iPhone and Google Mobile Technology

Recently, Dell announced the launch of its two new handsets in India – Venue and Venue Pro. These 3G smartphones are launched at the Bangalore Fashion week. Now, these are available in India on all GSM/3G networks.

Users can get a great advantage with Venue and Venue Pro on Aircel network. They can get exclusive privileges of Free 2 GB Mobile Internet.

Dell Venue is featured with Android 2.2 Froyo OS. It has a high-contrast 10.4 cm (4.1-inch) AMOLED display with curved Gorilla Glass technology. It is priced at Rs. 29990 in Indian market. It is equipped with 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 processor with 512MB RAM and 1GB ROM. The phone has been designed from the business prospective which supports ActiveSync and QuickOffice. Viewing e-mail, editing documents, and surfing the web is really fast and easy with Dell Venue mobile phone.

Dell Venue smartphone comes with an 8 mega pixel camera with auto focus and 4x Zoom. WiFi (802.11 b/g/n), Bluetooth 2.1, A-GPS, Gravity Sensor, E Compass, and 1400mAh battery are other attractive features of Dell Venue mobile phone.

On the other hand, Dell Venue Pro runs on Microsoft Windows Phone 7 mobile OS. It is equipped with a 1 GHz Qualcomm CPU. It supports quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE as well as triband UMTS/HSDPA-3G (7.2 Mbps)/HSUPA (5.76 Mbps) at 900/1700/2100 MHz. It comes with a 5 mega pixel auto focus camera and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR.

The Dell Venue Pro has 4.1″ Gorilla Glass protected AMOLED touchscreen and the Windows Phone 7 typical WVGA resolution. Dell Venue Pro mobile phone is priced at Rs. 34990 in Indian market.

Dell Venue and Venue Pro handsets are launched to create smart, innovative and new mobile experiences. People can get new way to enjoy the web, connect with friends, and navigates their lives. People can fulfill their social, personal and professional commitments with their Dell Venue and Venue Pro mobile phones like Sony Ericsson LiveView.

Recently, Sony Ericsson announced the launch of LiveView, an innovative accessory for mobile phones. The gadget has Bluetooth connectivity to wirelessly pair up to a compatible handset. It allows consumers to control the phone without taking it out of their pocket or handbag.

You can control Sony Ericsson music features by your Sony Ericsson LiveView. It would be interconnected with your handset from the micro display, selecting tracks and controlling volume.

You can read Facebook, Twitter, and SMS messages, RSS feeds and show the time and date on the Sony Ericsson LiveView. The gadget will be compatible with Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 mini, Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 mini pro and most of other devices running on Android 2.0+.

Sony Ericsson LiveView supports 1.3 inch OLED touchscreen with 128×128 resolution. You can view calendar reminder, displaying calendar events and other phone applications on the device. The gadget will be available in stores from Q4, 2010.

Sony Ericsson LiveView is a wearable and wireless device with customized applications. You can never miss it by binding it on your hand like a watch. You can enjoy with live music on the gadget. You can participate in Android market with this device.

Sony Ericsson LiveView Specifications:

11.0 x 35.0 x 35.0 dimensions

15.0 g Weight

Micro USB charging connector

1.3″” colour OLED display

USB High Speed 2.0 support

Play, pause, next, previous track and volume adjustment

SMS

Facebook™, Twitter™ social networking

Android phone compatible

Currently, the device will be available in black colour. It would be your favorite gadget like your watch on your wrist.

Finally, Google TV comes with a very clear concept. Recently, techcrunch.com reported about it, “When Google TV was announced at Google I/O there was a lot of excitement surrounding it. Unfortunately, there were also a lot of questions. And the glitchy demo they did on stage certainly didn’t help matters. Today, Google has released a simple two and a half minute video to explain the service and show exactly how it works.”

Google talks about Google TV very clearly through the video. Google TV built on Android and runs the Google Chrome web browser. The TV offers a Search option. It gives you a chance to integrate your Android phones with it. It is partnered with many TV networks.

What says Google about Google TV?

“Google TV is a new product that seamlessly combines your TV, DVR recording, and the entire internet. Some new TVs will come with it pre-installed or you can get a separate box for the TV you already own. So how does it work? Well, start with the same TV you know and love. Now add the ability to search for and tune to channels, and search for and tune to individual shows.

You can also find shows to record and easily access any programs you’ve already recorded and saved. Google TV also has a built-in web browser which means that the entertainment options. You can search for, record, and save now include the entire incredible breath of content that’s available today across the web, and of course your favorite online videos.

