Nokia N900 – The mobile computer

Nokia N900 – Price, Features of Nokia mobile computer – Smart mobile phone

The new Nokia N900 is a slider smart phone or Internet Tablet or a a mobile computer (as Nokia says it).It has a large 3.5-inch WVGA touchscreen display screen, HSPA and WiFi, 32GB of storage (expandable to 48GB via a microSD card), a 5 megapixel Carl Zeiss autofocus camera with dual LED flash,Assisted GPS,fast ARM Cortex-A8 processor (also used in Palm Pre and iPhone 3GS).The Nokia N900 features a full Adobe Flash 9.4 support and runs on a Maemo Linux-based OS.

The Nokia N900 packs a powerful ARM Cortex-A8 processor, up to 1GB of application memory and OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics acceleration. The result is PC-like multitasking, allowing many applications to run simultaneously. Switching between applications is simple, as all running content is constantly available through the dashboard. The panoramic homescreen can be fully personalized with favorite shortcuts, widgets and applications.

To make web browsing more enjoyable, the Nokia N900 features a high-resolution WVGA touch screen and fast internet connectivity with 10/2 HSPA and WLAN. Thanks to the browser powered by Mozilla technology, websites look the way they would on any computer. Online videos and interactive applications are vivid with full Adobe Flash(TM) 9.4 support. Maemo software updates happen automatically over the internet.

Messaging on the N900 is easy and convenient thanks to the full physical slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Setting up email happens with only a few touches and the Nokia Messaging service mobilizes up to 10 personal email accounts. Text message or IM exchanges with friends are shown in one view and all conversations are organized as separate windows.

The Nokia N900 has 32GB of storage, which is expandable up to 48GB via a microSD card. For photography, the Maemo software and the N900 come with a new tag cloud user interface that will help users get the most out of the 5MP camera and Carl Zeiss optics.

The detailed specifications/Features of the new Nokia N900 smart mobile phone/mobile computer are:

• Network
  • GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
  • HSDPA 1700 / 2100 / 900
• Display
  • 3.5 inches TFT resistive touchscreen, 16M colors,800 x 480 pixels,
  • Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
  • Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
  • Full QWERTY keyboard
• Memory
  • Internal 32 GB storage, 256 MB RAM
  • Card slot microSD (TransFlash), up to 16GB
• Data
  • 3G HSDPA, 10Mbps; HSUPA, 2Mbps
  • WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, DLNA
  • GPS with A-GPS support , Nokia Ovi Maps
  • Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP
  • USB v2.0 microUSB
• Camera
  • Primary 5 megapixel, 2592×1944 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, Dual LED flash, video light
  • Features Geo-tagging
  • Video WVGA(848 x 480)@25fps
  • Secondary VGA
• Music
  • Stereo FM radio; FM transmitter
  • MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ music player
  • WMV/RealVideo/MP4/AVI/XviD video player
  • stereo speakers
  • 3.5 mm audio jack
• Other features/specs:
  • TV-out
  • Digital compass
  • OS Maemo 5
  • CPU ARM Cortex A8 600 MHz, PowerVR SGX graphics
  • Standard battery, Li-Ion 1320 mAh (BL-5J)

Nokia N900 Price

Nokia N900 Price in India: The new Nokia N900 mobile phone is available in India at price of Rs.25,000 (As of July 19, 2010).

Courtesy: Newtechnology.co.in

Sony Ericsson New Mobile Phone ( Xperia X2 officially announced )

Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 officially announced

Sony Ericsson today officially introduced the long-awaited communicator Xperia X2, running Windows Mobile. X2 is the successor of the line Xperia, the first smartphone from which went on sale late last year. Like its predecessor, Xperia X1, X2 will use interactive panels for work, entertainment, Internet surfing, travel and much more. Results are pre-14 panels and 16 more are available for download. The main differences Xperia X2 from X1: X2 is running the operating system Windows Mobile 6.5 (in X1 was used by version 6.1) Display X2 has a diagonal of 3.2 inch (diagonal display in the X1 was 3 inches) Permission integrated camera X2 – 8-megapixel (in X1 – 3.2-megapixel) X2 has a built-in accelerometer and TV-out (in X1 these opportunities did not exist) In X2 loud stereo speakers built-in 2 (in X1 speaker was only one) The new user interface, 3D-panel, GPS-navigator. The device will come with operating system Windows Mobile 6.5. I recommend to continue to see 2 videos + live photos.

