Nokia N97, the complexity of Multimedia and Internet Tweet

In a window design for this first impression, it seems Nokia does not take much to break through. The construction is generally a variation of the Communicator which was proved already tested the market and also the famous image of smart.

His form factor is basically bermekanisme sliding, but is not really a full sliding because of the slide only to two-thirds, then take the open position of about 30 degrees facing our faces. This maneuver while opening the keyboard underneath. Unfortunately, there is a camera button on the back of the lot must terpencet by finger pedestal when handfuls of being moved.

Handfuls of design is also less intuitive to shift, at first glance hard to tell which parts were harud slide. Shift also felt a bit heavy.
QWERTY keyboard was comfortable squeezed to the size makes it easy enough pemencetan affairs. Backlight adequate help illuminate the letters on the keys, either at the time of both dark and light.But the placement of the Shift keys and Hollywood that there is only one, not a double so that it can be placed on both sides, a little inconvenient.

Dimensions are quite bongsor, but they are already familiar with N-series phones, the Communicator, and Eseries, will not object to this measure. Surface for most of the chassis is not shiny aka doff, not enough help to smooth the holding cell phone dead weight is 150 grams.

In terms of hardware, the N97's internal memory be a very large, 32GB. Was also coupled with a microSD memory slot for up to 16GB. It's like a storage device about 10 thousands of MP3 songs.

According to some sources, 434 MHz ARM11 processor also becomes the main brain for all the hard work of computing in this sophisticated mobile phone.

The screen is a major component in the overall design.Nokia N97 installed display 3.5 "with 16.7 million colors and 360x640 pixel resolution, as presented in the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. This wide-screen pretty comfortable to hold the touch-touch affairs. Yes, the N97 is a phone with touch screen.

Speaking of the touch screen, the N97 does not provide a stylus for this purpose. This means that the menu suggested penutulan done with a finger. But from testing conducted signals, with the finger less penutulan provide a quick response. That nails, pointy things, and the stylus from other gadgets, even providing a more satisfactory results. Faster screen response.

To serve this touch screen interface like Nokia S60 5th edition. The interface and touch technology allows the display treats enriched with widgets gadget is a current trend. Widget is a mini application or that can be displayed directly on the main screen. Users can choose which widgets will be installed. Because of its miniature, the number of widgets that can perform more than one in the same time. Generally widgets are used to display the site content or applications on the Internet. So prepare to fill the N97 with a card that has unlimited internet connection and a flat maximum for this widget.

Widget collection screen (homescreen) is the main screen the N97. Was to access the full menu, kta haru go back deeper into the main menu. There is a special button to go back and forth affair this menu, there is at the bottom right next to the screen.

There are two display modes, ie standing (portrait) and resting (landscape). But with the existing design, fashion seems to be resting more widely used. Different if the phone's position and thus resting comfortably tangan.Untuk arrested with two trips to the second position, the position sensor technology used.

In general, the display shows a very high-quality visuals. The colors appear sharp and detailed. Because the light sensor technology, the screen did not dim when used in bright situations because the abundant sunlight.

Multimedia
Of an expected Nseries multimedia course. And it is fun to explore all of the N97 multimedia offer.

Starting from the camera, the lenses immediately attract attention because of (re) confirmed by the Carl Zeiss Tessar optics 5 megapixel resolution. This resolution is now a middle class in the mobile arena with cameras. But the presence of these optics is promising because there has the same type installed on other Nokia types never disappoint.

The pictures are snap signals in various objects indicates that the maximum results will be obtained in adequate lighting conditions, not less, and also not excessive. In ideal conditions, the images appear sharp with colors that can be "out" unhindered "noise". Shooting from a short distance can also be handled properly.

Wide screen, with a large memory support, allows us to enjoy movies on the phone intact. Processors and graphics hardware is adequate to handle the heavy graphics such as film type compression results of the DVDs. The more comfortable again, no TV out so that what is being done on mobile phones, including film, can be transferred to the big screen TV. And suguhannya ciamik, considering there are going to lose quality due to compression process.

Audio is another treat. The speakers are employed quality mediocre. Another problem when external speakers plugged into high-end quality, and perhaps this is expected, proximate to the TV out function to play the movie on the big screen.

Good GPS performance. The acquisition of the satellite does not take many breaks, especially if aided by AGPS. Tip to find an immediate connection with the satellites: sliding it open.
In the Nokia Map features are available also a compass to indicate the direction of the wind. This compass symbol will change color from red to green when it is actively working. So when the compass encircled in green, showed a new direction can dipecaya. Tips to get "green" compass: rocking-roll or roll his mobile phone.