Now, with Google TV, there’s always something good on and there’s always interesting new content to find. Combining the web and TV means doing things you could never do before like check your fantasy team stats right on the same screen while you’re watching a game or see what people are saying about today’s latest news, even as you’re watching it happening.

Your television isn’t just about video anymore. It’s a complete entertainment device where you can access your photos, music, favorite games, and many of the 50,000 apps available today from Android market. Finally, Google TV lets you personalize your television experience with the custom home screen where you can easily edit and access your favorite channels, shows, and websites.”

Google had unveiled another video also at the time of introducing Google TV:

“Back when there were only a few networks, watching TV was pretty simple. You turned on the TV, and if you didn’t like what was playing, you changed the channel. But these days, TV can be pretty complicated. Figuring out what you want to watch is hard enough, and that’s only the beginning. Once you’ve chosen a program, you have to figure out when it’s playing, and which of hundreds of channels it’s on. It’s like you have to change your schedule to fit your TV’s schedule.

In fact, many of us end up watching videos on the web because it’s easier to find things you want. I mean think about it, more and more of our favorite shows and videos are showing up online these days, and you can get to them really easily, whenever you want, just by typing in what you’re looking for.

The problem is, these smaller screens don’t really compare to our home entertainment systems. Which leads us to pretty big question: if the web is so smart, and our TVs are so fun to watch. Why do we have to choose? Why can’t they work together? Well now they can.”

According to the Google, Google TV is an experience of “TV meets web and web meets TV.” The device will go on sale in fall 2010. It is only available pre-installed on Sony TVs and blu-ray players, as well as Logitech companion boxes. Google says, “Android market would be available on Google TV in early 2011.” It supports Flash 10.1 and Chrome 5.0.

Google TV will introduce a great challenge for the SEO also. They would have to learn how to promote their websites on the social panel.

Apple released Safari 5, the world’s fastest and most innovative web browser on 7th June, 2010. It is the latest version of Safari. This has new Safari Reader for reading articles on the web without interruption.

It introduces 30% more performance over Safari 4. You can choose Google, Yahoo!, or Bing as the search service. The Safari 5 web browser is available for Mac and Windows both. It offers improved developer tools.

Safari 5 supports more than a dozen new HTML5 technologies that allow web developers to create rich and dynamic websites. It runs on iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC. You can see your favourite site at a glance on the browser. It checks spelling and grammar also.

You can read a press release about Safari 5 at http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/06/07safari.html, “Safari Reader makes it easy to read single and multipage articles on the web by presenting them in a new, scrollable view without any additional content or clutter. When Safari 5 detects an article, users can click on the Reader icon in the Smart Address Field to display the entire article for clear, uninterrupted reading with options to enlarge, print or send via email.

Powered by the Nitro JavaScript engine, Safari 5 on the Mac runs JavaScript 30 percent faster than Safari 4, three percent faster than Chrome 5.0, and over twice as fast as Firefox 3.6.* Safari 5 loads new webpages faster using Domain Name System (DNS) prefetching, and improves the caching of previously viewed pages to return to them more quickly.

Safari 5 adds more than a dozen powerful HTML5 features that allow web developers to create media-rich experiences, including full screen playback and closed captions for HTML5 video. Other new HTML5 features in Safari 5 include HTML5 Geolocation, HTML5 sectioning elements, HTML5 draggable attribute, HTML5 forms validation, HTML5 Ruby, HTML5 AJAX History, EventSource and WebSocket.

The new, free Safari Developer Program allows developers to customize and enhance Safari 5 with extensions based on standard web technologies like HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. The Extension Builder, new in Safari 5, simplifies the development, installation and packaging of extensions. For enhanced security and stability, Safari Extensions are sandboxed, signed with a digital certificate from Apple and run solely in the browser.”

Safari 5 is available free at official website of Apple. You can download it now. Bing is excited to get its position in Safari 5 web browser.

Now, rumor turns into reality. Microsoft Bing to take over iPhone search is not a rumor now. There are many sources here who have declared that Apple is working with Microsoft to broaden the iPhone’s search.

Bing already has worked with Windows phones. The application is coming for iPhone as a default search.

About this update, techcrunch.com reports, “Microsoft Bing will replace Google in the next version of the iPhone operating system to be released in June, we’ve heard from mulitple sources, including a high level source who claims to have been briefed on the matter. We’re not calling this more than a rumor yet, but one thing is sure – our sources close to Google in particular are speaking freely about this as fact.”

