth capped data plans are dominant. Local wireless infrastructures in those markets often struggle to provide messaging reliability on competing smartphone platforms, unlike in today’s developed markets. RIM has been successful in these developing markets with its reliable messaging system.
The question for RIM now is what the company will offer those markets in 2020, when network reliability is taken for granted and participants become more interested by the vertical platform integration offered by the Big Three. Perhaps RIM might have benefitted more by building a new OS back in 2010 aimed at the messaging-intensive youth market, which remains dominated by the ever popular Sidekick brand.
By the end of 2010 Palm and Nokia’s respective smartphone market shares in the US were already well in decline from a shaky start. Nokia never really managed to gain a strong foothold with any major US carrier but continued to be successful as a high volume seller to emerging markets. These days developed smartphone markets outside of the US are looking increasingly problematic for Nokia as the company’s earlier struggles between Symbian and Maemo left it way behind the Big Three in both OS design and cloud integration.
While Symbian won out in the end within Nokia, the lost time was enough for both Android and Windows Phone 7 Series to overtake Symbian’s market share outside the US. Meanwhile Palm, which rose from its own ashes in early 2009 with a good product based upon its promising WebOS platform, was ultimately out-muscled by the growth of Android and Windows Phone 7 Series which now share the market with the iPhone.
So the last five years have been a story of vertical platform integration. Corporates have used it to deliver cost management and employee cloud services while consumers have leveraged it to maximize their app and time investments. In a way this is similar to the outcome of the desktop OS wars we saw in the 1990s where there was a wide selection of viable platforms. In those days corporates and consumers used a mix of Windows, OS/2 and Mac amongst others, but in the ensuing years both sectors trended towards consolidation upon just a couple of end-user platforms. By 2010 that consolidation was emerging in the smartphone market, today it’s largely complete.
Neil Berman
www.theonbutton.com
According to a recent Game Developer Survey, increasing numbers of developers are working on games for the iPhone and iPad.
As shown from the results of the survey, another increasingly prevalent trend has been the growth of the mobile space. Due in large part to the success of Apple’s iPhone software platform, mobile support shot up to 25 percent of developers, more than doubling last year’s 12 percent.
Although the App Store has certainly been a godsend to Apple (and it will continue to be for some time), for developers it has the potential to become a trap.
On the surface, the iPhone and iPad would seem to be ideal platforms to develop games for. The iPhone, for example, has:
Yet, for those same reasons, the iPhone will prove to be an economic challenge for most game developers. With 140,000 apps to compete with, even the most creative programs will have a hard time attracting the notice of potential customers.
According to Gartner research, revenue from app downloads is expected to reach $6.2 billion in 2010, rising to over $29 billion by 2013. The problem is that such predictions often assume straight line growth, both in the number of users and in the average number of applications sold. For example, for those numbers to hold, the number of smartphone users would need to increase to over 300 million by 2013, and the average user would need to consume each year the same number of apps, at the same average cost, as current users consume (Gartner expects more than 2/3 of these smartphone app consumers to be iPhone owners).
The problem with those assumptions is that they contradict basic economic models.
By far, the largest source of smartphone apps is the App Store, accounting for 99.4% of sales in 2009. Whenever an application is approved for the App Store, it diminishes the value of all the existing apps by reducing their individual utility. In a sense, it is the inverse of the network effects that accrue to a social networking site as more people become members. Online gaming communities, for example, depend on membership growth to ensure that gamers have opponents to play against at any given hour of the day.
Although these two opposing forces are easy to confuse, it is important to recognize their differences. Normally, having large numbers of programs available on a system is positive because it encourages people to buy more systems, which in turn gives a signal to publishers to fund more game development on a particular platform.
Figure 1: Aggregate Cost – Benefit Chart for the App Store
In the chart above, the average cost to develop an application is assumed to be the same over time. Therefore, the aggregate cost of all iPhone applications increases in a straight line as the number of applications increases. Network effects increase the benefit of each application added until point A (tangent is parallel to aggregate cost), at which point the average benefit begins to decrease. Once you reach point B, the benefit of adding new applications falls to below cost.Consider the PlayStation 3. When it was first launched, one of the main criticisms was the lack of games (particularly exclusively titles) to justify the console’s high cost relative to the Xbox 360. Over time, as more games became available for the PS3, a virtuous cycle developed that helped to increase the pace of development.
So far, Xbox 360 and PS3 development has not yet reached the crossover point represented by point B in the above graph. Ideally, console makers will introduce a new platform before the crossover point is reached and before developers decide that a platform is no longer worth developing games for.
This model is very similar to the product life cycle chart that I presented in an earlier article on music simulation games (see Too Much of a Good Thing: Explaining the decline of Guitar Hero and Rock Band). For example, if you were to overlay the product life cycle chart over the total number of music games, you would notice several similarities to Figure 1 (above).
In fact, diminishing marginal utility has an important role to play in both cases.
Gartner assumes that current users will continue to purchase the same number of applications each year through 2013, telling Information Week that “high-end smartphone users today are early adopters of new mobile applications and are more trustful of billing mechanisms… Therefore, they are expected to continue to pay for applications they believe will be useful.”
However, diminishing marginal utility suggests that users will purchase fewer applications over time as the value of each additional application and its ability to meet the particular needs of the user decreases. A new iPhone owner who purchases a software program from the App Store will first purchase the application that most fills a perceived need. The second application will also fill a need, but most likely it will be a less important one, and so on. By the time the average iPhone user has purchased 20 applications, the value added by each new program will be marginal at best.
Although Gartner recognizes that early adopters are heavier users of technology than late adopters, they ignore the fact that iPhone’s future growth will increasingly shift toward late adopters. Diffusion theory suggests that early adopters tend to be educated, have higher social status, and are wealthy. On the other end of the spectrum, late adopters tend to be less educated, have lower social status and have less income. They will be more skeptical about adding new features and applications, and will instead rely upon standard applications that come preloaded with the phone.
Apple has responded to this challenge in two ways, through market expansion and platform renewal.
By continually adding new features to the iPhone, Apple has attracted new users who value these features and are willing to enter into long term contracts to obtain them. Examples range from commonly found features like GPS navigation to more esoteric features like instrument tuning and remote invoicing.
This approach is very similar to the one taken by Nintendo with the Wii. Nintendo began by improving existing GameCube technology and adding motion control through the Wii Remote. It expanded the market again with the balance board, which attracted a new group of customers who were fundamentally concerned about fitness.
The other option is to introduce a new platform to attract more early adopters. Console makers do this every time they introduce a new generation of gaming hardware, and Apple is doing it with the introduction of the iPad.
Initial demand for the iPad could help to extend the growth stage of the App Store’s product life cycle. Ultimately, however, the iPad’s size and price will limit its market appeal relative to the iPhone. As a result, it will not provide the type of renewal that will support the growth rates projected by Gartner.
Even if Apple successfully expands the market and attracts a new group of early adopters with the iPad, developers will still need to contend with the diminishing utility problem discussed earlier. The only exceptions will be applications that
When the iPad is released, early movers who can design applications that fit all three criteria will have the best chance of success.
