My Cellular Corner

Here is what seems to be one of the first shots of the Motorola Q11! The smartphone, already enter markets earlier this month, should no longer delay to fill shelves of retailers.




Unfortunately we know little about this phone, except that it runs Windows Mobile 6.1, it has compatibility WiFi and Bluetooth, a 3-megapixel camera, and that's about it.

(Source : MobiFrance)

Telepon seluler pertama dari Google - G1 Android - akhirnya telah diluncurkan ke pasar dan berbagai review atasnya bertebaran di pelosok internet. Berikut ini aku nukilkan ringkasan dari review pertama G1 Android dari beberapa jurnalis dan situs teknologi ternama.

Meskipun pe-review cuma diberikan waktu beberapa jam untuk mengakses handset produk HTC pada saat peluncurannya, dan hampir semua kesimpulan mereka diambil dengan cukup hati-hati, review ini seakan-akan nampak sebagai sebuah konsensus yang muncul terhadap produk ini. Sebut saja mbahwa meskipun G1 tidak dapat disebut sebagai model baru, ia menawarkan sistem operasi yang mungkin - dengan pengembangan-pengembangan - akan menggoda user pindah dari Apple iPhone.

Anda dapat mengklik nama website di akhir ringkasan berikut untuk membaca reviewnya secara utuh, dan menawarkan kepada anda untuk menyampaikan kesan pertama yang anda rasakan terhadap handset ini di kotak komentar.

Tidak dapat dikatakan bahwa G1 sama dengan iPhone (baik dalam pengertian hardware maupun user interfacenya), tapi memang sangat menyerupai. Dan yang paling penting, G1 mirip dengan iPhone dalam banyak hal. ia mempunyai GPS, WiFi, layar sentuh, sebuah akselerator, kamera, Gmail, Google Maps, browser berbasis Web (seperti Safari pada iPhone, dan sebuah aplikasi market - Tech Crunch.

Dari perspektif sebuah perangkat keras, G1 bukanlah pengubah permainan. Namun sebagai sebuah "kebiasaan", perangkat lunak Google Android sangat meningkatkan pengalaman Web mobile bagi pengguna, membuatnya sebagai kompetitor serius bagi Apple iPhone dan lebih baik jika dibandingkan ponsel-ponsel pintar lain - CNET

Meskipun aku sangat terkesan oleh T-Mobile G1 dibandingkan yang aku perkirakan, daftar cakupan untuk Android dan ponselnya dengan cepat menimbun - beberapa mungkin sangat baik sebagai dealbreaker. Yang menjadi urutan teratas, ia secara lekat terintegrasi dengan akun Google kita, jadi anda hanya perlu punya satu akun Google dengan ponsel ini - Gizmodo.

Dengan memegang Android untuk pertama kalinya hari ini, aku cuma bisa bilang satu hal: Wow. Aku bukanlah penggemar apapun, tidak akan pernah dan dapat mengatakanya dengan hampir seribu persen keyakinan bahwa aku tidak akan pernah menjadi seorang penggemar gadget apapun, namun Android sudah mengubah wajah mobile gadget - TechRadar UK


T-Mobile G1 bagus. iPhone lebih baik - The Times

Kualitas buatan HTC Dream baik, dan anda perlu sangat waspada terhadap dataplan small print, tapi Google Android dan aplikasinya yang banyak sekali membuat T-Mobile G1 sebagai pemenang - PC Advisor

G1 mempunyai kelebihan dan kekurangan dan ini bukanlah hal yang buruk untuk sebuah perangkat generasi baru, tapi ini bukanlah "the ground breaking", tipe umum sebuah perangkat yang aku cari dari Google dan HTC - ZDNet

Sebuah telepon yang lebih menarik daripada sekedar "ground-breaking" - T3

secara keseluruhan, G1 nampak sebagai smatphone dengan kapabilitas tinggi yang tidak masuk persaingan dalam hal hardware atau fitur. Namun platform Android semuanya tentang software, dan hanya waktu yang akan berbicara apakah Google dan pengembangnya dapat membuat Sistem Operasi ini lebih baik dan lebih maju dibandingkan OS lain yang saat ini sudah ada - InformationWeek

The HTC Dream G1 (the first Google Phone) was presented yesterday by the U.S. operator T-Mobile, and the first returns are published on the Web.



We can not say that the device is beautiful. It is not worthy of an iPhone, Touch HD or Samsung Omnia level design. But we will say it is probably not a major worry for a device-oriented "business", but it may be for a machine "consumer".

The keyboard is not perfect, I knew better at HTC (Tilt), but it remains usable. I thought the "chin (right side)" would hinder me for the capture, but I did not even feel. Web browsing is slower than on the iPhone and it goes for the camera. I regretted the absence of support MS Exchange is probably not what I will not buy the machine. The operating system is nice and fast enough, I did not notice latency.

