Thursday, September 29, 2011

“Nokia Store” preview available on the Nokia Beta Labs

The Nokia Beta Labs has made ​​available a version of "preview" of the new Nokia store, which will replace the current one on smartphones based on Symbian OS and Symbian Anna ^ 3.


Nokia Store supports almost all features of the Official Store of the client (Web Runtime) and offers easier navigation, better display the product details and a greater responsiveness and speed.




The Nokia Store is available for Nokia QML-01 C6, C7-00, Astound C7, E7-00, N8-00, X7-00.

Tizen is the future of Meego

Meego the operating system of the Nokia N9 , will no longer be developed. The LiMo Foundation and the Linux Foundation, with support from various manufacturers, including Fujitsu, Panasonic, NEC, Motorola, ARM and others have announced plans Tizen for construction of a new operating system.

Tizen will be used on different categories of devices, including smartphones, tablets, Smart TV, netbooks and infotainment devices. The development will be completely open and driven by a technical management team consists of Intel and Samsung.
The APIs are based on Tizen HTML5 and other web standards and it is expected that most of the development of applications for Tizen will be based on these emerging standards.
The first version of its SDK and Tizen arrive in the first quarter of 2012.


Google Maps for Android comes to version 5.10.1

Small update to the Google Maps application for devices based on Android. Version 5.10.1, besides the usual "bug fixes", provides, in beta, a more accurate view of public transport (Transit Navigation).

Recall that the Transit Navigation Service is active in Brescia, Como, Genoa, La Spezia, Modena, Naploli, Reggio Emilia, Turin, Tuscany Regional Transportation, Trentino and Vicenza.

Google Maps for Android is available on the ' Android Market .

Mozilla Releases Firefox 7 for Android

Mozilla announced the official release of new version of Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux and Android. Firefox 7 significantly reduces the memory usage to make navigation faster and offers new tools to help developers in creating amazing web experiences across multiple platforms to be able to enjoy without interruptions. Among the new features of Firefox are the "Paste & Copy", press "Exit" to exit quickly from the browser, improved rendering of devices based on Tegra chip set, memory management more efficient and faster navigation through the automatic detection language settings of the device and the ability to copy any text from the web and paste it into emails or text messages.

To help improve future versions of Firefox, users can participate in Telemetry, a tool developed on the principles of privacy of Mozilla that enables you to provide anonymous data on the performance of the browser in a private and secure.

FareFinder Star Alliance for Android

FareFinder The application recently launched by Star Alliance is now available for phones running Android. With FareFinder can see the rates for one-way tickets or round trip flights between any two airports within the network operated by the 27 Star Alliance carriers. The application allows additional search criteria such as number of passengers, time of departure and arrival, the class of service, the number of ports, airports transfer and sales.The application also displays the availability so that customers can select the airline on which to travel and want to book a ticket through the airline's call center or directly from the chosen site.
FareFinder The application is in English and is downloadable for free on the Android Market.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

The new iPhone will be announced on October 4 or 5

As expected , Apple has officially announced on October 4 or 5 for the keynote presentation of the new fifth-generation iPhone. "Let's talk about iPhone," reads the presentation of the call to be held at the Town Hall Auditorium on the campus of Apple in Cupertino from 10:00 

On stage there will be the new CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, who will have the tough task of replacing Steve Jobs in this role. However, one would hope to see even a small appearance of Jobs, perhaps with his classic "one more thing ...".
There are many rumors that have so far followed each other on the 'fifth generation iPhone.

Microsoft begins the release of Windows 7.5 Phone Mango

Microsoft has officially launched the release of Windows 7.5 Phone Mango. In the next few hours will start to get users to the notification of the availability of the upgrade. Details on the "roll out" in the various countries is shown on the site "Where's my phone update?" Microsoft.

Upon receipt of the notification you need to connect your smartphone to your computer and run the update via Windows PC or Zune Phone Connector for Mac 7 The complete cycle, which includes a backup system, runs in about an hour.

The new LG Optimus EX with IPS display

Here Comes the 'official status of the new Optimus EX LG, smartphone based on Android 2.3 Gingerbread and equipped with a 4-inch IPS LCD "super bright" (700 nits) with WVGA resolution and dual-core processor at 1.2GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2.

The 'LG Optimus EX supports GSM / GPRS and WCDMA / HSPA and has a camera with 5 megapixel CMOS sensor capable of recording full HD video (1080p), 1GB of RAM, ROM, 8GB of expandable via microSD slot, 1500 m/Ah battery, Bluetooth, WiFi 802.11 b / g / n (2.4GHz, Wi-Fi Direct), HDMI port, and assisted GPS receiver. The dimensions are 118.0 x 63.4 x 9.65 mm with 127 grams of weight.

Nokia N9 smartphones based on Meego

Nokia has announced the beginning of the distribution of Nokia N9 , the first and perhaps only, based smartphone operating system Meego.

The Nokia N9 is available in three colors, black, blue and magenta with options of 16GB and 64GB. The estimated selling price of Nokia N9 16GB is 480 euros while the 64GB version costs about 560 euros, excluding taxes and subsidies. Prices and availability vary from region to region and from operator to operator.  The Nokia N9 is a smartphone monocoque made ​​of polycarbonate and is equipped with a curved display "Gorilla Glass" from 3.9-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen and a resolution of 854 x 480 pixels, support for GSM / EDGE and UMTS / HSPA (14.4Mbps / 5.76 Mbps), 8-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics capable of recording HD video @ 720p, front camera for video calls, OMAP3630 ARM Cortex A8-1GHz SGX530 PowerVR GPU and 1GB of RAM.

Motorola Announces the Motorola DEFY + Android ''resistant''

Motorola announced the new Motorola DEFY +, smartphones and scratch resistant and dust proof (IP67). Compared to the previous model , the DEFY + is equipped with a 1GHz processor and the latest version of Android 2.3 Gingerbread
Among the features of this smartphone include a 3.7 inch display with scratch-resistant glass Gorilla Glass, music player, MOTOBLUR interface that provides quick access to your social network, Motorola Media Link to synchronize with your computer, 5MP camera with auto focus, flash and digital zoom, 2GB of internal memory expandable up to 32GB with a 1700 m/Ah battery and offers a range of 7.1 hours of talk time and 16 days standby.