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Comparison Iphone 3gs and Nokia 97

2009-07-07T13:22:00.004+01:00

iPhone 3Gs

new features:

faster processor 600mhz

more ram, twice as much 256mb

compass

better 3.2 megapixel camera autofocus

video recording

Nokia n97

3.5 touch screen 640*360 resolution

5 megapixel camera auto focus camera

32 gb internal memory, expandable to 48 gb (microsd)

fm radio and transmitter( can send song through radio frequencies)

full browser which has built in support for flash eg youtube

has got a qwerty keyboard.

30 fps video recording ( same as iphone 3gs)

Specifications
Brand	Apple	Nokia
Model	iPhone 3G S 32GB	N97
Air Interface	GSM/HSDPA	GSM/HSDPA
Band	Quad	Quad
Dimensions	62 x 116 x 12 mm	55 x 117 x 16 mm
Weight	135 g	150 g
Talk time	Up to 12 hours	Up to 10 hours
Standby time	Up to 300 hours	Up to 432 hours

Connectivity
GPRS		Class 32
3G	HSDPA @ 7.2Mbps	3.6 Mbps and HSDPA
HSDPA	7.2 Mbps	3.6Mbps
Wi-Fi	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g	UPnP technology and Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth	v2.1	v2.0 with A2DP
USB	v2.0	v2.0 microUSB
GPS	Digital compass, Google Maps, and with A-GPS support	Built-in GPS receiver with A-GPS support, Digital compass, and Nokia Maps 2.0 Touch

Imaging
Camera	2048 x 1536 pixels, 3.15 megapixel, autofocus, geo-tagging, and touch focus	2584x1938 pixels, 5 megapixel, autofocus, and Carl Zeiss optics
Camera Flash		LED
Video Camera	VGA@30fps	VGA @ 30 fps

Entertainment
Media Player	iPod audio/video player with Voice Control and linear remote headphones	MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ audio and MPEG4/WMV/3gp video player
FM Radio		Stereo FM radio with RDS and Visual radio; FM transmitter
Headphone Jack	3.5mm audio output	3.5 mm audio output jack

Extras
Memory Card		microSD (TransFlash) and up to 16GB
Touchscreen	16 million colours, 3.5" TFT capacitive touchscreen, accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate, ambient light sensor, multi-touch input method, proximity sensor for auto turn-off, and scratch-resistance surface	3.5" TFT touchscreen, 360 x 640 pixels, accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate, full physical QWERTY keyboard, handwriting recognition, and proximity sensor for auto-off
Video Calling		secondary camera for video calls and VGA @ 15fps
Internal Memory	256 MB RAM and 32 GB storage	128 MB RAM and 32GB internal memory

The Google Browser

2008-09-03T00:41:00.000+01:00

Google is launching an open source web browser to compete with Internet Explorer and Firefox.

The browser is designed to be fast, and to cope with the next generation of web applications that rely on graphics and multimedia.

Called Chrome, it will launch as a beta for Windows machines in 100 countries, with Mac and Linux versions to come.

"We realised... we needed to completely rethink the browser," said Google's Sundar Pichai in a blog post.

The new browser will help Google take advantage of developments it is pushing online in rich web applications that are challenging traditional desktop programs.

It's certainly the biggest news in the browser space since Firefox started to dent Internet Explorer's lead and many people see this as a re-ignition of the browser wars

Darren Waters

dot.life blog

Google has a suite of web apps, such as Documents, Picasa and Maps which offer functionality that is beginning to replace offline software.

"What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that's what we set out to build," Mr Pichai, VP Product Management, wrote.

Competition

The launch of a beta version of Chrome on Tuesday evening (UK time) will be Google's latest assault on Microsoft's dominance of the PC business. The firm's Internet Explorer program dominates the browser landscape, with 80% of the market.

Those already in the browser space were quick to respond to the news.

Writing in his blog, John Lilly, chief executive of Mozilla was sanguine about the new rival in the browsersphere.

"It should come as no real surprise that Google has done something here - their business is the web, and they’ve got clear opinions on how things should be, and smart people thinking about how to make things better."

Chrome will be a browser optimized for the things that they see as important, and it’ll be interesting to see how it evolves," he wrote.

Google's new web browser incorporates open source software

He welcomed the competition and said collaboration between Mozilla and Google on certain projects would continue.

Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, was more bullish.