Quality versus QuantityReturning to the social networking example, the network effect of adding more members would no longer be valid if the social networking site did not add additional servers, network switches, and bandwidth to compensate for the added burden. Instead, the system would begin to crash during times of peak activity and members would begin to turn to alternative sites. The value of any individual member’s contribution to a social networking site does not matter to the site’s overall performance. Users who fill discussion boards with gibberish impact online performance on these sites as much as users who contribute valuable content. Like the social networking user, the individual role of any given application does not matter, because it is the aggregate that determines overall performance from the point of view of the consumer.
Figure 2: Aggregate Data for the App Store
The aggregate number of applications (blue line) relative to the aggregate number of downloads (red line). Download numbers include free programs.At the same time that iPhone owners are becoming overwhelming by the number of applications, they are also impacted by the number of lower quality applications that Apple allows to be sold through its store. In this case, it is the individual effect of each program rather than the aggregate that matters. And this is where the App Store differs most from instrument simulation games. Consumers of Guitar Hero and Rock Band know they are going to receive a polished product, whereas iPhone users are left to wade through a sea of poorly thought out applications.
Figure 3: A Typical Product Life Cycle
The iPhone and App Store are still in the growth stage of the product life cycle.
That does not necessarily mean that iPhone owners will be switching to Nokia any more than social networking users will stop using the Internet because of an inability to access a popular site, or because the site has become polluted with unmoderated nonsense. It does mean that the App Store will hold less value to iPhone owners, who will increasingly limit their purchases to popular titles from companies with large advertising budgets or apps that have been recommended by friends, TV personalities, and other influential people.
This article was originally posted on February 7, 2010 on Gamasutra.
HELSINKI, Mar 2 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) – Nokia unveiled a new C5 smartphone model on Tuesday, hoping to benefit from a booming demand for cheap smartphones and from rising consumer appetite for mobile social networking.
The C5 handset will be one of the cheapest smartphones from Nokia, selling for 135 euros ($183), excluding taxes and subsidies, and hitting the shelves next quarter.
“It is products like this that will grow Nokia marketshare in the smartphone segment and help them to increase their average sale prices,” said John Strand, chief of telecoms consultancy Strand Consult.
Volumes on the smartphone market are seen surging in 2010, with some analysts forecasting up to 50 percent growth, as handset vendors are pushing advanced features, once exclusive to pricey top-end models, into cheaper and cheaper phones.
Nokia continues to lead the global smartphone market with an around 40 percent market share, but it has lost ground to Apple’s iPhone and RIM’s Blackberry.
The Finnish firm is in the midst of a massive revamp of its smartphone offering and has said in 2010 almost all of its smartphones would have a touch screen, a full keyboard or both, compared with less than half in 2009.
NAME CONFUSION
After introducing the C series — focused on personal social networking — Nokia has four smartphone product families. The E series phones are for business users, X series for youth and music, and N series for the most advanced models.
It plans to use the new names across its smartphone offering.
Nokia has historically flooded the market with phone models little different from each other, with additional confusion arising from their four digit names, which have been hard to differentiate for consumers.
However, the new naming of X series phones may also create confusion as Sony Ericsson has used the name for few years — X1 and X2 smartphones are from Sony Ericsson, while Nokia has launched the X3 model.
Sony Ericsson’s new flagship device is the X10, while Nokia is also widely expected to launch an X10 cellphone.
Big brains are out with a cellphone that can recharge its own battery by harvesting energy from the owner’s motion.
The self-charging handset by Nokia, who has already filed for a US patent, was predicted to work with heavier mechanism, such as the radio transmitter circuit and battery, supported on a sturdy frame.
The frame apparently could shift along two sets of rails, allowing it travel up and down and side to side, New Scientist reported.
Each rail apparently hosted strips of piezoelectric crystals at its end, capable of generating a current when compressed by the frame such that motion, by the user or the movement of the phone, generates electricity.
You don't want to know.
In a move to compete with McDonald’s and convenience stores, Starbucks is testing a new size for iced beverages, named “Trenta.” Just one ounce shy of a Big Gulp, the Trenta, which means thirty in Italian, will hopefully quench all larger thirsts with 31 ounces of iced drink.
For the rest of March Topeka, Kansas will be going by another name, after the mayor signed a proclamation asking people to call the city Google. This isn’t the first time Topeka, whose name means “to dig good potatoes,” has temporarily given up it’s moniker. In 1998 the city’s mayor asked people to call the city “Topikachu.”
Nokia recently attempted to clarify its confusing naming conventions. Apparently, the letters and numbers on those phones really do mean something, even if the unschooled consumer has no idea. Here’s a quick lesson: the numbers indicate the range of functionality and price, from 1 to 9. And the letters? Well, I’ll let Nokia explain, “N series remains the flagship and most advanced range of products. X series comes next and focuses on social entertainment. E series remains focused on productivity and business whilst C series represents the core range of products.” Is anyone else still confused?
Kilo-, Mega-, Giga-…now, Hella? A physics student at UC Davis is campaigning for a new SI prefix for very, very, very, very, very, very, very (you get the idea) large numbers. The new prefix, which he proposes should be named Hella, would designate 10^27, and would be large enough to represent the sun’s wattage or distances between galaxies.
Proximo, a spirits company based out of New York, is in the middle of a naming controversy, after it was revealed that RangTang, the name of their recently released Vodka flavored with “outrageously juicy oranges and tangerines,” has an unfortunate entry in the Urban Dictionary. The slogan for the liquor, “What’s your O-Face?” suggests that perhaps Proximo was well aware of the naked truth.
Nokia is going to launch new Mobile on picture sharing, messaging and social networking. The Nokia 7230 has colourful looks and offers effortless picture sharing, messaging and social networking.
Noika 7230 slide View
Nokia 7230 Mobile
Qik goes premium in OVI store. This version lets you download hiquality videos and burn them. Qik lets you record and share videos with your friends, family and the world! With Qik Premium you can download your videos, burn them into DVDs, experience fast playback even on slow connections and your video quality is enhanced for higher quality playback especially on phones with 3MP camera and above. Features include: – Share to your favorite social networks like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube – Send video messages privately via Email, SMS – Show your family and friends what you’re seeing live!
below are the details from the qik.com blog
You can always do a lot with your free Qik account, but starting today you can do even more with Qik Premium. Download your videos, burn them into DVDs, enjoy higher quality playback and faster playback on slower connections for a promotional price of only $4.99/year.
Build your mobile video library
Save your videos (MPEG-4) from qik.com to your computer, add them to your existing media collection, edit them, burn them into DVDs or create movies with your Qik videos.
Better playback experience
We apply our unique high quality transcoding to make your videos look even better. See the difference for yourself by clicking the “HQ” button in this video. You can even playback these high quality videos from your mobile phone.
Your videos are also optimized for faster playback on all types of network connections. Say if you are on a slower connection, switch to non-HQ and playback your videos faster.
Below is the screenshot of the first frame of the video between the two quality levels. Watch the difference around the number 700, the texture of the grass around it and the houses and trees in the back.
Non HQ (HQ button is grey’d)
HQ
Tip: to record high quality videos, we recommend using a phone with at least 3MP camera resolution. Also, checkout tips on shooting cell phone video and eight tips for shooting great videos with a cell phone camera.
