Dell officially announced its Adamo XPS, the latest addition to the company’s Adamo line, which is the world’s thinnest notebook PC, measuring 9.99mm or just four-tenths of an inch. With the swipe of a finger, the keyboard appears from under the display as the system is open. When opened, the body of the Adamo XPS is raised so the keyboard is angled to enhance cooling.
The attention to detail is apparent in the black, jewelry box-like packaging that is as striking as the laptop itself. A tug on a cloth loop reveals the Adamo XPS and assorted accessories that accompany the system.
Adamo, derived from the Latin word meaning "to fall in love," is a flagship in a line of products created to disrupt the personal computing space with the combination of new design aesthetics, personalization choices and sought-after technologies.
The Adamo by Dell brand was launched last March with the first Adamo laptop, which combined high-performance technologies in an aluminum case only .65-inch thick.
Other features of the new Adamo laptop include a built-in location awareness to provide real time local maps to show people where they are; replaceable battery; full size keyboard with aluminum keycaps, touchpad with gestures; 802.11n wireless; display port, 2xUSB 2.0, audio, Ethernet (via included dongle).
The pencil-thin Adamo XPS weighs just over 3 pounds and measures 13.39 x 10.71 inches. Dell expects to begin taking orders and shipping the Adamo XPS with Microsoft Windows 7 pre-installed in time for the holidays. The Adamo XPS is priced starting at $1799.
Nokia 6760 phone was created for the American market, the operator AT & T, but later appeared similar to the European market 6760 slide, which differs only in name. For the U.S., this form factor is common, there are several devices from other manufacturers with a sliding QWERTY-keyboard and small screen, but on the European market Nokia 6760 so far is unique.
But the lack of direct alternatives does not mean that the apparatus will be successful - on the contrary, 6760 - a very unusual model, not mass. Average cost, although, given the unusual form factor, it could be less. It is important to understand that in Europe and, in particular, in Russia, Nokia 6760 slide has been seen as a residual, the basic calculation is made to the American market to subsidize the device by the operator.
Nevertheless, the 6760 slide is interesting from the position that this phone has a full QWERTY and comfortable with large buttons with a very small size of the apparatus. A good option for communication, online instant messengers, typing on this device is very convenient. Plus, in the presence of a built-in GPS, platform S60, all the advantages of modern smartphone.
Display: 2.4-inch with a resolution of 320x240 pixels, 16M colors
Memory: 128 MB, slot for microSD memory cards
Camera: 3.2 megapixel without autofocus
Communication: Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR (A2DP)
Navigation: A-GPS
FM-radio with RDS
2,5 mm jack
Battery: 1500 mA * h. Hours: Talk time up to 5 hours (WCDMA); in standby mode up to 500 hours
Dimensions: 97,5 x58x15, 5 mm
Weight: 124 g
Design
Nothing like a line of Nokia is not the smartphone is made in the form factor side of the slider, but he does not have a touch screen, no number buttons folded. Because of this get very reduced size, 6760 is very compact, it seems tiny, easily fits in your pocket.
On the left side is a wave (which is why the apparatus and was named Surge in U.S.), this is only design element. This area may be different colors - white, red, black, as in our sample. Below this are three buttons, one menu and two Assignable, plus a standard navigation unit under the screen. Dial in this state does not, it is always necessary to reveal QWERTY, this is the biggest limitation inconvenience. However, we are not so frequently dialed numbers, often call the subscriber from the phone book, and this can be done in the closed position.
Plastic mat, the apparatus very practical in this regard, although it looks inexpensive. The back surface of the soft-touch, her invisible fingerprints. Almost everything takes place under the cover battery is 1500 mAh battery, similar to Nokia N97. Perhaps it is the coolest thing about 6760 slide, battery life indicator on the apparatus is impressive, similar to the Nokia E71.
The left is a micro-USB connector under the cap, right - buttons adjust the volume and location. A speaker in one unit, it is located in the upper end immediately - headset jack. This is 2,5 mm, so that the adapter will use. Annoying drawback, and in fact could become a good multimedia phone youth.
Keyboard
The main element of the Nokia 6760 slide, QWERTY keyboard, very convenient to work with two hands, the keys are large, with uniform illumination. As well, because this is the proper weight distribution apparatus. In the open form of smart phone falls into the hands like a glove, no elements do not interfere with recruitment. The shape of the buttons correspond to the phone Nokia E75 - large, with good speed, but flat, with no clear demarcations. They are not as easily seen as Nokia's E63, but due to large size is more convenient to use them. Legend perfectly vary in size so that errors in the set minimum.
