Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Nokia Schematics Colletion

This is the list of my nokia schematics collection !
Feel free to download it !


Nokia 8210_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119168226/8210_schematics.rar

Nokia 6650_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119156913/6650_schematics.rar

Nokia 3360_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118742120/3360_schematics.rar

Nokia N80_RM92_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119185099/N80_RM92_schematics.rar

Nokia 7370_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119163589/7370_schematics.rar

Nokia 6290_RM-176_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119147378/6290_RM-176_schematics.rar

Nokia 6300_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119148288/6300_Schematics.rar

Nokia N71_RM_67_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119182375/N71_RM_67_schematics.rar

Nokia 6131_6133_6133_6126_RM-126_schematics.rar
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Nokia 5100_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119084783/5100_Schematics.rar

Nokia 9500_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119175802/9500_Schematics.rar

Nokia 6260_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119145373/6260_Schematics.rar

Nokia 7280_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119161891/7280_Schematics.rar

Nokia N73_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119183848/N73_schematics.rar

Nokia 6820_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119159255/6820_Schematics.rar

Nokia 6670_7610_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119157141/6670_7610_Schematics.rar

Nokia 9210_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119172940/9210_schematics.rar

Nokia N90_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119186097/N90_Schematics.rar

Nokia N81_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119185706/N81_schematics.rar

Nokia 6500slide_RM-240_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119155133/6500slide_RM-240_schematics.rar

Nokia 1110_1600_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118653114/1110_1600_schematics.rar

Nokia 3250_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118741341/3250_schematics.rar

Nokia 6021_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119082567/6021_Schematics.rar

Nokia 3650_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119083131/3650_schematics.rar

Nokia 2100_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118653852/2100_schematics.rar

Nokia 9300i_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119174951/9300i_Schematics.rar

Nokia 7250_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119160480/7250_Schematics.rar

Nokia 9210i_level3_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119173798/9210i_level3_Schematics.rar

Nokia 6310_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119154328/6310_Schematics.rar

Nokia 6230i_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119142813/6230i_schematics.rar

Nokia 7500_RM-249_RM250_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119165089/7500_RM-249_RM250_schematics.rar

Nokia E70_rm-10_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119181181/E70_rm-10_schematics.rar

Nokia 6170_7270_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119140707/6170_7270_schematics.rar

Nokia 2220_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118654607/2220_schematics.rar

Nokia 3310_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118741778/3310_schematics.rar

Nokia 8810_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119170514/8810_Schematics.rar

Nokia 3510i_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119049354/3510i_schematics.rar

Nokia 7380__schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119164689/7380__schematics.rar

Nokia E50_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119176282/E50_Schematics.rar

Nokia 9300_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119174383/9300_schematics.rar

Nokia 6070_RM-166_RM-167_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119084285/6070_RM-166_RM-167_schematics.rar

Nokia 5140i_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119085823/5140i_Schematics.rar

Nokia 7600_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119165532/7600_schematics.rar

Nokia N72_RM180_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119183058/N72_RM180_schematics.rar

Nokia 9000i_level3_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119171854/9000i_level3_Schematics.rar

Nokia 2600_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118654999/2600_schematics.rar

Nokia 1100_2300_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118652545/1100_2300_schematics.rar

Nokia 7270_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119161476/7270_schematics.rar

Nokia 8600_schemmatics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119168660/8600_schemmatics.rar

Nokia 3300_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118741535/3300_schematics.rar

Nokia 8910-8910i_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119171483/8910-8910i_Schematics.rar

Nokia 6110_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119136022/6110_schematics.rar

Nokia N76.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119184714/N76.rar

Nokia E61i.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119179611/E61i.rar

Nokia N93_RM55_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119187676/N93_RM55_schematics.rar

Nokia 6085_6086.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119133181/6085_6086.rar

Nokia 6233_RM145_6234_RM123_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119144006/6233_RM145_6234_RM123_schematics.rar

Nokia 6630_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119156576/6630_schematics.rar

Nokia 5210_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119087014/5210_schematics.rar

Nokia 7650_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119166249/7650_schematics.rar

Nokia 2650_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118724656/2650_schematics.rar

Nokia 6136_RM-199_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119139132/6136_RM-199_schematics.rar

Nokia N91_RM43_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119186831/N91_RM43_schematics.rar

Nokia 5200_5300_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119086335/5200_5300_Schematics.rar