Coming next to Qik Premium:
Qik Premium is now exclusively available from the Ovi Recommends Channel for a promotional price of only $4.99 / year, which is less than 2cents / day. You can also download this from the Ovi Store application on your Nokia phone by going tohttp://store.ovi.mobi/content/27434 on your Nokia phone. This promotional price also provides you with access to all the features that we’ll be adding to Qik Premium this coming year.
Whilst looking for a stray .pdf document for my dissertation, I found this old video I did a couple months just messing about with Vegas.
This wasn’t ever meant to be published but I thought it might be interesting to share and anticipate the multitouch pinch and zoom goodness that Nokia are promising us with BOTH Symbian^3 and MeeGo (Maemo 6/Moblin mix)
This was just a quick first try so it doesn’t look that convincing. I was gonna do another but never got around to it (i.e. more responsive, larger zoom range with smaller movement, removal of screen artifacts)
The last time I joked about multitouch on a Nokia was with the N95 back in 07. It didn’t even have a touch screen but it went viral within a few hours of upload. (BTW, that was just a bluetooth keyboard)
So, are you looking forward to multitouch? Do you think you will need it?
For me, the answer is yes on both points.
Some interesting things might be on the horizon with Nokia and touch screen. Though multitouch is inevitable, Nokia users might even get 3D multitouch (3rd dimension is pressure – not in the resistive sense) possibly with haptikos tactile feedback (where bits of the screen actually rises so you can feel actual buttons!).
Hola! (^^)/
Postingan ini dibuat dalam rangka
nyoba nge-post pake hp. Postingnya
bukan pake email, tapi pake
dashboard biasa. Ngga mau
pake email, soalnya kalo pake email,
gambar/imagenya di bawah, ga di atas.
BTW, foto di atas itu hp-ku, si cantik
N7390. Dulu aku belinya seken loh! 
Aku suka fisiknya, manis, bentuknya
flip, fiturnya jg lumayan. Tapi
karena nokia ga bikin baru lagi,
jadi aku cari sekenya.
Ok, posting nyoba-nyobanya
segini dulu. Udah malem, besok
aku harus ngajar. Jya na,
see you next post (^.~)/
What Is Phone Unlocking And How Do Unlock My Phone?
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Syed_Abedin]Syed Abedin
Unlocking your phone has many benefits. I am going to list a number of them. But the dominant one is the price of the phone bills and internet charges.
On the high street, the internet, TV or radio, you must have heard about the different network providers (like Orange or O2) always competing with each other, to get you to sign up with there network. One company will give you one offer, the other another and basically they just keep battling out to be the top network so they can receive the most profit.
So anyway, if you have your phone unlocked, it means that you are free to use any network instead of just one network. This means if you want to sign with a better deal than you already have then you are free to do so.
Another benefit of unlocking your phone , which would apply to most people, would be if you were on holiday. Supposing you were lost and you needed to know where to go, then you could phone someone if you were out of credit. How? You could ask someone with a phone to use their sim card on your phone to make the call (obviously you would pay them for the call though, would you?). And because your phone is unlocked, you would need to match up your sim card with someone else’s.
If your phone is unlocked, the network you go to might provide special offers. For example if you are an out-and-about person, who loves films, Orange have 2 for 1 cinema tickets when you top up at least £10 with them that month. Or you can also get 50% free minutes with special deals on your network provider.
However with all good things, as many people know, always comes a bad thing. And you guessed it : price. The price of unlocking your phone is probably the only thing that will put you off. It costs usually around £10-20 for the shops (say Carphone Warehouse) to unlock your phone within 20 minutes. However it will save you money in the long run. You can chop and change between networks when ever you like which is really useful.
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The new Nokia N900 comes with such features
The various characteristics of Nokia N900 are as follows:
Which one will you pick?
Not all mobile apps are created equal, and choosing the right platform on which to launch yours can be the key to its success or failure. “The App Developer’s Guide to Choosing a Mobile Platform,” a new report from Colin Gibbs over at GigaOM Pro (sub required), takes a look at the seven leading mobile platforms and suggests key tips for anyone considering where to launch their next app.
As you might expect, Gibbs is sanguine about the opportunity for developers who choose to build for the iPhone. In fact, he suggests that not building for the OS that ignited the craze would be a foolish mistake for anyone hoping to hit it big with a mobile app. But the iPhone isn’t the only opportunity out there, and he carefully weighs the pros and cons of developing for Android, BlackBerry OS, Palm’s webOS, Maemo, Symbian and Windows Mobile as well.
Choosing among the competing platforms requires a clear-eyed assessment of the audience for your app, the technical strengths (and weaknesses) of the platform, how easy it is to monetize your work and the long-term health of the platform. You’ll need to ask the following questions:
Gibbs’ report also takes into consideration a number of game-changing developments that will alter the course of mobile apps over the next several years. App users and developers alike should find it of interest.
Photo courtesy Flickr user splodge.
Last Thursday, London hosted Nokia’s Push N900 event; a project exceeding just app development but pushing boundaries on what you expect a phone to do.
CNET’s filmed a video to showcase some of these brilliant N900 hacks (N900 will publish their own official showcase video soon). CLICK to head to CNET
They’re very impressive indeed; the three below I could see myself having a use for:
CNET via Nokia via MickyFin
With the advent of Google Buzz, I’m starting to get tired of all the rapid changes in technology and social media. If technology is going to progress so quickly, I’d like to be able to choose whether or not I can opt in or opt out of these changes. For instance, Google Buzz simply swooped in and gave its Gmail users Twitter-like abilities and public profiles without fair warning. Facebook has changed its image and added more features so many times that it’s becoming frustrating. What was wrong with the first 500 versions of the website?
Today’s phones don’t just take calls, but also videos, photos, hold music, store important documents, act as a GPS, balance your check book, and count your calories. Anything you’d want to do in your daily life, now there is a phone app for that. Remember when text messaging was a novel concept?!
It’s hard to keep up with all these changes, especially when I preferred some of the older models better than their newer counterpoints. I’m still adjusting to the fact that VHS tapes are out along with video rental stores like Blockbuster.
In honor of my favorite “oldies, but goodies,” here are 5 technologies that are fine just the way they are:
1) The boom box. Do you really need to bring your personal computer around with you to provide music at parties? The boom box did just fine. Plus it still plays your old mix tapes.
2) The overhead projector. Invented during the 1940s, this is hands down the best way to display information on a wall in front of large groups of people. No need to worry about memory stick problems or losing your connection to the internet during a presentation.
3) A physical book. No digital reader can ever replace the feeling of holding a book in your hands and feeling the pages between your fingers (and of course the new book smell).
4) The Nokia cell phone. I agree, we all need cell phones, but you can’t even use a touch screen with your winter gloves! Flip phones tend to snap in half eventually, but the Nokia can fly down a flight of stairs (and even survive a drop in the toilet) and still accept your calls and text messages.
5) The single air conditioner unit. Forget central air. I just want my bedroom to be cold. The noise these things make is soothing, especially if white noise helps you sleep. I don’t need my whole house to be cold all the time and I like how easy you can control the temperature on these things.
What are some of your favorite technological “oldies but goodies”?
