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04 December 2006, 13:41
Samsung SGH-i600 - the best MS Smartphone ever
Samsung SGH-i600 Smartphone
Samsung was showing its SGH-i600 Smartphone at IFA 2006 and judging by what we’ve seen, RIM should be afraid for the popularity of its beloved Blackberry.
It has everything you would need in a tiny ultra-flat smartphone, including Blackberry-like wheel, QWERTY keyboard for single-handed usage, video calling, HSDPA, built-in WiFi, Bluetooth, podcast downloader (!!!), RSS reader, and more... and since Moto Q has no WiFi and HTC Excalibur has no 3G, this truly is the best MS Smartphone powered phone ever!
The i600 is single-handed design so you don’t need to use both thumbs to navigate the QWERTY keypad and it has a decent-sized 2.3inch screen with 320x240 resolution and 65,000 colours. It supports HSDPA, EDGE, GSM, UMTS and GPRS and has a 1.3Megapixel camera on the back and a smaller camera for video calling on the front. Other parts of the spec include 802.11b/g wireless, Bluetooth, 128MB ROM, 64MB RAM and a MicroSD slot.
The Samsung SGH-i600 runs Windows Mobile 5, just like the Motorola Q, but is tri-band GSM instead of Verizon's CDMA. Other notable features: EDGE, HSDPA (yay for Cingulites), 320x240 TFT display, 128MB ROM, 64MB RAM, microSD expansion slot, and a TI OMAP 1710 processor that goes up to 220MHz. I personally enjoy WM5 phones, even if they do tend to crash a lot thanks to its complexity. So this may be one phone worth waiting for.
Samsung’s UK PR tells us that it isn’t aware of a UK launch date for the i600. We reckon it’ll start to roll out before Christmas and hope that it crosses the Channel some time soon.
Specifications:
This candybar is run by Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone and has a QWERTY-keypad. Also it works in 3G UMTS networks, with HSDPA services, uses Wi-Fi and has a Bluetooth module.
• Class: smartphone, 3Gnews.yahoo.comHONG KONG - Samsung Electronics Co.,South Korea's largest corporation, joined Microsoft Corp. on Monday in launching the first mobile phone in Asia and Europe to use high-speed HSDPA wireless technology. The companies said the phone — the Samsung Ultra Messaging i600 — was the world's thinnest 3G smartphone with a full QWERTY keyboard. It is also the first smartphone that supports Web applications like podcasts and RSS Feeder, which scans Web sites for updates, the companies said. The announcement was made in Hong Kong at ITU Telecom World 2006, a major convention for the telecommunications industry. The companies said the phone, which can connect with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0, was designed for work and play. It has two digital cameras and can be used for 3G video calls. "The mobile population is increasingly looking to use one device that easily plugs into their life, both in and out of the office," said Pieter Knook, a senior vice president at Microsoft. The device, powered by Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0, uses the new mobile protocol called HSDPA, or high-speed downlink packet access, that provides faster downloads of video and streaming music. The download speed is designed to be as fast as those provided by ADSL, or Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line, used in homes.
• Position in the line: above Samsung i320
• Rivals: Motorola Q
• Description based on official information, preliminary
General features
• Announced in 2006, announced September 2006
• eGSM 900/1800/1900, UMTS 2100/HSDPA
• Battery type Li-Ion
• Battery life:
• talk mode is specified
• standby mode is specified
• 2,3" TFT-display with the resolution of QVGA (240x320 pixels) and support for up to 65000 colours
• Operating system: Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone
• Colours: black
• Weight: is specified
• Dimensions: are specified
Memory
• Phonebook - several numbers for a name, also you can assign an image, photo and melody, even MP3
• Unlimited number of user groups, assign a name to several groups at once
• Call lists, no limit on the number of entries, not only time and date of the call are specified but the type as well. You can set storage period for call entries (a month by default)
• 64 MB of RAM and 128 MB of Flash-memory
• Connector for microSD
Call management, ringing tones
• Vibracall
• Polyphonic call melodies, 64-tones
• Fast dial
• Automatic redial
• Speakerphone
SMS
• Predictive text input Т9
• Concatenated messages
• Message templates
• Sending and receiving graphical messages
Camera
• Integrated 1.3 MP camera (the maximum resolution of 1280x1024 pixels)
• Video recording capability, MPEG4/Н.263
• Digital zoom
• Effects
• Frontal VGA-camera for videocalls
Multimedia
• mp3/aac files as call melodies
• Integrated video and audio player (MPEG4, H.263, МР3, ААC, ААC+, е-ААC)
• Java (MIDP 2.0)
Connectivity
• Integrated mail client (SMTP/POP3/IMAP4)
• GPRS class 10
• EDGE Class 10
• WAP 2.0/xHTML
• Wi-Fi (802.11b/g)
• Bluetooth
• MMS
• Push e-mail
• SyncML
• Synchronization with PC (USB, Bluetooth)
Organizer and extras
• A complete set of standard applicarions for Windows Mobile
• Pixel Viewer (programs for viewing files MS Word, Exel, PDF)
• Dictaphone
• Date, time, world time
• Alarm clock, reminders
• Timer, stopwatch, calculator
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03 December 2006, 16:02
Blu-ray Disc™ Player BDP-S1 has landed, finally!
