A Toyota recall list has been issued to fix Toyota floor mats. The September 2009 Toyota recall also includes 3.8 million vehicles, and encompasses their Lexus brand. According to the Toyota Company's main press website, the problem with the cars is that the floor mat can become entangled with the accelerator pedal. In news out of San Diego, it was this reason that led to the crash of a family driving a Lexus where the floor mat snagged the gas pedal and sent it up to 120 miles per hour before the vehicle crashed into an SUV. The mats have been blamed for that accident, and now the Toyota recall could be one of the biggest in automotive history.
NEW YORK – More than $200 million collected from cell phone users for upgrades to the 911 system has been diverted in the last two years to plug state budget holes, keep campaign promises and, in at least one case, buy police uniforms, an Associated Press analysis has found.
Dispatchers say the diversion of money comes at the expense of improvements that would give crime and accident victims more opportunities to reach responders. Someone who has been kidnapped, for instance, may not be able to talk but might be able to quietly send a text message or a photo.
Cell phone subscribers in nearly every state pay anywhere from 20 cents to $1.50 a month for what is described in their bills as 911 improvements . In some states, the AP analysis found, less than half that money is actually going to help emergency dispatchers keep pace with the features of smart phones.
As states hammered by the recession look around for new ways to balance their budgets, the 911 money is tempting:
• In New York, only 19 cents of the $1.20 the state collects from each subscriber each month goes to emergency calling services. The rest pays for uniforms for the state police, a wireless network for emergency responders and the state's general expenditures.
• In Wisconsin, a new 75-cent monthly fee was supposed to pay for ongoing 911 operations and improvements. When the state's deficit grew, the state decided to divert $100 million in the next two years to local governments to reduce pressure to raise property taxes.
• In Arizona, lawmakers funneled $25 million from its emergency telecommunications fund, halving its size, and cut its monthly 911 cell phone fee to 20 cents. As a result, the fund could be out of money within three years.
"The issue of (fund) raiding has been a trickle for a few years, and now we're seeing the faucet on full blast," said Dane Snowden, vice president of external and state affairs at wireless industry group CTIA.
A highly publicized round of call center upgrades is nearly complete, allowing 911 dispatchers to automatically pinpoint cell phone callers. But emergency officials say that's no reason to raid funds set aside for future upgrades. After all, voice calls are just one of many things phones can do.
Dispatchers would like the capability to receive photos, videos and text messages from cell phone users in danger. Photos shot by witnesses with camera phones have already proved useful in catching bank robbers and flashers, for instance. Getting those photos to 911 centers — which could get them to police faster — could help solve crimes.
In several cases in recent years, kidnapping victims have summoned help by surreptitiously sending text messages. But because they can't send directly to 911, they've had to use intermediaries.
When David Deganian and a friend were abducted at gunpoint on an Atlanta street early one morning in 2007, Deganian managed to sneak a text message to his brother Arman: "We have been kidnapped. Please call the police and help us."
Later, the friend tried calling 911. The gunmen heard him, interrupted the call and took the phones away. Luckily, Arman Deganian was awake to notice the text message. He got the police on the case, and they rescued his brother and his friend that afternoon.
In a more famous case, a 14-year-old girl in Kershaw County, S.C., was held in an underground bunker for more than a week before she managed to send a text message to her mother from the captor's phone.
Upgrading call centers to handle text and video messaging would require new computer systems, communications lines and staff training, costing tens of millions of dollars per state, according to the National Emergency Number Association.
A complete accounting of how 911 money is spent in all states is not available, partly because most of the money dispatch centers get is funneled to them by counties. The Federal Communications Commission has been collecting information from the states at the request of Congress, and is expected to report its findings soon.
Oregon, Arizona, Delaware, Hawaii, Wisconsin and Tennessee are among the states that have dipped into their 911 money recently. New York and Rhode Island have been diverting their funds for at least five years. States started collecting the funds in the 1990s.
In the fiscal year that ended in June 2008, Rhode Island collected $19.4 million in 911 fees and used $5.8 million for 911. The rest went to the state's general fund.
Raiding the funds could reduce the money available for 911 upgrades even further, by reducing federal grants. After a round of 911 fund raiding during the previous recession, at the beginning of the decade, the federal government tightened its grant rules to discourage the practice.