If you have a mobile phone with Symbian s60v3 then you can now play almost all your favorite Sega Genesis games on it. In order to do this, you will have to first install the emulator (a normal .sis application) and then copy on your phone memory or memory card any games that you would like to play.
1. Download PicoDrive.
2. Download Genesis ROMs.
3. Check out Top 25 and Top 10 (video) Genesis games.
The biggest barrier to entry in Mobile Gaming Market is the over whelming number of different mobile handsets on the market. For example one of Electronic Art’s all time best selling mobile games is Tetris. It sells around 20m copies a year. It is also available on 800 different handsets. So that means they are really achieving average sales of just 25,000 units for each handset model.
If you want to see just how complex the world of mobile handsets is then take a look at Getjat’s industry statistics. Getjar , the world’s largest independent mobile apps store, has published metrics that suggest Java (82.72%) and Symbian (28.9%) are two most popular games development platforms. With Nokia 51%, Sony – Ericsson 14%, Samsung 10%, LG 3% and Blackberry 2% being the top 5 handset brands for indie apps and games developers. The majority of sales are for feature phones. For example 75% of EA’s Tetris sales are feature phones.
To truly understand the business of developing mobile phone apps you need to understand the real costs are not in development. Indeed some industry reports suggest Mobile Phone Games come in at below 10% of the cost of developing console games. It is in porting the game to each of the different handsets that incurs the most costs.
The reason the leading publishers remain committed to this fragmented universe of standards and devices is because the number of games-enabled handsets is anticipated to exceed four billion units by 2012.
At the moment Gameloft, the French games publisher, is committed to simultaneously publishing games for 1,200 mobile handsets and devices. That’s 1200 permutations of platform (Java, Brew, Symbian, Apple), screen size, keypad types, processors, manufacturers and models.
In 2009 85.6% of Gameloft’s mobile games revenues came from the Java, Brew and Symbian platforms. The other 14.4% came from Apple.
The average revenue across the other 1200 supported handsets was €81,000.
The average revenue per iPhone game was €320,000.
Gameloft ended last year with a total of 55 games for sale in the App Store and had achieved more than ten million paid downloads since the launch of the App Store in July 2008. According to Finance Director Alexandre de Rochefort late last year they were “selling 400 times more games on iPhone than on Android”
Now you can see why the mobile games publishers like Gameloft are so enthusiastic about the Apple platform. The profit margins for top selling games published on the Apple platform are significantly higher than the other mobile platforms simple because you don’t have to port the game onto 800-1200 mobile handset configurations.
Market research firm IDC on Thursday reported a record level of smartphone shipments for the fourth quarter of 2009, when vendors shipped 54.4 million devices. That’s up 39 percent from the same quarter a year ago, the company said.
The handset company with the largest growth in 2009 was Apple. Apple’s unit shipments for the year were 25.1 million, up from 13.8 million units in 2008. The company’s market share rose from 9.1 percent in 2008 to 14.4 percent in 2009, an 81.9 percent year-over-year increase.
(Credit: IDC)
That represents the largest year-over-year increase of any mobile manufacturer, according to IDC.
Fourth quarter 2009 shipments and market share were even better for Apple. The company shipped 8.7 million iPhones in the quarter, up from 4.4 million units during the same quarter of 2008. Its market share rose from 11.2 percent in 2008 to 16 percent in 2009, representing a 97.7 percent growth increase.
(Credit: IDC)
Apple finished in the third spot for the fourth quarter and yearly market share. Nokia took the top spot finishing the year with 67.7 million shipments, an 11.9 percent increase over 2008. Its market share was 38.9 percent.
Research In Motion finished in second place with 34.5 million shipments for 2009, an increase of 46.2 percent over 2008, and a 19.8 percent market share.
This blogpost is brought to you by the letter S and the number 12.
Last week, we saw the first of the #symbiancountdown, which was then at 108. It’s been randomly counting down and now it’s at 12. If you head over to countdown.symbian.org you’ll see a sesame street video attached (they’ve had ponies and rainbows…why not…it matches the whole child like yellow ducks and robots and font of Symbian…)
Also, Symbian has tweeted that it’s all gonna happen (whatever that is) tomorrow!
China factory specifications
Appearance Sliding type cellphone Network Frequency GSM900/ 1800/ 1900 MHZ Weight 70 g Dimension 103mm×54mm×20mm Processor - Operating System RTOS Color Black with Silver at side LCD display 2.8″ screen, TFT 1.6 Million Colour Touch panel No Dual SIM Dual Standby Dual sim dual standby Battery Lithium Batteries 1350 mAh Calling Time 3-5 hours Standby Time 120 hours Languages English/ Malay/ Indonesia/ Thailand/ Français/ Viet language/ Arab/ Turkish Free Accessories: 2 batteries/ 1charger/ 1 USB cable/ 1 English manual/ 1 MicroSD 256MB/ 1 earphoneBasic Features
Antenna Internal SMS Yes EMS Yes GPRS Yes MMS Yes WAP Yes Voice mail Yes Vibration Yes Ring tone 64 chord; Ring tone format: mp3, midi STK Yes Phone book Yes Wall papers Yes Tools Calendar, To do list, Alarm, World Clock, Stopwatch, E-book reader, Calculator Hands free Yes Incoming call firewall YesMultimedia Entertainment
Audio Support MP3 and equalizer, can set MP3 for incoming tone Video 3GP, MP4 Camera 1.3 MP long time video 3D Sound Great Voice with Bass Speaker Video Recorder Yes Voice Recorder Yes FM Radio Yes External Memory Yes, 1 GB T-Flash card as a gift, could support 4 GB Game Yes Projector - Java - TV YesData Transmission
IrDA - Bluetooth Yes USB Yes ( support charging) U-Disk Yes WiFi - GPS - Price of Original Product Rp 4.100.000,- Price of Replica Product Rp 1.825.000,-
China factory specifications
Appearance 180 degree slide type cellphone Network Frequency GSM 900/ 1800/ 1900 MHZ Weight 98 g Dimension - Processor MTK Operating System - Color Black LCD display 2.4 inch, QVGA 260K Colors 240×320 pixels Touch panel - Dual SIM Dual Standby Single Sim Battery Lithium Batteries Calling Time 100-300 minutes Standby Time 200-300 hours Languages English/Chinese/Melayu/Espanol Free Accessories: 1 battery/ 1 charger/ 1 USB cable/ 1 manual/ 1 MicroSD 2 GB/ 1 earphoneBasic Features
