Fly Mobile's B430 DS marries Bold's keyboard, two SIMs, mystery meat OS

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BlackBerry users tend to be die-hard, rabid defenders of the platform, which leads us to believe that many would throw up in their mouths just a little bit when seeing their beloved Bolds get bastardized in the name of bringing an honest-to-goodness KIRF to market. Meet Indian firm Fly Mobile's B430 DS, a phone that borrows freely from elements of both the Curve 8900 and Bold 9000, but not in two fairly important places: the trackball and -- of course -- the operating system. It seems the B430 is a dumbphone that offers up integrated Nimbuzz IM, Snaptu social networking, and Opera Mini right in ROM -- all apps that stand to benefit from the Bold's classic QWERTY keyboard design. It also has support for two SIMs, a 1.3 megapixel cam (not quite up to task with the genuine article's 2 megapixel unit), and a price that's sure to be thousands of rupees below that of any real BlackBerry -- thing is, getting it on sale outside of India without meeting legal resistance might be a bit of a challenge. It's on sale in the local market now.

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Motorola MILESTONE VS Nokia N97

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The Motorola MILESTONE and Nokia N97 are two mini computers to be carried in users’ pockets. Both of these high end smartphones have stretched human imaginations and have been able to put together several outstanding attributes in superbly attractive attires.

Both of these amazing tools carry full QWERTY keypad in their slide out slab. The 3.7 inches TFT capacitive touch screen which supports 16 million colors at 480 x 854 pixels of Motorola Milestone is giving a good competition to Nokia N97’s 3.5 inches TFT widescreen touch screen that comes with 16 million colors as well at 360 x 640 pixels resolution. Proximity sensor for auto turn-off and accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate are mutually available features in them, while the first one has got multi-touch input method and the second one can recognize handwriting. The MILESTONE is of 115.8 x 60 x 13.7 mm in dimensions weighing 165 grams whereas the Nokia N97 is of 117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9 mm with 150 grams of weight.

The 5 mega pixel camera of Motorola MILESTONE with functionalities like Dual LED Flash, Auto Focus, Image Stabilizer, Photo Geo Tagging is giving a neck-to-neck competition to Nokia N97’s 5 mega pixel camera loaded with Carl Zeiss Tessar Lens, Dual LED Flash, Auto Focus, Video Streaming facilities. The latter one has got an upper hand here as it carries a secondary video call camera which is absent in the former one. Media playback is an expected feature where the fist gadget gives support to MPEG4, WMV, H263 & H264 video files and MP3, eAAC+, WAV & WMA music files and the second one can play PEG4, H264 & QCIF video files and MP3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+ & WMA music files on their video players and music players.

Accessing the Internet through these competitors will be a never before experience as the Motorola’s handset has got Google Search feature with its HTML browser and the Nokia’s tool has been able to bag WAP 2.0, X-HTML, HTML browsers along with RSS feeds feature. 3G HSDPA, Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP, Micro USB, EDGE, WLAN Wi-Fi with UPnP Support are the commonly available data sharing and connectivity technologies.

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Google copied Apple: eliminates application to use the mobile as a 3G modem

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Tethering on the functionality of being able to use mobile as a 3G modem, it is something that mobile operators do not like much and they do know. This is why Google has been notified that an application developer for Tethering is a violation of conditions of service of the Android Market, and the T-Mobile, and therefore it has been banned and barred its implementation of the shop.

It is a copy of Apple's restrictive actions that have been so frowned upon in the last year.

If we expected that Android, powered by Google and the Open Handset Alliance, is open ... we really finished the charm! There will be more news soon, sure the answer will come from Android, Google or T-Mobile or the Pulver Order will act once and for all on this issue or the Skype does not work on 3G.

When a phone is smart?

. The other day a friend asked me to explain in a nutshell it is a smartphone, and while it seems that we all know, my friend left me thinking for a while, after which I suggested that a smartphone is a phone that does things you do not like to do.

