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Dell Mini 5Dell Mini 5 will present the design of mobile tablet with a larger screen size, which is five inches. “Dell Streak will be present with a combination of traditional smart phones and tablets big sail,” says Ron Garriques, Communications Solutions Group, Dell’s president, quoted from page Cellular News, Wednesday, May 26, 2010.

“The size was expected to offer a unique new experience for customers.” In addition to the big screen with a resolution of 480×800 pixels, this tablet smart phone comes with dimensions of 15.2 x 7.9 x 1 inches and weighs a little heavy, which is 220 grams.

However, a large TFT screen that has the function of capacitive multi-touch and accelerometer sensors in the UI (user interface), it makes it look elegant. Dell also pinned Streak 5 MP camera (2592 x 1944 pixels) equipped with an auto focus feature and dual LED flash to emit a brighter light. In addition, this product was immersed Android OS v1.6 (Cupcake), which can be upgraded to v2.2 (Froyo) and Snapdragon processor QSD8250 Quacomm 1GHz.any reliable connectivity.

In addition to GPRS (32-48 kbps) and EDGE, Dell Streak also supports data access 7.2 M bps HSDPA / HSUPA 5.76 M bps, plus WI-Fi 802.11 b / g, Blue tooth 2.1 and mini USB 2.0

Unfortunately, the battery powered device that reportedly Li-Ion 1530 mAh This will only circulate exclusively in the UK through O2 network in June next. There has been no further official information from Dell and O2 related party pricing and availability outside the UK.

Apple iPhone 4GApple 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.

Apple iPadApple is expected to add features iPad camera for the next edition. They have announced that they are looking for a camera technician to work with a team of developers iPad.”We are looking for technicians with the ability to test the capture image, video, and audio, and playback, for its iPhone, iPod, and the iPad,” writes Apple in their official page Daily Telegraph quoted pages.

This vacancy further fueling speculation that the iPad next generation will have a camera. Technology observers have also found a slot in order to load the right iPad iSight camera.In addition, the developers found the code in the iPad software that allows users to save the image, select images, or take a new picture.

The absence of this camera is one weak point iPad which went on sale in the United States (U.S.) in early April. This tablet computer enthusiasts in Europe, Japan, and Australia must wait until the end of May to get the iPad.Apple iPad sales internationally postpone for a month because of high demand in the U.S.. Although it has been distributed more than 500 thousand units during the first week sales iPad, Apple claims could not satisfy all consumer demand in the U.S..

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.

Sony VAIO VPC L117FX B

Sony VAIO VPC L117FX B

Among the all in one all-in-one desktop PC, the Sony VAIO VPC-L117FX/B ($2,000 list) is certainly one of the best looking. It has the look of a 24-inch HDTV, an intentional design choice. Inside that sexy shell is the heart of a power user’s PC: quad-core Intel processor, 6GB of memory, 1TB hard drive, Blu-ray burner, and a decent Nvidia graphics card. Placement in the kitchen, den, home office, and living room come to mind, but like its Sony VAIO all in one predecessors, it will even work in the most design critical room in the house: the bedroom.

Design
The VAIO VPC-L117FX/B looks like it could be a Sony Bravia HDTV. That is one of its greatest strengths, since it can blend in anywhere a smaller (20- to 36-inch) HDTV fits. It can even replace a TV in the bedroom, since it has a built-in Blu-ray drive, ATSC tuner, and HDMI-in ports. Viewing Blu-ray videos on the VAIO give you that “view through a window” effect that makes it seem like the action is happening on the other side of the display glass. We tested the system with films made before (Coming to America, The Warriors) and after the advent of CGI (Star Trek, Mission Impossible II). All of the films looked great. The picture is vivid, accurate, and noise-free. The HDMI-in port lets you connect a game system like a Sony Playstation 3 or a set-top box like the one from you cable TV company. The built-in tuner grabs over the air HDTV signals and displays them in Windows 7’s built-in Media Center interface. There’s a slot built into the base of the unit, so you can stow the wireless keyboard out of the way when you’re not using it, and the keyboard and mouse can easily reach a bed or couch 10 to 15 feet away. The system is wall mountable with a kit you can buy separately.

The all-in-one comes with five USB ports, a FireWire/i.Link port, and that 24-inch 1,920 by 1,080 resolution screen (which is true 1080p HD). This is truly a power-users’ system, and it better be one for $2,000. The system also comes with 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and an IR remote control so you can work almost completely wireless.