Antenna Internal SMS Yes EMS Yes GPRS Yes MMS Yes WAP Yes Voice mail Yes Vibration Yes Ring tone 64 chord; Ring tone format: mp3, midi STK Yes Phone book Yes, support up to 500 phonebooks Wall papers Yes Tools Calendar, To do list, Alarm, World Clock, Stopwatch, E-book reader, Currency converter, Calculator, To do, Unit, Record Hands free Yes Incoming call firewall -Multimedia Entertainment
Audio MP3, use downloaded MP3 as Ring Tones Video 3GP, MP4,support to play in full screen, support video record Camera High definition camera, Auto zoomer lens,image output 640×480, support to shoot with sound 3D Sound Yes Video Recorder Yes Voice Recorder Yes FM Radio Yes External Memory Yes, 2 GB T-Flash card as a gift, could support 4 GB Game Yes Projector - Java - TV -Data Transmission
IrDA - Bluetooth Yes USB Yes ( support charging) U-Disk Yes WiFi - GPS - Price of Original Product Rp 2.000.000,- Price of Replica Product Rp 1.900.000,-
China factory specifications
Appearance Bar type cellphone Network Frequency GSM 900/ 1800/ 1900 MHZ Weight 100g Dimension - Processor MTK Operating System - Color Silver Gold LCD display 2.4 inch, QVGA 260K Colors 240×320 pixels Touch panel - Dual SIM Dual Standby Dual sim dual standby Battery Lithium Batteries 3600mAh Calling Time 100-300 minutes Standby Time 200-300 hours Languages English/Chinese/Melayu Free Accessories: 2 battery/ 1charger/ 1 USB cable/ 1 manual/ 1 MicroSD 2GB/ 1 earphoneBasic Features
Antenna Internal SMS Yes EMS Yes GPRS Yes MMS Yes WAP Yes Voice mail Yes Vibration Yes Ring tone 64 chord; Ring tone format: mp3, midi STK Yes Phone book Yes, support up to 500 phonebooks Wall papers Yes Tools Calendar, To do list, Alarm, World Clock, Stopwatch, E-book reader, Currency converter, Calculator, QQ, To do, Unit, Record Hands free Yes Incoming call firewall -Multimedia Entertainment
Audio MP3, use downloaded MP3 as Ring Tones Video 3GP, MP4,support to play in full screen, support video record Camera High definition camera, Auto zoomer lens,image output 640×480, support to shoot with sound 3D Sound Yes Video Recorder Yes Voice Recorder Yes FM Radio Yes External Memory Yes, 512 MB T-Flash card as a gift, could support 4 GB Game Yes Projector - Java Yes TV YesData Transmission
IrDA - Bluetooth Yes USB Yes ( support charging) U-Disk Yes WiFi - GPS Maps Price of Original Product Rp 3.100.000,- Price of Replica Product Rp 1.700.000,-
China factory specifications
Appearance Sidekick slide type cellphone Network Frequency GSM 900/ 1800/ 1900 MHZ Weight 108g Dimension 5.0 x 11.2 x 1.0 cm Processor - Operating System - Color White and Black LCD display 3.2 inch, QVGA 260K Colors 240×320 pixels Touch panel Yes Dual SIM Dual Standby Dual sim dual standby Battery Lithium Batteries 1500mAh Calling Time 100-300 minutes Standby Time 200-300 hours Languages English/Chinese/Melayu/Espanol Free Accessories: 2 battery/ 1charger/ 1 USB cable / 1 manual/ 1 MicroSD 512MB/ 1 earphoneBasic Features
Antenna Internal SMS Yes EMS Yes GPRS Yes MMS Yes WAP Yes Voice mail Yes Vibration Yes Ring tone 64 chord; Ring tone format: mp3, midi STK Yes Phone book Yes, support up to 500 phonebooks Wall papers Yes Tools Calendar, To do list, Alarm, World Clock, Stopwatch, E-book reader, Currency converter, Calculator, QQ, To do, Unit, Record Hands free Yes Incoming call firewall -Multimedia Entertainment
Audio MP3, use downloaded MP3 as Ring Tones Video 3GP, MP4,support to play in full screen, support video record Camera High definition camera, Auto zoomer lens,image output 640×480, support to shoot with sound 3D Sound Yes Video Recorder Yes Voice Recorder Yes FM Radio Yes External Memory Yes, 512 MB T-Flash card as a gift, could support 4 GB Game Yes Projector - Java - TV -Data Transmission
IrDA - Bluetooth Yes USB Yes ( support charging) U-Disk Yes WiFi - GPS - Price of Original Product Rp 5.125.000,- Price of Replica Product Rp 1.940.000,-
China factory specifications
Appearance Sliding type cellphone Network Frequency GSM 900 / 1800/ 1900 MHZ Weight - Dimension 5.1 x 10.7 x 1.4 cm Processor - Operating System - Color Coffee LCD display 2.4″ , 320×240 pixels Touch panel No Dual SIM Dual Standby Dual sim dual standby Battery Lithium Batteries Calling Time 5 hours Standby Time 330 hours Languages English/ Malay/ Indonesia/ Thailand/ Français/ Viet language/ Arab/ Turkish/ Chinese Free Accessories: 1 battery / 1charger / 1 USB cable / 1 manual / 1 MicroSD 1GB / 1 earphoneBasic Features
Antenna Internal SMS Yes EMS Yes GPRS Yes MMS Yes WAP Yes Voice mail Yes Vibration Yes Ring tone 64 chord; Ring tone format: mp3, midi STK Yes Phone book Yes, support up to 500 phonebooks Wall papers Yes Tools Tri band phone, Dual cards standby, FM radio player, Schedule FM record, Bluetooth, Calendar, Memo, Alarm clock, World time, Calculator, Voice recorder, WAP/ GPRS, MMS/ SMS, Currency converter, E-book reader, Caller picture, Caller ring tone, Caller video, Video Recorder, Sound recorder, Stopwatch, Calculator, Unit Converter Hands free Yes Incoming call firewall YesMultimedia Entertainment
Audio MP3, use downloaded MP3 as Ring Tones Video 3GP, MP4, support to play in full screen Camera High Definition Camera, image output size 640×480, High bright LED flash lamp, Support to shoot with sound 3D Sound Yes Video Recorder Yes Voice Recorder Yes FM Radio Yes External Memory Yes, 2 GB T-Flash card as a gift, could support 8 GB Game Yes Projector - Java Yes TV -Data Transmission
IrDA - Bluetooth Yes USB Yes ( support charging) U-Disk Yes WiFi - GPS - Price of Original Product Rp 3.100.000,- Price of Replica Product Rp 1.700.000,-
China factory specifications
Appearance Sliding type cellphone Network Frequency GSM 900/ 1800/ 1900 MHZ Weight 75 g Dimension - Processor - Operating System RTOS Color Black LCD display 2.8″ screen, TFT 1.6 Million Colour Touch panel No Dual SIM Dual Standby Dual sim dual standby Battery Lithium Batteries Calling Time 3-5 hours Standby Time 120 hours Languages English/ Malay/ Indonesia/ Thailand/ Français/ Viet language/ Arab/ Turkish Free Accessories: 2 batteries/ 1charger/ 1 USB cable/ 1 English manual/ 1 MicroSD 1 GB/ 1 earphoneBasic Features
Antenna Internal SMS Yes EMS Yes GPRS Yes MMS Yes WAP Yes Voice mail Yes Vibration Yes Ring tone 64 chord; Ring tone format: mp3, midi STK Yes Phone book Yes Wall papers Yes Tools Calendar, To do list, Alarm, World Clock, Stopwatch, E-book reader, Calculator Hands free Yes Incoming call firewall YesMultimedia Entertainment
Audio Support MP3 and equalizer, can set MP3 for incoming tone Video 3GP, MP4 Camera 1.3 MP long time video 3D Sound Great Voice with Bass Speaker Video Recorder Yes Voice Recorder Yes FM Radio Yes External Memory Yes, 1 GB T-Flash card as a gift, could support 2 GB Game Yes Projector - Java - TV -Data Transmission
IrDA - Bluetooth Yes USB Yes ( support charging) U-Disk Yes WiFi - GPS - Price of Original Product Rp 4.100.000,- Price of Replica Product Rp 1.575.000,-
Applications:
Y-browser
Fonts1 (different fonts for N73 or other Series…. and the method to chage it)
Live Msn mobile ed.
