Everything About Mobile Phones

Part two of features you may want to consider when buying a new phone:

Push to talk
This is like a walkie-talkie feature that is cool for business folks or those who need constant contact with specific people. The best thing about this is that you don’t need a cell signal to use and therefore no usage of standard minutes.

Speaker phone
Again, for the uber mobile people who drive, type on the computer, take down notes, etc. etc while they talk on their phones. There are units available with full-duplex speakerphones and others that support conference calling.

Part one of features you may want to consider when buying a new phone:

Phone book
Are you a social butterfly who has a friends list as long as Rapunzel’s hair? Then you might want to consider a phone that has a big enough phonebook storage. We don’t want you missing out on anyone.

Voice dialing
This feature is perfect for people on the go (especially the ones using headsets) as they can do hands-off dialing.

Camera and video recorder
Older phone models have low-grade VGA but the new ones can have megapixel resolutions for quality images and they also have extra editing features.

The much loved mobile phone and their smarter kin, the smart phone would be capable of playing and receiving streaming video of movies you may purchase from online sites like the much famed HULU. Huge advances in streaming video and 3G transmission hardware and software are all coming together to allow the latest phones to playback full-length movies as if you were at your desktop or laptop. Another of the great advances have been in the memory arena where the next generation of iPhone would have a total of 32 gigabytes of ram with expansion slots to match allowing full customization of the much loved smart phone. (more…)

The next marketing trend, viral ads have turned advertising not only as informative tools but also as fun tools you enjoy while you get advertising. Viral ads are here to stay and it is hailed by many as the next mass marketing tool the world over. Almost everybody has a mobile and with them comes an untapped market for ad companies. Having ads sent to your mobile is as easy as an sms message and its costing next to nothing. Everybody from burger chains to just about any form and shape of industry, they’re jumping in.

“All viral means is that you’ve created a message that people want to share,” says Gregg Spiridellis, who founded animation and design studio JibJab with his brother. “If people want to pass it along, that’s what brand marketing is all about.”

An effective viral ad is something that people have fun with and pass along in the process, and that is what advertising is all about. In the age of the social internet, that is one of the advantages of haviong all your friends just a click away. You get to share and enjoy stuff online that would be impossible physically due to distance and time limitations. Viral ads are the way to go and more and more people would surely get onto the fad as time and technology speeds up the way people communicate over the internet and beyond.

Very soon, for many of the parts manufacturers for the much loved smart phone have already received orders for parts and other components with an expected total production count of around half a million. It may still be quite early to tell but they have made it known that it would be hitting the shelves really soon. It is seen to have a full HD Video playback capability which would be a reprieve on the first two generations and the iPod Touch’s lack of that said feature. (more…)

Samsung has again gone a step further with their Omnia Line of phones that use the latest in display technologies, Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (AMOLED) technology. One of first to utilize the benefits of a display that does not require a back-lighting system thus lowering the power consumption of mobiles. Being hailed as the next step in display technologies, major industry players have been trying to develop their own lines of devices based on the technology due to many advantages compared to current display technologies. (more…)

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When you first bought your cellphone, you’d probably notice the dull display and wallpapers that it displays by default. The trend today is to customize everything from wallpapers, to screen savers.
Technology provides with these personal customizations. Custom wallpapers are simply images that you may download for free or for a fee. Or you can snap at using your built in camera. Configuration is very easy. Nokia even provides a very-user friendly interface to cater to the not-so-techie users. The formats of the wallpapers vary but is limited to jpeg, bmp, gifs and sometimes png. There are a few ways of connecting your mobile device to the pc to be able to transfer that favorite shot of Nicole Kidman unto your cellphone. One way is through data cable, others use bluetooth inter connectivity, in earlier days, infrared was the in mode of transferring files. It takes time to get used to connecting the device. you may encounter connection problems, but once you get the hang of it. there’s not much going to be a problem, would it?

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“As expected the third quarter has continued to be challenging for Sony Ericsson. We have moved forward with our plans to align operations and resources with the consolidation of R&D facilities into a more agile and cost efficient organisational structure. As previously announced, our target remains to reduce operating expenses by Euro 300 million annually by the end of the second quarter 2009, with the full effects expected to appear in the second half of 2009.These plans are progressing in line with expectations,” said Dick Komiyama, President, Sony Ericsson. “We are committed to executing our alignment plan as speedily as possible to ensure we have the right size and organisational structure to return the business to healthy profitability.” 
During the third quarter Sony Ericsson announced PlayNow™ plus,the next step in its music service offering. PlayNow™ plus is a high speed and high quality music download service for both the phone and PC that will launch in the fourth quarter with Telenor in Sweden with a special edition Sony Ericsson W902 Walkman® phone integrated with the PlayNow™ plus service. Further roll-outs of the service are planned with other network partners around the world in early 2009.