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 Huawei has unveiled the E180 next generation mobile broadband device.
The world’s slimmest HSPA USB stick to date, the only 10mm thick E180 is a highly compact device supporting the complete range of HSPA/UMTS and GSM/GPRS/EDGE network technologies, allowing fast uplink speed rates of up to 5.76Mbps and a downlink of up to 7.2 Mbps.
The E180 is a real plug-and-play device compatible with MS Windows (2000/XP/Vista) as well as Mac OS and is designed with a ultra slim rotatable USB connector, which can be turned by 270 degrees. This way, the USB connector can be stored safely without the need of an additional cover.
The E180 comes with its built-in MicroSD card slot and supports up to 8GB memory card which eliminates the need for an additional USB memory stick to carry documents, music or movies. In addition, the device supports various useful services like SMS/MMS, PC voice, phone book, flow display and statistics.
Availability : Mid-June 2008
Specifications
HSPA/UMTS (2100MHz)
EDGE/GPRS/GSM (850/900/1800/1900MHz)
Support 2Mbps (5.76Mbps ready) HSUPA and 7.2Mbps HSDPA services
Support SMS and Voice services
MicroSD Card Slot
Plug & Play
Data statistics
Support Windows2000 , Windows XP, Windows Vista and Mac Operating Systems
Source: Huawei
Tags: 3.5G, broadband, data, e180, HSDPA, hspa, HSUPA, huawei, mobile, Mobile Communications, modem, Telecommunications, usb
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 Following the Touch Diamond few days ago, HTC announced the “Touch Pro” which utilizes similar styling and functionality of the highly anticipated Touch Diamond™ and introduces a variety of business-focused enhancements that make getting work done on the go quick and easy.
With the Touch Pro, they introduce a TouchFLO 3D, a touch screen innovation providing a stunningly intuitive way to zip through common tasks like messaging, calendar appointments or making calls with just one touch. Shall we call TouchFLO 3D the HTC response to Apple ?
Will the Touch Pro the replacement of my aging HTC S620 or will Apple iPhone 3G version (to be announced on June 9th at WWDC) shake the market again with stunning innovations ?
HTC Touch Pro Specifications
- Processor: Qualcomm® MSM7201A™ 528 MHz
- Operating System: Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional
- Memories: ROM 512 MB – RAM: 288MB
- Dimensions: 102 mm (L) X 51 mm (W) X 18.05 mm (T)
- Weight: 165 g (with battery)
- Display: 2.8-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with VGA resolution
- Network HSDPA/WCDMA: Europe/Asia: 900/2100 MHz
Up to 384 kbps up-link and 7.2 Mbps down-link speeds
- Tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE: Europe/Asia: 900/1800/1900 MHz
- Device Control: TouchFLO™ 3D Touch-sensitive navigation control
- Keyboard: Slide-out 5-row QWERTY keyboard
- GPS: GPS and A-GPS ready
- Connectivity:
- Bluetooth® 2.0 with EDR
Wi-Fi® IEEE 802.11 b/g
HTC ExtUSB™ (11-pin mini-USB 2.0, audio jack, and TV Out* in one)
- Camera:
Main camera: 3.2 megapixel color camera with auto focus and flash light
Second camera: VGA CMOS color camera
- Audio: Built-in microphone, speaker and FM radio with RDS
- Battery: Rechargeable Lithium-ion or Lithium-ion polymer battery 1340 mAh
- Talk time:
Up to 397 minutes for WCDMA
Up to 485 minutes for GSM
- Standby time:
Up to 503 hours for WCDMA
Up to 406 hours for GSM
- Video call time:
Up to 201 minutes for WCDMA
- Expansion Slot: MicroSD™ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible)
- AC Adapter: Voltage range/frequency: 100 ~ 240V AC, 50/60 Hz
- DC output: 5V and 1A
Tags: cellphone, communication, gsm, htc, mobile, Mobile Communications, smartphone, touch, touchflo 3d, touchpro, windows mobile 6
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 HTC launched earlier this week in London the "Touch Diamond" the lastest smartphone of their TOUCH series.