Features
The system’s touchscreen is responsive, though it takes a few seconds for your finger to learn exactly where to point to get the screen to recognize your commands. The HP TouchSmart systems are a little more forgiving with finger placement, but both the Sony and HP all in one PC’s screens are multi-touch enabled and can use standard Windows 7 touch command functions like swipe, flick, pinch, and rotate. The system’s quad-core processor makes the Sony VPC-L117FX/B just a little more responsive than the TouchSmart 600, but you’re unlikely to notice the difference unless you have the two side by side. Aside from the usual Windows 7 apps, the VAIO VPC-L117FX/B comes with VAIO Media Gallery, a unified multimedia viewing interface that lets you quickly view all your music, photos, and videos on a variety of formats, including neat calendar-organized formats. This serves a range of users from the “messy but organized” types to the obsessive compulsives that have to have their photos organized by time stamps. Media Gallery allows you to group photos arbitrarily or via searchable criteria; then you can create a quick slideshow with a couple of touches, then export to VAIO Movie Story. VAIO Movie Story is a quick way to create well, if not edited, then concatenated home movie made of your pictures, clips from your digital camera, and clips from your cell phone. Movie Story can either use music you choose, or it will check the videos with an algorithm and automatically suggest or add music. You can then burn the resulting movie to DVD or Blu-ray disc, save the file in a variety of media formats (including MPEG-2, MP4, etc.), or export your file to a Sony Media device like a PSP or a Mylo. I’d like to see an integrated export to iTunes/iPod or better yet an export to Facebook or Youtube, but you could of course do that manually after you create a file.

The VAIO VPC-L117FX/B comes with Google’s Chrome as its default browser, but like all Windows 7 PCs, it also comes with Internet Explorer 8. I found that touch navigation works better in IE8, since I couldn’t scroll slowly in Chrome—it only recognized flick commands like page forward/back and page up/down. Scrolling up and down in IE8 using finger gestures was smooth and worked as expected. I’m sure Google will improve the interface over time, but for now IE8 is the better touch-enabled browser on the VAIO.

Aside from the useful software above, there’s very little in the way of bloatware on the VAIO VPC-L117FX/B. There’s a copy of Microsoft Works, which is useful. Then there’s an installer for a 60-day trial of Microsoft Office, which is the right way to both satisfy Microsoft’s agreements with Sony, and to avoid the dreaded “pre-installed Office” syndrome. Likewise, there’s a link to Quicken’s Website for offers on QuickBooks and Quicken, but you have to download and install them. Believe me, this is a good thing. You don’t have to install Office or Quickbooks unless you want to, so there’s nothing to clean up and therefore no stray .DLL files or leftover detritus to muck up your hard drive. If there’s any drawback to the Sony VAIO Media software, it’s that it’s not as modular as HP’s TouchSmart interface, with its widgets and iPod Touch-style apps. On the other hand, VAIO Media Gallery and Movie Story are some of the most intuitive and easiest to use pack-in multimedia apps outside of Apple’s iLife (iMovie, iDVD, etc.).

Performance
The VAIO VPC-L117FX/B’s performance is very good, thanks to its Intel Core 2 Quad 8400S processor and Nvidia GeForce GT 240M graphics, though it’s tied for the class leader in only one of our standard benchmark tests. The VAIO is speedy at the PhotoShop CS4 test with a class-leading 1 minute 39 seconds, tied with the Gateway One ZX6810-01. It’s also only one second behind the Gateway FX6810-01 at the Windows Media Encoder test (43 seconds), which makes the VAIO VPC-L117FX/B an excellent choice for the multimedia enthusiast. It’s other scores are competitive in the field of multimedia all in one desktops, including the dual-core powered Apple iMac 27-inch (Core 2 Duo), Lenovo IdeaCentre A600 (3011-4BU), and the Editor’s Choice HP TouchSmart 600-1055 PC. The VAIO VPC-L117FX/B can be used for light gaming: it played World in Conflict at a smooth 39 frames per second (fps), but is a little too slow playing Crysis at our standard settings (30fps). If you push the quality levels and/or resolution down you can likely get a playable frame rate in Crysis. The GPU does help with programs like Microsoft’s Virtual Earth and HD video playback from the web.

