Make the most of your Mac with iSync
Get organized with iSync. If you've got a compatible Nokia phone and a Mac, iSync helps you synchronize your data. Take the hassle out of managing data across devices by downloading changes and updating your phone or Mac when required.
Calendar
Ever get tired of trying to keep on top of your schedule? iSync makes it easy by ensuring that the meetings and appointments you enter into your Nokia mobile phone calendar are also transferred to iCal, Apple's handy desktop calendar. Make sure you never miss another important date by transferring data to and from your Mac as you need it.
Contacts
Keep your contacts up-to-date by transferring contact information to and from your Mac, including phone numbers, addresses, email addresses, web addresses, and best of all, photos of your friends, family, and colleagues.
Setting up iSync
All Nokia devices supported by iSync can connect to your Mac through Bluetooth. However, selected Nokia device models can also be synchronized through a USB cable in addition to using Bluetooth. If iSync supports both Bluetooth and USB connections to your Nokia device, you can choose whichever connection method you prefer for the initial setup.
(Note:the data connection you choose will be the default connection method between your Nokia device and iSync on your Mac. If you wish to change it in the future, you will need to remove your Nokia device from iSync and run this set up again, using the new connection method)
With Bluetooth
Before you set up iSync, make sure that your Nokia device and your Mac are paired over Bluetooth.
Proceed to step 1 if you have already paired your Nokia device with your Mac.
With USB
If iSync supports synchronization via USB cable with your Nokia device, you may connect your Nokia device to your Mac via USB cable.
Proceed to step 1 if you have already connected your Nokia device and Mac with a USB cable.
1. Launch the iSync application on your Mac. Go to Finder Menu > Go > Applications > iSync.
2. From the iSync menu, select add device, then chose your Nokia device from the list.
3. Your Nokia device will be added to the iSync window. You may now sync your calendar and contact info.
Pairing your Nokia device with your Mac
To pair your Nokia device with your Mac over Bluetooth, make sure Bluetooth is enabled on your Mac.
You will also need to turn on Bluetooth on your Nokia device and make sure that your Nokia device is sharing data.
1. Check the Bluetooth settings on your Nokia device. The settings can usually be located under Connect, Tools or Settings, depending on your Nokia device.*
2. Turn Bluetooth On.
3. Make sure your Nokia device is visible. If it is hidden, change it to Shown to all.
4. On your Mac choose Set up Bluetooth Device from the Bluetooth item on the menu bar. If you do not see a Bluetooth item on the menu bar, go to System Preferences > Bluetooth > Devices and click Set Up New Device.
5. The Bluetooth Setup Assistant window will open. Click Continue and select mobile phone as device type.
6. Your Mac will begin searching for mobile phones. When you see your Nokia device's name on the list, select it and click Continue. Your Mac will now gather information about the Nokia device you selected. When it has completed, click Continue.
7. You will then see a dialog with a passkey on it. Your Nokia device should now ask for a passkey to connect to your Mac. Enter the passkey displayed on your Mac and accept the connection requests from your Nokia device.
(Note: If you do not want your Nokia device to ask your permission to accept connections from your Mac each time you synchronize with iSync, you will need to change the Bluetooth settings on your Nokia device. You can either change this setting manually, or your Nokia device may ask if you would like to do this when you connect. To change it manually, find your Mac in the paired device list on your Nokia device, select your Mac from the list, and set your Mac as authorized to connect to your Nokia device.*)
8. Select the services you want to use with your device by checking the boxes (optional, though if you are using your Nokia as a modem,you will nned to check Access the internet... )If you are using iSync or Nokia Multimedia Transfer, you have now finished pairing your Nokia device and Mac and may press Continue. You should see a confirmation message displayed on your Mac.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Get step-by-step instructions on pairing your Nokia device and Mac over Bluetooth.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
The Portégé G900 - TOSHIBA
A lifetime of Notebook innovation in one single device
Discover the dynamic Portégé G900 – a personal horizontal slider phone packed with mobile technology, including an innovative fingerprint sensor and full QWERTY keyboard.
As one of the first phones to include Windows Mobile® 6, you can read and respond to emails as soon as they’re received, organise your calendar and access familiar Microsoft Office® applications. Plus it has a large 3 inch screen, two cameras, a high-quality MP3 player, video streaming, and much more.
The Portégé G900 gives you everything you need to work or play on the move*. In fact, it’s so good, you’ll soon forget why you ever needed to go to the office
Everything you need to work on the move
The Portégé G900 works as a true extension of your Notebook and office, and is one of the first devices to include Windows Mobile® 6 for a familiar computing environment with added capabilities.
