Oct 06
The Future of Phones in the World Mobile Congress
The WMC or World Mobile Congress refers to two different, but heavily associated things. The first is a body of constituents that have been united for a common goal. Founded by the Delson Group Inc. and currently has ties to many manufacturers in China. This group aims to further improve the current mobile technologies by integrating new technology when possible. The combined resources of the group are aimed to fund research and development of even better mobile phone technology.
Criticisms of the World Mobile Congress
While the World Mobile Congress may hold a lot of promises for mobile phone technology, there are still a lot of issues that prevent it from becoming a solid group that mobile phone manufacturers can trust. The main issue is the fact that each mobile phone manufacturer has its own development team focused on creating newer and better technologies. To be forced to share these would not only mean a waste of revenue, but it would be akin to handing their marketing techniques directly over to their competitors.
Companies Not Joining In
As stated, many mobile phone manufacturers are saying no to the World Mobile Congress. Industry mainstay Nokia has decided to opt out of WMC and simply use the money they have saved for more research and development functions. Another problem is that smaller companies may choose to copy technologies that have been developed by the larger companies and vice versa. This situation could prove very disadvantageous to larger companies.
WMC as an Event
Aside from being a group, WMC also stands for the event held annually. The exhibits held in this event showcase hundreds of exhibitors and some of the latest models to hit the market. There are displays of upcoming models and some exhibitors even allow people to test-try upcoming models as well.
Oct 06
New Addition to the LG Black Label Series Leaked
The rumor that a new LG Black is coming is truly worth looking forward to. LG has had a significant number of really good mobile phones in the past, but none of these phones are as impressive as the LG Black Series.
Starting with the original KG800 released last 2006 and the most recent mobile phone released last May 2008 (known as the LG Secret). People have been wondering, when will the next Black Label arrive? With over a year and a half since the last Black Label phone, LG seems to have had forgotten this epic line of mobile phones; from the looks of it, they have not.
The History of the Black Label
Targeting the high end crowd of tech critics and aficionados of high end technology, the Black Label series was meant to not just impress the crowd, but to create a solid footing for LG as a serious competitor in the mobile phone market.
It Started With Chocolate
Chocolate is the market name of the KG800 model and was released last 2006. This mobile phone was one of the most powerful at its time. Featuring tri-band GSM connectivity, many people were impressed by this phone. This was then followed by the LG KE970, better known as the LG Shine. The Shine was later released in a more luxurious incarnate, the titanium black edition.
The 4th Black Label
LG has recently confirmed that they are indeed working on the fourth generation mobile phone for the black label series. This next device is slated to use the famous LG S-Class touch user interface and is compatible with A-GPS, WiFi, HSDPA, and is also packed with a five mega pixel camera. There is no official word on the relapse date but rest assured that whole community is watching out for this.
Oct 06
One of Nokia’s most well known mobile phone lines is the N-Series. This series has seen many of Nokia’s flag bearing mobile devices. Though this series is also notorious for producing some of Nokia’s odd novelty phones, most of the models on this line are solid and excellent phones that work well and generally look good. Two particular models, the N900 and N97 are well known in the mobile community for being really good mobile phones.
N-Series and Symbian
As with all models in Nokia, the N-series utilizes Symbian software technology. This is a Java based programming technology that is developer friendly and is easy to use for many application developers. The current Symbian community is comprised of developers, both independent and corporate with varying skill levels and interests who are constantly contributing to the pool of resources that will further enhance using Symbian technology.
The N900 and PUSH
Nokia recently started the PUSH program for the N900 of the N-series. PUSH encourages developers, hackers and other programmers to tap into the vast potential of the N900 and encourages them to look for new possibilities, develop new apps and even find security risks and vulnerabilities. This is a very wise move for Nokia since it allows them to test their system in a level not achievable within the capabilities of most manufacturers. The creation of third party software is also encouraged because developers feel the support of the company throughout the programming process.
The Future of the N-Series
The N-Series is composed mostly of smart phones that focus greatly on having a wide variety of applications and ever progressive software. PUSH also allows Nokia to get a really good look at the side of the consumer market that is rarely seen by corporate marketing studies. Client created content is truly making the world of mobile technology different.
