Written on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 by Gemini
A Brazilian company is claiming to be the first to have found a way to unlock Apple’s new iPhone 3G, getting around restrictions that require users to sign up for calling plans with exclusive carriers, reports said on Tuesday.
The Web site of Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo and other sites such as Digg.com and Gizmodo.com said the firm, DesbloqueioBr, hacked the phone by altering its firmware and by adding a special card add-on to the SIM chip. The results allow iPhone users to connect to any carrier, not just the one that has an exclusive arrangement with Apple in each country where it is sold.
It's an expensive affair!
But the Brazilian hack doesn’t come cheap. DesbloqueioBr plans to charge between $250-375 to unlock an iPhone, which itself costs around $200 in its basic 8GB version in the US. However, there are some problems with the Brazilian fix, such as a drop in the quality of connection, and Apple’s ability to wipe out the hack with a software update.But one of the company’s partners, Breno MacMasi, said there would always be ways to circumvent the locks.“ Apple has made some big mistakes, so we will be able to come up with another hack. It’s going to be a game of cat-and-mouse,” he said.
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Written on Saturday, June 28, 2008 by Gemini
US scientists say they have written new software that enables the blind to surf the Internet at any place.
Richard Ladner, a professor of computer science at the University of Washington (UW), revealed that the software – dubbed WebAnywhere – can read aloud Web text on any computer with speakers or headphones. “This is for situations where someone who’s blind can’t use their own computer, but still wants access to the Internet: At a cyber caf, a school, at a friend’s house, etc,” said Ladner. Doctoral student Jeffrey Bigham developed WebAnywhere under Ladner’s supervision. Unlike current screen-reading software, WebAnywhere is the first accessibility tool to be hosted on the Web – meaning it doesn’t have to be downloaded onto a computer.It processes the text on an external server located in UW, and then sends the audio file to play in the user’s Web browser.“You don’t have to install new software.
So even if you go to a heavily locked-down computer, say at a library, you can still use it,” Bigham said.While testing, the researchers asked a few visually impaired people to use it to do three things – check email, look up a bus time table and search for a restaurant’s phone number. People using WebAnywhere – which, so far, works only in English – were able to successfully complete all three tasks, using a variety of machines and Internet connections. The free program and audio-visual demonstrations are available online at http://webanywhere.cs.washington.edu/.
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Written on Friday, June 20, 2008 by Gemini
Skyrocketting fuel prices, adulterated fuel, long queues at petrol stations, often unscrupulous attendants out to fleece you - your cup of woes spills over everytime you need to fill the tank of of your car.
But all this could be history if Genepax - a Japanese company -- is successful in commercialising its latest innovation: the 'water car.'
Genepax unveiled the car in Osaka, Japan on June 12, saying that a litre of any kind of water would get the engine going for about an hour at a speed of 80 kmph, or 50 mph.
Genepax president Kiyoshi Hirasawa, in a mission statement published on the company's official web site, said, "Our mission is to develop technology and products for efficient production and use of energy. By 'efficient,' we mean ecologically and economically efficient. Ecological and economical energy is our business. Our goal is to create energy that is not taxing on our natural environment."The water needed to run the car could be tap, rain or sea water, the company clarified. Once the tank (which is at the rear) of the Genepax car is filled with water, a generator would extract hydrogen from the water using, what the comapny calls, its Water Energy System, or WES, to produce electricity that the car runs on. As opposed to the hybrid cars which emit water, Genepax's invention consumes water.Whether the car is a commercial success or not remains to be seen, but Genepax said it had applied for a patent and is planning to collaborate with Japanese auto manufacturers. "Energy made from water," as Hirasawa says, "is not a dream story anymore We hope many people will join us in our challenge to promote the use of our WES, for the better future of the earth," he added in a statement. We've seen plenty of promises about water-powered cars (among other things), but it looks like Japan's Genepax has now made some real progress on that front, with it recently taking the wraps off its Water Energy System fuel cell prototype. The key to that system, it seems, is its membrane electrode assembly (or MEA), which contains a material that's capable of breaking down water into hydrogen and oxygen through a chemical reaction. Not surprisingly, the company isn't getting much more specific than that, with it only saying that it's adopted a "well-known process to produce hydrogen from water to the MEA." Currently, that system costs on the order of ¥2,000,000 (or about $18,700 -- not including the car), but company says that if it can get it into mass production that could be cut to ¥500,000 or less (or just under $5,000). Head on past the break for a video of car in action courtesy of Reuters.
