he word “wiki” is Hawaiian and means fast. Meanwhile, Wiki is meant as a technology for production of common articles. This trend picks up Sony Ericsson and mobile-wiki.de has launched a platform for collective knowledge about mobile phones, features and accessories. Together with the manufacturer starts now AreaMobile a raffle on the new mobile knowledge platform, in which three brand new music phone Sony Ericsson W705 raffled. Entering is quite simple.
Windows Mobile 6.5 is still brand new, but Samsung and HTC have their current top models already equipped with them. While the Omnia II in the test of AreaMobile could not completely convinced, thrilled the preproduction HD2 away in our HandsOn test from the spot. Whether in a detailed test remains to be seen, once the final firmware for the HTC device is available. Until then presented the two mega-AreaMobile smartphones in a photo comparison that shows the advantages and disadvantages of both devices.
Samsung Omnia vs. II. HTC HD2: The Windows smartphones in the photo comparison.
The technical equipment of the HTC HD2 is staggering. The huge, but ultra-thin housing with dimensions 121×67x11 mm offers capacitive touch screen with a gigantic 4.3-inch square. A Qualcom MSM-8250-gigahertz processor with a clock frequency provides the necessary power to help Windows Mobile 6.5 at breakneck speed. HSDPA 7.2 megabits per second, delivers fast download rates, with 2 megabits HD2 sends the data to the Internet. The camera has a resolution of 5 megapixels and is equipped with autofocus and a dual-LED flash equipped. The 3.5-mm connector for standard headphones have accepted the new device from the touch HD. Moreover, it is possible to touch-screen giant even connect a USB keyboard and use the device as a laptop replacement. HandsOn is In a test of the new smartphone AreaMobile-Boliden in detail.
After pulses may further Android device
Huawei G6600
With the G6600, the Chinese manufacturer, Huawei Technology, a new cell phone brings to the market in which it could again be an Android device. T-Mobile had been modified with a pulse a Huawei model with Android on the market. In contrast to the pulse of the G6600 is equipped with a QWERTY keyboard. About further details are still unknown. This probably involves a cell phone but for the lower price range.
GMS / GPRS and Bluetooth
Then at least lets the close connectivity, which in GMS / GPRS already exhausted. Bluetooth and MMS are also supported. The Bluetooth SIG, according to the G6600 in South America, Asia, Africa and Europe will be available. About the exact time of market launch, however, nothing is said.
A slogan of the Saturn chain, which promotes low prices in addition to an element of humor and a kind of modern pauperism, may have driven the manufacturer of the Elson EL580 to develop the device. For the question which technology fanatics among the mobile community is always asking the following: Why do the latest trends in the mobile industry must keep in mind is so incredibly expensive? The flagship contracts with touchscreens without costing more than $ 500. The cost-effective answer to the producers gave Elson without many words and lots of noise as we know it from various other equipment stores. In short, they “EL580 is” and it is available for around 149 euros.
Music production for mobile devices in vogue
Earphones
Technological progress has extended the application range of mobile devices. A recent CNN report states that this development in the U.S. has now resulted in new trend in the press, the owners of smart phones and portable game consoles such as Sony PSP or Nintendo DSi increasingly as a music producer. Even professional musicians are now even entire albums have completed in this way.
Playground for music-loving users
“What has concerned the production of music on mobile devices, lately there have been an absolute explosion on every conceivable platform,” notes Peter Kern, editor in chief at the U.S. portal Createdigitalmusic. In particular, Apple’s iPhone, for now a wide variety of music applications at reasonable prices were available, today was an interesting playground for creative, music-loving users. This could turn their cell phones today, not only in instruments like guitar, keyboard or drums, but also to use to download free professional samples of existing music and use it for their own remix compositions.
Offer may initially be used free of charge
The iPhone as a TV
In Finland, mobile customers can now all national public and private TV and radio stations also look at their mobile phone. For Reinschnuppern Digita is a sister company of the operator Media Broadcast, mobile phone users, the mobile TV service initially free of charge.
Encrypting the imminent Channel
If the Finnish mobile phone customers, however, discover a taste of mobile TV, they will soon have to pay for TV on the go. Because, after the introductory period, the program encrypts the market. The network is currently the capital Helsinki and the surrounding villages and urban areas to cover in Finland.
One of the biggest trends of recent months is undoubtedly “cloud computing”, and saving data over the Internet to external servers, which is to be a substitute for local storage on your own device. Hundreds of thousands of smartphone users in the U.S. now have the downside of this principle must meet: T-Mobile has all the centrally stored data from users of the smartphone series “Sidekick irretrievably lost.”
The principle of “Cloud”
In the “cloud computing” is primarily about being able to provide our customers all personal data such as address books, e-mails and documents at any time, date and without complex synchronization. It should make no difference to the user, whether it from a laptop, mobile phone or home PC from accessing the data. Everything is always up to date in the “cloud” store, a local storage on the terminals does not occur.
The Palm Pre comes a whole new mobile operating system on the German market. The smartphone runs with webOS, has developed the Palm from the ground up and optimized for use with finger gestures. It was not until the 13th October, you can try to buy in the stores from o2 and AreaMobile but now the device has already been unpacked. We have just experienced a great disappointment. For the Palm Pre looks cheap in reality and feels even cheaper. The full keyboard also makes a bad impression, because the keys are very small and consist of a soft rubber material. From a 480-euro smartphone, which has been inundated with early praise, we just expected more. Whether the operating system makes a better idea is to publish on the practice test, the AreaMobile in the next week. A good first impression of the device conveys our image gallery.
In addition, prices for mobile phones and surf the stick is reduced
Tchibo Mobil
The coffee roaster Tchibo and mobile discounter offers the occasion of his fifth birthday, both new and existing customers in five weeks, several birthday gifts. Sun wasted Tchibo between the 13th October and 16 November’s pre-paid SIM cards and comfort, each worth 9.99 euros. In addition, the purchase price of all mobile phones and Internet-Surf-sticks in the five-week period will be reduced by ten euros.
Tariff Details
Apple has released an update to its iPhone firmware. The new version is called 3.1.2 and is available for iPod Touch and iPhone, the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS available. It is large 240 to 300 megabytes and can be installed via iTunes on the phone.
The iPhone OS 3.1.2 some errors of a few weeks weeks released OS 3.1 fixes, among them the coma mode, in which the iPhone is no longer wakes up from standby mode. Also, some models had 3.1 connection problems with the mobile telephone network and some crashed when downloading Youtube videos. This software bug is fixed with the new Apple update.