Specifications
Form Factor : Horizontal Slider
Dimensions (mm) : 119 x 61 x 21.5
Weight (g) : 196
Band : 2100 for HSDPA category 6
900/1800/1900 for GSM/EDGE
GPRS : Class 10
Main Display : 65K (WM5.0) colours
TFT
3” Wide-VGA
Camera : 2 Mega Pixel
Digital zoom
VGA sub camera for Video Telephony
Video : H.263/MPEG4, WMV
Sound : MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, AMRNB
Speakers : 1 earpiece for voice, 1 speaker for ringer, speakerphone and music
Browser : WAP 2.0, XHTML, HTML 4.01
ECMAScript/Opera 8.6
Memory : 30MB internal
Supports up to 2GB miniSD card
Messaging : SMS, MMS, email (Outlook)
MSN messenger
Connectivity : Bluetooth™ 2.0 + EDR, A2DP, AVRCP
USB 1.1 Client (mini-USB connecter)
Wi-Fi® (802.11b/g)
Java : MIDP2.0, JTWI, JSR 135/75
PIM/DRM : Mobile Outlook (Addressbook, Calendar)
ActiveSync (Addressbook, Calendar, mail)
OMA DRM 1.0/2.0
Biometric Security : Fingerprint authentication
VoIP : Over Wi-Fi®
PC Convergence : Exclusive Toshiba applications including Remote Screen and Remote Keypad
Windows Mobile Enabled : Windows Mobile® 6 Professional
Battery : Standby Time – up to 330 hours (3G), 320 hours (GSM)
Talk Time – up to 160min (3G), 265min (GSM)
75min (Video Calling)
Get ahead with Windows Mobile® 6
As one of the first devices to include Windows Mobile®, the Portégé G900 packs builds on previous software releases to deliver a reliable, effective platform that includes mobile versions of familiar Microsoft® Office Mobile® software to help you stay productive:
Samsung announced the first GSM 5megapixel camera phone for European market
Seoul, Korea, July 19th, 2007- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a leading mobile phone and telecommunication equipment provider, has announced a sleek new camera phone, the Samsung G600. Housed in a fashionable black two-toned slider shell and equipped with a 5 mega-pixel camera, the Samsung G600 is a fusion of design, photography and the ultimate in phone functionality.
A design icon and high performance camera in one, the Samsung G600 is the latest member of Samsung’s range of handsets and is made to capture quality pictures of priceless moments. At work or at play, consumers can now get creative with various modes such as panoramic or mosaic settings and enjoy the quality of built-in Power LED flash, image stabiliser and image enhancer. No matter where it’s being used, for phone or camera, the Samsung G600 guarantees to make users look and feel great.
Yangkyu Kim, Vice President of Sales Team for Europe and CIS market said “The Samsung G600 is more than a style icon, it comes with a built-in 5 megapixel camera that will help people capture and store their favourite moments. Since the market demand of 5 megapixel camera phone is expected to grow significantly in this year and next few years, we are aiming to capture these market needs starting with G600.”
For a better viewing experience, the Samsung G600 incorporates a 2.2” LCD with 16 million colours, a 5 mega-pixel multi-function imaging system and full Bluetooth v.2 connectivity. This will enable people to view larger pictures and graphics and helps users read text or Web pages in full. What’s more, these features are bundled into a tiny 102 mm by 47.8 mm by 14.9 mm frame.
The Samsung G600 is also equipped with a host of multimedia features designed for those on the go. Music lovers will enjoy the embedded MP3 player, which can be customised to individual tastes and preferences. With improved internet browsing, users will benefit from NetFront Browser v.3.4, which provides PC-like browser capabilities on your mobile.
Samsung has proven camera phone leadership with the launch of series of industry’s first camera phones including the 5 megapixel camera phone (SCH-S250) in 2004, 7 megapixel camera phone (SCH-V770) in 2005, and finally 10 megapixel camera phone (SCH-B600) in 2006 for Korean domestic market.
Samsung and Bang & Olufsen inspire the world again with Serenata, the pure music mobile
Serenata is a music mobile phone focusing on sound quality and at the same time on bringing a more sophisticated lifestyle to the customers. To own Serenata is to enjoy the best possible music experience while you are on the move. Bang & Olufsen's expertise in concept development, user interface experience, acoustic sound capabilities and design skills together with Samsung's leadership in mobile phone technology, engineering and quality have realized a new way of combining unique music and mobile experiences for consumers.
"Since we started our first co-operation with Bang & Olufsen, we have only been confirmed in our belief that both companies share a passion for innovation and consumer-focused technology. Serenata is another example of new ways to think of the mobile phone. I'm proud to say that our customers can see a true innovation of music player and mobile phone as we have opened a new era of mobile phones with Serene two years ago", says Geesung Choi, President of the Telecommunications Network Business in Samsung Electronics.
"We have high expectations to Serenata, as it is a result of our joint vision to constantly push the boundaries, and bring unique and exciting products to our customers", states Torben Ballegaard Sørensen, CEO of Bang & Olufsen.
Acoustic performance dedicated to use
Serenata represents an innovative approach to a personal music player. Two companies' astonish-ing technology and design bring the experience of digital music to quite another level for music fans on the move.
Serenata features a built-in stereo speaker system which delivers outstanding sound quality. Equipped with a built-in hi-fi speaker and outstanding bass system, the phone delivers high quality sound without any distortion. With this state-of-art technology, mobile phone users can enjoy various kinds of music from pop and rock to jazz and classic in the same way they would through their hi-fi system at home. At anytime and any place, you can listen to the opera in a music quality as if you were there yourself through the integrated loudspeaker system or through the dedicated stereo EarSet 3.
Combining only top-performing speaker components with ingenious acoustic principles and Bang & Olufsen-patented ICEpower amplification, we get the world's best acoustic performance. The focus has been to provide uncompromised and totally authentic music performance, with emphasis on playback of "uncompressed" music. Besides handling lossless, Serenata also handles playback in various formats, including MP3, WMA, and AAC.
As a dedicated music phone, Serenata brings special ring tones for the users who want to have unique and sophisticated sounds designed by Bang & Olufsen. The sound achieved from a triangle, wind chimes, various types of glass and different types of woods will offer beautiful sounds to match any situation.