Main specifications Sony Ericsson Xperia X2:

• Touch-sensitive TFT-LCD 3.2″ with a resolution of 480×800 pixels
• 8.1-megapixel camera with auto and manual focus, 16-fold magnification, image stabilizer and flash
• QWERTY-keyboard
• A-GPS – WiFi
• Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP
• USB 2.0
• TV-out
• 3D-Games
• Built-in 110 MB of physical memory
• Support memory cards format microSD (up to 16 GB)
• Dimensions 110 x 54 x 16 mm
• Weight: 115 grams

The device will be available in 2 colors – black or silver. Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 will go on sale this autumn.

Wrold's 8 Most Expensive Mobile Phones

What started as two-way radios or mobile rigs in taxicabs, police cruisers and ambulances in the US, has today become an intrinsic part of out lives. Recognizable mobile phones with direct dialing have existed at least since the 1950s. Since then mobile phones have traversed miles to cross the 3G (3rd generation) milestone.

Mobiles, today, are just not essential but have become an important status symbol. Feeling the public pulse, and correctly sensing that there is a niche market for obscenely priced mobiles, manufacturers are developing handsets that cost many thousand dollars.

To know more about the world’s most expensive mobile phones, read on.

1. Goldvish Le million:

Price: $1,000,000
This is the most expensive mobile phone in the world according the Guiness Books of Records.

The phone features a blinding 120 carats worth of VVS-1 grade diamonds. If $1 million is too much for you, the Geneva-based Goldvish also offer several other diamond-encrusted 18k gold models in a choice of rose, yellow, or white, starting at a more reasonable $25,600.

2. Vertu Signature Cobra:

Price: $310,000
Vertu is now taking orders for the Signature Cobra, designed by French jeweller Boucheron, but you better be quick as only eight are being made. The Cobra will feature one pear-cut diamond, one round white diamond, two emerald eyes and 439 rubies.

Vertu will also be offering a ‘cheaper’ version, ruby free, at $115,000.

3. Sony Ericsson Black Diamond:

Price: $300,000
The mobile has Quad-band with Wi-Fi, an Intel 400Mhz processor and a touch sensitive 2? screen. This Sony Ericsson Mobile has 128mb memory and comes with a 2Gb SD card for external storage and a 4 megapixel camera.

4. Vertu Diamond:

Price: $88,000
The Diamond is Vertu’s premium range of high-end mobile phones. As the name suggests, the handsets features diamonds encrusted in a platinum base. Only 200 of the handsets are being produced.

5. Motorola V220 Special Edition:

Price: $51,800
Austrian designer Peter Aloisson has taken a standard Motorola, studded it with 1,200 diamonds and added a keyboard inlaid with 18 carat gold. The outcome is simply spectacular.

6. Gold Edition Nokia 8800 Phone:

Price: $2,700
If you have $2,700 to spare, you can now buy the Nokia 8800 in 24K gold. The mobile phone includes a 0.5 mega pixel SVGA camera, 64 MB of internal memory, 64 voice polyphonic rigntones, FM Radio, Mp3 Player, video recording and 180 minutes’ talk time.

The Gold Edition includes a special edition box and charging dock!

7. Mobiado Professional EM (wood):

Price: $1,900
The Mobiado Professional EM, is a wood-clad upgrade of an earlier Nokia-based phone that includes a 1.3 megapixel camera, music player, FM radio, Bluetooth. According to Mobiado, it’s the first production phone with titanium buttons. Only 200 are being made and each one has its number engraved on the back.

8. Bang & Olufsen (Samsung) Serene:

Price: $1,250
Bang & Olufsen hooked up with Samsung to design the sleek but unconventional Serene. The phone has a built-in motor to assist you in opening and closing the phone.

It’s not very practical, however, as it requires a special screwdriver to access the battery and the SIM card. Its circular keypad will take some getting used to.

Also, for some strange reason the maker has positioned the camera lens on one side of the device, which will make it difficult to align snapshots via the viewfinder on the display.

Wrold’s 8 Most Expensive Mobile Phones

What started as two-way radios or mobile rigs in taxicabs, police cruisers and ambulances in the US, has today become an intrinsic part of out lives. Recognizable mobile phones with direct dialing have existed at least since the 1950s. Since then mobile phones have traversed miles to cross the 3G (3rd generation) milestone.

