Synchronica: push on the mobile for everyone

Today at Mobile World Congress, the publisher Synchronica announces the release of its Mobile Gateway solution to version 5. What is it? Simply a solution of push notification - that is to say directly - on any phone.

"Today one third of operators sell phones running on a system to handle notifications push" explains a spokesman for the company. He adds: "What interests us are the remaining two thirds. Based on industry standards - IMAP, IMPS, SyncML, ActiveSync or POP3 - Synchronica technology deployed with operators allows users to directly receive a notification email accounts but also updates its community networks, its RSS feed or for instant messaging.

How to receive a notification on a push email account configured in POP3 you ask? Just a warning message sent by SMS. Among IM Clients supported include: MSN / Windows Live Messenger, GTalk, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, Facebook and the protocol Jabber / XMPP. In terms of community networks, we find Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Finally any RSS feed can also be configured.

The technology, marketed primarily to operators should deploy in particular in emerging countries of Africa and South America. A study by Frost & Sullivan, in these regions, by 2015 the mobile IM is expected to grow considerably with 500 million users.

Corsair announced a new case: the Obsidian 700D

With his success with the Obsidian 800D, Corsair continues his adventure in the field of PC enclosures with a new reference: the Obsidian 700D. Declination of the 800D that we were testing it recently (see our Obsidian 800D, the first housing Corsair), the 700D takes in the line and the overall aesthetic with a facade resembling black square. First difference with Obsidian 800D, 700D model swapped its hard drive bay that can connect to hot to fixed locations not accessible from the front.

The total number of pitches 3 1 / 2 inches remains identical with 6 slots for hard drives and five locations of 5.25 inches. Keeping the same dimensions and characteristics that Obsidian 800D, the 700D model, however, loses the glass panel of top model. We find instead a full-size metal panel. With a warranty of two years, Obsidian 700D has not yet recommended retail price. Some sources suggest a price of around € 199 including taxes for availability in the month of April.

Sony TX5 Ultracompact a fighter for spring

Sony today announced two compact digital in anticipation of spring and the PMA 2010 show dedicated to the photo to be held in California from February 21 to 23. For its first foray into this area, the manufacturer Nippon has the luxury to launch the camera tight on the world's most compact, it completes a versatile compact.

Sony Cyber-shot TX5

Behind its appearance camera "jewel" sitting on the touch screen of 3 inches, the Cyber-shot TX5 is waterproof to 3 feet, resistant to dust, shock (falls of 1.5 meters) and ice (to -10 ° C). With a waisted (17.7 mm), it is less resistant than many of its rivals. We can not have your cake and eat it ...

Its stabilized wide-angle zoom offers a range of 4 times with an equivalent 25-100 mm. It houses a CMOS sensor Exmor R $ 10.2 million pixels, known through the technology of the backlight for its good performance in high sensitivity (ie up to 3200 ISO). He promises to make shots with minimal noise, even in low light conditions.

Associated with the Bionz processor, is capable of filming at 30 frames per second high definition 720p and photographed in full definition at 10 frames per second. The burst mode has also given birth to two innovative features. The mode night show of hands "and reduce the noise of a night scene by combining six shots captured in a burst, while the mode panorama Intelligent allows to scan a landscape to automatically obtain a panoramic image.

Sony Cyber-shot H55

This compact versatile just walking on flat strips of Panasonic Lumix TZ8 he is close, both aesthetically and technically. It actually offers a powerful zoom and stabilized wide-angle equivalent to 25-250 mm for an amplitude of 10 times (against 12 for TZ8) and a CCD sensor 14.1 megapixels climbing to 3200 ISO. We found high-definition video, panorama mode by scanning and intelligent automation.

The Sony Cyber-shot TX5 and H55 will be available in April for respectively 350 and 250 euros. Finally, note that they show a hypothetical drop-format Memory Stick as they have an SD slot plus a slot for these cards owners.

SMX-C20, SMX-C24 and HMX-M20

Samsung has decided to show concern for the amateur hand made and produced a video camera with a unique lens. Lens model SMX-C20, SMX-C24 and HMX-M20 is inclined.

All these cameras are working with the lens Active Angle, the angle of inclination is equal to 25 degrees. This allows you to keep the camera more natural and not at an angle of 90 degrees. As a result, the hand and wrist to tense, and the total load on them is markedly reduced.

It is encouraging that the producer did not sacrifice functionality for cameras their unique ergonomics. All three new products are equipped with image stabilization system Samsung Hyper Image Stabilization, SMX-C20 and SMX-C24 record video with a resolution of 720x480, and HMX-M20 - 1920x1280 pixels. Photos of these gadgets also can do. SMX-C20 and SMX-C24 issue 2-megapixel photos, HMX-M20 - 12-megapixel resolution.