Blu-ray Disc™ Player BDP-S1
After just a few delays (cough, cough) it appears that Sony's first Blu-ray player -- the BDP-S1 -- has finally landed, and a few days early to boot. Sony’s latest launch and first ever “Blu-ray Disc Player”. As always Sony’s all the products look normal but they have something unique; and so does this one.
What you've been waiting for is finally here. Sony's first ever Blu-ray Disc™ player is the definitive high definition experience.
The “Blu-ray Disc Player” is one step ahead of all the other DVD players. It gives an output of 1020 x 1080, which is the highest among all its competitors. The only ordinary feature about this player is that it plays all the formats like others.With this Sony has also intoduced “Blu-ray Disc” which is also unique for its own features. This format of disc has a capacity of 25 GB (Single Layer) and 50 GB (Double Layer) which is almost 5 to 10 times huge than other DVD’s.
Specifications:
• Inputs and Outputs
• HDMI™ Connection1 Output(s): 1 (Rear)
• Component Video (Y/Pb/Pr) Output(s): 1 (Rear)
• S-Video Output(s): 1 (Rear)
• Composite Audio Output(s): 1 (Rear)
• Optical Audio Output(s): 1 (Rear)
• Coaxial Audio Digital Output(s): 1 (Rear)
• Analog Audio Output(s): 5.1 ch; 1 (Rear)
• Analog Audio Output(s): 2 ch; 1 (Rear)
• IR Input(s): 1 (Rear)
The new BDP-S1 Blu-ray Disc home player from Sony offers a host of new high-definition entertainment possibilities. The BDP-S1 features 1920 x 1080p output, the highest HD signal output currently available through a HDMI™ connection. If your HD-capable television does not have an HDMI connection, you can still get the Blu-ray experience - the 1080i analog output allows for HD-capable televisions without HDMI to enjoy Blu-ray Disc features. The BDP-S1 is also compatible with standard DVDs with the added feature of 1080p upscaling through HDMI, which gives new life to existing DVDs libraries. BD-Java interactivity will further enhance the BD entertainment experience, allowing for development of advanced interactive features. Its sophisticated design, with blue glass front, will compliment any decor. Bring your home entertainment experience to a new level with the BDP-S1 Blu-ray Disc home player.
www.sonystyle.comDesigned for those passionate about their home entertainment experience, the Sony® BDP-S1 Blu-ray Disc™ Player unleashes the full potential of your high-definition television. Experience full 1080p high-definition video and surround-sound with depth and clarity like never before.1 The Sony BDP-S1 Blu-ray Disc Player brings highest of the HD resolution available—straight to your home . As a principal developer and the leader in HD entertainment, Sony knows Blu-ray Disc technology inside-out. Our BDP-S1 Blu-ray Disc Player uses Sony “Cinema Tuned” Digital Processing to produce cinema-quality surround sound and strikingly true visuals. The BDP-S1 adds extra excitement to films and concerts by enabling interactive capabilities with BD-Java—offering a new dimension in “bonus features.” And the BDP-SI is backwards compatible with your existing DVD library, creating a better image than a DVD player ever could. More, in every sense.
About Blu-ray Disc™
The format provides five times larger capacity than today's DVDs, with unprecedented storage capacity of 25 GB (single-layer) and 50 GB (dual-layer). Blu-ray Disc™ players will be fully backward compatible with current DVD formats, delivering entertainment content in full high-definition (HD) quality, under a secure environment made possible through the most advanced copyright protection technology.
Blu-ray Disc™ provides picture quality beyond anything available, with full capability 1080p/24 resolution in Blu-ray and Up to 40Mbps bit encoding - 5X current DVD. The theater quality "uncompressed" audio supports 8 channels of Liner PCM, Up to 32 streams of audio, interactive capability, seamless menus, integrated games, hi-def bonus and educational features. Java will allow for more dynamic, more sophisticated interactivity.
Blu-ray Disc™ was created to match the accelerating growth in digital consumer electronics and computer technology. The platform supports the convergence of film, music, gaming and other computer entertainment in a single standard. Sony Computer Entertainment's adoption of Blu-ray Disc™ ROM technology in the next-generation PlayStation 3 system was announced at the 2005 Electronic Entertainment Expo.
