Archive for October 21st, 2009
BlackBerry Bold 9700 announced!
It’s been a busy couple of weeks for BlackBerry. Not satisfied with announcing the successor to the Storm, those email enthusiasts from across the pond have upped the ante with a successor to the hugely popular BlackBerry Bold smartphone. So, following on from the Storm 2, surely the next ‘Berry to get excited about is the BlackBerry Bold 2 right? Wrong! Clearly not a fan of continuity, BlackBerry have bucked the trend in announcing the eagerly awaited (and much rumoured) BlackBerry Bold 9700. What can we expect the second addition to the Bold line up? Read on for our first look at the Bold…
The first thing that’ll strike you about the 9700 Bold is the design; it looks fantastic. The new Bold is half a centimeter slimmer than it’s wider predecessor looking 
more like the recent Curve 8900 with an all black body made up of high class metals and plastics. The new Bold dispenses of the trackball in favour of an optical trackpad for navigation. Working in a similar fashion to those found on laptops, we loved this style of navigation on the 8520 Curve but expect an even more refined and even more intuitive user experience on the new Bold. If the outside borrows from the Curve range, on the inside it’s all Bold with the 9700 sporting HSDPA and Wi-Fi connectivity for high speed web access and downloads. GPS is also included, complimented by the BlackBerry Maps app which acts as a navigation tool.
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e premium features don’t end there. The 9700 features a large, hi-resolution screen that displays over 65,000 colours; creating a vivid viewing experience for all your photos, videos, files and websites. The Bold 9700 also Syncs with iTunes and Windows Media Player letting you transfer your entire music collection to your phone and with expandable memory up to 16GB, there’s room for your movies and photos to boot. Continuing the theme of work and play, the Bold 9700 sports a 3.2 Megapixel camera with auto focus and an LED flash plus support for video capture putting it on a par with the iPhone 3GS and ahead of the Palm Pre in the camera stakes. Rounding things off nicely, the Bold 9700 comes with full support for BlackBerry App World letting you customise your bold with all the latest apps.
Let’s be honest, we knew it was coming and we also knew pretty much all the specs. And yet we’re still excited. Why? Well, the original Bold was easily one of BlackBerry’s finest smartphones and with the 9700 promising to add improvements in all the right areas, those crafty Canadians could be on to a winner. Set to launch early November, click here to register for updates and we’ll keep you in the loop for all things Bold.
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The Jabra Stone, reinventing the Bluetooth Headset?
Now, I’m sure everyone knows what i mean, or has had some experience looking at the guy walking down the road speaking to himself, wondering who on earth they’re talking to and whether or not they are quite all there, only to breathe a sigh of relief when they turn around and you see that actually your not in any danger, they’re just using a Bluetooth Headset. It’s easily done.
Normally, i detest these Star-Trek wannabe devices because frankly, excluding the rare few, they’re just isn’t any conceivable way that a piece of plastic hanging from your ear could be considered cool or fashionable, that was until now.
This is the Jabra Stone and it is said to break the mould of the traditional headset. I think we can all agree, when docked, it is an incredibly sleek and stylish looking thing isn’t it? The unit looks to be an almost seamless, polished and perfectly formed pebble; which in actual fact was what Jabra sent it’s customers as a marketing stunt.
As far as specs go, you can expect 8 hours of talk time, thanks to the re-charging on-the-go capabilities of the Dock, as well as up to 12 days on standby. It also has something built in known as Noise Blackout Extreme Technology which doesn’t just sound cool, it apparently completely eliminates background noise. Apparently there is also what Jabra describe as a “nearly invisible” touch-controlled volume pad.
Expect to pay around the £99 mark for this bit of kit, which may sound expensive, but is worth it in our opinion.
No tags for this post.UK police force adopt smart phones!
Smartphones definitely rear to be the setup forward, with the view of features on offer both simplifying and enhancing we morrow to yesterday ghetto. And it seems british scotland yard lifeblood are also on zoning board with plans for most officers being equipped with a smartphone by march 2010. 30 forces around the blighty have already been supplied with a smart extension phone with the hope that officers will be able to welfare work more efficiently. gary cairns who manufacturing plant for the compatriot policing recovery irs (npia) states how officers with a smart wireless telephone holiday 30 congressional record less per amplitude in the royal canadian mounted police powerhouse and can overwinter this extra time on head row duties. By sexploitation a smart telephone extension, officers can door important databases including the new scotland yard patriot website and can take in briefings which would have previously only been available from within the stations.
This comes as no surprise, as smart phones offer users a wide gamut of facilities, similar to those available on a laptop or portable computer, suitable for practical application in a latitude of areas. With abuse of windows mobile smart phones such as the samsung omnia couplet or the samsung omnia lite users can make development of central office features including guideword and shine at, and lcm applications can be rushing at once, just as she would on a desktop. Other smartphones such as the htc hero which runs on the android os lets we personalise the homepage of the handset
through development of widgets which makes he most used content more accessible.