Multiplicity optical zoom from Samsung SMX-C20 and SMX-C24 is equal to ten, the HMX-M20 - Eight. To store the camera rolls SMX-C20 and HMX-M20 only use a memory card SD / SDHC, with SMX-C24 addition there are 16 gigabytes of internal memory.

Camera focuses on software Samsung intelli-studio, which is supplied SMX-C20, SMX-C24 and HMX-M20. It allows you to watch and edit video, simply connecting the camera to the computer. Installing additional software on the PC is not necessary. Also, it allows for a couple of clicks to download svezheeotsnyaty video broadcasts on.

Meet - the new version of Symbian

Symbian developers to easily skipped, preferring to work on a third version. Smartphones on Symbian OS 3 should appear in the second half of this year. However, with the premiere of the platform itself decided not to delay, and showed it to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

First, the developers stressed that the Symbian 3 fully open platform. Hence, in its creation, which is still ongoing, can take part many individual developers. This is expected to make the platform more friendly.

The major improvements include a new Symbian support HDMI. This will connect gadgets with Symbian 3 to your TV and watch a 1080p resolution. Also in the platform supports Internet radio and improved functional to work with social networks and other online services.

In addition, Symbian 3 has a new user interface. Home screen will support multiple pages with widgets, and download and install applications, users will be able in one click.
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The developers emphasize that navigation on Symbian 3 greatly simplified, smart phones based on it will have multitouch. In addition the new version of Symbian will be perfectly adapted to work in modern networks, 3G, and even 4G.

Google swallows tool mobile search remail

Google announced Wednesday the acquisition of remail, publisher of an iPhone application fee to facilitate the management of email on mobile phones. This provides a compression engine, designed to reduce the storage space occupied by the inbox, twice a research tool capable of examining the body of messages. According to Gabor CSEL, founder remail his tool would provide research performance far superior to that of the engine integrated with the operating system of the iPhone.

In a letter announcing the takeover of business by Google, he says he will join the team responsible for development of Gmail, in which he expected on the floor features specific to mobile. In parallel, the application remail has been de-indexation of the App Store, where it is no longer possible to buy it.

On the Web, some users of the application regret this purchase and wonder if Google has not simply sought to appropriate the technology developed by the team remail to prevent iPhone users to enjoy and and invite them to turn to its own mobile solution, Android.

Demo Tegra 2: Unreal III soon on our phones?

On the NVIDIA booth at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, it was possible to get a glimpse of the power of the chip Tegra 2. This chip replaces the first 3D Tegra was especially built in HD Zune from Microsoft (this portable media player has not been marketed in Europe). A prototype Tablet PC running a technical demonstration of the game playable Unreal III (Unreal Engine 3) calculated in real-time 3D. In taking command of the game, we were able to see that the flow was perfect.

Certainly, it was a demonstration inside and not in an open map, which calls for less computing power. On the other hand, all 3D effects run by the Unreal Engine 3 were not activated. Nevertheless, it is still impressive to obtain a 3D rendering similar to high-end PCs that were sold there ten years on an architecture designed to mere SmartBook or Smartphone. For more details on Tegra chip 2, please see our video discovery.

Discover the Windows 7 Phone video

After the official presentation of the new OS Microsoft Windows mobile 7.0 Phone, it was unfortunately not possible to lay hands on a terminal finalized. On the stand of the giant from Redmond at the Mobile World Congress, the deal was, unfortunately, identical except that here, the limits of tactile interactive demo gave a first glimpse of what users can expect from Windows 7.0 Phones.

Attention is not an emulator or SDK. These terminals were executing a presentation program giving access to the home screen and a few other features. When an item is opened (multimedia, social networking, Web browser), the terminal starts an animation type with which it is impossible to interact. Ultimately, the impression left by the interface is pretty good, but it will still wait to test a real Smartphone to issue a final ruling.

Service Overview Samsung video apps

On the eve of the opening of the exhibition in Barcelona, Samsung has really put the means to present the Wave, the first smartphone brand to be equipped system Bada. Bounds demonstration allowed to take the camera in hand, but these did not include even the Samsung Apps, an equivalent of Apple's AppStore. At Mobile World Congress, we could lay hands on a terminal that was equipped with this feature.

Another but not least: a computer running a program whose interface is not unlike a certain iTune was also present. To learn more about the possibility to download applications from a Smartphone Bada or from any Windows PC, we interviewed a member of the team presentations of Samsung. Our video will give you an overview of the download service application and media files to be opened by Samsung at the exit of the Wave.