Sophisticated design inspired by nature
Serenata is a pocket-sized music mobile phone with an organic rounded design. "I often take long walks by the sea where I live", explains Bang & Olufsen designer David Lewis, "and the shape of the nicely rounded stones that are washed to shore has always fascinated me. These stones have been carefully shaped and rounded by rolling in the water for millions of years, and they are so wonderful to hold in your hand. This was what I was looking for."
Whether standing on its integrated foot or nicely tucked in the palm of your hand, Serenata is a functional and outstanding music phone.
The contrast between the cool aluminium and the warm soft touch lacquer leaves an impression of elegance, slimness and craftsmanship.
Intuitive user interface
The unique music phone's sound quality and elegant design does not compromise the ease of use.
The click wheel navigation gives users hassle-free control of music functions.
“The basic idea is simplicity and one-hand operation. There are very few actual keys. We use the wheel for all primary operation in the context sensitive menus, like dialling, writing and accessing the music lists. For secondary operation, the wheel is supported by on-screen operation based on sensi-touch technology", explains Bang & Olufsen Chief designer David Lewis.
To assist the user throughout, the display changes colour depending on whether it is in Phone mode (blue) or Music mode (red). Furthermore, the large 2.26-inch colour LCD display developed by Samsung allows Serenata to show album covers in an excellent resolution and facilitates on-screen navigation. Also, the innovative mobile phone features sensi-touch to enhance the usability.
"Besides the colour-coding and intuitive user interface, we try to help the first-time user with a 4-minute simulation tutorial, which is played in the display, explaining some of the most frequently-used functionality", Bang & Olufsen Business Manager Brian Laursen explains.
To enhance the usability, Bang & Olufsen has developed BeoPlayer, a simple software that can access and organise all music files on the PC and conveniently transfer them to Serenata. Also through the Samsung PC studio, the users can synchronise the contacts, calendar and to-do list from their computer onto Serenata via Microsoft outlook.
Providing unique mobile experiences
With Samsung's leadership in mobile phone technology, Serenata represents a unique harmonization of music and mobile phone features. To offer enhanced multimedia functions, Samsung brings High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) connectivity to Serenata. With 3.5G connectivity, users can enjoy full multimedia features including music and video, e-mail, MMS and instant purchase and download of music tracks. Also the phone features a 4 Gigabyte solid-state memory for storing your digital music and data.
Featuring hi-fi speakers to deliver high quality sound reproduction and telephony, Serenata also provides a portable conference call feature, enabling multiple users to have a phone call a few feet away from the mobile phone.
Playback of music without disturbance from incoming calls or messages is made possible via the PureMusic function. Serenata still receives calls in the answering device or messages in the inbox, but you are not disturbed while you are listening to the music.
Mobile & Wireless Companies
The mobile industry has transformed over the past couple of years from a voice-only medium to a more interactive, entertaining and immersive communication platform. While the mobile market is growing at a rapid pace, there is a need to design and develop components, devices and applications which can enable the better and richer platform sought by the discerning users.
WiMAX technology has also seen a transformation with the focus now shifting to the mobile version (802.16e). The deployments expected to happen in 2007/08 is providing further momentum by fueling growth of more startups as well as providing a rich opportunity for the existing .16d and .16e vendors.
Similarly, WiFi is seeing a resurgence of investment with innovations like MIMO (802.11n) driving growth besides the expansion of WiFi market with municipalities (muni-wifi), enterprises, Hotspots, SOHOs and end-users adopting the technology at a rapid pace.
Players in all parts of the mobile & wireless value-chain (handset manufacturers to chipset manufacturers, component suppliers, OEMs, WISPs, test tool companies, and software product companies) are regrouping and reworking their strategy and product engineering / QA operations to maximize their benefit from the next phase of growth. Aztecsoft is playing a leading role in this phase by being at the forefront of this effort by providing cutting edge technology excellence and benefits of outsourced software product development and independent testing services.
Developing and testing applications for mobile users is a natural extension of Aztecsoft's track record in delivering consumer-oriented infrastructure, applications and services. Leveraging Aztecsoft's expertise, companies are assured of software that enables business processes to become more productive without interruptions, no matter where the people are located. Aztecsoft provides user-friendly mobile solutions that are secure, reliable, scalable and manageable.
The unique combination of product engineering mindset and mobile & wireless domain expertise has helped several product companies and OEMs to achieve greater benefits
Aztecsoft has strong experience in building and enhancing a new/existing platform or building new applications on a given platform. The mobile platforms we developed are a typical server side platform with interfaces to the Mobile world that include SMS, WAP, HTTP, XML, and has the ability to deliver various next gen applications.