Nokia 6610_7210_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119156182/6610_7210_Schematics.rar

Nokia 6151_RM200_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119140204/6151_RM200_schematics.rar

Nokia e61_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119179301/e61_schematics.rar

Nokia 7710_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119166852/7710_schematics.rar

Nokia 3100_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118738391/3100_schematics.rar

Nokia 6100_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119133580/6100_schematics.rar

Nokia N70_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119181807/N70_schematics.rar

Nokia 8850_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119170928/8850_Schematics.rar

Nokia 3200_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118739114/3200_schematics.rar

Nokia 7360_RM-127_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119162326/7360_RM-127_schematics.rar

Nokia E61.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119178901/E61.rar

Nokia 3220_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118739494/3220_schematics.rar

Nokia 6020_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119088517/6020_schematics.rar

Nokia 6230_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119142134/6230_schematics.rar

Nokia 3230_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118739817/3230_schematics.rar

Nokia 6310i_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119154503/6310i_Schematics.rar

Nokia 6800_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119159038/6800_Schematics.rar

Nokia 6101_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119134169/6101_schematics.rar

Nokia 3600_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119049732/3600_Schematics.rar

Nokia E62.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119180041/E62.rar

Nokia N800_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119189900/N800_Schematics.rar

Nokia 3660_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119083636/3660_schematics.rar

Nokia 6111_Schematics_v1.0.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119136685/6111_Schematics_v1.0.rar

Nokia 6070_RM-166_RM-167_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119132771/6070_RM-166_RM-167_schematics.rar

Nokia 5500_RM-86_RM-87_schematics_V1_0.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119087445/5500_RM-86_RM-87_schematics_V1_0.rar

Nokia 9110_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119172273/9110_Schematics.rar

Nokia 3530_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119049496/3530_schematics.rar

Nokia 5110_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119085091/5110_schematics.rar

Nokia 6255_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119145132/6255_schematics.rar

Nokia 9500.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119175409/9500.rar

Nokia 8800_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119169066/8800_Schematics.rar

Nokia 7110_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119159780/7110_Schematics.rar

Nokia 3250_full_service_manual_and_systematic__full_method_how_to_open_3250_.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118740200/3250_full_service_manual_and_systematic__full_method_how_to_open_3250_.rar

Nokia 3108_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118738855/3108_schematics.rar

Nokia 3510_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119049213/3510_schematics.rar

Nokia E60_RM-49_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119177512/E60_RM-49_schematics.rar

Nokia 6060_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119131763/6060_schematics.rar

Nokia 5510_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119087995/5510_schematics.rar

Nokia 6280_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119146897/6280_schematics.rar

Nokia 7260_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119160957/7260_Schematics.rar

Nokia E65_Scheatics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119180653/E65_Scheatics.rar

Nokia 6108_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119135226/6108_schematics.rar

Nokia 8110_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119167553/8110_Schematics.rar

Nokia N-GAGE_QD_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119190205/N-GAGE_QD_schematics.rar

Nokia 6210_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119141013/6210_Schematics.rar

Nokia 7200_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119159998/7200_Schematics.rar

Nokia 6680_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119157544/6680_schematics.rar

Nokia 6120c_RM-243_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119137320/6120c_RM-243_schematics.rar

Nokia 6110_navigator.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119135590/6110_navigator.rar

Nokia 8800_sirocco.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119170146/8800_sirocco.rar

Nokia 3120_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118739003/3120_schematics.rar

Nokia 6030_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119048854/6030_schematics.rar

Nokia 6125_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119137697/6125_schematics.rar

Nokia 2610_RH86_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118655578/2610_RH86_schematics.rar

Nokia 5140_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119085380/5140_schematics.rar

Nokia 6510_8310_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119155472/6510_8310_Schematics.rar

Nokia N95_8GB_RM-320_RM-321_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119189279/N95_8GB_RM-320_RM-321_schematics.rar

Nokia N-GAGE_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119132147/N-GAGE_schematics.rar

Nokia 6500_classic_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119154713/6500_classic_schematics.rar

Nokia 6220_schematics_2_0.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119141427/6220_schematics_2_0.rar

Nokia 6150_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119139777/6150_schematics.rar

Nokia 6250_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119144742/6250_schematics.rar

Nokia 6270_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119145790/6270_schematics.rar

Nokia N95.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119188711/N95.rar

Nokia 6681_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119158239/6681_schematics.rar