Oct 06
Nokia is coming up with new mobile phones and this time they are preparing a new line for us tech geeks. The X-Series is Nokia’s latest offering in the mobile phone industry. This launch will consist of two mobile phones for the X-Series named the X6 and the X3. As most people might already have been aware, the use of the X-moniker for Nokia models goes back to the original XpressMusic. The same mobile phone was later updated to focus more on GPS and navigation technology as opposed to music and media playback. The new X-Series return to the original roots of the X-system wherein the phones focus more on music playback.
Nokia has Rectangular Fun
The new mobile phones look very edgy, not in the radically way, but in the literal sense of the word. Both the Nokia X6 and Nokia X3 have hard edged exteriors and are pretty chunky to look at. Chunky is not ugly, these phone actually look good in their own way. Deviating from the usual soft smooth finish of other mobile phones out on the market, the two X-series phones have a more masculine and eighties tech gadget look to it. Call it retro or what-not, but the bottom line is that the design for the X-series is really impressive.
No Final Words, Yet
With very little detail on what the final specs for these two phones are, one can only assume what capabilities will be placed in the X-series. But initial footages show that the phones have their own built in accelerometers that allow users to use the phone upright or sideways.
Experience Skype
Of course, being an X-series phone, you can expect that you will be able full Skype coverage, this internet based VOIP software will allow you to make calls to any Skype user anywhere, anytime, for free.
Oct 06
The Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor is a hardware developed and manufactured by San Diego-based electronics company Qualcomm for use in mobile devices that require serious processing power without the bulk of hardware.
A single Snapdragon processor is able to run at speeds of up to 1 GHz; this is quite a lot of processing power for a mobile device. This enables devices to process applications that require lots of hardware power, a feat not previously allowed due to hardware limitations.
What the Snapdragon Brings
“Opportunities” is the first word that developers will tell you when they think of better and faster hardware. Stronger hardware means that they will have more freedom to create and design software that can do a multitude of things. Processors are particularly important since that is the very core of what hardware is capable of. With mobile devices, the processor determines the program running and graphics rendering capabilities of any given device.
Snapdragon and the Android
The Google Android is a much loved mobile operating system for its ability to make full use of the hardware it is installed on. It was a match made in heaven having Google Android run an ASUS Eee PC that was powered by a Snapdragon. All installed programs run smoothly and efficiently and it showed both the capabilities of the software and the hardware.
The Future of Snapdragon
With such powerful processing power in a small device, we can expect to see the Snapdragon powering a vast majority of many upcoming mobile devices that require very serious processing capabilities. Qualcomm claims that the newer models will be able to power graphic cards that can display very high resolutions. Many major companies such as Texas Instruments and ASUS are also teaming up with Qualcomm. Mobile phones that are looking to be capable of running graphic intensive programs would do well to have the Qualcomm Snapdragon at its core.
Oct 01
Appreciating Your QWERTY Keyboard
If you are using a computer, or a smart phone with a full keyboard, you may have wondered at one point or another why the designers of this user input (UI) device decided to arrange the letters of the alphabet in such a method. While the location of the letters may first seem random there is actually a logic and science behind the QWERTY keyboard layout.
The Technical Cause
The keyboard was invented for the creation of a typewriter. Simply put, a type writer is a device meant solely for the production of text documents. The keys were mechanical switches for hammers that would stamp and imprint letters to a piece of paper. Of course, there are over twenty letters in the English alphabet, which meant that there was also the same amount of small hammers stamping away at a sheet of paper. This meant that if a writer typed fast enough, there was a large possibility that the hammers would snag each other.
A Layout Based on Sense
Understandably, this meant that letters should be located in such a way that forming words would least likely require a typist to press left and right keys at the same time. In practice, a great majority of the common words can be formed using only the left hand side of the keyboard, this meant that a writer would type more often on one hand than the other allowing for the hammers to move and flow more smoothly.
Everything Follows the Trend
Of course, this development never really stopped the clashing of hammers, but the keyboard layout proved to be so effective that it lasted. When computer programmers needed an input device for creating computer codes, it was natural they adapted the keyboard layout. This is how the QWERTY keyboard became the standard keyboard layout.
