New 'iPhone killer' 4G mobile phone is unveiled in the U.S.

25th March 2010 - The first ever 4G mobile phone billed as a major rival for the iPhone and Google Nexus One has been unveiled at a trade show in the U.S.

The HTC Evo 4G features a 4.3-inch LCD screen, 30 per cent bigger than the iPhone, an eight megapixel camera with flash and up to 33 gigabytes of memory.

One of the new phones features means it can act as an internet 'hub' for up to eight devices at the same time.

Rival: The HTC Evo 4G, produced by Sprint Nextel, is the first 4G phone and is expected to be strong competition for the iPhone and Google Nexus

No release date has been set, but the phone is expected to hit the U.S. market over the summer.

It has been designed by Sprint Nextel, the same company behind the Google Nexus One, and is its first 4G phone but the firm has not given it a guide price.

The Evo 4G uses Android 2.1 software and features a 1GHz Snapdragon processor. It supports 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and also contains a front-facing 1.3 mega pixel video camera capable of HD video recording.

The download speed of a 4G phone is far superior to the current leading models.

It is unlikely to be sold in the UK in its current form, but could be released in Europe after further testing is carried out on download speeds and system performance.

The news comes as rival Apple announced it will include iPhones with bigger and brighter screens for services like mobile video.

Ultra fast: The Evo 4G features an 8 mega pixel camera, 4.3-inch LCD screen and the capability to link eight devices simultaneously to the internet

Jeff Bradley, senior vice president overseeing devices at the company, said: 'We'll have those kind of devices with those kinds of capabilities in the portfolio.

'There's a definite trend towards big, vivid displays.'

On Tuesday, Samsung Electronics also launched its new phone called Galaxy S which also features brighter display technology.

The announcements, which took place at the CTIA trade show in Las Vegas, U.S., are likely to increase the intense competition for touch-screen mobile phone technology.

AT&T, which exclusively provides the iPhone in the U.S., said some customers would also be able to watch TV shows on their phones by streaming them from their digital video recorders at home. - http://www.dailymail.co.uk

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Competition: The Evo 4G will increase the fierce competition in the mobile phone market already dominated by Apple's iPhone, left, and Google's Nexus One

New paper battery may change the energy landscape

Ordinary paper could one day be used as ultra-lightweight, bendable batteries, according to scientists from Stanford University.

Simply coating a sheet of paper with ink made of silver and carbon nanomaterials makes an efficient storage device that is 10 times as powerful as lithium-ion batteries used to power laptops.

The light-weight battery is created by painting nanotube ink onto paper

Paper is a porous material that helps carbon nanotubes and silver nanowire films stick to it, much like ink does.

After it is coated and heated heated the paper becomes super-conductive and works as a battery even if the material is crumpled.

'Taking advantage of the mature paper technology, low cost, light and high-performance energy-storage are realized by using conductive paper as current collectors and electrodes,' the scientists said in research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

This type of battery could be especially useful for applications like electric or hybrid cars, which depend on the quick transfer of electricity.

Battery weight and life have been an obstacle to commercial viability of electric-powered cars and trucks.

'Society really needs a low-cost, high-performance energy storage device, such as batteries and simple supercapacitors,' Stanford assistant professor Yi Cui said.

'Our paper supercapacitors can be used for all kinds of applications that require instant high power.

'Since our paper batteries and supercapacitors can be very low cost, they are also good for grid-connected energy storage.'

Peidong Yang, professor of chemistry at the University of California-Berkeley, said the technology could be commercialized within a short time.- www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech

Nikon's new camera: point, shoot... and project?

by Bobbie Johnson, technology correspondent
Wednesday 5 August 2009

Cameras in your phones; phones in your iPods; iPods with Wi-Fi; Wi-Fi in your cameras. This, ladies and gentlemen, is called convergence.

