Nokia sold less than 100,000 top-of-the-range N900 smartphones

Nokia sold less than 100,000 top-of-the-range N900 smartphones in its first five months on the market, researcher Gartner said, indicating it has yet to mount a serious challenge to the iPhone and Blackberry.The chunky computer-like handset  with slide-out keyboard and a touch screen   has found support among hard-core technology specialists but failed to attract a wider audience.

A spokesman for Nokia, the world’s top cellphone maker, declined to comment on the sales number, saying the company was pleased with sales, but an executive was more bullish.”Sales have substantially exceeded expectations,” Alberto Torres, head of Nokia’s solutions business, told the Open Mobile Summit trade conference in London this week.

Nokia has been unable to mount a serious challenge to Apple three years after the iPhone’s launch. Its last hit smartphone model, the N95, was unveiled in 2006.The sales of less than 100,000 N900s compares with sales of 8.75 million iPhones in January-March alone.

The N900, which went on sale last November, is Nokia’s first phone running the Linux Maemo operating system, which analysts see as a key for Nokia to regain ground in the coming years.

In February this year Nokia unveiled a plan to merge Maemo with Intel’s Moblin operating system.Nokia sold 50,000 N900s in the last quarter of 2009, and quarterly sales fell in January-March, Gartner statistics showed. Gartner does not track phone sales per model, but as the N900 is the only phone using Maemo, the statistics for operating systems show sales for the model.(Reuters)

Apple iPhone 4G

Apple iPhone was found on the floor of a San Jose bar, and that this could possibly be Apple’s iPhone 4G phone. This report was revealed by tech site Engadget, and it has many pictures of the alleged Apple iPhone 4G phone, which was found inside of an iPhone 3G case. This mystery device has black and chrome trims with the signature Apple lettering on the back.

This device has some of the familiar iPhone features, like a home button, a small rectangular ear piece, and it looks a little taller and thicker. The reports states that it has a forward facing camera, 80GB of storage, and was had a very different version of the iPhone OS.

Microsoft Corp launched a line of phones aimed at young people (Kin phones) on Monday

Microsoft Corp launched a line of phones aimed at young people on Monday, marking a fresh assault on the low end of the growing smartphone market, where it has been losing out to BlackBerry maker Research in Motion, Apple Inc and Google Inc.

The software company’s first foray into designing its own phones comes six months before it rolls out its new Windows software for phones made by handset makers HTC, Samsung and others, which should be a more direct challenge to Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android phones.

The new phones launched on Monday, called Kin One and Kin Two, are made by Japan’s Sharp Corp and will be sold by Verizon Wireless, a joint venture between Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group.(Reuters)

Google officially released a Google Maps version 4.0 to BlackBerry users

CALIFORNIA Google officially released a Google Maps version 4.0 to BlackBerry users. Obviously, there are some features added to improve the performance of digital mobile version of this map.One of them is the ability to search using voice. This application will allow users to search for the target area with just one call only. Similarly, quoted by GSM Arena, Monday (12/4/2010).Voice dialing application can only be enabled on RIM’s handsets, in contrast to the Android platform is already integrated. In addition, the features of Google Maps version 4.0 is supported by two languages ie English and Mandarin China.

Not only that, the map that can be enabled as the GPS, Google is adding social networking applications, Google’s Buzz. Through this feature, users can view the postings on the Geo-tagged Buzz and of course the user’s own postings.Who pulled again, Google Maps 4.0 also features Web History pinned synchronization. So that when the user wants, for example, says Punch Pizza, then simply by saying or typing in “Punch”. This feature was also sync with Google account user.Latest Features Google is pinned by the scale bar and the Terrain layer for travel enthusiasts, where they can locate a business address, maps reporting errors and errors in business list.

Nokia N900, The Computer Cell

Leading mobile phone maker from Finland, Nokia, again making a new breakthrough. In the near future they will release a new series, the Nokia N900. Once the sophistication of these products, so mention that this is a miniature version of a computer. No doubt the title as a mobile computer attached to this product. Features and advantages make it more suitable gadget called a portable computer than a phone.

Nokia N900 itself uses operating system Linux-based Maemo. Maemo technology allows the Nokia N900 has a high performance result N900 allows users to perform a variety of things like being on the computer desktop, including the opening of various applications, for instant messaging, calendar, contacts, etc. simultaneously and without the constraint means. This is because the Nokia N900 has been equipped with high-capable processor at the heart of the main.

