January 2010 - Page 8 of 9

LG GD900 Crystal – Price in India Rs 25000, Features – 3G, Wi-Fi, 8MP

January 5, 2010

LG Crystal GD900 is packed with powerful features like quad band with 3G and Wi-Fi, 8 megapixel camera with auto focus and LED flash. LG GD900 Crystal features a drop down Crystal Touchpad with alpha numeric keypad and S-class UI, that is both extremely beautiful and remarkably usable. LG GD900 Crystal features a wide 3” WVGA Full Touchscreen to view your multimedia library on large WVGA (800×480) screen size. With Gesture Shortcut function of Crystal Touchpad, you can command multitasking features that you choose just by drawing the designated finger movements on the Touchpad. LG Crystal GD900 mobile phone comes with 8 megapixel camera with resolution upto 3264×2448 pixels, and LED flash, which give you a clear and crisp picture. The video recording is good, with DI quality (720x480pixels). The secondary camera at the front is VGA, with 640×480 resolution. The Crystal GD900 costs Rs. 25,000 in India (INR Indian Rupees). […]

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 – 3G, Wi-Fi, Touchscreen, 8.1MP Camera and more

January 5, 2010

The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 is 3G, Wi-Fi enabled, 4″ touchscreen LCD, smartphone with 8.1 MP camera. It runs on a 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 processor and is powered up by a standard 1500mAh battery. The 8.1 megapixel camera has 16X digital zoom, face recognition, photo flash light, geo tagging, image stabilization, smile detection and send-to-web features. A-GPS, Google Maps and Wisepilot turn-by-turn navigation are some of the location-based services. The device has gesture control and Wi-Fi capability and will be available in the first quarter of 2010. […]

Unsubscribe from Mobile Alerts – Airtel, Idea, Loop, Reliance, Vodafone

January 5, 2010

Airtel: To unsubscribe from Airtel mobile update services such as Comic, News, Business and Film, send an SMS UNSUB to 54321. Idea: Send an SMS DND to 1909; Relaince Infocom: Call 51234 863 for unsubscribing from Cricket and Astrology updates. SMS U to 51234 for Astropack update service; Vodafone: SMS CAN VL to 111 for prepaid, SMS CAN VL to 144 for postpaid; Loop Mobile: dial *112# and follow the instructions. […]

Sony Ericsson Hazel – 3G, Wi-Fi, 5MP, Social Networking – Features

January 5, 2010

Sony Ericsson Hazel allows users access to their social networking page and quickly switch between different social networks. It supports 3G, Wi-Fi and AGPS. It has a speakerphone, and is HD voice ready. Hazel supports Email, ActiveSync and conversational messaging. Hazel has a 5MP camera with 4x digital zoom. It has a mediaplayer and supports Bluetooth stereo, MP3/AAC ring tone support and Mega Bass feature. […]

Long Term Evolution (LTE) – The 4G Mobile Broadband Standrard

January 4, 2010

Long Term Evolution (LTE) is the project name of a new high performance air interface for cellular mobile communication systems. LTE is marketed as 4th Generation (4G) of radio technologies designed to increase the capacity and speed of mobile telephone networks. LTE is the natural upgrade path for GSM to 4G. Long Term Evolution offers a superior user experience and simplified technology for next-generation mobile broadband.The LTE specification provides downlink peak rates of at least 100 Mbps, an uplink of at least 50 Mbps and Radio access network (RAN) round-trip times of less than 10 ms. LTE supports scalable carrier bandwidths, from 20 MHz down to 1.4 MHz. LTE will be available not only in next-generation mobile phones, but also notebooks, ultra-portables, cameras, camcorders, MBRs and other devices that benefit from mobile broadband. […]

Blu-ray Disc Capacity Could Increase from 25 GB to 33.4 GB Per Layer

January 4, 2010

Sony and Panasonic worked together and developed a software, which would increase the per-layer storage capacity of Blu-ray Discs from 25 GB to 33.4 GB. They ahve developed a new method of evaluating Blu-ray Disc media quality even at the higher capacity, which is expected to accelerate development of discs offering even more storage space. The new method can continue to use the existing Blu-ray optics. […]

Avatar Movie Contest for Airtel Subscribers – Call 55155

January 4, 2010

Are you a cellular or landline subscribers of Airtel? Then you may call 55155 from your Airtel connection @ Rs 2 per minute to participate in the Avatar Movie Contest. If you are one of the lucky daily winner, you can enjoy free tickets and merchandises from the AVATAR 3D movie by taking part in a contest. You can enjoy a sneak preview of Avatar – the latest blockbuster from James Cameron. Stand a chance to win tickets and exciting merchandise from this trend setting movie. The Offer is open for a limited period from 17th December 2009 to 15th January 2009. […]

Google Chrome – The Third Most Popular Browser

January 4, 2010

Google Chrome browser is now the world’s third-most popular browser, pushing Apple’s Safari to the fourth position, according to a Browser Market Share report. At the end of December 2009, Google Chrome posted a browser share of 4.63%, while Apple’s Safari posted a share of 4.46%. Mozilla Firefox with 24.6% and Internet Explorer with 62.7%. Computerworld estimates that IE will fall under the 50% share mark as early as mid-May if the dramatic negative trend of the last three months holds true. […]

Year 2016 (Y2K16) Computer Bug Hits Texting in US and Banking in Australia

January 4, 2010

Text messages received after 1/1/2010 may be dated as 2016. This bug is reported in Windows Mobie 6.1, Windows Mobie 6.5 and even in some non-Windows Mobile phones. Only some mobile carriers seem to be experiencing this bug. WM Experts have provided a work-around for the time being.
Coincidentally, Australia’s Bank of Queensland’s EFTPOS terminals skipped ahead six years when the clock ticked over to January 1 and started date stamping January 2016. The glitch was a nationwide issue. The glitch cost businesses untold amounts as the EFTPOS terminals read customers’ cards as having expired and refused their transactions. […]

Google Keyboard for Indian Languages (Google Transliteration IME)

January 4, 2010

Google Transliteration Input Method Editor (IME) allows users to enter text in one of the supported languages into any input window using a roman keyboard, without needing any internet connection. The IME is currently available for 14 different languages including Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu. The IME assists you with dictionary based word completions for prefixes. Users can type a word the way it sounds using Latin characters and Google Transliteration IME will convert the word to its native script Unicode. […]