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Even Baby Is Lining Up for Iphone 3G

On 11th June, iPhone 3G will be sold in U.S. Market. To be the first users, iPhone lovers have already queuing in front of the Apple store in New York from today.

There are at least 10 people who camped in front of Apple store, from 4th of July which is the independence day. They were bringing ransom such as tent, sleeping bag, food, and drinks.

Even some parents were seen bringing their children along in queue. What is so shocking to me, is that there is a couple of parents who brought their 6 months old daughter.

Even they claimed that they are not sure yet to bring the baby camping along with them, but for hours waiting in front of the store is one odd view. The parents have also prepared the baby trolley in case the baby wants to sleep. They said to the reporter that they are queuing in front of Apple store to participate in breaking the world record ‘Longest queue for a merchandise’. The enthusiasts even made a website called waitingforapples.com and express how enthusiastic they are with iPhone 3G so they wanted to break the world longest queue record only for iPhone 3G.

Motorola ZN 200, Music on Your Hand

The design of this sliding form factor phone is excellent. On closed mode, ZN200 looks very compact and simple with a 2.2 inch screen which dominate all the front display of this cellphone.

The keypad is hidden in the inside of the phone, and will only be visible when the front part of the phone slides upward. On the front display you will find a jog dial and four keys right on the sides. The rumor is that the phone will have 2megapixel camera and also equipped with radio and mp3 player.

ZN200 also has 30MB internal memory and 1GB capacity of memory card. ZN200 also supports web and email features. Other features presented are USB connection, Crystal Talk technology and it will operate in 3G GSM network. Nothing on the detail information from Motorola about ZN200 which the launching plan of this phone is around September 2008 with a price of US$310.

One Billion Cellphones Can Spread Toxic On Earth

The mobile technology is growing really fast and new models of cellphones are coming out continuously. This trend makes people change their cellphone more rapidly, which brings an inevitable negative effects. Around one billion used cellphones in United States are potentially poisoned mother earth. This shocking data was published by CollectiveGood, a cellphone recycling company in USA.

People in USA have an average of 3.5 unused used-phones. Users of mobile phone in US, which are around 257 million contribute 155 million used phones that ready to be thrown to trash bin every year. According to CollectiveGood, this trend makes around one billion used phones potentially piling up the earth.

This amount is really amazing thus if we do not put it into account, it can poison soil component, water and air in century time. It happens because when we throw away the phones, its poisoning material such as mercury or arsenic is released to environment. To handle this problem, CollectiveGood is making sure that used phones have to be dealt carefully to minimize their effect to the environment.

Mobile Printer Comes Handy

For those of you who need a printing solution on the go, might want to consider this latest Hewlett-Packard inkjet printer. This H470 office jet printer with approximately two kilogram weight has a dimension of 34 x 16 x 8 cm.

With this printer, you can print black and white with the speed around 8ppm and 5ppm for color printing in a normal quality. The printing resolution is up to 1200dpi. Officejet can receive data from PC through USB connection or from a compatible camera with PictBridge standard and also, a SD card slot. Besides the basic series, there are H470b and H470wbt. H470b comes with a Lithium Ion battery, and H470wbt comes with battery and bluetooth.

Nokia Tube, Nokia’s Answer to Apple iPhone?

The success of Apple iPhone in the market quickly gets a response from other cellular phone producers, including Nokia. Although it is not official yet, at the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference in Redwood City - California, Tom Libretto (Vice President of Nokia Forum) explained that at present Nokia is focusing on developing a touch screen Symbian cellular phone.

Unlike iPhone, this  “Tube” cell phone, with 3.5inches touch screen (16:9) can be operated with fingers, and stylus for handwriting recognition. Also available vibration feedback feature to increase interaction aspect with its user. This quadband cellphone that supports this multitouch function provides several wireless connectivity, such as GPRS, UMTS, HSDPA, WLAN and Bluetooth. GPS Navigation and autofocus camera
facility is also adopted by this cellphone.

This Tube cellphone is predicted to be launched during the first quarter in 2009. Until now, Nokia has not given the retail price. Other producer , iPhone Apple second generation will also be launched soon this year. Will Tube be the truth “iPhone killer”? We’ll see

CommunicAsia 2008; Take a Peek At iPhone Rivals

CommunicAsia Expo in Singapore has been a battlefield for iPhone rivals. Each of them has shown up their superiority against iPhone. There are at least 3 types of new phone that are believed can compete with iPhone, they are Samsung Omnia, Garmin Nuvifone, and HTC Touch Diamond.

