A new Blackberry ad takes a literal shot at an Apple while introducing the first touch screen Blackberry device.
“The world’s first touch-screen Blackberry. Nothing can touch it”
The ad is not officially from RIM. Its a “spec” spot meant to drum up business for an ad agency or production house. This ad was made by “GUAVA,” out of New York City.
Nokia has officially announced the N86 8MP mobile phone which is expected to ship in the second quarter of 2009.
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When Nokia set out to make the best mobile imaging device, it combined wide-angle Carl Zeiss optics and an 8 megapixel sensor, resulting in performance comparable to a stand alone digital camera. The Nokia N86 8MP is designed to excel in both bright and low light conditions, and it’s optimized for both video and still imaging. Its high-speed connectivity ensures easy and convenient sharing. The Nokia N86 8MP is expected to begin shipping in the second quarter of 2009 with an estimated retail price of EUR 375, before taxes and subsidies.
“People demand mobile cameras that take excellent pictures in all light conditions,” says Juha-Pekka Sipponen, Director, Nokia Nseries. “That’s why the aperture of the Nokia N86 8MP is comparable to that of a high-quality, stand-alone digital camera. Whether it’s running with the bulls in Pamplona or capturing the panoramic beauty of a sunrise over Sydney, the Nokia N86 8MP will take brilliantly clear, wide-angle images
that are instantly geotagged to be uploaded onto sites like Ovi Share or Flickr.”
Easy enough for a novice to use, the Nokia N86 8MP packs enough punch to impress an experienced photographer. This includes a wide-angle Carl Zeiss Tessar lens for panoramic pictures, shorter latencies and variable aperture for super sharp photos in challenging bright and low light conditions. The fast mechanical shutter ensures pictures with less motion blur while the dual LED camera flash is powerful enough for
excellent photography and video capture.
“When it comes to taking the best digital photos, it’s the quality of the lens and the sensor that count, not just the quantity of pixels. The Nokia N86 8MP is the first mobile device with variable aperture, adding to the Carl Zeiss Tessar lens for excellent results. It has never been easier to capture special moments in such a great quality,” says Helmut Heier of Carl Zeiss.
Every detail of the metal-framed Nokia N86 8MP is thoughtfully designed with photography in mind, including 8 GB of internal memory for up to 4,000 images. Like any high-end digital camera, the memory can be increased with an exchangeable 16 GB microSD card. The device also offers a bright OLED screen with scratch resistant hardened glass, easy photo management, full sync capability with a PC and TV-out support for slide shows.
Shipping with the latest version of Nokia Maps and full Ovi integration, the Nokia N86 8MP gives a personal dimension to photos and videos. People can share their location with personal content like geotagged photos. The Nokia N86 8MP comes with a built-in compass, along with an integrated 3-months license for full voice and pedestrian navigation so that happy snappers don’t lose their way when capturing life through the camera lens.
Multimedia features – music, games, video
The Nokia N86 8MP, with its integrated kick stand, is ideal for watching videos and playing games. Each Nokia N86 8MP can play up to 25 hours of music on one charge which can be enjoyed with the Nokia Bluetooth Stereo Headset BH-214 also announced today. People can build a personal music collection from the millions of tracks and playlists available from the Nokia Music Store, where available.
Vodafone and HTC Corporation today announced the HTC Magic smartphone, Vodafone’s first Android-powered mobile, which will be available in the spring.
The stylish new handset is exclusive to Vodafone in the UK, Spain, Germany and France (SFR) and available on a non-exclusive basis in Italy. Customers can ensure that they are the first to receive information about the HTC Magic’s availability, pricing and pre-ordering by registering their interest via their local Vodafone website from today.
The introduction of the HTC Magic is the result of a successful relationship between Vodafone and HTC, and Vodafone’s joining, late last year, of the Open Handset Alliance.
A tablet-style device, with a sleek design and unprecedented compactness for a smartphone featuring the Android platform, the HTC Magic enables a superior mobile internet experience, providing broad flexibility for personalisation via the application-rich Android Market. Available in white in the UK, Spain and France, black in Germany and in both colours in Italy, the HTC Magic will be for sale in several other Vodafone markets over the next few months.
“Delivering an unbeatable mobile internet experience for our customers is a priority for Vodafone, so we are very excited to be introducing our first Android-powered smartphone in the spring,” says Patrick Chomet, Global Director of Terminals, Vodafone Group. “Following our joining of the Open Handset Alliance, we have worked very closely with HTC to bring this cool new phone to the market. Our customers want to access a wide range of the most attractive mobile devices to help them make the most of their time – the HTC Magic helps meet that need.”
“The HTC Magic embodies the compact style and sophistication for which HTC has come to be known, with the powerful and intuitive internet experience for which the Android platform was designed,” says Peter Chou, president and CEO, HTC Corporation. “We are proud of our partnership with Vodafone and excited about making the Android-powered HTC Magic available to Vodafone customers in Europe.”
“The announcement of the HTC Magic is an important step for Android and the Open Handset Alliance,” says Andy Rubin, Senior Director of Mobile Platforms at Google. “With it, Vodafone is opening up the mobile web for consumers across Europe and giving more third-party developers a platform on which they can build the next wave of killer applications.”
