Saturday, November 15, 2008

Samsung SPH-W6050 with WVGA-screen

The company introduced a new Samsung phone under the symbol SPH-W6050. The main advantage of this model is the presence of 3-inch touch LCD-display with a resolution WVGA (800x480 pixels). In addition, there is a 5 MP camera with autofocus and an outbreak, a slot for memory cards microSD, DMB-TV receiver. The unit supports Bluetooth-connected, 3G-technology HSUPA (High Speed Upload Packet Access), provides data transfer rate up to 5.7 Mb / s, as well as corporate interface Haptic, which supports technology simple "drag" objects drag and drop, which enables user interface to manipulate a simple touch of a finger.

The market of South Karei price of mobile phone Samsung SPH-W6050 will be about $ 650. The prospects for the emergence of Samsung SPH-W6050 outside Korea is not currently known.

Airtel and Asklaila Join Hands for Providing Local Search to subscriber

Asklaila today announced a partnership with Airtel, to power all of its city search services. The partnership enables Airtel customers to get up-to-date information about their city, free of cost, through asklaila's city information database. According to a press release, the asklaila-powered 'Airtel city search' will reach more than 30 million users across the six cities where asklaila is available, including Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Bangalore.

The release claims that Airtel is the first telecom company in the world to deploy a multi-mode, multi-platform local search service since it is available across 3 platforms – cell phones, the Internet and Airtel's DTH service.

Airtel users can get local information either by messaging, an unstructured supplementary service data channel, through Airtel Live or by accessing asklaila's site on Airtel's GPRS service.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Nokia Wahoo with half-QWERTY keypad


The network has information about the forthcoming release of Nokia mobile phone, called Wahoo. This device is not on the list of models that Nokia plans to release this and next year. The unit has a hybrid 1 / 2 QWERTY-keyboard.


Specifications Nokia Wahoo:
  • Network: GSM / GPRS / EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz), WCDMA / HSDPA (850/2100 MHz)
  • Display: 2.2-inch, 320x240 pixels, TFT, 16 million colors
  • External display: 1.36-inch, 128h160 points, TFT, 262 thousand colors
  • Camera: 2 MP, flash, camera
  • Memory: 80 MB built, slot for memory cards microSD format
  • Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
  • A-GPS
  • microUSB 2.0
  • 2.5 mm jack for headphones
  • Time running conversation: up to 4 hours in WCDMA networks
  • Size: 100x52x17 mm
  • Weight: 115 g

It is expected that the Nokia Wahoo will initially from the U.S. operator AT & T.

Monday, November 10, 2008

YouTube to post full-length MGM films

YouTube, the largest video-sharing website, will show full-length television shows and films from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's archives in its latest step to boost advertising revenue by adding professional programming, the company said on Sunday.

The site, owned by Google Inc, plans to make the announcement about the new partnership on Monday.

MGM Studios will kick off the partnership by posting episodes of its decade-old "American Gladiators" programme to YouTube on one channel.

On another channel, MGM will post full-length action films like "Bulletproof Monk" and "The Magnificent Seven" and clips from popular movies like "Legally Blonde." These will be free to watch, with ads running alongside the video.

YouTube in October forged a similar partnership with CBS Corp to run full-length archived shows, including "Star Trek," "Young and the Restless" and "Beverly Hills 90210."

Many TV networks already run short clips on YouTube, which also offers millions of home videos uploaded by users.

But until now, YouTube videos were predominantly short clips of ten minutes or less. The company has been experimenting with full-length shows for some months with Time Warner Inc's HBO and CBS's Showtime cable networks.

The new partnerships put YouTube in more direct competition with Hulu, the online video site
owned by News Corp and General Electric's NBC Universal.

Hulu features up-to-date full-length shows from News Corp's Fox networks, NBC and CBS. It also has a YouTube channel which features short-clip versions of its shows.