Thursday, April 23, 2009
E 75 review with detailed specifications
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Well a new launch in E series segment.this series segement is already popular name in enterprise(E) segment.
it is not only a business phone but has few capabilities of music phone also.
price is comparable to E71 and functionally comparable to E90 albeit a cheap alternative to E90
nokia is following a gradual shift from E=INTERPRISE TO E=efficient phones.the display of the phone is quite large made up of tft cells.
E75 is unique, because it offers two keyboards at a time - digital and traditional full-QWERTY. The 12-button panel is quite normal, appropriate for short messaging.
Nokia E75 has a 3.2 megapixel camera with auto focus and flash. With its quality this handset’s camera is better than E66 and E71, its module is quite different; it provides more natural colors and there is no care in the violet color. Closest to the quality of similar N-series is, for example, N78. Video clips are recorded to a maximum resolution of 640×480 (VGA) at 30 frames per second. Video format is MPEG4. Video quality is high and completely similar to most smartphones of N-series. The same can be said about the quality of sound recording. In this respect the devices of Nokia are traditionally strong.
Full specifications of Nokia E75
Hardware
Dimensions
* Form: Side slider with full keyboard
* Dimensions: 4.40 x 1.97/3.15 x 0.57 in
* Weight: 4.89 oz
* Full keyboard + number keys
* High quality QVGA display
Display and User Interface
* Size: 2.4″
* Resolution: 320 x 240 pixels (QVGA)
* Up to 16 million colors
* TFT active matrix (QVGA)
* Two customizable home screen modes
Power Management
* BL-4U 1000 mAh Li-Po standard battery
* Talk time:
o GSM up to 5 h 20 min
o WCDMA up to 4 h 20 min
o VoIP over WLAN: Up to 9 hours
* Standby time:
o GSM up to 11.6 days
o WCDMA up to 11.25 days
o WLAN up to 5.4 days
* Music playback time (maximum): 25 hours
Operating Frequency
* Nokia E75-2 Quad-band EGSM 850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA 850/1900/2100 HSDPA
* Offline mode
Keys and Input Method
* Full QWERTY keyboard
* Dedicated one-touch keys: Home, calendar and email
* Speaker dependent and speaker independent voice dialing
* Intelligent input with auto-completion, auto-correction and learning capability
* Accelerated scrolling with Navi™ Key
* Notification light in Navi™ Key
Connectivity
* Bluetooth version 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate
- Bluetooth profiles: A2DP, AVRCP, BIP, BPP, DI, DUN, FTP, GAVDP, GAP, GOEP, HFP, HSP, HID, OPP, PBAP, SPP, SAP
* MTP (Multimedia Transfer Protocol) support
* High-Speed USB 2.0
* Printing
* Network (Raw). Direct TCP/IP socket connection to any specified port (a.k.a. HP JetDirectTM).
* Network (LPR). Line Printer Daemon protocol (RFC1179).
* Printing to file
* USB PictBridge printing
* Support for local and remote SyncML synchronisation, iSync, Intellisync, ActiveSync
* Micro-USB connector support charging, High-Speed USB 2.0
* 3.5 mm AV connector
Security Features
* Device lock
* Remove lock
* Data encryption for both phone memory and microSD content
Memory
* microSD memory card slot, hot swappable, max. 16 GB
* 50 MB internal dynamic memory
Data Transfer
* CSD
* HSCSD
* GPRS class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 100/60 kbps (DL/UL)
* EDGE class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 296/177.6 kbps (DL/UL)
* WCDMA 900/2100 or 850/1900 or 850/2100, maximum speed 384/384 kbps (DL/UL)
* HSDPA class 6, maximum speed 3.6 Mbps/384 kbps (DL/UL)
* WLAN IEEE 802.11b/g
* WLAN Security: WPA2-Enterprise, WPA2-Personal, WPA-Enterprise, WPA-Personal, WEP
* WLAN Quality of Service: WMM, U-APSD
* WLAN Wizard
* TCP/IP support
* Nokia PC Internet Access (capability to serve as a data modem)
* IETF SIP and 3GPP
Communications
Email and Messaging
* Supported protocols: IMAP4, Mail for Exchange, POP3, SMTP
* Support for email attachments
* IMAP IDLE support
* Support for Nokia Messaging service
* Easy email set-up
* SMS
* Multiple SMS deletion
* Text-to-speech message reader
* MMS
* Distribution lists for messaging
* Instant messaging with Presence-enhanced contacts
* Cell broadcast
* IBM Lotus Notes Traveler
Call Management
* Integrated handsfree speakerphone
* Automatic answer with headset or car kit
* Any key answer
* Call waiting, call hold, call divert
* 3GPP VCC
* Call timer
* Logging of dialled, received and missed calls
* Automatic redial and fallback
* Speed dialing
* Fixed dialing number support
* Vibrating alert (internal)
* Side volume keys
* Mute key
* Contacts with images
* Conference calling
* VoIP
Browsing and Internet
* Supported markup languages: HTML, XHTML MP, WML, CSS
* Supported protocols: HTTP, WAP 2.0
* TCP/IP support
* Nokia browser
o JavaScript version 1.3 and 1.5
o Mini Map
* Nokia Mobile Search
* Nokia PC Internet Access (capability to serve as a data modem)
Software & Applications
Applications
* Java™ MIDP 2.1
* Flash Lite 3.0
* Chat and instant messaging
* Nokia browser
- JavaScript version 1.3 and 1.5
- Mini Map
* Dictionary
* Quickoffice (Quickword, Quickpoint, Quicksheet)
* PDF Viewer
* ZIP Manager
* Download!