Further the news portal adds, “But Google was rumored to be paying Apple $100 million a year for the search rights to iPhone, along with the ability to serve search ads. Apple would likely have stuck with them unless Microsoft was willing to pay as well, and it certainly wasn’t a lock that Google Search would be removed from the iPhone.

There were rumors yesterday that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer would attend the WWDC event on June 7 to announce Visual Studio development for the iPhone, although they were quickly retracted. Our sources on this are independent of that story.”

The news portal quotes an update also, “new sources are saying “It’s more complicated than this” and not to expect Google search to be removed from the iPhone next month. Also hearing that Google isn’t paying anything like $100 million/year to Apple for the search rights to the iPhone.”

Microsoft Bing to take over iPhone search is not a rumor now. It is going to be possible earlier in this year. What about the users? Will they like it over the iPhone? It is just a business deal between Apple and Microsoft.

Recently, Barnes & Noble released BN eReader for iPad. It is an alternative application to Apple’s iBooks and Amazon’s Kindle app. BN eReader is an excellent ebook reader application. It offers many customizations as well as the ability to share books with friends and family.

You can read an e-book either in landscape or in portrait on BN eReader. eReader displays one page of a book in portrait. In landscape, you can read in a two column or one column format according to your setting.

You can enhance your reading experience by choosing Barnes & Nobel’s five professionally designed themes. You can create your own theme also by editing the page, text, highlights and links colors.

The eReader has feature of highlighting text and searching words in the dictionary. BN eReader has ability to share books with friends and family also. BN eReader will launch the Barnes & Nobel eBookstore in Safari.

Barnes & Noble has really done a great job with their eReader. It offers many things that iBooks does not.

It is an excellent alternative to Apple iBooks. You can share books with friends and family with LendMe. You can add notes, highlights and bookmarks on the BN eReader application.

Barnes & Noble has launched BN eReader for Apple iPad in the competition of Amazon Kindle. You can buy and download digital books, magazines and newspapers by this application on your iPad.

BN eReader has the most appreciating LendMe technology. You can loan your eBook to one person for up to 14 days. It has flexibility of choosing own colors for the pages, text, links and highlights.

To run BN eReader, iPad requires iPhone OS 3.2 or later. You can download it from the Barnes & Noble website. It is the best application just like iCover application for iPhone and iPod touch.

Everyone is talking about the Apple iPhone OS 4.0. It is the big news now because it has been announced officially. Recently, it has been previewed. Apple has released a beta version of the software to iPhone Developer Program members also.

It comes with an updated Software Development Kit (SDK) with over 1,500 new Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). It has over 100 new features that will be available to iPhone and iPod Touch users this summer.

Apple iPhone OS 4.0 menu:

Multitasking:

Users will be able to run apps on their handset even when the handset is in Sleep Mode. In the multitasking features you can get – Background audio, Voice over IP, Background location, Local notifications, Task finishing and Fast app switching.

Folder creation:

This application is available from third party apps that allow you for the creation of folders so you could easily categorize your stuff. You can create and manage iPhone folders on their Mac or PC using iTunes 9.2.

Access to iBooks:

Now, users can access and download their favorite titles right on the device. They can read easily their iBooks now.

Game Center:

It will come with a set of APIs that allows developers to create apps with the ability to invite friends to play a game, start a multiplayer game through matchmaking and even track achievements and compare high scores on a leader board.

Unified inbox for email:

Now, you’ll be able to quickly switch between inboxes to see messages from any single account with just a few taps.

Enhanced Enterprise support:

Apple iPhone OS 4 include improvements in security, scalability and compatibility.

iAd mobile advertising platform:

iAd is capable in displaying full-screen video and interactive ad content. It will be possible without ever leaving the app, and letting users return to their app anytime they choose.

iPhone OS 4 beta software and SDK are available for iPhone Developer Program members at developer.apple.com. Improved Spotlight Search, Spell Check, Bluetooth keyboard support, User Defined Backgrounds, Tap to focus for video and 5x Digital Zoom for Camera and Playlist creation and nested playlist are also notable updates of iPhone OS 4.0.

I have tried to share with you some top 5 new Apple iPhone applications that are discovered by us. I already have shared with you many Apple iPhone applications such as Module SmartCase, Application for Students and iCover Application. Now, I have decided to share some good and new applications for iPhone.

Buzzie:

We all know about it now. Recently, Google launched Buzz which is the new addition to its Gmail service. It is very similar to Facebook’s status and Twitter’s tweets. The service is integrated with your Gmail account. Now, Google offers mobile web version of Buzz.