The success of this platform will speed the development of future models and dynamism of the developer community. One might also ask, what will resemble the Androit Market and what are the applications that we will find?

G1, under the Google Android phone launched today is Tuesday afternoon in New York 16.30 French time. The first terminal is under the Android HTC Dream celebrated G1. A litmus test for Google will return to competition with the heavyweights of the U.S. market: the Apple iPhone, the RIM BlackBerry and Palm Treo.

For the rest, the G1 will be available in New York for the operator T-Mobile, this afternoon at less than 200 dollars and in the USA next month. As for British stores, they must wait until the month of November. His exit in France is scheduled for the month of March 2009.

Where is launch in Indonesia :( ???

(Source : MobiFrance)

The competition here was good that it pushes manufacturers to leave its best and prove they are in the race for innovation. The champion at the moment is surely the iPhone 3G pulling behind him the highest marks. Samsung is no exception and takes the dead teeth in introducing the much anticipated i900 Player Addict. This is it able to compete with the best-selling Apple?

All manufacturers of smartphones dream of selling millions of units of a model lighthouse. Apple has managed this feat with the iPhone 3G multimedia phenomenon with nearly 7 million units sold in 7 weeks and manufacture of almost 800 000 copies per week.

These figures obviously boostent manufacturers fourbissent their weapons by offering innovative models or incorporating some ideas of their competitors.
Thus the book Samsung i900, or Addict Player, also called Omnia on the other side of the Atlantic. The appearance of the machine is not without thinking of Apple smartphone. Its dimensions of 112 x 56.9 x 12.5 mm are quite close, like its rectangular form factor with rounded corners. Slightly more compact than the iPhone, the i900 is however much lighter with 122 g.

Oracom, Korean company, has launched a new PMP in the presence of W30, which has a 3 inch screen, 4 GB of storage, an FM tuner and DMB-TV, a dictionary ...



Classic, but with a little innovation: The touchscreen is Haptic physically and therefore the pressure of fingers! It was less the impression of typing on a screen smooth and flat.

The item costs about 125 euros ... South Korea.

Created in 2005 by LG, "Black Label Series" a "materialized" the will of the Korean manufacturer to enter the luxury market, offering a range of products fashions, timeless, indémodables, built with quality materials.
After Chocolate, Shine, the first two models and best selling range, marketed respectively in May 2006 and February 2007, the Korean manufacturer we gratifie a third model scratched "Black Label Series", "LG-KF750 Secret ".

Having been somewhat disappointed by the Chocolate, I had once been the impasse on the Shine. But with the LG-KF750 Secret, which has positioned itself as a mobile multimedia openly, I do not have withstood the arguments advanced by LG.

Characteristics:
Tribandes, EDGE, 3G, 3G +,Bluetooth 2.0, Weight: 116 grams, Dimensions: 50.8 x 11.8 mm x 102.8, QVGA screen self Rotary 2.4 "240 x 320 pixels (262 144 colors), 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, Clock, Alarm, Scripture intuitive SMS (T9), Calendar
Voice, Function handsfree, Synchronization PC, FM radio with RDS, MP3, AAC, AAC +, AAC + +, WMA, Management of MPEG-4 videos, Video, Video Player (MPEG4, DivX up to 640 x 480 pixels), Viewer documents (Txt, PDF, Doc, Ppt, Xls), Player microSD memory card (up to 4 GB), Automatic adjustment of brightness of the screen, Coating scratches, Carbon fibres, Messaging SMS, EMS, MMS messages, email, USB 2.0
Lithium-Ion Battery 800 mAh, Autonomy: up to 3:20 in communication and paused to 275h00

Each discovery of a new mobile is a new adventure, and LG KF-750 Secret is no exception.
The mobile cabinet is composed of a compartment containing the mobile, and several small boxes, each containing an accessory. Although seen, and above all very practical.

The LG-KF-750 Secret appears primarily as a beautiful object to the dark colors and classieuses enough, even if the contour of the front cover is composed of a "metal band" of color gray.
Composed of a hull carbon fibre ultra-resistant, a touch screen LCD 6 cm tempered glass anti-scratch, with leather finishes, the LG Secret is a beautiful mobile enough late-type slide-up.

The front allows you to see a big screen, above which are the earpiece, a brightness sensor and a camera for video calls, and below which there is a surface black and grey button and the other three buttons down the front cover: keys win / hang up, and the delete key.
In the open position, one can see the keypad and a large loudspeaker.

The mobile tower

The right portion incorporates four key shortcuts to:
-- Volume setting,
-- Access to applications tactile,
-- Access to a menu listing all open applications,
-- Taking pictures or videos.

The left portion includes a cache in which the connections owner, to connect the pedestrian kit, cable or USB charger and a notch to hang a thong. The lower integrates the microphone.

The rear provides access to the battery and memory card reader (located under the hull) and a diode acting as flash, the NPC of KF-750, and a sensor that can detect the inclination of mobile.

