Mobile Phones

The DisplaySearch company, a unit of giant NPD, published  sales research data of notebooks of biggest companies of our planet. Compared with the I quarter of 2007, overall sales of laptops in the first quarter of 2008, increased by 35%.

The company HP remains in first place seventh consecutive quarter, taking up to the outcome I quarter of 2008 20.8% of the market. Growth of sales from HP was 40% (hereinafter - in comparison with I quarter 2007). Dell has been able to increase sales of laptops by 45%, controlling 15.1% of the market. Very near Acer - 14,6% market while increasing sales 33%.

It is noteworthy that Apple was not able to pass Fujitsu-Siemens and takes only 7 place of the laptops market, controlling total 4.6%. In doing so, annual sales growth of 61%. This figure is only worse of Asus outcome - 67% growth, which was promoted by the successes Eee PC. Pay attention to the negative results of Sony - sales rose by a modest 3% and the Japanese company stuck at 9 spot.

Phone Sony Ericsson T610 was incredible mega-hit of Sony Ericsson since his debut five years ago. Now the company is preparing a remake phone - code-named Remi.

This was announced today by blog.se-nse.net. Remi will be based on the hardware platform of Sony Ericsson W890 and for that reason will largely repeat its technical characteristics.

Outwardly Remi will remind his famous father - T610. He will have a black and silver appearance with metal fittings and have a thickness of 10 mm.

So far nothing is known about the index of the device and release date.

Due to the fact that Sony Ericsson canceled the release of smartphone BeiBei, engineering versions of the phone, which dispersed throughout the world, acquired the status of collection models.

One user at HowardForums.com sells two BeiBei phones - one engineering sample had already been sold for $530, the second will be sold after “proposal, which the seller can not refuse”.

However, it is likely that Sony Ericsson still will issue BeiBei (as well as Paris) limited series for the Asian market.

U.S. CDMA-operator Verizon is ready to start his own murderer of iPhone - Motorola Blaze. This information was published on Boygeniusreport.com. Despite the fact that it is a CDMA-device, a great likelihood that the device will be released in GSM-version - Motorola is not in a position which allows the “spreading” concepts.

So, the appearance of Motorola Blaze recalls series of Ming - thanks to the transparent upper half. According to the source, this is not a smartphone - the software installed on the device is designed specifically for Verizon.

This new touch screen, according to the source, is not so easy - maybe we are talking about engineering sample, but will have to click on the screen with considerable effort. The device has 2 - megapixel camera, GPS, Bluetooth and standard specifications for such devices.

Sony Ericsson company warned investors today that sales and net profit of the company will continue to be affected by negative factors: low demand for expensive mobile phones and delay in delivery of new products in II quarter.

Gross profit margin of the company, according to the press release, decreased compared with the previous (I) quarter and also compared with the II quarter of 2007. Net earnings, are enough not to show losses.

The message is the oposit of the previous statements of Chief Marketing Officer James Marshall: “Our forecasts for this quarter and for the second half of 2008 look promising. We can support the growth rate at 10% “, - said then top-manager.

Sony Ericsson intends to report on shipments in II quarter of 24 million mobile phones at an average price of EUR115. These indicators are worse than one year ago: in II quarter of 2007, Sony Ericsson has placed on the market 24.9 million phones at an average price of EUR125. If a company LG does not reduce production volumes (no prerequisites for this), Sony Ericsson may “stuck” at the fifth spot behind the Korean company for another quarter.

Blog http://blog.se-nse.net/ published information that Sony Ericsson is preparing a 16 GB new device for fans of its Walkman series, which, respectively, will head the musical line of the company. At the moment there is no any details.

By the way, Sony Ericsson, apparently is guided by the philosophy of “Each series - with one leader”. The Cybershot already has 8 Mp Sony Ericsson C905, business users (in addition to several outstanding to Xperia X1) can expect flagship, code-named Necaro (although it can comprehend the fate of Paris).

It is noteworthy that Sony Ericsson has consistently doubled the number of free space in its new Walkmans: W950 had 4 GB, the Sony Ericsson W960 - 8 GB.