To elude the federal government's wagging finger, New York is changing the name of its "Enhanced 911" fee to "Public Safety Communications Surcharge," to make it clearer that 911 is just one of its purposes.
Other states seem to ignore the grants issue.
Oregon collects 75 cents per cell phone per month. Although its attorney general's office concluded that federal laws on 911 grants prohibit using money from wireless bills for purposes other than 911 services, the state took $3 million from an $80 million fund that mingles wireless and landline fees.
"When people pay their bills, they see that they are paying 75 cents per telephone line to fund the 911 system. For the Legislature to turn around and divert some of the money to other purposes is disingenuous. It's just wrong," said Hasina Squires, a lobbyist who represents emergency communications officers in Oregon.
Gov. Ted Kulongoski's office and legislative budget officials defended the decision, citing Oregon's "extraordinary" budget shortfall. They said they took money from various accounts if they determined that doing so wouldn't disrupt core functions of those programs.
Tennessee believes it got around the federal restrictions by leaving the principal in its 911 fund intact and taking out $11 million in accrued interest in the fiscal year that ended June 2008. The fund had $54 million left.
"It begs the question: If you have that much money in holding, why is it still being collected from consumers? It doesn't make any sense," CTIA's Snowden said. "The E911 fund is appearing to be an ATM."
If the subject is Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon tends to turn churlish. He will defer, deflect or refuse to answer. When his little home town of Wapakoneta, Ohio, sought to honor him with a parade on the 25th anniversary of his moonwalk, Armstrong sent his regrets. He once pleaded to a newspaper reporter, 10 years after his feat: "How long must it take before I can cease to be known as a spaceman?"
As if such a thing were possible. Or even desirable.
It's not fair to call Armstrong a "recluse," as many accounts of his life after Apollo 11 invariably have. He's no cosmic J.D. Salinger or Howard Hughes, shunning the world out of spite or madness. Armstrong makes the occasional public appearance and speech, as he did Sunday at the Smithsonian and as he will do again Monday at NASA's official commemoration of the moon landing. He's also appeared in two NASA video productions over the past five years.
What's more, after resisting would-be biographers for years, he finally caved to his family's prodding and sat for more than 50 hours of interviews with Auburn University historian James R. Hansen for a 2005 biography, "First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong."
Yet for the 40th anniversary, Armstrong has once again carefully rationed himself. He told planners at the Smithsonian and NASA that he would speak at their events, but not as the keynoter, not at length and only in conjunction with other Apollo alumni. A book-signing at the Air and Space Museum featuring his Apollo 11 crew mates, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, was out of the question (Armstrong stopped signing anything some years ago when brokers began peddling bogus signatures on the Internet). Media interviews? Not a chance. "He's always been this way," says one person involved in planning the events.
Stay on week, palpable seemed Microsoft was big idea to effect Windows 7bits available to life customers smuggle property licensees well-suited meeting the crack was released to manufacturing dominion July.
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The report backs up its predictions stating quite a few reasons for the iPhone's increasing dominance. These include the affordability of the device and the increased chances of its availability on other networks.
A research firm Generator Research in a recently published report has confirmed Nokia's worst fears. At current rates of growth, the iPhone is likely to challenge Nokia's dominant position in the smartphones sector and possibly overtake it by 2012 - just three years from now. The research predicts that Nokia will lose its market share and will drop to 20% from its current 40% share.
The report backs up its predictions stating quite a few reasons for the iPhone's increasing dominance. These include the affordability of the device and the increased chances of its availability on other networks.
That said, other manufacturers and factors seem to have been not taken into account whilst generating this report. For example, the effect of other players in the smartphone arena, like RIM, Android OS, Windows Mobile and even the upcoming Symbian Open Source OS are bound to have a say in the war that decides the outcome of this battle by the year 2012.
The Nokia N95 which was grave seeing a life ago has topped the register of the incomparable phones to worth to pledge on. The N95 runs on the Symbian operating conformation which is dubbed whereas peerless of the markedly consistent of the animated operating systems.
