Now Motorola has come up with its yet another innovation, Motorola Zeppelin. It’s a new Motorola phone with powerful features like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS, etc. The Company is about to release this new handset in the market.
Evidently, Motorola Zeppelin is expected to début in the upcoming Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona next month. This smartphone can activate on Android 2.0 or 2.1. Also, it may embrace the touch-sensitive buttons below the display.
Motorola Zeppelin features a 5 megapixel cam, 3.2-inch HVGA display, GPS and Motoblur UI. The smartphone is properly shaped in a slender, smooth and sleek body structure. Motorola Zeppelin is undoubtedly fashionable and chic. Well, the price and the launch date of the Motorola Zeppelin are still uncertain.
Hands up if you carry more than a phone with you when you are out and about!
Apart from keys and wallet, my pockets hold a BlackBerry 8900 and an iPod Touch. Most executives I met have with them a phone and a BlackBerry (in this case used primarily for emails).
My wife has, would you believe it, three cell phones (no BlackBerry) everywhere she goes. These are all stuffed in her bag which if used properly can knock the wind out of you very easily (I think her bag weighs about 3 kg).
Every piece of portable electronic device requires regular battery charge depending on usage. At home we’ve got 2 sets of charges for my wife’s Nokia phones (all 3 of them) and I’ve got one charger for the 4 iPods I’ve collected. My daughter has a charger for her HP TX2 tablet PC, her mobile phone and her iPod nano. My son has a charger for his Nintendo DS Lite as well as his mobile phone. Between us, we’ve amass quite a collection of chargers. At times the collection of chargers can be very annoying as these tend to tangle every time.
I’ve always wished to have one appliance that would charge all of our devices regardless of make and model. The problem is that most devices don’t have the same power requirements and the makers also have different ideas when it comes to designing how to charge these devices.
A number of vendors like Targus, ESI and Griffin have come up with portable charges primarily designed for laptops and devices with USB connectors. But in most cases you can only charge 1 or 2 devices at a time. To do this, they also have to provide as many ‘tips’ as possible to match the various devices out in the market, including those for the Apple, Creative Technologies, Blackberry, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson. For mobile phones the end to these different ports may be in sight.
The European Commission has managed to get agreement from 10 companies, including Apple, LG, Motorola, Nokia and Sony Ericsson, to agree to manufacture future phones based around an inter-chargeable design. But what about your MP3s, video players, portable video game consoles, laptops, and now ereaders?
A few vendors have been working on a universal charger for as many devices as possible. One such vendor is Powermat with its Powermat Home & Office Mat and Powermat Portable Mat. Both models include a Powercube with includes 8 ‘tips’ for the most common mobile devices, including DS LIte, DS, Sony PSP, Samsung, LG and Apple. It also includes tip for a micro USB and mini USB. Optional accessories include receivers (adapter may be less confusing) for BlackBerry, iPhone and iPod (dock).
The Powermat uses induction magnetic to charge the target device. Because portable devices have different power requirements, each receiver is fitted with an RFID to tell the mat what device is on it and deliver the appropriate power requirement. Powermat claims this intelligence ensures charging is efficient, clean and safe.
How it works
For the BlackBerry device, you need to remove the backplate and replace it with the receiver. For iPhone 3G/3GS you insert the phone into a custom jacket much like you would any of the case accessories for the iPhone. There is a specific spot in the mat where you place the device you want to charge. A magnet locks the receiver in place. A blip sound and led light indicates successful lock and charging begins.
Caveats
Whether its the Home & Office or Portable versions, you can only charge three devices at any one time. The receivers are not cheap! A BlackBerry battery door costs US$29.99, Apple cases and docks cost US$39.99 each, a Nintendo DS back panel costs US$29.99.
My thoughts
Overall the Powermat does help tidy up my messy table removing all those unwanted cables out of the way (forever). While the Home & Office version is designed specifically for use at a near permanent location (desk), the portable version can be brought along to almost any location to charge the devices.
One of the marketing messages that is being conveyed here is that the powermat delivers clean, energy efficient power to the intended devices. To be honest I have no way of measuring how efficient the charger is. I can only assume that the mat consumes very little power when it is not charging anything. Of course, it might be consuming a very small amount since you still have its own charger plugged in to the outlet.