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Written on Monday, May 05, 2008 by Gemini
Emotion-detecting robot cars will face off against eavesdropping flying saucers in the English countryside later this year, as scientists and school children compete with their designs for the next generation of military equipment. It’s the British Ministry of Defence’s first ever “Grand Challenge’’, aimed at encouraging scientists, inventors and academics to turn ideas into machines for army use in urban environments.
It gave six finalists funding to build machine prototypes, such as mini-helicopters and disc-shaped flying robots fitted with heat and motion sensors that can be controlled remotely from a bunker. And the finalists, who each received 3,00,000 pounds (Rs 2.4 crore), came to London last week to display their models.
“This project has really allowed us to broaden our vision and look at what other work is being done out there in our field,’’ said Norman Gregory, business manager for the Silicon Valley Group PLC, a small research company in southeast Britain. His company teamed up with the Bruton School for Girls in Somerset to build an unmanned buggy that can analyse gunmen’s movements to determine whether they are angry or nervous. “We are a small company and would not have been able to put together a consortium to develop such a sophisticated system without this competition. The government made it clear it wanted consortiums to get schools involved, and since the Bruton school already ran its own robot design competitions, we asked them if they wanted to have a look at our research,’’ Gregory said.
Another group, Swarm Systems Ltd, has built a set of tiny helicopters that fly in formation into a village, recording images and audio tracks to beam back to headquarters. Finalists will take part in a mock battle in August in Copehill Down, a village that was modelled on an East German one when it was built for military training during the Cold War. Copehill Down is near Stonehenge, about 150 kms from London. The contestants will have their machines search for pretend gunmen and mock bombs, earning points for each find and losing points for hitting civilians or transmitting data too slowly. The winner gets a trophy made from the recycled metal recovered from a WWII fighter jet. The best designs will also get financial backing from Britain’s defence ministry.
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Written on Friday, April 25, 2008 by Gemini
At home your family’s waiting… At work, your boss is frowning as usual… But you have not yet finished working on the file in your desktop.
This is a quite a familiar scenario with most of the working people. How often have we heard them wish, ‘if only we could complete this at home’… Accessing from home the files which are saved in your office computer was just a dream till now. However, it is now possible to access files saved in any computer from any other computer!!!
GoToMyPC allows you to remotely access your computer (assuming it is connected to the Internet) from any other computer (connected to the Interner) in the world. This means that one can seamlessly access / send e-mails, work on projects, documents, or network resources, without physically present in that location! This site offers simple yet powerful software that has to be installed in both the computer you wish to access and the computer you would be accessing it from. The process of registration is quite simple and post-registration, you can choose from the personal, premium and corporate options. While the personal option allows you to access two remote computers, the premium enables access to five computers and you can access the whole office if you subscribe for the corporate plan.
The corporate account is a conscious effort by the company to help its employees access their office work from a remote computer. Don’t worry about the security! This software is quite secured and can be used with the existing firewall setup without disturbing its integrity. An access code resides on the host computer and is never saved onto the website’s servers, so no more leaks. You’d also get notified if someone is trying to break in. There is a built-in lockout protection where you can even disable the keyboard and screen in such cases. This is just like virtual private network (VPN) that has been in use in many companies. However GoToMyPC is the first third party VPN service that’s being used. It is a convenience tool that many software companies are using so their employees can look at their files from home.
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Written on Saturday, April 19, 2008 by Gemini
American Apparel makes RFID sexy...
Retailer American Apparel Inc., known for its risqué ads and "Made in Downtown LA" label, is putting radio frequency identification tags (RFID) on every Boy Beater tank, Baby Rib brief, Cross-Back bra and Sleeve Ringer T-Shirt in its 17 New York metropolitan area stores. That's 40,000 items per store, each tagged with a high-tech chip, starting with the Columbia University location in Manhattan. The company is using Vue Technology's TrueVue software to manage the RFID data, Motorola Inc. RFID readers and antennae to capture the data and Avery Dennison Corp. tags to locate and store that data at the item level. Los Angeles-based American Apparel is on an aggressive timetable to roll out the sophisticated inventory tracking system to an additional 120 stores in North America.
