Wednesday, March 25, 2009

The head of Dell has confirmed plans to release a smartphone.

The company is developing a Dell smartphone, as well as additional services for him, reports TG Daily, with reference to the statement by the head of Dell, Michael Della. Earlier, representatives from Dell does not comment on the development of a smartphone.
Special services for owners of smartphones should help the company Dell to receive additional income. Perhaps, you are an online shop of mobile applications for smartphones Dell.
According to the publication of the Taiwan Commercial Times, the world's largest contract manufacturer Foxconn Electronics has received an order to produce smartphones Dell. But their serial production has not yet begun.
About Dell to release a smartphone it became known in mid-January of this year. It was anticipated that this device will be shown in February at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona.
In Barcelona, its first smartphone revealed other computer manufacturers - Acer. Smartphone Dell at the World Mobile Congress has not been submitted.
Recently it was reported that Dell has several models of smartphones for operators of cellular communication. The latter is not interested in these devices. Operators are not arranged that smartphones Dell does not fundamentally differ from the already available models from other manufacturers.
For the first time rumors of Dell to enter the market of smartphones have appeared two years ago, when at work in Dell moved the head of Motorola mobile division Garrikes Ron (Ron Garriques). According to analysts of Kaufman Bros, this time the company Dell beginning to look to the mobile market.

New online service will replace the video game.

The new network service OnLive, announced at the Game Developers Conference GDC 2009, will do away with the need to install the game on a computer, says IGN. They will be stored and run on the server. On the screen the player will be broadcast in the format of the video image and commands from the player will be broadcast to the server. This will allow to play the latest games on slower computers.
Users will be able dokupit special device that allows the image to display OnLive on the TV screen. For the game in 480p mode, the channel is required at a rate of not less than a half megabit per second. Resolution 720p (high definition images) already requires pyatimegabitnogo channel. Alleged that the delay of video will not exceed one millisecond.
The scheme of the service to avoid the appearance of pirated copies. OnLive already supported by publishers such as EA, Ubisoft, Take-Two, Atari, Eidos, Codemasters, THQ, and Warner Bros., Writes Eurogamer. OnLive works with Windows, and on the Mac.
Beta testing OnLive place in summer 2009. Finished version for launch in late 2009.
This is not the first solution for streaming media game. In 2007, launched a similar service StreamMyGame, which allows you to play Call of Duty 4, World of Warcraft, EVE Online and other games.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Nokia has brought to Russia dvuhklaviaturny smartphone.

The company introduced the Nokia smartphone in Russia E75. It was made in the form of slider to be nominated by the qwerty-keyboard side. Thus, under the screen E75 is a normal numeric keypad.
Diagonal screen E75 is 2.4 inches. It displays 16 million colors, with resolution of 320x240 pixels. Smartphone Weight - 139 grams.
In the E75 has two operating modes, one of whom is an "office" as well as a separate key for quick launch of e-mailbox. The main body of the device has a 3.5-mm jack for connecting headphones. Nokia E75 positioned as a device that combines the functionality of a business and entertainment opportunities.
The first information on the development of E75 appeared in autumn 2008. In February 2009, this smartphone has been officially presented at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona. E75 appears on the shelves in the second quarter.
Also, Russia has shown smartphone Nokia N97, is positioned as a mobile computer. It was made in the form of slider with 3.5-inch wide touch screen and qwerty-keyboard. The amount of internal memory N97 is 32 gigabytes. It has modules, 3G, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and GPS, as well as an electronic compass. In the sale of Nokia N97 will be the summer of 2009.
In addition, during the summer in Russia will start a music store Nokia. In May, starting an online store application Ovi Store. It will allow owners of Nokia cell phones to download different applications into their devices. Russia will become one of the first countries where the work Ovi Store.

Samsung has updated its desyatidyuymovy netbuk.