Sticking the features of one gizmo inside another seems to be the continuing trend in modern life, as we veer speedily towards a world where we all tote around one single, enormous gadget that handles all our entertainment, communication and probably even teleportation. Except, it seems, that even this is not enough convergence for the Japanese camera giant Nikon.

To whit: the Nikon Coolpix S1000pj, which boasts among its coterie of assets a 12 megapixel sensor for still images, the ability to capture standard def video, and a built-in projector.

Yes; instead of showing your granny those family photos on a tiny LCD screen, you will be able to throw your snaps onto a nearby wall using the patented pico-projector. Handy, perhaps, but I can't but feel it's a step too far along convergence road. What's next? Washing machines with built-in iPod docks ?

- www.guardian.co.uk/technology

Free iPhone OS 3.0 Software Update

The free iPhone OS 3.0 Software Update includes some great new features, as well as all the features from previous updates. iPhone OS 3.0 also lets you run the next generation of iPhone apps, like peer-to-peer games¹ and more. If you’ve never updated before, now is the perfect time.

Download the 3.0 Software Update.

Available June 17.

Cut, Copy & Paste

Quickly and easily cut, copy, and paste text from application to application. Select entire blocks of web text with a tap. Copy and paste images from the web, too.

Landscape Keyboard
Want more room to type? Rotate iPhone to landscape to use a larger keyboard in Mail, Messages, Notes, and Safari.

MMS
Send MMS messages and include video, photos, audio, and contact info.² Even tap to snap a picture or shoot a video right inside Messages.

Spotlight Search
Find what you’re looking for across your iPhone, all from one place. Spotlight searches all of your contacts, email, calendars, and notes, as well as everything in your iPod.

Voice Memos
Capture a memo, a meeting, or any audio recording on the go. Voice Memos works with the built-in iPhone microphone or with the mic on your headset.

Improved Calendar
Create meetings via Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and subscribe to calendars with new CalDAV support.

Buy Movies, TV Shows, and Audiobooks
Download movies, TV shows, music videos, and audiobooks from the iTunes Store on your iPhone.3

PDA and Smart Phone: What is the difference ?

Many people may wonder, what indeed the difference between Personal Digital Asistant (PDA) with mobile phone or smart phone? Indeed, perhaps, the differences lie only in the history when they both appear. Later, the gadget complete itself with the ability to send e-mail, music, camera, video, GPS, to run the program office.

PDA phone started from creation of a gadget with the main function of the work as the assistant to keep notes and run office applications (office). Then, the PDA equipped its functions with telecommunications.

Smartphones are relatively simple rather PDA phone,” said Iqbal Willis, a gadgets observer.

Other difference lies in the performance. Appear since the beginning, with the presence of sticky PDA touch screen or touch screen. While the smartphone does not generally rely on touch screen but the existence of sticky Qwerty keyboard.

But now, good smartphone and PDA phone market shoot the same market. Both using the same weapons. For example: a camera, music, GPS and so on. Lalu, apa pertimbangan untuk memilihnya? Then what the consideration we need to select?

Here are some tips you need to know:
First, identify your needs first. Apakah kebutuhan untuk memiliki perangkat sepintar itu dan semahal itu memang cukup mendesak? Does your need to have a device that smart and expensive is urgent enough?

Some smartphone or PDA phone may offers the ability to play music or camera but if you do not need the office, it is better to buy a multimedia mobile phone.

Take a note at the operating system, either the Symbian, Linux or Windows Mobile. Then see the external memory. If internal memory is big enough you may not need the external. But if internal memory small in capacity, it’s good that you can select the phone with external memory.

Third, the ability of the data connection, be it GPRS, HSDPA or WiFi. Also check does it have channel connection, bluetooth, USB, or infrared. No less important feature of completeness, from the standard function for messaging, phone, e-mail, and especially for the office.

Fourth, body. Clear wide screen and plus body slim and lightweight is more curvaceous rather than absorbed.

Fifth, of course, Find the price which is commensurate with the feature, plus match with our budget.