Objective disadvantage - it is localized, to accommodate all the letters of the Russian alphabet buttons is not enough, here the situation is the same as in Nokia N97. The layout is approximately the same: the letters M, E, X, L are in upper case, for their recruitment to engage key switch. Not very pleased that point and the comma are also in upper case, plus the alternative characters are not allowed to enter holding the keys. There is a function сopy & paste, but the two buttons «Shift» and too long a gap rather drawbacks, it would be more than the letter keys.
As a result, the keyboard you want to say that sensations are almost the same as on E75 with the difference that the Russian letters much less have to use the button switch between frequently. Two hands to type comfortably, one - almost unreal, 6760 slide was created precisely for the first option. And most importantly - try ponabirat on the phone keypad to understand, appreciate the convenience. In my opinion, the keyboard to be not very successful, at N97, while the E75 and E71 - much better.
Screen
Display Nokia 6760 slide 2,4-inch, size and quality is entirely consistent with many other smartphone, for example, N79. The brightness of the image at the secondary level, the screen is slightly outperformed E52, for example. The behavior of the display to the sun is ideal, the information is visible to all. There is a traditional light sensor that controls the backlight level depending on environmental conditions.
In the apparatus has been enabled, accelerometer (motion sensor), which automatically changes the orientation of the interface depending on the phone. It can be on and off, if you interfere with constant upheavals, in this case the horizontal orientation will be included in the disclosure of QWERTY. Present options reject the call or call the alarm by turning the phone screen down, we have seen in the Nokia E52, for example.
Battery
Standard Battery BP-4L has a capacity of 1500 mAh, which is very bad for a small phone. Battery - exactly the same as in the Nokia E71, it occupies the entire rear surface. This is the most capacious battery in the world for a phone this size. According to the manufacturer of talk time machine is capable to hold for 5 hours (GSM), in standby mode - up to 20 days. As battery life is one of the most enduring smartphones to date. In plus, in this case is and the lack of Wi-Fi, and unmusical positioning - all this saves battery power.
Communications
The model has an average range of communications capabilities for its class of connectors are present micro-USB connection cable, 2.5 mm headset jack and a thin slot for the charger. Standard USB - 2.0, there is also support for the regime Mass Storage, you can choose what quality to use the device - a disk drive, PC Suite, Media Transfer or Connect PC to Web. It is visible as a memory card and built-in flash memory. Connecting as a disk drive unit does not switch to offline profile, the phone functionality is available.
Nokia 6760 slide is designed to work in networks EGSM 850/900/1800/1900, and WCDMA 850/2100, there are no surprises. There is support for HSDPA (up to 3,6 MB / s).
Version Bluetooth, according to the specifications - 2.0 + EDR, supports all the basic profiles:
A2DP
Audio / Video Remote Control
Basic Imaging
Dial-up Networking
File Transfer
Generic Access
Generic Object Exchange
Handsfree
Headset
HID
Object Push
SIM Access
Serial Port
Support for the A2DP profile allows you to use with the apparatus of a wireless stereo headset, is no problem, everything is quite ordinary. There is a time setting of visibility by other Bluetooth devices - this range may vary in the range from 1 minute to an hour.
The big limitation serves no Wi-Fi, for a smartphone is a critical shortage, especially in this price segment from Nokia models are available with Wi-Fi. However, with no need for Wi-Fi you have from which to choose in any case, to take at least E63.
Available RAM after booting the system is about 70 MB for a total memory of 128 MB. Memory that is allocated for running applications (Heap size) and the size of the Java-based applications (Jar size) are unlimited. Built in memory is 128 MB, with them for storing user data allocated about 50 MB. The bundled memory card is 1 GB.
Nokia Maps update to version 3.0 can be considered a cosmetic upgrade, but in fact the differences in the interface of many, the most important thing is to consider the emergence of a new type of display cards - Terrain, when the supported locations showing the landscape, three-dimensional objects, information richness is maximal. Volumetric building is in the maps of Moscow, but in comparison with the new version of Google Maps interface is not so handsome.