The question is why. RFID tagging on crates -- never mind individual pieces -- is currently on the radar for only a handful of retailers, mainly behemoths like Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and its legions of suppliers now under orders to adopt transponder tags or else.
RFID is tricky, said John Fontanella, an analyst at AMR Research Inc. in Boston. "The use cases for RFID are not as obvious as some proponents would have you believe," he said. Automating a process like taking inventory changes the way people work, and that "requires a significant amount of re-engineering," Fontanella said, and up-front labor. There's little doubt of that, said Zander Livingston, RFID technology director at American Apparel. The manual tagging for a single store alone required multiple employees working three full days. But for American Apparel, with its numerous, nearly identical styles in a rainbow of colors, the technology makes a lot of sense.
"The No. 1 reason is inventory accuracy," Livingston said.
American Apparel differs from a lot of other apparel companies, Livingston said, in that it displays one -- and one only -- of each size, style and color of a particular item on its sales floor. Each item in each of its color and size variations has a place on the salesroom floor, but the company does not load up the racks with multiples of the same kind. "So basically, as soon as an item has been taken off the rack to be tried on, or purchased or just carried around the store as the customer is browsing, the item is no longer available. We also have a lot of items that look similar to each other, and because of that a lot of items get misplaced," Livingston said. The high sales volume often means that more than 1,000 items a day are moving back and forth between stockrooms and salesrooms.
"We'd have 10% of the items lost in the stock room that needed to be on the sales floor. Part of my goal was to make sure that we had a perfectly fitted sales floor, at 100% capacity," said Livingston, an old classmate of American Apparel CEO Dov Charney from their prep school days at the elite Choate Rosemary Hall, who was recruited by Charney to put RFID to work. Accuracy was a big problem. Taking manual count of 10,000 items on the sales floor and the 30,000 stocked in the basement means having to ask employees to come early or stay late. Fatigued employees might glance at the tag in the collar, but because of the similarity in styles, misidentify the item. RFID accuracy is 100%.
Tom Racette, director of RFID market development for Mortorola's Enterprise Mobility Division, said RFID is becoming easier to implement. "A couple of years ago, this was all about the big challenging implementation, putting RFID across the supply chain. We are seeing more and more retailers, and businesses of all kinds, who are finding creative ways of implementing RFID in ways that are providing value," Racette said. Dr. Bill Hardgrave, professor of information systems and executive director of the Information Technology Research Institute at the University of Arkansas, said in a statement, "We've noticed an increasing trend among retailers that are implementing RFID at the item level, and American Apparel is a prime example of a retailer on the forefront of this trend."
By deploying the technology in additional stores, American Apparel expects to increase sales and customer service by having real-time visibility into products at nearby stores, enhancing the intrastore transfer process to balance stock, Racette said. Furthermore, the retailer will be able to respond more efficiently to market behavior by using RFID to record and report on purchases, not only within one location, but also across a region of stores.
For CIOs, they are looking at RFID and seeing that inventory accuracy is going from 80% to 99%, as it did in the American Apparel pilot, and that RFID is reducing the cost of managing inventory substantially, said Chris Schaeffer, director of RFID product marketing at Motorola. "CIOs are tasked with figuring out how to utilize the IT infrastucture to bring business value, and this can improve processes and efficiencies. It's good for a CIO to be able to say, 'See how this technology investment helped me do that,'" Schaeffer said.
Livingston did not give out a dollar figure for the investment, except to say the cost was about equivalent to the salaries of two full-time sales employees per store. The project is not without challenges, he cautioned. The deployment takes a "little more human interaction" than perhaps initially anticipated to verify everything being transported from the stockroom to the sales floor. He had to re-evaluate certain work movements so RFID readers were not blocked. It can be difficult to read tags around metal, for example. Down the road, he wants to design portals to capture theft -- people walking out the door with stuff -- but the "gates" have to be "aesthetically pleasing" so they are not in odds with American Apparel's meticulous stores. Livingston said the next step is to cut down on the manual labor by tagging items at the manufacturing plant. "I'm not going to tag another item in New York until there is source-level tagging."