Source: http://berita-hari-ini.onlinebisnisku.com

New Samsung B5702 Dual SIM Phone

Samsung has launched the B5702, its newest dual-SIM mobile phone, allowing users to manage multiple mobile accounts on one device. This quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900MHz) device also supports EDGE data connectivity. It is a dual sim, dual-standby mobile phone that allows users to operate two SIM cards in one mobile phone simultaneously.

This GSM Quad-band phone uses two LED lights two indicate which SIM is being used by an incoming call. The phone comes with an audio and video player, 3.0-megapixel camera and an FM radio with Radio Data System (RDS) function. The Samsung B5702 will be launched in several markets including Russia, in May 2009.
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Revolusi teknologi Windows Mobile 6.1

Oleh YEO LI SHIAN
ls.yeo@kosmo.com.my

Menerusi platform ini, pengguna mampu memperoleh lebih banyak maklumat terkini mengenai topik-topik tertentu hanya melalui telefon bimbit mereka.

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SEIRING dengan keperluan peribadi dan bagi memenuhi kesibukan kerja, anda kini tidak perlu lagi berada di depan komputer peribadi (PC) untuk menikmati kemudahan berkomputer.

Hanya berbekalkan sebuah telefon bimbit yang dilengkapi platform Windows Mobile, anda boleh melakukan beberapa perkara penting tanpa banyak masalah. Sama ada mengirim khidmat pesanan ringkas (SMS), e-mel atau sekadar melayari Internet, semuanya boleh dengan Windows Mobile 6.1.

Berdasarkan maklum balas pengguna, Windows Mobile 6.1 menawarkan beberapa ciri terkini termasuk membolehkan data-data penting dipersembahkan dalam cara paling pantas dan set up telefon yang lebih cepat.

WINDOWS Mobile 6.1 menawarkan lebih daripada sekadar sebuah platform.

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"Kebanyakan kita mengharapkan sebuah telefon bimbit tunggal yang cukup fleksibel untuk memenuhi keperluan mereka setiap hari, baik untuk aspek peribadi mahupun bagi tujuan kerja.

"Inovasi yang ditambah ke dalam perisian Windows Mobile ini membantu memudahkan pengguna dalam pengurusan kehidupan mereka," kata Presiden Bahagian Hiburan dan Peralatan Microsoft, Robbie Bach.

PENAMBAHBAIKAN pada fungsi kiriman SMS membolehkan pengguna membaca beberapa SMS dalam satu paparan.

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Seorang penganalisis dari Creative Strategies, Ben Bajarin pula menyifatkan keupayaan Internet Explorer Mobile dan Windows Mobile 6.1 sebagai satu inovasi yang memanfaatkan pengguna.

Jadi, apakah yang boleh dikecapi pengguna Windows Mobile 6.1 itu? Menerusi platform ini, pengguna mampu memperoleh lebih banyak maklumat terkini mengenai topik-topik tertentu hanya daripada telefon bimbit mereka. Mereka boleh sama ada memeriksa panggilan tidak berjawab, jadual temu janji akan datang, berkongsi gambar, memainkan muzik mahupun membaca mesej-mesej baru. Semua itu boleh dilakukan daripada home screen.

Antara ciri-ciri yang telah dikemas kini dan baru diperkenalkan dalam platform Windows Mobile 6.1 itu termasuklah dari aspek Getting Started Center, Personalization, khidmat menghantar mesej dan produktiviti.

PELANCARAN Windows Mobile 6.1 dalam telefon bimbit berlangsung di Plaza Low Yat, Kuala Lumpur baru-baru ini.

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Getting Started Center yang baru akan memberi panduan kepada pengguna tentang cara-cara melaksanakan tugasan-tugasan utama dalam tempoh 10 hari pertama telefon itu digunakan. Tugasan-tugasan yang dimaksudkan itu ialah menetapkan tarikh dan masa, e-mel peribadi dan kerja, kata laluan keselamatan, set kepada bluetooth, nada dering dan keupayaan memindahkan muzik dari komputer peribadi.

