Nokia N900 A new hope

Guys after a long long time Nokia has given a cell phone worth 5 stars.....Check out the review.

Usually when Nokia makes an Nseries announcement the geek world trembles with excitement, expecting to see the next master of the multimedia realm. Nokia N900 didn't make any exception to this rule though it was pitched for its web browsing prowess more than anything else (at least multimedia-wise).

Or at least so it seemed in the beginning, before anyone actually knew how far Nokia has gone with the user experience on the Maemo 5 platform. Soon after it was first demoed, the N900 was quickly deemed a serious peril to most smartphones out there. It even went as far as threatening Nokia's own Symbian platform.

The Nokia N900 has been so universally positive up so far that it easily turned up high on the wishlist of the tech-inclined. Expectations quickly rose quite high matching its top place in the company portfolio lineup.
Now we've got one and while we're working on a full-featured review as we usually do, we decided to post this quick preview covering Nokia N900 key features. And speaking of those, here's a brief recap of what's under its hood.

Specs:

General: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, UMTS 900/1700/2100 MHz, HSDPA 10 Mbps, HSUPA 2Mbps
Form factor: Full touch device with a side-sliding hardware QWERTY keyboard
Dimensions: 110.9 x 59.8 x 18 mm, 113 cc; 181 g
Display: 3.5" 16M-color TFT resistive touchscreen, 800 x 480 pixels WVGA
CPU: ARM Cortex A8 600 MHz, PowerVR SGX graphics
OS: Maemo 5
Memory: 32 GB storage, 256 MB RAM, microSD card slot
Camera: 5 megapixel auto-focus camera with dual-LED flash; WVGA(848 x 480)@25fps video recording
Connectivity: Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, USB v2.0 with microUSB port, GPS receiver with A-GPS, 3.5mm audio jack, FM radio, FM transmitter, Infrared port
Battery: 1,320 mAh Li-Ion battery
Misc: Built-in accelerometer and ambient light sensors, proximity sensor, IR output port for remote control
Software: Ovi Maps (voice-guided navigation purchased separately), Mozilla-based browser with Adobe Flash 9.4 support, Facebook and Twitter integration

The chubby Nokia N900 certainly isn't a handset to answer mainstream tastes but then again all those features rarely come in much smaller packages. The geeks know that and are willing to live with it if the performance is worth it.

BlackBerry Bold 9700 review

Hi guys i am here to tell you the good and bad of the new BlackBerry Bold 9700.

Key features:
2.44" 65K-color TFT landscape display with a resolution of 480 x 360 pixels
Comfortable four-row full QWERTY keyboard
Quad-band GSM support and tri-band 3G with HSDPA
Wi-Fi and built-in GPS and BlackBerry maps preloaded
3.15 autofocus megapixel camera, LED flash
624 MHz CPU, 128 MB RAM
BlackBerry OS v5
Responsive trackpad navigation
Hot-swappable microSD card slot (up to 16GB)
DivX and XviD video support
Good web browser
Office document editor
3.5 mm audio jack
Decent audio quality
Smart dialing
Great battery life
More compact body and lighter weight compared to the Bold 9000
Good build quality

Main disadvantages:
Many features are locked without a BlackBerry Internet Service account (plan)
Mediocre camera performance and features
No FM radio
No video-call camera
No TV-out functionality
No built-in accelerometer
No built-in compass

What's in the box?
The BlackBerry Bold 9700 is not a cheap handset, so it should probably come as no surprise that its retail package is quite well stocked. We already put up an unboxing video here in our blog, so in case you're interested hop over - and don't forget the popcorn.
Back to the package contents, there's the mandatory charger inside, but it also come with three different adapters covering all the popular wall plug standards. No need to worry about keeping your device charged during your next trip from Europe to the UK or US. Just change the charger connector and you are good to go.
The Bold 9700 is well-equipped, you get what you pay for
Moving on we have a nice leather carrying pouch and a handsfree set. You can use whatever headset you like, given the 3.5 mm audio jack on the phone. You will lose the remote functionality though.
Finally the BlackBerry Bold 9700 box contains a microUSB data cable and a 2GB microSD memory card. Of course there are also the usual guides and CD with software but they don't really count.

iPhone to launch with Vodafone UK in January

And if you think that three official carriers for the iPhone in UK weren't quite enough to penetrate the consumers, here comes another one - Vodafone. As it was revealed by official sources earlier this morning, Vodafone would begin selling the 'Outstanding phone' starting from January 14th.