Source: SearchCIO article
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Written on Wednesday, March 05, 2008 by Gemini
Fair hostess Kerstin Koch-Weger displays a Toshiba M700 tablet PC at the CeBIT 2008 trade fair in Hanover on Monday. Depending on the model, the M700 series of laptops come equipped with a 2.2GHz Intel Core2Duo processor, 1-4GB of RAM, an Intel X3100 graphics accelerator, an 80-160GB hard drive, and a DVD-RW drive. Supporting USB 2.0, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, the devices boast of security features such as fingerprint reader, multi-level password security and hotkey security. The M700 series retails at $1,449 (Rs 59,000) and upwards.
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Written on Thursday, February 28, 2008 by Gemini
London: German automobile manufacturer BMW has installed the Active Cruise Control system in its 5 and 6 Series cars, which automatically stops the vehicle to avert an accident without having to use the breaks.
The system uses a radar beam to constantly measure the distance to the vehicles in front of it. A driver can set the desired speed and distance to be maintained from the car in front, and then sit back and do next to nothing. Once activated, the system enables the car to drive on its own, with the only exception that the driver needs to control the steering. It can slow the vehicle a complete stop when necessary, and later scoot back up to the set speed as soon as traffic allows.
The system breaks the car even when someone veers across three lanes to cut you off.A camera hidden behind the rear-vision mirror reads white or yellow lines on the road. Just in case the system senses that the driver is veering out of his lane, it vibrates the steering wheel to alert him about the same. The only time when the driver will have to break is when there is no car in front of the vehicle. To get going again, all the driver is required to do is to hit the “resume” button.
BMW spokesman Toni Andreevski believes that even cheaper cars will start coming with Active Cruise systems over time. “What’s novel about it today will be quite normal in a couple of years’ time. As a result, drivers will be less tired, less stressed and more able to react to dangers on the road,’’ he said.
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Written on Sunday, February 17, 2008 by Gemini
Researchers invent a smart pill box that reminds patients it’s time to take their medication; technology also ensures that adequate aid reaches the afflicted in India’s rural areas…
Tuberculosis has long been eradicated from the world’s industrialised nations but continues to take a terrible toll in a few poor, rural regions of Asia and Africa. Every year, 10 million new cases are diagnosed and two million people die of the disease.It’s not that new treatments are needed - medical science long ago figured out how to cure tuberculosis using a cocktail of antibiotics. The problem is getting the medicine to the people who need it and, most difficult, making sure they follow the six-month regimen of daily doses.
Failure to follow the regimen not only leads to likely death of that patient, but fosters the development of antibiotic-resistant strains of the disease. “The problem is, how do you get people to take this complex regimen,” says Manish Bhardwaj, a doctoral student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science who works at MIT’s (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Microsystems Technology Laboratories. After a year of hard work, Bhardwaj and a team of collaborators think they may have found the answer. It’s a high-tech solution in a simple, inexpensive and easy-to-use -package.
Coaxing patients to take their pills
The first part of the two-component system is a “smart” pillbox, called the uBox. It has 14 chambers that can each be loaded with several pills, which it dispenses from one chamber per day.To alert the patient that it’s time to take the medicine, the box flashes its lights and sounds a buzzer. When the compartment is opened, the uBox records the exact time and prevents double-dosing by refusing to open again until the next treatment is due.After two weeks, a health care worker reloads the box and digitally records and transmits the information stored in it.
Doctors and public health services can then get complete data on compliance, patient by patient, in almost real time, instead of having to wait until the end of the six-month treatment.“How do you know if pills are getting to the patients or if patients are taking them? Today, there’s no good way of doing this,” Bhardwaj says. “If people fail to take all their pills, it can lead to the development of resistant strains, which can then be spread by that noncompliant patient. The people they infect have no chance.”
Ensuring pills reach those in need
Typical treatment trials have compliance rates as low as 50 per cent, according to World Health Organisation statistics. Another reason for low compliance is the fact that many times health workers do not visit afflicted patients as much as they need to.“We want to make sure the worker is motivated,” Bhardwaj says, and at present there’s no way to tell which workers are diligent about making the calls and which ones may skip some of their appointed visits.
Accordingly, the uBox has an additional feature: A receptacle for a tiny key, like a headphone plug, which is carried by the visiting health care worker. At each visit the worker inserts the key, thus recording the fact that the patient really has been visited – another important gauge of compliance.The second part of the group’s new system is a cell phone, called the uPhone. By using special software, health care workers can record a patient’s temperature, weight, and answers to a list of questions related to symptoms, which adds to the set of detailed patient data analysed by doctors monitoring the study.Bhardwaj has been working with MIT alumni Goutam Reddy and Sara Cinnamon on the engineering and electronics of the pillbox, and with doctoral student Bill Thies and alumnus Pallavi Kaushik on the uPhone software.
