Posts published October 2008

Play your home Sonos Music System from your iPhone

We are getting quite a many new applications for iPhone being developed by independent developers around  the world. This special application relates well to tech savy users who are interested in home automation. With Sonos Controller application installed in your iPhone or iPod touch, your iPhone is your remote control.

With Sonos ZonePlayers connected wirelessly in the rooms of your choice and a Sonos Controller for iPhone in hand, every room in your home is in your hands as far as you are concerned in playing the music. All you have to do is to simply pick a room, pick a song and hit play. Play the same song in every room in perfect synchronization, or play different songs in every room.

You can download your free Sonos Controller for iPhone from www.sonos.com/iphone . You can even get Sonos Desktop Controller for PC and Mac. Here is the link http://www.sonos.com/myaccount/login/default.aspx?redir=support/downloads.

Sonos for iPhone

source IntoMobile

Diotek shows up DioPen 7.0, a handwriting recognition for Pocket PC

Korean Diotek has just revealed its handwriting recognition application, the DioPen in version 7.0. DioPen is a software supporting Korean and English language with touch-sensitive feature which enables typing letters as well as numbers. DioPen in version 7.0 is for Windows Mobile 5.0, 6.0 and 6.1 users. The software has a feature which saves words typed by you before.

The recognized letters are shown with an anti-aliasing what brings much better reading experience. Diotek has already developed handwriting recognition software for Apple’s iPhone a time ago. Diopen is already used in devices like Samsung Haptic, LG Viewty and HTC Touch Dual.

Diotek DioPen 7.0

Unlocked BlackBerry Bold 9000 available on Best Buy and CompUSA

What makes BlackBerry Bold the most popular device in BlackBerry’s current line up is its display. BlackBerry bold has bright 2.65 inches diagonal TFT-LCD screen with 65,000 colors and a resolution of 320 by 480 pixels. That is why it is being demanded more and more by customers. Keeping this in mind online merchants Best Buy and CompUSA are selling it directly to consumers with their unlocked BlackBerry Bold 9000. The price they are asking is $660 and $799.99 respectively.

Best Buy has put up BlackBerry Bold on their website for pre-ordering where as CompUSA is selling it right away. The prices set by CompUSA are enormously high if we look at iSuppli’s cost break down. According to iSuppli BlackBerry Bold’s direct Bill of Materials (BOM) cost of $158.16 and a manufacturing cost of $11.25 which makes it a total of 169.41 USD and if you look at a tag price of $799.99 set by CompUSA, you can feel the waves BlackBerry Bold is making for its lovers.

BlackBerry Bold was completely redesigned and it does not include a touch-screen display but still it contains few similarities to Apple’s iPhone 3G. BlackBerry Bold features a GPS, and Wi-Fi which it’s a big hit. BlackBerry Bold has 1GB of internal memory, a microSD card slot for which a 1GB card is included in the sales package. BlackBerry Bold smartphone comes equipped with a 2 megapixel camera with video-recording capabilities and 5x zoom.

BlackBerry Bold 9000

source SlashPhone

VIDEO: Samsung HighNote SPH-M630 Review

Samsung HighNote is a dual-slider featuring a 2 megapixel camera with camcorder, stereo Bluetooth, up to 16GB memory support, Sprint Music Store, Sprint Navigation, Web surfing, email, and GPS. It’s available for $99.99 with a 2-year contract and after a $50 mail-in rebate in red or blue color exclusively at Sprint.


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