SYS explorer
Divx player
Agile messenger both 3.76 and 3.78
Besttaskman with Keygen
Heir beta (Chatting software like agile)
Windows Live messenger
Mobile security-fcym
Nokia SMS Accelerator
N sys Info. ( a complete system info about yr fone)
Smart movie player 3.32
Xsound player
Zip manager
gsm magic
Games:
Darkest Fear II
Splinter Cell double agent
Skyforce
Asphalt 2 3-d
Brothers in Arms 3-d
Street fighter Alpha
Christmas Midnight
THe Sims 2
K rally
Doom
Krish Cricket
MV cricket
Black Hawk down
Call of duty 3
A Knights tale…
Dig. chocolate Night club
Chocolate TOWER
Metal of honor
fifa 2007
Brothers in Arms 2-d
Mission Impossible
New York Success
War of the worlds
Street Basket BAll
Prince of Persia warrior within
XIII
Sonic
Mid town madness
Player.One.Freddie.Flintoff.All-Round.Cricket
TOPGAM Roland Garros
CAESAR MULTiLANG
Rally evolution 3-d
Asphalt Urban 3
Beach Ping Pong
Need for Speed carbon
Extreme air snowboarding
Final Fight
Fish labs heli strike
Crime city
Lemonade Tycoon
Metal Slug
True Crime New York city
Crash and Trash
Prince of Persia The 2 thrones
Roger Federers Tennis Open
Sky force Reload
The Crow
Virtual Tennis
V-rally
V sun plus
Wimbledon 2006
Super minners
Themes:
N95 theme
Dark Vista
Dreamy Vista
Forest
Lonely Eyes
Mac flower
Mac stacy
Spider man
Another Spidy
Tokyo Drift
Downoad Disini
atau
Disini
News has been flying all over the internet about Apple this week following their conference and unveiling of their latest product development, the iPad tablet. For those of you who may have been out of the loop, the iPad is a computer which makes the traditional keyboard and mouse redundant, and lets your finger take the leading role. Anyway, this latest piece of technology is predicted to set you back £440-£680). Possibly a purchase only die-hard Apple users would purchase.
Moving away from the iPad, the iPhone is still going strong within the phone market. However Nokia have announced that they are to be releasing a major competitor on 24th February, with a phenomenal marketing campaign worth millions using various forms of media (of course, digital media is one of them… not surprising really if you saw my previous post). It seems football fans will be the first to see the 30-second TV ad, placed during ad-breaks of Champion’s League football games. Clearly Nokia have found their first niche.
iPad photos and videos of the $500 Apple iPad tablet.
Steve Jobs with iPad at launch
iPad or large iPhone?
iPad touchscreen tablet
Look how small Steve Jobs has become
Steve Jobs January 27th
Mr iPad aka Steve Jobs
Reasonable tablet or 10 year old laptop?
Apple’s iPad store
When I saw your video quality is better than DVD, I thought it was just pure marketing bluff, but after receiving this phone, watch video, and then takes my breath away. I always wanted to Nokia that they are the best in my eyes when it comes to performance and durability. The phone is light and size of the thin, smooth (much better than the iPhone). Touch is very sensitive to touch and vibration, it is quite clean, too. QWERTY keyboard can be a big problem, fingers like me, so I use the alphanumeric keypad (eg options, it’s fantastic). The sound quality is excellent lil small speakers for me, but it should be me going deaf in a car system, but this phone is fantastic. I love it, and I guarantee you will like. Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Unlocked phone with U.S. 3G, 3.2 MP camera, GPS, Wi-Fi, and 8 GB microSD Card – USA version Warranty (Black)
Through the ever useful, Contactless Intelligence newsletter, I came across a piece of coverage about Nokia’s intention to integrate NFC (Near Field Communication) into more and more of their handsets, including the new N900 – which is coming out very very soon.
Thanks to being chummy with VISA over the past couple of years, I got to play with one of the prototypes of the phone for a good 6 months in 2009. I must say, it didn’t stick immediately but I am convinced that, by 2012 – the user interface will be waaaaay more intuitive and, as that was the biggest roadblock as far as I was concerned, I expect the pick-up will be much greater.
This doesn’t mean it will be a walk in the park for Nokia, it isn’t as if NFC will be considered as big a commodity as SMS was in the 90’s – not by a long shot – but it isn’t anything a healthy publicity campaign wouldn’t solve. The moment a bunch of 20+ year olds see, believe and trust that totting up and settling debts amongst friends can be as quickly solved as a couple of buttons, beeps and a waft of their mobile – the peer-to-peer micro payment will be alive and kicking.
From my perspective, this would have been incredibly helpful over the past few years for exactly that reason. The amount of times I paid for dinner with a friend, or bought something in full that would then need to be broken up amongst a small group of friends, only to find that all they had was cash or a 3 week wait whilst they finally found a moment to log onto the online banking was utterly frustrating.
Equally, instead of using this technology to settle up on shares of a larger debt to one person, a bunch of friends (all with NFC enabled handsets) that need to split a dinner bill of £60 directly to the waiting staff could simply apply a bit of basic mental division, type in their individual totals and send the authorised amount to the waiting staff’s handset/PDQ machine!
On an utterly serious note, I would very much like to see NFC technology adopt a far more consumer friendly title (and verb), “Bamph”. As in…
“Mate, you still owe me £8 from that round last night, I’m away next week so can you just bamph me it now?”
-Or-
“Little Mikey, I’ll bamph you your pocket money… but first give your old Nan a hug!”
See? Sound awesome. Way more colloquial than NFC and one syllable shorter than PayWave!
5) Route Guidance – there are a multitude of downloadable voices in different languages and a choice of if you would like to be guided by a female/male voice. If you miss a turning or overule the instruction, you’ll soon hear “Route Re-calculation” and you’ll very soon be prompted with your next instruction. Generally, I’ve found that you get a voice instruction in good time and then again approx. 40yds before the turning.
6) Safety Camera Warnings – a VERY useful feature 
in any SatNav system!!! You’ll get prompted with two beeps and a verbal announcement of the speed camera/limit.
7) Another nice feature of route guidance is that even when you’ve driven out of satellite reception, e.g. on my way home from London in the Blackwall Tunnel (writing this on my great PsiXpda, PLUG PLUG!) the moving pointer which represents your position keeps moving automatically, predicting your position.
TIPS:
Pressing ‘1’ toggles between Day and Night display mode;
Pressing ‘2’ lets you save a particular location;
Pressing ‘3’ takes you to the search menu, where you can look for a particular category, e.g. cash point, petrol station, restaurant etc;
Pressing ‘4′ repeats the last verbal instruction;
Pressing ‘7′ allows you to ‘add a new route point’, e.g. stopping off for lunch or a fuel refill on route;
Pressing ‘8′ shows traffic updates.