Now is the blog of a Nokia that while post relates to a method ( "Having things done") and a consultant named David Allen who I think can be applied to any operating system and any phone you want to call intelligent.

According to Allen should serve for a Smartphone:

a) Capture anything you or your work requiring attention (photos, notes, phone
numbers, etc.).
b) Define what to do with those things stored on the phone,
ie organizations, for not resuming them or to resolve them with the phone. For
example, read your mail, open a document or terminate purchase orders
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store as a reminder that not everything we do at the moment, oo we need to do in
another setting, including reminders, appointments, etc..

It is interesting that these simple principles based on the methodology of Allen is basically what we can do with a Blackberry, a Windows Mobile or S60. And although the author of the post mentioned a list of applications that help to achieve this form of work, I think that any smartphone user can create his own style of use, according to your preferences.

Finally, I find something that is not mentioned by implication, but never mention it goes for all those who have vague soul is a smartphone that should help you do the same thing twice, and it should help to make fair wherever you are.

Do you, as you use your smartphone?

5 reasons to send an SMS

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I am sure many will say that with this SMS that contact was lost was in a conversation (that's not counting the face to face) and other arguments against the text messages.

But we must admit that sometimes, the SMS can be used if we want to send a different message to our destination or if the information they need to be dispatched on file in the inbox, to name a few.

1.You are busy: Either because you're in a place where it is inappropriate to talk on the phone or because you can not waste too much time talking.
2.Your contact is busy: once we have to think of others not? If you know a friend or have a reunion is in the gym-good examples that come to mind eh:-P can not be so annoying to call for peanuts when one reaches an SMS.
3.Trying to avoid a long and awkward conversation: This is one reason a little funky but often is not really the time to speak with a person, and that the example be sure happens to you.
4.Send information: either an address, telephone number or other information, is always more useful than being stored on the mobile.
5.Romance: well I better not elaborated here because I'm not, but when it comes to winning a girl or boy (why not!), Sending little messages throughout the day can be very romantic or disturbing as the case;)

Are they too complicated new phones?

. There is an excellent note on the BBC site that plays a survey MFormation that, 85% of customers who buy a new phone they find difficult to do the set-up and 95% would use more services if they simpler.

And, I always return to the same example, but seeing the success of the iPhone is the team with the most functions of the market? NO. With better camera? Or nearby. But then why is one of the two most commonly used to upload photos to flickr? Why everyone is looking up new interfaces, such as Palm TouchWiz or WebOS?

Simplicity of the concept that lets you operate most functions with the least amount of effort is what ends up becoming a success in a market where, until the operators, complain that there are many operating systems by fragmenting the market.

Best Smartphone, Manufacturer and Operating Systems 2008

. Unlike other rankings by sales, with a striking technique, collecting the reviews of the best smartphones of 2008, specialized sites, the site Wireless and Mobile News has made a unified decision regarding the best smartphone, best producer and best OP 2008. The compilation of all of them resulted in the following positions:

Best Smartphone of 2008:

T-Mobile G1, BlackBerry Storm and iPhone 3G (each with 7 votes)
BlackBerry Bold and Nokia E71 (with 6 votes each)
HTC Touch Pro (4 votes)
Sony Ericsson Xperia and LG Incite (with 3 votes each)

Kogan Agora second phone with Android

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Finally the project was canceled Kogan Agora, which was to be the world's second phone to run Android, the HTC G1 that also had the support of Google, HTC and the manufacture of the T-Mobile network, although the system is operating open-source and although no exact figures because the cancellation was made after signing an NDA are some questions I have left hanging around.

The main doubt is whether, despite being an operating system open to all and that would make your phone are not we at a point where you can not compete with the big ones? I mean, is it possible to design, manufacture and market a successful phone in a world hiperconcentrated?

And if the decision was made after a reunion with Google and when the team was about to be delivered to retailers and operators The NDA will not hide any compensation?

