Author: Tarandeep Kaur

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It is official – UIQ is history now

Software Company, UIQ which was jointly owned by Sony Ericsson and Motorola has filed in the court of Sweden for bankruptcy. The company’s official say that there is no market and no consumer for the UIQ platform. For those who don’t know about UIQ, it is the mobile OS that powered the Sony Ericsson’s Pxxx series so far, which includes P800, P900, P910, P990 and P1i. It also powered the Motorola A1000.

Last year, with the announcement by Sony Ericsson to use Windows Mobile for their Smartphone range, it was a clear signal that the Sony Ericsson has lost faith in the UIQ platform. To add salt to the wound, Motorola too left the poor UIQ all alone in the game by switching to Android.

It is a known fact that the UIQ had been cutting staff from the past 6 months. Right now, the company is down to just 200 employees. Living and surviving in a competitive phone market is not an easy job. The UIQ, without the support from Sony Ericsson and Nokia, was left crippled to face the likes of iPhone, Windows Mobile, Blackberry and Symbian. The employees of the UIQ are blaming the poor management for the bankruptcy, which is actually not true considering the fact that we saw very less or no development in the UIQ field.

UIQ website

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Pocket Player 4.0 released by Conduits

Conduits Technologies, Inc., announced today the release of Pocket Player 4.0, an alternative media player for Windows Mobile 6 Pocket PC and Smartphone. Pocket Player aims to satisfy consumers who demand more from a dynamic media player on a mobile device, and recently won Best Audio at the 2008 Smartphone and Pocket PC Magazine Best Software Awards for its Pocket PC and Smartphone editions.

Pocket Player 4.0 introduces AAC and M4A playback and podcast subscriptions, as well as enhanced MP3 support and other improvements. Pocket Player 4.0 is fully compatible with all Windows Mobile 6.1, Windows Mobile 6, and Windows Mobile 5.0 devices. Continue reading “Pocket Player 4.0 released by Conduits”

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ThinkPad W700ds officially announced!

Remember the ThinkPad W700ds, which we mentioned about 2 weeks back? Well, during the CES 2009, they have officially announced the W700ds. The ThinkPad W700ds gives users prime screen real-estate as the first mobile workstation in the industry with two screens. Lenovo is calling it as the ultimate mobile workstation.

“The ThinkPad W700ds dual screen mobile workstation challenged our international development team to engineer a notebook to fit the way workstation users work – in the office and on the road,” said Mark Cohen, vice president, Notebook Business Unit, Lenovo. “Bringing this level of innovation to the most extreme PC users required continually balancing size and functionality with keeping the PC cool and quiet. This mobile workstation is the result of where Lenovo innovation and performance intersect.”

Only time will tell, if the users really like the dual-screen concept. While this laptop workstation would be overkill for an average Joe, it will be actually be appreciated by those who desire the extra real-estate while working on documents. One thing to note is that the secondary display acts as a secondary monitor. This means that you cannot use a third monitor to extend the display, if the second monitor is in use.

Visit the W-series webpage

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ezGear Announces New ezSpace Wall Mount UFO

ezGear, a leading manufacturer of innovative electronic accessories announces the extension of their top selling ezSpace UFO space saving surge protectors with the introduction of the ezSpace Wall Mount UFO. Created in the shape of the iconic round “UFO” the ezSpace UFO is a 6 outlet plug expander with built in 1050 Joule surge protection that provides space for a large plug or transformer on each outlet.

The new ezSpace Wall Mount UFO, the 6th product in the ezSpace product family, is our smallest and most cost effective model to date.  The ezSpace Wall Mount UFO plugs directly into the power outlet on your wall and provides the same 6 outlets standard on our other models.  The ezSpace Wall Mount UFO includes a LED indicator and a reset button on the front.  The middle of the ezSpace UFO houses a screw to secure the ezSpace Wall Mount to the outlet, so it will stay in place, even with multiple large transformers plugged in.  Like all other ezSpace models, the ezSpace wall mount UFO on ezGear’s patent pending technology.

