BlackBerry Bold 9000

Key features:

• 2.6" 65K-color TFT landscape display with a resolution of 480 x 320 pixels
• Comfortable four-row full QWERTY keyboard
• Quad-band GSM support and tri-band 3G with HSDPA
• Wi-Fi and built-in GPS and BlackBerry maps preloaded
• 2 megapixel camera, LED flash
• 624 MHz CPU, 128 MB RAM
• BlackBerry OS v4.6
• Responsive trackball navigation
• Hot-swappable microSD card slot (up to 8GB)
• Excellent build quality
• DivX and XviD video support
• Good web browser
• Office document editor
• 3.5 mm audio jack
• Nice audio quality
• Smart dialing

Sony Ericsson T707

Key features:

• Quad-band GSM and 3G with HSDPA support
• 3.15 megapixel camera with Cell-ID geotagging
• 2.2" 256K-color TFT display with 240 x 320 pixels resolution
• Secondary monochrome external display (36 x 128 pixels)
• Scratch-resistant surface for both displays
• Bluetooth with A2DP
• Hot-swappable M2 card slot (up to 16 GB)
• FM radio with RDS
• Basic multi-tasking support
• Gesture control
• Light effects with 5 colors, assignable to contacts
• Smart dialing
• Threaded messaging

BlackBerry Storm 9500

Key features:

• 3.25" 65K-color capacitive touchscreen of 360 x 480 pixel resolution
• A new touchscreen experience thanks to SurePress screen
• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE and 2100 MHz 3G with HSDPA support
• 3.15 MP autofocus camera, LED flash
• BlackBerry OS 4.7
• 624 MHz CPU, 128 MB RAM
• Built-in GPS and BlackBerry maps preloaded
• 1 GB internal storage
• Hot-swappable microSD card slot, ships with an 8GB card
• Landscape virtual QWERTY keyboard goes as close to hardware keys as we have seen
• Great build quality
• Solid looks
• 3.5mm standard audio jack
• Bluetooth and USB v2.0
• Really nice web browser
• Document editor
• Excellent audio quality

Nokia E75

Key features

• 2.4" 16M-color TFT display of QVGA resolution
• Four-row side-slide QWERTY keyboard
• Quad-band GSM and tri-band 3G (with HSDPA) support
• Symbian OS with S60 3.2 UI
• 369 MHz ARM11 CPU
• 3.5mm standard audio jack
• microSD card slot, 4GB microSD card prebundled
• 3.2 megapixel auto focus camera with a dedicated shutter key, geotagging and VGA@30fps video recording
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g with UPnP technology
• Built-in GPS receiver and Nokia Maps with 3 months of free voice-assisted navigation
• USB and stereo Bluetooth (A2DP) connectivity
• Steel battery cover
• FM radio with RDS
• Remote Wipe functionality
• Carrier-independent VoIP support
• Office document editor
• User-friendly Mode Switch for toggling two homescreen setups
• Smart dialing

Samsung I7500

Coming soon. Exp. release 2009, June

Full Specification

Dimensions:
115 x 56 x 11.9 mm

Display Type:
OLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
320 x 480 pixels, 3.2 inches
Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
Handwriting recognition

Sound Alert types:
Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Speakerphone
3.5 mm audio jack

Memory:
Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records Practically unlimited
Internal 8 GB
Card slot microSD (TransFlash), up to 16 GB

Data:
GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
HSCSD
EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
3G HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth v2.0
USB microUSB v2.0

Camera:
5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels,
autofocus, LED flash

Features:
Android OS, v1.5
Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, IM
Browser HTML
Games
Colors Black
GPS
Java MIDP 2.0
MPEG4/ H.263/ H.264/ WMV player
MP3/ e-AAC+/ WMA/ RA player
Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk
Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh

Dell WASABI PZ310 Photo Printer

Wasabi^TM Ultramobile Photo Printer

Print your memories as soon as they happen. Its small design and ease of use allows you to print anywhere and everywhere.

Print without wires using Bluetooth® Holds up to 12 sheets of adhesive-backed ZINK PaperTM ZINKTM Zero-Ink Technology from ZINK Imaging means no ink is required to print

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Samsung Launches S8300 UltraTouch Smart Phone in India

It’s the world’s first AMOLED touch screen phone; it’s an ultra-slim 12.7mm full-touch slider phone; it’s the phone featuring 8 mp camera; well, it’s Samsung S8300 UltraTouch smart-phone, which was launched by Samsung India on Wednesday.

The Samsung S8300 UltraTouch smart-phone, in its brushed metal frame, features a 7.2 cm wide AMOLED scratch resistant touch-screen, 8 mega pixel camera features with dual power LED flash and smile shot mode, a 3×4 keypad slide,

With 3G capability (HSDPA 7.2 Mbps), the Samsung S8300 UltraTouch offers high speed internet access, video telephony, video streaming and DivX video player support, and multimedia services. The phone also features GPS navigation, geo-tagging through GPS chip, 30fps VGA video recording and support for HSDPA 7.2 Mbps.

Commenting on the Samsung S8300 UltraTouch at its launch, Samsung India President and CEO Jung Soo Shin said, “We are committed to strengthening our portfolio of full-touch phones by introducing a variety of handsets to suit every lifestyle. Samsung UltraTOUCH leads this portfolio as our most iconic, high-end phone and will further enhance Samsung’s leadership in the premium full-touch market.”

According to Samsung India, the Samsung S8300 UltraTouch comes equipped with their Touch Wiz interface with support for Mobile widgets. The widgets can be pulled from the menu bar and positioned anywhere on the screen for one-click access to applications like Music Player, FM, Games, Calendar, etc. The Samsung S8300 UltraTouch comes with 80 MB of in-built memory, but it offers support for Micro SD cards up to 16GB.