Samsung, a cellular company from Korea, has Omnia as their line up. Equipped with 3.2 inch touchscreen, Omnia also has minimalist design just like iPhone, and off course, a touchscreen GPS navigation.

While Garmin, which has been known as Global Positioning System (GPS) equipment producer, takes the CommunicAsia visitors’ eyes with their Nuvifone. This touchscreen phone also looks like iPhone too. However, Garmin has officially claimed that Nuvifone is not an iPhone competitor. They would rather call it a navigation phone, because it has an excellent GPS ability.

On the other side, HTC Touch Diamond already came in the market a while ago . It also has a touchscreen navigation that  iPhone introduced. Even a newspaper in Indonesia called The Strait Times called HTC Touch Diamond as the first phone that can get close to iPhone ability.

Even Keyboard Needs Condom

Sometimes you are afraid to put your cup of coffee or tea near your computer keyboard because it might spill and ruin the keyboard. Well, fear no more, now there is a special wrapper for keyboard that can be washed with water when dirty.

This ‘condom’ for keyboard is called Rasfox, made from silicone and it is believed to give complete protection by wrapping the top side of the keyboard. Rasfox has transparent design so you still can see the keyboard tuts clearly.

Furthermore, Rasfox can reduce the clicking noise when we are typing the keyboard. Rasfox is developed by Lakesen International, an Apple’s accessories specialist company based in Canada.

This keyboard condom comes in five different color, blue, pink, white, black, and clear. Unfortunately, this product is only available for Apple Macintosh keyboard.

For iMac, Mac Mini, Power Mac G5and Xserve G5 users can choose three out of five colors available, which are blue, pink, and clear. As the Macbook Pro and Power Book can only use the clear one. MacBook 13″ users can choose all the color available.

Yuuhuuu..Download Cool Songs A Whole Year, Free!!

Nokia has offered access to download cool songs in Sony BMG label a whole year for free. Is it too good to be true?

It turns out that those two giant companies are partnering in launching a new music mobile from Nokia called “Comes With Music”. Sony BMG is one of the biggest music label in the world that has worked together with well-known musicians such as Beyonce, Bruce Springsteen, and Celine Dion.

The download scheme which Nokia offers, is different from previous offer package. User of this Nokia phone can download and save songs they have downloaded for twelve months. This method is believed to be a breakthrough as music market now has battling hard on selling CDs

Nokia itself hopes that all big labels will follow Sony’s track to become Nokia’s partner in selling ‘Comes With Music’ phone. We have a big confidence that all labels will join us. For now, we are processing those negotiations, said Liz Schimel, Head Of Nokia Music Business.

India Launched The Cheapest Windows XP Based Laptop

A cheap laptop with high quality is everyone’s need, especially in developing country such as India. That is why, Microsoft and an India technology company, called HCL Infosystem have released cheap laptop based on Windows XP operating system.

This notebook is claimed to be the cheapest laptop in the world compare to other Windows XP based. This laptop features include 7 inch screen, a webcam, 30BG HDD and also touch screen. The laptop brand is called Mileap, and will be release around Rs 17,000 for India domestic market.

Ajay Chowdhry, the CEO of HCL said, the domestic computer market in India is very potential. However, it is not just India now, a lot of countries have been busy trying to produce cheap laptop made by their own country. Such as Englang who has produce cheap laptop called Elonex One recently.

Nokia N78, Bring Online Community In Your Hand

Nokia just announced Nokia N78, multimedia computer that claimed has bundle of music, navigation and photography with mobile facility.

Many new technologies promised by Nokia in N78, including integrated A-GPS, free Nokia Maps, WLAN and high speed HSDPA 3G, 3.2 mega pixel camera with Carl Zeiss optic lens, and microSD memory card support up to 2GB.

Nokia claimed the greatness of N78 is on location tagging, a process to add geographic identification such as coordinate. It means, automatically can give tag on picture with location metadata, thus enable user to view information of the picture taken place whether from map or by online.

Another ability is the high speed internet connection, WLAN or HSDPA. User can upload photo and video to social community sites, such as Flickr with one touch.