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Android has published the first screenshots of their future App Store, which they prefer to call “Market”. Seems they want to highlight their differences with Apple and to strengthen their open and free side with this different name, which for them means “an open and unobstructed environment”.

Reinforcing Android openness, they compare it with YouTube. Developers will be able to upload apps as easy as a video YouTube upload, and these could be free or paid apps.

Hope they get a better quality sieve system than Apple on their Store Market.

This is maybe the best attempt from Nokia to beat RIM BlackBerry devices. It’s a mobile phone oriented for people who often use e-mail services. Because of that it includes a QWERTY keyboard to make this easier.

This device has some problems if you use BlackBerry e-mail service or Exchange server. Despite this, it will be a good device for everyone, thinking on this kind of user oriented devices.

Let’s talk now about some of its features:

• Design:
  It’s really compact (114 x 57 x 10 mm) to have a QWERTY keyboard, Nokia has adjusted the size of the device. It weights 127g, what added to its reduced size looks to be a compact and resistant phone.
  In the backside metal part has a useful grid that will prevent it from falls. Besides, just to say that it really has a “Blackberry” style, as we can see in the picture.



• Screen:
  The screen has 2.36 inchs and can display 16 millions of colours. This size looks right compared to the size of the device. It has a 320×240 pixels resolution what it’s nice, although in some applications like e-mail, a better resolution would help to access more information of each message, as Xatakamovil has previously posted.



• Keyboard:
  It has QWERTY system. Its compact size makes this device a little bit more “portable”, so that it’s not as big as its competitors (what can be a drawback for people with big hands…). It includes direct access keys on the top, which link to Home, Diary, Contacts and e-mail.

• Connectivity: it can connect via 3G with a 3.6 mbps HSDPA connection or via WiFi 802.11g. It also includes infrared system and Bluetooth 2.0 with these profiles: DUN, OPP, FTP, HFP, GOEP, HSP, BIP, RSAP, GAVDP, AVRCP, A2DP.

• Camera: it has a 3.2 megapixels (2.048 x 1.536) camera, with flash, autofocus and digital zoom.



• Battery: great news at this point, let’s the numbers talk. Up to 10 hours of speaking time, 20 days of non-use time and 18 hours of music playing time.

• Start screen: this is totally customizable. Actually you can configure 2 different start screens and swich them whenever you want. Eachone allows you to customize the direct access icons and even the information you want to be displayed on the screen like e-mails, WiFi networks…

• E-mail: it has a POP3 or IMAP oriented e-mail service that works perfect. It also supports Nokia Intellisync Wireless Email and Nokia Mobile VPN.

• Maps: it has a GPS receptor so with this Nokia phone you can navigate using Nokia Maps 2.0 and even search for restaurants or shops.

• Memory: it supports microSD cards up to 8GB size, and it has an internal dynamic memory of 110MB.

• Connectors: it has a micro-USB 2.0 port to connect your phone to the computer, and also an AV Nokia 2.5mm connector. The disadvantage of this port is that it’s not compatible with standard earphones, so that they are 3.5mm sized.

• Music: we can charge music files from the microSD card or from the computer via an USB cable. We can have the media player background working.

• Conclusion: good design, small size, powerfull applications… looks a great device, we are waiting it comes to our hands to play with it and give you more info and our non-technical opinion.

Pictures Engadgetmobile
Via Xatakamovil

This business case video shows our iPhone solution developed to solve the necessity of the bank Caixa Penedes for provide their clients with a mobile applications to expand client-bank communication channel.

Besides, this video appeared in Daniel Vecino´s conference: Mobile Banking, “Show must go on” at Clab Guatemala 08 obtaining a great success and congratulations for its great solution.

If you want to take pics to things close to you without blurriness with your iPhone , here you have a non quite easy but useful mod to close-focus your iPhone 3G. People from Eastrain teach how to make it real in only 4 steps. Check it out

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Some days ago we talked about the release of the first beta of Android, named ‘Android SDK 0.9 beta’.