Features superior owned by Nokia N900 more complete as many offline and online applications can be opened quickly, to maximize results, this application memory can be added up to 1GB. Games on mobile enthusiasts also will feel the sensation of playing for fun in the 3D graphics accelerator technology in the Nokia N900 is very pampering eyes.

To accommodate mobile users who frequent online wherever and whenever the Nokia N900 is a good choice. Classical problems such as long loading on any other smart phone hardly found on the Nokia N900. This sophisticated phone allows the fans on Facebook games like Mafia Wars, Mob Wars or the Texas Holdem Poker can play hard.

Users of the Nokia N900 also be at the same time to chat or browse in cyberspace without the constraints mean that the power of the processor allows the user to move windows easily. All open applications directly just by touching or sliding a view screen.

Not only that, the Nokia N900 also accommodate users who want audio visual entertainment as a whole. Users just choose a song or movie collection and favorite music video clips with easy access from one screen.

Afraid of getting lost on the road? No need to worry! Nokia N900 is equipped with technology A-GPS (Assisted-Global Positioning System) and Ovi Maps application that allows its users to find points of complex nan road in a city. Want to have all the sophistication of this product? Wait for the presence of the Nokia N900 which is also known as “mobile computer” was in Indonesia at the end of March 2010.

Nokia N8-00 with a camera 12 megapixel (MP) and the ability to record 720p HD video

Nokia reportedly will soon introduce its new mobile phone equipped with a camera 12 megapixel (MP) and the ability to record 720p HD video. The plan, the Finnish vendor will be introduced at the event Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2010 in Barcelona, Spain, 15-18 February 2010.Hardwarezone, Friday (12/2/2010) launch, phone N8, which is also often called N8-00 will be supported by the Symbian operating system and has a touch screen technology with a 3.5-inch screen size.

However, until now the appearance of N8-00 has not ‘leaked’ on the Internet, only rumors about the camera specs are rampant.Nokia’s Ovi store is also rumored to have set up a video on demand service that can be submitted by the user N8-00. The appearance of this phone is predicted to boost sales of Nokia phones soared. After experiencing the ups and downs in the year 2009.

In the second quarter of 2009, Gartner noted, Nokia still dominates mobile phone sales to 105.4 million units during the second quarter. But, the market Nokia eroded approximately 3 percent compared to the previous year.At that time, the smartphone market, Nokia has not wavered over the two rivals Apple and RIM. of the total sales of 40.9 million smart phones Nokia sold 18.4 million units.

Apple iPhone marketed 45 Million in 2010

Apple's iPhone.

For iPhone image sensor, the company Apple was always purchase from suppliers in Taiwan. OmniVision Technologies (OVTI), the name of this company, used to make the 3.2 megapixel sensor for mobile phone iPhone 3GS series.Last Wednesday, the newspaper reported that OmniVision Digitimes had orders to make the chip the iPhone as much as 40-45 million for the year 2010. This Order increases than 20-21 million orders in 2009.The newspaper is based in Taipei was also reported, for the next generation, the iPhone has a camera with 5 megapixel camera capability. Advanced mobile phone output is going to sell Apple Apple Stores in the second half of 2010.Indeed the last three years since Apple is always introducing new iPhone every summer. AppleInsider reports that San Francisco’s Moscone West, where you would normally be the Apple WWDC event, has been booked for 28 June to 2 July 2010. The event was an annual conference for developers at Apple.Apple to sell 16.4 million iPhones in the first three quarters during 2009. According to some reports, the figure is in line with other sales as much as 9 or 10 million more before the year ends.

The LG Shine II

LG Shine II

The LG Shine II doesn’t mess with success. The first LG Shine was a best-seller on AT&T thanks to its high-end metallic body and solid call quality. Aside from a few minor improvements, the Shine II is virtually the same as the first model, with the same main benefit—it looks and feels good. It’s a good choice for AT&T subscribers looking for a basic, reliable, and classy voice phone.

Design and Call Quality
The Shine II measures 4.2 by 2.0 by 0.5 inches and weighs 4.4 ounces. The Shine’s brushed-aluminum housing makes it heavy but durable. Just like my old RAZR V3, I’d expect the Shine II to hold up nicely over time. It also looks great, and the cool blue backlighting enhanced the look further. The slider mechanism felt smooth and satisfying.