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T-Mobile is a mobile network operator headquartered in Bonn, Germany. It is a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom and belongs to the FreeMove Business alliance. T-Mobile is proud to announce that they have sold more than a million of their Android-powered G1 smartphones in about 6 months. Launched in October, the G1 slider with QWERTY keyboard and Google services obviously is worth the bucks that they spent on the ad campaign. Although the Storm only took half that time to reach a million and the iPhone merely a weekend, we expect that the good news will spur on Samsung, Sony Ericcson and Motorola to hop on the Android bandwagon.
The governing seller of swing on the Internet has a numerous look: Pricing changes to earth Inc.'s iTunes nutriment reckon on bewildered affection effect, shroud some captivating songs because $1.29 apiece.
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The iPhone is an internet-connected multimedia smartphone with high resulation camera most important hand set today in the world. The Luxembourg-based company, a division of eBay, plans to announce today that it will make its free software available immediately for Apple's iPhone and iPodTouch and, beginning in May, for various BlackBerry phones, made by Research in Motion. Other companies have already made software for those phones that works with Skype, but it does not offer all of the service's features.As with Skype on the computer, users of Skype on mobile phones can make calls and send instant messages to other Skype users free, and they pay lower rates than the phone companies would charge when they use Skype to call landlines or other mobile phones. This year, Skype proclaimed versions of its software for Nokia phones and iPhone running Microsoft's Windows Mobile and Google's Android operating systems.
Nokia, the world's largest mobilephone manufacturer, and China PTAC, China's largest mobile phone distributor, enjoy a long-standing partnership that continues to strengthen.Nokia has improved a trade agreement in China. which will see it sell mobile phones value at least US$1.76 billion in 2009 to China PTAC. Mr. Colin Giles, President of Nokia China and Senior Vice President, Greater China, Japan and Korea Sales Unit, and Mr. Tan Xinhui, Chairman of China PTAC Communication Service, signed the agreement on behalf of the two parties.In addition, both parties have agreed to expand strategic ties especially with regard to 3G and operator business.Nokia is estimated to have sold around US$2 billion worth of mobile phones to China PTAC in 2008.
Sony's Alpha A200 is a relatively minor revamp to the electronics giant's first digital SLR, the A100, which itself was a more significant step up from the Konica Minolta 5D. The Sony A200 is lighter and smaller than the A100, and a good deal easier to use.
Sony claims improvements to the Sony A200's AF system that will make focus acquisition 1.7 times faster, thanks to the high-torque AF motor and improved AF sequence borrowed from the A700, and our test results do indicate a significant improvement.
Sony's Alpha-mount lens system is the oldest SLR autofocus system in the business, going back 28 years, so there's a broad and growing selection of lenses to choose from.
The Sony A200's 10.2-megapixel sensor is the same resolution as its predecessor, but it's said to let more light reach each pixel for lower noise and more detail.
Shaped to better match the sensor's 3:2 aspect ratio, the Sony A200's 2.7-inch "Clear Photo" LCD has an anti-reflective coating for easy viewing in the sun, and 230,000 pixels.
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LG Electronics is the flagship company of LG Group, one of the world's largest conglomerates.
LG Electronics announces the new FLATRON L1982U, which sets a new record in LCD monitors with its contrast ratio of 3000:1 - the highest contrast ratio available in the world today. The higher contrast ratio gives clearer and crisper picture images against a darker background.
LG FLATRON L1982U features in brilliant picture quality 3000:1. Equipped with LG’s unique ‘f-ENGINE’ technology which uses the world’s first LCD picture-enhancing chip to provide astounding color backed by enhanced contrast and image quality, these monitors offer users clearer, brighter and crisp images.
The BlackBerry is a wireless handheld device introduced in 1999 as a two-way pager. In 2002, the more commonly known smartphone BlackBerry was released, which supports push e-mail, mobile telephone, text messaging, internet faxing, web browsing and other wireless information services as well as a multi-touch interface.
After reviewing the first clamshell manufactured by RIM, BlackBerry 8220 Pearl Flip, Pure Mobile has offered us the opportunity to test the first BlackBerry smartphone to feature a touch screen, BlackBerry Storm 9500. The device itself has been especially developed to be a direct competitor to Apple's iPhone 3G, T-Mobile's G1 by HTC, and to the lastest HTC Touch family device.