Nokia N770_Schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119189589/N770_Schematics.rar

Nokia 6600_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119155850/6600_schematics.rar

Nokia 3210_schematics.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/118739370/3210_schematics.rar

Nokia N93i.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119188355/N93i.rar

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Samsung A737 slider phone (AT&T)

The Samsung A737 doesn’t score a lot of points in the multimedia department, but that doesn’t mean it should be overlooked. Samsung has gone to some lengths to make the phone more usable, both by improving the menu design and the navigation buttons. We especially like the phone’s design. We like the smooth, modern look and the wide center button. It’s easy to underestimate how cramped navigation can be on some slim sliders, and we like that Samsung has eschewed touch controls for real buttons. So, if you’re really into multimedia, you might want to look elsewhere, but for an everyday calling and light messaging phone, the A737 is a good choice. And for only $40 with a contract, it’s not a bad deal, either. Release: October 2007.

Speech recognition on Kyocera mobile phone

Nuance Communications that its speech recognition solutions are now available in the Tempo E2000, a new 2GB music-enabled mobile phone from Kyocera Wireless that also features video on demand (VOD) as well as a 1.3 megapixel camera. With Nuance speech recognition technology, users are able to dictate commands such as name and number dialing, by pressing a single button. There are also command and control features for the handset such as checking status of the battery level, finding contacts and more.

Speech recognition solution on Kyocera Tempo E2000 phone

“Nuance will continue to work with leading handset manufacturers such as Kyocera to deliver superior speech recognition solutions to people on-the-go,” said Michael Thompson, vice president and general manager, mobile search and communications, Nuance. “Voice will become one of the most important trends in the wireless industry in 2008 as safety on the road and communication continues to merge at a rapid rate. We look forward to a continued relationship with Kyocera as these solutions are developed.”

Motorola 3G femtocells

Motorola unveiled its first 3G femtocell customer premises equipment (CPE), the first two units from a portfolio of CPEs that will be commercially available in the second half of 2008, as part of the company’s end-to-end femtocell solution. The Motorola end-to-end femtocell solution is designed for high quality of service levels and is enhanced by the Motorola NBBS platform - Motorola’s device management system. NBBS is a highly scaleable service and CPE management system that enables an excellent end user experience while minimizing operator support costs.

Motorola femtocells

The femtocell that have been showcased at Mobile World Congress include:

* The 8000 Series - Motorola Femtocell Access Point: is a stand-alone Femtocell with an Ethernet bridge. This product is suitable for connecting to a standard home broadband modem or an existing Wi-Fi gateway
* The 8100 Series - Motorola Femtocell Ethernet Gateway: is an integrated Femtocell access point, with a 4-port Ethernet gateway, Voice over IP port, USB connections, and an integrated 802-11 b/g Wi-Fi router. This enables users to connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi from their computers and to the 3G cellular network via their standard 3G phone from the same integrated home gateway.

Motorola NBBS 5.0
Motorola also announced the launch of the new version 5.0 of NBBS enabling broadband CPE, femtocell and mobile device management for WiMAX, GSM/UMTS and CDMA operators, helping them to accelerate the introduction of new services and devices.

Motorola 3G femtocell CPE’s

“Motorola is leading the way in the development of femtocell technology. We now have three trials taking place and our portfolio boasts a true integrated end-to-end solution,” said Alan Lefkof, corporate vice president, Motorola Broadband Solutions Group, Motorola Inc. “The portfolio maximises Motorola’s expertise in home gateways, CPE management systems and FMC solutions, enabling us to offer operators an end-to-end, fully tested and integrated, low risk, fast-to-market offering.”

Wireless voice and real-time data services

Femtocells enable operators to provide higher-quality and higher-performance wireless voice and real-time data services to their customers inside their homes. In addition, they enable a lower cost of delivery for wireless traffic in comparison to a macrocell network. For consumers, the benefits of femtocell include a seamless communication experience as they roam from inside to outside their homes, reduced “in-home” call charges, improved indoor coverage and consolidated billing - all from their existing 3G handsets.

Motorola member of Femto Forum

Motorola is a member of the Femto Forum, the independent industry association that supports femtocell deployment worldwide. In addition, Motorola leverages its leadership in fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) deployments and experience in delivering convergence solutions to major operators worldwide.