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Find the pulse of premium content at NATPE Market, up next, at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, where on the floor, in suites, and on panels programming executives, brand managers, showrunners, and device manufacturers map together the future of entertainment. From Michael Eisner and Donald Trump, to Illeana Douglas and Justine Bateman, to Jordan Levin and the Modern Family cast & crew, there’s never a dull moment. Here’s the guide to what’s going on:
Sunday, January 24
2-3, Islander I
Selling Telenovelas with The Bold and the Beautiful, Telemundo, Dori Media, Globo
3:30-5, Islander I
Screening: India – A Love Story
*5-7, Border Grill
SXSW Kick-Off Party
Monday, January 25
8-10, Four Seasons, Level 2, Acacia Ballroom
Globo Breakfast Screening: India – A Love Story
*9-10, Islander B
Keynote: David Zaslav, Discovery
10-10:30, Digital Theatre
Grow Your Audience with Stickam, MTV, CBS Radio
10-6, Show Floor
*10:30-12, Islander D
Mentor Round Robin (Unscripted) with Paul Buccieri, ITVS, Andy Stabile, CAA, Bertram van Munster, Earthview, Eric Shotz, LMNO, Philip Gurin, Gurin Co, Douglass Ross, Evolution Media, Stella Stolper, Wikked, Ken Mok, 10×10
10:30-11:30, Islander I
What TV Needs to Know about Social Media with Shelly Palmer
11:30-12, Digital Theatre
Formatting Content for Digital Delivery
*11:30-12:30, Islander B
Anatomy of a Hit: Modern Family with Dana Walden, 20c Fox TV Chair, Steve Levitan, Ed O’Neill, Sofia Vergara (Gloria), Ty Burrell (Phil), Julie Bowen (Claire), Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Mitchell), Eric Stonestreet (Cameron)
11:45-12:45, Tradewinds C
Fans & Brands with Fox, Demand Media, Omelet…
12:15-12:45, Digital Theatre
Twitter TV with Chloe Sladden, Twitter, Daisy Whitney, Beet.tv
12:15-1:45, Mentor Round Robin (B &C)
Barbara Fisher, Hallmark, Tom Zappala, Disney/ABC, Jon Helmrich, IBC, John Moczulski, KTLA-TV, Sandra Stern, Lionsgate, Gary Marenzi, MGM, Leslie Chesloff
12-3, Islander I
Pitchfest – The Agency, Lone Star Opera, Vicious Circle
(last year’s winner sold show to History)
12-4, Theatre on the Floor
Reality Food TV – Top Chef Quickfire Competition, Paul Bartolotta, Wynn
1-1:45, Tradewinds C
TV as Branded Business with Brian Seth Hurst, ATAS, Lisa Hsia, Bravo, Kim Niemi, NBC, David Norton, Ladder Up, John Couch, Titanium Sky
1:15-2, Islander I
Digital Spectrum, Revenue Resource with Brandon Burgess, ION…
1-1:45, Digital Theatre
Mobile Monetization on TV with Jim Beddows, MEF, David Kruis, Metranome…
*1:30-2:15, Islander B
Keynote with Michael Eisner, The Tornante Company
2-2:45, Digitial Theatre
PGA Toolbox: Unlocking Mobile Content for Interactive TV with John David Heinsen, Bunnygraph..
2:30-3:15, Islander I
Profit in Recovery with Sean Compton, Tribune, Emerson Coleman, Hearst, Brooke Spectorsky, Gannett, Doug Lowe, Meredith
*2:30-4, Islander D
Mentor Round Robin (Digital) with Lori Schwartz, IPG, Curt Marvis, Lionsgate, Anthony Soohoo, CBSi, Keith Richman, Break, Nathan Coyle, CAA, Kevin Yen, YouTube, Jim Louderback, Revision3, Michael Kernan, NuMedia
2:45-3:30, Tradewinds C
Online Advertising with VideoNuze, GroupM, Google
3-3:45, Islander B
Storytelling with Bill Lawrence, Cougar Town, Scrubs
3:15-4, Digital Theatre
Mobile Video with FLM, Babelgum, FLO TV
3:30-4:15, Islander I
Global Entertainment Development with Charles Kenny, World Bank
4-5, Tradewinds C
Lights Camera Lawsuit! with James Lichtman, NBCU, Kirk Schenck, RDF Media
*4-6, Theatre on the Floor
Happy Hour Cocktail Competitions, Blind Wine Tastings, Art of the Drink, Network Executive Mixology
*4:15-5, Islander B
Cable 360 with Jeff Wachtel, USA, Michael Wright, TBS, Tony DiSanto, MTV, Kevin Beggs, Lionsgate
4:30-5, Digital Theatre
Leveraging GMX (Global Media Exchange)
4:45-5:30, Islander I
Nonfiction Budgeting with Donna Michelle Anderson, Planet DMA
5:15-6, Digital Theatre
NY Video Start-Ups Awards
6-8, South Seas Ballroom F
*Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Awards – Jeff Gaspin, NBCU, Irwin Gotlieb, GroupM, David E Kelley & Judge Judy
10-12, House of Blues
Party with El Bambino
Tuesday, January 26
9-9:45, Digital Theatre
Manage Social Media Flow with Jumpwire Media
9-9:30, Islander B
Legacy Talk Back with Judge Judy
9-6, Show Floor
9:35-10:05, Islander B
Legacy Talk Back with David E Kelley
10:10-10:40, Islander B
Legacy Talk Back with Irwin Gotlieb, GroupM
10:45-11:15, Islander B
Legacy Talk Back with Jeff Gaspin, NBCU
11-11:45, Tradewinds C
Syndication with Vivi Zigler, NBCU, Albert Cheng, Disney ABC..
11-11:30, Digital Theatre
Cool Ads with Alex Bogusky and Sarah Szalavitz
11:30-12:30, Islander I
Keynote with Esther Lee, Brand Marketing & Advertising, ATT
11:45-12:30, Digital Theatre
IAWTV with Tubefilter, ICM, Digitas
*11:45-12:45, Islander B
Watch What Happens at NATPE 2010 with Donald Trump, Celebrity Apprentice, Jillian Michaels, Biggest Loser, Andy Cohen, Bravo..