Mobiles, today, are just not essential but have become an important status symbol. Feeling the public pulse, and correctly sensing that there is a niche market for obscenely priced mobiles, manufacturers are developing handsets that cost many thousand dollars.

To know more about the world’s most expensive mobile phones, read on.

1. Goldvish Le million:

Price: $1,000,000
This is the most expensive mobile phone in the world according the Guiness Books of Records.

The phone features a blinding 120 carats worth of VVS-1 grade diamonds. If $1 million is too much for you, the Geneva-based Goldvish also offer several other diamond-encrusted 18k gold models in a choice of rose, yellow, or white, starting at a more reasonable $25,600.

2. Vertu Signature Cobra:

Price: $310,000
Vertu is now taking orders for the Signature Cobra, designed by French jeweller Boucheron, but you better be quick as only eight are being made. The Cobra will feature one pear-cut diamond, one round white diamond, two emerald eyes and 439 rubies.

Vertu will also be offering a ‘cheaper’ version, ruby free, at $115,000.

3. Sony Ericsson Black Diamond:

Price: $300,000
The mobile has Quad-band with Wi-Fi, an Intel 400Mhz processor and a touch sensitive 2? screen. This Sony Ericsson Mobile has 128mb memory and comes with a 2Gb SD card for external storage and a 4 megapixel camera.

4. Vertu Diamond:

Price: $88,000
The Diamond is Vertu’s premium range of high-end mobile phones. As the name suggests, the handsets features diamonds encrusted in a platinum base. Only 200 of the handsets are being produced.

5. Motorola V220 Special Edition:

Price: $51,800
Austrian designer Peter Aloisson has taken a standard Motorola, studded it with 1,200 diamonds and added a keyboard inlaid with 18 carat gold. The outcome is simply spectacular.

6. Gold Edition Nokia 8800 Phone:

Price: $2,700
If you have $2,700 to spare, you can now buy the Nokia 8800 in 24K gold. The mobile phone includes a 0.5 mega pixel SVGA camera, 64 MB of internal memory, 64 voice polyphonic rigntones, FM Radio, Mp3 Player, video recording and 180 minutes’ talk time.

The Gold Edition includes a special edition box and charging dock!

7. Mobiado Professional EM (wood):

Price: $1,900
The Mobiado Professional EM, is a wood-clad upgrade of an earlier Nokia-based phone that includes a 1.3 megapixel camera, music player, FM radio, Bluetooth. According to Mobiado, it’s the first production phone with titanium buttons. Only 200 are being made and each one has its number engraved on the back.

8. Bang & Olufsen (Samsung) Serene:

Price: $1,250
Bang & Olufsen hooked up with Samsung to design the sleek but unconventional Serene. The phone has a built-in motor to assist you in opening and closing the phone.

It’s not very practical, however, as it requires a special screwdriver to access the battery and the SIM card. Its circular keypad will take some getting used to.

Also, for some strange reason the maker has positioned the camera lens on one side of the device, which will make it difficult to align snapshots via the viewfinder on the display.

HTC Google Nexus One Review

Nexus One is one of those phones that will be grabbing headlines and will be compared with the best mobile phones available in the market for the rest of 2010. Recent launches of smartphones from every manufacturer has had some sort of hypes and when the name Google is involved, it must be over-hyped. Yes, Nexus One is the latest flagship device engineered and sold by Google which was being rumored as the Google Phone for quite a few days. Let’s take a closer look at the phone and decide if it was worth the hype or not.

Design

All of the previous competitors of the iPhone has tried to be handsome if not anything else. ThisNexus One is not an exception by any means. The phone has an ultra thin sleek 11 mm body with curved edges that can make any gadgetophilic lusting of the device. From the design elements, you are sure to feel the classy HTC flavor and you will not also miss the Google part for its simple but effective design elements. The size of the device falls just between the iPhone and the Palm Pre with its 119 mm X 59.8 mm face. The weight is also minimal 130g for a device of its capability. The device doesn’t feel a very lightweight cheap device nor like a brick one and is just about the same weight as theiPhone weighing 135g.

