As we mentioned a few days ago, Samsung has prepared its TouchWiz technology for U.S. market and it seems that Alltel Wireless could be the first carrier which will sell a handset with that feature. Beside the TouchWiz technology which is used on 3 inches 262k color TFT touch-screen, the Delve phone has a virtual QWERTY keyboard, and ‘drag and drop’ widgets for a customizable user interface.
The handset also features a 2 megapixel camera on the back with a video capability, a MP3 player for playing your favorite music, Bluetooth with A2DP profile and microSD support. The Delve provides about 5 hours of talk and 14 days of standby. Other features are a built-in GPS, 3.5 mm headset jack, and Alltel’s services like Alltel Pic Transfer, Alltel Mobile Advisor, City Id, Collapse Chaos and Wallpaper Universe.
For pre-sale it’s already available at alltel.com for $199.99 after $100 mail in rebate but customers who want to wait a little more days can get it at retail stores on November 6.
How many time have you thought learning the music and it was shattered away when you could not attend classes? Here is another unusual Android application by SplashPlay which offers music learning through mobile devices. Among many other applications for Android developer challenge this application stood at number 50.
Taking daily lessons are never that easy. All you have to do is to simply attach the pod and light panel (Splash Acessories) to your guitar, download the software and start streamming to your favourite songs in minutes. Please remember, that these accessories are not necessary to run the applicaton, but they help you extend your learning curve.
So what really happens is that when you play, song information is sent to the pod from a mobile phone or computer using a Bluetooth connection, giving total portability. Future features will include a guitar tuner, metronome and a hands free, Bluetooth foot pedal. The product will provide an easy, portable and fun method of learning music.
After Nokia’s Comes With Music and Sony Ericsson’s PlayNow service there is another music service known as Didiom. In fact, this music service was launched in 2005, way before Nokia and Sony Ericsson. Didiom is a mobile music service provider with 1 million DRM-free tracks under management, and over a dozen content partners worldwide. Users can use their phone to access songs and playlists stored on their computer through wireless streaming.
Didiom has two different services. Music streaming from PC to a mobile device and secondly over the air streaming service just like iTunes in which user can download songs from 1.5 million DRM-free and legal MP3 songs. This costs 89 cent per song or US$ 9.99 per album or little more. The good part is that the songs you download from Didiom are in MP3 or unprotected WMA format which means you can add them to your iTunes and iPod. Users with Mac have to wait as Didiom software is only available for use on a PC.
This application is compatible with more than 200 phones which includes BlackBerry and Windows Mobile smartphones, and still only works for US cellular networks. Didiom recommends you to opt an unlimited data plan before using this service.
BlackBerry Pearl 8220 smartphone is the first RIM’s flip handset featuring 2 megapixel camera with video capture, Wi-Fi, a 3.5mm headphone jack, advanced media player for pictures, music and video, 128 MB of flash memory with 256MB microSD card, voice dialing, and push email.