Nokia wants 300 million users by 2012 OVI

. Knowing that Nokia is to make a clear transition from being just a manufacturer of mobile phones to become a provider of mobile Internet, OVI is the gateway to all Internet-based services and Nokia is the strong bet of the company.

The number is really large, and to have an adequate scale Renegade Fan Boy, a lover of Nokia makes some interesting comparisons, for example, says that 300 million users is:


The same amount of people that had the United States in 2006.
Between 3 and 6 times higher number of users who have Google Gmail today.
Double the number of users that Facebook has today.
The same amount of users who have Yahoo and Microsoft Live after years of work.

Knowing that there are already more than 110 million computers that can be configured with Mail on OVI, we are not surprised that this number is possible by that date, even before, because remember that Nokia continues to draw Betalabs applications and services, including Nokia Music Store, Nokia Maps, Mail, Image Exchange and Nokia N-Gage, among others.

The truth about the cost of SMS

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What is the truth about the cost of SMS and the prices fixed operators, it is an expensive business? is an expensive service for users?

In USA there is a controversy (requires user to read the note) on the very strong increase in the price of SMS from 2005 to 2008 has increased twice.

This controversy has led to a Democratic senator, Herb Kohl will lead an investigation into the actual cost of the operator to send a message and the price in relation to the cost that would justify such an increase.

The truth is that the operators never discover the truth about its costs.

In recent years, all the cellular operators have made significant investments in infrastructure, to enable a business based on volume of SMS.

Particularly in our country, Argentina, since 2004, the business has evolved in shape every year, so the operators have invested in facilities and equipment for short message signaling to handle normal traffic and also to withstand the peak traffic.

The infrastructure is expensive and as demand increases it is necessary to make investments, but in return the recovery of investment demand is growing fast and steadily.

The cost of maintenance increases with the volume so that once the investment, revenues are high.

The cost of transmitting on the network is not high, short messages have a maximum of 160 characters, 140 for users and the channels are transmitted in the signaling network, reserved for those who can establish the cellular calls.

The most expensive is the administration of the spectrum to maximize your profitability and quality of voice and data, as the operator pays a heavy price.

If the investments to maintain the quality of service demand to justify the hike in prices can never be tested.

In the U.S. the issue of costs and prices is at least the interest of legislators in this and other Latin American countries, no.

In our country, operators are in competition and the prices are not regulated, so the prices are ... those who accept the market, but nowadays, people do not know very well spent and how much it cost SMS traffic.

Difficult to know clearly what is the price of SMS, no operator says it clearly.

For the case, Telefonica Movistar plans for Community Savings, 4 prices for a short message. Incredible!.

The plans are savings plans called for the bill sets of plans are contract, but the pattern of phone use is like a prepaid phone, just when your monthly balance, it is possible to load more credit and continue to consume. All operators have such plans.

To see if you understand, plan for a Community Savings "talk", there is a fee for the SMS-consuming credit allocated monthly and other fees apply when a consumer credit product recharge.

In each case there is a price for completed messages within the network (community) and another for finished outside the network (to other networks, Claro, Personal, or Nextel).

For example, with a joint plan "Hablas Mas" if sending an SMS when yet another credit to recharge mobile Movistar, SMS cost me $ 0.12, if I recharge credit costs $ 0.13, if other than Movistar mobile me $ 0.23, but credit me and recharge costs $ 0.25!.

That logic has a plan?. The cost of an SMS in the network is completed at $ 0.12 / $ 0.13 and while one ended in another network $ 023 / $ 0.25. Send an SMS to a number Claro, Personal, or Nextel, costs twice!

SMS is more expensive finish on another network? If so, because of course without differentiating destinations charged $ 0.15?

Operators also offer pricing plans or packages and messages with a lower cost per message.

Obviously here the margin for the operator should be lower, but the offerings of the operators seem to have no logical relationship between cost and price.

For example, Telecom Personal offers SMS Pack "Whatever you want" for 3 days for $ 5 or $ 9 for 5 days. SMS with 3000 or 5000 for use in times respectively specified in SMS prices of $ 0.0016 and $ 0.0018.

