Nevigation Inside Buildings

How many times have you enter to a building just to find out that it takes you forever to find the office you need?
Nokia has published research which its findings show that ‬ people who enter into buildings, “wasting” in there ‭ 90% of their time looking for the right place.

Well, all familiar navigation devices perform only outdoors, where there is a way to communicate with  satellites in space. Another problem is that the accuracy of the civilian GPS versions is about 10 to ‭ 30 – ‬ meter. This fluctuation make it impossible to rely on.

Nokia, in collaboration with several leading universities, develop navigation program for indoors to help us easily find the car we left in the parking lot, to get to the right store in a shopping center within seconds, or rush to the right gate at the airport.

The idea is to use wireless Internet access point in the building, and the exact location will be calculated by the cell-phone accordance to the distance from the nearest access point. Nokia runs the system on ‭ 40 – ‬ buildings in the world, including shopping centers, airports and universities – all with existing wireless acces points.

The new development, will be integrated into Nokia Cell- Phones and probably will change the area of location-based services (LBS) which is the main lines of growth of cellular marketing.

Tags: Cellular, GPS, Satellite

2008: Top Breakthroughs

1) Android: HTC G1 phone has lot of disadvantages if you look on some other solutions, but the most important news that we got with this phone is the free mobile operating system from Google- Android. The HTC G1 is only the first of many phones that will use it in the near future. As it looks, the Android has high potential to take the cell phone industry to very intersting place where large developer community will support it growing.

2) USB 3.0: The Universal Serial Bus (USB) is very popular standard for transferring data from PC to many kind of devices and charging PDAs/Phones. These days there was major update in the standard, which will get 10 times faster rate than the current USB 2.0 (4.8 gigabits per second). Another improvement will increase the amount of electrical current that USB cable will deliver ( 900 milliamps instead of 100 milliamps), and this will allow more devices to be charged faster.

3) Video-Capable SLRs: This year the camera industry overcome major limitation that prevent high-end single-lens reflex cameras to shoot video. Two new cameras Nikin D90 and Canon 5D Mark II shoot HD video and capture top notch still images.

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Tags: Android, Camera, cell phone, HTC, PC, PDA, SLR, USB

Did you get iPhone already?

So, ever since they started selling those iPhones at Wal Mart people can now get them easily, so did a friend of mine who was at a conference at the US. He bought himself one of these (well, actually not at wal mart since he is not living in the US and couldnt commit to the cellular plan they were offering) and after returning he was trying to unlock iPhone, he was trying to do it through a guy his brother knew, didnt work for some reason, so he was searching the net for a solution. So, basically, the thing you need to know, there are a lot of sites dealling with the all issue of unlocking iPhones, but, just keep in mind before you buying something, not all of them will unlock your 3g iPhone, so pay attention to it. Anyway, he then found out a site all about how to unlock iPhone 3g, it worked this time so if you are looking to unlock your iPhone, even the new 3g’s, there are things that already works perfecly.

Tags: iPHONE, unlock iphone

iPHONE at Wal-Mart

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Starting on Sunday morning iPHONE 3G will be available at 2500 Wal-Mart stores. The price will be 299$ for 16GB version and 199$ for 8GB version (include two-years service agreement with AT&T).

Tags: iPHONE, Wal-Mart

iPHONE Wannabe’s

You all familiar with the great iPHONE, smartphone from Apple, but I’m not sure you heard about the iPHONE clones. The basic problem with iPHONE is that Apple and its suppliers sell it with very expensive contract so we try to look for cheaper options with the same look and functionality. You might be surprise to know that there are many of them out there.

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Two nice clones are the Chinese:

• HiPHONE: One famous clone is the HiPHONE, the clone is pretty much like iPHONE has the same features except that it runs with windows mobile operating system (nice advantage in my opinion).

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• CECT P168: another great clone from china (I think it’s better than the iPHONE).  Additional feature that the P168 includes and the iPHONE does not is the support of two SIM cards (although not at the same time).

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Tags: iPHONE, iPHONE clone, mobile, smartphone

In Review: Solar Cell Phones

We all dream about it, cell phone that will not shut down during the day and recharge itself over and over without connect it to the wall. Now we can get it, new cell phones that include sloar technology will rechage themselves and keep usable in any location. Use energy from the sun will be better to earth, will save money and wiil keep you in touch in any time.
There are few available cell phones in the market:

1) S116- HiTech Wealth telecommunications (well-known supplier in China) is selling pretty impressive new phone. They promiss that after 1 hour exposure to the sun will get you approximately 40 minutes talk time. The company claims that solar panel installed on the top side of the clamshell-designed phone can be recharged from other light sourcess except the sun (like candles).
You can’t ignore the potential of more than 400 million mobile users all over China will use solar energy for their cell phones instead of electricity.
Of course today’s basic communications and multimedia features are included in this phone such as high-definition digital camera, MP3 + Video player, support for MP3 ring tones etc’. 
Four great inventions of light energy:
- A unique one-way anti-reflective design- will get efficient use of available light
- Special lens- optimize the conditions under diffuse light energy conversion
- Photoelectric conversion efficiency of micro-modular design
- Low-power intelligent dynamic system to maintain maximum output power to the phone

2) ‘Solar’ is the Simens’s solar cell phone which is very thin dark blue phone with cool design. The cell phone is equiped with touch screen and underneath solar cells are embedded. Sun exposure will recharge the phone automatically. The materials used for manufacturing the phone are fully recyclable. The phone itself will include very basic features. This phone is still in prototype phase but Simens promise that soon it will move to manufacturing.

Tags: cell phone, Cellular, mobile, Solar, solar cellular

New cellular with solar panel

Tags: Cellular, phone, Solar