The grip of LG KF-750 is good. The quality of materials used gives a good impression of strength, but also justifies the weight of the mobile. The sliding of the slide is not very fluid, but it remains quite correct.

Startup

The power-up mobile takes the pressure now on the "hang". The start of the OS is fairly long. The quality and finesse display screen are very good. The sensitive buttons below the screen are viewed through a blue signs: two keys shortcut menus, buttons and four dialing directional pad.

The pressure on one of the keys sensitive directional pad causes a slight vibration of mobile, and training of several small circles around the blue button pressed, which is the most beautiful effect. Pressing the button gray in the middle of the directional pad allows access to the general menu, composed of twelve icons, the design fairly simple.

The first thing quite valuable in navigation, is that when you enter a menu to see sub-menus, the names of previous and following menus are viewable at the top of the screen. It is then possible to access them directly by selecting the key right or left of Pad. Bien vu!

Email and Internet

1 - Written and Data Applications

Setting a data account to connect on the web or manage accounts courier E.mail was not necessary, since the mobile tested, delivered in a box Orange, was already pre-set.

Messaging Email:

The LG-750 KF Secret includes a management application messaging E.mail fairly complete, with advanced features such as the "push" (which allows you to automatically retrieve her email, and the creation of assisted mail accounts hosted In some ISPs-strangely, no pre-setting is available for accounts Google-Mail).

The parameters of my GMail account has been in vain, because it was not possible to connect to the message center. I think this is due to the management of security settings, which require on GMail accounts, a very specific settings. It is a shame.
So I logged on the site "gmail.com" to download the Java application owner Gmail, which allows you to be able to read his email, a message informs me that no version is available for my mobile But I propose to download one in me that she can not work properly. Gagne, because each attempt to open an email, I am systematically redirected to the identification screen, to inform a new password.
This situation is rather bizarre, because in communication LG launch the KF-750 Secret, compatibility with all of the software suite Google is announced. Moreover, to my great surprise, google no application is available either on the motive or the installation CD mobile.
Last solution (folds) to view my E. Mail Google, the web browser of LG KF-750, and a small connection on the site "gmail.com", it works!

Setting a Yahoo was much easier, thanks to a pre-planned setting a standard.
The recovery E.mail has worked well. Damage, however, that one can not limit the number of E. Mail to recover during the first connection.
Indeed, with the 205 E. Mail recovered Yahoo, the opening of the inbox is extremely long, and exploitation of E. Mail virtually impossible - given the response time too high. It's a shame…!

Conclusion, the messaging application E.mail proved unusable, while the Nokia 8800 Arte, a mobile competitor with the same market positioning, performed this work without the slightest problem, nor on the use of messaging, or timeliness of the tasks required.

Web browser:

The web browser is capable of handling all types of sites. He is doing admirably well on the management of sites suitable for mobile, and the availability of a chip + 3G makes surfing rather pleasant.
The possibility of registering in a directory dedicated the content of Web pages viewed is quite significant, given that there are few mobile and smartphones providing this opportunity.
Management of bookmarks is quite fluid.
The fact to rotate the LG Secret in landscape mode automatically display web pages in landscape mode, as the famous Apple iPhone. The management of RSS feeds is also managed to standard.
The overall impression on the web browser is therefore quite positive.

Other uses:

The download Google Maps from web browser has made the world more just.
This is particularly with this type of application that the big screen and display quality of KF-750 become interesting.
Indeed, to see maps in satellite mode, to plot routes and head using the information provided, or save it as a bookmark where you are,…, LG KF-750 is perfectly able to manage the various requests. The only regret is that the navigation function is not possible through a geo-location of mobile antennas via relay operator.

2 - Multimedia Features

The reading of audio files works perfectly, and the sound is pretty good, whether via speakerphone or with the supplied earphones as standard.
The LG Secret readers includes two audio files:
-- The first is accessible by selecting a title from a menu "multimedia Album." The ergonomics of the reader is sober, and the information available are well-appointed.
-- The second is accessible from the application menu touch. The ergonomics of the player is rudimentary, but it was designed so that even large fingers can use the remote displayed on the screen (sensitive).

Access to music files stored on the LG Secret is accessible from several menus.

But the good surprise comes from playing video files.
The LG secret bed perfectly films and video clips in MPEG-4, either in portrait mode or in landscape mode, depending on the orientation of the mobile.
If the image is somewhat limited in portrait mode, we must confess qu'orienté in landscape mode, the LG Secret is more than credible video player, all through the screen size, as the quality and the fineness of its display.

Whether the kit with pedestrian or speakerphone mode, the sound is good.

The Secret LG also includes an FM radio that works reasonably well, but that requires the connection kit pedestrian as a radio antenna.