Connectivity
Widget installed on average devote themselves to an Internet connection. Therefore logical that the Internet connectivity and Wi-Fi is one of the elements that must be examined seriously.
N97 carry HSDPA technology. The highest level of data connections (for the time being in the country) is of course dependent on the operator's performance following its BTS.

If the operator's performance Shining, the N97 also looks annoying. How not? If you already set up various widgets on the homescreen, but when the connection hape Shining Shining also became part because of the existing widgets as the main menu can not be loaded completely. This can backfire because people tend to think of the performance of a lelet phone, but probably not his fault entirely.

The solution is not too many widgets that display must be connected to the Internet at any time. One is a Facebook widget. Maybe this will be maintained in the homescreen many owners because the most popular N97 today.

Likewise, there is a new offer from Nokia, which is Ovi. This is a portal that was built to accommodate a variety of Nokia Internet activity of users. Inside is an e-mail, file storage, applications, and so on. To take advantage of this facility also needs a reliable connection. In the test signals, as long as HSDPA or 3G signal obtained, the activities to the Internet with handheld computers can be carried out within the shortest possible time.

Connection with Wi-Fi went smoothly. In the test, there is no obstacle is within access to the Internet through the hotspot office. Only occasional Wi-Fi and GPRS act together, in this case one should be decided in advance to avoid errors.

E-mail is also one of the main selling points N97. Setup was easy to do. The interface has come closer to an email in Outlook. It would be more simple setup it again if it had Ovi Mail.

Conclusion
Nokia N97 is worthy to be called as netbook, according to their campaigns. Multimedia Internet that is characteristic of the modern computer is able to achieve them. In these conditions, the ball actually located in the user's hand, how to maximize what they offer sophisticated hape of this N97.

PLUS: Memory is very big, Carl Zeiss Tessar lens, screen and sharp relief, widgets

MINUS: There is no stylus, sliding heavy and less intuitive

SCORE: 4 (of 5)

Nokia N97 Specifications
Network: 3.6 Mbps HSDPA 900/1900/2100MHz, GSM quadband
Dimensions: 117x55, 3x15, 9 mm
Weight: 150 grams
Battery: Li-Ion 1500 mAh
Talk time: up to 6 hours
Standby time: up to 385 hours
Internal Memory: 32GB
Additional Memory: microSD (hotswappable) up to 16GB
Form Factor: sliding
Screen: TFT 16 million color, 2.4 ", 240x320 pixel; accelerometer sensor, interface S60 Symbian 5th Edition
Hardware Connectivity: WLAN supports UPnP, Bluetooth 2.0 supporting A2DP, USB 2.0, 3.5 mm AV connector
Internet connectivity: GPRS class 32, EDGE class 32, the Nokia browser, WAP 2.0, email (POP / IMAP / SMTP)
Application: Email (SMTP, IMAP4, POP3), MMS, SMS, versatile editor, view email attachments -. Doc,. Xls,. Ppt,. Pdf, Mail for Exchange, Data: Calendar, Contacts, Agenda, Notes, Email , PC applications: Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Lotus Organizer, Lotus Notes
Sales package: Nokia Battery BP-4L, Nokia Travel Charger AC-10, Nokia Connectivity Cable CA-101, Nokia Wired Headset AD-54, HS-45, Nokia Charger adapter CA-146, cleaning cloth, the Nokia Bluetooth Speakers MD-7W
Navigation: GPS, Compass, Nokia Maps, an accelerometer sensor


Rival:
Now start a lot of phone with touch screen. Some who are arch-rivals the N97 are:

• BlackBerry Storm: HSDPA, 3G, EDGE, GPRS, Bluetooth, 3.2 MP autofocus camera, TFT 3.25 "65K colors, touchscreen, 3.5-mm audio jack, accelerometer sensor, 1GB memory, 5.5 hours of battery talk 360 hours standby, BlackBerry Map, GPS, BlackBerry OS. Price: $725.
• HTC Magic: HSDPA, 3G, EDGE, GPRS, WiFi, Bluetooth, 3.2 MP autofocus camera, TFT 3.25 "65K colors, touchscreen, accelerometer sensor, 288MB memory, battery 7.5 hours talk 420 hours standby, LG KC910 Renoir: HSDPA, 3G, EDGE, GPRS, WiFi, Bluetooth, camera 8MP Schneider Kreuznach autofocus lens, TFT screen 3 "256K colors, touchscreen, accelerometer sensor, 100MB memory, battery 3 hours talk 264 hours standby, GPS, AGPS. Price: $630.
• 8GB iPhone 3G: HSDPA, 3G, EDGE, GPRS, WiFi, Bluetooth, 2MP camera, TFT screen 3.5 "16 million colors, touchscreen, accelerometer sensor, 288MB memory, 10-hour battery talk 300 hours standby, GPS. Price: $1,100.
• Samsung SGH-i900 Omnia: HSDPA, 3G, EDGE, GPRS, WiFi, Bluetooth, 5MP autofocus camera, TFT display 3.2 "256K colors, touchscreen, 8GB memory, battery 5.8 hours talk 500 hours standby, GPS. Price: $630.
• Sony Ericsson Xperia X1: HSDPA, 3G, EDGE, GPRS, WiFi, Bluetooth, 3.2 MP autofocus camera, TFT screen 3 "65K colors, touchscreen, 256MB memory, 10-hour battery talk 833 hours standby, GPS. Price: $640.
  

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G30 HT Link, third price Nokia E71 Tweet

Series replica form large vendors are often made in China will find hape, such as HT. They deliberately take advantage of Indonesia's consumer market and some are illiterate technology.

Unmitigated, the adoption of the screen or qwerty keypad on the front cover is made exactly the same HT with Nokia. With a screen size of 2.2 ", color depth level merely wrote that lame because G30 has only 65,000 color LCD with a pixel density of 220 × 176 pixels, while the E71 to reach 265 thousand color TFT screen.

Another key change was also found in the dialed calls. Understandably G30 has a dual SIM card GSM-based networks that can be active simultaneously. As for the shortcut to the main menu located on the side, adjacent to the navigation key.

Move to the edge, on the right mobile phone this smart pin volume settings button on the right, flanking the camera shortcut button. To the left edge, there is only dual function of the port to charge and plugging in the headset.

Turning to look back, with broad backs, G30 just decorate the top hape with VGA camera lens and flash are neatly lined up next to a loud pemuntah at the far right. Actually, there is a second charger plug, so that can be charged using a charger Nokia small tip. Strangely, this second charger was not included in the sales package.

Camera
For the narcissistic features of this one, do not expect much signal with excellent image quality when using an indoor room as a shooting location. Because of the test signal, the quality of the G30 snap less than expectations, too much noise in the picture. As a result, the image objects not visible shoot even have to use flash in body G30.

Setting up with changing camera with flash settings, and to push image density settings to 640x480 with high quality plus scene modes with night mode can you make one of the solutions to obtain results better picture. Suggestions signals, considering the quality was limited G30 VGA camera, do not make pictures in the perpetuation of low-light.

Applications
The rise of social networking sites that are devoted to a cause in the community seems to be the main points as the initial concept spawned a series G30. For the signal to find a series of separate applications created as a shortcut. Something to Facebook, the chat application version 1.2 and Yamee eBuddy and opera mini browser inside subfitur JAVA applications in the main menu.

Unfortunately, the test signals carried by one operator using a network provider, less application running smoothly. Connectivity capabilities G30's known on track GPRS Class 12. So, you have to choose smart coverage area which is supported by the service you use.

Music
Unlike mobile phone China's output is typically, audio quality of the G30 can be relied upon to entertain the ears, although not reliable as the well-known vendor products. Output sound very shrill and unnatural is always identical with the Chinese successfully hape Audio Player ditepis by G30.

Proved, when the signal is playing the songs the balance of bass and treble can be properly accommodated, although still sounding a little noise. Another case, when you listen with a headset, it also immediately tereleminir and ear noise can be more entertained.

Just info, to select the music genre you want G30 provides equalizer settings in the options subfitur. Next, select Settings, then scroll to the equalizer option and search your characteristics in listening to music. There are rock, treble, bass, classical, normal, party, pop or dance.

Conclusion:
HT Mobile is a replica hape that do promote their sites and social networking applications. Competitive prices could be offered an alternative solution for end users, to get hape 'smart' with multimedia completeness and to double simcard. Of course, the existence of third quarter features bandrol money pinned.