The 2.2-inch LCD has 240-by-320-pixel resolution. A new five-way control pad features a prominent, raised center button. The button, left, and right keys were fine, but the up and down keys were very small and stiff. Large-enough Send, End, and Back keys sit above an otherwise cramped, recessed keypad. Dialing numbers was tough with one hand.

As a quad-band EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) and dual-band HSDPA (850/1900 MHz) phone, the Shine II works on AT&T’s 3G network and on 2G EDGE networks overseas. Voice calls sounded loud, clear, and crisp, with a slightly trebly tone in the earpiece. Callers on the other end couldn’t distinguish between the Shine II and a BlackBerry Bold 9700 (also on AT&T); both sounded excellent. Calls sounded fine through a Plantronics Voyager Pro Bluetooth headset. The speakerphone went pretty loud, but sounded harsh and distorted at top volume. Battery life was on the short side, at 3 hours and 46 minutes of talk time.

User Interface, Apps, and Multimedia
The Shine II’s UI looks sharp and is well designed. The Shine II was very responsive to key presses. The stiff control pad wasn’t ideal for gaming, and the Shine II’s sluggish Java benchmark results mean you should stick to 2D titles. The Opera-powered Web browser was surprisingly good, offering mobile and landscape views. The browser delivers accurate renderings of desktop HTML pages, but the tiny screen is an impediment.

The Shine hooks into AT&T Mobile e-mail for Yahoo, Windows Live, and AOL accounts, but not Gmail. A basic IM client offers AIM, Yahoo, and Windows Live support but not Google Talk. Either way, with only a numeric keypad, this isn’t a messaging phone. (If you want a keyboard, the excellent Pantech Impact beckons, and even costs $20 less.) It also works with AT&T Navigator (powered by TeleNav) for voice-enabled, turn-by-turn GPS directions.

The Shine II’s music player includes an adjustable EQ, ringtone creator, and music recognition software. There’s 102MB of free onboard storage. A microSD card slot sits underneath the battery cover, but not under the battery; my 16GB SanDisk card worked fine. The proprietary headphone jack is a disappointment, and there are no wired earbuds in the box. Thankfully, the Shine II now supports stereo Bluetooth. Music tracks sounded very bassy over Motorola S9-HDs, even with the Shine II’s custom EQ off; LG seems to have hardwired in a bass boost. Tiny album art thumbnails displayed when available. Standalone 3GP and MP4 videos played very smoothly in landscape mode, though the video player was sluggish and clumsy to operate. Streamed CNN videos played smoothly for about 10 seconds before freezing and timing out on several attempts.

Camera and Conclusions
The 2-megapixel camera includes an LED flash and auto-focus. A built-in image editor resizes, crops, and rotates photos, and features some basic effects. Test photos looked OK, with a little noise but decent resolution in shadowy areas, and a slightly soft, grayish focus outdoors. Shutter speeds were just under one second. Recorded 320-by-240 videos had good color balance, but were too jerky at 10 frames per second.

The LG Shine II is a good handset, but I’d like to see its price come down. Otherwise, it runs into headwinds on AT&T’s lineup as better phones get discounted. The $99 Sony Ericsson c905a is a vertical slider like the LG Shine II, but it has a vastly more powerful 8.1-megapixel camera with face detection. The $149 Samsung Mythic SGH-a897, our current Editors’ Choice for AT&T feature phones, offers mobile TV, a high-resolution touch screen, and plenty of music and video features.

Neither of those phones have the Shine II’s aluminum-chic design, though. For thousands of folks to date, that has been enough to seal the deal—and it likely will be enough once again with the Shine II.

BlackBerry service in less than a week frustrated people

BlackBerry

TORONTO  The second outage of BlackBerry service in less than a week frustrated people who depend on the messaging device and comes at a bad time for its maker, which faces increasing competition in the market it helped pioneer.BlackBerry subscribers often are so reliant on the devices that they peck at their keyboards all day and keep them on their night stands while they sleep. When e-mail and Web service on the devices went out Tuesday night, Twitter and other online forums were peppered with complaints.

BlackBerry service was restored Wednesday morning, and the company behind the service, Canada’s Research in Motion Ltd., blamed a software upgrade for the problem. The glitch, which comes after another outage last Thursday, could damage the company’s reputation.