March 23, Samsung Corporation has announced netbuk Samsung N110, who will succeed her first desyatidyuymovy netbuk, Samsung NC10, writes edition Laptop, published the first review of N110. Samsung NC10 It was recently announced in Russia as one of the first netbukov module with integrated WiMax.
Shestiyacheechnoy N110 is equipped with a battery capacity of 5900 milliampere-hour, and will be able to work more than seven hours without recharging. His predecessor had batereey calculated for 5-6 hours. However, at the official presentation of Samsung NC10 in Russia had been promised that the NC10 equip high-capacity battery that provides about nine hours of offline work.
According to the configuration N110 differs little from NC10. He also has gigabytes of memory, hard drive capacity of 160 gigabytes and a processor Intel Atom, running at a frequency of 1.6 gigahertz.
Matte Cover NC10 in N110 replaced glossy. The same thing happened to the display. Dimensions tachpada N110 increased as compared to the NC10. Laptop on the test it was slightly faster than NC10.
The cost of the new netbuka reach 469 dollars. When he appeared in Russia, is unknown. Samsung also recently announced a price called netbuka with Samsung NC310 odinnadtsatichasovoy battery, says Engadget. It will cost customers in approximately 557 dollars.

Announced sverhproizvoditelny graphics chip for cell phones.

Mobile graphics processors and the Mali-200 Mali-400, built on the architecture of ARM, will enable to run on mobile phone games that are comparable in quality to similar products for the Xbox 360, PC World said, referring to the statement representative of ARM.
The processor is Mali-200 supports the OpenGL ES 2.0 and can display 275 million pixels per second. In addition, the chip supports playback of Flash and allows you to run Java-games.
The main characteristics of the chip Mali-400 identical to that of Mali-200 processor. But it is scalable so that you can change the architecture of one-on quad. The frequency of the chip, respectively, will increase from 100 to 300 megahertz. In addition, with the Mali-400 mobile phone screen can be operated with a resolution of 1080r.
The first chips Mali-200 Mali-400 should appear at the end of this year. Which phones will install the CPU, as well as how they would increase the cost of mobile phone, are not reported.

Intel has responded to the case of the word "netbook" quote from Psion.

Intel has formally responded to the lawsuit the company Psion, which calls for a billion dollars for the use of the word "Netbook", registered her as a brand, says Register Hardware. Intel representatives insist that the Psion in 2003, not sold in the U.S. any device Netbook Pro. As proof of their position, they bring a message from the site of the Psion, which refers to the cessation of sales netBook Pro.
In Intel did not contest the allegation Psion that netBook Pro since the beginning of 2009 was sold for an amount of 13650 dollars. Although netBook Pro was removed from production in 2003, but sold for a long time. For example, in 2006, sales surpassed two million dollars.
Intel has confirmed that using the term "netbook", but clarified that it is not used as a trademark. In fact, Intel claims that did not attempt to register the word as such.
In December 2008, Psion has asked Internet resources do not use the word "netbook" and remove it from the site until March 2009. This word Intel relatively recently begun to call ultradeshevye notebooks.
Your Psion netBook appeared in 2000. Manufacturing equipment has been curtailed because of their low popularity.

Ericsson has denied rumors of the resignation from Sony Ericsson.

Company Ericsson has no intention to sell its stake in joint venture Sony Ericsson, Electronista reports with reference to the representative of Ericsson.
Swedish company Ericsson in a joint venture Sony Ericsson owns half the shares. The other half owned by Japan's Sony.
At the end of last week, it was reported that Ericsson plans to sell its stake in the company Sony Ericsson. The buyer was supposed to be Sony, which reportedly has been negotiating with banks for a loan to buy share of Ericsson.
Currently, Sony Ericsson is the fifth volume manufacturer of cell phones. In 2008, the company had issued 96.6 million phones.
In the first quarter of this year, representatives from Sony Ericsson expect a sharp fall in demand for telephones. For more than 22 million vehicles sold during the first three months of 2008, the company expects to realize only 14 million cell phones.
Anticipated losses Sony Ericsson in the first quarter of 2009 range from 340 to 390 million euros. A year ago, the company's quarterly profit amounted to 133 million euros.