Whether it either succeeds or not, we will discover in the following review. Bear in mind that while the device is only sold branded, there are still unlocked versions of the smartphone, which allows owners to use it with any GSM service provider.
Announced in September 2008, the Blackberry Storm 9500 smartphone was made available on the market two months later, in November 2008. At the moment, the handset can be acquired for the amount of $520USD, unlocked with no plan.
The iPhone is an internet-connected multimedia smartphone designed and marketed by Apple Inc. with a flush multi-touch screen and a minimal hardware interface.
The technical details for the Apple iPhone 3G are collected from the web site of the manufacture. Before you buy the Apple iPhone 3G or other phone models listed here, you should check with your dealer if all these features apply to your operator and the Apple iPhone 3G
The Nokia E61 is a smartphone from the Eseries range, a Series 60 Third Edition device with a QWERTY keyboard targeting business users in the European market. As of Q4 2006 Cingular and Rogers Wireless have deployed a similar yet restricted version designated the Nokia E62 in the North American and Brazilian markets. The E62 is substantially similar but without an 802.11 WiFi chipset or W-CDMA (UMTS) 3G support. E61 supports 900/1800/1900 bands, while E62 can operate in 850/900/1800/1900 in order to support American networks. On 12 February 2007 Nokia announced the E61i as a follow up product.
The Nokia E61i, designed specifically for extensive mobile email usage, provides advanced attachment handling with on-the-device document editing. The new full keyboard design with Navi and One Touch keys offers a unique mobile user experience. The E61i supports corporate mobile email solutions such as Nokia Intellisync Wireless Email, Good Mobile Messaging, Mail for Exchange, Seven Mobile Mail, and BlackBerry Connect and most popular consumer email solutions. In response to customer demand, the device also features a high quality 2.0-megapixel camera, a music player and a video player.
Its kinda weird but out of all of today's announcements I am most excited about one that's just an update. I'm talking about the 3GSM World Congress 2007 and the Nokia E61i.
Yep that "i" means that this phone is an update to last year's highly popular but weirdly sized E61 phone aimed at business users who need Blackberry like push email features and WiFi.
So What's New?
Nokia says the Nokia E61i has a new refreshed sleek design. I checked its just 2.5mm thinner but it does look a whole lot better. It now has improved handling of attachments and what really makes it for me, an integrated 2 megapixel camera.
Everything else is pretty much the same. Quadband (EGSM 850/900/1800/1900) connectivity, Symbian S60 3rd Edition, Bluetooth and Infrared.
The Nokia E61i supports corporate mobile email solutions such as Nokia Intellisync Wireless Email, Good Mobile Messaging, Mail for Exchange, Seven Mobile Mail, and BlackBerry Connect as well as most popular consumer email solutions.
LONDON (Reuters) – Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd launched a service allowing its customers to buy or rent movies and TV series to download to their mobile phones.
The breadth of Samsung's offering, which includes over 500 blockbusters from top studios Warner Bros MTWX.N, Paramount and Universal, makes it competitive with other mobile media offerings from Apple Inc and Nokia Oyj.
Samsung Movies, a dedicated virtual store for Samsung customers, launches initially in Britain and Germany and will extend to other key European markets later in the year, Samsung said in a statement.
The service, which features films such as "The Dark Knight" and TV series including "E.R." and "Friends," will be compatible only with video-enabled Samsung phones such as its new Tocco Ultra Edition.
Samsung plans to expand the service to notebooks, MP3 and MP4 portable music players and Samsung TVs.
Samsung Movies will use technology from privately owned digital movie retailer Acetrax, which holds agreements with film studios and music labels.
Prices start at 2.49 pounds ($3.55) for a 24-hour rental or 4.99 pounds to buy a movie.
Samsung said it would double its titles to 1,000 by the end of the first quarter and again to 2,000 movies and TV shows by the end of June.
UK-based research firm CCS Insight said in a note: "The move is tangible progress in (Samsung's) convergence strategy and a first step in delivering consumer services to rival those from the likes of Nokia and Sony Ericsson.
Steve Ballmer on Thursday said Microsoft's smartphone strategy for the recession is to be a soup kitchen for the mobile market.