Available from free on various price plans, the HTC Magic has a 3.2” HVGA touch screen display and features a trackball and navigational buttons for quick, easy access. The HTC Magic includes a variety of email options such as Google Mail™, POP3 and IMAP as well as Google Talk™ for instant messaging.
The HTC Magic has a variety of powerful mobile internet capabilities beginning with an Android-optimised Webkit browser. It also features the popular Google™ applications, Google Maps™ and Google Search™ as well as favourites like YouTube™. In addition, Android Market allows for quick and easy downloading of games and applications utilising Vodafone’s fast and reliable network.
Full details of availability and pricing will be available in the future in local Vodafone markets.
Ahead of the Mobile World Congress Toshiba has unveiled their new TG01 smartphone, according to T3.com.
The device features a 4.1-inch touchscreen, with WVGA resolution, measuring 9.9mm thick. It includes HSDPA internet, plus HSUPA and Wi-Fi connectivity, as well as GPS and DivX support.
Toshiba has outfitted the TG01 with a 1Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, and it runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 with some new Toshiba designed interfaces.
Reportedly the smartphone will be able to answer and hang up phone calls when shaken and will utilize a microSD card slot for media storage.
More information is likely to be revealed formally at Mobile World Congress in mid-February.
In their earnings call this morning, AT&T confirmed that the BlackBerry Bold will be available in stores on Tuesday, November 4. Whatever delays were holding things up have apparently been resolved, as was hinted last week by some AT&T network-specific detailsbeginning to pop up on unlocked phones. Price is $299, which includes a mail-in rebate and a two-year contract. Full release details after the jump.
AT&T CUSTOMERS TO ENTER A ?BOLD? NEW WIRELESS WORLD
Breakthrough BlackBerry Smartphone Is Coming to Nation?s Fastest
3G Network; Arrives in Stores Nov. 4DALLAS, Texas, and WATERLOO, Ontario, Oct. 22, 2008 ? AT&T customers will be entering a bold new wireless world with the launch of the BlackBerry? BoldTM, a breakthrough 3G BlackBerry? smartphone that operates on the nation?s fastest 3G network and is the first to support HSDPA networks around the world, including in Japan and Korea. AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) and Research In Motion (Nasdaq:RIMM; TSX:RIM) announced today that the highly anticipated BlackBerry Bold smartphone will be available in the United States for as low as $299.991 on Tuesday, Nov. 4, in AT&T retail stores nationwide, through www.att.com and select national retailers, as well as through AT&T?s business-to-business sales teams.
The BlackBerry Bold smartphone, which is being introduced in the United States only for AT&T customers, can be used in the most countries abroad, including more than 60 with 3G networks. AT&T is the world?s leading provider of BlackBerry services.
Bold Design
The BlackBerry Bold smartphone?s design and performance live up to its name. The elegant smartphone features a lustrous black exterior, satin chrome-finished frame and stylish, leatherette backplate with a stunning half-VGA (480 x 320 at 217 ppi) color display for eye-popping visuals and a newly designed full QWERTY keyboard for exceptionally fast and easy typing. On the inside, the BlackBerry Bold features built-in GPS and Wi-Fi?, a powerful new
624 MHz mobile processor that provides impressive performance, more storage memory thanever before ? 1 GB on board and up to 16 GB via its microSD/SDHC expansion slot ? and a rich set of multimedia capabilities, including an advanced media player for music, videos and photos and a 2 megapixel camera with built-in flash, zoom and video recording, as well as an optimized Web-browsing experience with desktop-style depiction.
?The BlackBerry Bold is the best BlackBerry smartphone ever, backed by the nation?s fastest 3G network and the hands-down best international coverage of any carrier,? said Ralph de la Vega, president and chief executive officer of AT&T Mobility. ?The BlackBerry Bold is the complete package, providing customers with an absolutely outstanding mobile experience whether doing e-mail, browsing the Web, viewing streaming video or simply making a phone call. And it is being introduced in the U.S. only from AT&T.?
Mike Lazaridis, president and co-CEO at Research In Motion, said: ?The development of the BlackBerry Bold smartphone was an ambitious undertaking, and we focused intensely on the things that are most important to mobile customers when developing this best-in-class smartphone for HSDPA networks around the world. The BlackBerry Bold exudes quality in everything from its stunning display sharpness and incredible keyboard to its premium phone performance and sophisticated software applications. It provides an extraordinary mobile communications and multimedia experience, and we are very proud to introduce this breakthrough smartphone in the United States together with AT&T.?
AT&T Services
In addition to the renowned BlackBerry productivity applications ? including phone, e-mail, messaging, organizer and browser ? the BlackBerry Bold from AT&T will boast such AT&T services as:
? Simultaneous Voice and Data Capabilities ? When connected to AT&T’s 3G network, customers can conduct a phone conversation and at the same time check e-mail, browse the Web or use another data application, including when tethered to a notebook computer.
? AT&T Navigator Global Edition ? Powered by TeleNav, the only GPS-based service available from a U.S. wireless carrier to provide international navigation capabilities. AT&T customers can get spoken or text-based turn-by-turn directions with automatic missed turn rerouting and a local business finder service in 20 countries.
