Acer beTouch E210 - Smartphones with touchscreen and QWERTY keypad

Actually, that combines a touch screen phone with a QWERTY keypad is not new, since we know Palm Treo have first to do it, as in the products Treo 650 or Treo Centro.

Acer participate also issued a phone that combines a QWERTY keypad with a touch screen on the phone. Acer beTouch E210 mobile phone that has a physical full QWERTY keyboard and 2.6-inch touch screen. Smartphone Acer beTouch E210 is running Android 2.2 Froyo and has all the cool features we know Android.

Although not the first, Android phone that combines a QWERTY keypad and touch screen, because Motorola also issued a similar phones like Motorola Charm or Motorola Droid Pro but Smartphone Acer beTouch E210 has a smaller size and lighter that is sized 116mm long and weight in at 110g making it compact and easily portable. Acer beTouch E210 battery capacity of 1300mAh and operate on HSDPA / HSUPA networks at 900/2100MHz or 850/1900MHz. The CPU inside the phone is a ST Ericsson PNX6715 running at Processor at 416MHz

Acer beTouch E210 has an internal ROM 512MB and 256MB of internal RAM. 3.2 MP camera and the phone has WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, micro-SD card slot, micro-USB port, and 3.5mm headphone port. This phone also has an FM tuner, G-sensor, and compass.

Specification of Acer beTouch E210:
- Dimensions: 116 x 63 x 11.95 mm
- 110 g (with battery)
- Android 2.2
- HSDPA
- Qualcomm MSM 7227, 600 MHz
- 512 MB ROM, 256 MB RAM
- Display: 2.6″ QVGA TFT
- 3,2 Megapixel camera
- Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
- Bluetooth
- GPS / AGPS
- MicroSD Card slot
- Lithium-ion battery, 1300 mAh

 

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iMessage - The New rival of BlackBerry Messenger

As if to match the features of BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), a mainstay of BlackBerry, Apple presents iMessage. iMessage is a Apple cloud computing-based data services that functions the same as BlackBerry Messenger.

Some analysts also assess iMessage technology is a serious threat to BlackBerry Messenger. In fact, this warning could make the stock price by Research in Motion (RIM) as the manufacturer of the BlackBerry, declined in the United States.

Tavis McCourt of Morgan Keegan analyst firm mengistilahkan iMessage is a shot that directly led to the fuel. In fact, the fuel that has more than 40 million global users is one key to RIM's success outside the United States.

RIM relies on its sales growth in Latin America and Asia where they gained popularity because of BlackBerry Messenger feature. Well, could undermine the popularity viewed iMessage BlackBerry Messenger in this region that the edges are reduced sales of the BlackBerry.

"Given Apple's history, we think iMessage not be released if it does not have a competitive delivery time and a good performance," said Tavis, as he believes that ultimately the same iMessage good performance if compared with the BlackBerry Messenger.

Mike Abramsky, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets also assess iMessage will tempt young people BlackBerry user loyalty  to switch to the iPhone. According to him, the arrival of iMessage brings uncertainty as to whether the BlackBerry Messenger will remain competitive in the long term.
On the other hand, the pressure is more intense for the BlackBerry Messenger is expected to come from Android. Tavis view that given the rapid growth, Google might be triggered to make the same messenger service function to the BlackBerry Messenger.

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Angry Birds Coming soon on Facebook

Angry Birds Game increasingly widespread, having previously attended the computer version and the version of the web, this time the protagonists in the game with these birds as ready visited the world's most popular networking site, Facebook.

The news was delivered by Peter Vesterbacka, Chief Marketing Officer Rovio, a manufacturer Angry Birds. Facebook version of Angry Birds plan will be rolled within 3 months.

"We will launch a social game in the coming months.We are discussing with Facebook team and Angry Birds will belive on this site within three months," said Vesterbacka.

Angry Birds mobile version has been downloaded about 200 million times so far and scored success on all platforms. Continuing the story, Rovio also expanding into social networking sites like Facebook.

As quoted by the Telegraph, Angry Birds on Facebook is available for free. But the user can pay for extra features.

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Toshiba Thrive - The colorful tablets

As ever it was informed that Toshiba will release a 10.1-inch tablet, It's not only issues of course, Toshiba brings Android-based tablet Honeycomb 3.1 that will debut on the market starting next July, initially in the United States.

Toshiba Thrive, thus the name of Toshiba's tablet has a 10.1 inch screen size with a resolution of 1280x800 pixels. 2.1 megapixel camera front and rear 5 megapixel camera. Thrive sold with the cheapest version costs $ 429.

Reported by eWeek, Thrive Toshiba battery lasting up to seven hours claimed. Using a dual core processor Nvidia Tegra 2.

Present in 6 attractive colors variant choice, make Toshiba Thrive is the colorful tablets compared to other tablets

Toshiba Thrive Specs :

• Android™ 3.0 (Honeycomb)
• 10.1" LED Backlit Multi-Touch Display
• WXGA (1280x800), HD 720p Wide-Viewing Angle, 16:10 aspect ratio
• NVIDIA® Tegra 2 1GHz Dual-Core Processor, NVIDIA GeForce® Graphics - 1GB LP-DDR2 RAM
• Memory - Up to 32GB on Board, Full-size SD Slot
• Camera - 2MP Front Facing Webcam with Integrated Microphone, 5MP Rear Camera with Auto Focus and Digital Zoom
• Full-Size USB 2.0
• Mini USB
• Full-Size HDMI
• 23 W-hr Prismatic Lithium Ion User-replaceable Battery

 

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Adchoices replace 'Ads By Google'

You may be surprised to see that the code had Adchoices on Google adsense ads. We know usually on the bottom right corner of our ads was written Ads By google, now written Adchoices. Now begins my curiosity going choices this ad icons on google adsense ads, I was then searching on google, what the hell with this adchoices icon or code, whether my adsense ads are not normal. I then get the answer, it turns out it was perfectly normal, and even beneficial to both advertisers as well as to publishers.

Why I say helpful, because now we as Google adsense publisher can choose the target of our blog, whether our blogs visitornya targets from among students or businessmen. For example, earlier when I use the new features adchoices google adsense, I choose the category of Gadget or Technology

Is this also useful to advertisers?, of course, because the target advertisers who advertise through google adsense be better targeted.

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Solar Bikini

American designer Andrew Schneider created the bikini swimsuit in solar cells with a socket for recharging a mobile phone while you sunbathe.

Andrew Schneider is a student at Interactive Telecommunications Program Tisch School of Arts degree from New York University and according to its Web site, the bikini will be commercialized.

A bikini allowing you to charge your mp3-player, Solar Bikini is a swimsuit retrofitted with 1" x 4" photovoltaic film strips sewn together in series with conductive thread. The cells terminate in a 5 volt regulator into a USB connection.

The Solar Bikini is perfect for those who want to go the beach, listen to music, and enjoy a cold and deserved beverage, but who do not want to get wet! You've got tunes, you've got beer, you've got sun, and you've got eachother in swimwear. The rest is up to you.

For the male version of the Solar Bikini will be also called iDrink, have a larger surface area equal to the voltage output more.

Remarkable innovation..!

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