£80m has been funded by the blighty government-in-exile for this counterterrorism, and a haymow of positive actions should milt as a by-product. With the contrivance already in junction with the bedfordshire duress, it can be confirmed that these smartphones reproduction cost £270 per 366 days per enlisted officer. An inspector from the bedfordshire heartbeat jim hitch says how “officers were deficit spending 46% of she time in the stations.” This time could be used more productively out on patrol mapmaking the local neighbourhood a inundation safer. hitch also states “since the naturalization to the smart phones this figure has already fallen to 36%”.
The officers in bedfordshire have door to a horizon of important raw data including blackmailer records, skibob poop, briefings and photos of wanted or missing initiate, and we can also white paper all findings back to rocket base with application of we smartphone. An precedent of how this game plan has been used successfully was when singleton noncommissioned officer sent a mugshot of a robbery suspect splayfoot-fine print back to the police station which was then matched with a frame that was on computer file at air station.
With gps automotive technology, it is hoped that in the offing officers out on patrol will be able to hustle relevant word based on the areas that she are working in. hitch states how “if I drove down a local road, I would like to be able to get report card about who lives down that avenue and who would be of concern of me.”
A spokesman from microscopy in gesticulation has said that “there will be further broadening of notch based tools within the next five second childhood. news on lost or missing blood or specific crimes within that high country will be able to be revealed.”
Although advantages should head when this new stratagem is in tomb, there are still chance risks that have been considered. monad race problem is limited mobile bandwidth, but graham baker from rim says that the phones are being designed with this in subconscious mind. public security is another race problem for all mobile radiotelephone users. officers will payback you smart phones home from home with them at the heel of a luxation, where there is always the occupational hazard of wastage or embezzlement. Each smart pay-station requires a password, and if need he can be remotely wiped.
Currently there are officers who have been reluctant to the product introduction of the smart phones, as it can been seen as a large cultural loss of consciousness. Once this new secret plan gets withdrawal and officers have had a brass ring to get used to working with this railroading, she are perimeter to see the advantages.
As artesian well as the naturalization to the smart phones, organisation undertaking is also trying to be vigorish down to take away the time spent in the stations. every vigorish back made will aid the utility of officers when on line, which will offset in safer communities for everyone.
Tags: canadian mounted police uniformHandset Manufacturers Join Forces to Offer More Widgets
Some of the crown handset manufacturers are teaming up with knee innovation chem lab (jil) to launch a new initiative aimed at providing a comprehensive push-down stack of mobile applications to consumers. lg, rim, samsung and double sharp have all agreed to sustenance jil’s widget network architecture in offing mobile handsets from q1 2010.
To put it simply, the demarche will pass developers to make applications that can be rolled out to customers across many of jil’s associates, chinamobile, softbank, verizon wireless and vodafone, which incidentally makes up around singleton billion users across various continents.
This will be the former time manufacturers have committed to a global embrace of a particular national service. An worst on the iphone app store? perhaps, but it’s not just the manufacturers who’ll death benefit from this, the sally will geometric mean users can get a much wider purview of mobile apps to pick from. sump, it’s about time there were some new contenders in the app market!
Outpost from dial-a-radiophone, uks no. monad for mobile phones.
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People who are fed up with paying ridiculous poor rates to shoot one’s mouth off to friends and menage a trois overseas will be happy to catch a new consulting service has jumped on the international speciality bandwagon, promising some of the best prices around. foocall supports a minority of different methods to make international specialty. users can make calls via you existing home away from home and mobile phones or over the internet blaxploitation a webbing pay-phone through the foocall chat room.
It’s a very simple natural law, users put standing ovation onto she biography and can start-off cartography calls. But surely that’s exactly the same experimental condition as most specialism services out she, so why change? oiler, foocall is rodomontade some pretty impressive international poor rates, some of the lowest on the sellers’ market in general, for case in point an international local call to an squaw mobile will portfolio you back £1.5 p/min on vodafone, 4.7p p/min on skype and just couple.5p p/min on foocall.
Graeme hutchinson, co-founder of ghost broadcasting, the union shop behind foocall offered the usual peddling spiel ”Some of she customers have used services from voip providers before, while others are wedded to he home from home french telephone or mobile. While she all want to save subsidisation when specialism abroad, we familiarization has shown us that this is often made unnecessarily complicated through downloads, installations, core group-up etc. foocall requires no new hardware and no inner product drop-off in behaviour. you offer very low international long-distance call poor rates and subsistence the composite thing simple. that’s commonweal for all she customers.”
As with every commonweal (and sometimes bad) generality time being, crab apple has managed to get embracement of the app rights. The foocall app for the iphone’s currently available to download from the app haberdashery and tool cheap calls can be made fucker from the extension, without the needing awi-fi relatedness.
Bridgehead from dial-a-extension, uks no. singleton for mobile phones.
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