Key service offerings in the mobile space include:
Full Lifecycle Product Engineering
Independent Testing
Professional Services
Sustained Engineering
Key service offerings in the wireless space include:
Independent Testing
Services-wise mobile experience:
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
MOTOwi4TM Wireless Broadband Networks
The MOTOwi4™ portfolio of wireless broadband solutions combines speed and coverage to help you capture even the most demanding customers today… and tomorrow. It’s clear what those customers want. They want to share, connect and communicate anywhere and everywhere from the heart of the city to the ends of the earth. And they want more than voice. They want interactivity and high-speed data, too. Music. Video. Gaming. The MOTOwi4 portfolio allows you to give them exactly what they want. And it gives you a range of flexible, mix-and-match, cost-effective options to fit your network and business model: WiMAX, fixed broadband, Metro WiFi and mesh solutions and Broadband over Powerline (BPL).
wi4 WiMAX Takes the Internet Airborne
WiMAX isn’t your average disruptive technology. It’s technology that is placing the world on the threshold of a total transformation in wireless broadband communications. WiMAX delivers standards-based, high-speed voice, data and Internet connectivity in licensed spectrum for both fixed and mobile applications. Most importantly, it’s the first technology that delivers true broadband mobility at speeds that enable powerful applications such as VoIP, online gaming, mobile TV and personalized infotainment. WiMAX doesn’t depend on scattered hot spots. WiMAX makes the world one big, never-ending hot spot. Service operators can provide high-speed communications to customers whether they’re at home, at the office, or on the move.
WiMAX is about to make the Internet, and truly personal broadband, as common as air. That’s the promise of WiMAX. And with Motorola’s comprehensive wi4 WiMAX solutions, that’s also the reality.
Motorola offers the industry’s broadest portfolio of WiMAX solutions, providing the robust performance and sensible economics the market demands. Our wi4 WiMAX product portfolio includes carrier class and light infrastructure products, software-defined radios, advanced antenna technologies, a full suite of end user devices and next generation core solutions. We also offer a comprehensive services portfolio developed to help service providers boost network efficiency, generate increased revenues and take maximum advantage of the WiMAX revolution.
WIMAX INFRASTRUCTURE
Motorola’s wi4 WiMAX infrastructure portfolio offers unmatched flexibility for designing the optimal solutions for service providers everywhere. Our WiMAX philosophy focuses on high performance, reduced cost, rapid deployment and ease of management made available through an all-IP architecture. When combined with our light infrastructure solutions, the combination is ideal for emerging markets. We offer substantial capacity and coverage gains with full MIMO and Smart Antenna solutions. The bottom line is, our versatile wi4 WiMAX solutions help you give your customers truly personal broadband: uninterrupted, always-on access to information, entertainment and communication.
MOTOwi4 WiMAX SERVICES
Wi4 WiMAX services provide the innovation, experience and expertise to deliver and enable successful commercial wi4 WiMAX systems. We offer a robust suite of integrated network services including design, installation, optimization and management as well as service-enabling solutions that enhance differentiation, profitability and customer loyalty. We also enable WiMAX applications to extend to a host of next-generation media-rich applications.
MOTOwi4 COMPLEMENTARY SOLUTION
Wi4 WiMAX, together with the entire MOTOwi4 portfolio (wi4 Fixed, wi4 Mesh and wi4 BPL), provides a comprehensive choice of connectivity solutions to enable the optimal deployment option or combination of solutions to meet coverage needs. This robust portfolio provides complementary access options that are cost-effective, scaleable, easily deployed and secure.
WiMAX CEPs AND DEVICES
Key components of successful WiMAX solutions are feature-rich indoor and outdoor customer premises equipment (CPE), PC cards, mobile PDAs and handsets. Our wi4 WiMAX CPE and device portfolio offers dramatic design, breakthrough features and easy-to-install “plug and play” functionality. We also offer multi-antenna operations that extend reach and indoor penetration, and advanced security and authentication protocols. And our handsets will continue to lead the industry in design and buzz.
MOTOwi4 IP CORE
The MOTOwi4 portfolio of solutions includes a converged IP core that, paired with our next-generation WiMAX access system, offers providers exceptional opportunity to deliver in-demand data applications and services. Empowered by the Motorola IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), and connecting across an operator’s full portfolio of access technologies, our solutions can connect to the end user in any environment by the most efficient network and best device.
HP iPAQ 510 Voice Messenger series
Overview
The HP iPAQ Voice Messenger offers professionals a powerful, easy-to-use Smartphone that combines the mobility of a cell phone, the capability of a handheld organizer, constant contact of a push e-mail device, and the power of an office phone system.
Features
Work in motion
• Take your office on the road with productivity applications and the office functionality of mobile versions of Windows. Get to your most important Smartphone tasks quickly and easily with personalized shortcuts.
Speak your mind
• Voice Commander provides your own personal Voice Valet. Use spoken commands to perform a multitude of tasks. Have e-mails read to you and reply without typing. Dial a contact by name or digits. Get appointments read to you.
Talk for hours
• Up to 6.75 hours of talk time. Save your wireless airtime minutes while in the office with VoIP (Voice Over IP) over your company’s wireless LAN (WiFi) and PBX phone system.
Small in size, big on features
• A handy Setup Assistant enables network administrators to manage a fleet of HP iPAQ handhelds. Take more work with you with large internal storage capacity and SD card expandability.
Protect your mobile work
• Outlook security helps keep e-mail and other documents secure. Remotely erase data on lost or misplaced devices. iPAQ persistent storage helps protect your data, settings, and installed applications.