Monday, June 2, 2008

AT&T Palm Centro Now Available for us$99.99

As rumoured, Palm today finally announced the availability of the GSM AT&T Palm Centro – available immediately for just $99.99 in new “Glacier White” with green keypad accents (below) and also (in approximately one month) a second model in “Obsidian Black”.

For people used to the limitations of a standard phone it’s clear that Centro offers customers more choices to stay in touch with friends, family and co-workers while on the go by using any choice of voice, text messaging, instant messaging, e-mail or the Web. Featuring a color touch-screen and full QWERTY keyboard, Centro is also the first Palm OS product to launch with AT&T services such as XM Radio Mobile, Push to Talk and MusicID.

The Palm Centro is essentially a “mini Treo for the masses” and is the smallest and lightest smartphone in the world that features both a high resolution touchscreen and full QWERTY keyboard in a candy bar form factor – one that now works with the largest digital voice and data network and also allows you to roam freely globally thanks to its GSM quad band radio.

The Sprint Palm Centro released a few months ago has clearly demonstrated that demand for crossover devices is skyrocketing (according to sources the Centro has actually been one of the bestselling smartphones on Sprint). “The fact is that the Centro hits a sweet spot for many customers looking for a QWERTY device with a solid suite of messaging and multimedia features,” said Michael Woodward, vice president, Business Mobility Products for AT&T’s wireless unit. “At a great price that can be coupled with a variety of AT&T’s messaging and data options, we are thrilled to offer Centro to our 70.1 million customers.”



Existing Centronauts have already raved about the following Centro features:

Superior Phone
Centro’s touch-screen and full QWERTY keyboard, combined with the simplicity of Palm OS, make it easy to use with key features such as one-touch speakerphone, conference calling, ignore a call with text messaging and Bluetooth connectivity.

More importantly, Centro combines the traditional mobile phone size while offering significantly more advanced phone features and much more complete contact information and PC synchronization compared to a traditional mobile phone address book.

Easy Text Messaging
Centro’s SMS text-messaging application displays text and multimedia messages in Palm’s chat-style view, just like PC-based instant messaging, so Centro users can see the entire conversation unfold. Palm is bringing this easy-to-use text messaging capability, which many Treo users have enjoyed for years, to Centro.

Instant Messaging
With the built-in IM application, customers can message with select contacts from their choice of AIM, Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger instant messaging services.

E-Mail Options
Centro makes email easy with (among others) your choice of Versamail, Xpress Mail, Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and Good Mobile Messaging. Using Xpress Mail, users can easily set up and access personal email from Gmail, AOL, Yahoo!, Windows Live and other popular Internet service providers. Xpress Mail also provides access to Lotus Notes.

Via Exchange ActiveSync, receiving Microsoft Outlook email while on the go, as well as syncing Outlook contacts and calendar appointments, can be done right after the phone comes out of the box. Good Mobile Messaging is also supported on Centro and is downloadable over the air from get.good.com.

Music Options
The AT&T Mobile Music platform includes the ability to sideload music with Napster and eMusic with built-in Pocket Tunes Deluxe, listen to live radio with XM Radio Mobile, discover new songs with MusicID and more. Centro from AT&T is the first Palm smart device to offer XM Radio Mobile. For $8.99 a month, XM Radio Mobile gives AT&T consumers 25 of the best XM Radio channels, featuring commercial-free rock, hip-hop, country, jazz and more. A free three-day trial is included with Centro.

With a database of more than 3 million artists and titles, Centro customers can use MusicID to identify an unknown song. While holding Centro up to a speaker, the MusicID application returns song information such as title, artist and cover art, if available. It also keeps track of previous IDs and allows users to share song information with friends via text messages, all for $3.99 a month. A free three-day trial is included with Centro.

Contacts and Calendar
Since Centro comes with the Palm OS, it offers all of the great organizer functionality for which Palm is renowned, such as a detailed and integrated contacts list. Also, the simple and handy calendar makes it easier to manage increasingly busy lives.