Small question: The Secret LG can - replace an iPod Touch on audio and video…?
… Yes and no…
While the Secret LG screen is at least two times smaller than the iPod Touch, but for my part I found large enough to view videos, and play music, and format of the camera is still more compact than the iPod Touch.
However, the memory of LG Secret may be extended up to 4 GB (against 16 or 32 for the iPod Touch), and its autonomy is unfortunately much reduced use multimedia, knowing that the LG is also a phone, integrates d Other features also very greedy energy.

Photo and Video

3 - Equity photos and videos

The optical located at the rear of LG Secret is billed as displaying 5 Mpixels with autofocus, optimized for capturing pictures improved.
With such promises, LG could not disappoint us.
The photos taken are generally of good quality.
The sound of the shutter of the camera is quite noisy. Apparently, it is not possible to disable it.

The videos taken by the LG Secret quality are quite correct, but strangely, they are directly encoded format ". AVI, which is rather rare models because competitors are using the format MPEG-4", and not very practice, because they can not be transferred and read in the state on another mobile see on an iPod.
In addition, the video could not be read on my PC, because I do not have the right codecs. It was therefore necessary to convert the prior MPEG-4 format using the software "PSP Video 9.

4 - Java Applications

The LG Secret offers many standard Java applications.

First games: two types of games are offered as standard:

-- Classic games published by Gameloft, but a demonstration version, the licence can be purchased directly from the mobile via a data connection.
-- Games using mobile 3D accelerator, grouped in a sub-menu called "M-Toy."
The characteristic of this last category of games is that games are available on the same principle (a little about) that the famous salon console "Wii", for example, for the game of darts, it is sufficient 'Motive tilt to the right or left to position the arrow in front of the target, which can be launched via a sudden movement forward. It's cool, original, but a little boring.

Côté application, none is delivered to standard, if not in the form of "extras" (calculator, unit converter, stopwatch).
However, it is possible to download applications directly from LG Secret, as Google Maps.

5 - Other features

The LG Secret bed perfectly most office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Acrobat), whether in landscape or portrait mode (depending on the angle of mobile).

The Secret LG is also designed to synchronize contacts and calendar with Ms Outlook.
After the installation of the platform and LG mobile driver's my PC, I had many difficulties to recognize the LG Secret by my PC, either via a Bluetooth connection, or via the USB cable.
It took many attempts before finally being able to identify the motive, and repatriate the contacts and calendar.
Moreover, the sheets contacts whose name is too long appear

in the directory of LG Secret as "user unknown". Weird.

The chip bluetooth works very well for sending and receiving files. But for some unknown reason, when sending successively, one by one, several files, it is necessary to wait at least a good thirty seconds between each consignment before access to the Bluetooth feature becomes operational. Weird!

6 - Module telephony

The LG Secret is a good mobile phone, with a good quality of listening.
The sensitivity to the network is quite good.
When one dials a phone number, from the seizure of the third figure, contacts with the number contains figures before, are proposed to the screen.

The autonomy of LG Secret is fair enough when using multimedia applications, but can go up to three or four days to use minimum.

LG-KF750 merupakan rilis ketiga dari Seri "Black Label" keluaran LG. "Black label Series" merupakan usaha pabrikan Korea untuk memasuki pasar atas karena material yang digunakan pada produk ini berkualitas tinggi. Diperkenalkan pertama kali tahun 2005, menawarkan jajaran product "fashion-phone", timeless, serta dibuat dengan material berkualitas. Setelah Chocolate dan Shine, 2 model pertama jajaran best selling, yang telah dipasarkan Mei 2006 dan Februari 2007, LG meluncurkan lagi "Black Label Series" ketiga dengan label "LG-KF750 Secret ". Berikut Review produk ini yang disarikan dari MobiFrance.

LG KF-750 Secret terlihat sebagai obyek indah berwarna gelap dan cukup berkelas, bahkan kontur dari cover depan disusun dari bahan metal abu-abu. Bodinya tidak jauh beda dengan 2 pendahulunya. Yang membuatnya terasa beda adalah bahan materialnya yang cukup mewah. Layar dengan teknologi kaca berkualitas plus serat karbon di body-nya serta bingkai stainless di pinggiran body depan, membuat nilai lebih seri ini.

LG KF-750 berbentuk Slider. Bagian depan memungkinkan kita melihat layar besar, di sebelah atasnya terletak earpiece, sensor cahaya, dan sebuah kamera untuk video call. Sementara di bawah layar ada tombol-tombol navigasi dengan permukaan hitam dengan sebuah tombol abu-abu, sedangkan di sekeliling bawah berderet 3 tombol yakni tombol win/hangup dan delete.
Susunan Keypad akan nongol begitu layar digeser ke atas.

P O R T
Hanya ada satu port multifungsi di ponsel ini. Terletak di bagian kiri badan ponsel dan diberi penutup pengaman dari karet, port ini mempunyai 3 fungsi. Untuk melakukan charger, koneksi ke komputer, dan juga untuk mendengarkan musik dengan headset-nya.