"The browser landscape is highly competitive, but people will choose Internet Explorer 8 for the way it puts the services they want right at their fingertips, respects their personal choices about how they want to browse and, more than any other browsing technology, puts them in control of their personal data online," he said in a statement.

For Nate Elliot, an analyst with Jupiter Research, entering the browser market is an obvious next move for Google.

"This is a much bigger undertaking than providing a Google toolbar but it feels the a natural next step," he said.

But competing with the established browser names could be harder, he thinks.

"Mozilla's Firefox is very well respected and yet it commands less than 20% of the browser market which just shows how hard it is to overtake an incumbent although Google does have almost unparallelled ability to promote it to almost the entire online audience," he said.

Chrome will be available for download from the morning of Tuesday 2nd September, PST.

Potential Impact of Stem Cell Research

2008-08-15T02:05:00.001+01:00

ISSUED BY MYDIGITALLIFE
Author: DISSOL

Let`s look at the more controversial issues of cloning. I think this is the area which is most misunderstood, and seems to cause most problems for many people. There are two distinct subjects to cover: Therapeutic Cloning. Reproductive Cloning. Therapeutic CloningThis is where cloned tissue is used to "grow" replacement organs for people who have sustained damage to their organs (through disease, or injury, for example). It so happens that this month (August) is organ donors month. I would encourage everyone to consider signing up for organ donation. Discuss it with your family, as obviously your decision will effect them. But organ transplants are becoming more commonplace (as we know, the first heart transplant was performed in SA). Transplants are held back for 2 main reasons; the availability of organs, and also the fact that the human body tries to reject foreign tissue. To get around the second problem, the recipient has to be pumped full of very strong anti-rejection drugs (which also leaves the person with vastly weakened immune systems). This can often lead to complications, other infections and death. Our knowledge is increasing in this though. The concept of therapeutic cloning is to use (ideally stem cells derived from that person, from potentially umbilical cord cells, or from adult stem cells) tissue that has been grown from stem cells that have had the recipients own DNA introduced into them (by the use of Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer - SCNT). This would negate the rejection problem. Recently, in Imperial College London, a heart valve was produced and transplanted into a patient. Because stem cells have the ability to grow into any cell, then it is hoped that almost any tissue or organ could be produced in this manner. The potential of this is huge, and could dramatically improve the survivability of people who are severely injured in car accidents, properly functioning pancreases may be grown for people with diabetes, brain tissue producing the right amount of dopamine for people with Parkinson`s Disease, new kidneys for people in renal failure, eye tissue & retinas for people with different conditions causing blindness such as RP, the list is very long… Of course we have a long way to go, and it may well be that we have some more huge hurdles to overcome. The mass media has overplayed the timings (and ease) of this science. It is hugely complex, and the likely benefits are still some time away. Reproductive CloningReproductive cloning is where a completely genetically identical embryo is produced. Think Dolly the sheep (whose stuffed body can be viewed in the Museum of Scotland), or Booger the pitbull. Again, I feel that the mass media are at fault in badly reporting the issues around reproductive cloning, with visions of armies of identical Aryan peoples. The media has also falsely reported that human cloning has already happened in some countries, but a more detailed look at the evidence would suggest that this is very unlikely. Reproductive cloning is also fraught with complex problems (aside from the ethical considerations). There is also a complete misunderstanding about what a clone is. A clone is a genetically identical twin. But this would not mean that the clone would think exactly alike to the donor. But, as we know in the nature / nurture observations, genes are only part of the make up of any characteristics. Identical twins, that have been separated at birth, while still displaying obvious visual similarities, can often grow up to have completely different characters, molded by the environments in which they grew up in. Dolly would not have had the same thought processes as her donor animal. Very few people see any benefit of producing human (or indeed any animal) clones, as there is no increase in the genetic profile. There is the theoretical possibility of producing a reproductive clone with the sole purpose of harvesting donor organs, but there are obvious moral & ethical issues to this. But nevertheless, it is important that any discussion on ethics and morals around this subject must also consider this possibility.