This makes Vodafone the fourth official carrier in the UK to have the iPhone. The race started in back in 2007 when the iPhone was launched in the UK in exclusive partnership with O2 and it was only last month that Orange started selling the iPhone, ending O2's two-year long exclusive contract. And apart from the two, the iPhone is also being sold in contract with Tesco.
On the tariff side, Vodafone does not seem to have anything exciting to offer though. Much equivalent to the prices offered by other carriers, Vodafone is offering a free iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS for £35 and £45 a month respectively on a two-year contract and a £5 for iPhone tethering for up to 500MB of data.
But that's not all. The actual benefit for the deal with Vodafone starts with unlimited texts for all but the cheapest 18-month deal, and existing customers will get free Vodafone to Vodafone calls for the life of their contract if they register for pre-order.

The New Nokia-E75

If we can think of one reason to take being told "to mind your own business" with a smile it would be the Nokia Eseries. A household name for enterprise users, it's hardly a surprise that each E-series update is greeted with plenty of excitement. The Nokia E75 is no exception, even if it doesn't really put anything new on the table.

The side-sliding QWERTY form factor lands on Symbian turf following a reasonably successful spell on the WinMo side of the yard.

The major novelty of the Nokia E75 is the form factor and we're about to see if this is enough for it to carve a niche out for itself in a crowded market.

There's no denying that if a side-sliding QWERTY is good enough for a teenage-targeted music phone (the Nokia 5730 XpressMusic), it must be more than at home in a full-featured business phone. Welcome to the Nokia E75.

Key features

• 2.4" 16M-color TFT display of QVGA resolution
• Four-row side-slide QWERTY keyboard
• Quad-band GSM and tri-band 3G (with HSDPA) support
• Symbian OS with S60 3.2 UI
• 369 MHz ARM11 CPU
• 3.5mm standard audio jack
• microSD card slot, 4GB microSD card prebundled
• 3.2 megapixel auto focus camera with a dedicated shutter key, geotagging and VGA@30fps video recording
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g with UPnP technology
• Built-in GPS receiver and Nokia Maps with 3 months of free voice-assisted navigation
• USB and stereo Bluetooth (A2DP) connectivity
• Steel battery cover
• FM radio with RDS
• Remote Wipe functionality
• Carrier-independent VoIP support
• Office document editor
• User-friendly Mode Switch for toggling two homescreen setups
• Smart dialing

Main disadvantages:

• Rather expensive at this point (more than 350 euro)
• Controls around the D-pad are too tiny
• Mediocre camera performance
• Fingerprint-prone cheap-looking front
• Wiggling cheapo camera key
• Limited battery life (in comparison to the E71)

Even if we leave aside the scores of competing business handsets, the Nokia E75 still faces quite stiff competition from within the E-series range itself. It's unreasonably close to the E90 as far as pricing is concerned and is quite uncomfortably cloning most of Nokia E71 functionality. The side-sliding QWERTY keyboard and FP2 are pretty much all the E75 has over the E71.

It's more like an alternative we're talking here rather than a substantial upgrade. Truth be told, we were pretty impressed with the Nokia E71 and if the E75 matches its performance then there will be no reason to grumble.

First ever Nokia's 8MP camera mobile- N86

After Samsungs INNOV8 and Sony's C905, Nokia has also made a challenging product against these brands. With a carl-zeis lens this will be nokias first ever 8MP Mobile.Release Date: 2Q of 2009. Announced in feb this Mobile is about to be released. It has got all features of N85 and also comes with a dual slide facility. Expert say that this mobile may break records. So guys keep ur fingers crossed untill it comes out.....

• Camera: 8 Megapixel Carl Zeiss Tessar Optic Lens with Auto Focus
• Operating System: Symbian 3rd Edition, Featured Pack 2
• System: WCDMA 900/1900/2100 (HSDPA) and EGSM 850/900/1800/1900, WLAN WCDMA 850/1900/2100 (HSDPA).
• Weight: 149g
• Dimensions: 103.4 x 51.4 x 16.5 mm (L x W x H)
• Display: AM OLED 2.6 inch QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) with up to 16million colors.
• Battery: Nokia Battery BL-5K, 1200mAh

Camera

• Lens: Carl Zeiss Tessar
• Image Capture: Up to 8 megapixel (3280 x 2460) - JPEG/EXIF (16.7 million/24-bit color)
• Image sensor: 8 megapixel, 1.75 micron pixels
• Video Capture: MPEG-4 VGA (640×480) at up to 30fps
• Aperture: F2.4/3.2/4.8 (automatic aperture control)
• Shutter: Mechanical shutter, speeds up to 1/1000sec.
• Focal Length: 4.61mm (28mm, equivalent to 35mm)
• Flash: 3rd Generation Dual LED Camera flash (up to 3.5m) and video light

