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)

Sony Corp is bringing baseball to America's living rooms on its PlayStation 3 video game console

Sony Corp is bringing baseball to America’s living rooms on its PlayStation 3 video game console, ratcheting up the competition in the race to become the digital hub of the home.Sony not only ups the ante in its rivalry with Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console, but also positions itself as something of a challenger to cable companies and satellite television providers that have long been broadcasting sports to viewers in the United States.”This is one of the biggest deals we’re bringing to the PS3, and it won’t be the last one, there’s lots of conversations going on,” said Peter Dille, senior vice president of Sony Computer Entertainment America.

Sony, which has an installed base of 12 million PS3 consoles in the United States, will offer games in high-definition through Major League Baseball’s MLB.TV, an Internet subscription service that is already available on computers and smartphones.MLB charges $25 a month, or $120 a year, for a premium subscription.Sony designed a custom interface for the offering, and users can scroll through live-streaming or archived games. The PS3 provides the functionality of a digital video recorder, allowing viewers to pause, fast-forward and rewind, and to jump to a particular inning in any game on the schedule.

However, users will not be able to watch live games of teams in their local market, which are subject to local blackout rules.PS3 users will need to be subscribers to the free PlayStation Network (PSN) to access MLB.TV. PSN has 20 million members in North America.

Sony and Microsoft have been duking it out to control entertainment in the living room beyond games, offering movies, shows and videos through their subscriber networks, PSN and Xbox Live.Both offer streaming movies through Netflix, and have been hunting for deals that can help transform their gaming consoles into one-stop-shops for content.”We’re excited about bringing MLB onto the console this is something you can’t find on any other console,” Dille said.

In Europe, Microsoft has struck deals with Vivendi unit Canal Plus and British pay-TV broadcaster BSkyB to provide content through the console, including soccer matches.Sony’s PS3 has trailed Nintendo’s Wii, the market leader, and the Xbox in the U.S. market, although the PS3 has generated momentum since a price cut to $299 last year.MLB.TV is also available on the Roku set-top box and through media provider Boxee.(Reuters)

Lenovo Group, the world's No.4 PC brand

Lenovo Group, the world’s No.4 PC brand, said mobile Internet products will account for 10-20 percent of revenue in five years, as it embarks on a new drive into wireless computing.The company hoped to sell millions of its new line of smartphones initially, and tens of millions in the future, said President and Chief Operating Officer Rory Read at a media briefing on Monday, without giving details.

The mobile Internet device market would overtake traditional PCs in the next five years, Chief Executive Yang Yuanqing, said as the company launched new mobile Internet products at an event in Beijing.After selling off its cell phone unit to focus on its core PC business, Lenovo bought back the unit last year as part of its aim to become the Chinese market leader in mobile communications, as the sector starts to converge with PCs.(Reuters)

Samsung Chip NAND 20 nm

SEOUL Samsung has been successfully completed grade NAND Flash memory chip 20nm. The company claims this card having a larger memory and faster than previous generations of similar cards.20nm MLC NAND card (multi-level cell) has a productivity level 50 percent higher than the 30nm-class, and its performance when the ‘write’ 30nm NAND also exceeded 30 percent.

In addition, according to Samsung, 20nm NAND NAND also have high reliability, equivalent to 30nm NAND. This card is believed to raise the standard of performance on smartphones and high-density IT applications.

“In just one year after the launch Samsung’s 30nm NAND production has been providing next generation 20nm NAND node, which exceeds the needs of customers the highest performance,” explained Mr-Soo Cho, president, Memory Division, Samsung Electronics, as quoted Softepedia, Monday ( 19/4/2010).”The new 20nm NAND is not only a significant step forward in the design process, but we have the advanced technology incorporated into it to activate a substantial innovation performance,” he added.Samsung will sell a card that has a storage capacity ranging between 4GB and 64GB, while the speed will be 10Mbps 20MBps when reading and when writing.

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)

iPod and iPhone, iPad predictable emergence would greatly affect the history of the world's electronic devices.

iPod and iPhone, iPad predictable emergence would greatly affect the history of the world’s electronic devices. According to Henrik Brogaard, Head of Network Systems Sales, Nokia Siemens Networks Indonesia, the iPad would shift the role of portable computers to replace its role in the next few years. “I think, because of the emergence iPad, the existence of the netbook will be missing two or three years,” said Henrik Thursday, April 1, 2010.

According to him, ipad own more than a handheld mobile computing devices. “For me, iPad is a large cell phone,” said Henrik. Smartphones are also experiencing a significant increase in growth, so that growth will also cause the surging consumption data. around the world. In 2009 and 2010, Internet traffic originating from mobile handhelds is still around zero coma at a percentage of the total data traffic across the world.

But later in 2015, data traffic from the mobile handset has managed to take the portion up to nearly 50 percent of the total mobile traffic and laptops, which amount approximately 23 exabita. “Although mobile laptops are still continuing to grow, but growth will be greater over the phone,” explains Henrik. According to him, smart phones has changed the habits of people in connecting to the internet.

Once a very rare person who will be accessing the internet via mobile phone. But now many Indonesian people who update Facebook via mobile. In Indonesia, the smartphone also grew rapidly. According to Hastings Singh, Regional Director Distribution, RIM Asia-Pacific, the growth of smartphones in Indonesia last year reached 9 percent increase from the previous year which is only 4 percent.

That growth is also accompanied by increased consumption of customer data telecommunications operators who achieve a growth of 426 percent. At the same time, consumption dropped by voice instead of minus growth. RIM estimates, the growth of smartphones in Indonesia would continue to increase to 16 percent in 2012.

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.

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.