Other unique AT&T Services for Centro

Push to Talk — Centro users can instantly talk across the largest Push to Talk network coverage area in America. Push to Talk works like a walkie-talkie to talk to an individual or a group of up to 29 users. With status icons that clearly indicate the availability of friends and family, Push to Talk customers will know who is free before they call. Users can purchase unlimited Push to Talk minutes with Nation Plans for $9.99 a month for each line and with FamilyTalk for $19.99 a month for each group (two to five lines). Customers also can use Push to Talk on a pay-per-use basis for $0.15 a minute.
TeleNav GPS Navigator — With an optional stand-alone GPS receiver accessory, TeleNav GPS Navigator gives Centro users access to maps and more than 10 million points of interest, as well as turn-by-turn voice and on-screen driving directions. Unlimited access to Navigator costs $9.99 a month.
MobiTV — With MobiTV, Centro users can watch live television, premium and prime-time programming, video-on-demand clips and satellite and digital music services from the top broadcast and cable television networks and major music labels for $9.99 a month.
EDGE Network
The Palm Centro from AT&T operates on AT&T’s EDGE network, part of the GSM family of technologies. Used by more than 86 percent of the world’s wireless subscribers — 2.7 billion people — GSM is the world’s most popular wireless phone technology, allowing unparalleled global roaming capabilities. AT&T customers with quad-band devices such as Centro can place calls in more than 195 countries and access data in more than 140.

Pricing and Availability
The AT&T Palm Centro is available at all AT&T retail stores and online for $99.99 after a two-year service agreement and a mail-in rebate. Unlimited email and data access is available for $30 a month with AT&T’s PDA Personal data package with a corresponding voice plan. Messaging packages are available beginning at $5 for 200 text, picture, video or instant messages. Unlimited messaging is available for $20 for individual plans and $30 for FamilyTalk plans.

T9 Nav predictive search service

At the Mobile World Congress Nuance announced a special trial edition of T9 Nav, a mobile discovery solution that provides a fast way to access all features, applications and content on a mobile device in just a few key presses. T9 Nav is simple and powerful mobile discovery software that significantly improves the mobile user experience by allowing users to bypass button-driven menu systems which often require complex combinations of key presses, offering a fast, direct and repeatable way to access features and content on the phone. It intelligently adapts to user behaviour over time, reordering and predicting frequently searched terms using the industry leading, patented algorithms from XT9/T9 software.

T9 Nav customisable keyword feature

This ‘Barcelona Edition’ of T9 Nav showcases the basic functionality and customisable keyword feature of the software in a way that is relevant and useful to anyone attending Mobile World Congress. Show delegates can easily find exhibitor information including booth locations, maps, key contacts and product/service descriptions as well as information about Barcelona such as listings for restaurants, hotels, and tourist information by simply typing in the first few letters of whatever they are looking for. The Barcelona Edition is available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

T9 Nav predictive search service

Using T9 Nav is extremely easy: for example typing “m-u” (i.e., “6-8″) from the home screen of the phone takes the user directly to the music player application, a link to information on Barcelona museums and the Nuance Communications exhibitor listing as well as other device features, content and applications beginning with those letters. T9 Nav also adapts to user behaviour over time to provide customised search results based on frequently accessed features and content.

Nuance T9 Nav software

Says Eric Collins, General Manager for Nuance’s T9 Business Unit: ‘Nuance Mobile Solutions make it easier to control mobile devices, automate customer services, and access and discover even the most advanced mobile applications and content - regardless of technical know-how, location, environment or physical and literacy capabilities. By offering T9 Nav as a trial download at the show, Nuance provides a sneak peek at the power and potential of this software to simplify and enhance the way millions of people worldwide use their phone, making mobile content, information and services accessible in just a few clicks.’

Smartphone 2010: What Your Future Phone Will Be Packing

What can we expect from our smartphones two years from now? That’s a pretty short amount of time, but a number of technologies that have been in development for years are about to jump from lab to factory, and straight into the next generation of mobile devices. Rather than explore the what-if’s and could-be’s of future smartphones, let’s take a reality-based look at what’s coming around the bend.

The smartphones of 2010 are not going to be leaps and bounds better than they are today, but they will be closer to becoming the single most important devices we own. “There are three key trends that will cause a fundamental change in the role and nature of smartphones over the next few years: broadband everywhere; digitization of all content; and pocket computing power,” said Juergen Stark, corporate VP and general manager ofMotorola’s Mobile Devices.

These trends have already turned cell phones into smartphones and will drive the evolution of smartphones into devices that are always connected, that have access to all of your digital content as well as to the Web, and that provide a wider array set of personal services.

A Smart Phone Is A Connected Phone
According to Motorola’s Stark, there are three components in this future solution. The mobile hardware, the mobile operating systems, and the Web-based ecosystem. “This ecosystem will include many apps and services that will come from a variety of providers, big and small, but will be anchored around a few key services,” he said. “The other apps and services will be like smaller tenants around anchor tenants at the mall. Those key services will be: communications, contacts, calendar, location services, payment, identity, and content access/management.”

