Thursday 17 January 2008

HTC CLIO: no mystery any longer    [ 17-01-2008 18:01 ]

Author: Irina Turina   Source: Unwiredview     Translation by: Rytchkova Anja     

Late in November 2007 the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved HTC CLIO200, which wasn’t officially introduced then. It was unclear whether it was a UMPC or a communicator at that time. Now we‘ve got the info it is the very UMPC HTC Shift with two versions – CLIO100 for GSM/GPRS/EDGE and UMTS/HSDPA and CLIO200 for CDMA/EVDO.

The specs of HTC Shift (CLIO):

• Networks - GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 and UMTS/HSDPA 850/1900/2100 or 800/2100 (CLIO100); CDMA2000 1xEVDO/1xRTT.0A 850/1900 CLIO200
• Intel Stealey 800 MHz+ Little River (945GMS) + ICH7U
• Chipset - Qualcomm MSM 7200, 400 MHz for GSM/HSDPA
• Chipset - Qualcomm QSC6085 for CDMA/EVDO (probably)
• 1 GB DDR2 RAM for Windows Vista + 64MB RAM
• 64 MB RAM and 128 MB ROM for SnapVUE
• 40 or 60 GB 1.8” HDD
• OS - Windows Vista Business
• Display - 7”800x480 pixels, 262K colors
• Built-in GPS-receiver
• VGA-camera for video conferences
• Connectivity - Bluetooth, Wi-Fi b/g, USB 2.0
• VGA-out, 3.5-mm stereo jack, microphone, SDIO
• Battery – Li-Ion 2700 mAh
• Battery life in Windows Vista mode – up to 2 hours
• Battery life in SnapVUE mode – up to 11 days (Push e-mail off) or 53 hours (Push e-mail on)

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30 million Symbian smartphones for Japan’s market in 2007    [ 17-01-2008 17:08 ]

Author: Serge Novikov     Translation by: Rytchkova Anja     

30 million Symbian smartphones – this is exactly the figure announced by Symbian consortium for Symbian smartphones shipped to Japan in 2007. These are real figures for the late November 2007.

The market share of Symbian handsets for Japans’ NTT DoCoMo grew from 50% to 65% year-on-year (according to Techno Systems Research, for the end of first half 2007). Currently subscribers in Japan can choose among 69 Symbian-powered phones made by 6 members of Symbian consortium: Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, Nokia, Motorola, Sharp and Sony Ericsson.

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4 million Apple iPhone sold    [ 17-01-2008 17:01 ]

Author: Klimov Oleg   Source: engadget.com     Translation by: Rytchkova Anja     

Steve Jobs has drawn much attention to Apple’s success in 2007 at the recent MacWorld event. A year passed from the long-awaited announcement of Apple iPhone and Steve Jobs has shared the sales results. The smartphone enjoyed unprecedented sales – 4 million units in 200 days!

It helped the company occupy 20% of the US smartphone market – Apple almost caught up with Nokia. The company plans to launch an update for the iPhone to keep the public interest.

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NEC D02NE: 7.2Mbps HSDPA PCMCI card for Japan’s EMOBILE    [ 17-01-2008 13:35 ]

Author: Serge Novikov     Translation by: Rytchkova Anja     

Today Japan’s 3G carrier EMOBILE has announced a new PCMCI card by NEC for HSDPA networks. The card supports up to 7.2 Mbps data transfer speed in EMOBILE networks. It will be shipped in February 2008.

The short specs of NEC D02NE:

• Card: PC card (PCMCIA)
• Dimensions: 54x8x115 mm
• Weight: about 50 g
• Interface: PC Card Type II (32bit Cardbus)
• Supported OS: Windows Vista (32bit edition) /XP SP2 /2000 SP4

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Rumors on Windows-smartphone Samsung i900    [ 17-01-2008 10:31 ]

Author: Serge Novikov   Source: Kataweb     Translation by: Rytchkova Anja     

On the eve of another official event in the telecoms world we get more rumors about this or that product. This time the Italian source Kataweb has reported that Samsung Electronics will unveil its new Windows smartphone i900 at the upcoming 3GSM show in Barcelona. Taking into account the index this will be the top model in the lineup.

Reportedly, the smartphone will be powered by Windows 6.1 Professional and have touch sensitive control a la “iPhone”, but it will feature more advanced functionality and technologies:

• Networks - GSM and UMTS with HSDPA 7.2 Mbps
• WiFi
• Bluetooth 2.0 EDR
• 5-megapixel auto focus camera
• GPS navigation
• FM-radio
• Display – 3.5”, 240x400 pixel and brightness adjustment sensor
• TV-out
• 8 GB of onboard memory and microSD cards
• Dimensions – 112x56x12.5 mm

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