By Editor on November 18, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Mobilicity, Canadian wireless service provider, has announced a new phone on its network- the Motorola Spice.
Exclusive to Mobilicity, the new Motorola handset powered by Android will be priced at $199.99 – a great value to consumers looking for an Android-based smartphone without a contract.
According to Motorola, Spice delivers an excellent smartphone experience with its sliding QWERTY keyboard and large multi-touch screen, which can be customized through seven home screen panels with easy access to Google Search, Google Maps with Google Latitude, Gmail and Android Market.
Users can easily view and manage content from a single application – keeping track of call histories, messages, calendar events, photos and videos, all of which can then be mapped onto a timeline on the home screen. Plus, the device has a unique rear-touch Backtrack panel that makes it possible to navigate and scroll through web sites without obstructing the screen.
The handset will soon be available at Mobilicity stores across Canada.
By Editor on November 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Verizon Wireless, the nation’s largest and most reliable wireless voice and 3G data network, and Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile), the number one mobile phone provider in the United States, today announced the upcoming availability of the Samsung ContinuumTM, a Galaxy STM smartphone. The Continuum is the world’s first smartphone designed with a dedicated ticker display, which provides users with up-to-the-minute news, sports, finance and social networking updates for maximized multitasking.
The Continuum features two separate but integrated displays: a 3.4-inch touch screen Super AMOLEDTM main display and a customizable 1.8-inch Super AMOLED dedicated ticker display that streams customized information in real time. Additionally, the Continuum is powered by AndroidTM 2.1, with support for Google Mobile Services, including GmailTM, YouTubeTM, Android MarketTM and more. The Continuum also includes a 1GHz Hummingbird Application Processor, 5-megapixel camera, and multiple entertainments and social networking features and is available in Mirror Black Color.
Key features and specifications:
- 3.4-inch Super AMOLED Main Touch Screen Display – Main display provides user-customizable homescreens and widgets in a brilliant screen display
- 1.8-inch Interactive Super AMOLED Ticker Display – Dedicated ticker display enables zero-click access to news, social networking, sports and entertainment feeds; users can select what content they want on the ticker by selecting from menu on display
- Grip Sensor – By touching the bottom sides of the device, the ticker display lights up to give users real-time weather, social networking services (SNS), message, IM and e-mail notification updates
- Super AMOLED Screen Technology – Brilliant screen makes watching movies, viewing videos and playing games come to life like never before, even in bright light and outdoor environments
- Android 2.1 platform – With support for Google Mobile Services, including Gmail, YouTube, Google Talk and Android Market
- Preloaded with Bing Maps and Bing Search
- Full HTML Web browsing capabilities
- 3G Mobile HotSpot capabilities – Allows customers to transform their phone into a wireless modem for up to five compatible Wi-Fi-enabled devices
- Advanced touchscreen gestures capabilities, including multi-touch pinch to zoom, double tap to zoom and horizontal swiping, which provides easier and quicker access to many applications, including location-based services, Web browsing and digital photos or videos
- Multiple file formats supported, including DivX and Xvid support
- Samsung 1GHz Cortex A8 Hummingbird Application Processor – Produces amazing graphics, faster upload and download times, and HD-like multimedia content
- Six-axis sensor that works with the smartphone’s accelerometer to provide a smooth, fluid gaming experience when the user is tilting the device up or down or panning the phone to the left or right
- Virtual QWERTY Keyboard Featuring Swype Technology – Input text faster and in a more intuitive way with one continuous finger motion across the screen keyboard
- Full suite of messaging options – Text, picture, video and voice messaging; corporate and personal e-mail accounts supported
- 5.0-megapixel camera/camcorder – Auto-focus and LED flash with HD video recording and playback capabilities to capture photos and videos for playback on your HD television; playback (720p) on the screen display
- Wi-Fi Connectivity (802.11 b/g/n)
- Stereo Bluetooth® Technology – Support for headset, hands-free, stereo, phonebook access, and object push for vCard and vCalendar
- Corporate Email – Supports Android ‰clair Exchange ActiveSync e-mail to synchronize corporate e-mail, contacts and calendars from office e-mail accounts
- Music player features lock screen, ticker display and quick side panel controls and 3.5-millimeter headphone jack
- 8 GB microSDTM card preinstalled expandable up to 32 GB
Lifestyle features:
- V CAST Music with Rhapsody®, V CAST Video on Demand, V CAST Song ID, Visual Voice Mail, V CAST Tones, VZ Navigator®, Mobile IM, City ID, Bing Search and Maps, and Blockbuster Application
- Dedicated ticker displays up-to-the minute news, weather and SNS updates, as well as music player controls and incoming e-mail, IM, and text messages without interrupting the activity on the main display
- Samsung’s Social Hub – Built around messaging, contacts and calendar sync, which allows users to send and receive information, whether it is e-mail, social network updates or SMS messages
- Integrated Calendar information from portal calendars, on Exchange, Google CalendarTM and SNS, including Facebook®
- Integrated Contacts syncs with Exchange, Google, Twitter and Facebook – Facebook contacts display in four categories, including Info, History (previous calls and messages), Activities (status updates and notifications on social networking sites), and Media (Facebook profile photos and photo gallery)
- AllShareTM – Enables inter-device connectivity through Digital Living Network Alliance® (DLNA®), so users can send multimedia content wirelessly to other DLNA Certified®-enabled devices such as TVs and laptops
- Daily Briefing – Instant access to weather, news, stocks and schedules
- Write and Go – Quickly jot down an idea and later decide on a format, such as SMS/ MMS, e-mail, calendar or memo, to send or post to popular SNS sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace
- Smart Alarm – Natural alarm sound and display automatically illuminates
- Weather Clock – Displays current time and weather of the selected city (ability to add and select other cities)
Pricing and availability:
- The Samsung Continuum will be available for order starting Nov. 11 in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online at www.verizonwireless.com for $199.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement and data package. Customers will receive the rebate in the form of a debit card; upon receipt, customers may use the card as cash anywhere debit cards are accepted. The device will be available for purchase in stores beginning Nov. 18.