The biggest opportunities and changes will come with broadband Internet connectivity that is available no matter where you are. The next generation of wireless networks is on its way.Verizon Wireless and Sprint already have 3G networks up and running across most of the U.S. AT&T is slowly catching up, and T-Mobile will eventually get around to rolling out its own high-speed network as well. These 3G networks will evolve to 3.5G networks in two years time, meaning faster downloading and uploading of content via smartphones. While 4G networks on are the horizon, none will be widespread in just two years.

Smartphones, more than any other device, will be able to take advantage of these networks to empower users to do or access nearly anything.

But they will need better processing muscle to take advantage of the faster networks. Enter Intel’s Moorestown chip. Due in about two years, Moorestown is the soul of an old machine — a PC — in miniature. It’s an x86 processor with a graphics adapter, shrunk onto a chip that fits onboard a smartphone.

Look at usage models of most smartphones. People like to access their online accounts; but today, looking for (and at) information on a WAP-based browser is difficult. Combining ubiquitous high-speed networks with fleet-of-foot HTML-based mobile browsers means you’ll have the power of the Web in the palm of your hand. “The complete Internet experience that you have on your PC will be available in the mobile space,” said Sebastian Nystrom, director of technology strategy withNokia.

“What’s coming on top of that will be widgets, small applications that run on your device and access information on the back end. Mobility will bring new aspects to the Internet. We’ll see more devices that offer a truly comparable experience to the broadband access that people have at home today. That is going to be a key enabler.”

Laptops, by comparison, may be mobile, but you don’t use them when you walk down the street or drive to the same extent that you use a pocketable mobile device. People will start to see the power of how Internet applications are evolving and how they are tied to mobility. Applications such as GPS-based location and navigation, social networking, and Web 2.0 tools will present many opportunities for developers to enrich the devices.

More Memory For Multimedia Apps
A coming shift in how smartphones fit into our digital lives much less about getting the phone to do what other portable devices do today (camera, music player, gaming, etc.) and more about connecting you to your Web-ecosystem of apps, services, and content. “Having a device that is always with you, always connected, and has the power to run all of your key applications and access all of your digital content will drive a massive change in the role of the smartphone and have a more profound impact on how we live our lives day-to-day than any consumer electronics device in history,” notesMotorola’s Stark.

In terms of applications, anything that has to do with entertainment, music, and video is going to be big. Increases in memory capacity will play a large role in this. Today we have two types. Some smartphones have on-board memory and others use microSD cards. Going forward we’ll still see a combination of this. One form is not going to win. Either way, storage capacity is going to increase dramatically. “Flexibility for large-capacity cards, allows you to move content easier,” said Silviu Moraru, manager of technology and competitive intelligence for Samsung.

At CES last month, SanDisk (NSDQ: SNDK) displayed a tiny 12-Gbyte MicroSD card (six times the capacity SanDisk had a year ago) — think of all the photos, video, and music a card like this could hold when slipped inside a smartphone.

Those images can then be projected onto a flat surface and shared with others, when tiny projectors from Microvision, 3M, and TI hit the market. “With Microvision’s projector, you could view and share everything ranging from YouTube videos, MSN newscasts, and Google search results to PowerPoint presentations, feature-length films, and family photos in a large, full-color, high-resolution format instead of a 2-inch, Quarter Video Graphics Array display,” said Alexander Tokman, Microvision’s president and CEO, in a statement.

Having access to your content and being able to display and transfer large amounts of it easily will let people do more with the devices. This includes watching movies, listening to music, shooting and storing high-quality pictures and video, and sharing it via tools such as Flickr, Picasa, YouTube and others. Smartphones will access all of your content and all of your media, including work and personal documents, music, video, etc. Some of this will be stored on the device, some will be stored in the network cloud.

“Clearly the software capabilities of these devices is going to be really fantastic,” said Nokia’s Nystrom. “With the evolution of processing power, the richness is quite astonishing. The performance of the devices and applications to create fantastic effects, enhance content and be responsive is increasing all the time.”

Targeted Smartphone Features
So what else will the smartphones of 2010 be packing? Here are some thoughts from Motorola, Nokia, and Samsung.