Salah satu perubahan terawal yang pengguna boleh lihat ketika menggunakan Windows Mobile 6.1 termasuklah muka home screen yang baru. Platform itu mempermudahkan kaedah perolehan maklumat pengguna.

Home screen dengan Panel Gelongsor plug-in menawarkan maklumat masa dan notifikasi (mel suara, panggilan tidak berjawab dan mesej-mesej teks) secara pantas, e-mel, temu janji, muzik serta pilihan Windows Live untuk Windows Mobile.

Tambahan pula, dengan sekali tekan pada butang menu Start, pengguna dapat melihat aturan semula yang kini memaparkan program dan aplikasi yang baru digunakan pada kedudukan teratas. Ini memudahkan akses yang lebih pantas.

Paparan aplikasi The Most Recently Used bagaimanapun boleh dimatikan daripada tetapan panel pada home screen.

Selain itu, penambahbaikan fungsi menghantar mesej pula membolehkan pengguna membaca beberapa khidmat pesanan ringkas (SMS) dalam satu paparan. Setiap SMS turut menunjukkan maklumat secara terperinci bagi memudahkan pengguna membalas segera baik menerusi teks, telefon mahupun e-mel.

Dalam aspek Messaging, pengguna kini berupaya memilih pelbagai e-mel atau khidmat pesanan ringkas (SMS) daripada paparan List dan melaksanakan pelbagai tindakan seperti memadam, memindah serta membuat tanda (baca atau belum dibaca). Dalam paparan Contacts pula pengguna dibenarkan memilih atau memilih semua untuk memadamkan pelbagai kenalan pada satu-satu masa.

Dari aspek produktiviti pula, platform Windows Mobile terbaru ini turut memiliki ciri Cut, Copy and Paste. Ciri-ciri ini boleh didapati sewaktu menulis e-mel dalam Microsoft Office Outlook Mobile, menghantar SMS mahupun menguruskan bahagian yang boleh diedit dalam Internet Explorer Mobile.

Aplikasi Task Manager yang ditambah dalam platform itu membantu pengguna menguruskan memori telefon bimbit dan jangka hayat bateri secara lebih berkesan. Pengguna dibenarkan mematikan dan menukar aplikasi dan program, selain mampu melihat prestasi data berkaitan penggunaan CPU dan memori secara am.

Ciri-ciri ini amat dinanti-nantikan kerana ia membantu mengurangkan kos sokongan operator telefon bimbit memandangkan gajet itu menjadi lebih mudah untuk mengalami troubleshoot.

Sumber: Kosmo.com.my

A gun, disguised as a mobile phone

An Italian Carabinieri paramilitary police officer shows a gun, disguised as a mobile phone, which was seized along with other weapons and drugs in a Camorra bunker in Torre Annunziata, near Naples, southern Italy, Monday, Nov. 24, 2008. According to investigators the gun disguised as mobile phone can fire up to four bullets. (FRANCO CASTANO/AP)

Apple iBangle‏ - an Apple mp3 player

Apple Design new concept design for an Apple mp3 player. It is called the iBangle and it is unique as well as ground breaking. Itʼs no screen and it has some other really cool features.

You see that blue inner band? Push a tiny button on the side and it fills with air, expanding to fit snugly around your wrist.

Apple iBangleʼs a multi-touch track pad for easy navigation, and the audio finds its way to your ears via a couple of wireless earbuds. Alas, thereʼs no screen, but designer Gopinath Prasana figures you can navigate just fine with an audio-oriented navigation system.

Ear buds with the annoying cords wonʼt be found here, as the audio is transmitted via wireless ear buds. Thereʼs a multi-touch track pad for easy navigation. It also has a few additional buttons for music control. Although the iBangle doesnʼt have a screen, designer Gopinath Prasana figures you can navigate just fine with itʼs audio-oriented navigation system.