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The Most Convenient Way To Back Up Your Content
For 5 years, I have been using Nokia PC Suite to back up my contacts and calendar whenever I would need to format my device, update my firmware, or switch phones. The method ain’t bad since it’s fast, and you have a synchronization with your computer, but the main letdown is that contacts and bookmarks don’t get sync’ed. But for the last months, I have been using another method, that is much more convenient and complete. Before I delve more and explain to you this method, let me just clarify that I couldn’t care any less about having my contacts and calendar synchronized with my computer.
Why? I’m simply not big on PIM stuff.
So now, whenever I need to switch my SIM card to another device, or back up before a format or a software update, I use Phone…
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Step into the wonderful world of future mobile concept designs
Ever wonder what the mobile phones of the future will look like, what they will be capable of doing, will they be smaller, lighter, flashier, whatever they become no doubt they will play a big part in everyone’s lives much as they do right now. 2014 isn’t really that far away now so it is fairly nice to see designers specifically projecting a time when their design creation may just make reality and to the market, forward thinking at its best. Here is an example of one such designer, Peter Koren, a young engineer and designer from Hungary who has designed a Flash mobile phone. Koren’s Flash mobile phone looks sleek stylish and slim, it appears to be button-less with a touch-screen colour e-ink display. Other apparent features include wireless charging, menu navigation…
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E61i Thoughts - A Wish For Dual Screen Mode
One major feature I have been thoroughly enjoying on the E61i is the screen. This thing is HUGE and so gorgeous. I know it?fs only QVGA but to tell you the truth I will never understand the advantage of a VGA until I have one in my hand. For now, the E61i?fs screen is one aspect that I know I will deadly miss when I have to send this baby home. It?fs not that big compared to the N95 (2.8?? vs 2.6??) but it easily gives the impression that it is much much bigger. This is also partly due to the whole landscape UI design of the device. Right now, many handsets including the N95 and the N82 support landscape mode by default, but it?fs more of a landscape rendering of their default portrait mode. The E61i was originally built for landscape use and hence makes use of the…
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nVidia announces Tegra 650 mobile processor
nVidia is known more for their graphics processing prowess than as a mobile processor manufacturer. But, with nVidia's impressive mobile platform demonstration at Mobile World Congress, the GPU-giant took a giant leap in to the mobile space. nVidia showed off their nVidia Tegra Mobile Platform at Mobile World Congress 2008 Barcelona with the nVidia Tegra APX 2500 mobile chipset. With an ARM 11 core, integrated GeForce graphics accelerator that supports Open GL ES 2.0 and Direct3D Mobile, and the ability to both encode and decode HD media at 720p resolutions, the nVidia Tegra APX 2500 was a seriously spec'ed out hunk of silicon. So, to prove to the world that nVidia is serious about taking the mobile space by storm, the company has announced their newest mobile processor…
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CSR Combines Bluetooth, GPS and FM Radio on a Single Chip
Engineers have created a way to integrate Bluetooth wireless, eGPS and FM radio technologies on a single chip, reducing power consumption and improving voice quality for the growing in-car handsfree market. Developed by CSR, BlueCore7 integrates Bluetooth v2.1+EDR, Bluetooth low energy, eGPS (enhanced Global Positioning System), and FM transmit and receive technologies on a single chip. It reduces the power, size, cost and complexity of adding multiple radios into a mobile phone. Bluetooth is the most successful short-range wireless technology in use today, with attach rates in handsets expected to reach 55 to 60 percent in 2008. BlueCore7 offers Enhanced Bluetooth v2.1 + EDR radio to deliver better overall range and audio quality. It also includes AuriStream voice…
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SEGA's Sonic Mobile game passes 8mn downloads!
SEGA Mobile has announced that their Sonic the Hedgehog Mobile game has passed over 8mn downloads in North America and Europe, since launch in early 2006. The Sonic franchise has apparently now spread to 40 games over 19 video game platforms - of which Mobile is racking up some sales for! Remember back in the day, when Sonic appeared on the Megadrive for the first time? I bought the game, as did a lot of other people (!), and were amazed by the super-fast graphics and multitude of eye-mashing colours. How things have come on - the same game is now doing the rounds on a lot of Mobile devices! SEGA Mobile plans to build on the success of the Sonic brand with the introduction of three new titles this year, including Sonic at the Olympic Games, Sonic Spinball and Sonic the…
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Vollee’s Streaming Game Service Launches on Second Life
Linden Lab’s 3D virtual world, Second Life, can now be accessed with mobile devices. Vollee’s new 3G streaming service allows Residents to explore the entire virtual world from 3G or Wi-Fi enabled handsets. Currently, 40 devices can utilize Vollee’s technology. Support is soon planned for additional 3G and Wi-Fi enabled handsets, including the iPhone.
“Vollee offers the perfect Second Life mobile service that brings our virtual world to handsets in a way that is ideal for connecting our Residents,” said Christopher Mahoney, Business Development Manager, Linden Lab. “We look forward to the new and exciting ways people will be able to extend their Second Life experience through this new service.”
“We are very proud to debut the Vollee service with Second…
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E-Ten debuts trio of Glofiish at Computex
Cellphone maker E-Ten has debuted a trio of new Glofiish phones at the Taiwanese Computex expo. Leading these according to MobileBurn is the X900, a touchscreen device running the professional version of Windows Mobile 6.1. Although the device also has HSDPA broadband, its primary feature may be the style of touch control, which is said to resemble the TouchFLO interface used on HTC's Touch handsets. A difference is that the X900 uses 3D effects and large icons better suited to fingers. The X610 shares this interface in common, but adds a GPS module, in exchange for dropping HSDPA. Instead users must rely on a quad-band GSM/EDGE connection for data. The DX900 appears to be related to the X900, but concentrates on its dual-SIM support, which lets users keep two different…
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Marketing: Christie's Sends Art Auction Alerts
Art auctioneers Christie's is using SMS to inform customers about soon to be released auction items of interest-such as masterpieces by Picasso and Van Gogh-and pricing updates prior to and during auctions. Clients can track specific lots that they are interested in, and receive email or text alerts before those items come up for auction, so that they can bid Founded by James Christie in 1766, Christie's is the world's first fine art auctioneer with global auction sales in 2007 that totaled $6.3 billion. It has 85 offices in 43 countries and 14 salerooms around the world including London, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Geneva, Milan, Amsterdam, Tel Aviv, Dubai and Hong Kong. "By providing text alerts, we are giving our customers instant access to auction and price…
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Usher to become Sony Ericsson Spokesman...
What do you do if your new album is slated to only sell 400,000 copies its first week when your last one sold 1.1 million its first week? Oh, and you have to compete with a hoard of songs by American Idol finalists on the singles chart? You soak ‘em, drown ‘em in your music. You check out what nutcase Mariah Carey did to promote her sales, and you find a way to go crazier. At least if you’re Usher, that’s what you do. Billboard.com announced yesterday Usher has inked a deal with Sony Ericsson to became the spokesman for the company’s new Walkman music phone to be released later this year. Translation: Usher will Sony Ericsson’s puppet in exchange for publicity. AT&T customers will have “access to exclusive content, contests to meet Usher on a video shoot and the chance…
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