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Move Over iPhone, The Cliq is Here
Posted by: | CommentsMove over Iphone, Motorola has done it again and postured well to gain the kids’ attention this holiday season. Have you seen Motorola’s new cell phone device? We haven’t seen anything this cool out of them since the ever so popular Razr, which basically redefined and set a whole standard for the market a few years back. The new device is called “the Cliq’ and hosts a number of power features such as a 5megapixel camera ( iphone is only 3 mega pixels), social networking software allowing ease of use of facebook and email accounts, as well showing friends “status’ on the home screen.
The Cliq, which Motorola unveiled in September, uses Google Inc’s “Android” software – modern, well written operating software that allows many people to do many different things with their phones. Motorola plans to unveil a second Android phone sometime in October. It will also be available for the holidays.
There are thousands of apps already available for Android software. The phone offers a host of distinctive features that truly set it apart from the IPhone and Blackberry.
Jim Kelleher, an analyst at Argus Research, says “ the Cliq may be Motorola’s best stab at the smart phone market thus far. I think for Motorola to retain its tech edge and reputation for engineering, it really has to hit a home run — not necessary with this particular phone, but with its phones in the coming year, including this one.”
Outside the U.S., the Cliq will be known as the Dext. It will be available through wireless carrier Orange in the U.K. and France, Telefonica in Spain and America Movil in South America.
Good Job Motorola, we would expect nothing less from such a superior organization that defines todays technology trends in PDA and cellular devices.
Smartphones Getting Pico-Projectors
Posted by: | CommentsTiny pico-projectors set for huge growth
Smartphones are getting smarter with new embedded projectors capable of showing up to 50-inch bright, diagonal images on any wall or surface. The first one – the Show Phone by Samsung – was unveiled earlier at the Consumer Electronics Show in January and is currently available only in Korea. But the tiny pico-projectors are expected to take off quickly in the international corporate market allowing business travelers to leave bulky laptops and full-size projection systems behind and make presentations directly from their mobile phone or PDA. And you can be sure consumers won’t be far behind, attracted by the ability to share their personal slide shows or YouTube favorites and even movies anywhere there’s a flat surface and a cell phone.
In fact, the sale and shipment of embedded pico projectors is expected to leap from less than 50,000 units this year to more than 3 million units in 2013, says market research firm iSupply. That’s a staggering 60-fold increase in just four years.
There are still some challenges that manufacturers need to work out before embedded pico-projectors can realize their full potential – like power consumption and size. But their ability to overcome screen-size limitations and project a large image from a small device makes embedded pico projectors a perfect fit for the smaller-is-better smartphone market. Expect projector-capable smartphones to start popping up everywhere soon, and get ready for the market to take off.
Exploding iStuff
Posted by: | CommentsiExplosives?
Have you heard that European authorities are investigating “The Case of the Exploding iPhones?” Apparently a number of iPhones and iPods have exploded or caught fire over the past month in Britain, France, Holland and Sweden.
In June, an iPod was blamed for a car fire in Sweden that nearly incinerated a dog. In July, a man in Holland said he left his iPhone in the car and returned 15 minutes later to find it had caught fire, causing severe damage to the passenger seat. In early August, the father of an 11-year-old girl in Liverpool reported that he was holding his daughters iPod Touch when he felt it get really hot, heard a hissing noise and saw vapor. He said he threw it out the back door and “within 30 seconds there was a pop, a big puff of smoke and it went 10 feet in the air.” The father claims that he contacted Apple and the Cupertino-based company offered him a full refund – on the condition that the family sign an agreement not tell anyone about the iPod that went boom. A few weeks later, a French teenager’s eye was injured by flying glass when the screen of the iPhone 3G he was holding suddenly exploded. The phone, which belonged to his girlfriend, was only two months old. Then, just last Tuesday (August 25) a security guard in southeastern France told authorities that the iPhone he bought three months ago for 600 Euros ($850) exploded in his face while he was typing a text message.
Apple reportedly called the exploding screens “isolated incidents.” But France’s consumer watchdog agency opened an investigation after the teenage boy was injured. Now, the EU is also asking questions about the 200 million iPods and 26 million iPhones that have been sold across Europe.
Hmmmmm . . . I wonder where Apple gets their components?
