iPhone 3G disappointment – Indian user’s perspective

Indian user’s perspective nice post………

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Samsung and Adidas team up to launch F110 fitness handset

F110 will be launched in UK next month. Now Adidas wont partner Samsung without a few fitness features such as heartbeat monitor and step counter. Other “Me Too” features include “Mp3/FM tuner”, “2 inch LCD TV”, ” 2 MP Camera”.

Strech it…bend it…Future Mobile phones from NOKIA

Nokia and the University of Cambridge are showing off a new stretchable and flexible mobile device of the future called Morph.

The new concept phone is part of an online display presented in conjunction with the “Design and the Elastic Mind” exhibition underway through May 12 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The device, which is made using nanotechnology, is intended to demonstrate how cell phones in the future could be stretched and bent into different shapes, allowing users to “morph” their devices into whatever shape they want. Think Stretch Armstrong for cell phones. Want to wear your cell phone as a bracelet? No problem, just bend it around your wrist.

Nokia says the concept device demonstrates handset features that nanotechnology might be capable of delivering, including flexible materials, transparent electronics, and self-cleaning surfaces.

“Nokia Research Center is looking at ways to reinvent the form and function of mobile devices,” Bob Iannucci, chief technology officer for Nokia, said in a statement. “The Morph concept shows what might be possible.”

Even though Morph is still in early development, Nokia believes that certain elements of the device could be used in high-end Nokia devices within the next seven years. And as the technology matures, nanotechnology could eventually be incorporated into Nokia’s entire line of products to help lower manufacturing costs.

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Mobile Search – counterpart of Desktop Search on Mobiles

Pace at which a lot of desktop applications are moving to mobile phones, soon it would be imperative to have a ’search application’ on mobile phones which can search your mobile they way search is carried in desktops.

A company called Nuance offered a free trial to attendees of the Mobile World Congress last week that allowed you simply start typing a query in using T9. It automatically searched your entire phone for that content, be it a contact, file, image, application, etc

 Windows Mobile lets you search for some content using T9 in a way similar to the new software from Nuance, called T9 Nav. But it’s not as thorough as T9 Nav is. Unfortunately, T9 Nav offered only a temporary beta trial, and won’t launch until later this year. On top of that, the software is limited to Symbian-based mobile phones.

It would be a lovely feature especially to people who have got high end feature packed mobile phones.

HTC unveils affordable P3470 smartphone in MWC

HTC has showcased P3470 smartphone at World Mobile congress in Barcelona, Spain.

• It is quad-band smartphone which comes with a trendy 2.8 inch QVGA LCD touch screen.
• The smartphone which will be available in some parts of Europe within a month will cost around Euro 440 -470.
• The company claims that the phone has a long battery life offering around 350 minutes of talk time and 10 days of standby time.
• The Smartphone will be powered by Windows 6 Mobile and offers better navigation with TomTom Navigator 6.
• HTC P3470 comes with a 256 MB Flash memory, 1GB microSD memory card and 2 MP camera. The phone supports Bluetooth 2.0 but doesn’t have Wi-Fi or 3G.
• The stylish and practical PDA phone weighs 122 gm with battery. HTC P3470 is powered by TI’s OMAP 850 201.5 MHz processor. The phone offers an easy navigation with 4-way Navigation wheel with an enter button in the middle. 
• HTC plans to boost the sales of the new P3470 by selling it through Orange Cellular services dealership network.

Now LG Viewty with DivX support

LG announces that new Viewty models will come with the ability to record videos at 120 frames per second and save in DivX format.This is a first for a mobile phone and will make your videos compatible with a wider range of media players. Current Viewty owners can get this upgraded feature via a software update which, unfortunately, is still undetermined as to its release date.

All the folks waiting to buy this beauty from LG hold on and the ones who already bought wait for the software update.

Nokia – THE Mobile Handset Monster

In 2007 global handset shipment were at a mind-boggling 1.15 billion handsets

In Q4 2007, the total shipment from the Finnish major increased to 133.5 million units, up 19.5 percent from 111.7 in Q3, giving NOKIA (I feel the name should be YES-KIYA, Kiya – ‘doing in Hindi’) a whopping 39.5% market share. The dominance of NOKIA can be gauged by the fact that NOKIA’s market share of 39.5% is close to the combined market share of 41.9% of the next 4 of Top 5 mobile handset players.

For the full 2007 year NOKIA sold 437 million units globally commanding a 38% market share, almost 3 times the closet competitor (SAMSUNG).

SAMSUNG

• Q4 sequential growth of 8.7% falling short of industry’s 15.4% growth rate
• Q4 market share down to 13.7% from 15.1% in Q3
• Q4 2007 shipments grew at 45.1% from 31.9 million in Q4 2006 (The highest among the top 5 players)
• For the year 2007, the total shipment 161.1 million units achieved market share of 14% from 11.9% percent in 2006. Kicked MOTO down to 3rd place from 2nd

MOTOROLA

Hello MOTO!!! Seems number of people saying Hello! Helllooo!! on Motorola phones are shrinking coninuously. Highlights of Q4 for MOTO :

• Q4 shipment at 40.9 million, up 9.9% from 37.2 million in Q3
• Q4 market share at 12.1 %, down from 12.7 % in Q3 2007 and 22.6% in Q4 2006
• For the entire year 2007 the total shipment at 159 million giving it a market share of 13.8%. It is down by a whopping 8% from 22% in 2006

SONY ERICSSON

• Q4 shipment at 30.8 million, up18.9% from 25.9 million in Q3. The onle player in the top 5 list apart from NOKIA registering a growth rate better than the industry rate.