K A M E R A
Bekal kamera 5 Megapixel menjadi ponsel LG pertama yang memiliki kualitas paling baik dari keluarga Black Label Series. Kesempurnaannya ditunjang oleh lampu tambahan dan juga fitur foto editor. Teknologi kamera terbaru berupa face tracking juga sudah disertakan.

V I D E O R E C O R D E R
Secret KF750 dibekali fitur perekam gambar bergerak alias video dengan kualitas QVGA 120 fps dan kualitas VGA 30 fps. Merekam dengan tiga pilihan kecepatan yakni slow, normal, dan cepat. Kita juga bisa menyertakan lagu favorite saat merekam objek, sehingga saat diputar ulang, akan ada lagu yang mengiringi.

V I D E O P L A Y E R
Format file yang bisa diputar di seri Secret ini adalah MPEG4/DivX. Pemutaran video bisa makin sempurna dengan menampilkannya ke layar TV. Fasilitas TV output bisa dimaksimalkan untuk mengoperasikan seluruh menu di ponsel.

L A Y A R
Ukurannya sebesar 2,4 inchi terasa cukup untuk mengoperasikan berbagai fitur andalan. Apalagi bila posisi layar diubah menjadi landscape, akan menjadi lebih menarik. Kita juga bisa menggunakan teknologi layar sentuh untuk beberapa fitur dengan mengaktifkan fitur Touch Media di menu Multimedia.

A U D I O
Ada beberapa fitur yang terkait dengan audio, yakni Musik dan Radio. Kedua fitur ini memang sudah disertakan di Secret. Bahkan untuk musik sendiri, pabrikan asal Korea ini sudah pula menyertakan teknologi bluetooth A2DP. Pada paket penjualannya juga disertakan headset untuk mendengarkan musik dan radio.

O F F I C E
Fasilitas fitur kantoran juga telah ada di seri ini. Format dokumen berupa txt, Pdf, Doc, PPT, dan xls bisa dibuka dan ditampilkan di layar.

I N T E R N E T
Berselancar ke dunia maya dengan Secret terasa cepat. Kemampuannya untuk berjalan di jalur HSDPA dan juga adanya fasilitas GPRS dan EDGE membuat kita bisa memilih jaringan koneksi sesuai ketersediaan dari operator yang digunakan.

P H O N E M E M O R Y
Fasilitas penyimpanan data alias memori internal sebesar 100 Mb. Untuk mengantisipasi keterbatasan memori, LG telah menyediakan slot memori eksternal berjenis micro SD hingga kapasitas 4 Gb.

K O N E K T I V I T A S
Tanpa infrared bukan jadi masalah buat seri ini. Ada bluetooth dan USB serta PC sync yang bisa digunakan untuk memindahkan data.

KINERJA:
Secara umum kinerja Secret KF750 nyaris sangat baik. Tidak ada kendala yang berarti saat mengoperasikannya. Saat sedang memutar lagu, kita juga bisa membuka menu-menu lainnya karena adanya fasilitas multitasking dari LG.

Kinerja Baterai :
Data dari vendor, Secret memiliki ketahanan baterai untuk siaga sebesar 260 jam dan waktu operasi 4 jam. Tenaga baterai secret sebesar 800 mAh dengan jenis teknologi baterai Lithium ion.

SONY-ERICSSON W890 SPECIFICATION

9 - Menu Walkman:

It takes more after that HTC Touch HD and 3G, will also propose a new model, Touch Viva!

This smartphone is especially dedicated to developing countries. It loads all the mechanics of Touch a year ago, with some changes: exit the glass plate to protect the screen, but a simple plastic film to reduce the cost of mobile.



The version of TouchFLO is 2D, which is fast enough and retains all the features of the smartphone.

Touch This should not be sold in our lands. Too bad, a mobile Powerful not too expensive, it lacks a little!

Find all the characteristics under the sheets

Now, the Koreans will raise the issue of standardization of this service to use the same throughout the world. For example, to travel abroad should be able to use his mobile as a tool for payment and it is necessary that the terminal payments, telecommunications networks, banking etc… are all compatible with each other. At the local level in France, at Orange, "we are a member of the SWOT (French Association of Mobile Operators) to ensure interoperability already" at the national level with the various stakeholders involved indicates Mung-Ki Woo.

Doug Chambers returns on other matters for the development of uses "non-contact" including ease of use. Because the applications are numerous, we discussed the m-payment, other uses are possible as shown by tests of the RATP. Indeed, Gemalto testing with the RATP since September 2005, paying his ticket from the mobile. Just spend his phone over the turnstile to validate its passage.

