Cellphones / News

Philips Unveils Philips 9@9j

March 3, 2008

Philips recently unveiled its latest mobile phones from the Xenium family, Philips 9@9j, a handset that comes to bring a standard Li-Ion battery plus an extra slot where AAA batteries
can be introduced. The handset is made in collaboration with Techtium and Energizer, two companies that also worked with Philips in 2007 to bring the first ever mobile phone with support for AAA batteries: Philips Xenium NRG.

The new Philips 9@9j is a quad-band GSM device that works on the 850, 900, 1800 and 1900 MHz frequencies and provides GPRS and Bluetooth connectivity. Measuring 110 x 45 x 15 millimeters and weighing 98 grams, the phone comes in a candybar form and it looks stylish enough to attract everyone’s attention. It also has a TFT display with a 176 x 220 pixel resolution, video and music players, FM Radio, 1.3 Megapixels camera, 1 GB of internal memory and microSD card support.

Philips 9@9j’s Li-Ion battery provides a talk-time of 8 hours and a stand-by time of up to 720 hours, which means about a whole month. Moreover, when the standard battery is out of power, the AAA battery comes in (supposing that there is one in the special dedicated slot) to give the phone a plus of about 2 hours of talk-time and a stand-by time of up to one week.

Philips 9@9j should be available starting April 2008 for an unknown (yet) price.

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Cellphones / Samsung

Samsung Releases Samsung i550w

March 2, 2008

Samsung rolled out an improved version of its i550 handset, Samsung i550w. The new i550w offers Wi-Fi, tri-band GSM connectivity (900, 1800, and 1900 MHz) plus EDGE, UMTS and HSDPA, hence being one of the most evolved phones in terms of featured connectivity, comparable to Nokia’s N-series handsets.

Samsung i550w has a candybar form factor and measures 115 x 53 x 13.8 millimeters, weighs 109 grams, and packs a 2.6 inch QVGA TFT display with 262,000 colors. It runs on Symbian 9.2 with S60 3.1. and comes with built-in GPS receiver, pre-installed Google Maps, full HTML browser, RSS support, Music player (supports WMA, MP3, AAC ,AAC+, OGG and ASF), Video player (supports WMV, 3GP, H.263 and MPEG4), Flash player, FM Radio, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, Java MIDP 2.0, USB 2.0 and a standard 3.5 mm headphone jack which, for some odd reasons, is not found in too many Samsung phones. Furthermore, there are built-in handsfree, document viewer (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF), organizer,150 MB of built-in memory that can be expanded up to 4 GB with a microSD card, and a standard Li-Ion 1200 mAh battery.

Another cool feature of Samsung i550w is its 3.15 Megapixel camera with auto focus and flash that will allow users to take pictures at a pretty high quality. There’s also video recording capability, plus a secondary VGA video-call camera.

Samsung i550w is already on sale on some websites, unlocked, for $395 (about 260 Euro).

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Cellphones / News

Fly Mobile Unveils Fly MC100

February 26, 2008

Fly Mobile, a UK handset manufacturer, unveiled Fly MC100, a music phone that comes to offer a high-quality sound experience thanks to a special chip made by Yamaha, the famous Japanese musical instruments producer.

Fly MC100 comes with an easy to use Media Player, different profiles of dimensional sound and a 3,5 mm earphone adapter included in the delivery package. The phone’s Media Player supports a wide range of formats, including MP3, MIDI, WAV, AMR, AAC, IMY, MPEG4 and 3GP.
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News / Nokia

Google Integrate Soon with Nokia Search

February 17, 2008

Nokia and Google today announced that Google’s popular search engine will be integrated with the Nokia Search application. The integration will begin in select markets with the Nokia N96, Nokia N78, Nokia 6210 Navigator and Nokia 6220 classic. Google search will be extended to additional Nokia handset models in the future. Ultimately, Nokia will make Google search available to its customers in over 100 countries around the world, serving mobile owners speaking more than 40 languages.

Nokia Search, now with Google, offers fast and easy access to web information from the handset. In addition, Nokia Search also makes it possible for users to search content on their device and use local search engines for a complete search experience. Nokia Search is available on many devices and provides direct access with one click from the active standby screen, saving users time and steps in their searching. Once users have found the information they are seeking, Nokia Search enables users to act on that information by engaging device assets such as maps, messaging or the browser with just one click.

“Providing choices for our consumers is an important driver in Nokia’s Internet service strategy,” said Ilkka Raiskinen, vice-president, software and services at Nokia. “This integration allows our consumers the ability to use the innovative search technologies, which have made Google almost synonymous with Internet search.

“Adding Google to Nokia Search provides mobile users with fast, relevant and comprehensive search experience that will be familiar to the people who use Google to search the web from their desktop,” said Google’s VP of Engineering and Products for Mobile Vic Gundotra. “Google search combined with the high quality applications on Nokia devices help make information available to Nokia device users wherever they are and provide an excellent overall experience.”

The collaboration announced today builds on previous cooperation between Nokia and Google. Google search has previously been available on Nokia Internet tablets, and last year the Nokia N95 8GB became the first mobile device to fully support YouTube, the video-sharing platform owned by Google.

Source: Nokia Press Release

Ericsson / News

Ericsson and FIFA Sign Multimedia Solution Agreement

February 17, 2008

Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) and FIFA have signed a global agreement where FIFA will use Ericsson’s content management and service delivery platforms to enable its broadcaster and telecom content licensees to propose a mobile content offer based on FIFA events in 2009 and 2010.

FIFA, the world governing body of football, will use Ericsson’s platform to allow broadcasters and telecom operators worldwide to deliver compelling content offers based on different FIFA events. The offers range from basic information-based to advanced mobile TV and video solutions.

Ericsson’s platform and services are configured to meet the needs of telecom operators and media companies and other service providers acting in the marketplace.

Carl-Henric Svanberg, President and CEO of Ericsson, said, “We are very pleased to work with FIFA in enabling them to give football fans all over the world, the opportunity to watch their favorite game on their mobile phones. It shows our commitment to develop products and solutions that extend the attractiveness and availability of multimedia services both to operators and media companies.”

FIFA Secretary General Jérôme Valcke, said, “We are working hard to make our football content available to as many people as possible, on as many platforms as possible. We trust that Ericsson’s expertise and wide geographical reach will give our licensees a good opportunity to bring the excitement and action of various FIFA competitions to the mobile phones of fans all over the world.”

Source: Ericsson Press Release




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