? Seamless Wi-Fi ? Allows AT&T customers who turn on the BlackBerry Bold smartphone?s Wi-Fi feature ? 802.11 a/b/g ? to connect automatically to home or campus networks. AT&T customers also will be able to access more than 17,000 AT&T hot spots nationwide, including nearly 7,000 participating Starbucks locations plus thousands more restaurants, airports, hotels and other convenient locations across the U.S.
? CV ? CV (Cellular Video) from AT&T gives viewers access to thousands of video clips ? news, sports, weather, entertainment and more ? directly on a BlackBerry Bold smartphone via streaming video.
? AT&T Mobile Music Services ? An industry leader in mobile music, AT&T boasts the largest catalog of offerings available today, giving customers mobile access to enjoy XM Radio Mobile?, song identification through MusicID, music videos through MobiTV and over-the-air access to the extensive music databases of Napster Mobile? and eMusic? ? just to name a few.
AT&T Navigator, CV, AT&T Mobile Music services and more than 90,000 additional choices are available through AT&T MEdia Mall directly from the BlackBerry Bold or online.
E-mail and More
Like all BlackBerry smartphones, the BlackBerry Bold gives users the industry?s leading mobile messaging solution. It works with BlackBerry? Enterprise Server, which enables advanced security and IT administration within IBM? Lotus? Domino?, Microsoft? Exchange and Novel? GroupWise? environments, as well as BlackBerry? Professional Software for small businesses. It also works with BlackBerry? Internet Service, which gives users push-based access to as many as 10 supported work or personal e-mail accounts. Customers can also download and edit Microsoft? Word, Excel and PowerPoint files using the preloaded DataViz? Documents to Go? software suite. Beyond e-mail, the BlackBerry Bold will support a wide range of business and lifestyle applications.
The BlackBerry Bold smartphone includes Bluetooth? 2.0, which provides support for hands-free headsets, stereo headsets, car kits and other Bluetooth peripherals. The included BlackBerry? Desktop Manager software comes with Roxio? Media Manager for BlackBerry, which includes new features that make it easier to organize multimedia content as well as manage music, videos and recorded Voice Notes between a computer and the smartphone. It also optimizes video files for smooth full-screen playback on the BlackBerry Bold smartphone’s large display with support for full-screen and widescreen formats.
Roxio Photosuite 9 LE is included, allowing customers to easily enhance pictures and create photo albums on their computer. In addition, the new BlackBerry? Media Sync application allows customers to sync their iTunes? digital musical collections2 with the handset. The BlackBerry Bold also boasts a new acoustic design for enhanced phone listening quality and clarity and numerous premium phone features, including Speaker Independent Voice Recognition (SIVR) for Voice Activated Dialing (VAD).
AT&T Backed
Backing the BlackBerry Bold smartphone will be AT&T?s 3G BroadbandConnect network, which currently is available in more than 320 major metropolitan areas in the U.S. and, by year-end, AT&T expects to offer the service in nearly 350 leading U.S. markets. In addition to 3G connectivity, the BlackBerry Bold is also designed to connect seamlessly with AT&T?s nationwide3 EDGE network, which is available in more than 13,000 cities and towns and along some 40,000 miles of major highways.
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The world’s first Moorestown prototype hit the stage at Intel’s Taipei, Developer Forum in the hands of Intel Vice-President Anand Chandrasekher
“Technology innovation is the catalyst for new user experiences, industry collaborations and business models that together will shape the next 40 years,” said Chandrasekher. “As the next billion people connect to and experience the Internet, significant opportunities lie in the power of technology and the development of purpose-built devices that deliver more targeted computing needs and experiences.”
Chandrasekher cited the Intel? Atom? processor, the upcoming “Nehalem” processor, and the Intel “Moorestown” platform scheduled for the 2009-2010 timeframe as prime examples of innovation and technology leadership. Also highlighted was the progress Intel is making in the Mobile Internet Devices (MID) market segment with the world’s first working “Moorestown” platform demonstration.
Moorestown comprises of an SOC, codenamed “Lincroft,” which integrates the 45nm processor, graphics, memory controller and video encode/decode onto a single chip and an I/O hub codenamed “Langwell”, which supports a range of I/O ports to connect with wireless, storage, and display components in addition to incorporating several board level functions. Chandrasekher stated that Intel is on track to reduce Moorestown platform idle power by more than 10x compared to the first-generation MIDs based on the Intel Atom processor.
Chandrasekher said that Moorestown will be a catalyst for exciting and innovative developments that will extend the full Internet experience into the smartphone space with the Communication MID. He indicated that Moorestown platforms will support a range of wireless technologies including 3G, WiMAX, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth and mobile TV. Additionally, Chandrasekher announced a collaboration with Ericsson* for HSPA data modules optimized for the Moorestown platform. He also announced that Option* is extending its collaboration for HSPA modules to the Moorestown platform. These 3G modules come in 25×30x2.x mm small size, are optimized for Moorestown power requirements and will help provide MID users with more powerful, always connected Internet-based experiences.