Analyst FBR Capital Markets company Craig Berger, quoting its own sources, contends that the company Apple has placed orders for 15 million phones iPhone 3G.
The amount of phones should be made before the end of the year.

Berger also reported that orders for iPod and Nano players also increased, but orders for the production of iPod Touch - declined. Apparently, the touch player became the main victim of iPhone 3G.

Pantech introduced a new model of Pantech IM-R300. New designed in a fashionable today monoblock form factor with touch screen on the entire front panel. 2.6-inch display has a resolution of 400х240 points.

Pantech IM-R300 is able to work as in networks GSM, also with WCDMA protocol with support for high-speed data transmission HSDPA.

There is a built-in memory of 260 MB , plus a memory card slot under the microSD. Among the multimedia features of the phone  it is worth noting: DMB-tuner, Media and 2 Megapixel camera.

In addition to all above in the phone there is a GPS-navigator. The size of new Pantech IM-R300: 102×51x13,9 mm, weight - 111g. Reported that Pantech IM-R300 will be available only to subscribers Korean operator SKY.

Despite the huge echo that yesterday’s  press conference had in London, some analysts doubt that an open Symbian operating system could count on a quick and unconditional success.

One of them - Andrew Orlowski - shared his doubts worthy of attention in his article published by The Register. According to him, Nokia, the main initiator of the revolutionary process, may find it difficult - manufacturers of mobile phones may not want to contribute Nokia. Although established Symbian Foundation as a non-profit and no one owned company, the tone will be set by the producer from Finland.

Indirectly, this confirms the information about the mass dismissals in UIQ, which may indicate that UIQ in the “ecosystem” of Symbian will take extremely limited involvement.

There is a second aspect: the attention of the antimonopoly authorities. Given the extremely unstable situation of Motorola and recent problems with smartphones from Sony Ericsson, sharp-sighted European Union antitrust authorities may draw attention to the dominance of one company in the market. Since Symbian is not owned by different companies which are competitors, and it is controlled by Nokia - Finnish giant could fall into the position of the Microsoft.

Some time ago appeared assumptions that Motorola is preparing a phone with which company makes a huge bet: it must save the Motorola. These are preliminary characteristics yet and it emphasizes that the device marked as top secret.

It is expected that Alexander will have 5 or 8 megapixel camera, integrated NVIDIA chip for video and 3D-graphics, GPS, and probably touch screen. According to the source, the phone will work with the help of UIQ 4.0. Provisional release date - October.

It is still difficult to assess the veracity of these rumors, but logic dictates that Motorola in the near future should send all the resources to create a phone, because the company is now becoming closer to the point where production of mobile phones would be easier to shut or sell this part of the company. ZN5, by the way, didn’t attract large investors.

Despite the fact that these Linux-phones, according to some reports, has already emerged in China, their official release (very calm) occurred only a day before: the company officially presented smartphones Motorola Ming A1600 and Ming A1800.

In fact, these are two identical phones with Linix OS: A1800 differs simultaneous support for GSM and CDMA 1x. Both devices do not support 3G, which is an obvious sign: they are intended largely for the Chinese market, although their predecessor - Moto A1200 - were sold well in this region.

Phones have dimensions 98,9×53,5×19,6 mm, weight - 128 grams. Phones are equipped with a 3 Mp camera, Bluetooth support A2DP, microUSB-port, FM-receiver.

Wi-Fi is not provided, but there is a GPS-module, which provides navigation and geotagging for photographs. By the way, the camera can do gif-animations: withdraw and unite a series of shots in a movie.

Motorola A1600

Motorola  A1800

Nokia intends to acquire 52.1% of Symbian from its competitors - Ericsson (15,6%), Sony Ericsson (13,1%), Panasonic (10,5%), Samsung (4,5%) and Siemens (8,4%). Instead, Finnish giant announced the creation of Symbian Foundation, lifting of royalties for the right to use Symbian OS and plans to turn it into an open platform.