SPECIFICATIONS:-
See detailed specs : US QuickSpecs » html » pdf
Operating system : Windows Mobile® 6 Standard
Processors available : Texas Instruments OMAP 850 200 MHz processor
Memory
Memory : 64 MB SDRAM
Flash memory : 128 MB ROM
Audio, Slots, and Ports
Audio : Microphone; Receiver; Speaker; Stereo (through headphone jack)
Ports Standard:
1 USB 1.1 Client
1 2.5 mm stereo headphone
Slots : 1 Integrated Micro SD
Graphics and Input/Output devices
Display size : 2.0" micro-reflective color TFT, 176 x 220, 65K colors
Camera : 1.3 Mega pixel CMOS camera
Input devices : Voice Commander, 12-key keypad with 2 soft keys and 5-way navigation button
Communication features
Wireless : Integrated Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE wireless radio with automatic band transition; Integrated Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) with WPA2 security; Integrated Bluetooth® 1.2 wireless technology
Software
Software installed : Pocket Outlook: Inbox, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks; Media Player 10; MSN Messenger; Pocket Internet Explorer; ActiveSync 4.5; Voice Recorder; Notes; Games: Calculator, Solitaire, Bubble Breaker; Spell Checker (for email); File Explorer; VoIP client; Bluetooth Manager; VPN Client; Clock; Volume control; Pocket Office apps: Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Microsoft DRM; SIM Toolkit
Product specifications
Dimensions (w x d x h) : 2.8 x 0.71 x 4.65 in (48.6 x 16.3 x 107 mm)
Weight : 3.6 oz (102 g)
Power and Battery
Battery : Removable/rechargeable 1100 mAh Lithium-ion
Power supply : AC Adapter
Service and Support
Warranty - year(s) : One-year parts and labor limited warranty; 90 days technical support for software.
iPhone Features
Calls
With iPhone, making a call is as simple as touching a name or number. In addition, you can easily construct a favourites list for your most most frequently called numbers and quickly merge calls to create conference calls.
SMS
iPhone includes an SMS application with an intelligent QWERTY soft keyboard that prevents and corrects mistakes, making it easier and more efficient to use than the small plastic keyboards on many smartphones. iPhone also displays SMS messages as an ongoing chat, and lets you send a text message to multiple people at the same time.
VOICEMAIL
An industry first, Visual Voicemail allows you to go directly to any of your messages without listening to the prior messages. So you can quickly select the messages that are most important to you.
MUSIC
With iPhone, you see music in a whole new way. You can scroll through your songs, artists, albums and playlists with just a flick of a finger. Browse your music library by album artwork using Cover Flow. And even view song lyrics that you’ve added to your library in iTunes.
VIDEO
The stunning 3.5-inch widescreen display is the ultimate way to watch TV shows and music videos from the iTunes Store on a pocketable device. Just tap the touch controls to play, pause, view by chapter or adjust the volume.
Wi-Fi Store
The iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store on iPhone puts a music superstore in your pocket. Just find a Wi-Fi hot spot, tap the iTunes button, and you can browse, preview, buy and download music on the go. All the music you get while you’re out syncs back to the iTunes library on your computer when you dock your iPhone.
INTERNET
With its advanced Safari browser, iPhone lets you see web pages the way they were designed to be seen. Zoom in on a page by tapping on the multi-touch display with your finger. Create Web Clips that appear on your Home screen for one-tap access to your favourite websites and web apps. And customise up to nine Home screen pages to organise your Web Clips.
MAIL
iPhone uses a rich HTML email client that fetches your email in the background from most POP3 or IMAP mail services and displays photos and graphics right along with the text.
MAPS
The amazing iPhone Maps application approximates your location using mobile phone tower information and enabled local Wi-Fi networks. Drop a pin on a map, then move it to a specific location to get directions or find nearby points of interest. View Hybrid maps that display major street names over satellite imagery. Even check real-time traffic information. All with the remarkable, easy-to-use multi-touch interface on iPhone.
WIDGETS
iPhone even has widgets: small applications that give you helpful information like stock reports, weather reports and more.
YOUTUBE
iPhone has a special YouTube player that you can launch right from the home screen. So you can access and browse YouTube videos wherever you go. And when you find a video you want to send to your friends, iPhone can even create an email with the link in it for you.
MULTI-TOUCH
With its large multi-touch display and innovative new software, iPhone lets you control everything using only your fingers. You can type using the predictive keyboard, glide through albums with Cover Flow, scroll through photos with a flick or zoom in and out on a section of a web page — all with the iPhone multi-touch display.
OSX
iPhone uses OS X, the world’s most advanced operating system. Which means you have access to the best-ever software on a handheld device, including rich HTML email, full-featured web browsing and favourite applications including Address Book and Calendar. iPhone is also fully multitasking, so you can read a web page while downloading your email in the background. This software completely redefines what you can do with a mobile phone.
WIRELESS
iPhone uses quad-band GSM, the global standard for wireless communications. It also supports O2’s EDGE network, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, which links to Apple’s compact Bluetooth headset. When you move around, iPhone automatically switches between EDGE and Wi-Fi to provide the fastest data connection possible. To set up your own Wi-Fi network, check out the AirPort Extreme Base Station.
ACCELEROMETER
The accelerometer detects when you rotate iPhone from portrait to landscape, then automatically changes the contents of the display, so you immediately see the entire width of a web page or a photo in its proper landscape aspect ratio.
PROXIMITY SENSOR
When you lift iPhone to your ear, the proximity sensor immediately turns off the display to save power and prevent inadvertent touches until iPhone is moved away. Another power-saving feature is the ambient light sensor. This intelligent sensor automatically adjusts the display’s brightness to the appropriate level for the current ambient light.
Monday, January 28, 2008
SMART Communications GSM Mobile Network, Philippines
The first dual-band GSM (Global Systems of Mobile Communication) network in the Philippines was launched in April 1999, following a deal between Nokia and SMART Communications. SMART Communications is the leading mobile phone operator in the Philippines and is moving 900,000 subscribers across from its older ETACS analogue network to the new GSM service, known as SMART Gold GSM. This is the third GSM service in the Philippines.
