October 22 2009

Nokia wants to gain a foothold in the U.S.

Manufacturer opens new lab in Berkeley
Nokia N97 Mini

Although the number of Nokia phones has decimated this country in recent years, something that remains the Finnish manufacturer’s best selling mobile phone brand in the world. Only in the United States can not establish Nokia as desired. According to a report in the Financial Times Germany (FTD), the market share there for seven percent. By investing in research, the Group wanted to counteract this trend.
New research facility

According to Nokia’s manager, John Shen, the U.S. market, Nokia’s are the worst. A new laboratory in Berkeley, however, was part of a comeback strategy. A second research facility in the vicinity of Silicon Valley, we would also want to be close to top universities and young, trendy tech companies.

Nokia wants to be part of the scene

For Nokia, it was important to “real presence in this community and become part of the scene,” said Mary McDowell, Nokia board member and head of development division, compared to the FTD. The Finns had lost its market leadership in the U.S., among other things, as if to deliver a few years no new camera phones, although they were in the U.S. in the trend. In the meantime, however, would work with the network operators and also to develop mobile phones according to their specifications.

October 17 2009

Smart phones and game consoles

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.

October 15 2009

iPhone 3GS: New hardware prevents jailbreak

Apple closes security gaps through new Boot ROM
Apple iPhone 3G and Samsung’s S8000 Jet

Apple equips its new iPhone 3GS now with a modified hardware that will make impossible to find a jailbreak. The supposedly last remaining vulnerability, the hacker has used it to turn off the SIM-lock or enable the uploading of other software, should be closed with a new boot ROM is now final
Modified devices are already on the market

According to Internet reports, Apple provides the 3GS models with the new boot ROM iBoot “-359.3.2″ for about a week to its customers. As recently as September, the hackers of the iPhone Dev Team, the new version 3.1 operating system iPhone OS had cracked. Now they let it be known that, under the new hardware for an indefinite period with a jailbreak of 3GS were foreseen iPhone.

October 15 2009

Mobile TV: Mobile TV in Finland started

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.

October 13 2009

Adobe brings Photoshop on the iPhone

FREE Smartphone version of the image editing software
Adobe Photoshop for iPhone
The software maker Adobe brings Photoshop image-editing tool on the iPhone. The Free App Mobile is so far available only in the U.S. and Canada. The program user can edit images, add effects and share with other users.
Available Features

Thus, users can crop images on the iPhone, among other things, rotate and rotate and adjust the brightness and color values. In addition, various filters and effects are available. When imaging is based on Adobe’s gesture control via the multi-touch. Some steps can be reversed with Undo function.

Two gigabytes of storage space
After editing, the photos can be uploaded either on the Smartphone or on Photoshop.com. There stands the user a free account with two gigabytes of storage space available, which represents about 1,500 photos. This charge can be extended to up to 250 gigabytes.

October 12 2009

T-Mobile Sidekick in the U.S. will lose data

Data disaster takes hundreds of thousands of users
Sidekick LX and Slide

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.

October 11 2009

Palm Pre unpacked in Unboxing: The first smartphone webOS

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.

October 10 2009

Tchibo Mobil will give away five and SIM cards

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

October 09 2009

Apple Releases iPhone OS 3.1.2

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.

October 08 2009

France plans to launch cell phone ban in schools

Whether, and if so, how dangerous mobile phone radiation effects on health of mobile phone users, is still controversial. The French government, however, seems to be a great danger in the electromagnetic radiation and would like to see at least the next generation to increase the protection of radiation. It envisages a single cell phone ban for kindergarten, primary and secondary school levels.
Protection against cell phone radiation

The ban will be officially enshrined in the Environmental Protection Act. The young mobile phone users should be protected not only from cell phone radiation, but also from mobile advertising. These providers will continue to give messages directed at children under the age of 14.

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