Innovation beyond the office desk
Powermat claims the technology is not restricted to digital or computer related devices. Because it uses magnetic induction technology the risk of electrocution (or getting zapped) no longer exists. At the CES 2009, Powermat showed off a number of areas like the Kitchen where Powermat technology is embedded on a kitchen tabletop. A demo of an ordinary baking mixer is plugged into to what looks like an adapter equipped with Powermat receiver. The mixer continued to work despite water being poured over the area where the receiver was sitting.
Bugless Beast [800MHz & Wifi] V0.7.1 by Pete and [Themed ROM] Smoked Glass TURBO w/ White Clock
I have tried out these two ROMS, and I have to say I am more impressed with the Smoked Glass. I tried the Bugless Beast, and was hit with multiple force closes, one after another with the 2.1 launcher. After that, I decided to wipe the phone and completely reloaded it. The same issues were present. Since it is still a low build, I will give Pete some time to work on it more before I test it again.
Now onto one that instantly became one of my favorites. Smoked Glass themed ROM, built by ADAMz. The only issue I found was the battery taking a beating when being overclocked. The only reason I am mentioning that is because it is added into the ROM, even though the phone itself is overclocked and in need of more battery power. His post will also include links to either downgrade it to 600MHz, or up to upgrading it to 900MHz-1GHz, but the links aren’t up yet. Some things that separate this from the other 2 ROMs is the 2.1 launcher is themed, as in the title, and includes a keyboard where you don’t have to “type”, and also includes the Nexus One boot animation. The clock has been reverted back to the 2.0.1 version, while it doesn’t have the weather and other features 2.1 has, you can easily access your clock and alarm by tapping the clock on Weather Widgets, Beautiful Widgets, or whatever one you use. Check the link for photos of the theme, Like the others, it also has the 2.1 music player, image gallery, Multi-Touch Milestone browser. He also has slightly modded the video recorder, which I haven’t tested. Out of this, Sholes.info, and Bugless Beast, I would have to recommend this ROM. Check out the links, check them all out, and see what the both have to offer.
During the reported quarter, Motorola shipped 12 million mobile phones, commanding a global market share of just 3.7%. However, the newly launched two Android 3G smartphones CLIQ and DROID witnessed impressive results. Launched in the fourth quarter of 2009, these two devices generated sales of 2 million units together in the quarter.
Not sure what’s impressive about getting 2 million units sold after $100 million in promotion by Verizon.
Motorola introduced its latest Google Android smartphone to the world, the Motorola Backflip. Scheduled for a global release at the beginning of Q1 2010, Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha said the device would be available in Europe, Asia, Latin America and North America, but would not disclose any carriers.
The Motorola Backflip is a quad-band GSM phone with support for the 850/1900/2100MHz 3G bands, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS. The smartphone’s design is really what sets it apart, however. At first glance, the Backflip looks like a sleeker, smaller version of the Motorola Cliq, but instead of a slider design, the phone opens up like a book. In addition, in its closed state, the full QWERTY keyboard is located on the back. For those concerned about durability, Motorola said the keyboard is strong enough to take a beating and keep on clicking, but of course, that remains to be seen.
Another unique feature of the Backflip is the trackpad, which Moto calls Backtrack, located on the back of the display (when the phone is open). It works just like a traditional trackpad, allowing you to navigate through menus, flip through photos, scroll through the home screen panes, and more. It’s certainly an interesting twist, and you can also interact with the smartphone through the 3.1-inch HVGA touchscreen, but Backtrack should help keep that display fingerprint free.
Like the Motorola Cliq, the Backflip uses Motoblur software and though it will launch with Android 1.5, the smartphone will be upgradeable to Android 2.1. Other highlights of the smartphone include a 5-megapixel camera, a 3.5mm headphone jack, 2GB internal memory (expandable up to 32GB) and a full HTML browser.