* File Manager
* Nokia Search
* Nokia Maps
* Adding more applications:
- Use the Download! Client
- Over-the-air (OTA) downloads) take these away
Software Platform
* S60 3rd Edition
* Feature Pack 2 based on SMain disadvantages:ymbian OS v9.3
* Two home screens with Customizable active standby views
* Voice commands
Video
* Main camera:
- 640 x 480 (VGA) up to 30 fps
- 320 x 240 (QVGA) up to 30 fps
- 176 x 144 at 15 fps (QCIF)
- digital video zoom
- video light
* 176 x 144 at 15 fps (QCIF)
* digital video zoom
* video light
* Front camera:
- Video recording at up to 176 x 144 pixels (QCIF) and up to 15 fps
- Up to 2x digital video zoom
Video Codecs & Formats
* Video recording file formats: .mp4, .3gp; codecs: H.263, MPEG-4 VSP
* Audio recording formats: AMR, AAC
* Video white balance modes: automatic, sunny, incandescent, fluorescent
* Scene modes: automatic, night
* color tone modes: normal, sepia, black & white, negative
* Clip length (maximum): 1 h
* Video calling: 3GPP Video Call with H.263, MPEG-4 and H.264 video codecs and AMR-NB audio
Video Sharing & Playback
* RealPlayer
* Real time video sharing to another compatible mobile device
* Video sharing support (WCDMA network services)
* Online album/blog: photo/video uploading from gallery
* Video playback file formats: Flash Video, mp4, .3gp; codecs: H.263, MPEG-4 VSP,RealVideo,H.264 and WMV9
* Video streaming: .3gp, mp4, .rm
* Customizable video ring tones
Photography
Camera
* 3.2 megapixel camera (2048 x 1536 pixels)
* Image formats: JPEG/EXIF
* CMOS sensor
* 8X digital zoom
* Autofocus
* Focal length: 3.7 mm
* Focus range: 10 cm to infinity
* Macro focus: 10-60 cm
* LED flash
Image Capture
* Flash modes: Automatic, On, Red-eye reduction, Off
* Flash operating range: 1 m
* White balance modes: automatic, sunny, incandescent, fluorescent
* Center weighted auto exposure; exposure compensation:
+2 ~ -2EV at 0.7 step
* Capture modes: still, sequence, self-timer, video
* Scene modes: auto, user defined, close-up, portrait, landscape, night, night portrait /li>
* color tone modes: normal, sepia, black & white, negative
* Full-screen viewfinder with grid
* Active toolbar
* Share photos with Share on Ovi
Music and Audio
Music and Audio Features
* Music player
* Media player
* Music playback file formats: .mp3, .wma, .aac, AAC+, eAAC+
* Audio streaming formats: .rm, .eAAC+
* FM radio 87.5-108 MHz (required wired headset to be attached)
* Internet Radio
* 3.5 mm Nokia AV connector
* Nokia Music Manager
* Nokia Music Store support
* Nokia Video Manager
* Nokia Podcasting support
* Customizable ring tones
* Synchronize music with Windows Media Player
* Navi™ wheel support
* Voice Aid
Voice and Audio Recording
* Voice commands
* Speaker dependent and speaker independent voice dialing (SIND)
* Voice recorder
* Audio recording formats: AMR-WB, AMR-NB
* Speech codecs: FR, EFR, HRO/1, AMR-HR, and AMR-FR
* Text-to-speech
Navigation
Maps and Navigation
* Integrated A-GPS
* Nokia Maps application
Package Contents
Sales Package Contents
* Nokia E75
* Nokia Battery (BL-4U)
* Nokia High-Efficiency Charger (AC-8U), reduce standby energy consumption to just 10% of the power used by conventional chargers
* Nokia Connectivity cable (CA-101)
* Nokia Stereo Headset (HS-43)
* User Guide, Quick Start Guide and other documentation
* 4 GB microSD memory card
Main disadvantages:
* Rather expensive at this point (more than 350 euro)
* Controls around the D-pad are too tiny
* Mediocre camera performance
* Fingerprint-prone cheap-looking front
* Wiggling cheapo camera key
* Limited battery life (in comparison to the E71)
Monday, April 13, 2009
"A Glimpse At The Seldom Discussed son of Nehru"
