Nokia N8 Preview

We were almost starting to suspect mobile phones of giving up and playing soft. They seemed unstoppable you know. They went from 5 to 12 in no time and there was nothing to suggest that digicams will ever get a timeout for a much needed breather. Surprised or not, the game is back on and Nokia are pulling the big guns out. The N8 is the new wannabe king of camera phones. Fat numbers on the specs sheet and all that shining armor, the new Nseries flagship is hitting hard and playing tough.

The Nokia N8 has two massive tasks on its hands: beat digicams at their own game and bring Symbian back to its past glory. The hardest thing perhaps is to tell which one is harder. But if anyone should be trusted to perform a seemingly impossible stunt, (still) market leaders Nokia are a safer bet than many.

Nokia N8 Features:

• General: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, UMTS 850/900/1700/1900/2100 MHz, HSDPA
10.2 Mbps, HSUPA 2 Mbps

• Form factor: Touchscreen bar

• Dimensions: 113.5 x 59.1 x 12.9 mm, 86 cc; 135 g

• Display: 3.5-inch 16M-color nHD (360 x 640 pixels) AMOLED capacitive touchscreen

• Memory: 16GB storage memory, hot-swappable microSD card slot (up to 32GB)

• OS: Symbian^3

•CPU: ARM 11 680 MHz processor, 3D Graphics HW accelerator; 256 MB RAM

• Camera: 12 megapixel large-sensor (1/1.83”) autofocus camera with xenon flash, geo-tagging, face and smile detection and built-in ND filter; 720p video recording@25fps

• Connectivity: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth v3.0 with A2DP, microUSB port with
USB host support, 3.5mm audio jack, GPS receiver with A-GPS, HDMI port

• Misc: Accelerometer, DivX/XviD video support, Stereo FM radio with RDS, FM transmitter, 720p TV-out, Flash support in the web browser, anodized aluminum unibody, proximity sensor, scratch-resistant display

• Battery: 1200 mAh Li-Ion battery.

As you see the hardware is all there there’re not too many devices out there that can match the Nokia N8. Some will understandably frown at what looks like unimpressive CPU clock speed and scarce RAM. Just remember that it’s the performance to be judged here and not the sheer numbers.

Different platforms have different needs so we’ll only know if Symbian^3 can do without a 1GHz Snapdragon after we’ve seen the N8 in proper action.

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Facebook Support High Resolution Picture Sharing

Many of us try to avoid sharing photos on Facebook, because reason can not save the image quality. In addition, depressing images also have a limited resolution. It seems that the changes in its path.

the world's largest online network has announced that for networking high-resolution images. According to reports, the improved image quality compared to eight times and is now supported. Transition from the image with a maximum 720 pixels to 2048 pixels.

IFacebookn In addition, to view the photos be any different than now. This dark frame around the image for better viewing. Experts believe that Facebook is not trying to take the photo-sharing site Flickr and Yahoo with new changes.

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Samsung to Launch Windows Phone 7 Smartphones this Year

Samsung, recently launched Android smartphone operating system, Galaxy and S Galaxy Tab tablets, confirmed that the power of the number of Windows Mobile-Phone in July this year in many countries in North America, Europe and Asia plans.

Samsung does not provide much information about its future Windows Mobile 7 phone company, but said that "long-term liabilities, including Windows Mobile 7 smartphone portfolio." Samsung new Windows Mobile 7 smartphone is an important role in strengthening the management of Samsung smartphone market, "WP Wong, executive vice president and head of product strategy of Samsung, said in a statement, according to PC Magazine

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Look out Apple TV, Google TV has apps

It’s been almost five months since we introduced Google TV to the world at Google I/O, and today we’re happy to give you an update on our progress. For those who haven’t yet heard of it, Google TV is a new way to think about TV: it’s a platform that combines your current TV programming and the open web into a single, seamless entertainment experience.

* Turner Broadcasting has been hard at work optimizing some of their most popular websites for viewing on Google TV, including TBS, TNT, CNN, Cartoon Network and Adult Swim, available anytime through Google TV.
* NBC Universal has collaborated with Google TV to bring CNBC Real-Time, an application that allows you to track your favorite stocks and access news feeds while enjoying the best financial news from CNBC directly on the TV screen.
* HBO will bring access to hundreds of hours of programming to Google TV with HBO GO. Authenticated subscribers will soon be able to access all of their favorite HBO content on-demand in an enhanced website for Google TV.
* NBA has built NBA Game Time, an application that lets you follow game scores in real-time and catch up on the latest highlights from your favorite team in HD.

In addition, we’ve partnered with some of the leading premium content providers to bring thousands of movie and TV titles, on-demand, directly to your television. Amazon Video On Demand offers access to over 75,000 titles for rental or purchase, and Netflix will offer the ability to instantly watch unlimited movies and TV shows, anytime, streaming directly to the TV.

