New Gadgets

During its regular conference Apple announced that 10 million iPhone were sold in 2008 calendar year, since last month has been sold more than 6.8 million iPhone 3G. Executive Director of Apple, Steve Jobs said: “Apple has surpassed RIM! And RIM – a quality company selling quality products. Apple became the third largest global supplier of mobile phones.

iPhone 3G together with Apple TV brought $11.7 billion revenue and $2.4 billion profit. But given the status of the Apple TV, this profit is largely a credit to iPhone.
Nokia and Samsung are the first and second handset manufacturers respectively, and RIM sold 6.1 million BlackBerry smartphones at the moment.

Nokia has paid 264 million Euros to buy Symbian Limited. The transaction took place in connection with the advertisement of the new open Symbian platform and Symbian Foundation.”This is a crucial step in our strategy of software development,” said Olli-Pekka Kallasvo, executive director of Nokia. “Symbian has already become the leading open platform for mobile devices. Through this acquisition and the establishment of Symbian Foundation, it will undoubtedly become the most attractive platform for phones in the near future. “

Symbian Limited is a company that develops Symbian OS, the market leader in producing mobile operating systems. Mobile devices that operate on Symbian OS make up 60% of the market, which is about 200 million phones that is 250 different models from 8 manufacturers. In the development of Symbian OS are involved more than 4 million people.
By the end of 2011 all the documents will be ready after which, all Symbian employees will become employees of Nokia.

Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Nokia, and NTT DoCoMo announced their intention to merge S60, UIQ, Symbina OS, and MOAP in order to create a single open mobile platform. In addition to the above brands, AT & T, Samsung Electronics, Vodafone, LG Electronics, Texas Instruments, and STMicroelectronics will also join this project.
These large, powerful mobile giants plan to adopt the position of the Symbian Foundation, an open platform, which has grown on the basis of Symbian Limited.

To create the Foundation, Nokia acquired the remaining assets of Symbian Limited. Motorola and Sony Ericsson announced the transfer of the technology UQI, and DoCoMo – MOAP. The new platform will be available in the near future.
Nigel Clifford, Symbian CEO said: “Ten years ago, Symbian was established by visionary people who wanted to provide the entire mobile industry on advanced open operating system. We want to become the most used OS on the planet, and today the Symbian mobile phone market has no equal. ”
President of Sony Ericsson, Dick Komyama, added: “Gross operating platform, which wants to provide the Foundation, will allow producers to turn their attention to the technical characteristics of the phones. Sony Ericsson believes that the Symbian Foundation platform will ease manufacturers lives, giving them the opportunity to provide more innovation and quality applications.”

Gadget called Universal Solar Cell Phone / iPod Charger will charge your cell phone or iPod MP3-player, using solar energy. Thus you will make a contribution to improving the ecology of our planet.
The device is very small and it’s easy to carry with you anywhere, even in pockets.
It can charge the following models of iPods: iPod Shuffle, iPod Nano, iPod Mini. And there are inputs for charging mobile phones of the following companies: Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Siemens, Motorola and Blackberry.
Universal Solar Cell Phone / iPod Charger can be bought for $90.

If you are tired of matted pile of wires and the various charges and you often cannot find what you were looking for – do not worry. The Italian design bureau Italdesign Giugiaro, offers his own solution – a universal Messless Charger.

The device has a lot of adapters, so you can charge Smartphones iPhone, MP3 players iPod, Nokia and Sony Ericsson phones, as well as gadgets with mini-USB input. In addition, the device can charge portable gaming consoles, digital cameras, etc.

But that’s not all: the charger itself, in fact, is a large dock, where up to 4 gadgets can be placed simultaneously. In other words, if you have a big family or you use all the gadgets at once, the decision of the Italians will be useful in such situations. With the help of Messless Charger you can charge laptops and other electronics, which require a higher voltage.

The size of Messless Charger is 20×20x6, 5 inches, its weight is 485 grams. You can have such a device for 70 British pounds sterling (about 113 U.S. dollars).

The world-famous Finnish company Nokia, the manufacturer, which mobile phones are almost in all pockets, in collaboration with scientists at the University of Cambridge have developed the concept of a unique technology, and introduced the mobile of the future Nokia Morph. This unusual phone can be folded, stretched and put together as you like. This unusual ability of the phone is explained by the use of nanotechnology.

The new gadget Nokia Morph has a flexible color touch display. Another advantage is the ability of working on solar energy and analyzing the conditions of the environment and giving this information to the owner. Translucent plastic shell of the gadget looks more like an unusual eraser than a mobile phone.

But, only some elements of the Nokia Morph concept will make its customers happy after 7 years. And if you want to look at the development of scientists and to see the gadget of the future with your own eyes, go to New York, the Museum of Modern
Art. Everybody can see the miracle technology in real at the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition.

FreeLoader Pro is a wonderful gadget that can be a good present for everybody. This is not the first charger, running on solar panels, but the compact size and functionality is very beneficial to distinguish it from other similar devices.

FreeLoader Pro, in folded condition, has the size of the entire 15h6, 3×2 cm, and while opened – 23,8 x6, 3×2 cm. This gadget is able to charge anywhere where there is sun, almost any modern portable electronic devices: mobile phones Nokia, Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Blackberry and iPhone, portable game console Nintendo DS Lite and Sony PSP, most of today’s media, portable DVD-players, virtually all PDAs, the devices for reading electronic books and digital cameras.

In case your digital friend is discharged at night, FreeLoader Pro has a built-in battery with a capacity of 1600 mA / h, and if necessary, it can serve as a universal charger, operating from the USB-port.

Nokia has been increasingly announcing side sliders recently. Meet another – Nokia 6790 Mako. The new model works on Symbian OS, and in addition to QWERTY keyboard can boast with GPS support.

Nokia Mako has two HSDPA bands, a 2.4-inch QVGA display, Bluetooth with A2DP, 2,5-mm audio output and supports audio formats such as MP3, WMA and AAC.

The camera device is not impressive – it is only 2-megapixel, but there is also an additional camera for video calls.

For now that is all that we know about the characteristics of Nokia 6790 Mako, but since its release is scheduled for June 5, everything will become clear very soon.

Today Nokia introduced Bluetooth-Stereo BH-905, offering crystal clear sound, thanks to active noise reduction system of Wolfson Microelectronics. This technology, blocking extraneous sounds by means of active elements, was first introduced in the BH-905. 

The essence of the system is to use 10 microphones: 8 of them are designed to suppress noise while listening to music, 2 catch the speech and cut off the rest of the sounds during the telephone calls. A special button on the headphones allows you to choose the mode «noise killer». 

The headset is compatible with all Bluetooth-gadgets, as well as phones, music players, computers and any other devices with standard 3.5 mm or 6.3 mm jack for headphones. Nokia BH-905 will be released in August, the price will be EUR285.

Technical characteristics of Nokia BH-905: 

Bluetooth v2.1 + EDR, Headset Profile (HSP) 1.2, Hands-Free Profile (HFP) 1.1, Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) 1.2 and Audio / Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP) 1.0 
Speakers: 32 mm 
Nominal Impedance: 32 Ohm 
Key Management: Multi-button (on / off., Answer / hang up, voice dialing, redial), volume control, Play / pause, next / previous track, on / off. noise reduction system 
Opening hours (Bluetooth) during a call: up to 24 hours 
Working hours in music mode: up to 25 hours 
Talking time with the system noise reduction: Up to 15 hours 
Standby time: up to 600 hours 
Dimensions: 180h155h59 mm 
Weight: 175 gr. 
Battery: Li-Ion, 600 mA / h