It is not only the son of Nehru that people seldom discuss, there are many other matters concerning the Nehrus that have escaped the attention of our people. Such lack of attention is not necessarily a phenomenon that affects the foreigners; it is only the Indians, primarily the Hindus of India, who suffer from such lack of perception. It is our own people who do not know in depth their leaders. That is a shame! We saw how the British got rid of then Prince of Wales, Edward VIII, for reasons of an unacceptable marriage with the twice divorced Wallis woman!
A very common question about the Nehru’s, if asked, inevitably draws a wrong answer or at best, no answer at all, from even the knowledgeable literati of the Indian media, teachers and professors, politicians and ministers, etc.
The question is: "Who was the (paternal) grandfather of Rajiv Roberto Gandhi, son of Indira, daughter of Jawahar Lal Nehru?" And you will not be surprised to hear that most people, including even the Ph.D.s of Indian Universities reply right away that it was Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru. People forget that Jawahar was only the maternal grandfather and NOT the paternal grandfather! No one seems to know that Rajiv Roberto's father was Firoz Khan (who had changed his name by an affidavit to avoid arousing attention of the people of India, primarily Hindus) and therefore, the (paternal) grandfather of Rajiv was the father of Firoz. His name was Nawab Khan, a Sunni Moslem who used to supply liquor to the Nehru family.
Kamala Nehru eventually died in Switzerland of tuberculosis after a long bout with the disease. Daughter Indira, who had a totally un-Hindu upbringing was left to herself. The senior aunt, Nan (later Vijaya Lakshmi) was herself running after unhealthy company terminating in an elopement with a Moslem man called Syud Husain. Some say Syud was an illegitimate son of Moti Lal and that was the primary reason for Moti Lal's refusal to agree to the marriage with Syud, for then it would be a marriage between half siblings. There could be no other reason for an agnostic like Moti Lal, whose most intimate friends were all Mohammedans, to have refused his blessing to Nan's wedding with Syud!
Be that as it may, as soon as Kamala Nehru (wife of Jawahar) died, whatever restrictions, real or imaginary there had been, in the way of keeping a check on Jawahar's conduct vis à vis other women, disappeared. The prime minister of India, a widower, started conducting himself absolutely shamelessly. He started running after skirts and saris, gave up all important work connected with the wellbeing of the state of India and her people. Other than looking after the members of his own immediate family, such as promoting Vijay Lakshmi in the UNO, clearing the path of his own daughter to the post of the future prime minister of India, etc. he had no other interests. Huge territories of India were taken over by communist China, once Nehru's good friend; Kashmir was attacked by Islamic Pakistan but he would not care. Weren't there more interesting items to pay attention to? There was Edwina of course but then there were also many more to attend to!
M.O. Mathai, said that a young woman from northern India arrived at the convent a few months ago and gave birth to a baby boy. She refused to divulge her name or give any particulars about herself. She left the convent as soon as she was well enough to move out but left the child behind. She however forgot to take with her a small cloth bundle in which, among other things, several letters in Hindi were found.
"The Mother Superior, who was a foreigner, had the letters examined and was told they were from the Prime Minister. The person who brought the letters surrendered them. But he declined to give his name, or the name of the Mother Superior, or the name and address of the convent. Nehru was told of the facts. He tore off the letters without any emotion reflected in his face. He showed no interest in the child then or later...