The Touch Diamond is a stainless steel frame based of only 11.5mm thick, comes with a 2.8 inch touch-sensitive TFT 640×480 VGA screen. An integrated GPS system as well as a 3.2 megapixel camera and a second VGA CMOS one are also available.
This "iPhone-like" smartphone will be available in Europe and Asia in June 08 for about 770 USD.
Surprisingly, there is apparently no Mini-SD card slot to extend the 4 GB internal storage memory.
Highlights:
- 2.8-inch touch screen, with four times the pixels of most phones.
- Vibrant TouchFLO 3D user interface, responding perfectly to your finger gestures when scrolling through contacts, browsing the web, and launching media… all vividly displayed as photos and artwork powered by the 3D graphics processor.
- HTC Weather – providing a constant view of weather at home and abroad.
- Surf and download at broadband speed with HSDPA internet connectivity.
- 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera for quality stills and video.
- 4GB of internal storage to preserve more photos, music, files and exchanged data than ever before.
- Integrated GPS for use with maps software for a full turn-by-turn satellite navigation experience.
Technical Specifications:
All informations on HTC site
Tags: diamond, gsm, htc, iphone, mobile, network, phone, smartphone, touch, touch diamond, touch screen, touchflo, windows, windows mobile 6
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 National Bureau of Statistics of China, has release some figures about telephone usage in China. Figures are self explanatory and may give some Vertigo to European operators.
In end of March 2008 they were 574 millions cellphone users in China (+94 mio in 2007), a 20% increase compared to last year. It also mean that 40% of the Chinese population own a cellphone.
The NBS reveals that in March 08, 58 billions SMS were sent (nearly 700 billions/year !)
28% of Chinese population (361 millions) uses a fixed telephone, but landline operators are losing customers (minus 4 millions for the 1sr quarter 08) as calls from mobile phones are cheaper than through landlines.
China Mobile, the first Chinese mobile phone operator has 377 millions customers at end of January (+22.6%) while Unicom China only has 181 millions customers.
Tags: 2008, billions, cellphone, China, china mobile, landline, mobile, mobile phone, mobile phone operator, mobile phones, national bureau of statistics of china, population, sms, statistics, Unicom
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 Emirates Airlines announced yesterday that passengers will no longer have to switch off their mobile phones and will be allowed to make calls and text people during their journey on-board.
The first flight with authorized mobile phone calls was made on 20th of March between Dubai and Casablanca on-board of an Emirates Airbus A340-300 fitted with AeroMobile system, which ensures mobile telephones operate at minimum power during flights and make sure mobile phone signal does not interfere with aircraft navigation equipments.
A second aircraft equipped with the same AeroMobile system will be in service shortly.
Rates were not published, but in 2007, cost per minute was estimated between 2.50 and 3.50 USD.
Source: Arabnews via Wi-Fi Networking
Tags: 2007, 2008, aeromobile, air, airbus, aircraft, airlines, arc, art, blog, cellphone, cellular, emirates, flight, gsm onboard, ia, im, King, lan, light, mobile, Mobile Communications, mobile phone, network, nomadcom.net, passengers, phone, phones, power, Travel, wifi, wp, www
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 London police launched on 25th of February a new advertising campaign. Posters and TV ads are urging Londoners to turn in people who might be taking pictures of CCTV cameras.
"Thousands of people take photos every day.
What if one of them seems odd ?
Terrorists use surveillance to help plan attacks, taking photos and making notes about security measures like the location of CCTV cameras.If you see someone doing that, we need to know.
Let experienced officers decide what action to take."
Other posters target households:
"you see hundreds of houses every day. What if one has unusual activities and seems suspicious"
as well as mobile phone users :
"Thousands of people have mobiles. What if someone with several seems suspicious?"
What's going on in London ? Is the Metropolitan police not busy enough ? did they become completely paranoiac ? or do they need some budget increase ?
Where is this so famous British phlegm ?
As a response, many people have already redesigned the posters to point out the absurdity of them. Some samples are available on BoingBoing.
Tags: 2008, advertising, ATT, attack, blog, camera, civil liberties, counterterrorism, CTU, design, february, fon, ia, ict, im, King, lan, launch, location, london, mobile, mobile phone, nomadcom.net, officer, paranoia, PDF, phone, photo, photographers, Photography, picture, police, post, posters, public, security, snitch, suspect, terror, terrorism, uk, USA, user, wp, www, XP
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 Not yet sure if it is a good news or not, but Air France has become the first airline in the world to offer an in-flight mobile phone service on international flights.
