Apple has introduced in-ear headphones for just $79. Well, what does it make it so different from the other headphones in the market. There are three reasons for it: Firstly, it is made by Apple. Secondly, it has built-in woofer and tweeter. Thirdly, it is Apple (again I know!). It is shocking that is not compatible with the iPhone. It comes with these things in the box:
Well, this is from a Malaysian who bought this from Russia. Here is the sad part, he does not know Russian and since he is in Malaysia, he cannot test WiMax.
Here are few quotes from his review,
The specs of the device is pretty much a beefed up htc Diamond. Bigger screen (3.8″), widescreen resolution (640×800), lots of memory (8GB+microSD expansion). Of course, it comes with WiMAX apart from the WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS and GSM/EDGE connectivity.
The htc Max lives up to it’s name. It’s big, heavy and thick.
You can call anyone within Yota network using WiMAX instead of GSM.
I couldn’t enjoy the full benefit of using Yota’s services, nor could I enjoy the phone due to my poor Russian (hahaha…). The phone is a little large for most people’s preference, but the big screen certainly is better than the tiny Diamond. But this device certainly sets a benchmark for all WiMAX devices to come. Continue reading “HTC MAX/ HTC Quartz/ HTC T8290 review”
We posted about the white touch Diamond a couple of months back, but we could see it in flesh. One of the visitors of my website sent me the link to the dailymobile.se who have pictures of the Touch Diamond white.
I still find the black version prettiest. May be thats me.
Other than the change in color, nothing else has changed. Of course, you get a matching white stylus to go with the white color and that is where the differences end.
Thanks Jake for the tip!
Nokia today announced that it has completed its offer to acquire Symbian Limited. All conditions to Nokia’s offer to acquire Symbian Limited have been satisfied and it has received valid acceptance of greater than 99.9% of the total Symbian shares that Nokia did not already own. Symbian is the software company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market-leading open operating system for mobile devices.
All Symbian employees are planned to become Nokia employees on February 1, 2009.
iPlus in Poland have already started selling the 3G version of the NC10 with 4 different types of contracts to choose from.
From what I could make out, out of Polish, they are giving NC10 with slightly different specs:
No no! This is not a HTC Tilt. Look carefully. It is the new Nokia N97. Nokia N97 is the new N-series phone from Nokia, which also sports a touch-screen!
It has 360 x 640 resolution (where do you get these numbers?) touchscreen. It also has haptic feedback along with the following:
My friend, who was there at the launch event, was able to get a hands-on the N97 and has said that they slide mechanism is very nicely designed. It keyboard flushes with the unit and the whole unit then feels like one part.
Here is the Press Release: Continue reading “Presenting Nokia N97”
HIS is a graphic card manufacture that is going to jump into Netbook bandwagon. HIS is going to launch a netbook, which is actually a rebranded just-another-msi-wind-u100.
It is going to be released in India for price of around $400. I would not recommend to buy it as one can purchase the Wind U100 directly for the same price! Specs are same as Wind U100, but here they go again anyway: Continue reading “HIS netbook = another re-branded MSI Wind”
It looks like the Eee Box is going to face some tough competition in coming months. Other manufactures won’t sit behind. We knew that a lot of manufactures would emulate this kind of device. I’m not really sure that would be available in the market of US and other international countries. Currently, it is Japan only.
Here are some specifications of this nettop:
Official Webpage (japanese!)
In the past week, we reviewed Skyfire. We also published that the upcoming version of the Opera will let you view youtube videos inside the browser window itself. This clearly shows how powerful the web browsers are becoming every day.
History
Few years back, Netfront was the only viable Internet Explorer mobile(then, Pocket Internet Explorer) alternative that offered more features than the Internet Explorer mobile. With the introduction of iPhone last year, which offered very robust internet experience forced other internet software houses to make their products better.
Heavy emphasis started to be given on:
Opera Mobile 9.5 paved the way for providing great mobile internet experience to the Windows mobile users. It has been a great success for the windows mobile users as-well-as for the windows mobile brand. Netfront used to be the user’s choice during the non-opera days. After the Opera mobile was launched, it started giving tough competition to the Netfront. It nearly took the whole game away from the Netfront after the release of revolutionary Opera Mobile 9.5.
We all thought Netfront by access was dead as the last official version of Netfront(version 3.3) was released nearly 3 years back! Access did released a couple of betas. Now, after a long period of time, they have come up with Concept version of Netfront browser v3.5. So, does this newly release concept version promises to give users the ultimate mobile experience. Does the Netfront browser holds any chance of regaining it’s lost market share? Read on to find out
Installation
I installed the just released Netfront v3.5 concept version from their official site(link here). The installation went ok and the Access site suggests to install it in the main memory as it may cause instability issues if installed in the storage card. Even I have always advised the users to install browsers and today plugins in the main memory.
Internet Experience
So, how does the browser performs? Well, it behaves the opposite way most of the current slew of web browsers behave. When you open a web page on the netfront, it opens the page in zoom-in mode. This is unlike Opera mobile(on windows mobile) and Safari(on Apple iPhone and iPod Touch), which open the web page in zoom-out mode. The user then taps into the required section and then the web browser zooms in to that section.
The netfront opens the web page in the zoom out mode. The text is wrapped around the window for easy reading just like Opera Mobile.
Double tapping into any region would pop up a little window which shows you the overview of the page. Then, you can use your finger to move around the various parts of the page.
Whenever you do scrolling, you can also see that the pageMap thumbnail appears on the top-left corner. This lets you scroll up and down.
Browsing speed
I did notice some speed improvements over its previous official version, but I found it to be little slow when compared to Opera Mobile. Skyfire seemed to be the fastest, but it follows a totally different approach (processes data at its Skyfire server)
Bookmarks
The way the bookmarks are implemented in the new version is simply fantastic. Dragging your finger/stylus in clockwise/anti clockwise direction will take you to the adjacent bookmark. Very nicely done!
What I look out for in the final build?
I’m definitely looking forward to the final version to provide native viewing of youtube videos inside the browser window. You cannot use plugins in the concept version. Also, I would want netfront folks to make the whole UI more finger-friendly. Are they not aware that it is the era of touch-friendly devices? They have made no changes to the UI when compared to the version 3.3.
Also, there is no progress bar which shows the user the progress of the page that has loaded so far.
You can download the latest Netfront v3.5 Concept version (for free right now) from the following link:
http://www.access-company.com/products/mobile_solutions/netfrontmobile/browser/35_wm_tp.html
The designer of this skin describes the suit as “A New Revolution”. He is not wrong when he says it especially when you look at the quality of the skin suit.
