September 26 2009
Categorized Under: Cell Phones
Tags; 3g, a2dp, AMOLED, gps, messaging phone, qwerty, rev a, review, rogue, samsung, sch-u960, touchwiz, vz navigator
…but maybe not much else. This is the phone that got this month’s cnet Editor’s Choice Award because it has features that are better than the other phones in its standard. The main thing here is the fact it has an AMOLED screen that makes for absolute eye-candy display quality. It has a slide-out QWERTY keypad – a form factor that is becoming increasingly famous amongst the messaging phones.
Touchscreens from Samsung have never been anything special, but it seems like the Rogue might win you over with its above average feature set. Get to the other side for the whole thing.
September 23 2009
Categorized Under: Cell Phones
Tags; 3g, 7705, gps, messaging, nokia, ovi store, qwerty, square, swivel, twist, verizon
There are those times when you simply have to stop and take a second look to make sure you saw what you think you saw. If you are walking down the street and watch someone working on a 2.51” by 2.51” square device, you won’t think much of it. Must be another PMP. But what do you do when you hear that square thing ring and see the user turn the top to reveal a full QWERTY keypad and receive a phone call? You drop all your pretence and stare! Leave it up to Nokia to make a device that catches the eye. Let’s just hope it is not for all the wrong reasons.
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August 26 2009
Categorized Under: Laptops, netbooks
Tags; 3g mini laptop, 3g netbook, booklet 3g, gps, gps netbook, intel, nokia, nokia 3g laptop, nokia intel booklet 3g, nokia intel laptop, nokia laptop, nokia netbook
When Nokia and Intel tied up a few months back, there was little doubt in a lot of minds that the offspring of this alliance would be something that is not a typical Nokia mobile phone. Of course, Intel does not, cannot and will not have anything to do with mobile phones in for the time being. That is mainly because they do not have something that can really cut it for the mobile handset market. Even though Atom is a low power-consuming chip, the point has been made again and again that they are nowhere near chips like the ones from ARM. ARM chips are the ones that are used on the iPhone.
Finally, about one day ago, Nokia made the announcement of the first love child between Nokia and Intel – the Booklet 3G. If you look at the Booklet 3G you will probably think that it is just another netbook, when in reality it is so much more. It is something that really has the potential to turn the mobile industry on its head. It might also quietly leave through the backdoor and never come back again. Whatever happens, the Booklet 3G stands publicly announced and it is now just a waiting game for most people. In the mean time, quench your thirst for tech news by hitting Read more.
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August 15 2009
Categorized Under: Cell Phones, Uncategorized, Wireless
Tags; alarm clock, apple, apple iphone, apple iphone 3gs, blueant, bluegenie, bluetooth headset, car accessories, gamin nuvi gps, garmin, garmin gps, gps, iphone, iphone 3gs, iphone accessories, italk clock, japan, mobile phone accessories, model radio helicopter, neutrano, nuvi, nuvi 880, taiyo, toy helicopter, v1 voice control, voice command, voice control, voice controlled clock, voice controlled gps, voice controlled helicopter, voice controlled toy, voice user interface, voice-heli
Voice control is not what it used to be at one point. Back in the days when it was first introduced as part of mobile phones and other gadgets, it was still in its nascent stages. At that point, it was nothing more than a gimmick. This I can say from first-hand experience with older Nokia phones. The accuracy was nowhere near usable and well, it was not something you would want to rely upon.
But in the last one or two years, we have a seen surge of devices that are either partially or fully controlled by voice. Some of these devices are quite recent and represent the cutting edge when it comes to implementing voice control. Of course, interactive voice activated telephone services have existed for quite some time now but there’s a difference here. In those systems you can employ large amounts of processing and storage power to make sure that the accuracy is optimum.
But when it comes to smaller gadgets that are mostly portable and handheld it is a different ball game altogether. As developers already know, it is extremely hard to cram so much in to one small device. Still, newer devices with sophisticated voice control are coming out and these are mostly speaker independent. That means the user can be anyone and the device will still respond.
As I was thinking about all this, I decided to see for myself what all gadgets have come out recently that use voice control. Read on for 5 cool gadgets that can be operated by voice.
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