That apparently means not adding premium features in Windows Mobile like support for a capacitive touch screen – something he claims would make phones too expensive for phone manufacturers to make.
"We want to provide vendors with the ability to make Windows phones up and down the price scale," Ballmer said to Business Week editor Steven Adler at the McGraw-Hill media conference. All Things Digital's Peter Kafka paraphrased the chat here.
Ballmer said that while touch technology is important for the mobile market, he downplayed the need for capacitive touchscreens, a technology embraced by the iPhone, webOS, and Android OS.
"Windows Mobile 6.4 has touch on it. The way Apple does touch drives costs," Ballmer said. "The way they do it on the iPhone is not an inexpensive component. We'll do it in a way that you can afford to do it on most phones."
Ballmer said the sweet spot for smartphones is between $150 and $200 to make. Retailing a phone for $500 isn't going to fly in every market, he said.
(But then since Microsoft only provides the software, why not offer phone makers the choice of including more expensive technology?)
The Microsoft potentate also took a shot at Apple's prices in general. "No one's going to pay $500 more for a logo," he told his (reportedly gasping) audience.
Touching on the upcoming Microsoft retail stores, Ballmer said the retail outlets will serve as a "showcase" for Microsoft products rather than a direct source of sales like Apple stores.
Ballmer also said Microsoft is still open to discussing a search partnership with Yahoo's new chief, Carol Bartz. But Redmond has been stalking the search firm for ages no matter how spurned. "I'm sure when it's appropriate, we'll have a chance to sit down a talk," Ballmer said. Basically, Yahoo is going to need to get a restraining order to stop Ballmer serenading at its windows every evening.
Nokia is one of the top leading company in mobile market in the world.It brings a new mobile Nokia 3500.
Nokia 3500 is a mobile which supports GSM GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900; has GPRS of class Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps and Java features including MP3/mp4/ACC/ACC+player, T9, Organizer and a Voice Memo. With a standard Lithium ion battery it has a stand – by time of upto 280 h, and a talk time upto 3hrs.
Are you a Nokia Phone Brand phone, but cannot afford a too pricey phone. If this is the case with you, then here is a phone which has all the things you have been looking for. It’s neither too pricey and its features are just apt for a general kind of user. Let’ first have a look at its features.
Nokia 3500 is a mobile which supports GSM GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900; has GPRS of class Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps and Java features including MP3/mp4/ACC/ACC+player, T9, Organizer and a Voice Memo. With a standard Lithium ion battery it has a stand – by time of upto 280 h, and a talk time upto 3hrs.
With TFT screen, 256k colors and a screen size of 128*160 pixels (1.8 inches) wide, it has a good display which makes it easy for a person with high specs number easy to use. Released in June 2007, this mobile phone has kept with the market demand and till today it has a excellent demand in the market.
You can store upto 2000 entries in its phonebook. It keeps a call record of 20 dialed, 20 received and 20 missed calls. It has a internal memory of 8.5 MB. The card slot provided is of 8.5 MB. It has Bluetooth with V2.0 with A2DP. Messaging can be done through SMS, MMS, Email, and Instant Messaging. Radio and Games are the added features in this Nokia Mobile Phone and yes, it does have a USB. You can also expand its memory to 2GB, which is one of the good features of this mobile phone.
Some of the missing things in this mobile are 3G, GPS and Secondary memory, but these features even if non – existent does not matter much, as this phone serves the purpose of all the basic and a little advanced requirements.
If you want to buy this mobile handsets, you can buy it from a online shopping store rather than buying from a mobile shopping store. The advantage of buying from an online store is less price/discounts, offers and memberships which you get from these stores.
These are good options in case you do not have much time to go for shopping and have a urgent requirement for a mobile phone. As the product purchased from these stores can be delivered at home at no extra cost, these are definitely the best option in such situations. Just log on to any of the websites of online shopping store and see the magic play….