Bhardwaj and Thiess visited Bihar this January to begin their first field test of the product, conducting a training session for 22 workers who will, in turn, train the field workers to distribute the pillboxes in the field. In March, they will return to India to begin the first actual field test with 100 of the boxes and 10 cell phones. If all goes well, a second round of testing, using 1,000 uBoxes, is set to begin. While Bhardwaj is proud of the product his team developed, he is not proprietary about it. “We hope to make the uBox and the uPhone the standard of treatment. We worked very hard to make something very simple and elegant,” he says. “But we’d be delighted if someone beats us to it and builds a cheaper uBox. We hope other people will copy us,” he adds.
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Written on Monday, February 11, 2008 by Gemini
Indian inventor creates sticky notes with RFID tags that can not only SMS you your reminders, but can also help you locate books and key-chains from around your home!!!
Imagine you scribbled a sticky note about an upcoming doctor’s appointment. You place the note on your home desktop computer, only to forget about the appointment. But guess what? The note reminds you about your appointment via a friendly text message on your mobile phone.
Indeed, such technology will soon be possible, thanks to Pranav Mistry, an alumnus of IIT-Bombay.
Sticky notes are one of the most ubiquitous and convenient items in our daily lives. By simply scribbling and sticking them on a surface, they help us manage our ‘to-do’ lists and capture short reminders or information that we may need in the near future. But with our lives going digital, pen and paper are fast losing their place of importance.
“I love sticky notes,” says Mistry, a graduate student at the US-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab. “They are handy and quick. But I wanted them to be active, remind me of my appointments, and help me manage my world better; so I just made them a little smart.” Mistry, who hails from Palanpur in Gujarat, is the inventor of ‘Quickies’ – intelligent sticky notes that can be digitally searched, located, and can send reminders and messages.
The goal of Quickies is to bring one of the most useful inventions of the 20th century – the sticky note – into the digital age, says Mistry. Quickies connect remotely to a computer, collaborate seamlessly, and update you via various sources, such as sending an SMS on your mobile phone.
How does it work?
The process is simple: As the user notes down a reminder on a physical sticky note, the information is simultaneously captured and stored as a digital note on a computer. A computer program, coupled with digital-pen hardware, enables this capturing. The computer program processes the digital note, recognises and converts the hand-written text into digital text, and applies some computational methods to understand the context and the content of the information.
The program is also smart. For example, in a scenario where a note was written about an appointment, it updates the user’s calendar and also reminds him of the scheduled appointment via an SMS on his mobile phone. The Quickies can also be used as location tags for items such as books. “One of the most interesting features is ‘findability’. At the back of each of the Quickies is a unique RFID tag, which makes it possible to locate them in the house or office,” Mistry says.
But wouldn’t the Quickies be rendered useless without the digital pen? Not so. “The core innovation that drives ‘Quickies’ lies in the algorithms and intelligence,” Mistry says. “Although there are many digital pens which can be used with the technology, a small scanner would eliminate their need, and a normal pen could be used in that setup. Just to let you know, we have a version where you don’t need to be near a computer.”
And what would the cost be?
“At present, the system costs us around $75 (Rs 3,000), although that can be cut by half,” he says.
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Written on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 by Gemini
Netherlands: A Dutch company has squeezed a display the size of two business cards into a gadget no bigger than other mobile phones – by making a screen that folds up when not in use.
The 5-inch display of Polymer Vision’s ‘Readius’ is the world’s first that folds out when the user wants to read news, blogs or email and folds back together so that the device can fit into a pocket.Polymer Vision, spun out of Philips, whetted the appetite of gadget fans more than two years ago when it showed off a prototype. Now, the gadget is in production and will go head-to-head with Apple’s iPhone and Amazon’s ebook reader Kindle when it hits stores mid-2008.
“You get the large display of e-reading, the super battery life of e-reading, and the high-end connectivity ... and the form factor and weight of a mobile phone,” Karl McGoldrick, chief executive of Polymer Vision, said. “We are taking e-reading and bringing it to the mobile phone.” He would not say how much the Readius would cost, but said it would be comparable to a high-end mobile phone.