First, smartphones will be targeted at different user segments. Some users want better cameras, others don’t need them. Some want QWERTY keyboards, others prefer touchscreens. In the end, it really depends on how attractive a particular feature is to the customer. “The things that people prioritize on are different,” said Samsung’s Moraru. “There will be no Swiss Army Knife device. You’ll have more targeted solutions.”

Vendors will continue to experiment with different form factors (slider, touch panel, QWERTY, etc.) but this will settle down to a couple of preferred form factors that provide the biggest screen and best keypad in the most pocketable device.

Will it be touch screens or QWERRTY keyboards rule the day? “A combination of touch and keys will make the most sense,” said Motorola’s Stark. “Individuals will have their own personal bias in terms of what they like best and devices which come in multiple flavors will be the rule. The ability to type messages quickly will be a rapidly increasing requirement on even regular phones.”

Faster Bluetooth, More GPS-powered Apps
Blutooth is already pretty much in every smartphone already. In a couple of years we’ll see Bluetooth evolve to provide better connectivity and faster data transfers with Bluetooth 3.0. Local wireless connections will primarily be Wi-Fi. “In 2010, you’ll see Bluetooth and WiFi in every device,” said Nokia’s Nystrom “Ultra Wideband adoption will be slow, the ecosystem won’t be there yet. In the bigger scheme of things, Wi-Fi is really going to be important. It will be leveraged for downloads on much faster networks than the HSPA or EVDO networks. And there is a move to have devices that support a/b/g and n. Multiple radio technologies are going to be on board.”

Nystrom also believes near-field communications, used for mobile payment systems, will be mainstream. “Networks and banks are rolling out NFC systems. They fit nicely in a mobile device and are one of the more promising new technologies to be developed recently. Two years from now, smartphones will have this technology.”

GPS will power everything. Smartphones will have GPS systems on board, and, with location-aware Internet services, will do more than help you get from point A to point B. GPS-powered applications will help you find your family, friends and colleagues, as well as connect you with services in your vicinity.

One thing we won’t see much of is WiMax. “It is really dependent on its rollout and where [Sprint’s] focus is going to be going forward,” said Samsung’s Moraru. “It will take a while before we really get to see widespread 4G. WiMax will definitely be in aircards, but not in phones, not in two years. There is a pretty big risk involved. Until things are more solid, and Sprint solves its other problems, people are going to be cautious about WiMax. It will probably emerge, but won’t be widespread.”

Nokia believes sensor-based interaction is going to play a big role in smartphones two years from now. Some phones, such as the iPhone, already automatically reorient the screen depending on which way you hold the device. Many more phones will have this type of technology built in. “We’ve already been talking about and showing some sensor-based user experiences on high-level devices,” said Nokia’s Nystrom. “Combining motion sensors and accelerometers together with location-based technologies, local payment technologies, etc., it really creates a whole new set of opportunities for people to interact with phones. Simple gestures, such as devices you can shake, or turn to navigate in 3D, or move to find out where North actually is, will be prevalent.”

Nokia, for example, is bringing to market a new way to silence a phone call. Simply turn your phone over when you see an incoming call that you don’t want to answer. The phone will be silenced and the call sent to voicemail.

The Wait For A Better Battery Continues
One place where smartphones won’t make a major leap is with battery life. That’s not to say that phone makers aren’t working on the problem. “Motorola has significant engineering and intellectual property to get the best battery life possible while running a device that is increasingly a pocket computer… And we make additional improvements every year. That said, the ability to power these device will be a critical constraint which will not be addressed by continual advancements on current battery technology.”

While smartphones of the future won’t be able to do everything we see in science fiction movies, they are moving forward rapidly. Some technologies that have been evolving over the last several years will be ready for prime time in 2010, and smartphones will be the first devices to adopt them.

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Vocera Reveals A Wi-Fi Phone For Workers


Vocera, a provider of voice communication systems, on Friday unveiled its T1000 Wi-Fi phone for mobile workers looking for a more efficient way to communicate over corporate wireless local area networks.

The T1000 is a single-mode phone that uses 802.11b/g wireless technology — a set of standards developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers — not cellular technology, as a means of communication. By using their company’s WLAN, employees can make voice calls or send text messages inside buildings without incurring additional costs. Cellular carriers charge for such services and often don’t provide good coverage inside buildings.

The phone can be shared among users instead of being designated to a specific person. For example, the phone can be allocated when a user logs into the Vocera System for a shift. A phone number associated with the user’s profile is what identifies that person on the network. All voice mail and text messages are sent to the user, not the phone, according to Vocera.