As a high-end all-in-one desktop PC, the Sony VAIO VPC-L117FX/B is a little pricey at about $2,000, but you can just about rationalize the added expense if you consider the system has one of the best quality screens in the business, Blu-ray burner (as opposed to just a player for the Lenovo A600 and HP TouchSmart 600), and its looks more like an HDTV than a PC, unlike the iMac, Gateway One, Lenovo IdeaCentre, and HP TouchSmart. That said, these other four are a lot less expensive, especially in the case of the Gateway One and Lenovo A600 (both $1,399 list). The Gateway One is the performance leader overall, with a speedy Solid State Drive (SSD) helping its quad-core processor take five wins out of the seven benchmark tests. However, the Editor’s Choice winning HP TouchSmart 600-1055 has the most polished implementation of touch technology in Windows 7, along with the best bang for the buck ($1,599 list) out of all the multimedia all in ones. The Sony VAIO VPC-L117FX/B is a “better quality” choice if you’re willing to spend the bucks, but you’d have to be a individual who’s really hard to please to justify an almost $500 price premium.

BlackBerry

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.

iPhone 3GS

iPhone 3GS

Would you like to let AT&T know when your iPhone has dropped a call? Well, now there is an app for that.AT&T on Monday released a new application called “Mark the Spot,” which lets iPhone users submit complaints about dropped calls, poor service coverage, and less-than-perfect voice quality.

The application is free and available in the iTunes App Store. It uses GPS technology in the iPhone 3G and the iPhone 3GS to pin point where the user is when experiencing the problems. For first generation iPhones, it uses cell tower-triangulation to get a fix on problem areas.Once the application is launched, users have several complaint options. They will see a screen that has buttons that let them report a dropped call, poor voice quality, or poor service coverage.

iPhone 3GS ( mark the spot )

iPhone 3GS ( mark the spot )

AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel said AT&T plans to use the data collected to identify trends and prioritize the company’s network investments.
“We think this is a great way to get customer feedback to improve our network,” Siegel said. “We are always looking for ways to make it easy for customers to share their experiences. And this app lets customers report issues. It logs the time and location and automatically forwards the information to our network planning team.”

iPhone owners have been complaining about AT&T’s network since the Apple iPhone went on sale in the summer of 2007. Complaints mounted after the 3G version of the phone was released a year later in 2008.

And as more iPhone users come onto the network, more people, particularly in densely populated urban areas, such as New York City and San Francisco, have experienced problems with dropped calls and congested data networks.

AT&T executives have not said that AT&T has a problem with its network. But executives, such as AT&T Chief Technology Officer John Donovan, have said that the company has seen a surge in data traffic attributed to iPhone users, who typically consume more wireless bandwidth than other AT&T wireless customers.AT&T has been upgrading its network to keep up with demand. But problems persist. And AT&T’s network recently got a poor ranking in terms of customer satisfaction in a Consumer Reports survey.

Verizon Wireless, AT&T’s chief rival, has taken advantage of AT&T’s struggles with a series of advertisements that point out AT&T’s lack of 3G network coverage in certain parts of the country. Verizon is running advertisements that mock the Apple “There’s an app for that,” catch phrase with one that says, “There’s a map for that.”AT&T fired back with a lawsuit and an advertisements of its own featuring actor Luke Wilson, who points out AT&T’s strengths while taking a few shots at Verizon Wireless.

AT&T recently dropped its lawsuit against Verizon. And Verizon, which had been suing AT&T over claims that it has the fastest 3G wireless network, also dropped its lawsuit against AT&T.

Siegel said that the new “Mark the Spot” application was not prompted by the bad publicity around its network issues nor was it prompted by the current ad wars going on between AT&T and Verizon.

Instead, he said that the application was simply a part of AT&T’s ongoing commitment to listening to customers.”We are always looking at ways to get customer feedback in as timely a manner as possible,” he said. “That’s why we pay attention to Twitter, Facebook and blog. One of the great values of these social networking tools is that it’s a great way to get instant feedback. And it helps us identify problems.”

The “Mark the Spot” application can be downloaded onto all iPhones running version 3.0 or later of Apple’s operating system or it can be access using iTunes and synchronized to the iPhone via a PC or Mac.

Siegel said that AT&T is testing the “Mark the Spot” app for other devices. And he said AT&T hopes to offer applications on other smartphones in the future. No date has been announced yet. And Siegel didn’t specify which devices might get the new application, but considering that AT&T sells a lot of Research in Motion’s BlackBerry devices, it’s likely it will create an application for that device. The app could be offered through AT&T’s own application storefront or through RIM’s BlackBerry App World.