T Mobile upgrade

2008-07-01T19:34:00.002+01:00

T-Mobile boosts mobile uploads

T-Mobile will on Tuesday turn on its fast uplink mobile broadband service, claiming it is the first UK operator to do so on a nationwide basis.
High-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA), also known as 'super 3G', is already commonly rolled out across the UK, but its counterpart -- high-speed uplink packet access (HSUPA) -- has only recently been appearing, and on a limited basis. HSUPA will be crucial for those who want to upload content to the Web from their phones or laptops, rather than simply downloading it.
T-Mobile UK chief executive Jim Hyde said on Monday that the operator was addressing "the growing passion for sharing photos and videos on social-networking sites". T-Mobile has also upgraded its HSDPA speed to a theoretical maximum of 7.2Mbps, or up to 4.5Mbps in the real world. The HSUPA link promises uplink speeds of up to 1.4Mbps.

htc diamond vs iphone

2008-06-29T23:54:00.004+01:00

The Touch Diamond handset was announced on Tuesday by HTC, and as expected, every blog and newspaper is calling it the first real 'iPhone killer'. And here was me thinking we'd expired that term!
Obviously, the Diamond and iPhone have some similarities (even hired similar hand-models!), but the main difference which is dividing everyone's affections boils down to the original format wars - Mac vs. PC. Want a concise break-down of the pros and cons of each mobile? Whoomp, there it is - below the jump.
DimensionsThe Diamond measures 102mm in height, is 51mm wide and 11.5mm thick, whereas the iPhone comes in at 115mm high, is 61mm wide and 11.6mm thick, weighing 135g. The Diamond is a shade lighter, at 110g.
DisplayHTC has put a 480 x 640, 2.8" TFT LCD touch-sensitive screen on the Diamond, and as you probably know by now, the iPhone has an impressive 480 x 320 3.5" multi-touch display.
Operating SystemThe former runs on the new Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, the first HTC phone to do so. However similar it may be to WM 6.0, HTC has actually layered their own software on over the phone, giving it a more user-friendly navigational system, and TouchFLO 3D technology, which we first saw in the Touch last year.
You can draw a huge comparison between the Diamond and iPhone due to the TouchFLO 3D, with users able to browse through photos and songs sliding their finger along the screen, much as you would on the iPhone.
The iPhone runs on OS X, which is Apple's very own operating system, and as we learned recently with Psystar, very much exclusive to them.MemoryBuried within the Diamond, HTC has planted 4GB of internal flash storage, plus given the handset 192 MB DDR SDRAM, and a 256 MB ROM. A microSD card slot is supported, for additional storage.
Meanwhile, the iPhone comes in two options, an 8GB or 16GB flash drive, and has 128MB of RAM.
CameraThe camera on the Diamond is quite impressive, with a 3.2-megapixel sensor, and auto focus. The internal accelerometer means the Diamond acts like the iPhone, so photos can be viewed in landscape-stylee and be browsed through with a flick of the finger. The Diamond also has a second camera on the front, a VGA CMOS colour camera, for video-calling.
The camera on the iPhone isn't quite as impressive, with just a 2.0-megapixel sensor, and no auto focus, flash or any editing software.
Media PlayerAn integrated speaker and FM radio feature in the Diamond, with the iPhone lacking both - well, you can play tunes through the tiny inbuilt one, but we wouldn't suggest it. However, the iPhone's main thrill is indeed the iPod functionality, and with 8GB or 16GB options, that's a lot of AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 1, 2, and 3), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV. Meanwhile, the Diamond supports MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA, WAV and AMR-NB.
ConnectivityRumours have abounded since the first generation of iPhones came out, that the next model would have 3G connectivity. We're now hoping for a June announcement and release date, but nothing has been confirmed as yet. The Diamond has managed to pip it to the post, with HSDPA connectivity, and 384 kbps up-link and 7.2 Mbps down-link speeds.
The iPhone, meanwhile, has, err, Wi-Fi, and, uh...Bluetooth...
GPSThe Diamond has GPS and A-GPS, however not much else is known about it than that. The iPhone, on the other hand, has Google Maps, which is a pleasure to use, particularly in conjunction with the multi-touchscreen.
Battery LifeYou'll get a fair bit out of the Diamond, with 270 minutes' talktime for WCDMA and up to 330 minutes on GSM networks, whereas standby is 396 hours and 285 hours respectively. When video-calling, users will get up to 145 minutes on WCDMA.
The iPhone is advertised as having up to eight hours of talk time, up to 250 hours of standby, 6 hours of internet use, 7 hours of video playback, and up to 24 hours of audio playback.
Availability and PricingThe HTC Diamond will be out in June, with pricing not yet confirmed. The iPhone is already out, and available on 18 month contracts for either £35, £45 or £55 a month, plus of course the upfront fee. Apple's third party retailers (O2, Carphone Warehouse) recently cut the price of the 8GB model, to £169, however they appear to not be selling them anymore. The 16GB model is £329 upfront.

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