• Blu-ray Disc / DVD Playback • Video Codec Format : MPEG2/MPEG4-AVC/VC-1 • Full HD 1080p Video Output through HDMI connection • DVD Upscaling to 1080p • Picture Mode Settings • Uncompressed Multi Channel Linear PCM Output • Dolby® Digital Plus(Dolby® Digital audio stream only), Dolby® TrueHD (Dolby® Digital audio stream only) dts®-HD --- (dts audio stream only) Digital Out and decoding capability • Dolby® Digital and dts® 5.1channel Output • Multi Channel 192KHz/24bit Audio D/A Converters • Rigid Beam Construction • Separated Audio Circuit Board • Highly Tuned Audio Parts • Drive Bracket for stability of drive system • Individual Speaker Setting • Off Center Insulator Feet • Pop up Menu • Quick Set Up • FL Off/Dimmer Mode • Screen Saver • MP3 and JPEG Playback from DVD Media • Parental Control • IR In • Multi Brand TV Control Remote • Sophisticated Box Design with blue glass front
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02 December 2006, 11:22
Top Ten Viral Videos: Star Wars Kid, Numa Numa, Paris Hilton, Kylie Minogue
Why do 900m people tune in to watch this teenager?
Adam Sherwin, Media Correspondent
William Hung channeling 'Star Wars' kid So what's the video like? "Imagine William Hung of 'American Idol' channeling the 'Star Wars' kid - the last big cult hit in computerland - and you get the picture," said the New York Daily News. "The highlight may be the moment when he flicks his tongue at the lens. Or maybe when he raises one eyebrow twice over his wire-rimmed spectacles." "You wonder for a second when you're watching it, is this for real," Joe Levy of Rolling Stone magazine told Matt Lauer of the "Today" show. "Is it a phenomenon? Oh, yeah. Are people richly amused? Oh yes, very much so." So much, pointed out Lauer, that Brolsma's handiwork made VH-1's "Best Week Ever" list. Lauer's own take: While many e-mails don't live up to their promises to deliver humor, "This one is the real deal."
The boom in viewing homemade video clips, forwarded over the internet and posted on sites such as YouTube, has created a new breed of overnight stars. Ghyslain’s two minutes of fame has proved more popular than notorious footage of Paris Hilton and a raunchy underwear advertisement starring Kylie Minogue.
I will give you my opinion on this spectacular video. One Night In Paris is was originally a homemade video. Yes, the kind of homemade video people usually don't talk about or show their friends. I don't know why some couples make them but I'm glad that Paris Hilton and Rick Solomon decided to make their. Rick may be a dickhead for releasing the video as One Night In Paris to the whole world but I'm not complaining. Paris Hilton sure is one sexy girl and the sex is awesome. You don't need to be Einstein to understand that millions of guys around the world are in envy of Rick after they've seen One Night In Paris.
But like Ms Hilton, Ghyslain, a 15-year-old Quebec schoolboy, was none too pleased to see the footage made public. He is seen swinging a mock light sabre; a clip that has earned him cult status, and which can be seen tonight in a UKTV G2 series devoted to the phenomenon, Totally Viral. He is suing his classmates for £140,000.
Television companies, losing viewers to the net, are now launching channels to show “viral videos”. Research by the marketing agency The Viral Factory found that the Star Wars clip had been forwarded 900 million times. The runner-up, Numa Numa, features a New Jersey teenager, Gary Brolsma, 19, lip-synching to a Romanian pop song. It has been seen 700 million times. He has since accepted an offer to appear in a TV advert for Bluetooth iPod headphones.
Dance to Romanian tune cracks up the world
A bespectacled, lip-synching young man from the Jersey suburbs has become the hottest thing to hit the Internet since the Spiridellis brothers started making JibJab cartoons.
Gyrating before a Webcam to the techno beat of a Romanian pop song without ever leaving his chair, Gary Brolsma's uncanny timing in a video he calls "Numa Numa Dance" has Web watchers cracking up around the globe and cramming the e-mail boxes of their friends with links to the cyber hit.
Featured Thursday on NBC's "Today" show, the video has already gotten more than a million hits on one Web site, according to one report. On MSNBC.com, "searches for this kid absolutely dominate our site search today," according to producer Will Femia.
Brolsma, 19, of Saddle Brook, N.J., performs his hit to the strains of O-Zone's "Dragostea Din Tei," a song that would be titled "Love Among the Linden Trees" in English. The "Numa Numa" title of the video is from a line in the song.
A BBC Online survey has found that the online video craze is eating into the time that young people spend watching television, with 43 per cent of those who watch video from the internet or on a mobile device at least once a week saying they now watch less normal television as a result.
Viral videos: the top ten
1 Star Wars Kid (viewed 900 million times)
2 Numa Numa (700m)
3 One Night in Paris (400m)
4 Kylie Minogue: Agent Provocateur (360m)
5 Exploding Whale (350m)
6 John West Salmon Bear Fight (300m)
7 Trojan Games (300m)
8 Kolla2001 (200m)
9 AfroNinja (80m)
10 The Shining Redux (50m)
However, Ricky Gervais, whose audio and video podcasts have become hits on the web, believes amateur video will never replace television. “You can’t knock up an episode of The Sopranos or 24 on a little handheld digital camera,” he told the BBC News website.
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