One Airbus A318 aircraft operating European routes has been fitted with a mini GSM base station to provides 123 passengers the possibility to :
- Send and receive sms and mms messages
- Send and receive emails via all phones with Internet access
During the second half of the trial, passengers will be able to make and receive phone calls, with the service being regulated to maintain passengers’ comfort and well-being.
If passengers kindly turn off ringing traffic data from/to an aircraft should not be a big deal, if not journeys may become quite annoying with uninterrupted flow of incoming messages ringing alert.
Hard to imagine how will be a long haul flight with full mobile phone services (voice and data) "offered" to passengers.
At the end of the six-month trial, Air France will examine the feedback and comments made by customers to determine whether to launch this service on all its flights.
What is your feeling about the availability of in-flight mobile phone service ?
For the technical part,
Air France uses Mobile OnAir onboard mobile telephony system, certified by EASA (European Aviation Safety Authority) which does not interfere with the radio-navigation instruments on this Airbus A318 and may only be used at cruising altitude once the new illuminated sign “Switch off your phone” is turned off (recycling the "no smoking" sign ?). The system is activated at 3,000 metres (10,000 feet).
More about this trial on AirFrance site including a video of the 1st trial flight.
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 Toshiba will soon start production of 2 new interesting products which may find their way into future mobile/portable devices.
First are the new SATA SSD (Solid State Drive) drives on 1.8' and 2.5' formats. According Engadget 32, 64 and 128 GB will be available. Speed announced is read 100 MB/s while reading and 40 MB/sec writting.
With such capacity, traditional mechanical hard disk will slowly disappear from portable devices. With no moving parts, a solid state drive largely eliminates seek time, latency and other electro-mechanical delays and failures associated with a conventional hard disk drive.
 The second interesting product announced by Toshiba is the so called "Super Charge ion Battery" (SCiB) which is at this stage not intended for portable devices but for industrial systems and electric vehicles.
SCiB Major Characteristics
- Safety : SCiB adopts a new negative-electrode material that offers a high level of thermal stability and a high flash point electrolyte. Its structure is resistant to internal short circuiting and thermal runaway
- Long-life cycle : Capacity loss after 3,000 cycles of rapid charge and discharge is less than 10%. SCiB batteries are able to repeat the charge-discharge cycle over 5,000 times which is equivalent to more than 10 years with a once-a-day recharge-discharge cycle.
- Rapidly rechargeable : Safety characteristics of SCiB allow recharge with a current as large as 50 amperes (A), allowing the SCiB Cell and SCiB Standard Module to recharge to 90% of full capacity in only five minutes.
- High power (practical capacity) : The SCiB has an input-output performance equivalent to that of an electric double layer capacitor.
- Temperature : Extreme temperatures supported with sufficient discharge at temperatures as low as -30°C.
SCiB batteries will first be available on the market in March 2008 with the following specifications:
- Nominal voltage : 24VDC
- Nominal capacity : 4.2 Ah
- Size : 10x30x5 cm
- Weight : 2 kg
Perhaps these batteries will also find other field of application, but for portable devices they will need to become lighter and slimmer..but batteries that get charges in five minutes are definitively very attractive for mobile users.
What do you think ?
Sources: Engadget Toshiba
Tags: 2007, 2008, 24, api, arc, art, ATT, batteries, blog, capacity, ces, CTU, delay, failure, fast charge, find, flash, fon, hard disk, hdd, ia, im, lan, laptop, LED, light, minutes, mobile, nomadcom.net, portable, power, rechargeable, safe, safety, SCiB, Solid State Drive, SSD, technology, toshiba, user, vehicles, wp, www
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 TGV tests Wi-Fi + satellite link in three TGV trains on its Eastern network. If the experiment proves successful the new service should be generalized, from 2009, to all 52 oars network East.
With combines effort of satellite link and wireless network, in locations, such tunnels and train stations, where the satellite link cannot be established, the wi-fi network takes over to maintain the access to the Web without interruption.