Along with some new features and the release itself, we pointed out the bad news of Google dropping of two important APIs: Bluetooth and GTalkService. For sure, more other people has felt disappointed by this, and Google Android’s team has tried to explain their reasons in a post.

The explanation seems to be reasonable: scheduling issues. In fact, they promise next releases will include these APIs, emphasizing bluetooth one. Anyway, it’s hard to believe that Google, with thousands of developers, has not reached to release a proper Bluetooth API in time.

In turn, I think GTalkService – formerly XMPPService – API has suffered other kind of issues. I suspect that Apple’s upcoming push/event notification service – which Jobs said to be ready in September – has made Android’s push platform to be rethinked. Unfortunately.

Link AndroidDevelopersBlog

Chuck Norris, the legendary American actor and martial artist, have his own mobile game, developed and distributed by Gameloft. Titled “Chuck Norris: Bring on the Pain”, it is a mixture between MetalSlug and Cadillacs&Dinosaurs.

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We talked about Janus some time ago. Now, thanks to Simon Judge’s blog we get noticed that it has gone open source.

As is stated in project’s web page, “Janus Symbian Engine is a local http server (for Flash Lite) for Smartphones (S60), which allows developers to create engaging Flash Lite applications. It allows you to extend Flash Lite functionalities using simple local http calls”.

This approach tries to fill the gap between a rich and easy to code application framework that does not offer enough native functionality (Flash Lite) and a hard to code but rich in native APIs like Symbian S60.

I’ve heard about something similar talking about Symbian and J2ME, instead of Flash Lite… Some other people has worked with Python for S60… Anything to avoid coding Symbian.

My thought is that, while this kind of approaches may be valid for a concrete project, it can’t be taking into consideration as application platform architecture for production. The way to go is including rich APIs that provide access to native phone functionality in such platforms like JME and Flash Lite.

Via MobilePhoneDev
Link janus

Adam Gowdiak announced last Monday a set of 14 security vulnerabilites in JME platform for Nokia S40. Gowdiak, a Polish researcher from Security Explorations, his own start-up, mentioned that with these bugs would allow an attacker making phone calls from the phone, sending text messages , recording audio or video, access any file on a Nokia 40 model phone, obtain read and write access to the phone’s contact list, access the phone’s SIM card, and more.

Gowdiak has only disclosed part of the gathered information, asking for 20.000 € to Nokia and SUN Microsystems for the rest of the information.

I don’t want to evaluate or give my opinion about the business model of Gowdiak’s start-up.  But I think that publicly disclosing part of the information is not the best strategy to obtain such benefits. You better not try to scare big companies like Nokia or Sun.

I hope this vulnerabilities will be fixed soon, for the good of S40 platform.

Link InfoWorld , JavaHispano

The aim of Tantug VoIP phone is making internet telephony friendly. VoIP in mobile devices is gaining ground over the years and is going to become great important.

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Kinoma Play is the first true media browser for mobile devices under Windows Mobile. So it’s not just a browser, cause it allows you to browse media contents, search and playback. So with Kinoma Play, you can manage media files, share media through services or browse Internet, among other features.

One of these features is that you can listen to the radio on Live365.com cause both have teamed with each other. Another feature is the easy to use and beauty interface, which is inspired in a digital television. It also shows a list of videos from YouTube, and even have a good customer support. If you want to know more about what Kinoma Play can do, you can read what they posted yesterday in their blog, explaining its 101 features of the browser.

Let’s talk know about who launched this browser: Kinoma .They have launched two other products which you could be intersted on:

• Kinoma Player 4EX: it’s a media player for Palm OS. It allows you to find and play video, audio and pictures on your phone and over the internet.
• Kinoma Producer: this is a desktop application for Windows XP/Vista and Mac OS X, that allows to transfer media content to your Windows Mobile/Palm smartphone, Palm PDA, Sony PlayStation Portable or Apple iPod.

So Kinoma bring us good news related to media and mobile devices.

Via CellPhone Beat