- For additional information on Verizon Wireless products and services, visit a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call 1-800-2 JOIN IN or go to www.verizonwireless.com.
About Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless operates the nation’s most reliable and largest wireless voice and 3G data network, serving more than 93 million customers. Headquartered in Basking Ridge, N.J., with more than 79,000 employees nationwide, Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE, NASDAQ: VZ) and Vodafone (LSE, NASDAQ: VOD). For more information, visit www.verizonwireless.com. To preview and request broadcast-quality video footage and high-resolution stills of Verizon Wireless operations, log on to the Verizon Wireless Multimedia Library at www.verizonwireless.com/multimedia.
About Samsung Telecommunications America
Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC, a Dallas-based subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., researches, develops and markets wireless handsets and telecommunications products throughout North America. For more information, please visit www.samsungwireless.com.
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Tagged with A GALAX, AMOLED, Android Market, e-mail notification updates, Gmail, Google Talk, IM, Message, Mobile, MOBILE PHONE TICKER DISPLAY, SAMSUNG CONTINUUMâ„¢, Samsung Mobile, SNS, United States, Verizon Wireless, Wi-Fi, YouTube
By Editor on November 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Google is going to block Facebook and other Web services from accessing its users’ information, highlighting an intensifying rivalry between the two Internet giants.
Google has always allowed its users to transfer data, including their contacts to other websites. Up til now, new Facebook users could find out whether their contacts on Gmail also had Facebook accounts, simply by typing in their Gmail user name and password as part of the Facebook sign-up process.
But Google will no longer let other services automatically import its users’ email contact data for their own purposes, unless the information flow both ways. It blamed Facebook in particular of tapping Google contact data, without allowing for the automatic import and export of Facebook users’ information.
Facebook has more than 500 million users and it relies mostly on email services such as Google’s Gmail to help new users find friends already on the network. When a person signs up to it they are asked to import their Gmail contact list into the social network service. Facebook then tells the user which email contacts are also on the social network.
As per the statement by Google, websites such as Facebook leave users in a data dead-end.
On this act, analysts supposed that the move underscored the battle between Google, the world’s largest search engine, and Facebook, the dominant Internet social network.
As per Gartner analyst Ray Valdes, the fundamental power dynamic on the Web today is this emerging conflict between Facebook and Google. Google needs to evolve to become a big player in the social Web and it hasn’t been able to do that. If people do search within Facebook, if they do email within Facebook, if they do instant messaging within Facebook, all of these will chip away at Google’s properties.
According to Google, while it makes it easy for other Web services to automatically import a user’s contact data, Facebook was not reciprocating. The company has decided to change their approach slightly to reflect the fact that users often aren’t aware that once they have imported their contacts into sites like Facebook, they are effectively trapped. Google will no longer allow websites to automate the import of users’ Google Contacts (via API) unless they allow similar export to other sites.
According to Google spokesman, the company had begun enforcing the new rules gradually.
Google also stressed that users will still be able to manually download their contacts to their computers in “n open, machine-readable format which can then be imported into any Web service.
According to Google’s Chief Executive Officer, Eric Schmidt previous statements, company would add social layers to many of its existing Web products in the coming months, following its less-than-stellar track record of developing stand-alone social networking products like Orkut and the recently shuttered Wave service.
As per Gartner’s Valdes, access to the explosion of new types of data generated by Web services, such as location-based services, would provide further flashpoints between Google and Facebook. It’s one skirmish among many to come.
