Archive for March, 2010
March 26, 2010
Motorola
Motorola i1 (Opus One) supports network iDEN (Integrated Digital Enhanced Networks) and running the operating system Android 1.5 to the set top interface MOTOBLUR. The smartphone is equipped with a 3.1-inch touch screen resolution of 320×480 pixels (hVGA), 3-megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash, an accelerometer modules Wi-Fi (802.11b / g) and Bluetooth, 256 MB RAM and 512 MB flash memory slot for microSD memory cards and 2.5-millimeter audio jack. Smartphone supports A-GPS and has on board a number of applications, including email-client navigation application MOTONAV, barcode reader and document viewer. Motorola i1 appear in the summer in the U.S. operator Sprint, but about the rest of the world still do not know.
March 22, 2010
Blackberry
Site Toronto GSM News today published the alleged photos of the new versions of the BlackBerry OS – 6.0.
They can see the actual home page and some widgets. It is not clear whether the new version sharpened by devays that RIM is preparing a competitor to the iPhone and Android, a BlackBerry will remain faithful to his style, retaining the mass of QWERTY-keyboard and in the future.
BlackBerry OS 6.0 should be presented at the Symposium companies to develop inbred technologies, WES 2010 (Wireless Enterprise Symposium).
March 18, 2010
Palm
In the third quarter of 2010 an American company Palm shipped to stores from 960 thousand units, and sell them managed just 408 thousand and 550 thousand are still lying in the warehouses. Not much help to the fact that smartphones Pre and Pixi sell the largest U.S. operators: Sprint and Verizon.
The main problem of these smartphones in general quite good, is the inability to compete with market leaders – iPhone and Android. Despite the fact that Palm has increased revenue by nearly $ 350 million, the company continues to incur losses for 11 consecutive quarters. At the end of last week, the company’s shares have fallen again – as much as 27% to $ 4.
In the research firm Canaccord Adams believes that the leadership of Palm will not fundamentally change the situation. Palm is rapidly losing support mobile operators and manufacturers, reduced financial assets: According to Canaccord, would last no more than a year. The very Canaccord, as well as another company, Morgan, advised to sell shares Palm and predict the fall of their value to zero.
March 14, 2010
HTC
On Tuesday, the U.S. operator Sprint introduced the phone EVO 4G production HTC. Previously, he was known under the working title Supersonic. The phone will work in a CDMA-network Sprint, supports WiMAX, and the diagonal of its screen is 4.3 inches, which is 30% more screen iPhone.
Other characteristics of the new items:
OS Android 2.1 c Sense UI;
Snapdragon processor at 1 GHz;
512 MB RAM;
1 GB of internal memory;
multi-touch screen resolution of 800 × 480;
8-megapixel camera with flash, video recording;
More 1.3-megapixel front camera for video chat;
Wi-Fi 802.11b / g;
HDMI-out;
leg to keep it standing upright;
Card slot microSD;
Battery 1500 mAh
Comparing these characteristics with Google Nexus One and Motorola Droid, easy to see that at the moment is the most powerful smartphone on the Android.
In most Sprint appreciates EVO 4G chances of success. “This is without a doubt will be a cult phone” – said the spokesman, David Owens (David Owens).
The price and exact date of start of sales will be announced later.
March 10, 2010
Nokia
Nokia on Friday last week announced the acquisition of the Chicago company Novarra, a developer of mobile browsers. The company provides solutions such masters like Palm, Motorola, Samsung, Verizon, Sprint, as well as herself Nokia.
The main product is a browser Novarra Vision Mobile, running on Java and BREW. Its main feature – the ability to work on conventional phones, not just smartphones. In particular, Sprint Vision Mobile preinstalled on the cheapest model sold phones. Nokia also uses Novarra solutions in their models based on Symbian S40.
Novarra is also engaged in back-end solutions, widgets, advertising and analytics. The company employs about 100 employees. The amount and other details of the transaction were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to be finalized in the second half of the year.
March 6, 2010
HTC
Director-General of HTC Peter Chou (Peter Chou) said in an interview with Forbes, that his company is planning for a year to release at least one device running Windows Phone 7.
As you can see, no success Android (in particular the Nexus One) can not make the HTC refuse to work with Microsoft. What is surprising, given the long-established relationships between the Taiwanese company and Microsoft.
March 2, 2010
Samsung
Samsung will soon supply smartphone Anycall I6500U Saturn through the operator China Unicom. Price will be converted into rubles 15 000, grants the operator is not provided.
Characteristics:
processor at 800 MHz;
3.2-inch AMOLED-display resolution of 480 × 320;
3G;
3.2-megapixel camera;
slot for microSDHC;
GPS;
Bluetooth 2.1;
WAPI, the Chinese equivalent of the Wi-Fi;
FM-radio;
colors: black and white.
Most likely, outside of China I6500U sold will not be. For other markets, Samsung will offer Galaxy S with similar and partly even better performance.
