Smashing Phone

Last Tuesday (31 March) Samsung Electronics unveiled its new product Mondi. It is a mobile Internet device. Samsung announced the device on the eve of the CTIA annual showcase in Las Vegas. Initially, the gadget does not support phone calls but it has a built-in microphone. Therefore, it can potentially work with any Internet telephony application.

Key features of Mondi:

• Windows Mobile 6.1
• 4.3-inch touch screen
• Customized Windows Mobile interface
• Five home screen panels
• Web widget
• Favorite contact
• Microphone
• Headset jack
• Voice-over-IP programs supported like Fring
• Program list
• Picture gallery screens
• QWERTY keyboard
• Keys are very small, shiny, slippery and rectangular
• Can navigate with cursor keys
• WiMAX
• Wi-Fi
• Bluetooth
• GPS driving directions software supported
• 4 GB of memory
• External memory card slot
• 3-megapixel camera
• HDMI out port

Slick, black plastic Mondi is just barely fit into your hand. The Mondi, Samsung’s first such device for mobile service provider Clearwire and plans to sell through the provider in the second quarter of the year. However, Samsung did not reveal pricing.

All Nokia lovers and the people who don’t prefer Nokia but love tinny tunes they can be jumping with joy as cell phone manufacturer giant Nokia is going to release three new music-playing handsets very soon. The new edition of Nokia named Comes With Music (CWM) handsets hook up impeccably to the Nokia Music store. The phones come with between 12 and 18 months of unfettered access to millions of tunes. The tunes can be swapped between the handset’s onboard memory and a host computer as well. The model no of incoming handsets is 5730, 5330 and 5030.

5730 Xpress Music

The handset is the company’s first device CWM handset with a QWERTY keyboard and dedicated gaming keys. Additionally, Nokia’s latest Homescreen software provides direct access to music, games and several other applications such as Facebook, photos maps, messaging and Ovi Contacts. The Ovi Contacts lets CWM users see which of their ‘friends’ are online and chat. They can also view what music they are listening to. The authority is promising 26 hours of playback time on a single charge. The expected price of 5732 is about €280 and it will available in June.

5030 Xpress Radio and 5330

The 5030 Xpress Radio is a great collection of Nokia family. The handset is aimed at emerging markets. It has a traditional soap bar design and comes with an internal FM radio antenna. It facilitates with one-touch radio and channel selection keys. The rough price of the cell is less than €40. It is going to hit the shelves in the second quarter of 2009. On the other hand, the 5330 is a top slider with appealing much the same capabilities as the 5730 Xpress Music. However, it sells price could be around €160. It is expected to available in market at the same time like 5730.

Usually, every Nokia’s new edition makes a noise all over the world. People from different part want to stay with Nokia’s new one. That’s why, the company plans to expand its CWM service. The service is now only available in Britain and Singapore. Nokia wants to introduce it into Italy, Australia, Sweden and Mexico in the next few months and later several other countries.

The phone giant company Nokia has its sights set on a new market, notebook PCs. Nokia is looking extreme actively into making laptops, and the phone manufacturer’s boss has already exposed it. Nokia’s chief executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo revealed that they are considering the opportunity. He told to a Finnish broadcaster that,

“We are looking very actively also at this opportunity. We don’t have to look even for five years from now to see that what we know as a mobile phone and what we know as a PC are in many ways converging.” He also said,

Today we have hundreds of millions of people who are having their first Internet experience on the phone. This is a good indication.

Nokia’s huge level of manufacturing and selling market must help them enormously in their foray into the PC business. And its also know-how with mobile devices, as shown by their greatly successful products, will no doubt also be a positive and strong issue in obtaining customers when they will introduce their product.

It is easily predictable that, with the rising convergence of laptops and mobile phones, Nokia’s timing seems accurate. There’s no word on when it will actually put a laptop out on the market, but whatever it is Nokia is going to have to make certain that its initial model makes its mark. If they continue their latest product with their embrace of open source software trend in the laptop market, we must able to see some smart and easy usable products.

Mobile internet telephony (VoIP) operator Truphone said yesterday that it has integrated AOL Instant Messenger into its iPhone application. Apart from able to place VoIP calls, consumers now can log in to AOL and instant message other AIM users through the latest Truphone app. Already the software includes support for Google Talk, Skype, Yahoo Messenger and Windows Live Messenger.

Here Netbiscuits announced at the same time that it has partnered with AdMob, the world’s largest mobile-advertising service, to provide its consumers with the advertising firm’s ad placement tools. Netbiscuits says its software will offer users the option to integrate ads in mobile video and some other media. However, the terms and conditions of the deal were not revealed. Netbiscuits is a company that provides a Web software platform for mobile development and advertising. On the other hand, Google said last Friday that now mobile-phone users can modify Google Spreadsheets. The company says users can view, edit, sort, as well as filter spreadsheets on a range of mobile devices, including the iPhone and T-Mobile G1. Many think this step give the users a touch of modern technology.

1. Press this number *#06#
2. Your mobile will show your IMEI no

• If the 7th or 8th digit is 08 or 80 then your set is manufactured in Germany.
• If the 7th or 8th digit is 01 or 10 then your set is manufactured in Finland.
• If the 7th or 8th digit is 13 then your set is manufactured in Ajarbaijan.
• If the 7th or 8th digit is 00 then your set is manufactured in any other country.