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Though the operating systm and work system are deferense between the convection oven and Microwave oven but ourpose is same. Convection ovens or fan ovens or turbo ovens augment a traditional oven by circulating heated air using a fan. The fan motor is in a separate enclosure, to protect it from overheating. Food warms faster in a convection oven, because the moving air strips away the thin layer of air which otherwise would surround and insulate the food. This is the same physical phenomenon which causes Wind chill. Though all ovens have natural convection currents that vary with food placement and the position of the heating elements, the name "convection oven" indicates that a major focus of its functionality is the use of forced air circulation.
By moving fast hot air past the food, convection ovens can operate at a lower temperature than a standard conventional oven and yet cook food more quickly. The air circulation, or convection, tends to eliminate "hot spots" and thus food may bake more evenly. An impingement pizza oven at a Hungry Howie's store in Auburn, Alabam
A convection oven will have about a 50 degree Fahrenheit (30 degree Celsius) reduction in cooking temperature, compared to a conventional oven. This comparison will vary, depending on factors including, for example, how much food is being cooked at once or if airflow is being restricted by using an over sized baking tray).[citation needed] This difference in cooking temperature is offset by the fact that circulating air transfers heat quicker than still air of the same temperature; in order to transfer the same amount of heat in the same time, then, one must lower the temperature to reduce the rate of heat transfer to compensate.
Many convection ovens also include a proofing capability using the same fan but at a much lower temperature. A residential double oven will often include the fan capability in only one of the two ovens.
Convection microwave ovens combine a convection oven with a microwave oven to cook food with the speed of a microwave oven and the browning ability of a convection oven.
Microwave is wonderful creation of science.There are manyuses of Microwave.But what we mean by Microwave? Microwaves are electromagnetic waves with wavelengths ranging from 1 mm to 1 m, or frequencies between 0.3 GHz and 300 GHz. Apparatus and techniques may be described qualitatively as "microwave" when the wavelengths of signals are roughly the same as the dimensions of the equipment, so that lumped-element circuit theory is inaccurate. As a consequence, practical microwave technique tends to move away from the discrete resistors, capacitors, and inductors used with lower frequency radio waves. Instead, distributed circuit elements and transmission-line theory are more useful methods for design and analysis. Open-wire and coaxial transmission lines give way to waveguides, and lumped-element tuned circuits are replaced by cavity resonators or resonant lines. Effects of reflection, polarization, scattering, diffraction and atmospheric absorption usually associated with visible light are of practical significance in the study of microwave propagation. The same equations of electromagnetic theory apply at all frequencies. is wonderful creation of science.There are manyuses of Microwave.But what we mean by Microwave? Microwaves are electromagnetic waves with wavelengths ranging from 1 mm to 1 m, or frequencies between 0.3 GHz and 300 GHz.
Apparatus and techniques may be described qualitatively as "microwave" when the wavelengths of signals are roughly the same as the dimensions of the equipment, so that lumped-element circuit theory is inaccurate. As a consequence, practical microwave technique tends to move away from the discrete resistors, capacitors, and inductors used with lower frequency radio waves. Instead, distributed circuit elements and transmission-line theory are more useful methods for design and analysis. Open-wire and coaxial transmission lines give way to waveguides, and lumped-element tuned circuits are replaced by cavity resonators or resonant lines. Effects of reflection, polarization, scattering, diffraction and atmospheric absorption usually associated with visible light are of practical significance in the study of microwave propagation. The same equations of electromagnetic theory apply at all frequencies.
The iPhone is an internet-connected multimedia smartphone designed and marketed by Apple Inc. with a flush multi-touch screen and a minimal hardware interface. The device does not have a physical keyboard, so a virtual keyboard is rendered on the touch screen instead. The success of the Apple iPhone has meant handset makers have gone touchscreen crazy, with even BlackBerry launching a device for use with full-sized fingers. Owners of Windows-powered smartphones could only look on in envy, hampered by the menu-based interface of their own devices.
But things have changing and Taiwan’s HTC has made much of the running. HTC makes many of the mobile phone network own-brand smartphones on the market today, including O2’s XDA and T-Mobile’s MDA ranges, as well as Orange’s former SPV range.
These days, the company is also selling phones under its own brand in the UK and its latest device, the Touch HD, is the best attempt yet to crack the touchscreen market for the Windows user base. As with O2 and the iPhone, there is an exclusive network partner – Orange.