Says Mathai:"I made discreet enquiries repeatedly about the boy but failed to get a clue about his whereabouts. Convents in such matters are extremely tightlipped and secretive. Had I succeeded in locating the boy, I would have adopted him. He must have grown up as a Catholic Christian blissfully ignorant of who his father was."
It is quite possible that if the bastard son of Nehru could be located, he and not Indira would have ruled India. Elsewhere, in the same book, Mathai writes:"Some of the great men in the past have been 'bastards'. Confucius and Leonardo da Vinci are classic examples. In modern times we have had Ramsay MacDonald and now Willy Brandt."
However, for those readers who are disappointed in not having Nehru's bastard son as India's ruler, there is nothing to lose. Writes Mathai elsewhere in the same book (pg. 94):"For some inexplicable reason, Nehru allowed the marriage (between Indira and Feroze) to be performed according to Vedic rites in 1942.
"In the autumn of 1948 a young woman from Benares arrived in New Delhi as a sanyasini named Shradha Mata. She was a Sanskrit scholar and well versed in ancient Indian scriptures and mythology. People, including MPs, thronged to her to hear her discourses. One day, S.D. Upadhyaya, Nehru's old employee, brought a letter in Hindi from Shradha Mata about whom he spoke very highly. Nehru gave her an interview in the PM's house. As she departed, I noticed that she was young, shapely and beautiful. Meetings with her became rather frequent, mostly after Nehru finished his work at night. During one of Nehru's visits to Lucknow, Shradha Mata turned up there, and Upadhyaya brought a letter from her as usual. Nehru sent her the reply; and she visited Nehru at midnight. Padmaja was hysterical...
"Suddenly Shradha Mata disappeared. In November 1949 a convent in Bangalore sent a decent-looking religious and intercaste marriage under Vedic rites at that time was not valid in law. To be legal, it had to be a civil marriage. So, strictly under the law, Indira was only a 'concubine' and her children are 'bastards'." So, Rajiv, a 'bastard' by this definition replaced the other 'bastard', the unknown son of Jawahar. However, this incident of secret delivery of Jawahar's bastard son at the convent drastically limited Nehru's personal and prime ministerial freedom. He became overly subservient to the Catholic lobby and the GoI became absolutely powerless in matters concerning the missionary fathers and their vile practices to convert India's poor. However, Nehru had to pay the price too. He died of syphilis.
Saturday, April 11, 2009
ibm buying sun ;not so shocking
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BM has opened talks of buying Sun Microsystems, if done it will create an interesting consolidation of the software, server and storage markets.
According to the Wall Street Journal IBM is ready to shell out a price of $6.5bn. Sun is currently capitalised at $3.7bn ($4.97/share), but its share price has persistently fallen since the heady days of the dot com boom and has under-performed that of its computer systems competitors over the last few years, making it a much less expensive purchase now that it would have been three or four years ago.
both being big players in the server, storage and systems software markets,this deal happens to be a big talked about one.
Sun has been hawking itself around the industry recently, looking to be bought, with HP also mentioned as one potential buyyer. If true, this confirms the perception that Sun has been impoverished by CEO Jonathan Schwartz's strategy of moving into open source software and relying for revenue growth on converting Solaris, Java and MySQL developers' into purchasers of Sun's servers, storage and services.
Unfortunately for Sun execs and investors, the free software download conversion rate into revenue dollars has been derisory, with Schwartz having promised soon-come blue revenue skies for what seems like years. Sun has continued to make money but its revenues have under-performed compared to its peers, and the company has been forced to go through rounds of restructuring and staff cuts - the most recent in January - to try and keep costs in balance with revenues.
Activist investor Southeastern Asset Management became Sun's biggest shareholder recently and some of the recent restructuring efforts have been thought to be influenced by this. Schwartz has consistently said he wants to work with this investor to increase shareholder value.
Selling Sun to IBM would give Southeastern Asset Management a profit on its investment and could be what it has been working for all along, and why it ponied up investment dollars in the first place.
There has been widespread industry speculation about Sun's future as analysts and commentators wonder how sustainable has been the board's and investors' faith in the Schwartz-led company and its strategy. But the fit of Sun's vast portfolio of assets into potential purchaser's businesses has always been a problem.