The ezSpace Wall Mount UFO will be available in Q2/2009.  For more information please visit www.ezgear.com/UFO/ezSpace_WallMount.html

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MSI X-Slim 320 – MSI’s answer to Apple Macbook Air

MSI is all set to introduce a 13.4-inch notebook, which runs Intel Atom processor. The display has an aspect ratio of 16:9 and weighs a modest 1.3kg. It is incredibly thin too having a depth of just 1.98cm. X-Slim 320 originally comes with a 4-cell battery inside it’s box, but there is also a 8-cell battery which can give you nearly 10 hours of battery life.

MSI X-Slim 320 - MSI's answer to Apple Macbook Air

It also comes with 3 USB ports,  RJ-45 port and card reader. With the rumored price of around $999, this clearly makes it more “bang for a buck” than the Apple’s Macbook Air, which also looks very similar to X-Slim 320 by MSI.

Coming back to the use of Intel Atom processor in MSI X-Slim 320, does this make it a netbook? I guess we will soon have to change the main definition of netbook to one of the following soon:

Any device bigger than 7″ that runs a full Desktop OS and is capable of accessing the Internet

or

Any device that runs Intel Atom processor

I admit the last definition is pretty vague considering the fact that the HP also has plans to use Atom processor in one of their upcoming Notebooks. Netbooks were origianally meant to act like those cheap mini-laptops that offered full desktop OS and could quickly connect us to the Internet. But now, as the Atom is now being used in bigger devices, should them also be considered as netbook?

What are you thoughts?

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Lenovos S10 now offers something more – SocialNetworking application and Multitouch

Almost a month ago, we gave you a brief overview of the Lenovo S10. Lenovo today has unveiled a new version of it’s IdeaPad S10 netbook. Although, there is no major variation in hardware, but the software has something new to offer. It is now coming preloaded with a social networking application called LenovoSocial. Also, there is a new application called Quick Start, which gives the user a list of his frequenty used applications. The trackpad driver also has been updated and it now supports multi-touch.

This new S10 will be available at a price tag of $349.

Visit LenovoSocial

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Pink Eee PC S101 – Perfect shades of Pink [EEE PC]

The first question that comes to girl’s mind when we see a gadget is, “Will it come in pink? ” The answer is, “Yes, the S101 is actually now available in pink”. It seems to be making great impressions with another pink-lover. According to pixiestash, the unit oozes high quality and it makes the EEE 701 look like a mere toy. They further extend the comparison by saying that:

The metal parts are not chrome but understated gunmetal, and the crystals embedded in either end of the hinge are subtly sparkly. The keyboard is unfortunately not pink, but the palm rest and multitouch trackpad are brushed metal and color-matched to the pink cover. Even the case is classier than the 701’s, in brown, padded ultrasuede with matching drawstring bag for the cable and power brick.

Japan already got the hot pink version of S101in December 2008.

[pixiestash]

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Unlock your Samsung Omnia for free

There is no need to pay any online unlocking sites to unlock your Samsung Omnia. Why? Because now you can unlock your device for free!

Unlocking procedure for Samsung i780 and Omnia:

  1. Download ZIP file from here
  2. copy all three .lnk files to your device using activesync’s file explorer
  3. run Lock.lnk on the device
  4. enter valid MCC/MNC of any carrier. Get the list from here ; eg. 26001 for Poland, Plus)
  5. As NCK, enter 12345678
  6. tap OK (it should tell that SIMLock enabled)
  7. run Status.lnk to see if its locked
  8. run Unlock.lnk
  9. enter code entered in point 5 (12345678)
  10. voila!

Alternative method, which works only on Samsung i780, which is simpler: Continue reading “Unlock your Samsung Omnia for free”

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Remap the Panel button of Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 [Windows Mobile]

Do you want to use the Panel button of the Xperia X1 for something other than launching the panel interface? There is a way to do it, but certainly not the most user-friendly way. It involves registry editing and messing up the registry can have undesirable effects, which may involve committing hard-reset.

Here are the steps to do it:

  1. Get a registry editor for windows mobile. If you use Resco Explorer, you can use the free registry editor that comes with it. PHM Registry Editor works fine too
  2. Go to HKLMSoftwareSonyEricssonPanelManagerApplicationName. Here application name is the name of the application
  3. Make sure you point directly to the actual EXE and not the shortcut file (lnk)
  4. Make sure the path is in the following format. “..” should be there as prefix in every case.

“..Windowspword.exe”

via xda-devs thread (via wmpoweruser)