Telefonica Movistar offers SMS to consume a pack in 2 days is $ 9 with 250 SMS at a cost of $ 0036

This way the price of the message is lower but the payment in advance is more important, but ... I mean fixing prices?.

Capitulo deserve the price of premium SMS, no? Or they think that people understand that it will pay an SMS to participate in a concurso/Trivia/888 By Cycle, $ 2 / $ 3 per SMS?

The reality now is that people consume SMS traffic and accept the prices set by carriers and now our legislators are not interested in knowing if the prices are fair.

Should? Or should consumers be more informed?

The iPhone flatulence generate super profits

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Reseñabamos few days ago the number of applications disposed gases emit sounds of flatulence and that added to the iTunes store after Apple decided to drop the restrictions on the entry. Now there is a first major success story, told directly by the creator of one of these applications, iFart Mobile.

It turns out, after having been rejected, entered the store on June 12 along with 14 other similar applications on the same day. Sold at $ 0.99, about 75 applications and was considered a good day of sales in competition with other applications.

A few days later began to sell more and climbing positions in the rankings, sometimes something normal for any application, the position of 70 games between now be 16, bottom of the second page of search andalusia half of the first.

This is where the great play he made his fortune as the manner of presenting the results we have with iTunes What's Hot made his remaining in the first game and ranking in general, plus the chance to come out as some reviews ours (when they were under the 4th screenshot of that day), I came to wonder: in 10 days were able to sell around 42,000 copies of the application made with 70% of what they touched, about $ 30,000 of earnings. That stopped the statistics show, a little modesty, a little not to tempt fate and continue to win the money.

The last day of public statistical iFart Mobile, December 22 and the top overall ranking, having sold 13,274 units, reports, then 30% for Apple, about $ 9198 per day. confirming that the iPhone and the iTunes store are a money making machine!


Here are several things you learn early is that you can earn virtual fortune with flatulence, the second is that the developers were right when they complained about the absurd restrictions of Apple in approving applications. Another thing that would be interesting to try with this application and moemto this is how one could confirm the theory of price elasticity demand, which could raise the price, earning more money and see how the market responds downloads, all measurements with very cortitas up to 6-12 hours.

Surely, after this story of success and money, many developers are planning to put that application in the store, including flatulence and gases!

And you what are you going?

With success come to Europe the "import taxes extra" for smartphones

. The market for smartphones is growing with the success of devices like the HTC Touch Diamond, Nokia N96, and of course the Apple iPhone, without discarding what is coming with the Nokia N97, the BlackBerry Storm and HTC G1. That's why some are thinking that way to get economic returns to all this and the European Union is considering raising taxes on imports of such equipment.


Thus, if the project progresses, smartphones will have a rate of import into the European community of up to 14% compared to 0% currently have, so it will be more expensive for consumers. In this sense some of EICTA company (such as Motorola, Apple, SonyEricsson and Nokia, among others) are against and are already working towards this project does not progress.

Another important issue is the definition of smartphone, which will be much discussion as not all serve the same functions and can not be equated with each other. The news is vague for now, but it is mentioned that would include all the mobile phones that have GPS, Mobile TV, Multimedia, etc..

Study on Mobile Internet 2.0

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"The convergence of technical and consumer today allow hybridization between mobile devices and Web 2.0, creating a symbolic space and new business called Mobile Web 2.0, that is the starting point of the study Mobile Web 2.0. Theoretical-technical framework and developing trends that made Hugo Pardo Kuklinski, Joel Brandt and Juan Pablo Puerta for Stanford University.

Made a very interesting table that summarizes the work under CC license that can be downloaded (pdf) in English or Spanish.

"Mobile devices can capture content from the point of inspiration and the Web 2.0 adds the principle of collective intelligence through a taxonomy created by users, promoting a new Mobile Data Industry in tune with the ethics of architecture of the participation and beyond text messaging, ringtones and other resources offered by the operators, "reflect on the phenomenon that keeps growing.