Samsung Double-Folder DMB

Samsung's new SPH-B3100 is a double-folder, terrestrial DMB phone, able to fold upwards when making a call or sideways to watch movies. With terrestrial broadcasting gives excellent sound and video quality, so watch your favorite TV programs on its 16 million color TFT LCD display. With media buttons on the exterior, play music without having to open the phone. The SPH-B3100 also features a 2.0-megapixel camera with multi-tasking features, mobile printing and file-viewing functions.

Mobile phones specs

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Nokia displays Nokia 770 with Linux Support

Nokia displays Nokia 770 with Linux Support

Nokia is a mobile phone company. They are the world leaders when it comes to mobile phones and technology. However, they are now looking into alternative products. They have just showcased pocket-sized device usable as a web browser in the wireless broadband networks and it comes powered by Linux.

One of the surprising things about this particular product release is that it comes without a mobile phone. This is a first for the Nokia as a company and might not be the last. They call it Nokia 770 and it comes with a four-inch horizontal touch screen that can display normal Internet pages. The company is aiming to sell it for around USD 350.

The product is a major policy change for the company as they venture into devices without phoning capabilities. They are targeting to sell this device through the Internet Service Providers and through their website. The company claims that the device will open up a totally new product segment as they plan to get into items providing convergence of services.

Nokia should be launching this product in the retail segment sometime during the third quarter of the year.

About what thy are talking? about 7700 wich was cancelled?

Cingular Wireless to add Good Technologies mobile e-mail service

Cingular Wireless to add Good Technologies mobile e-mail service

US based company Cingular Wireless would be offering Good Technologies Inc.’s mobile e-mail service to their range of services offered to their business customers. They would be promoting the service with discount offerings and it would give them the weapons to take on Research in Motion’s Blackberry device powered service.

The technology is compatible with many other wireless services as well, but it would be after a long time that a mobile provider would offer this as a combined package. They are already offering the RIM’s Blackberry device and their complimentary mail service to their clients along with many of their rivals. This news comes around a year after Good Technologies stopped supporting devices offered by Cingular Wireless.

Their has been a regular demand of technologies enabling the corporate users and field workers to stay connected to their offices through email on the road. And the success of the blackberry device enabled RIM to take over the crown of the PDA market displacing PalmOne as the largest seller of such devices.

Good Technologies is also growing with the momentum but have a minor share of the market dominated by Research in Motion. Cingular would soon be offering the Treo 650 and the Siemens SX66 Pocket PC with this service to their customers.

http://news.techwhack.com/category/wireless-mobile/

The scientists said mobile phones were still safe to use

A major study into the safety of mobile phones has concluded that they may affect the health of people who use them.
Research carried out by scientists in Finland suggests radiation from mobile phones causes changes in the brain.

It is the first time that scientists have looked at the effects of mobile phone radiation on human cells rather than those of rats.

We need further study looking at real people

Scientists from the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority found that exposing human cells to mobile phone radiation damaged the blood-brain barrier - a safety barrier in the body that stops harmful substances in blood from entering the brain.

They discovered that the exposure caused the cells in blood vessel walls to shrink which enabled molecules to pass into brain tissue.

Lab tests

Professor Darius Leszcynski, who carried out the study, said the results came from laboratory tests on human cells and that further research was needed to see if the same effect actually happened in humans.

But speaking to BBC News Online, he said: "The blood-brain barrier has been shown to be affected by radiation in animal studies.

"There is a lot of uncertainty about whether this happens in humans. We have shown some biological effects."

Prof Leszcynski said these changes could have a serious impact on a person's health if they were found to happen in humans.

"If it did happen it could lead to disturbances, such as headaches, feeling tired or problems with sleeping. A study by a Swedish research group even suggested it could lead to Alzheimer's disease."

However, he added: "It is important to remember that our study has been done in the laboratory where we can detect even the smallest changes.

"We cannot say whether it happens in humans. We need further study looking at real people to see if the blood-brain barrier is affected.

"What is happening in the human brain is an absolute enigma. We don't know at all."

'Still safe'

Prof Leszcynski said mobile phones were still safe to use.

"At the moment, there is no scientific support for introducing any sort of limitation either on use of mobile phones or setting new safety limits.

"There is no need because we don't have any science to support it. All the guidelines in place at the moment are fine."

Prof Leszcynski will present his findings at a conference in Quebec, Canada, next week.

He said a study by French scientists, which will also be presented at the conference, found similar results in rats.

Dr Michael Clark, science spokesman at the National Radiological Protection Board, said the research did not show any impact on people's health.

"This is demonstrating a biological effect in cells in the lab."