Byungki OH in Korean operator KTF adds other uses already available in safety (a few examples of services are presented in our special feature Japan:). It could replace the portfolio completely by becoming a passport, identity card, driving licence or a certificate of insurance. The mobile becomes a key to his house or his apartment. It is easy to imagine the personal applications but other professional applications can be envisaged as a tool to increase reading meters.

The benefits of contactless technology are many and lead to more productivity. An instructive example cited by Byungki OH, with the payment from his mobile, this operation takes on average after their analyses 15 seconds to a fund MacDonald, then it takes 20 seconds for a payment by credit card and 30 seconds cash (payment terminals bank cards today are compatible with this technology NFC). If we add all these second earned, the employee productivity gains! Another advantage with this technology NFC, Jerome Sion precisely that even the laptop off and without battery technology works. No risk, therefore, to find the door at home at the end of the day because the battery of his mobile has more juice. " In case the user loses his laptop, it is possible to stop the use of mobile card distance and re-activate a new card without needing to receive by mail a new credit card! It would be a smart NFC generic configurable and customizable distance.

The limits for the moment mainly reside in the lack of standardized technologies for mobile payments. Today, the GSM Association, Doug Chambers as its head, is committed in its programme of "Pay-Buy Mobile" to establish standards and meet global telephone operators, bank groups such as MasterCard to set place a comprehensive solution. This group will define the roles of each stakeholder in the chain at the international level. The GSM Association is working with the NFC Forum which brings together the majority of players involved in this project. The challenge is to define a real international trade policy for these uses be useful but also viable.

The next rendezvous NFC forum will take place in Monaco in April, discussions will focus towards standardization and economic issues.

Cellular phone becomes a multi-functions tools. With the arrival of smartphones, allows the phone call, not only surf the Internet, send and receive emails its etc… We had the opportunity to participate in a roundtable organized by Orange to provide an update on a recent application: pay with his mobile.

The main speakers at the discussion were Doug Chambers, President of the GSM Association (3GSM trade show organizer), Mung-Ki Woo, head of mobile payments at Orange, Jerome Sion, Contactless & m-commerce Director at Gemalto (specialist card SIM) and Byungki OH Director of Strategy at KTF (Korean telephone operator).
Why use the mobile as a means of payment? That is the question that can arise.

Studies show that the phone is the object that users always prevail with them when they come to forget their keys even from home, reminds us Jerome Sion. One can imagine then that the motive is often more accessible than the wallet. There are 1.5 billion credit cards in circulation throughout the world and nearly 2.6 billion mobile phones are connected. In 2011, 500 million mobile phones embedding the technology will allow its users to consume more to spend $ 36 billion via their mobile!

The principle of "Mobile payment" as it is called is a new mode of payment from his mobile. Above all, it needs to be secured to be adopted. Doug Chambers tells us it took a search technology adapted to all these new uses for a secure exchange of data. After many tests and experiments technology NFC (Near Filed Communication) has emerged as indicated Byungki OH. At KTF, we launched our first mobile services without contact in 2002. We started with RFID chips, and infra-red and today we use the NFC with USIM cards. So far, we Korea 12 million users of mobile payments services (about 10 million users in Japan in 18 months).

Nokia announced yesterday that it expanded the availability of Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync to all Nokia S60 3rd edition. Forty-three Nokia handsets now incorporate the application of mobile messaging Mail for Exchange, thus becoming the widest range of devices compatible with the first messaging solution chosen by companies. Nokia also announced today that the Mail application for Exchange will be ready for use on future versions of Nokia Eseries and Nokia Nseries.


With this announcement, Nokia enables approximately 80 million mobile phone users - the number of devices converging Nokia S60 3rd edition sold worldwide so far - to connect to their email accounts via Exchange Server.

The owners of Nokia devices whose company uses Exchange can configure Mail Exchange for free on their machines in different ways, without paying service fees or additional subscription: using the plug-in configuration email the home screen, running the application on file Download! or via the Setup Wizard. Once the application configured, they use their usual data plan to access real-time messaging to their work, their agenda, their contacts, their tasks and directory company, via a secure connection.

Like its competitors Nokia and Samsung, Sony Ericsson continues to innovate, we regularly offer new mobile.

Absent in the field of mobile GPS, Sony Ericsson we gratifie its first mobile integrating a GPS chip, with a few bonus features associated with it, while Nokia launched its first mobile GPS ago nearly two years.
Sony Ericsson has lagged behind in this field, or the Japanese-Swedish manufacturer he matures before this technology to integrate it into its mobile?

With the C702, Sony Ericsson offers a mobile for the fighters, who most of us can surf, was announced as being resistant to splashing water and dust. This is very interesting…!


The Sony Ericsson mobile C702 is a piece that includes a TFT screen that can display up to 262 000 colors, a keypad consisting of showers spaced allowing seizure correct, a pad and shortcut keys (on the front), the adjustment sound and a button for taking photos (on edge right), a card reader M2 and a GPS chip (on the left-hand), an owner connectors (on the lower portion), a switch (on top ), An APN of 3.2 Mpixels with autofocus protected by a sliding cover and a flash (on the back side).