PLUS: its qwerty keys easy in operation (more tender when squeezed)

MINUS: poor camera quality though it was aided by a flash body

SPECIFICATIONS HT G30 Link
Price: $120
Dimensions: 113.5 x57x11 mm
Weight: 88 grams
Battery: 1000mAh
Network: Dual on GSM (900/1800 MHz)
Screen: 262,144 color TFT, 220 × 176 pixels, 2.2 inches
Internal Memory: 500KB
External Memory: Micro SD can push up to 16GB
Connectivity: GPRS Class 12, Bluetooth A2DP
Camera: VGA Camera with Flash
Messaging: SMS, MMS, email
Applications: Facebook, chat eBuddy, Opera Mini browser, Yamee, Supports Java games
Package Contents: Mobile HTG30 Link, handsfree, 2 batteries, Cd driver, Charger sitting, micro USB data cable, holster 2 hape silicon, warranty card, manual book.
Talk time: an average of 4 hours
Standby time: average 3 days
Other: Polyphonic (MP3), MP3/MP4 player, FM radio, FM recording, Magic Sound, Anti-Theft, Blacklist, NES Emulator, Muslims Pray time, 500 Phonebook entries, voice recorder, e-book reader, a PC webcam, Calculator, Calendar, Alarm, stopwatch, Speakerphone, Game.

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Google Challenge Amazon, Falls to Business E-Book Tweet

Actually, Google has long tempted by the e-book market that had been dominated by the Amazon. The first quarter of this year alone, these online book retailers recorded a revenue of 4.9 billion U.S. dollars with net income U.S. $ 177 million.

While sales of media, ie books, movies, and music, contributed revenues U.S. $ 2.7 billion. However, only now Google's director of strategic partnerships spoke Tom Turvey, announced the readiness of companies to enter the e-book market at the end of 2009.

Reported by the New York Times, Amazon's strategy is different from that set prices average U.S. $ 9.99 for the titles of best-selling (bestsellers) on the Kindle device, Google intends to sell books at prices determined by the publisher.

Google also plans to sell online access from the titles of books to readers. Access means the books purchased will not be limited to a particular device, but will need internet access and some kind of caching is off-line (possibly Google Gears).

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Google Buying Video Compression Company of 1.20 billion dollars Tweet

MOUNTAIN VIEW - In the midst of economic recession, Google still continue to do acquisitions. Fund about 1.20 billion dollars to buying company based in Mountain View, California, U.S. to buy a manufacturer of video compression solutions On2 Technologies Inc..

On2 video compression technology developed so that the files with large size can be compressed to be easily sent over the Internet. The technology is very important in the middle of the multimedia content on the Internet.

"Video is now an important part of web services technology and we believe high-quality video compression should be part of a web platform," said Sundar Pichai, vice president of Google's product management.

This acquisition is part of Google's strategy to strengthen its business in video services. Previously Google has acquired YouTube worth 1.65 billion dollars in 2006.

The value offered by Google's acquisition to On2 Technologies for 106.5 million U.S. dollars. Google hopes the acquisition can be completed in the fourth quarter of this year.

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Want to compete with Skype, Google Purchase Gizmo5 Tweet

With the target will help Google Voice to Skype competitors, Google was buying a company, which is Gizmo5.

What is Gizmo5? Gizmo5 is a producer of software that allows users to make phone calls voice-over-IP (VoIP) from computers and mobile phones respectively. This service is very similar to Skype, which also offers VoIP phone service.

The acquisition was announced on the Google Voice Google his blog. There Wesley Chan and Craig Walker said that the existing Gizmo5 users will still be able to use their services, but Google will stop the registration of new services. The existing users will not be able to register a new call number.

"Currently we do not yet have specific features to be announced. Gizmo5 But the engineers will join the team of Google Voice to continue to improve Google Voice and Gizmo5," said Chan and Walker.

Gizmo5 acquisition, similar to Skype, is Google's second acquisition two years ago bought Grand Central. Grand Central now been transformed into a Google Voice. Gizmo5 addition, last week Google also bought admob mobile advertising company worth 450 million pounds. As in the Reuters interview, Google revealed its intention to buy one company each month.

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Because SanDisk, the microSD prices fell sharply Tweet

Looks like no one else wants microSD memory card. MicroSD price was recorded 15% - 20% lower than prices offered by chip vendors.

According to Digitimes, the device manufacturers are now reluctant to buy a microSD card directly from the manufacturer of NAND flash chips. Because they can get better prices from a third party.

Efforts to control prices had remained high microSD made by Samsung with a way to limit the amount of release. But the weakening market demand, and the impact on microSD price decline. The chip manufacturer was asked to lower bid prices.

Black sheep of the price decline is SanDisk's microSD. SanDisk microSD cards began supplying to the NAND flash device maker based in Taiwan with cheap price. The flash-based device manufacturer and then sell the cards as its own brand.