McGoldrick said his “dream device”, which the company planned to build within 5 years, was a mobile phone with an 8-inch colour display that could show video. Like Kindle, the Readius has a so-called electronic paper screen, which displays black-and-white text and images that look almost like they have been printed on paper.
The device – which will also just make phone calls – connects to the Internet using 3G mobile phone networks with high data speeds.Users will be able to set up their email accounts, news sources, podcasts, audio books and blog feeds at home on their computer, and the data is then pushed to the device whenever it is updated. McGoldrick said the company opted to use this approach – which rules out quickly browsing the Web on-the-go – because it was simpler in a mobile environment. “I see these devices with 50 buttons on them. We have eight,” he said, adding that the company plans to add a keypad to future models.
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Written on Monday, January 14, 2008 by Gemini
Its true, just check this out..
Its a cool GSM mobile phone in the form of a wrist watch and contains all the features that a normal GSM handset should have..
Its 1.3" 65K color TFT touchscreen display is probably the first thing to fascinate you, and like all othes GSM mobile phones, it also supporta music and video player (MP3 and MP4), a mild draw back is that it has a 60 MB internal memory and which is not extendable..
The GSM wrist watch has a tri-band GSM/GPRS support, a WAP browser, it supports MP3 and MIDI ringtones, and also has a sound recorder, calendar and a notes application with basic handwriting recognition. There is also e-book support, calculator, currency and unit converter, plus the little fellow can tell the time out loud.
Check out from ThinkGeek.com for more info regarding this wrist watch mobile phone..
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Written on Friday, January 11, 2008 by Gemini
Vertu, the makers of premium luxury handsets, recently launched the Ascent Ti in India.
Features:
- The 'Ti' is indicative of its high performance titanium body, which is supported by leather, sapphire crystal and ceramic.
- The device is equipped with a 3-megapixel camera with auto focus shutter, and boasts of the ‘Vertu Fortress’ feature that allows for remote synchronisation of a user’s contacts and calender to a Vertu server.
- This is the first 3G Vertu phone that works anywhere in the world.
- And yes, this phone is definitely not meant for those making their decision based on the price; but in case you are curious, the device retails at Rs 3,26,000.
- For more information, visit www.vertu.com
My rating: 7 out of 10
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Written on Tuesday, January 08, 2008 by Gemini
Sony Ericsson recently launched its latest slider phone in the Walkman series, the W910i, in Indian markets for Rs 19,000 in two colours - red and black.
Features:
- Wide 2.36-inch screen with 256k colours and a resolution of 320x240 pixels.
- 40MB of built-in memory, and can be expanded with the packaged 2GB Memory Stick Micro card.
- Equipped with a 2-megapixel camera, the phone boasts of an auto-rotating display, which adjusts your display’s orientation according to how you hold the phone.
- Proprietary Shake Control technology, which lets the user control his media player by flicking the W910i one way or the other, and also play games.
- SenseMe feature which groups songs according to their tempo, creating custom playlists for different moods.
- The 3G phone boasts of Bluetooth, A2DP, FM Radio and a talk time of up to nine hours.
I am giving a rating of 8.5 out of 10 to this phone. Share your opinions here (comment on this post), and help other users to choose the right phone!
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Written on Monday, September 17, 2007 by Gemini
With the all-new dv9500 series, Hewlett-Packard
continues to take entertainment seriously while designing its laptops.
Successor to the dv9000 series, Hp now decides to play smart.
Just like the dv9000 series, this one also comes with a 17-inch wide screen display. With AMD Turion™ 64 X2, Nvidia dedicated graphic memory and 1GB DDR2 RAM, the dv9500 is a good entertainment laptop especially considering its affordable price of Rs 50,000. But, what makes it so affordable?
Rating: 6.5/10
Pros: An entertainment powerhouse with a beautiful design; bright crisp display; complete set of audio visual controls, long battery life, touch pad on/off button; fingerprint reader; excellent software.
Cons: Heavy weight for everyday use; display resolution could have been much higher; the dedicated graphic memory of just 128 MB is way too less for professional use; internal hard disk memory has been decreased in comparison to the dv9000 series.
Bottom line: The Hp pavilion dv9502tx is good for home users who don't want to spend a fortune on a large entertainment notebook. Professionals beware, it's a tempting deal!
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