Multimedia features apparatus fully comply with Nokia 6720 classic, this refers to the quality of sound, the time spent in Playback mode, the player interface. In contrast to 6720 present 2,5 mm jack, so it will have to either use an adapter or a complete headset. The player interface is identical with all smartphones based on FP2. From the settings, there are five preset 8-band equalizer with the ability to create unlimited number of custom settings. There is also a possibility of adjusting the balance, enhanced stereo, bass boost, reverberation. Available with different options: division by artist, album, genre and so on, repeating tracks and play at random.
All other possibilities apparatus does not make sense to describe again, they are identical to the majority of smartphone functionality with Nokia S60 Feature Pack 2. There are several types of standby mode, a vertical row of icons, application Search, clients of social networks Facebook and MySpace, as well as Ovi Contacts. Normal set that will satisfy most users.
Camera
Nokia 6760 slide has a 3.2 megapixel camera, but no autofocus, it is done to reduce the price of the device. Budget module, which is good for daytime panoramic photography, no more, although in 6790 American analogue Surge megapixel camera. To start the camera and shooting is a separate key on the right side.
The interface is a horizontal orientation, then the motion sensor does not work, photography is always in the same state. On the screen in the viewfinder displays the selected items (resolution: the number of photos, for which sufficient amount of free memory space saving) and the band access to basic settings. Strip settings can be hidden if its availability to you something interferes.
Options:
Switching to video mode
timer (2, 10, 20 seconds)
Mode series (taken every 10, 30 seconds, 1, 5, 10, 30 minutes)
setting exposure compensation (from -2.0 to 2.0)
White Balance (auto, sunny, incandescent, fluorescent lamp)
effects (sepia, negative, black and white)
Average quality of the pictures, although for such an inexpensive smartphone camera familiar. Recording video takes place in QVGA resolution (320x240 pixels) resolution at 15 frames per second.
Nokia 6760 slide has turned out very unusual, non-standard for the European market. A strange form-factor design, it stands out from the traditional phones. The device is very small, but with a normal-sized screen and full QWERTY-keyboard. The combination of these characteristics has led to some inconvenience when dialing a number, for example (every time they raise the keyboard), but they are not so important. Most often we choose the local number from the phone book, so that as a drawback, I would not began to consider.
Nero announced this week the availability for download of Nero 9 Lite. A lighter version of the Nero suite Reloaded 9 to which the publisher expects to bring many users. At destination operating systems Windows, Nero 9 Lite offers only the features copy discs and burn data to disk for CD and DVD.
Nero 9 Lite is obviously compatible with Windows 7, and the German publisher goes to show that his free burning solution can "fill a void within the functions" of the new Microsoft OS.
We will publish shortly in our columns a test of several burning solutions for Windows, free, light and effective. Among these programs, BurnAware Free Edition, CDBurnerXP, Free Easy CD DVD Burner or InfraRecorder.
In September last, Nero announced the release of a burning solution for Linux, Nero Linux 4 with support for burning Blu-ray and included the application Nero Linux Express 4. A commercial solution charged € 19.99.
Since the merger Activision / Vivendi Games, the studio famous Blizzard joined Constellation Activision and shines with every new press conference of the publisher. The last was more readily oriented investors since it was subject to recall the company's financial results. However, Mike Morhaime has seen fit to intervene.
The president and cofounder of Blizzard actually took the opportunity to review progress on its projects by different teams ... Well almost! Mike Morhaime is first returned to the case which concerns us most at the moment, that of StarCraft II - Wings of Liberty: the strategy game seems indeed slated for release in the first half of 2010. He then spoke very rapidly Beta which works on Blizzard, but that does not yet seem to immediately.
More unfortunate, however, little information about Diablo III. Mike Morhaime has just returned to the case of hack & slash. From what has been said, it would appear, as we had already assumed that the game's action / RPG is not on the 2010 Blizzard instead therefore StarCraft II - Wings of Liberty and World of WarCraft : Cataclysm.
VSO Software today released its latest version of the video converter and burning software, ConvertXtoDVD 4.
The new version offers better image quality of internet and camcorder videos, by adding a 2-pass encoding. This method includes the latest technology and is particularly efficient with large files that need to be compressed to fit on the DVD.
New resizing filters developed in house by VSO have also been implemented to give the choice of the best upscaling/downscaling method depending on the video, once again in favour of quality However, conversion speed has not been forgotten, with the new Multicore support.
The new software also remains easy-to-use. For instance, the conversion advisor has been improved to enable the user to chose the best encoding method depending on video duration.
With ConvertXtoDVD 4, users can create in a few clicks a video that they can play on any DVD player, with customized menu, subtitles and chapters.