Connectivity & Data Services

• WLAN IEEE 802.11b/g with uPnP support
• MicroUSB connector, Hi-Speed USB 2.0
• 3.5mm stereo headphone plug and TV-Out support (NTSC/PAL)
• Bluetooth Specification 2.0 and Bluetooth stereo audio support
• GPS receiver with support for assisted GPS (A-GPS)

Operating Times

• Talk Time: up to 3.9 hours (3G), 6.3 hours (GSM)
• Standby Time: up to 11.5 hours (3G), 13 hours (GSM)
• Video Call : up to 2.5 hours
• Video Playback : up to 7 hours (QVGA, 30fps)
• Music Playback : up to 25 hours (offline mode)

Memory

• Memory: 8GB Internal flash memory - Support upto 16GB microSD Card. Up to 74MB Internal Dynamic Memory
• Video Playback: MPEG-4, AVC (H.264), WMV, Flash Video, 3GPP (H.263), Real Video, Up to VGA Resolution.
• Music Playback: Mp3, WMA, AAC, AAC+, eAAC, eAAC+

Sub Keh Do day

Yes this is true. for the first time in pakistan "Sub keh do Day" celebrated by ZONG and the whole country. The new network in mobile world ZONG started this day and will be celeberated every year on 12th April. On this day everybody will tell the feelings of their heart. The day was quite successfull as most Pakistanis celeberated this day with a happy heart.

iPhone 3.0 beta 2 is now available for Download

Apple unveiled the the second beta release of its iPhone 3.0 OS to developers which introduces the Push Notifications and In-App purchases for which all developers have been longing for. Apart from these new features, there is also a lot of improvements stability improvements and bug fixes.
The iPhone 3.0 beta 2 build, now labeled as build 7A259, can be downloaded using any of the links below for your specific device.

iPod Touch 1G
http://tinyurl.com/sizlopedia-ipod1g-beta2-p1
http://tinyurl.com/sizlopedia-ipod1g-beta2-p2
http://tinyurl.com/sizlopedia-ipod1g-beta2-p3

iPod Touch 2G
http://tinyurl.com/sizlopedia-ipod2g-beta2-p1
http://tinyurl.com/sizlopedia-ipod2g-beta2-p2
http://tinyurl.com/sizlopedia-ipod2g-beta2-p3

iPhone 2G
http://tinyurl.com/sizlopedia-iphone2g-beta2-p1
http://tinyurl.com/sizlopedia-iphone2g-beta2-p2
http://tinyurl.com/sizlopedia-iphone2g-beta2-p3

iPhone 3G
http://tinyurl.com/sizlopedia-iphone3g-beta2-p1
http://tinyurl.com/sizlopedia-iphone3g-beta2-p2
http://tinyurl.com/sizlopedia-iphone3g-beta2-p3


Installing iPhone 3.0 beta on the iPhone

Make sure to have downloaded the iPhone 3.0 beta firmware that relates to your iPhone (2G or 3G).

Extract the firmware IPSW to a folder.

Connect the iPhone to your computer.

Get the UDID registered on the iPhone Developer program.

Open iTunes and click Restore while holding the Shift key (for Windows) or Option key (for Mac).

Locate or browse to the firmware IPSW.

Wait for iTunes to unpackage and install the firmware.

Note: Attempting to do this upgrade on a unlocked iPhone can make it useless forever. Even the AT&T locked iPhone users will need to get their UDID registered before trying to upgrade.

Installing iPhone 3.0 beta on iPod Touch
iPod Touch users are pretty safe in this case as there is no question of baseband like iPhone but their is still a catch which I shall be mentioning further below.
Once the firmware has been downloaded, extract the IPSW to a folder.

Connect the iPod Touch to your computer.

Get the UDID registered on the iPhone Developer program.

Make sure to disconnect from Internet such that iTunes cannot communicate with the web.

Only then, open iTunes and click Restore while holding the Shift key (for Windows) or Option key (for Mac).

Locate or browse to the firmware IPSW.

Wait for iTunes to unpackage and install the firmware.

Note: Step-3 is optional for iPod Touch users but in case you decide not to get your UDID registered, you won't be able to Sync with iTunes. The upgrade method is valid for both iPod
Touch 1st Gen and 2nd Gen.

Please note that after upgrading to iPhone 3.0 beta, you might not be able to downgrade to firmware 2.2.1 later on so it is always a good choice to wait for the official release which is due in summer.
iPod Touch users are always safe but I have already clearly warned the iPhone users to proceed at their own risk.