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From SevenClick we want to wish you a Merry Christmas and of course a happy new year 2009.

7Clickers! You are the best! No more words, no more comments!
I am proud of us and our work! 2009 Here we go!
Daniel Vecino CEO

It’s been a great year for SevenClick, and this is just the beginning. With this great group of people, you can only expect the best. Merry christmas and happy new 2009.
José Manuel  Cristóbal CTO

A year of hard and challenging work on mobile messaging applications is over. I wish 2009 will be a nice year in mobile arena.
Rafael García Girón MTA

Almost a year as a SevenClicker, lot of projects and inverted effort to generate fresh and cool images and designs. Of course zuppex is my best creation, my little!. I wish the best for all of us. Zuppex! (Battle Cry).
Alvaro Arregui CCO

Hope Next year would bring you hapiness… For me, I Hope it brings at least one Android device
Javier Rubio MTP

I have really enjoyed working in SevenClick so far. I have learnt a lot about mobile technologies and have had a lot of fun (really important!). Now that year comes to the end, I really have good feelings for 2009 cause I think we are a great team. Best wishes!
Alex Moros MTP

I am the last incorporation in Sevenclick. Almost half a year learning how being a good SevenClicker, which includes not only improving my mobile technology knowledge, but also enjoying being part of this great team. Be happy you all!
Marta Tejel MTP

These have been my first nine months working in a company and I have to admit that have been passed quickly. I have been involved in many projects, but the best part is the good working atmosphere and of course, winning to my workmates playing the Wii or PlayStation (in our free time).
Merry Christmas!
Alberto Aparicio MTP

Download this zuppex xmas wallpaper and do not miss WhatObamaNeeds.com

SevenClick participated in Innovate!Europe 2008 first phase, taking advantage of the international window of this event.

The event, celebrated in Zaragoza (Spain), is the only program designed to identify and accelerate international promotion of the world most promissing technology start-ups. Among the attendees we can find investors, big clients, goverment leaders and communication media coming from around the world.

Coinciding with the event, SevenClick launched the first part of “What Obama needs!” campaign, showing an exclusive video of the critical moment when Barack Obama, elected President of the United States, is forced to hand its precious Blackberry over.

With this mise en scène, SevenClick introduces worldwide its new solution, zuppex, that will be officially presented on January 2009.

“What Obama needs!” can be followed from www.whatobamaneeds.com

Download press release (including image resources)

Ladies & Gentlemen, The President of the “new” United States.

Is Mr Obama a geek? or just a 21 century citizen?. Why can’t he use his cellphone anymore?, Is this a matter of National Security or just there’s not a safe way to call yet?

Two weeks ago, New York Times reported about Obama´s love of Blackberry. Next January, once he become the President of the United States of America, he will have to put an end to this romance. Why? USA Security Agencies don’t trust Blackberry system.

“For years, like legions of other professionals, Mr. Obama has been all but addicted to his BlackBerry. The device has rarely been far from his side — on most days, it was fastened to his belt — to provide a singular conduit to the outside world as the bubble around him grew tighter and tighter throughout his campaign.”

If you remember, In UK the BBC admitted that it had been forced to suspend its Blackberry email service after senior executives reported portions of other people’s electronic conversations appearing in their own messages.

In France, French ministerial workers was banned from using BlackBerries by the General Secretariat for National Defence (SGDN), responsible for French national security. RIM issued a strong defense of its network, claiming  Blackberry’s security mechanisms – AES 256 – as “the strongest commercial cryptography available to any vendor in the world”.

Even Indian Goverment put pressure on RIM to provide security agencies with a way around its encryption mechanism. They demanded either a “master key” into data and e-mails sent from the company’s BlackBerry devices or making RIM servers able to be monitored by Indian security agencies.

The source of these problems is the transport and delivery mechanism used by Blackberry. In order to make Blackberry´s Push service work, RIM integrates his servers with carriers. This way, mails are sent through Blackberry servers placed on UK and USA before you receive them. If you were responsible of your country’s national or presidential security, Would you trust a system working that way?

So, what can Obama do?
What does Obama need?

You will find the answer in this blog very soon!

Last tuesday, Barcelona. Nokia unveiled their new iPhone killer device: N97. These are its amazing capabilities:

• 32 GB internal memory.
• Up to 16 GB external memory, via MicroSD slot. (32 + 16 = 48 GB!)
• 3.5-inch, 640 x 360 pixel (16:9 aspect ratio) touch screen
• QWERTY keyboard
• Connectivity: HSDPA, WiFi, and Bluetooth.
• TV-Out, 3.5 mm jack, microUSB
• 5 Mpx camera (Carl Zeiss Tessar lens), records VGA video (640 x 480) at 30 fps
• A-GPS receiver
• N-Gage games
• S60 5th edition

With such nice features, offering a long battery life is a big challenge. Here are the official battery specs:

• Talk time: Up to 320 min (3G), 400 min (GSM)
• Standby time: Up to 400 hrs (3G), 430 hrs (GSM)
• Video playback: Up to 4,5 hours (offline mode)
• Music playback: Up to 37 hours (offline mode)

And now, admire its beauty:

Link Official Specs | N97 Datasheet

The European Union will approve the price limitation on the rates of roaming services and SMS messages among countries. Viviane Reding, telecomunications responsible of the EU, was who proposed this legislation, as the Internation Herald Tribune says.

EU industry ministers will approve this plan, which will limit SMS prices to 11 cents and also roaming service rates. These changes will be activated on 1st July 2009.

Obviously, this means that in some countries international SMS messages would be cheaper than local ones! This may provoke that companies reduce local SMS messages, but we’ll have to see. Anyhow, these rates reduction could also make the companies increase local prices. We hope not.

Via NY Times

China maybe is not the best point of reference of handsets, owing to we can find in its market, mobile device brands that sound too much familiar, like Nokla or HiPhone. But this time, China offers a handset with an original feature, a smartphone that runs Windows Mobile or Android. The client chooses. TechFaith Wireless and Qigi Future Technology announced it with the name of QiGi i6.

Unfortunately, instead of offering a dual-boot approach, the i6 comes in separate models: i6-Goal (Android) and i6-Win (WM 6.1). The two models differ only with respect to their operating system ROMS. On the other hand, both models share the following features:

• 2.8” LCD touchscreen display with 320×240 resolution.
• Marxvel PXA310 processor clocked at 624MHZ .
• Bluetooth connectivity.
• 2 megapixel camera.
• Wi-Fi support.
• microSD memory card slot.
• GPS navitation.
• Dimensions: 109 x 58 x 14.9 mm.
• No 3G connectivity

Pricing and availability  for both devices have not been released. However, the i6-Goal (the first Android-powered mobile phone in China) will be “shipping soon,” according to Qigi.

Vía PocketNow, LinuxDevices

Yes, you read correctly.  Although it may seem incredible, a few days ago a research group had succeeded porting the Linux Kernel 2.6 to work in an iPhone.

The OS uses OpenBoot to allow users to choose the OS they want boot (Linux or the iPhone OS).

At the moment, have ported:

• Framebuffer driver.
• Serial driver.
• Serial over USB driver.
• Interrupts, MMU, clock …

Things to add:

• NAND.
• Wifi.
• Touchscreen.
• Sound.
• Accelerometers
• Support for Baseband.

The Dev Team have a lot of work, but it is a breakthrough. It even sounds like they are thinking about porting Android in the near future.  Will they Port Windows Mobile?

Via Engadget Mobile