So why would IBM want a company which, at first glance, fits awkwardly into its portfolio of systems and services?
Sun product overview
Sun makes proprietary Sparc RISC servers, x86 servers and has storage and networking hardware, its Open Solaris operating system and allied software, its recently-acquired MySQL open source data base business, the massively popular Java software line, and its services business.
It has its own server chip design business and has persisted with this, in conjunction with Fujitsu, devising a line of multi-core processors to try and keep its servers ahead of the commodity x86 price/performance curve. IBM has its own RISC PowerPC chips which overlaps with Sparc. It's possible that the Sparc chip business will be offloaded to Sun partner Fujitsu, with the Sparc customer base being transitioned to PowerPC or x86 systems.
Sun's servers will overlap with IBM's PowerPc servers, and their users would surely be transitioned to IBM's own kit with the Sparc server line heading to the proprietary server cemetery. This transition will be eased by Solaris running on both Sun and IBM servers.
Friday, April 10, 2009
windows 7
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Microsoft’s new Windows 7 is amazing. It’s super lightweight, slick, and it has a beautiful interface.
Windows 7 has some great new features, too, like drag to maximize Windows to take 50% or more of the screen. It has a cool auto-preview feature on the Taskbar, where if you hover over the Internet Explorer icon, it will show you thumbnails of all the windows you’ve opened, and you can select the one you want to pull up.
I would even go as far as saying that Microsoft Windows 7 is on the verge of offering a better operating system experience than Apple’s latest OS. If Microsoft can get the search feature to work instantly, I think they have a total winner on their hands. There is still the question of how to counter Apple’s iLife; more about that in a moment.
Overall, I would say this is easily the most significant launch in Microsoft’s history. The question is, how significant is significant?
In the past (that is, pre-Vista), people would line up their purchases of new hardware with the launch of a new operating system from Microsoft. We expected that the new software would require much more significant hardware requirements; therefore, it was expected that many people would buy a new computer along with their new OS.
Well, that was the past.
Microsoft’s new OS is so slick that it seems to run better on Windows XP-based machines. In other words, if you have a slow computer, you should try blowing the dust off of it and install Windows 7 on it and see how well it runs; you might be surprised. In my case, I took a new HP Mini, which came installed with Windows XP, dumped XP, and installed Windows 7. The machine runs incredibly fast (albeit the video is still not to my liking) and makes me question the importance of new hardware in Microsoft’s eyes. HP chose Windows XP for the Mini because Windows Vista’s hardware requirements are somewhat insane. If Windows 7 runs faster than Windows XP on lower-end hardware, how well does it run on high-end hardware, and does it matter to most people?
That's the question we're still trying to answer at HP, but it seems fairly clear that the days when people would line up to buy new hardware to go along with a new Microsoft Windows OS are probably over. I simply cannot see how Windows 7 will drive hardware sales. I believe that in order to drive hardware sales, we need to continue to come up with meaningful, slick, innovative designs that our customers will want to purchase at some point. In the meantime, I can see many people lining up to buy a retail version of Windows 7 to install on their current hardware, and that might be enough to keep them going for a while.
What really got me thinking was when I took an old red Envy notebook from back in the day and installed Windows 7 on it without a hitch. I used a couple of Vista drivers to clean it up, and it runs beautifully. It’s a perfect PC for my 6-year-old to putter around on now.
What about Apple’s iLife? So far, Microsoft doesn’t have a clear answer for it. The company’s Live services are meant to answer the Apple iLife solution, but Live is sorely lacking in a number of areas. Even though it now offers things like an easy-to-use Web development program, blogging, and so on, it’s just not as complete or as refined as iLife. I guess we’ll have to wait and see what happens there. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; if someone can develop an iLife competitor for the PC, they’ll make millions.
I do believe Microsoft’s new OS could lead to some strong competition for Apple—that is, if everyone involved plays their cards right.
So here are the questions I ask myself;
a) Is the operating system as meaningful as it once was, or will things like Google Android combined with Cloud Computing, Chrome, Google Docs, Windows Live, etc make the OS less significant?
b) Will the OS, especially Windows 7 drive new hardware sales? Two thoughts here; one is Windows 7 is faster than XP, so uhhh you could install 7 on your XP machine and kick ass again... The second thought is Windows 7 does enable new hardware features such as touch, which makes me think new hardware designs might be appealing in many cases...
c) Is a mini notebook with Windows 7 enough for most people?
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