Speaking to the BBC, he said: "It doesn't relate to a health effect. You can't go from a biological effect in a Petri dish to say that's a health effect."



It's too soon to reach a definitive verdict on health risks from mobile phones

Consumers' Association
He added: "The authors themselves are saying that this doesn't mean that mobile phones are unsafe or the guidelines are wrong."

The Consumers' Association said there was still insufficient evidence to say whether or not mobile phones were safe.

A spokesman said: "At the moment, it's too soon to reach a definitive verdict on health risks from mobile phones, but neither has research given it the all clear."

The National Consumers' Council said mobile phone users were reaching their own conclusions about the risks.

"The people who feel that mobile phones are very important and essential in their lives would attach less weight to this new information than those who are already concerned about the risk," said a spokeswoman.

More than 40 million people in Britain have mobile phones, many of them children.

Government studies

Two years ago a government inquiry led by Sir William Stewart concluded that mobile phones posed no provable health risk.

But its report urged caution over the use of mobile phones by children until more was known about their impact on health.

In January, a new Ј7.4 million research programme was announced, backed by the government and the mobile phone industry, to be managed by an international committee of experts led by Sir William.

The programme includes 15 studies which will seek clear conclusions about the health hazards of mobile phones, in particular fears of an association between mobile phone radiation and brain cancer.

The main purpose of the research will be to see whether "subtle biological changes" already known to be caused by mobile phones pose a risk.

BBC news

Use or not to use... this is the question

DTT - Begin The New Revolution In Old TV

Strategy +Business writes, Digital terrestrial television uses analog technology to deliver digital programming, may soon affect everything from home entertainment to mobile communications. Digital terrestrial television (DTT), which uses the analog infrastructure of traditional broadcast television to deliver digital programming, has the potential to bring interactive TV, multichannel capabilities, and TV-based online shopping, banking, and other services to the hundreds of millions of people who don’t have access to cable or satellite systems. In the process, DTT will create an array of new business opportunities that could affect everything from home entertainment to mobile communications. Excerpts with edits from an interesting article:

DTT is either already making inroads in several countries or poised to do so, because of regulatory agency mandates that will require broadcasters to switch from analog to digital terrestrial TV by around 2010. Because consumers can use conventional TV sets to access DTT and usually don’t have to pay a subscription fee to view basic stations, adoption of DTT is generally very rapid in almost every country where it is introduced. In the United Kingdom, more than 4 million households use DTT after only two years in the market. Initially, DTT will have its greatest effect in the pay-TV sector, which is, thus far, controlled by cable and satellite companies. A comparable cable/satellite offering would require a monthly subscription for basic service plus digital or some other premium service. The content provider would have to maintain complex bookkeeping and customer management systems as well as its vast TV distribution network.

Cellular operators also have something to fear from digital terrestrial TV. Using DTT platforms, media companies will be able to deliver entertainment or information on new dual-mode handsets that recognize both mobile phone and DTT technical standards. In effect, these handsets will let media companies bypass traditional mobile technology. DTT is a far more efficient transmission protocol for mobile entertainment than cellular networks, because it is capable of delivering content to millions of individual connections at once without network interference or overload. For instance, tens of thousands of people in a football stadium could simultaneously and reliably access DTT-provided data or entertainment through a mobile device, whereas a cellular network would be too congested to handle a load even 1/1000th that size. DTT’s most intriguing impact could be on interactive or two-way advertising campaigns, DTT is a more universal delivery system than cable or satellite, it has the potential to make interactive advertising more common. The future of DTT comes down to numbers. The terrestrial open platform provides a strong enough signal to reach everyone without the need for a satellite dish or cable lines, and it can potentially offer more than 50 free digital channels, depending on a country’s geography and available terrestrial frequencies. Cable and satellite are more powerful — most cable TV systems offer about 150 channels, and satellite TV delivers 500 or more channels — but they are based on proprietary platforms and monthly subscription fees. Perhaps the more important numbers have to do with investments of time and money. It will be a lot quicker and, over time, a lot less expensive for small content providers to offer high-quality, Internet-age, in-home and mobile programming and applications on DTT than on any other medium. That may just be enough to begin the new revolution in old TV.”