Motorola and SK Telecom yesterday announced the launch of the first Android-powered smartphone for Korea, Motoroi. The phone will be also rolled out in the United States and other countries later this year, executives of the companies said. “The product will be launched in other markets around the world,” Rick Wolochatiuk, president and representative director of Motorola Korea, said.
Features:
The full touch-screen, 3.7-inch phone
8 mega pixel camera with Xenon flash
720 pixel HD camcorder
8 gigabytes of external memory and can support up to 32 gigabytes of external memory
“This was my 2nd or 3rd purchase from this vendor. I’m not much of an online shopper but could not resist the prices. I would not hesistate to order from them again. Every order has come in correctly and in the time frame I expected.”
In today’s world mobile phones has become a basic need of a person weather he is poor or rich. An the mobile manufactures that are making mobiles phones are getting great and big profit from there products. So on every new months first date we always hear that there is release of a new mobile phone that contains these ,these and these qualities by different companies like NOKIA, SAMSUNG, SONY ERICSOM, L.G, MOTOROLA, TREND and etc. Some pictures of new mobiles phones by different companies are show.
Will the company that revolutionized Internet search send the Apple iPhone looking for answers?
At a press gathering on Tuesday, Google unveiled the Nexus One, a Google-branded smartphone that will run on the search giant’s Android operating system. Some analysts say Google’s new device, which is being built by HTC of Taiwan based on Google’s specifications, will deal a stiff blow to Apple’s hegemony in the smartphone arena.
Where could Google succeed where other competitors have failed? The Nexus One boasts speed improvements and enhanced camera capabilities, and the device will be sold unlocked. So rather than being forced to sign a contract with AT&T, a service provider that has been criticized for network mishaps and poor customer service ratings in the last year, buyers may purchase service plans separately from the device.
The Nexus One is also nice to look at, says Michael Gartenberg, the vice president of strategy and analysis for Interpret, a market researcher in Los Angeles. “Google’s Nexus One is a beautifully designed device,” he says. “It looks like Google looked at the iPhone and said we can do better.”
Wow, Mark Sigal raises a very valid point that with the release of Nexus One, Google is now directly competing with the mobile phone hardware vendors and service providers they said they would not — and should not — compete with.
I’ll go further and say that Google selling the Nexus One is like Microsoft picking out just one hardware vendor, and then partnering with that vendor to sell hardware systems directly from microsoft.com. If you were the other hardware vendors, wouldn’t that piss you off?
Aficionados et spécialistes des nouvelles technologies retiennent leur souffle à l’approche d’une conférence de presse organisée mardi par Google au cours de laquelle le géant américain d’internet pourrait dévoiler un téléphone multifonctions très attendu.
Déjà présent sur le marché florissant des téléphones intelligents grâce à son système d’exploitation Android, lancé en octobre 2008, le leader de la recherche et de la publicité sur le web veut attaquer de front l’iPhone d’Apple et les Blackberry de RIM avec son “Nexus One”.
L’appareil devrait être plus mince que l’”iPhone”, ne posséder comme lui aucun clavier mais un écran tactile, être équipé de deux micros – dont un sur le dos afin de corriger les nuisances créées par le bruit ambiant – et avoir une caméra “étrangement” grosse pour un téléphone, selon crunchbase.com.
Il devrait également permettre de dicter des courriels, croit savoir ce site spécialisé, qui publie une photo du gadget fabriqué par le taïwanais HTC.
Alors que le téléphone de la marque à la pomme est distribué aux Etats-Unis exclusivement par l’opérateur AT&T, le “Google phone” sera compatible avec n’importe quel réseau, moyennant 580 dollars, affirme le blog Gizmodo.com.
Il ne coûtera toutefois que 180 dollars en souscrivant à un abonnement de deux ans avec T-Mobile, filiale américaine de l’allemand Deutsche Telekom. La liste complète des opérateurs nationaux qui proposeront le “Nexus One” n’est pas encore connue, mais il sera peut-être possible d’en savoir plus mardi, jour où Google organise “une conférence de presse sur Android” à son siège de Mountain View, près de San Francisco (ouest).
“Le lancement il y a à peine plus d’un an du premier appareil fonctionnant avec Android a montré avec quelle puissance un système d’exploitation ouvert peut encourager l’innovation dans la téléphonie”, indique laconiquement l’invitation envoyée aux journalistes.
