Moebius from Microsoft
Last week, Microsoft has held in Seattle, a small two-day conference titled Mobius 2008. Mobius has traditionally devoted to Windows Mobile, you can get to it by invitation only, who receive the most eminent commentators and journalists.
This year's conference did not bring the sensations, even though it involved such companies as Microsoft partners HTC, Sony Ericsson, Velocity Mobile, ASUS, LG, Toshiba and MWg (formerly O2 Asia). At the conference, journalists were able povertet in the hands of new products from HTC and Sony Ericsson, has not yet been released for sale - HTC Diamond and Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1. Also underwent a detailed study of a new device from the Zinc II MWg, which accurately discern the outlines glofiish M810/M750.
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| HTC Diamond |
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| HTC Diamond |
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| HTC Diamond: Opera Mobile |
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| HTC Diamond: Chamber |
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| HTC Diamond: Features |
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| Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 and Sony Clie |
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| Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 |
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| MWg Zinc II |
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| MWg Zinc II |
Debutants Windows Mobile 7 in 2008
Without waiting for the Mobius 2008, the company MWg (Mobile and Wireless Group) held a roadshow in London on the findings to the European market a new brand and the announcement of the European models with the Atom V Zinc II. At this press conference MWg lift the veil of secrecy over its plans for the remainder of 2008 and early 2009. If we believe these materials, we are waiting for a lot of interesting things. Recall that MWg is formed with the direct involvement of the operator O2, the exclusive carrier-known versions of interesting mobile devices. Communicator Atom V was released in Asia much before European announcement, it is almost identical to the characteristics of the model Zinc II, the main difference comes down to other form factors - the classic candy bar, without sliding side QWERTY-keyboard.
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Despite the fact that Microsoft is going to introduce a new version of Windows Mobile only for the next year, MWg plans to show the first device based on it by the end of 2008. Among the debutants MWg this year - a device codenamed MWg Flame II, MWg Rici, MWg Iris and MWg Graphite II. Of course, details on future updates until the extremely poor. At the presentation of them reported the following.
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MWg Flame II, as the name implies, is the successor model of O2 Xda Flame, who became in due time flagship O2 performance. Flame II, as well as its predecessor, features a large 3.5-inch display, in addition he will receive GPS-module, a 3 megapixel camera, against former 2-megapixel and a new operating system Windows Mobile 7. What additional changes will occur with MWg Flame II is not yet clear. Recall that the O2 Xda Flame has a display with a resolution of VGA. At the time of this model, Windows Mobile PDA with such a resolution was quite low. In addition, the device had a surprisingly full for the time set of communication capabilities, a flash drive of 2 GB and the processor Intel XScale PXA 270 520 MHz with 3D-accelerator NVIDIA GoForce 5500. Communicator MWg Flame II should be submitted in the fourth quarter of 2008. For the other three Windows Mobile innovations planned for 2008, is not specified operating system. Consequently, MWg Rici, MWg Iris and MWg Graphite II, will likely be running already released Windows Mobile 6.1. Model MWg Rici appear faster than the other - in the third quarter. About it is known that a thin candy bar (12,5 mm thick) with support for high-speed communication standards such as HSDPA (7,2 Mbit / s at boot) and HSUPA (5,2 Mbit / s data transmission from the mobile device) and the availability of GPS-module and a 3-megapixel camera. For MWg Iris announced similar features plus another slider form factor with a side QWERTY-keyboard.Unlike MWg Rici, MWg Iris presentation is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2008. Specifications MWg Graphite II have not been determined, we know only that this is a smartphone without a touchscreen. It should be remembered that the predecessor, O2 Xda Graphite, was released in early 2007. For the time smartphone has a very quite good performance - support for 3G and Wi-Fi (802.11 b / g), CPU Intel Xscale PXA 270 416 MHz. It was one of the few smartphones that have the ability to upgrade to Windows Mobile operating system 6. Last year 2008 new from MWg not classified as Windows Mobile smartphones. Mysterious device called the Walk PC will be pre-installed Windows Vista and supports 3G-network. It is not clear whether it will simply UMPC class UMPC, or a device like the HTC Shift, which can be used with Windows Vista, and with a stripped-down Windows Mobile functionality to extend battery life. In early 2009, will be even greater diversification through models MWg Atom VI and MWg Vix. Both of these new items are marked as running on Windows Mobile 7. It turns out that the next update models of ultra-compact series of Atom will happen in about a year. Of the currently known differences between models with number VI on the model under number V can be called great communication capabilities (will support HSDPA at speeds of 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA at speeds of 5.2 Mbps), a new version of the operating system and a camera better (3.2 M). About MWg Vix suggests that this will be the further development of horizontal sliders like MWg Iris. This model will be a thin (12.5 mm), will receive 3.2-megapixel camera and the version of Windows Mobile 7. Separately marked a new kind of keyboard, but is likely to have in mind a familiar QWERTY-keyboard, with minor improvements. At the moment it is all known details about the grand plans of MWg. If the company really get so early to present the first Windows Mobile 7 device, it's really good news. Spoils the impression only to realize that until Microsoft will hold an official presentation of Windows Mobile 7 release devices in the sale not take place.