12-4, Theatre on the Floor
Celebrity Chef Competitions
12:15-1, Tradewinds C
Daisy Whitney interviews Ross Levinsohn, Fuse Capital
*12:45-1:30, Islander I
Addressable, Interactive, Platform-Proof Content with Drew Buckley, Electus, Keith Hindle, Fremantle, David Verklin, Canoe, John Ross, IPG
*1-1:30, Digital Theatre
From Disney to fm78.tv with Peter Murrieta
*1:15-2:15, Islander B
Reality Blockbuster with Jonathan Murray, Bunim/Murray, Lisa Berger, E!, 51 Minds, World Race, Atlas Media
1:15-2:45, Islander D
Mentor Round Robin (Scripted) – Neal Baer, Law & Order SVU, Kim Moses & Ian Sander, Ghost Whisperer, Ted Miller, CAA
1:30-2:15, Tradewinds C
Cross-Media Planning with comScore, Havas, MPG
*1:45-2:30, Digital Theatre
Anatomy of a Hit Web Series: Illeana Douglas, Justine Bateman, Brent Friedman, Electric Farm…
*2-2:45, Islander I
Branded Content with Jordan Levin, Generate, Howard Owens, Reveille, Russ Axelrod, Microsoft…
*2:45-3:30, Digital Theatre
NexGen Showrunner: Jonathan Prince
2:45-3:45, Islander B
Sizzle Reel Secrets with RDF, LMNO…
2:45-4, Tradewinds C
Tribal Leadership with USC
3:15-4, Islander I
Private Equity with Michael Kassan, PwC, Michael Lang, Fox, Ed Wilson, Tribune…
*4-5, Islander B
Cable Superstars with Nancy Dubic, AETN/History, Dave Howe, Syfy/NBCU. Marc Juris, truTV, Ryan O’Hara, TVGuide.com
*4-5:30, Islander D
Mentor Round Robin (Brands) – Michael Herst, EA, Chad Stubbs, Pepsi, Niko Chauls, Bing, Steve Amato, Omelet
4-6, Theatre on the Floor
Happy Hour Cocktails
4:15-5, Tradewinds C
Relevant Ratings in a Distributed Content Ecosystem w Tubefilter, blip.tv, Digitas…
5-6, Digital Theatre
SXSW Transmedia Storytelling
*6-7:30, Show Floor
Digital Luminary Awards Reception honoring Felicia Day, The Guild, Marc Whitten, Xbox LIVE, Frank Biancuzzo, Hearst, Geoff Stedman, Omneon
Wednesday, January 27
*8-8:45, Islander I
Coffee with Roma Khanna, NBCU
*9-10, Islander B
Keynote with Elisabeth Murdoch, Shine
*9:15-10, Digital Theatre
Games with John Roberts, Lucasfilm, Jesse Rednis, USA, Kris Soumas, AETN, Bill Kispert, Universal Pictures Partnerships
9-6, Show Floor
10-10:30, Islander I
Keynote with Andy Duncan, UK Channel 4
*10:30-11:15, Islander B
International Co-Production with John Morayniss, E1, Tandem, Reveille, Fox
10:30-11:15, Digital Theatre
Online Video Ad Inventory with Tim Street, Brett Wilson, TubeMogul…
11:15-11:45, Islander I
Biometrics with NBCU – Telemundo
*11:30-12:15, Digital Theatre
Alex Albrecht, Diggnation interviews Gary Vaynerchuk, Crush It
11:45-12:30, Islander B
Latin Content with beTV, Fox, MarVista…
12-4, Theatre on the Floor
Celebrity Kitchen
*12:30-1:15, Digital Theatre
Packaging for the Pitch with George Ruiz, ICM, Omid AShtari, CAA, Jason Nadler, UTA, Brandon Martinez, Abrams Artists, David Tochterman, Innovative Artists, Barrett Garese, Spytap
12:30-1:15, Islander I
Latino Programming Trends with Warner Artist Management, Fox…
*1-1:45, Islander B
International Format with Philip Gurin, Karrie Wolfe, RDF..
*1:30-2:15, Islander I
Slashing Your Sizzle Reel Budget with DMA..
1:30-2:15, Digital Theatre
3D with Steve Schklair, 3ality
*2-3, Islander B
Making Money with FT, Oglivy, Nokia, NBCU, CAA
3:30-5, Islander D
Mentor Round Robin ($$$) with Greycroft, matrixx, MESA
Yes, it’s finally here!!! Nokia 5800 v40.0.005 with Kinetic Scrolling!!! Wow! Finally Nokia heard the petitions of Nokia 5800 users to include kinetic scrolling in their latest firmware update.
It’s true that Nokia 5800 XM, although the flagship unit for the series of touch screen phones, was always left behind when compared to the features inherent to newer phones like the 5530… but not anymore!
Personally, I was thinking of upgrading my phone to N97 Mini but after upgrading, now I’m not so sure whether it’s worth it since FW v40 already included neat features. Here is an unofficial changelog courtesy of ww w.tube5800.com (with annonations by me):
Changelog for Firmware V40.0.005:
Kinetic Scrolling (except: main menu, application menu, browser)
- the most awaited feature; definitely an a**-kicker!
New Home-Screen (like 5530)
- only when you set your home screen theme to Contacts Bar, otherwise you’ll get the same old standby screen
Auto rotation on text input
- very convenient feature, too! I had been hoping this would be implemented. This is what made me think twice of upgrading to N97 mini. This feature automatically switched to full qwerty keyboard when you tilt your phone in horizontal mode and switches back to alphanumeric keypad when in vertical position. In v40, however, you anymore cannot force 5800 to switch to full qwerty keyboard since it was removed from the selection. But who needs it now that the phone does it for you.
Fixes minor bugs
- it was not elaborated in the web site. I guess, we’ll have to see this for ourselves.
Performance improvements
- haven’t noticed any difference, really… Maybe I need to reformat or something… or NOT
New screen alarm, but only when the screen is locked
- cool feature, I hope they will implement this even when the screen is unlocked. v40 just added new animated buttons for snooze and stop. Unfortunately during trials, the buttons won’t respond and I had to tilt my phone face down to snooze it. A sure hope they will fix this one.
New screen incoming call, only when the screen is locked
- UI similar to the screen alarm.
NOT HACKABLE!!
- just when thing are getting better, this major disadvantage comes through
- this will be something that may make some 5800 users think twice about upgrading to v40. I personally tried HelloOx2 and it doesn’t work anymore but I’m sure our genius hackers can definitely find a way to hack this one although we might have to wait for a while… So as of now, you have to decide Kinetic Scrolling or Hacked Phone…
- but fear not because all of the software (signed or unsigned) that you have installed prior to upgrading will still be functional unless of course you performed a phone reset.
Other changes/improvements:
Ovi Contacts installed
Removed Download! (Ovi Store still available)
Replaced “Update Application” with “SW Update” as on the Nokia N97
The application “Data transfer” was also implemented in “Settings”
Real Player Updated to 12 October 2009
Touch more responsive
Improved stability
Slide to Unlock during call
If you want screenshots and videos, just click here for the direct link to www.tube5800.com post.
All credits go to the one who posted this information on www.tube5800.com.
Many researches of mew products nowadays are focused on the ecological factor, seeking sustainability! Whether creating an eco-friendly house, a car, a fuel. This time, nay, once more the object of research was the mobile.
Last year, KDDI, a telecommunications company, and Sharp unveiled the prototype of a mobile phone that can be loaded with sunlight.
This time, the Chinese designer Zheng Daizi released a prototype for the Finnish company Nokia, of a mobile phone powered by soft drinks.
In fact, any sugary liquid can serve as a source of energy for this phone. Energy generated from carbohydrates (currently sugar) and utilizes enzymes as the catalyst.
“Through out my research, I found that phone battery as a power source, it is expensive, consuming valuable resources on manufacturing, presenting a disposal problem and harmful to the environment”, says Zheng. She also states that this “bio battery has the potential to operate three to four times longer on a single charge than conventional lithium batteries and it could be fully biodegradable”.
Via.