“One of RIM’s big advantages is that it’s perceived as a reliable device,” said Duncan Stewart, director of research and analysis at DSam Consulting. “To lose the advantage of reliability would in fact be a very big deal for this company.”

Herbert Sexton, 34, said his BlackBerry service has been spotty all week where he lives near Atlanta. One day no messages come in at all and the next, 130 e-mails flood his inbox. Messages he’s already replied to pop up again. He said the disruption could push him to a different phone.

“I like to have something constant,” he said. “If service keeps going out, you never know what to expect.”

RIM has sold more than 75 million BlackBerrys worldwide since the gadget debuted at the start of this decade and became part of popular culture. It earned the nickname “CrackBerry” among people who became addicted to using it to stay productive or in touch with others while on the go. Frequent users of its compact keyboard have been known to complain of suffering from “BlackBerry Thumb.”

RIM counts more than 36 million subscribers, including 500,000 in the U.S. government. President Barack Obama has been a BlackBerry devotee.

After originally focusing on corporate or government customers, RIM has expanded into the consumer market in recent years with touch-screen models as the BlackBerry Storm. The consumer market, however, can be more fickle. And there RIM faces tough competition from devices such as Apple’s iPhone, Palm’s Pre and the Motorola Droid. RIM’s stock has dropped 23 percent since September.

The iPhone in particular stole much of RIM’s thunder because of its design cachet and the seemingly limitless supply of programs, known as “apps,” that users can download to customize their phones. Yet the iPhone also has not been as reliable as many users would like. AT&T, the sole carrier of the device in the U.S., has been upgrading its network to reduce the dropped connections and long waits people have encountered when trying to run programs.

Although RIM’s service is sold by wireless carriers, RIM manages its messaging network itself. That can improve reliability, but the centralized structure also means that any problems can affect millions of users. BlackBerry service went out at least three times in 2008.

This week’s outage apparently stemmed from a flaw in recently released versions of RIM’s instant messaging software, known as BlackBerry Messenger. On Wednesday, RIM released a new version that resolves the program and encouraged anyone who downloaded or upgraded BlackBerry Messenger since Dec. 14 to upgrade to this latest version.

RIM, which is based in Waterloo, Ontario, apologized for any inconvenience experienced by customers.

HP (Hewlett-Packard) iPAQ 111 PDA

iPAQ 111 PDA

Designed to help keep your action-packed life in balance, our iPAQ 110 Classic Handheld makes an excellent—and affordable—companion to your cell phone. This slim, stylish organizer also lets you go online with Wi-Fi¹ to stay in touch and keep your calendar, contacts, and tasks up to date.

Work on the go

1. Stay productive on the road with familiar software: Windows Mobile 6 Classic OS, Microsoft Office Mobile (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Microsoft Office Outlook Mobile; you can even view PDF documents
2. Get things done fast with the powerful new Marvell PXA310 624MHz processor
3. Arrive at appointments on time by having your calendar and contact information handy
4. Synchronize e-mail ¹ and documents to take with you
5. Check e-mail at the office, home, or campus, and at other Wi-Fi hotspots at airports, cafes, and hotels ^{1, 2}
6. Use Bluetooth to go online and connect to your Internet-enabled mobile phone when Wi-Fi is not available^{1, 3, 4}
7. Extend your battery life by checking your wireless connections and turning them off as needed
8. Get peace of mind with the one-year limited warranty

Play on the way

1. Connect Bluetooth peripherals (sold separately) like headphones and keyboards
2. View, share, and manage photos on the bright 3.5″ touch screen
3. Play games and download them from the Internet¹
4. Listen to music and watch videos using Windows Media Player 10 Mobile

1. Standard WLAN infrastructure, other Bluetooth-enabled devices, separately purchased equipment, and service contract with wireless airtime provider may be required for applicable wireless communication. Wireless Internet use requires separately purchased service contract. Check with service provider for availability and coverage in your area. Not all Web content available.
2. Wireless access points required and not included. Availability of public wireless access point is limited. Wireless Internet use requires separately purchased Internet service contract.
3. Requires Bluetooth enabled mobile, separately purchased wireless carrier/Internet service plan(s) and supporting IT infrastructure.
4. Telephone service requires separately purchased contract with telephone service provider with coverage in your service area.