Touchscreen Display

The display of the device is simply superb and most probably the best I’ve ever seen in a mobile device. The 3.7 inches AMOLED capacitive touchscreen can show 480 X 800 pixels and has other features like Multi-touch input method, accelerometer sensor and proximity sensor which does their job as usual. The pictures look vivid with very good color saturation and brightness. The texts also look crisp enough and can be read comfortably under sunlight. The display resolution is good enough for you to view the webpages even in zoomed out condition and read at least the headlines on the pages which is not possible iniPhone’s display.

Keyboard

Like the Motorola Droid, it has four hardware ‘buttons’ : Back, Menu, Home and Search. The buttons are nothing but just four touch sensitive spots on the display. But unlike the Motorola Droid, nexus one has no hardware keyboard. There is only a virtual keyboard but it functions very well and we have no complain against it. We specifically like the auto complete suggestions of the Android device. TheiPhone suggests the best suitable word as you type the letters of it but nexus one and all other Android Devices show several guesses as you type it. This is very useful as you may often need a plural or an adverb of the same word which can not be suggested by the single word suggestion of the AppleiPhone OS. Overall, I feel that the virtual keyboard function is better in any Android device and in case of Nexus One, it is better than anyone else.

TrackBall

Yes, there is a trackball like other HTC built devices but somehow it feels that there was no need for it. To my perception there is no need of an extra pointing tool for a responsive touchscreen device like this and there is also no need to point or select things from the OS perspective. The placement of the trackball is also a bit awkward and does not fit naturally in the ergonomics of the device.

Applications

It is not expected that the phone will have access to the prestigious Apple App Store for its awesome applications or to iTunes for music or video but you can rest assure that you will get the necessary applications to satisfy your everyday needs and you should also keep in mind that the number of applications being built for the Android devices are growing at a rapid rate. With the phones like thenexus one or Motorola droid, it can be expected that the trend for building apps will be fueled more than ever.

Speed

The phone comes with an awesome Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD 8250 processor clocking at 1GHz. For comparison, let’s just say that the ‘fast’ iPhone has a processor that runs at a 40% slower clock speed than this. Opening Apps and scrolling through the lists are speedy but somehow you may not feel the true speed of the device (with respect toiPhone) because the current apps don’t need more processing power than the one at the iPhone. But having a beast like this will make you prepared for the future processor hungry apps.

Service Provider

Here Google calls for a divorce from the cellular phone devices and the cellular service providers. According to the sources, the phone will be available for purchase as an unlocked model and the customers can then choose the service providers between T-mobile and AT&T. There is no Verizon like the Motorola Droid but at least you have two options to choose between.

But buying the phone solo may cost you a big buck and if you like some subsidy, you have to get a two year contract with the one of these providers.

Camera

The camera is a no nonsense 5MP Camera with Autofocus and LED Flash. There are some advanced features like Smile Detection and geo tagging. To tell more about the camera, let’s just say that you won’t regret about forgetting your digital camera at home when there is a moment worth a snap in front of you.

Connectivity

It will be a standard quad band GSM phone that can be used with any GSM carrier throughout the world. The tri band 3G Connectivity also ensures that it will support the 3G services provided by any provider throughout the world. There are other common connectivity options such as the GPRS, EDGE and Bluetooth, WiFi etc. It has the common 3.5 mm headphone jack so that you can connect your favorite headphone to the device.

Memory

Internally, the phone has a 512 MB RAM and 512 MB ROM. It supports micro SD Cards upto 32GB and it comes with a 4GB Card included in the sales package.

Battery Life

The phone comes with a large 1400 mAh Li Ion Battery which is expected to last at least one day. The battery capacity is certainly better than most of its competitors but its power hungry processor and the biggie display will juice out the battery quicker than those without them. However, in any case the battery should last for at least one day for even the most heavy users amongst us.

Conclusion

At the end of the day, Nexus One has nothing in it that can be called revolutionary. The phone is of course a very good phone and will do business as usual but where is the innovative Google that everyone was expecting. This is just a ‘Me-too’ smartphone and is hardly anything more than a conventional consumer products. This is definitely notthe phone that is going to turn the cell industry on its ear.

However, if you don’t like the iPhone for its limitations or don’t like the uncool quality of the BlackBerry Devices, this is a really nice alternative for your consideration.

Note : The Review is based on the observations of Joshua Topolsky at Engadget.com

For more photos of Google Nexus One, visit http://www.itechnews.net/2009/12/14/google-nexus-one-phone-revealed/ .