The Paradox Of Technology Industry Solutions As Commodities

Jonathan Schwartz writes,computers aren't the commodity - computing (and bandwidth) are.He argues,just as power generators built at GE aren't the commodity,whereas electricity is. In his recent blog, Jonathan extends his reasoning to cover evolving developments in the technology industry. He argues, standardisation precedes commoditization and processing powers available on tap are setting the standards and more importantly, commodity selling enteprises are among the most successful profitable enteprises in the world. Excerpts with edits and my comments added:

Early in its evolution,only the wealthy could afford electricity (along with the requisite generator and electrician), and the technologies were fragile. Businesses that wanted power generation facilities were similarly wealthy enough to afford large-scale versions of the same, It took about a decade for those deploying electricity to settle on a few standards that ultimately accelerated consolidation. From voltage to cycle to plug configuration once the standards existed, businesses could plug into a grid - labor markets went through a fairly sizable dislocation, but electricity was firmly established as a ubiquitous service. Scale efficiencies and the resulting massive decrease in price allowed the government to bridge the power divide through rural electrification. Electricity that started out 20 times the price of gas lighting - obviously got a lot cheaper. Once the standards were set, and the grid powered up, electricity finally established a transparent price - the hallmark of a true commodity. If pricing isn't transparent, products can't be deemed a commodity - transparency meant to be defined for a standard unit of measurement like "5 cents per kilowatt hour," "2 dollars per gallon." It's either a standardized physical delivery (gallon, barrel, ton), or unit of consumption (typically time based, 100 megabit hours, megawatt hours, etc.) - but it's the same across the industry. Jonathan argues, by this definition, a 4-way x86 dual core Opteron server running an open source indemnified Solaris OS with a J2EE 1.4 compatible Java Enterprise System web services stack, optimized JVM and 256M of RAM is not a commodity.

Sun is all set to announce - the evolution of a true computing grid, priced at $1/cpu-hr; the business and technology models underlying such a transformation; and moreover, the impending impact on the marketplace for computing power and value.Jonathan adds,while power operators can't add a lot of value to a powerline, things are a tad more hopeful for the network operators.

The great thing about commodities, whether financial services, telecommunications, oil and gas, and now computing - is that the companies whose business it is to monetize those commodities, along with the businesses that supply the technologies necessary to compete in a commodity market, are among the largest on earth.
Vodafone, Citigroup, Exxon Mobil. What do they have in common?
1) They're among the most valuable businesses on earth.
2) They're primarily technology companies.
3) They're among the largest buyers of technology in the world. And
4) They're all in commodity businesses.
They all thrive on Innovation.

My Take: While Jonathan has made his point about the nature of commoditization, I think that neither computing nor applications can ever become commodities - wherever high technology is involved, wherever faster growth is seen, wherever innovation keeps happening and scope for further innovation exists,wherever multiple fields of study meld and fuse, chances of commoditization are very low.In fact, going by this logic, one will have to wait and see the nature of success of offering computing power on taps at predetermined prices as a packaged offering - we have to see how many customised offering exist and how many account managers need to gain insights into customers unique demands and offer differentiated services. The best example is aircraft and airline services - aircraft manufacturing is trailblazing -like the recent A380 Double Decker launch and innovative airline services like Jeblue and distinction by better service like Singapore Airlines, wherever there is a fusion of different experience, things can never get commoditised. Since technology industry is highly innovative, involves advances in multiple disciplines - I think neither computing nor computers can ever get commoditized(at least for the next fifteen years) - with infinite opporunities for technology industry to grow - I only see differentiation and premium pricing becoming more amd more well entrenched - cutting through the commodization trap.

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What a Sh*t! MPx220 - now or never

Motorola has recalled all MPx220 units already sold due to audio problems. The phone has only recently gone on sale at Best Buy on Cingular's network, but has been pulled temporarily due to a problem with the firmware that resulted in volume difficulties. Motorola is supplying a new firmware version to correct the problem, which should be available shortly. Users who have already purchased an MPx220 are advised to call Motorola for a replacement.
For God Sake! Moto, do something!

Best Buy + MPX220 + RECALL + REBATE

Yesterday my friend went into a best buy with his buddy because he wanted to purchase the new PS2lite (pretty tiny thing) and i decided that I would try the phone out for a few days, make sure it works at my house and what not.

First of all now there is a 100 rebate when u activate. But they didnt have any, BECAUSE they were all recalled at this location. They are aware of the problem and most units were going to be sent back.

So what the guy said was that they are getting more most likely in the next week or two, but wouldnt the ones for cingular stores already come out by then?

Interesting thing, now they have a rebate and they know of the problem.

just wanted to share

My mobile diary

Did you ever have been burgled? I was. I went for a few minities to corner shop to buy milk and then I came back... They grabbed my old notebook (pure crap), some CD's and... MY V80!!! F..CK!!!
It was my first reaction. But I tried to be positive and I said to myself - maybe, it's for better? And it definitely was. How offten you changing mobiles? Aha! This is the point! Now I found better mobile RAZR V3!!! Have a look http://www.motorolamobiles.com/phones/41.html?brand=Motorola&model=RAZR+V3