The touchscreen is as big as a playing field. At 3.8 inches across the diagonal, it is bigger even than the Apple iPhone’s lovely screen and touts an even more impressive resolution. With such a huge expanse of screen to play with, you would hope for something better than Windows Mobile’s menu-based interface and the Touch HD delivers. Sitting on top of Windows is HTC’s TouchFlo 3D interface, which uses finger gestures rather than stylus taps. I have previously talked about Touchflo 3D in my reviews of O2’s XDA Ignito and Serra smartphones and have found it lacking. However, Touchflo comes into its own on the Touch HD because of its considerably larger screen than those devices.
For those who haven’t seen Touchflo 3D, it works from a new home screen. Along the bottom is a ribbon of icons than you can slide left and right with your finger. These icons access the Touch’s major applications, such as the Opera web browser, email, music player, contacts and calendar. You can still access traditional Windows Mobile using the start menu at top left.
Inside the web browser, Touchflo 3D lets you zoom in and out using a double tap of the finger. However, there is no consistency to the gestures required. If you are looking at photos, zooming in and out requires a circular gesture.
I am still convinced that the iPhone does the best job here, thanks to its support for multi-finger gestures. There are downloads for Windows Mobile which emulate multi-touch but still cannot beat the very intuitive Apple interface.
That enormous and high resolution screen has some other advantages. YouTube addicts will be pleased to know that it works really well on the Touch HD; it is the first Windows Mobile-powered smartphone to really do it justice in the mobile setting.
The Touch HD's exterior is very minimal. There’s a 3.5mm audio jack and power button on the top edge, a discreet magnetic stylus holder on the right edge, flat volume buttons on the right and a mini USB socket on the bottom. The back face – which has a rubberised coating for robustness – is home to the phone’s 5meg autofocus camera. That camera spec makes the iPhone’s 2meg job look like a pinhole camera in comparison. The Touch’s microSD slot is hidden away inside the battery cover – an ideal location given that most people rarely swap their cards.
As for preinstalled software, the Touch HD comes with Office Mobile, offering miniature clones of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. This is very useful if, like much of the corporate world, you use the full blown versions at the office.
WorldCard Mobile is another business traveller friendly inclusion. It allows you to take a photo of a business card and then import the contact information into your address book. It gets a little confused with unusual card layouts and small or compressed text but does a remarkably good job considering. If you are constantly on the road, this could be a real timesaver.
Nokia mobile is the most popular hand set in the world. Nokia produced many sets fo the customer And nokia 7610 is among them .It was most popular in 2004. Nokia manufactures the 7610 smartphone. It is Nokia's first smartphone featuring a 1 megapixel camera (1152x864 pixels) and is targeted towards the fashion conscious individual.[citation needed] End-users can also use the 7610 with Lifeblog. Other pre-installed applications include the Opera Mobile web browser and Kodak Photo Sharing. The Nokia 6670 is the same phone with a more conventional keypad layout, and slightly different pre-installed software, aimed at business users.
Specifications: Screen: 2.1" TFT 176 x 208 pixels 65,536 colours Camera :1 MP 1152x864 pixels Operating system :S60 v2.0 UI on Symbian OS v7.0 [1] CPU :ARM4T 123 MHz Memory :8 MB internal Memory card : RS-MultiMediaCard 64 MB Networks:GSM 900/1800/1900 Nokia 7610B for US : GSM 850/1800/1900 Connectivity :Bluetooth v1.1 USB via Pop-Port Battery :Li-Ion 900mAh (BL-5C) Physical size: 109 x 53 x 19 mm 93 cc Weight :118 g Form factor :Bar Media: MP3/AAC/AMR/RA/RM/3GP
A Toyota recall list has been issued to fix Toyota floor mats. The September 2009 Toyota recall also includes 3.8 million vehicles, and encompasses their Lexus brand. According to the Toyota Company's main press website, the problem with the cars is that the floor mat can become entangled with the accelerator pedal. In news out of San Diego, it was this reason that led to the crash of a family driving a Lexus where the floor mat snagged the gas pedal and sent it up to 120 miles per hour before the vehicle crashed into an SUV. The mats have been blamed for that accident, and now the Toyota recall could be one of the biggest in automotive history.
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