We have also been working with some leading technology and media companies to optimize their content for Google TV, including news sites like The New York Times and USA Today; music sites like VEVO, Pandora and Napster; information networks like Twitter; and online networks like blip.tv. And with YouTube Leanback, we can offer the best experience for you to watch your favorite viral videos and personalized channels on the television.

Google has another plan in mind for their television counterpart, and it apparently includes launching their kickin’ new product with apps in effect. Check it out, along with Google’s TV site, http://www.google.com/tv/

via : Googleblog

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Eye candy: HTC Legend in Phantom Black and Brilliant White

The HTC Legend, the most gorgeous phone around, now comes in black.

It was previously only available in silver, but this "phantom black" shade keeps the aluminum materials for an even more stunning look. Can you tell I'm excited? I really am. Sadly it's only available across Europe, joining the white HTC Desire which appeared a few weeks back. Both will be on sale in October.

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Evan Williams, The New Twitter CEO

One of the social networking site Twitter will soon have a new president of the company, this after founder Evan Williams Twitter promoted to CEO.

Announcements submitted via the blog Twitter, William revealed that requested by the Chief Operating Officer (COO) Twitter Dick Costolo to get into the company as CEO. William will remain at the company and will focus solely on areas of product strategy.

"The challenge from a company that grew so fast is very severe. Growing up was not a success. Success for us means finding our potential as a profitable company that continues to attract users. This is not an easy task. I periodically look in the mirror on the kind of focus that it takes people on Twitter, "wrote Williams, as reported by Mashable, Tuesday (05/10/2010).

"One example is the newly launched a new Twitter. I'm almost satisfied when pushing the direction of a product. To build something that is one of my hobbies, and I have never been this much fun and optimistic earlier in building something. As this was I decided to ask our COO, Dick Costolo, to become CEO of Twitter. Starting today, I totally would focus on product strategy, "he added.

Evan Williams previously was not too fond of the position of CEO at a company. In order to restore the excitement in the field of product strategy, so he decided to become CEO and handed the reins of leadership to Dick Costolo. Costolo previously was the founder and CEO of Feedburner, which received support from Google.

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Windows Phone 7 Launch Scheduled for Oct. 11

Microsoft will officially unveil Windows Mobile 7 in the high-profile events in New York on Oct. 11. Microsoft hopes Windows Mobile 7, the user of Android and to win iPhone.

Microsoft launches Windows Mobile 7 in the high-profile events in New York on Oct. 11. One of the confirmed media Invitation sent AT & T obligations as a leading carrier for the upcoming smartphone platform, a separate Microsoft site suggests that it is representative of the T-Mobile also be present.

Opening event will begin with a press conference this morning hosted Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Ralph de la Vega, president and CEO of AT & T Mobility and Consumer Markets. After that, Microsoft will host "device window" with AT & T smartphones with Windows Mobile 7

Toward evening, Microsoft is "Open House" event, where many of its future products, such as Xbox and Windows Mobile 7 Kinect display host.

During the day, invite the media only mentions AT & T, a page on its corporate web Microsoft, lists of sites as an agenda item: "T-Mobile reps now shows its part and its services you will." T-Mobile reportedly preparing smartphone on Windows Mobile HTC HD7 7 for the U.S. version.

Microsoft previously confirmed that Windows Mobile 7 will be a GSM-based mobile networks such as AT & T first, before going on CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) carriers, including Verizon is available in the first half of 2011. In the 11-meter events in October will AT & T executives are likely timing of the actual device, although earlier reports suggested early November the frame.

"In the development of Windows Mobile 7, we put high quality customer experience, above all," a Microsoft representative wrote in a Sept. 17 letter to eWEEK. "In line with this objective, Microsoft has to provide the GSM version of the first attention in the world, and then a large versions of CDMA in the first half of 2011."

In September, Microsoft released the final version of its Windows Mobile Developer Tools, which it hopes to force the developers of applications for the platform design. Twitter, Netflix, OpenTabe, Flixster and Travelocity are some of the highest profile companies have plans, applications available for Windows Mobile 7 on its release.

Microsoft will spend nearly half a billion dollars in the marketing of Windows Mobile 7 after the initial deployment of the German Bank analyst Jonathan Goldberg. "It does make or break for them. You must do everything to take to stay in the game," he told the blog TechCrunch on August 26. "You do not have to share with Android and Apple take as long as they can to attract enough consumers to switch to the phone.

Nevertheless, in fierce competition with Google Android devices and iPhone Apple as a whole, which is Microsoft's smartphone market share has driven in the past few quarters is charged, though the company a franchise used to be a convenient part of the market, thanks primarily a business decision, an increase of the other platforms, see the corresponding dip in user Microsoft.

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