“Et ce n’est que le début”, conclut Google, qui n’a donné aucun détail sur la rencontre qui a lieu deux jours avant l’ouverture à Las Vegas du Consumer Electronic Show, grande messe annuelle de l’électronique.
Malgré l’absence de Google à ce salon, “tous les regards se braqueront” sur son téléphone portable, prévoit l’analyste Rob Enderle. “Il semble que Google cherche à imiter Apple”, dont le lancement en 2007 du premier téléphone, “iPhone”, a rencontré un succès phénoménal, avance-t-il.
Pour plusieurs experts, le groupe américain va essayer de transposer sur les téléphones portables la réussite qu’il a connue dans le domaine de la publicité sur internet. Pour preuve, soulignent-ils, Google a déboursé en novembre 750 millions de dollars pour racheter l’entreprise AdMob, spécialisée dans le placement publicitaire sur les cellulaires.
Mais un tel positionnement laisse certains observateurs sceptiques.
“Ca n’a vraiment aucun sens”, tranche Van Baker, analyste du cabinet Gartner. Pour le chercheur Jonathan Yarmis, un tel choix poussera le groupe à faire l’équilibriste pour, d’un côté, faire la promotion de ses propres appareils et, de l’autre, aider d’autres sociétés à mettre au point leur propre téléphone basé sur Android.
Si le taux de pénétration du marché américain par Android reste modeste, il a doublé pour atteindre 3,5% en octobre, selon le cabinet spécialisé comScore. Et il pourrait atteindre 14% dans le monde en 2012, selon l’estimation de Gartner.
Since there seems to be a few different versions of the Android OS running on the available Android phones in the US, I’ve decided to do a run down of what phone is running what OS.
G1 (T-Mobile) – 1.6
myTouch 3G (T-Mobile) – 1.6
Cliq (T-Mobile) – 1.5
Eris (Verizon) – 1.5
Droid (Verizon) – 2.0
Hero (Sprint) – 1.5
Moment (Sprint) – 1.5
Backflip (Rumored for AT&T) – 1.5
Devour (Rumored for Verizon) – 2.0 or 2.1
Nexus One – 2.1
I decided to put the Backflip and Devour on the list because they are most likely to be confirmed at CES 2010. The OS’s that they will be running are kind of up in the air, so I put the OS I’ve heard was rumored to be on the phone. These phones do exist, it’s just a matter of them being announced.
Sprint is supposed to be upgrading the Hero and Moment to 2.1 in Q1 of 2010. The G1 on T-Mobile is rumored to be getting an OTA update, shooting it up to 2.1, but I haven’t heard anything about the myTouch getting the upgrade. It wouldn’t make any sense to upgrade the G1 and not the myTouch. Verizon will give the Droid a 2.1 upgrade in Q1, and the Eris is supposed to be getting an upgrade to 2.0 or 2.1 in Q1, as well. The Backflip is rumored to be released with 1.5 and the Devour is rumored to have 2.1, both with the MotoBlur interface. This should provide some hope of an upgrade for Cliq owners, such as myself. If the Devour does get released with 2.1, then the MotoBlur interface is already adapted to it. Once T-Mobile gets it and gets done tweaking it to their liking, all should be good. But why, then, wouldn’t the Backflip be released with 2.1 instead of 1.5? I guess AT&T and Motorola know the answer to that.
Things are looking bright for Android in 2010. I hope that they get their devices all caught up to the same page, or close to it.
During the reported quarter, Motorola shipped 12 million mobile phones, commanding a global market share of just 3.7%. However, the newly launched two Android 3G smartphones CLIQ and DROID witnessed impressive results. Launched in the fourth quarter of 2009, these two devices generated sales of 2 million units together in the quarter. 
Motorola and SK Telecom yesterday announced the launch of the first Android-powered smartphone for Korea, Motoroi. The phone will be also rolled out in the United States and other countries later this year, executives of the companies said. “The product will be launched in other markets around the world,” Rick Wolochatiuk, president and representative director of Motorola Korea, said.