Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Apple iphone4

The Apple iPhone 4 is the latest version of the Apple smartphone and supersedes the three earlier versions offering many more features and applications.
A major difference between this phone and previous models is video calling. The phone has two cameras, one front facing and one back facing. The back facing camera is typical of those found in most modern phones, and although it is far from being the best smartphone camera, it is adequate for the majority of situations where users just want to take a quick snapshot.
However the front facing camera is designed with video calling in mind. It is not that many years ago when the only hand held video calling device people knew about was found on Star Trek, but now it is available to anyone. Apple were far from being the first smartphone manufacturer to include video calling on their phone, but other features of the phone such as its extended battery life, improved connectivity and superb display screen means that it is one of the best implementations of this technology.
This phone is also twice as fast as the iPhone 3 and a remarkable four times as fast as the original iPhone. This is down to an improved processor and software. The operating system is Apple’s IOS which is also found on the iPad. The user interface is a gesture controlled multi-touch screen with virtual sliders, buttons and switches with instantaneous response times. The phone is also equipped with an accelerometer and gyrometer which allows it to be controlled by physical movement of the body.
In addition to all the functionality of the phone, a major appeal is its design and style. It shares many design features with its predecessors, but this fourth generation model has an attractive steel rim. The phone is also flat rather than bulged as were previous models and is a little smaller. This is because the antennae have been moved from the phone to the surrounding metal band. This can cause a problem if users cover a gap on the band that separates the Bluetooth and the 3G antennae, but that is easily fixed by adding a rubber bumper or holding the phone is a slightly different manner. You can pick up the iphone 4 today at Dialaphone.co.uk, visit the site now to see all the offers available.

Monday, January 10, 2011

MotorolaXOOM

A year ago, Apple started the whole tablet revolution with the iPad. From that point onwards till now, there have been many competitive tablets released in the market, but none seem to match up to the iPad. These 'iPad-killers' came with a feature or two that excelled; stuff like dual-cameras, a pocketable design or even the ability to make phone-calls. But the iPad's optimized Interface worked in its favor, while the rest ran Android 2.x, which was designed with smaller smartphone screens in mind. Thus these assassins failed to make a killing, and the iPad - despite its flaws - still thrives.

But things may take a dramatic change this year, especially after CES 2011 last week. Many of those awe-inspiring tablets that were only seen through the eyes of a blurry camera lens', came out of their closet and flaunted themselves. Many of these have some serious hardware and software that will not only easily challenge the ability of the current iPad, but should also serve a tough fight to the iPad 2, which is speculated to be officially unveiled in February. If you're planning to purchase a tablet this year, please consider the following points.

Motorola XOOM 
The first Tablet running Android's codename Honeycomb OS was shown off in its prototype stages not too long ago. Today, we know it as the Motorola XOOM, the first tablet to run Google's "Made for Tablets" version of Android. From what we've seen of the new User Interface, the changes are major and nicely டன்


But it is not just the software that Motorola can boast about with the XOOM. Although it shares the same 10-inch screen size of the iPad, the XOOM follows a wide-screen aspect ratio, which is better suited for watching videos. Its resolution is also higher than the current iPad (at a healthy 1280 x 800 pixels). It runs NVIDIA's Tegra 2 chip that has two 1GHz cores under the die. This coupled with 1GB of RAM should help the Interface fly. Not only that, it also helps the XOOM in accomplishing number-crunching tasks like playing 1080p HD videos directly. 

The browser will support Adobe Flash 10.1. The XOOM has a 5 megapixel camera at the back that can shoot 720p HD video. At the front, there's a 2 megapixel cam that should theoretically support HD video-calling, whenever that makes its way in the future. There's 32GB internal memory and a microSD card slot that supports 32GB worth cards. Connectivity is served by 3G, Wi-fi and Bluetooth. The XOOM is also said to be 'upgradeable' with the mind-blazingly fast LTE 4G support. Battery life is also rated like the iPad's - 10 hours of video playback.  

So, as you can see, Motorola has pretty much pulled off everything that one could possibly ask for in a tablet with the XOOM. Now only if they can pull this off at a competitive price tag and we've got ourselves a winner. Now the only question remains is of the apps -- but we don't have any doubts over tablet-optimized apps coming soon to Android 3.0 that will take advantage of the bigger screen. We're talking of Android after all, an OS that went from zero to 2,00,000 apps (and counting) apps in a little over two years.