Vocera is best suited for vertical industries, such as hospitals, where staffs have a need for in-building communication. The company also offers the Vocera Communications Badge, a wireless network badge that physicians in hospitals can wear, speak into, and listen through.

Both the network badge and the new T1000 phone utilize Vocera’s communication system, which comes with a dedicated call button for making calls by name, by group, or broadcasting a call. Alternatively, users can dial using a phone keypad. The system secures all communication through the use of the WPA-2 security protocol.

In environments like hospitals, the phone is meant to stay sanitary with the outer surface containing a BioCote anti-microbial agent that reduces the growth of bacteria, fungi, and mold.

The T1000 will become available at the end of this year. Vocera said it will provide pricing closer to the actual launch of the phone.

25 Native iPhone Apps We Hope to See

Thursday promises to be an eventful day for the iPhone. That’s when Apple will summon the tech press to its Cupertino, California, headquarters to hear about the company’s plans for the mobile device–particularly in regard to applications built by third parties.

All signs point to Apple’s taking the wraps off a software development kit (SDK) that it had promised to deliver in February. And when Apple does grant developers access to building native applications for the iPhone, that will mark a significant new direction for the device since Apple first previewed the iPhone at the January 2007 Macworld Expo.

Back in the days before the iPhone’s launch, Apple resisted calls to open the iPhone to third-party development, citing its desire to preserve the device’s security and stability. By last summer’s Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple offered developers an alternative: They could create Web-based applications that iPhone users would access through the device’s built-in Safari browser.

Though some software developers took Apple up on that offer, others built native iPhone apps anyway. The catch was, to install these third-party apps, users had to “jailbreak” their iPhones, which works by intercepting the communication that is supposed to happen between the iPhone and iTunes–thereby voiding the warranty and running the risk that future iPhone software updates would render the phone inoperable.

In October, Apple signaled an end to this cat-and-mouse game, promising to deliver an iPhone SDK in February. That SDK is likely to be a major focus of the conversation when Apple kicks things off at Thursday’s event.

But the specifics of what Apple plans to say Thursday remain up in the air: How open will the iPhone be to third-party development? Will Apple place tight restrictions on third-party apps, as some reports have speculated, or will those restrictions apply only to paid apps, as others have claimed? And when third-party applications do appear–assuming some won’t be unveiled on Thursday to kick-start development–what can we expect to see?

We won’t know the answers to the first couple of questions until Thursday, and it’ll take a while longer to see what kind of native apps emerge in the wake of Apple’s likely SDK unveiling. But we don’t have to wait to present our own wish list of iPhone applications that we want to see appear in native form.

We convened a panel of iPhone users–editorial director Jason Snell, senior news editor Jonathan Seff, associate editor Dan Moren, and senior editors Rob Griffiths, Dan Frakes, and Christopher Breen–and asked them to assemble a list of the applications they want third-party developers to burn the midnight oil creating. They came up with 25 programs they want right now, which we’ve ranked here in ascending order of urgency.

Did they miss a potential opportunity for third-party software development? Let us hear about it in the comments area below.

Adobe bites its tongue after iPhone Flash jab

Was Steve Jobs trying to send an unofficial message to Adobe Systems? Something on the order of “get it in gear, guys, if you want to stay on my VIP list”?

As my colleague Tom Krazit reported Tuesday afternoon, Jobs used the Apple shareholders’ meeting to publicly dismiss the the full-blown PC Flash version as “too slow to be useful” on the iPhone. He then went on to describe the mobile version–Flash Lite–as “not capable of being used with the Web.”

That’s an unusual–albeit refreshingly frank–way to talk in public about a business partner. Give Jobs credit for speaking his mind, although I very much doubt Adobe appreciated his candor.

I tried to get a comment from Adobe, which has worked closely with Apple over the years. Will Flash be supported on the iPhone or not? Here’s the official non-response, response to my query:

“”Flash and Flash Lite are a huge success. All major handset manufacturers worldwide license Flash today delivering a broad range of mobile devices ranging from feature phones to smartphones and consumer electronic devices. With more than 450 million Flash-enabled mobile devices shipped worldwide and 150 percent year-over-year growth we are on track to see 1 billion Flash enabled devices by 2010. Consumers demand a rich Web experience on any device and platform and Flash delivers just that. We look forward to our continued relationship with industry leaders to deliver engaging experiences to consumers worldwide.”