The Samsung S8300 UltraTouch screen phone first appeared just before the Mobile World Congress 09. The Samsung S8300 UltraTouch screen phone is priced at Rs 27,500 in India. The phone is not officially available in the United States yet, however an Amazon seller is reportedly offering the S8300 unlocked with quadband GSM (850/900/1800/1900) for $499.95.

Sunil Dutt, Samsung Telecom Division’s Country Head, stated that “With this latest offering, we now have four touch-screen phones in the Indian market.” The phones include the i900 Omnia, F480, the Pixon, and the Samsung S8300 UltraTouch. These Samsung touch-screen phones are 3G enabled and priced between Rs. 17,790 and Rs. 32,200.

Samsung India has got into deal with Bharat Sanchar Nigam and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam to fetch their recently launched 3G services to its handsets. According to Mr. Dutt, Samsung is offering a special package offer for BSNL customers on its handsets to allow them to enjoy 3G services. He said, “The special offer on Samsung phones — F480, L700 J800 and S7330 — in BSNL circles entails free SIM card, free airtime and free data downloads for pre-paid and post-paid customers.”

Microsoft Ordered to Pay $388m in Patent Case

New York: A federal jury has ordered US software giant Microsoft to pay 388 million dollars to Uniloc for infringing on an anti-piracy software patent held by the Singapore — and US-based company.

The award was made by a jury hearing the case in a district court in the US state of Rhode Island, yesterday.

The jury ordered Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft to compensate Uniloc, which has its US headquarters in Irvine, California, for infringing on a patent for a security algorithm held by Uniloc.

The complaint against Microsoft was filed by Uniloc Singapore Private Ltd and Uniloc USA Inc in October 2003.

Uniloc had accused Microsoft of infringing on its patent in its Windows operating systems, which power most of the world’s personal computers, and in Office programs.

Microsoft said it would seek to have the verdict overturned.

“We are very disappointed in the jury verdict,” said David Bowermaster, a Microsoft spokesman.

“We believe that we do not infringe, that the patent is invalid and that this award of damages is legally and factually unsupported,” he said. “We will ask the court to overturn the verdict.”

Microsoft had previously won the case but Uniloc convinced an appeals court to overturn the judge’s ruling, arguing that the case was influenced by the testimony of an expert witness who had conflicts of interest.

Internet industry welcomes NBN re-think

The Federal Government's National Broadband Network, announced today, has been widely welcomed by ISPs and ICT industry groups.

The Federal Government has announced it will build its own 100 Mbps fibre-to-the-home broadband network, spending $43 million in conjunction with private investors over the next eight years.

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WGA Notifications updated For Windows XP Professional

Microsoft this week is preparing to update Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) Notifications for Windows XP. The new version includes the usual updates to validation that improve WGA’s ability to detect invalid product keys and other attempts to circumvent product activation.

Since Windows XP Professional is the most often counterfeited version of XP, Microsoft has focused on including the latest validation information, such as recently stolen or misused product keys, for the Professional edition. Customers who installed the last update will simply have their validation information updated without needing to go through the install process again.

Dell revamps Vostro notebooks

Computing giant Dell has announced several new versions of its Vostro range of notebooks for small to medium sized businesses, with a focus on security, storage and performance.

The new models - the 13.3-inch Vostro 1320, the 15.4-inch Vostro 1520 and the 17-inch Vostro 1720 - come with Intel Core 2 Duo or Celeron processors and run on Windows Vista OS, but users also have the option to downgrade to Windows XP.

The laptops come with enhanced security features such as fingerprint readers and hard drive encryption with software from Wave systems.

The new models also feature solid state drive storage for improved efficiency, performance and durability.

Dell has also decided with the revamped range to preload only essential software onto the devices. A common customer complaint with laptops is that they come with extraneous bloatware – trial software that laptop manufacturers pre-load onto the devices, but which can use up valuable storage and slow the laptop down.

The 1320 starts at $569 in the US, weighs 4.1 pounds and has a 4-cell battery but no optical drive. The 1520 starts at $629 and weighs 5.38 pounds, while the 1720 starts at $649 and weighs 6.8 pounds, according to Dell. UK pricing has yet to be released, with the notebooks set to debut in Europe this week.

Dell first launched the Vostro range in 2007 to a lukewarm reception from analysts, but has steadily ramped up its activity in the SMB space since.

Microsoft issues PowerPoint security alert

Microsoft has warned of a vulnerability in PowerPoint that could enable a hacker to gain remote control of a PC.

A security advisory from the company offers advice on how to guard against the exploit, and said that attacks have already been seen in the wild.

"Microsoft is investigating new reports of a vulnerability in Microsoft Office PowerPoint that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted PowerPoint file. At this time, we are aware only of limited and targeted attacks that attempt to use this vulnerability."

The warning should also serve as a reminder to office workers to not blindly open attachments. The nature of the vulnerability means that an attacker would have to convince users to visit a particular web site, and then persuade them to open the specially-crafted PowerPoint file.

Microsoft reminded companies that the enabler for many such attacks is often the human element.

"The vulnerability cannot be exploited automatically through email. For an attack to be successful a user must open an attachment that is sent in an email message," the security alert said.

Microsoft hinted at the possibility of a patch, suggesting that it could be included in its regular Patch Tuesday release, or as an out of cycle release, depending on customer needs.

In the meantime Microsoft offered a few workarounds. "Do not open or save Office files that you receive from un-trusted sources, or that are received unexpectedly from trusted sources," the firm warned.