The opening of the casing is done by turning a screw to the left, but removing the hull remains difficult to make.

The power-up shows a bright screen gives a good display of information.

The main menu includes twelve sub-menus:
-- PlayNow
-- Internet
-- Leisure
-- Cyber-shot
-- Messaging
-- Media
-- Service localization
-- Contacts
-- Radio
-- Calls
-- Organizer
-- Settings.

1 - PlayNow
This menu allows you, via a connection Data, you connect to a site of the same name, in order to be able to download ringtones, music, games, ... fee.

2 - Internet
The Sony Ericsson C702 allows you to browse on all types of web sites or in portrait mode to landscape mode.
The display websites reduced size is correct. The display of larger sites is average, even illegible.
The web page starter by default created by Sony Ericsson is enriched by a new link called "Scoopt". The new service allows you to send Scoopt your photos and videos. Scoopt store, and then tries to sell these photos to the media, and you repay 50% of money collected on the sale of your achievements.
The management of RSS feeds is also supported. Setting a data account for connecting the web is very simple.Additional Java applications such as Gmail, Skype, Yahoo! Go can be downloaded directly from the web browser for the Sony Ericsson C702.

Entertainment and photos / videos

3 - Entertainment
This menu provides access to games, create videos (Video DJ), bells (Music DJ), edit photos (Photo DJ), to use a remote Bluetooth, recording sounds,…. Three games come standard: Brain Juice, Foto QuestFishin and MeBoy.

4 - Cyber-shot
Pictures taken by the Sony Ericsson C702 are average when the brightness is good and very bad when the lights are low.
As on most models of the mark, some settings are unavailable depending on the mode of taking photo used, which is annoying.
The photos taken can be retouched with the application "PhotoDJ" proposed standard. One of the new Sony Ericsson C702, is that photos can be geo-taggées, ie a detection satellite is made to launch the Cyber-shot application, and upon detection satellite made, all photos taken include the position of where they were captured.
When the application Cyber-shot starts, the right side of the four keys right to illuminate blue, because they correspond to four keys shortcuts available as the application is open: the shooting mode, selecting scenes , Activation / deactivation of retardant, and management of flash.
The videos are encoded directly to MPEG4 format. However, the quality of video is rather poor, especially when viewed on a PC.

Messaging and playing video / music

5 - Messaging
The menu messaging allows sending and receiving SMS, MMS and E. Mail, but also to retrieve and view RSS sites on which subscribes.
Sending and receiving SMS works perfectly.
The setting up accounts E. Mail is fairly easy to make, as long as we have the right parameters.
For the display RSS feeds, links are provided by default Sony Ericsson (Google, BBC, ...). This service works perfectly if they have an option Data on your package.

6 - Media
This menu allows access to all files stored on the Sony Ericsson C702, ordered by file type ": Photo, Music, Video.

Playing photos:
The display photos and images on the Sony Ericsson C702 is available in different forms: photo album (image file name), images (in the form of vignettes (3 lines),….
Photos can be viewed in portrait or landscape mode, with different zoom levels, including allowing a photo size to the size of the screen before the position as wallpaper, for example, or simply for amend and rework with the application "PhotoDJ", which shortcuts are available as an option.
In the menu "Options", a new sub-menu called "show on map" has made its appearance.
Without user guide comes with the C702 and lack of user guide available on the net, I suppose that this function is used to position the photo on one of two proposed maps on the C702: Wayfinder or Google Maps.
I tried to use this feature to position two photos taken during a satellite detection, but it has yielded no results.

Playing Music:
A reading of the music works well.
The ergonomics of the player is very pleasing to the eye. The photo on the cover of the album, the artist's name, title and the album are viewable when playing a title.

Playing videos:
It is from this menu that can be accessed from reading the MPEG4 videos, which can be read both in portrait mode, in landscape mode.
Despite the small size of the screen, landscape mode provides a good reading, whether in speakerphone mode, or with a kit pedestrian.

As on other mobile brand Swedish: when you leave the display of information in landscape mode without the prior reactivate portrait mode, sub-menus and applications appear in landscape mode automatically when we connects back to this directory.
Sub - menus "TV" and "Web Flow" are also available. I did not manage to make them work.

The GPS solutions

7 - localization Service
A first for Sony Ericsson, the presence of a microchip equipped with GPS technology "-GPS, which can be located more quickly using the network of mobile operator.
Wayfinder is installed on the mobile, and Google Maps. The location of mobile satellite is extremely long, which is surprising because of the presence of technology "-GPS".
The positioning on the card is not always very precise, and navigation is not working very well, sometimes there are loupés and recalculations of routes is not done forever.
A specific view can view the whole route on a map. A newspaper identified the different positions of mobile minute by minute.
On Google Maps, positioning carried out using the network operator is approximate. The GPS chip for the Sony Ericsson C702 does not seem to be used with this application. Weird.