By the end of 1999 SMART had 180,000 GSM subscribers (although 140,000 of them had joined its pre-paid SMART Buddy service). The contract with Nokia for the initial SMART network was signed in November 1998, and it rolled out a network with 530 cell sites over the following year. To further expand this network and add extra services the company has signed a further $150 million contract with Nokia.
SMART GSM NETWORK
The SMART GSM network is the first dual band GSM network in the Philippines, covering both the GSM 800 and 1800 frequencies. The contract was for the turnkey delivery of a complete GSM network including Nokia's Mobile Switching Centres (MSC), Home Location Registers (HLR), Base Station Controllers (BSC), Base Stations (BTS), Short Message Service Centre (SMSC) and the Nokia NMS network management system. Additionally, Nokia will supply a range of customer services.
The software and hardware supplied by Nokia will enable SMART to offer a range of value-added services such as SMS (short messaging service), internet billing and limited data services such as news and weather. SMS is essentially similar to paging, but SMS messages do not require the mobile phone to be active and within range, as they can be held for a number of days until it is in range. SMS messages are transmitted within the same cell or to anyone with roaming capability. They can also be sent to digital phones from a web site equipped with PC Link or from one digital phone to another. An SMS gateway is a web site that lets you enter an SMS message to someone within the cell served by that gateway, or that acts as an international gateway for users with roaming capability.
The SMS is a store and forward service. In other words, short messages are not sent directly from sender to recipient, but always via an SMS Center instead. Each mobile telephone network that supports SMS has one or more messaging centers to handle and manage the short texts.
In addition, the dual band system will allow more extensive roaming capability than a single band network.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
T-Mobile FLASH-OFDM Mobile Broadband Network, Slovakia
In October 2005 T-Mobile launched a new and faster mobile broadband internet access network in Slovakia. The network is Europe's first commercial mobile broadband service (also a world first) and uses Flarion Technologies' (now acquired by Qualcomm Inc. for $600m) Fast, Low-latency Access with Seamless Handoff – Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (FLASH-OFDM) network technology.
The service, which was trialled in The Hague, Netherlands, in September 2004 was launched commercially in selected areas of Bratislava and in 19 other cities around Slovakia in mid-October 2005.
Part of the reason behind the commercial launch is that Slovakia is not well covered by wired broadband particularly in rural regions. The new technology has the power to deliver broadband internet to offices and homes even in areas that lack other telecommunications infrastructure.
Hamid Akhavan, chief technology officer of T-Mobile International, said: “Mobile broadband access is an extremely important asset in today’s world of communication. It will soon become a vital part of countries’ infrastructure. I am very pleased to see T-Mobile in Slovakia be the world’s pioneer for this exciting new technology.”
The service will provide mobile data speeds of 1Mbps average for the downlink and 256kbps average for the uplink, increasing the choice for the consumer beyond DSL and cable.
The operator of the network is T-Mobile Slovensko, the Slovakian subsidiary of Germany's T-Mobile International. The investment was estimated at €115m.
T-Mobile Slovensko is the first mobile operator to have rolled out MMS services, W-LAN and SuperSpeed, EDGE based data services and UMTS in Slovakia.
CONTRACTORS AND EQUIPMENT
Siemens and Flarion have delivered to T-Mobile a complete FLASH-OFDM solution for the 450MHz frequency spectrum including radio router base stations, desktop modems and PC cards. Siemens also had the task of integrating the FLASH-OFDM network into the existing mobile network operated by T-Mobile in Slovakia.
Flarion's FLASH-OFDM technology has an all-IP architecture and allows mobile operators to seamlessly connect business customers to their LANs and residential subscribers to the internet with an impressive speed and low packet latency (>20ms) which exceeds wired network requirements. By using a FLASH-OFDM data card, users need no modifications to their user settings to experience broadband connectivity in a mobile environment.
The spatial extension of the FLASH-OFDM cells in the 450MHz frequency band used makes the technology ideal for providing coverage in rural areas. The technology has been shown to be capable of letting users travelling at 250km/hr (during tests) to download data at speeds up to 1.5Mbps or upload at speeds up to 500kbps. Flarion's technology is currently in market and technology trials with operators which include Nextel Communications (USA), Vodafone KK (Japan), Telstra (Australia) and the city of Washington, DC (USA) for public safety and security communication.
In April 2006 Cisco Systems was contracted by T-Mobile Slovakia to provide its mobile operator solution to process and manage radio access network traffic and FLASH-OFDM network layer integration for the new system. Robert Chvatal, the CEO of T-Mobile Slovakia, said: “With Cisco’s back-end aggregation solutions, T-Mobile gains a competitive advantage by being able to quickly deploy the latest mobile broadband services… we want to provide a broadband internet choice outside of big cities and increase the choice beyond DSL and cable.”
FLASH-OFDM TECHNOLOGY
FLASH-OFDM is a new signal processing scheme from Flarion that can support high data rates at very low packet and delay losses, also known as latencies, over a distributed all-IP wireless network. The low-latency enables real-time mobile interactive and multimedia applications. It is also able to offer higher quality wireless service and better cost effectiveness than current wireless data technologies.