Xenium: records with touchscreen
The network has spread to more detailed information about the LP touchscreen phone Philips Xenium X800. While the manufacturer has not announced any release date or estimated price, but the network has a fairly detailed specification, which is declared as the "official". Given the intricacies of copyright Philips and proximity to Chinese producers may have leaked into the network description actually corresponds to reality in the near future will be a press release telling the details of the departure of the sale of the new Xenium. Judging by the preliminary information, Philips Xenium X800 is not going to compete with Apple iPhone, soon to be imitated. At a novelty Xenium display has a diagonal of 2.9 inches and a resolution of 240x400 pixels does not support wireless networks Wi-Fi, from the communication opportunities provided only GSM / GPRS interface and Bluetooth 2.0 (with the profile A2DP), a rather large amount of built-in memory has a slot for expansion card format microSD. The main thing is just a killer, the dignity of the phone - in the traditional series of Xenium battery life - up to 8 hours of talk time and 850 hours of standby time. We look forward to confirming these settings from the manufacturer and the announcement of the recommended price.
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| Philips Xenium X800 |
From the camp of fans Xenium-centenarians came another news - supposedly there is a more functional type of phone Philips with a large touch screen. It is reported that the name of this model Philips Xenium X-Connect, but features are like a dream than a description of a real device.Xenium X-Connect brand does not make that semi-budget impression, which remains after reading the specification Xenium X800. According to preliminary information, given one of the forum visitors Italian resource Telefonino.net, in contrast to the Xenium X800, model X-Connect is not limited to Java MIDP 2.0, but a fully fledged smartphone running Windows Mobile operating system 6. Among the advantages of the proposed new items mentioned Intel processor with 624 MHz, 3-inch touchscreen, GPS-receiver, not only GSM, but UMTS with HSDPA. Especially for those who worry about the reality of a decent battery life in a device with such characteristics of the possibility to use batteries size AA / AAA as a backup power source. How true these reports are not clear, have a lot of patience to find out the details.
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| Philips Xenium X-Connect |
Breeding blackberry vrazves
News about BlackBerry smartphones are becoming more urgent in the CIS countries. The Ukrainian unit operator MTS started selling tiny BlackBerry Pearl, a pleasant assortment that had previously been limited to the ancient BlackBerry 8700g. Maybe in Russia will soon be this hit international scale. Meanwhile, RIM does not stand still and Russian operators have warning in advance to keep pace with the times. Was finally, officially presented the first BlackBerry smartphone with support for third-generation networks. BlackBerry Bold (marking BlackBerry 9000) also supports the wireless Wi-Fi network and GPS-navigation is based on Intel PXA270 processor clocked at 624 MHz and has a flash memory capacity of 1 GB. The previous BlackBerry models, used considerably more modest processor and traditionally lacked support for 3G, and a model with GPS-receiver and Wi-Fi started to appear in the portfolio RIM recently. Display of new items until you touch, but already has a decent resolution - 480h320 pixels.
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Rumors about the future BlackBerry-updates are also evolving. Cost occur announcement BlackBerry Bold 9000, as the network has unofficial information about BlackBerry Thunder 9500. This smartphone promises to be a real breakthrough for RIM. It will thus welcome the first smartphone RIM touchscreen. Interestingly, in the initial rumors about the first BlackBerry with a touchscreen mentioned marking 9000, but then it turned out that the nine thousandth model will be considerably greater than the predecessors, but still remains a traditional RIM monoblock with QWERTY-keyboard and usually do not touch, the display. In the BlackBerry Thunder 9500 hardware QWERTY-keyboard will be abolished and replaced with a large touch screen, which occupies almost the entire front surface of the device. Of the hardware buttons remain only four - for the start / end call, BlackBerry menu and back button. Presumably, among the versions of the BlackBerry Thunder 9500 will be released dvustandartny version with support for CDMA EV-DO Rev. C and HSPA, and in the longer term - with the support of 4G-standard LTE. It is expected that the very first version of the BlackBerry Thunder 9500 will be presented in the third quarter of this year.
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Debut Palm Treo 800w in the photo
After lengthy discussions, unfounded model Palm Treo 800w in the network finally appeared the first live shots of the device. Now we can assume confirmed information about the integrated support networks Wi-Fi, a special button located on the upper shell of the new Treo. Also an amateur photographer noted features such as infrared, the chipset MSM-6800, 101.53 MB of free memory, operating system, Windows Mobile 6.1. Probably in the near future will be known more details about the characteristics of Treo 800w, for example, will a determination of built-in GPS.
Communication-EXPOCOMM 2008, notes the eyewitness
The current exhibition CSTB, as reported by the source, is the anniversary - Twenty on the account. For its anniversary exhibition almost completely got rid of the "mobile" component and has ceased to be interesting to end users - you can not find her or stands well-known manufacturers of mobile phones, or cellular operators, or large retailers of our market. The exhibition area is quite uzhalis - it takes less than three of the eight pavilions. And, thanks to the huge number of Chinese stands (sometimes as much as "Chinatowns" - see photo) show be called the "International Chinese":) Also, our Chinese friends did not limit himself themed exhibitions, and so here and one there you can find unusual Stands - for example, showing the body to a PC or a variety of gadgets for communication has nothing to do with.
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In addition to China at the show often come across the Korean stands, in a separate pavilion is concentrated in majority Russian producers. Stand GLONASS found not once, but it is tastefully decorated and provides a visual representation of what satellites are flying over our heads, and allows you to touch a working equipment that supports this standard.
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Separately, from the point of view it is interesting to the end user - the non-specialist, we can distinguish a great stand Panasonic, which shows "all his" from telephones and televisions and finishing stand and Siemens, which demonstrates their new DECT-handset with support for the protocol SIP - as a joint PR-actions with the SIP-provider sipnet.ru they make free calls anywhere in the world.
In general, from the standpoint of a professional exhibition will be useful, because one day you can learn a lot of offers from cable equipment to ready technological solutions in any area of communication, exchange contacts and chat, I varied manufacturers. From the perspective of end users 'mobile technology', ie we are with you - nothing interesting from a practical point of view you are likely at this show will not find. The authors, translation:
