Mobile Phone Batteries - Lifeline For Your Phones
Posted on April 22, 2008
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Have you ever thought what is the heart and soul of your mobile phone?
We all will come to a consensus that mobile phones have become an indispensable part of our lives. In fact, a mobile phone is the life line of today’s mankind! However, very few of us take care of the fact that the battery is the lifeline of a mobile phone. Battery is the powerhouse of a mobile phone.
Most of us have experienced situations when we curse ourselves for not charging the battery. You will definitely feel perturbed if the battery of your mobile phone runs out of charge, say during an important conversation with your boss. It is extremely important to select mobile phone batteries with utmost care. A battery supplies low electrical power for the functioning of a mobile.
Different types of batteries are available in the market. The most successful ones that find good demand among people are Li-Polymer batteries. This is the most new type of battery available for your mobile phones. The popularity of Li-Polymer batteries is due to the following benefits offered by them: higher storage capacity light weight
Li-ion batteries are also used widely by mobile phone users across the world. These mobile phone batteries have a considerably low discharge rate. So, you can be assured that there will be lesser chance of your mobile phone ditching you at a crucial moment! Low-weight of a Li-ion battery is its another USP that help to make mobile phones and cameras more portable.
Mobile phones manufactured by different companies support differently designed and developed batteries. So, when you purchase a mobile phone battery, you should preferably select the battery from the phone manufacturer. Nokia mobile phone users can go for Nokia batteries to ensure a ‘healthy life’ for their phones. These batteries make use of advanced Li-ion technology that makes them long lasting. Unlike Ni-Cad batteries, batteries from Nokia do not require complete discharge before they can be recharged.
Select an appropriate battery for your mobile phone and enjoy the pleasure of ‘uninterrupted’ communication with your near and dear ones.
This article has been taken from http://mobilephoneindia.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/mobile-phone-batteries-lifeline-for-your-phones/
4G Mobile - 100 Mbps Speed Wow! But Not So Soon!
Posted on April 17, 2008
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There has been a buzz around the news that 3G is coming to the next version of the iPhone possibly in a few months. But it’s 4G the next generation, that’s on the minds of many mobile and iPhone enthusiasts. Not just these enthusiasts, the ever-hyped mobile industry is on a constant chatter about 4G. So let’s look at what 4G could offer and where indeed we are on 4G.
The most exciting aspect of the 4G phones is the download speed - expected to be 100 Mbps - and its equally awesome 50 Mbps upload speed.
In terms of speed, 2.5G can offer web access at a rate of between 144 and 384 kilobits per second. 3G is even faster - anywhere between 500 Kbps and 1.5 Mbps. 4G holds the promise of routinely delivering the higher end of that transmission rate, and much faster, in some cases, up to 100 Mbps for downloading, and 50 mbps for uploading.
Naturally, such an order-of-magnitude increase in speed implies that the multimedia browsing apps will get a shot-in-the-arm. The big application thing that 3G and 4G will bring, with such fast upload speeds, is enabling much higher mobile web browsing and richer mobile social networking. Today it takes a while to upload a video to your favorite social networking site using your mobile or camcorder. With promised speeds of 50 Mbps for upload ( at least in selective cases), this should be a cinch.
For many around the world, who are just getting used to 512 Kbps browsing on their PCs, just imagine what a 100 Mbps speed on their mobiles could mean!
Oh well, 4G is not going to be without its attendant niggling issues. Among the 4G issues are what tech standards should be used for it, how existing cell systems can be “backhauled” to put it into effect, and at what cost to network operators — and ultimately — customers. Part of the reason is cost. Data plans, for e-mail and web use, add to a cell customer’s monthly bill by at least $30 to $60 and often more, depending on usage. And last, but not the least, the 100 Mbps and 50 Mbps speeds will not be available to every user of mobile but we suspect it will be available only to select audiences in select locales, at least to begin with.
There is another reason not to get overly excited about 4G. The fact is, even assuming everyone agrees on all standards quickly (which in itself will be a mini-miracle), it is probably 4-5 years before the ordinary you and me can have it on our mobiles.
It is also sobering to remember that in the United States, sales of 3G phones have just topped 50 percent with the remainder being 2.5G or 2G phones. Part of the reason is that the networks aren’t built out yet for 3G, and less than half of cell customers whose phones are equipped for 3G are using its capabilities.
But all said, just the prospect of 100 Mbps download speed on mobile is just too enticing to not get excited. So all of us mobile junkies will have to wait a while before we get our hands on awesome 4G phones, but it appears that it’s worth the wait!
Courtesy: http://www.eit.in/b/fit/2008/04/4g-mobile-100-mbps-speed-wow-but-not-so.html
What Mobile Marketing Can Do For Your Business
Posted on April 17, 2008
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How many people do you know without a cell phone? Within our technologically savvy environment, for most people that number is probably close to zero. Given the changing trends of society, where people are reminded to turn their mobile devices off in a movie theatre, the concept and implementation of mobile marketing becomes more and more relevant everyday. What better way to get a message out to a niche audience than through a device that people carry with them twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week? Just as cell phones, BlackBerrys, and iPhones keep us connected to people across the globe, they also provide a new avenue for businesses to garner customers and attract a targeted group of consumers. Therefore, businesses should and inevitably will embrace this innovative concept of mobile marketing, realizing that the possibilities are endless as it will certainly play a pivotal role in the future of marketing and advertising.
In today’s media saturated world, businesses are constantly looking for a viable outlet to attract their target consumers. Over the last decade, traditional media forms such as newspapers and magazines have become less popular among the masses, and by extension, a less formidable way to advertise. According to a recent M:Metrics report, the average person sees more advertisements in one day than people of 50 years ago saw in a lifetime, severely desensitizing consumers and destroying the marketing effect. Additionally, the widespread use of DVR devices such as TiVo has weakened the impact of television ads, while pop-up and banner blockers have diluted web ads. So how are businesses supposed to promote their product or service? The simple answer: mobile marketing. Unlike the more traditional forms of advertising, mobile marketing is able to bypass common hold-ups and reach an attentive audience, anywhere at anytime.
Given the current situation, mobile marketing offers a solution to many of the marketing woes mentioned above. According to the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), three out of four mobile phone users text message at least occasionally. Over 525 million text messages are sent each day. Therefore, mobile marketing opens the door to an extremely large group of consumers that can be targeted by specific demographics. A further advantage mobile marketing presents compared to more traditional forms of advertising is its ability to generate interaction with the consumer, which ultimately increases brand recognition. Instead of simply reading or watching an ad, users can actively participate by playing games, voting via text message, and interacting in a number of other ways. This idea of interaction also makes it possible to measure an ads impact more effectively.
Although still a new technology, many are finding that the benefits of mobile marketing far outweigh any risks. Those that adopt mobile marketing solutions can build a vast database of interested consumers that can be contacted instantly. Imagine spending advertising dollars on a campaign that immediately reaches your targeted audience and bypasses the disinterested, saving time, money, and headaches. With mobile marketing, all this is possible. Businesses are not forced to waste valuable money and resources on an audience that will never have any interest in the brands product or service. Say a local restaurant was having a slow night and decided to text all those registered in their database with a coupon to come in that evening. Instead of spending valuable time and money to print a coupon and put the ad in a newspaper (where the majority of people will simply ignore it), that restaurant could immediately have direct access to thousands customers. Mobile marketing with a company such as EnMobile offers direct and instant access to a business prime audience.
Overall, mobile marketing represents the new age of marketing and advertising. As people adopt new technologies such as text messaging into their daily routines, businesses should look at how they can capitalize on this current craze, which shows no signs of slowing down. Incorporating a mobile marketing campaign into one’s business strategy has numerous positive benefits that traditional platforms do not offer. If a business is looking to expand to the next level, they should seriously consider a mobile marketing campaign.
Courtesy: http://www.content4reprint.com/marketing/branding/what-mobile-marketing-can-do-for-your-business.htm
Mobile Phone Calls Now Allowed on Planes
Posted on April 8, 2008
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The European Commission has approved initial plans to allow mobile phone usage on planes, following six months of consultation by the European regulator. The first aircraft services could launch as early as next month. Operators, however, have been warned to keep costs down to a reasonable level. Viviane Reding, the EU telecoms commissioner said:
“If customers receive unexpectedly high call charges on their phone bills, the service will not take-off”
For mobile phones to be used on planes, small mobile phone base stations will need to be installed on the aircraft, called Picocells. These can be switched off during take off and landing. The base station creates a bubble in and around the aircraft. Calls are routed to the terrestrial networks via a satellite link. Additional spectrum has been allocated across Europe for this.
Initially only standard calling and texting will be allowed, but if proven to be successful, it won’t be long before 3G data services will be offered.
HTC to release Touch Dual mobile phone to the US
Posted on April 8, 2008
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HTC has announced during the CTIA Wireless 2008 that it will be bringing its highly successful HTC Touch Dual phone in the United States this quarter. The HTC Touch Dual boasts of an intuitive touch screen with integrated TouchFLO technology and slide-out keypad and Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional software, making it the first mobile phone released in the US that runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 OS.
HTC will also continuously provide Windows Mobile 6.1 Updates which will give users new timesaving features, easier phone navigation and management, stronger security safeguards and support for Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008. The HTC Touch Dual will give US mobile consumers an interactive cube interface for quick and easy navigation to emails, text messages, calendar appointments and contact. Its other features include; Microsoft Office Mobile for documents and Outlook email facility, Live HTC Home featuring time and wheather display, quick launcher and one-touch ring-tone settings, 2 megapixel camera for shooting photos or videos and Quad Band network support – GSM/GPRS/EDGE and HSDPA. The HTC Touch Dual will be first released through Best Buy’s mobile retail outlets and also through Best Buys online shop and at HTC.com.
Courtesy: http://www.cellphonenews.com/archives/2008/04/htc_to_release_touch_dual_mobile_phone_to_the_us.php
Trippo : Version 1.4.0
Posted on April 8, 2008
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Type any sentence and get it translated and spoken in seconds!
Sounds interesting? Well this is Trippo for you; your realtime multilanguage translation tool.
Trippo provides instant relief for language problems! Ever wanted to talk to any person you might meet, whenever, wherever you might be? Trippo is your Translation tool always with you when you need it. After a couple of times you are skilled to communicate in any language and the new form of communication is yours! Price covers one language direction (e.g. Eng to Spa) for one year…
Supports currently English to Spanish, Italian, French and backwards.
Trippo uses by far; the world’s most advanced language and speech technologies with server database equalling more than a dozen fully loaded long truckloads of A4 paper data. All this with you 24H/day against a decent yearly subscription fee!
New language options will be automatically added as your options and can be purchased from the same provider.
Nokia NGage Mobile Gaming Platform Goes Live
Posted on April 4, 2008
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Back in the early days of smartphones, Nokia had a vision of combining a portable games device with a mobile phone, much the way these days a top end mobile phone can almost replace a standalone digital camera, music player or even Sat Nav device. 
Unfortunately, it didn’t quite work out. In short, the original NGage was a complete flop. The design was a joke, with the earpiece and microphone on the side of the handset, and the memory card on which the games were stored was under the phone battery, meaning to change games you had to dismantle the phone each time. The NGage was designed to compete with the handheld games machine of the day, the Nintendo Gameboy. The Gameboy outsold the NGage by 100 – 1.
Nokia did release an updated version of the NGage, called the NGage QD. But the damage had been done with the original release, and despite being a better product it failed to capture the imagination of phone users and the NGage QD faded into the mists if history, barely remembered. But mobile gaming continues to be popular. Most handsets these days support java and there is a list of 100’s of java games that can be purchased for mobile phones, from mobile versions of Fifa Soccer, and Football Manager to the SIMS and Project Gotham and many, many more.
With this is mind, Nokia approached the NGage concept from a new angle, and announced plans to make NGage games available for their current range of Smartphones. Many fan sites of these phones have been buzzing recently with the imminent release of the NGage platform, and today after a few delays sees the official release of NGage for smartphones. Currently, phones supported are the Nokia N82, N81, N95 and N95 8GB with the N73, N93 and N93i due to be supported in the near future. It is expected that all future NSeries releases will also be compatible with the NGage platform.
Courtesy: http://blog.mobiles.co.uk/mobile-news/nokia-ngage-mobile-gaming-platform-goes-live/
The Death of Mobile Applications?
Posted on April 3, 2008
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Michael Mace, a former VP at Palm, recently proclaimed the death of the mobile application. He writes:“The business of making native apps for mobile devices is dying, crushed by a fragmented market and restrictive business practices. The problems are so bad that the mobile web, despite its many technical drawbacks, is now a better way to deliver new functionality to mobiles. I think this will drive a rapid rise in mobile web development, largely replacing the mobile app business. This has huge implications for mobile operators, handset companies, developers, and users.”
Mace provides a history of the mobile application space as he sees it from his time with Palm. He describes the rush of developers to the Palm platform 10 years ago and how interest in the creation of native apps for the platform has waned. He also quotes a colleague who left the mobile app game because he couldn’t run a profitable business there.
Sorry, but it’s simplistic to assume that native mobile apps are now dead in favor of web mobile apps. Mobile is just seeing the same tension that we see on the desktop between native and web apps. On both mobile and desktop, neither is a clear winner and there are many working to increase the functionally of their application “stack”. Just this week, Adobe launched 1.0 of their AIR platform that further blurs the line on the desktop. It is catching the attention of desktop application developers and I would not be surprised if we see a mobile version of AIR sometime this year.
Does a developer care if their application web or native? I’d argue no, they care about what functionality their chosen framework provides. Look at what Opera is doing with their mobile browser. They are turning it into an application framework as much as a great browsing tool, even giving developers the ability to “widgetize” an app. If there’s something on your mobile that has the hooks you need to build an app, does it matter if the API’s come from a browser or from the operating system? As Webkit builds out its offline storage mechanism, your mobile web apps can run seamlessly alongside native apps even when on an airplane.
As the stack currently exists in any mobile OS, native APIs for mobile allow access deeper into the device. This includes the ability to read and write to a user’s contacts, calendar, tasks, photos, videos, SMS, email, camera, GPS and voice. Web browsers lack this functionality. The richness of experience that these features provide a ‘wow’ that’s pretty tough to match in a browser.
Browser app or native app aside, the more important change that we are seeing is the opening of the mobile platform. In the article, the certification and requirement to work with carriers was noted as an unnecessary hurdle and I agree. Carriers have a history of stifling innovation in order to milk as much cash out of their pipes as possible.
Apple’s iPhone is an attempt to break that strangles hold by offering a device designed without carrier limitations. This week they release their SDK and if Apple does so with no limitations, then it will be successful. Developers should be able to create an app, upload it to the iTunes store and pick their desired monetization scheme. If Apple puts anything in the way of the interchange between users and developers, then the SDK will fail, just as Michael Mace predicts.
Courtesy: http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2008/03/01/the-death-of-mobile-applications/
What Makes a Good Mobile Application Great
Posted on April 3, 2008
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What separates the good from the bad in the mobile web space? More importantly, what makes a good mobile application truly great? There are lots of examples out there, but what can mobile developers learn from them? Here are some common sense guidelines:
Mimic the desktop UI
Each web site or web application that we use in this Web 2.0 world has a feel that we’re used to; the mobile version of web sites should merely be an extension of that experience. Web developers should use the same fonts, color schemes and buttons wherever possible to make us feel at home. For an example, check out Mobile Facebook (here on the left), which uses the same blue hues and fonts as the Facebook I use everyday in Firefox. Facebook has also made it easy to click on a friend’s name and pull up their profile page with a mini-feed, contact information, and other Facebook features we know and love. Good examples: Mobile Flickr, Mobile Google Reader and Pownce Mobile.
Strip it, strip it real good 
A great mobile web site is a stripped-down, more functional version of its original incarnation, and simplicity is king — all unnecessary graphics should be excluded. In terms of screen flow, content should be presented first, with navigation placed at the bottom of each page. Having to scroll past navigation to get to the real meat of a web page is the bane of any mobile user’s existence.
Good examples: Mobile Twitter, Google and Mobile Wunderground. It’s the hardware, stupid
Smart mobile application developers utilize the hardware to its full extent. One example is the Nokia platform, which is known for being completely transparent and vulnerable to developers and has subsequently yielded some great applications. Good examples: JoikuSpot will use the built-in Wi-Fi to turn your WAP cell phone into a wireless access point; ShoZu will use the N95’s GPS to automatically geo-tag photos and upload them to Flickr; Nokia Sports Tracker will use the GPS module to give you a map and stats about your workouts.
Know thy platform Mobile web applications should be written natively for each device. Java applications, including GMail for mobile and others, are quirky and routinely lock up, requiring the user to either exit or restart. Having to write apps for multiple platforms may be tedious, but will result in happy users.
Google was able to take Google Maps to an entirely new level of usability by adding “My Location,” which uses cell-phone towers to give an approximate location and has been called a “poor man’s GPS.” It’s only accurate to around 1,000 meters, but saves keystrokes when trying to find a local pizza place. Unfortunately with most mobile platforms, especially here in the U.S., hardware is limited by cell-phone service providers that subsidize handsets. But Google’s Android and the Open Handset Alliance will help put in motion a new era of “openness,” and consumers will be the direct benefactors.
And of course, Apple’s SDK is coming out soon, which will undoubtedly spawn numerous touch-based applications.
Courtesy: http://gigaom.com/2008/03/26/what-makes-a-good-mobile-application-great/
Universal Converter + Currency Converter for Symbian
Posted on April 3, 2008
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Pocket PC Magazine, the foremost magazine for Pocket PC and SmartPhones has rated Universal Converter as The Behemoth of Converters and An Application that made traveling easier.
Universal Converter is a conversion calculator that can quickly and easy translate different units of measure. It consists of 32 Categories with 750 Units and 40090 Conversions.
Single & Multiple Currency Converters (Working Offline):
· Automatic calculation of currency rates according to the change in base & exchange currency, base value
· Extremely easy user-interface
· Base and Exchange currencies are provided with their country, flag and code
· Automatic calculation of multiple currency rates according to the change in base currency & base value
· Value of every other currency can be calculated and viewed in a single page
· Report based presentation
Currency Management:
· Currency Manager helps you to use the currency converter only with your desired currencies
· Any number of desired currencies can be added
· Conversion tool is also provided in Currency Management tool, so that the conversion can be done with your desired currencies
· The currencies added in the Currency Manager will also be updated in the ‘Work Offline’ page
· Options are provided to Add & Delete, any and all currencies
· Manual updating of currencies can also be done through Currency Manager
Internet Updation:
· The values of all 185 currencies can be updated through internet
· Best and Easiest way to update your currency values
· Updated date will also be provided with the updated values
Manual Updation:
· The values of all 185 currencies can also be updated manually
· Professionally designed user-interface allows you to manually update your currencies in an easy way
So if you want to get benefits from the top rated application, you can try it by clicking HERE
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