According to the company, Sony Ericsson, Ericsson, Panasonic and Siemens have already accepted the offer of Nokia. Samsung, in the opinion of Nokia, will do so soon. The cost of the purchase will be approximately $410 million

Furthermore, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT DoCoMo announced today the intention to unify Symbian, S60, UIQ and MOAP (S) in one open (!) Software platform, which will develop a new generation of converged devices. That decision lies at the core of Symbian Foundation, which will start in the first half of 2009.

Henceforth wishing to take a united Symbian should enter into an organization each year to pay $1500 in the form of contribution and are exempt from payment of Symbian. For developers Symbian Foundation membership optional. Key members are already AT & T, Broadcom, NTT DoCoMo, Ericsson, Freescale, Fujitsu, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Orange, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Texas Instruments, T-Mobile, Vodafone.

We will return to this subject in the near future - for today appointed a key press conference Symbian Foundation.

Some final details of latest phones from Samsung, which were presented at last week under the CommunicAsia exhibition in Singapore.

Samsung L700

You also get a strict style (very similar to the appearance of D780 DuoS), the phone divides index with 7.2 Mp camera from Samsung. This is totally random coincidence - a monoblock has only 2 Mp camera. The screen has a resolution of 160×128 with 2.1 diagonally. Dimensions of Samsung L700are  109×46x12,8 mm. Outwardly phone looks perfect - thanks to the generous use of metal. The phone supports data transmission through HSDPA at speeds of up to 3.6 Mbps.

The device has a standard music player (MP3, WMA, AAC, AAC + and eAAC +), FM-radio, 30 MB free space and support MicroSD cards.

There is a golden version of Samsung L700 - in this aspect, it also is very similar to the more productive DuoS D780, a gold version of which became official Olympic telephone in Russia.

 
Samsung J800 Luxe

The elegant little slider, striving in the top middle price range (about $ 400), has a fairly good penetration of its design and functionality. With dimensions 99,5×47x15 mm phone has a 2.2″ display (resolution of 220×176 pixels), 2 Mp camera, support MicroSD, a full-fledged browser, Bluetooh 2.0. Supports third-generation network - but not HSDPA.

 
Samsung M150

Monoblock is fiscal and middle class doesn’t have flawed design, although the level of functionality with the head gives it an inexpensive phone: 1.8 “display with 65 thousand colors (128×160 pixels), VGA-camera, 20 MB free space built-in, FM-radio. Phone has dimensions 106,5 x45, 5×12, 7 mm.

Rumours about canceling of smartphones Paris and BeiBei found their confirmation on weekends - blog blog.se-nse.net published information that the project officially closed because of the negative feedback received from specialists that were given samples of above mentioned devices.

However, as the source, phones are likely to survive the reincarnation on some Asian markets, since they are almost ready for production.

Thus, the only smartphone Sony Ericsson officially has remains excellent Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1, announced at the Mobile Congress in Barcelona.

Hardly breathing company Motorola today presented in China long-awaited monoblock Motorola ZN5, which uses technology of Kodak. This phone was talked about in the past year.

The final specifications are as follows:

• Display: 2,4 “, QVGA, 262 thousand colors, TFT
• Camera: 5 Mp, optimized for shooting in dark rooms, xenon flash, autofocus, multi-shot function
• Memory: 350 MB, support for memory cards up to 4 GB
• Dimensions: 50,5×118x12 mm (16 mm camera in the field)
• Weight: 114 g
• Battery: 950 mAh
• Multimedia: 3.5mm jack, FM-radio, TV-output
• Data Transmission: Wi-Fi b/g /i, BT with support A2DP
• Communications: GSM 850/900/1800/1900, EDGE class 12, GPRS class 12.

The device is equipped with technology ModeShift, which streamlines management devaysom. In general, it is worth noting that the phone, that other laurels photographic flagship Motorola, was not struck by the imagination - neither functional nor design.

Motorola ZN5 will be available in China in July 2008, on all other markets, as acknowledged by Motorola, “during the remainder of the year”.