According to DRAMexhange, on November 11, the average price for the 1GB microSD and 2GB respectively down 4.51 percent and 4.86 percent.

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Downloaded Chrome OS Ready Next Week? Tweet

Operating system from Google search engine authority, Chrome OS, ready to be downloaded next week. Thus the gossip on the Internet.

The bad news, though Google says it has worked with Acer, Adobe, Asus, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and Toshiba on its OS Chrome, the number of devices that support earlier this operating system will be limited. According to TechCrunch, these limitations are due to the absence of support for basic components such as network interface hardware and graphics cards. As a result you will not be able to download the Chrome OS and run it on any machine.

Google initially said that the netbook that can run this OS will not be available to the public before the second semester of 2010. However, the code might be open (open source) in the coming weeks, as promised in Google Chrome Blog.

Also different web browser Chrome with Chrome OS, despite the same name - will be coming to Apple machines in December. In a letter to the developers, Nick Baum (Project Manager Chrome browser) says that the Chrome beta version of 4.0 that was only available for Windows and Linux will also be present in the Apple Mac. For your information, Google launched Chrome browser in 2008 and currently still in experimental stages.

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Microsoft sells Linux tool Tweet

If you can not beat him, then Embrace it. As soon as the saying goes. It seems this is what Microsoft's open source.

Lord of proprietary software has just confirmed his pace on the open source arena. Microsoft will sell Linux tool.

Microsoft just bought the assets associated with the Teamprise from SourceGear. This could mean that the developers are using Eclipse IDE, or operate on several operating systems, including Unix, Linux and Mac OS X, will build applications with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.

Microsoft spokesman said, the functionality of the Teamprise Client Suite will be integrated into the Visual Studio product line, which started with Visual Studio 2010. Microsoft initially treat open source like a naughty stepchild. However, recently the company being headquartered in Redmond was softened.

S. Somasegar (Senior Vice President, Developer Division, Microsoft) said that they knew its users every day face the challenge of management, collaboration and development in diverse environments. IT industry, including Microsoft, so he said, must take steps to make interoperability happen.

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Egypt Make First Language Arabic Internet Domain Tweet

Shortly after the non-Latin characters can be used to address the web site, Egypt became the first country to propose a new domian name with Arabic characters. Domains using Arabic characters which reads ". Masr" means Mesir="Egypt".

Egypt Technology Minister Tarek Kamel, Monday (16/11), expects that it can be further popularized the use of the Internet in developing countries. With the existence and content of Arabic web address, internet strived to reach wider segments of society are more familiar with local culture.

"The Internet is now in Arabic," Kamel says in the opening like the Internet Governance Forum. According to him, the new domain is a very important moment for Egypt. New domain in Arabic is believed will attract investment, innovation and economic growth.

Permit the use of Arabic domian name passed in the meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), an independent body that regulates web addresses end of October and then in Seoul, Korea. Besides Arabic, non-Latin characters are also allowed to include China and Korea.

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Rupert Murdoch Not Need Google Help Tweet

Do not want content-generated content network Google indexed media company, Rupert Murdoch was going to take action. Seasoned entrepreneurs owner News Corporation was planning to remove all indexes content from Google's search results in the near future.

It is said Jonathan Miller, chief digital officer of News Corp. in Monaco Media Forum last week. The plan, all content produced by media under the umbrella of News Corp., like The Times, The Sun, and the Wall Street Journal will be cleansed from the Google index engine in the next two years.

According to him, the media industry will not survive if the content-high-quality content is given away freely. He was sure, without the help of Google's search results, the articles made by the media News Corp. can survive and find a place in the hearts of readers.

"Traffic coming from Google's often not desirable that the reader immediately abandoned. That's exactly what actually harmful to us. The effect of the economy was expected. So, you can live without it," Miller said as reported by the Telegraph website.

Miller said there are many approaches to charge of online content and things like that that News Corp. continue to think about. Previously, Murdoch had said that News Corp. plans to apply tariffs to access all the articles made under the media start next June. However, the plan may be delayed.

News Corp. is including this long felt disadvantaged from the articles that appeared through the search engines. For example, the Wall Street Journal article that should be paid if accessed from the site - only free for the first paragraph - but it can be fully accessed if from a Google search result link.

News Corp. will close the meeting emphasized the reach of Google into the content-led content and media industries to follow. This is called News Corp. as a real competition between the camps of free and paid.

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