Contacts and organizer

8 - Contacts
The contacts list of Sony Ericsson C702 can manage contacts cards very complete. It is possible to synchronize contacts, calendar and notes with MS Outlook via a PC.

9 - Radio
The Sony Ericsson C702 incorporates an FM radio RDS is working well, on condition that they connect a pedestrian kit. It is also possible to listen to the radio through the loudspeaker.
The service allows TrackID, while listening to a title, a record clip, and send it to a server which in turn communicates the name of the title and the artist.
It is also possible to send this information directly via SMS.

10 - Calls
This menu lists all calls received, issued, and missed.

11 - Organizer
This menu allows access to the management of alarms, "launch" of a video call, access to the agenda, the management tasks and notes, the synchronization (with a web server) and d other functions (timer, stopwatch, calculator, helps memory (for storing personal information).

Settings and quality phone

12 - Settings
This menu allows you to the main phone settings (profiles, sounds and alerts, display wallpapers or themes, ..., call options, Bluetooth connectivity, Data, ...).
Petit very nice: the ability to select a video ringtone default.
Exchanges via Bluetooth function quickly and completely, either in transmission or reception, and that, whatever the file size.

13 - Module phone
Concerning the making and receiving calls, the Sony Ericsson C702 is a good mobile phone.
The sound quality during calls is good, but on speakerphone sound saturates quickly.
The beaming of the network is good.
Autonomy is correct, but the use of GPS discharge the battery too quickly.

Promises and conclusion

14 - Other
Last very interesting aspect of this Sony Ericsson C702: resistance to dust and splashes. Unless I am mistaken, this is the third mobile proposed by Ericsson and Sony Ericsson to integrate these characteristics.
Only the water resistance of Sony Ericsson C702 has been tested: the C702 received a small glass of water on the head. "
Overall, it seems to have resisted, but the sound of the speaker appears to have significantly decreased volume.

Characteristics:
GPS functionality with "A-GPS", Google Maps Mobile
Resistant to dust and splash (in accordance with the standard-IP54-Ingress protection)
Cyber-shot, Digital Camera 3.2 Mpixels with autofocus, flash and digital zoom - up to 2x, Lighting photo
SMS, MMS, Client E.mail
GSM 850 / GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900 / UMTS 2100 / EDGE / HSDPA , Video Blog
Dimensions: 106 x 48 x 16 mm, Weight: 105 grams
262 144 TFT color (240x320 pixels)
Memory: 150 MB + card reader Memory Stick M2 (up to 4 GB)
Performances
Talk time: up to 300 hours, Autonomy Standby: Up to 7 hours
Video Recording, Mega Bass, PlayNow, Real music - MP3, AAC, Stereo Bluetooth (A2DP)
TrackID
RSS, Navigator Web Access NetFront, Java, 3D Games, Video streaming, Radio - FM radio RDS, Viewing Video, Modem, PictBridge, USB support, USB mass storage, Synchronization PC, Bluetooth Technology, Loudspeaker, Polyphonic ringtones, Vibrate, Video
Electronic Agenda, Calculator, Stopwatch, Contacts, Timer, Airplane Mode, Notes
Directory, Alarm, Tasks
(You can find the source here).

Aspicore GSM Tracker 3

Price : EUR 33.00
Developper : Aspicore Ltd
Application: 3.02
File size: 319 kb
Supported Phone:
Nokia N93i, Nokia N93, Nokia N92, Nokia N91, Nokia N80, Nokia N76, Nokia N73, Nokia N71, Nokia E70, Nokia E65, Nokia E61i, Nokia E61, Nokia E60, Nokia E50, Nokia 6290, Nokia 5500, Nokia 3250
USER: User's Guide (in English)

Aspicore GSM Tracker is an S60 application, which makes the Nokia Smartphone into a real-time AVL (Automatic Vehicle Location) tracking device.

The application determines the location with a Bluetooth GPS receiver and transmits the tracking data to a server in real-time through a cellular packet data connection.


Individual users can use Aspicore GSM Tracker for personal location tracking. They can e.g. automatically publish their current location and track daily on their web page.

Communication is fast and reliable and costs åre low, because the application uses packet data transfer technology and a very compact messaging protocol. The latency between the actual GPS position fix and receive data event in the server is normally only a few seconds.

The application is not a standalone system. It is a component, which must be integrated into a tracking system before its full power can be utilized.

NB. Some of the sample screenshot images contain functionality, which is not included inside the application. "Tracking Juha 'info display is done with a PHP script running in a PC computer. The map is from the S60 web browser after selecting "Current position" - "Show in browser" from the application's Options menu. Bluetooth GPS device or a cell phone with integrated GPS is recommended. The possible GPS must be purchased separately.