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B12K : The Google Nexus One
Jan 21st
Google has decided to launch its own Smartphone. Called Nexus One, presented by the Californian giant of the Internet. This “smartphone” features a high resolution screen of 3.7 inches (9.4 centimeters), a processor running at 1 GHz and a camera of 5 megapixels.
Manufactured by The Taiwanese HTC, it can be purchased directly on the U.S. site of Google (no subscription with an operator) for 529 dollars or 179 dollars with a two-year contract with T-Mobile USA.
Until now, Google had limited itself to providing a free operating system for mobile phones manufacturers, commonly known as Android. A year after its launch it has achieved a great breakthrough, with approximately 3.5% market share. The Google executives had repeatedly that they didn’t want to sell a phone directly .so why have they crossed this boundaries today?
The dazzling success of the iPhone is for something . Two and a half years after its launch, the multimedia phone from Apple has already sold over 30 million copies and is almost one quarter of the total revenues of the brand. Apple has also succeeded with the iPhone, to finally take off the use of mobile Internet, these online services which are accessed from a phone even while moving. Thanks to the “AppStore”, a virtual store accessible by a click, which offers more than 100 000 online services, free or paid, developed by third party publishers (games, news, etc..).
However, the Apple platform owns everything : the computer group controls everything, from the design of the device to its operating system, through the payment system and the contents of the AppStore.
For Google, the main goal this is not to let Apple continue to gain ground in mobile Internet because, if as analysts predict, in few years there will be more connections to the Internet via a mobile than via a computer the stakes are enormous.
The Nexus One should help Google to better promote its Internet services on mobile. The search engine, of course, which ensures its dominance in the world of Internet (over 65% market share), its email service (Gmail), Mapping (Maps), its digital library, etc. . Without that the access to these services is controlled by Apple.
Will The Nexus One be the next “iPhone killer”? Not at that stage, according to experts, who hail its technical performance (the speed of its processor, the quality of the screen) but didn’t find anything revolutionary.
B12K Stories : India , Next target of HTC
Aug 24th
If you from india and have used HTC’s first generation G1 model of smart phone then it is likely that you are keeping your fingers crossed for the launch of HTC magic in India. HTC the Taiwanese company has come up with its latest second generation model, G2 and has launched it in India on Tuesday, which is India first smart phone and it runs on Android operating system. This doesn’t have a Google branding and has a lot of up gradations done to it s previous model. Let’s have a quick check on the best and worst features of the upgraded G2 model.
Having been launched, the G2 the first thing which goes in your mind would be the price. And you guessed it as it comes to Rs.29900. Bharthi Airtel has made an agreement with HTC for unlocking the HTC magic G2 phone. Thus you can buy it from all the relationship centers of Airtel across India or from the HTC resellers which are spread across 17 cities including Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Cochin, Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jalandhar, Kolkata, Ludhiana, Lucknow, Mumbai, Pune and Patna. The Airtel customers are offered with 100 MB monthly download for a span of 6 months.Though both Airtel and Vodafone were well in the race, Airtel has managed to claim it and to your surprise Vodafone is the major carrier of both G1 and G2 in most of countries particularly in Europe. Though it has been tied up with Airtel it doesn’t mean that it can’t be used with any other carrier.
There is a limit on the agreement as it is restricted to the offers given by Airtel to its customers. By the statement of the company it seems that the Airtel customers would be able to take advantage of many utility applications like in-mobile search, hello tunes, weather news, portfolio manager and so on. Giving a thought to the price of G2, it would be really difficult to say how many catchers are there to buy it!!! But it is expected around 1 million HTC Magics would be shipped by August.
Coming to the internals of the smart phone G2, most Linux users would be benefited as this uses Android which is an open source platform based on Linux operating system. It is a very robust operating system and it provides better Outlook synchronization. The device also includes new features like Smart Dialler and has a soft QWERTY keypad. Compared to G1 this seems to be sleeker and a lighter model but with an onscreen keyboard and everything is touch screen. G2 offers a better battery life when compared to G1.
Are you just curious to know specifications of the simply attractive G2 phone? No more wait. It has a wide screen display of 3.2-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with a resolution of 320×480. It has an auto focus color camera of 3.2 megapixels. it supports a wide range of audio and video formats and it weighs about 118.5 grams which is lighter when compared to G1 weighing 158 grams. On the whole it is really attractive but only for the price. Let’s wait and watch.
B12K : BlackBerry 1st in The US .
Aug 10th
You said fashion? BlackBerry is the ultimate trendy thing you must have I case you claim yourself as being a fashion victim. From paris to Tokyo via Ibiza all our favorite stars affirm being addicted “of course with pride” to these little gems of technology.
Whether it’s a PEARL a 8800 or a CURVEthe blackberries have easily found their place in trendy night parties in the pockets of politic leaders and in the handbags of the most beautiful girls on the planet.
Jay-Z has one , Rihanna , has one too , Lindsay Lohan has one too , Paris Hilton loves it, even barack obama leads the world with a blackberry
According to IDC, 4 of 10 best-selling smartphones in the U.S. are BlackBerries . But the competitors are unceasingly doing their best to gain some more shares.
The BlackBerry is clinging to its throne , According to IDC, the terminal remains the star’s best-selling smartphone in the country in the 2nd quarter.
At the highest spot of the podium we found the Curve (all versions), then Pearl on the 3rd place , the 5th place to Bold and the 6th for Storm.
But this dominance seems weakened since the growing number of competitors.
Thus, the iPhone 3G S which is on the market only since few months (and only available in one operator) is on the second place in this ranking.Its predecessor, the 3G iPhone is 4th.
The HTC is also monopolizing this classification with the 7th place for the G1, the 9th place for the Touch Pro and the 10th for the Touch Diamond.
The presence of Android on the market may well rise in power since Google announced that coming versions of its OS will particularly target professionals which means that BlackBerry is clearly its target ,Another surprise of this classification, is the 8th place of the Palm Pre that has just been released , which confirms the success of this smartphone. Another big threat to RIM …
Finally Here’s a summary of the IDC classification (the 10 best-selling smartphones in the U.S.)
- BlackBerry Curve
- iPhone 3GS
- BlackBerry Pearl
- iPhone 3G
- BlackBerry Bold
- BlackBerry Storm
- HTC Dream
- Palm Pre
- HTC Touch Pro
- HTC Touch Diamond