French railways company SNCF previously conducted unsuccessful test using GPRS data network before launching a 2 years research and preparation program to implement this dual solution. Among technical difficulties to overcome are these related to 320 km/h TGV trains speed which causes instability and vibrations.
The project is done in a partnership with Orange(France Telecom mobile operator), Capgemini, Alstom Transport and Eutelsat.
SNCF will put on board of its TGV a dedicated Web portal providing information about destinations, weather forecast, News, traffic information as well as a real time tracking service. From a technical point of view, TGV trains are fitted with a server where all portal content is loaded prior the journey in order to minimize bandwidth consumption due to its high cost. The tested system has been designed to provide simultaneous web connection for 14 per cent (50 users) of the total capacity of each TGV train (350).
The business plan is not defined yet, but the widespread of the system on TGV Eastern Europe network would represent an investment of 120 millions USD over 4 years. First price estimation given by SNCF Passenger service would be a flat 4-5 USD to access the Web portal during the whole journey and a 4-5 USD per hour to access the Internet.
A very interesting project and definitively a real challenge to maintain permanent web connectivity during a train journey at more than 300 km/h where the 16'000 volt power line running over the train may also create some electro-magnetic interferences and without mentioning all micro interruptions of the satellite link each time the train pass under a bridge or when dense foliage is found within the satellite's line of sight.
Any reader who already had the chance to test the reliability of the service ?
More infos (in French): Journal du Net, CNet France.
Tags: 2007, access, arc, art, blog, bridge, capacity, ces, connection, connectivity, consumption, CTU, design, europe, forecast, ia, im, internet, internet access, King, lan, launch, location, mobile, Mobile Communications, mobility, network, nomadcom.net, power, project, reader, real time, reliability, satellite, search, sncf, telecom, tgv, traffic, train, user, web, wireless, wp, www, XP
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 Since, mid-2006 mobile phones with a built-in 3 MP camera and optical zoon are available on the market and already represent an alternative to low end digital camera. More than 70 models are available today with a 3 to 5 MP resolution. One of the first phone with a "real camera" was the famous one Nokia N93 and its Carl Zeiss Optics.
Samsung is now putting even more pressure on camera makers with the soon release (first on European market) of its G800. A 5 MP digital camera with 3x optical zoom into mobile phone… or is it the opposite?
The specifications are rather attractive:
- Quad bands (900 / 1800 / 1900 / 2100 )
- Data network HSDPA 7.2 Mbps
- 2.4 inches TFT display with 256K colors
- Size 101x52x19mm for 129 gr (25% lighter than the Nokia N93)
- Standby 220 hours, talk time 3.5 hours.
- Memory 160 MB + MicroSD slot
- Document views (Office, PPT, PDF,)
- Email (POP3, IMAP), SMS, MMS,
- Connectivity: Bluetooth, USB 2.0, PCSync, OutlookSync, etc..
- FM Receiver, Java embedded, MP3, etc..
and indeed the built-in camera:
- 5 Mio Pixel
- 2592х1944 pixels
- autofocus
- video recording mode: MPEG4, 3GPP, H.263, H.264
- xenon flash
- 3x optical zoom /4x digital
- 4 shot modes
- 4 quality settings
- brightness adjustment
All other specs are here
The big plus is definitively the 3x optical zoom which makes the difference with other 5 MP phones. The resolution race continues as Samsung (them again) Electro-Mechanics announced on November 15th that 8 MP camera phones may be available by next summer following the successful development of a 10.5 x 11.5 x 9.4mm 8 megapixel CMOS censor.
Will camera makers develop new "point and shoot" camera with built-in phones and multimedia facilities such MP3 player and FM receiver ?
I'm impatient to have one "box" less to carry when traveling…
What will you drop first ? your camera or your phone ? 
Tags: 2007, 5 MP, 8 MP, api, ATT, blog, camera, ces, connectivity, development, digital, europe, flash, fon, gap, ia, im, lan, light, map, megapixels, memory, mobile, mobile phone, models, network, nokia, nomadcom.net, PDF, phone, phones, photo, point and shoot, press, release, resolution, samsung, sms, sun, Travel, uk, usb, video, wp, www
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