While CDMA and UMTS increase the capacity and spectral efficiency viewpoints as compared to 2G and 2.5G wireless networks, there are still issues with these packet networks when applied to wireless data; information is not always sent in high-speed bursts bi-directionally and there is an inherent latency and propagation delay between the two end points.
Flarion's FLASH-OFDM network technology addresses these problems. The Flarion system is capable of sustaining 12Mbps of throughput per cell in a three-carrier, three-sector configuration, peak user data rates up to 3Mbps, full cellular mobility, less than 20ms of latency and full QoS.
RADIO ROUTER TECHNOLOGY
Radio router technology (IP routers with radio adjuncts) uses a radio-transmission framework for packet-based, broadband, IP wireless communications and is designed to make links in an IP mobile network. Since IP network technology is already well developed and inexpensive, RadioRouter systems should be economical to implement.
A radio router network can be built over the existing IP infrastructure, rather than from the ground up like a 3G network. The technology uses OFDM, in which a single channel is divided into several subchannels, each at a different frequency. This boosts bandwidth by letting a system carry several transmissions at the same time. Radio router systems offer a maximum throughput of 1.5Mbps, which is about the same as a T1 line.
OFDM, unlike traditional FDM, uses signal modulation and demodulation techniques, as well as the orthogonal placement of adjacent channels, to minimise interference. Radio routers are a data-focused technology, designed from a data perspective. But they do support voice-packet-switched voice, not circuit-switched voice.
Radio routers can handle packet traffic and serve as the equivalent of cellular base stations. Consumers would connect with Flash-OFDM networks via PC cards in their notebooks and via flash-memory cards in handheld devices.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Mobile tracking devices on trial
Your mobile phone is a beacon - a radio transmitter in a box. Therefore it is possible to trace the signal and work out where it is.
There are now several web companies which will track your friends' and family's phones for you, so you always know where they are.
But just how safe is it to make location details available online?
There are several reasons why you may want to track someone. You may be a company wanting to keep tabs on employees during work hours, or a parent wanting to check up on a child's whereabouts.
These sorts of tracking services, now available in the UK, get information from the network about which cell your phone is currently in, and, for a small fee, display the location on an online map.
As well as checking where a certain phone is right now, you can run scheduled lookups, or snail trails, to record the phone's movements throughout the day, and produce a report for you to peruse at your leisure.
Obviously you cannot just enter any mobile phone number and expect to track someone.
First of all you need to prove your identity, via a credit card, and then, crucially, the owner of the phone in question needs to consent to being tracked.
The owner is sent a text message telling them about the tracking request, to which they must reply.
Experiment
The question is: is it possible to circumvent this security, and track someone without their knowledge?
I attempted to find out, using regular contributor Guy Kewney, an independent technology journalist and, for one day only, human guinea pig.
I sent him on a tour of London. He could go anywhere he wanted, and I planned to meet up with him later and tell him, hopefully, where he had been.
Guy did not know that when I borrowed his phone for a few minutes earlier in the day, I took the opportunity to register it on one of the tracking services.
I received the incoming text message warning him about the tracking, responded to it and then deleted it from his inbox.
When I gave him his phone back, Guy had no idea he was now in possession of a consenting tracking device.
Hence, a little while later, I could watch him emerge from the tube at the start of his tour.
But just borrowing someone's phone for a few minutes is too obvious a loophole. It is one which has already been closed by an industry body which oversees new technologies such as mobile tracking services.
Voluntary rules
The Mobile Broadband Group has drawn up a voluntary code of conduct which the networks in the UK ask location providers to stick to.
One of the conditions of the code is that after a phone is registered as a tracking device, reminder texts should be sent to the phone at random intervals.
This way, it should be impossible for a malicious tracker to intercept every reminder.
The problem is, those random reminders are not required to be sent very frequently.
We tracked several phones over several days, and often had to wait for a day or two before receiving a reminder message.
Hamish Macleod from the Mobile Broadband Group, who came up with the code of conduct, argues this is enough.
He said: "We assessed this risk during the development of the code and consulted obviously with all the experts that we did, and the schedule of random alerts that we came up with we thought was adequate to protect against the risks.
"This is a situation to be kept under review as the service is developed."
Child-safe?
With more and more children owning mobile phones, special attention needs to be given to who can track them.
If you are not a genuine parent or guardian, the code requires location services to check that both the tracker and the person being tracked can prove they are consenting adults.
Mr Macleod says: "The person that is to be located has to demonstrate to the service provider they are at least 16 years old.
"They can do this through various channels, for example they can get a credit card number which is used as a proxy for age verification, or something like that."
At least, that is what is supposed to happen. But neither of the services we tested asked the person being tracked to prove they were an adult.
Although they did ask us for the age of the person we wanted to track, they did not check we were telling the truth.
The companies were not following the letter of the code and, what is more, no-one was holding them to account.
Neither service would comment on this oversight.
Although the code of conduct was well intentioned, the Mobile Broadband Group admits it will need refining as loopholes become apparent.
It also highlights the limits of such voluntary codes, and the problems with policing them.
Jago Russell from the human rights group Liberty says: "We have concerns in general about industry codes of practice. They aren't legal regulation; they don't give the consumer an effective legal remedy if the code of practice isn't complied with.
"So in many ways they're not really worth the paper they're written on."
Changes
As a result of our investigation, The Mobile Broadband Group is making some changes to the code of conduct.
The frequency of the random reminders is going to be increased, and the code will make clearer the appropriate way to check the age of the participants.