Foodspotting:

If you are a food-lover, you will surely like the application. This application allows you to post photos of food that you saw or ate at a particular restaurant. You can share the uploaded photos among your social networks with your friends. It is the most useful when you eating out.

Chirpie Pro:

Chirpie Pro tool gives you a great freedom to post your best tweets on Facebook. You can’t place your all tweets on Facebook because your friend would not like that. So, you can share important announcement with Chirpie Pro. The tool place whatever text you write on both sites automatically.

oMoby:

The feature is basically available for Android phones. Try it on your iPhone and see if it works for you.

Hipstamatic:

“Photo-geeks will love this app that gives you access to retro-old-style cameras and effects. It is quite difficult to describe, but if you remember those days when disposable one-time use flashbulbs were available for your instamatic camera, then you’d appreciate this. Definitely a blast from the past!”

The above suggestions are made by www.mb.com.ph. These applications are new and the most useful on your iPhone. If you like it let me know about the uses of these applications.

Recently, I was wondering to know about Module SmartCase for Apple iPhone. The subject was very new for me. I went through some online resources. Finally, I found a review on Module SmartCase for Apple iPhone.

“The Dacha Works Module SmartCase is a lot like a corset for the iPhone: it focuses on changing the appearance and form factor of your favourite little device. Sure, it adds some scratch protection to the sides and back of the device, but don’t count on this back plate to protect your smartphone in the event of a fall.

What you can count on is the patent-pending LeveRidge (hah, leverage) grooves that extend along the length of the Module, making the iPhone 3GS becomes much easier and more comfortable to hold in your hand (On second thought, maybe the whole corset comparison isn’t where I want to take this review).” The review was published on justanotheriphoneblog.com/wordpress, a blog about Apple iPhone.

Further the blog writes about its design, “One of the great things about the Module is how easy it is to install: simply place the iPhone volume rocker-side first, and then snap it right on. The case feels great in the hand, and the LeveRidges really do provide you with extra leverage. The iPhone doesn’t feel wider in the hand, but it certainly does feel thicker, which makes it a lot easier to type (especially in landscape mode).

A small cut-out along the middle of the Module is supposed to provide extra grip for one-handed operation, but I just didn’t find this groove deep enough to really provide any support.”

The major aspect of protection was also mentioned here, “…It will allow you to place your phone screen-up on most any surface, but the phone is basically naked in most every other respect. The fit of the case is good, but likely not tight enough to stay on after any significant impact, especially when you consider that the sides of the case don’t quite make it to the edge of the bezel.”

Finally about the compatibility, the blog writes, “…Portable chargers that attach to the bottom of the iPhone should also still fit as long as they don’t require space along the back of the device.”

In the conclusion, Module offers “the compatibility with all of the earphones and other accessories you may already own.”

“The Module is available for $30 in white or black.” It was great information for me about the Module SmartCase for iPhone.

After a long discussion, debate and rumor; now Google mobile is ready to launch. The mobile phone is the biggest burden for Apple iPhone. The phone is near to launch till next week.

Nexus One, the new smart phone, may be unveiled 5th January, 2009 at 9AM. Recently, the most famous gadget website – Gizmodo updates the information. Price of new mobile phone of Google is also leaked.

The new smart phone of Google will be available on $180 for a 2 year mandatory contract. Unlocked version price is $530 for this phone.

The new mobile phone is equipped with latest Android operating system. It is Android 2.1. The operating system is already used in many HTC, Motorola and Samsung mobile phones.

The Nexus One phone is made by 3.7-inch AMOLED touch-screen. AMOLED is a bright display technology. The new phone is slightly thinner and lighter than the iPhone 3GS.

Nexus One is much faster than Droid also. 1GHz processor is inside the new smart phone. 5-megapixel camera of the phone is really very nice. Camera has autofocus feature also.

N1 onscreen keyboard makes the phone really better and impressive. Nexus One device will likely be available in Canada in coming week.

Now, the rumor about Google mobile phone has introduced some realistic facts about the phone. Screenshot on the sale is introduced by Gizmodo today.

Now, Google mobile will surly create the biggest competition for Apple iPhone and BlackBerry.

First mobile of Google that was produced by HTC, was not able to create more competition for other smartphones. But now, Nexus One has created the great rumor and debate about it.

Design, performance and looks of the phone already have attracted most of the mobile phone customers. Now, we would have to wait for market performance. Let’s see it in the market after its launch.