The new Nokia N78 candybar mobilecomes absolutely loaded: HSPDA 3G support, Wi-Fi connectivity, FM music transmitter and integrated Assisted GPS. The later has obligatory Nokia Maps support and automatic geotagging of photos taken by its 3.2-megapixel sensor with Carl Zeiss optics. Unlike the previous N73, the $562 (350 euros) pianoblacktabulous N78 gets rid of real keys in favour of touch surfaces, with raised lines on the front to give you tactile feedback. Full details after the jump.
If you thought the iPhone’s accelerometers trick was cool, wait until you see the new Nokia 6210 Navigator GPS in action. Using the GPS, an integrated compass and accelerometers, the 6210 will always show you the map in the right orientation, no matter how you turn the mobile around. This is great especially when you are walking around the city. The phone, which also comes with a 3.2-megapixel camera, MP3 player, videoconferencing front camera and stereo FM radio, will grab additional points of interest information using its HSDPA 3G connectivity. The $482 (300 euros) Nokia 6210 includes local maps with future updates included in the price. Full details and high resolution photo after the jump.
The 6220 Classic seems to be Nokia’s answer to the latest Sony Ericsson Cybershots: a compact candybar with 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens that gets all its photos tagged thanks to its built-in Assisted GPS, a feature that is the norm in the latest Nokia lineup. The only bad thing: the candybar 6220 doesn’t use its GPS to provide full navigation like the Nokia 6210 Navigator however, although this can be enabled later with a software upgrade, probably for a price. At $522 (325 euros) it also comes loaded with Nokia Maps and a set of Widsets which, like Apple’s iPhone widgets, are small specialized applications that show the Internet content loaded through its 3G connection.
Well, it’s Monday morning at WMC 2008 in Barcelona and Motorola has come out of the gate with a… saunter. The W161 and W181, which should be available sometime in the next month or so, look like they are aimed at the cellphone markets in Africa and India. I mean, 465 hours’ standby? Full specs for both are below the gallery.
The HTC Advantage has just received a hardware and software upgrade, and is now called the X7510. HTC has bumped the internal storage to 16GB of flash, and improved the keyboard as well as adding in Opera 9.5, and a “future version” of Windows Mobile. No price info yet, but the Advantage will be available in March. Expect to see HTC’s other hiptop, the Shift, hit Europe a little earlier. Specs of the Advantage and pic of the Shift, after the jump.
Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are awesome technologies that we now take for granted, but what if the two combined in Mighty Morphing Power Ranger style to create a superior means of wireless data transmission? Well, Michael Foley of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group has said such a pairing is set to make an appearance into a broad range of gadgets by the middle of next year. The combination will speed up data transfers by allowing large files to be transmitted using the integrated Wi-Fi radios.
I just realised that while I was looking back through the archives for eBook readers for the post on eReader.com’s 17000 non-DRM’d eBooks that nobody actually covered Dymocks’ launch of the Iliad eReader and eBook store last December for Giz AU. Well, rest assured, I’m here to cover all the old news that didn’t get covered before I started.
The Iliad, like the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader, uses e-ink technology to display easy-to-read text on its screen. It’s about the same size as an A5 sheet of paper, weighs 389 grams and has 128MB of internal storage, which is upgradeable via the SD card slot.
Unlike those two readers, you can make notes on the Iliad’s screen using its stylus, and it plays back a wide range of ebook formats, including the mobipocket format used by Dymocks.
The downside of this wonderful (and old) news is that it costs $899. Oh, and Dymocks aren’t really offering their ebooks cheaply, either. So, while we finally have an ereader option here in Australia that uses the e-ink technology, you need to pay through the nose for it. Are you really that surprised?
[Dymocks]
With advanced wireless technology, wearing a wire no longer means having a voice recorder or short-range radio transmitter strapped to your chest. This 3G-equipped surveillance vest can transmit a live feed anywhere in the world. There is also a panic button and GPS, which is handy when the Bad Guys notice a massive battery pack stuck to your back. The vest even has a built-in compact flash recorder for evidence if you lose cellular reception or backup doesn’t arrive in time. [PhoneMag via Gizmo Watch]
The cunning masterminds behind the Storm worm are apparently rolling in great wealth. The boffins at IBM estimate the worm is netting just under $US2 million per day for its creators. The Storm worm’s financial success comes from the fact that it has successfully created a massive collection of autonomously running computers, a.k.a. a botnet, which can be used to launch profitable spam attacks.
The sheer volume of spam that can be sent by harnessing the full power of the Storm worm is much greater than anything before. Due to this fact, the money that is generated from spamming, as well as from business deals that are a result of said spam, is thought to be in the area of millions of dollars per day. Clearly, we’re in the wrong business. [Personal Computer World]