Guy Kewney says: "It's a shame but then if you start regulating new technology you usually fall down because people don't expect the unexpected.
"The real problem is that you can't actually perceive the unintended consequences of your technology change, so a hard and fast rule that says 'don't do this' won't stop you doing that, in which case you've wasted your time passing it."
Should we really be worried about being tracked by mobile phones?
Guy Kewney says: "You can worry about anything in this society. If I wanted to track you, the easy way to do it is - well you've found one way, but if they've closed that loophole or if it becomes tricky - then I just hire a private detective.
BSNL Kerala to launch mobile tracking facility
The Kerala circle of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is going to launch a unique service whereby people using BSNL mobile phones can be tracked by calling their mobile phones.
'This is going to be useful for parents to track where their children are. This activation would have a charge and would be billed instantly to the user who owns a post-paid connection of BSNL,' said K.S. Sreenivasan, chief general manager of Kerala Telecom Circle, here Saturday.
'This facility is one of the many under the 'resource tracking and management service', to track, monitor and manage fleets with a simple browser that shows the tracked resource in a computer and is used by about 20 of our corporate clients in Kerala,' said Sreenivasan.
Kerala State Road Transport Corporation is already using this facility to track its fleet of buses, he said.
BSNL now has over two million mobile connections in Kerala with 1.6 million pre-paid and 390,000 post-paid connections.
It hopes to add another 8.5 million mobile connections in the current fiscal year.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
IP Network System
GR4000 Series IPv4/IPv6 Gigabit Core Routers
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Offering carrier-grade structure, such as AC/DC power flexibility, full redundancy and unsurpassed port density. GR4000 series can meet carrier/ISP requisite application well.
High-end core routers and aggregation routers orienting to backbone networks
Edge routers and aggregation routers orienting to access network (especially GbE accommodation)
GS4000 Series IPv4/IPv6 Gigabit Core Switches
GS4000 series is high-end core switches for high-reliability IP/Ethernet networks .Switching performance of 5 models ranges from 96 to 384Gbps, supports rich IPv6 protocols, IPv4/IPv6 dual stack and tunnel technology.
Offering carrier-grate structure, such as AC/DC power flexibility, full redundancy and unsurpassed port density. GS4000 series can meet your requisite application well.
Enterprise LAN backbone or aggregation switches
Ethernet WAN L2-VPN switches
Carrier/ISP backbone or access networks switches
GR2000 B Series IPv4/IPv6 Broadband Access Routers
Four models of GR2000 B series can offer 2-16Gbps switching capacity service for enterprise networks and ISP edge networks. Meanwhile, GR2000 B series has excellent router function, such as hardware-based packet processing, filtering and QoS control. In addition, similar to other routers of Hitachi GR series, it supports IPv4/IPv6 dual stack.
GR2000 B series routers will meet your requisite application well.
Access to branch offices and SOHO as the CPE and broadband access routers
MPLS or edge router (for the ISP edge)
Broadband Optical Access Network System
PON(Passive Optical Network) Standardization
Early in 1993, Hitachi joined in International Telecommunication Unit ITU-T Study Group 15 (SG15) and drafted the earliest broadband PON international standard G.982. In following years, Hitachi and the largest Japan telecommunication operator NTT jointly held Japan-Tokyo ITU-T conference. With the development of broadband multi-service technologies, the market requirement for optical broadband access is becoming obvious. Since 1998, Hitachi began to be dedicated to drafting of ITU-T G.983.1/2 recommendation-ATM based PON technology standard, then joined in the Full Service Access Network (FASN) organization, and participated in drafting of G.983.3~G.983.7 serial BPON standard.
As one of the key members of ITU-T SG15, Hitachi keeps growing and leads the research on broadband optical access technology, since 2001, Hitachi started tracking the high performance GPON technology, and dedicated itself to drafting of ITU-T GPON serial standard G.984.1~G.984.4. During this process, Hitachi sponsored the ITU-T Japan-Yokohama conference.
Cooperating with the requirement of ITU-T PON standard development and industrialization, Hitachi attended BPON interoperability testing respectively in Japan and Geneva that attracted many global PON equipment vendors to participate in. Hitachi achieved satisfactory interoperability result.
In addition to the contribution to international standardization, Hitachi has also been actively involved in "FTTH Council Asia-pacific" which was founded by an optical communication expert of Hitachi and sponsored by optical communications industries of Asia Pacific countries. This organization is serving for FTTH business of all countries in Asia Pacific area. Currently Hitachi is further tracking PON technology's development and future new trends.
PON product development and sales records
Combining experience in PON technology standardization and proven ability of development in the area of electronic components, Hitachi started to develop and manufacture PON series products based on Japan telecomm operators' intellectual property since the mid term of 1990s, including 10Mbps STM-PON and 150Mbps ATM-PON. Since 2000, Hitachi has closely cooperated with NTT, according to ITU-T international standard and NTT service requirement, Hitachi developed AMN1200 series BPON and BEPON equipment, and offered carrier-class broadband PON access solution.
Up to now, Hitachi -supplied nearly one million lines of BPON equipment to NTT, with reliable performance on the network. At the same time, Hitachi also supplied to Australian, American, and European market. According to a recent global survey, PON line number offered globally by Hitachi occupies the largest share of global PON equipment trade. Currently Hitachi accomplished the design and R&D of GPON product based on ITU-T G.984 standard and is actively pushing to the US GPON market.