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Tagged with API, Chief Executive Officer, Eric Schmidt, Facebook, Gartner analyst, Gmail, Google, Internet giants, Mobile, Orkut, Ray Valdes, Web services
By Editor on October 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Verizon Wireless is planning to market Motorola Citrus On its network. Both the companies have collaborated to release the handset. The phone is made-up to be pocket-friendly and is expected to hit the shelves in Q4 this year through Verizon Wireless communications stores and online website.
The smartphone delivers an easy-to-use on-screen QWERTY keyboard which can be utilized in landscape and portrait modes for effortless typing. The phones is an Eco-Friendly phone as it is built up of PVC and BFR free components, which offers 80% of post-consumer recycled paper packaging. It is a full HTML browser featuring Bing search and Bing maps proffers users a PC-like Web browsing experience. Social butterflies can conveniently stay connected with loved ones using its quick access to Web pages and services like Facebook, Gmail, Google Talk and YouTube.
The handset also includes Motorola’s trademark Backtrack navigation. Fitted with a full capacitive touchscreen display, users can flick, swipe and pinch-to-zoom for complete navigation. The device has Android 2.1 OS and offers access to a host of down loadable apps. Besides, owners can customize shortcuts, applications and pre-loaded widgets like sticky notes, weather, messages and calendar with its seven home screen panels.
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Tagged with Android 2.1 OS, Backtrack navigation, BFR, Eco-Friendly, Facebook, Gmail, Google Talk, Messages, Mobile, Motorola Citrus, Pocket Friendly, PVC, QWERTY keyboard, sticky notes, Verizon Wireless, weather, YouTube
By Editor on October 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Sony Ericsson has finally launched the Android-based XPERIA X8 and the GreenHeart Cedar. The XPERIA X8 is launched with Android v1.6 Donut, but will be upgraded with v2.1 Eclair before the end of the year.
Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 features 3-inch touchscreen display. The device runs on Android mobile OS. It features 3.2 megapixel camera, 1200 mAh battery and WiFi, games, video, internet and more . The device internal memory is 128MB expandable upto 16 GB. The phone additionally features NeoReader barcode scanning app, USB mass storage, Google services, Android Market Client, Gmail, Google Talk, and YouTube. There is no official announcement on prices but the phone is expected to cost around US$256.37.
The other handset launched by the company is the Sony Ericsson Cedar, which is a low budget phone and offers 3G capability. The company has used recycled plastic in Cedar, and has a low power consumption charger, no hard copy of manual, waterborne paint, and small packaging.
The phone features a 2MP camera, VGA video recording, Music player & FM radio. The device has a Bluetooth and also holds 3.5 mm jack for audio. The phone has 2.2 TFT screen with 262K colors and comes with Applications for Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace.
Cedar comes with a micro USB charger, and is available in two colors, black/silver and black/red. Company has not provided any details about the price yet, but is expected to be around US$104.75
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Tagged with 1200 mAh battery and WiFi, 2MP camera, 3-inch touchscreen display, 3.2 megapixel camera, 3.5 mm jack, 3G, Android Market Client, Android v1.6 Donut, audio, Cedar, Facebook, FM Radio, games, Gmail, Google Talk, internet, Mobile, music player, MySpace, Sony Ericsson, twitter, v2.1 Eclair, VGA video recording, Video, XPERIA X8, YouTube
By Editor on October 7, 2006 · Leave a Comment
Saturday, October 07, 2006: New Delhi: Gmail users in India can now access the service on their mobile devices. Google has launched the Gmail Mobile service which works with most Web-enabled mobile phones.
To access Gmail Mobile, users need to visit http://m.gmail.com through the Web browser on their mobile phone and sign in to their Gmail account as they would on the Web. Gmail Mobile automatically optimises the interface based on the phone, given the fact that every mobile device is different.Users can also view attached photos and documents from their phone, and reply-by-call to people whose phone number is stored in their Gmail account. Gmail messages are automatically synchronised, regardless of whether Gmail is accessed from Gmail Mobile or the Web.
Gmail Mobile is currently available for free for mobile phone users in India. However, users need to check with their carriers on their data service plan to determine if there are additional charges for Web access.
Source- http://www.efytimes.com
Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 features 3-inch touchscreen display. The device runs on Android mobile OS. It features 3.2 megapixel camera, 1200 mAh battery and WiFi, games, video, internet and more . The device internal memory is 128MB expandable upto 16 GB. The phone additionally features NeoReader barcode scanning app, USB mass storage, Google services, Android Market Client, Gmail, Google Talk, and YouTube. There is no official announcement on prices but the phone is expected to cost around US$256.37.
The other handset launched by the company is the Sony Ericsson Cedar, which is a low budget phone and offers 3G capability. The company has used recycled plastic in Cedar, and has a low power consumption charger, no hard copy of manual, waterborne paint, and small packaging.