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Palm Pre hits the UK and Ireland on October 16th

aura — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:15:41 +0000

Palm Pre is finally making its debut in the UK on October 16th, after four months of tardiness. Carphone Warehouse, Phones4U and O2′s online shop have all stocked up on the new phone but the carrier options are limited to just one.

With regards to the price, the Pre can be obtained on a two-year contract charging £34.26 per month, also with free access to the BT OpenZone WiFi service.

The Pre will also be launching in Deutschland on October 13, with the device priced at €481.

Devices Endowed with Android 1.6 Distributed in October

caitas — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:10:47 +0000

Google Company announced that a new operating system called Android 1.6 update will be incorporated by gadgets which will be distributed starting with October. Noticing time aspects regarding this planned shipment we may come to ponder that the upcoming operating system will come with handsets like Moto Cliq in T-Mobile carrier or HTC Hero in Sprint.

Software programmer may also start the work on the Android 1.6 SDK which incorporates several upgrades like a specific text-to-speech engine, gesture APIs and supports CMDA. Moreover, the innovative operating system comes with a search engine which manages to learn over time which search results are the ones relevant for the end user. One interface comprises the camera, recorder and various picture and video related features.

Google may have gained a competitive edge thorough Android 1.6 update because the operating system is designed to comprise all the aspects that other competitive OSs lacked in. Screening many feedbacks from developers, Google has managed to bring on the market a free biased product. The content of the Android operating system has been structured like Apple`s Application Store, varying from new, the best cost-free and the top paid applications. Moreover, the complaints about screenshots have been dealt with.

Google has yet to announce an official list of smartphones which will be endowed with the Android 1.6 update operating system.

Moldova – Birthplace for Orange`s First HD Voice

caitas — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:25:50 +0000

Orange company chose Moldova to be first place where its innovative mobile phone will be created. This model is the first HD voice call, an innovation in its field considering that since the 1990`s no developments were made in voice transmission.

The company entitled this voice feature HD voice standard. It represents a high quality product because it includes a better audio codec used in voice transmission. This means that with a better quality encoding system, the transmission need a higher bandwidth over 3G/HSDPA. In order to support Orange`s developments, Moldova improved its network support up to 14.4 Mbps HSDPA in order to face the upcoming upgrades.

Accompanying the evolution of voice transmission, Orange presented to the public the first and also single mobile phone able to support this upgrades. It is a model of Nokia 6720 classic that incorporates a special handset that copes with the AMR-WB codec which is utilized in encoding the high-definition voice calls. This Nokia cell phone model comprising the HD voice transmission can be found only in Orange shops from Moldova and its price is approximately 260 euro.

The multinational company desires to get the high-definition voice transmission service in the other European networks. The first two countries which will use this service will be Great Britain and Belgium around the year 2010. But in order to make this thing possible, Orange should take into account that the need for phones that support this service will increase and new models will be required.

Official Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2 Announcement Next Week?

vlad — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:23:14 +0000

Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA X1 has now a successor.

According to the rumors on the market, XPERIA X2 will be a significant upgrade of the former: Windows Mobile 6.5, updated QWERTY keyboard, 8.1MP (!!) autofocus camera, WVGA OLED touchscreen, aGPS, 3.5mm headphone jack, and an accelerometer.

This is all just hearsay for the time being; more details at the press event Sony Ericsson will hold sometime in late August or early September to officially announce the phone’s release date and price (hopefully not $1,000, like the XPERIA X1 last year).