Motorola Motoming A1600 GPS enabled Touchscreen Phone unveiled in India

Motorola has recently announced launching of its state-of-the-art GenNext GPS enabled mobile phone with touchscreen in India. The new sleek model of Motorola, named MOTOMING A 1600, is not the first of its kind in the Indian high-end mobile phone market. The model has to face a stiff competition to make its way from the existing players such as Apple’s iPhone, BlackBerry Bold and Samsung Omnia, etc. However, customized multimedia features vis-à-vis its cost effectiveness will give the MOTOMING A 1600 an upper hand in wooing fashion conscious Indian consumers.

Motorola’s new MOTOMING bears a price tag of Rs. 15,847 only, which is just half of the price of Apple’s iPhone. A 16GB Apple’s iPhone will cost you around Rs. 36,100 and you have to pay around Rs. 31,000 for its 8GB model. A huge difference in pricing indeed! BlackBerry Bold and Samsung Omnia too demand similar prices. Motorola, the American mobile phone maker, has truly established a potential business challenge in the fields of touchscreen mobile phones in India by keeping price of MOTOMING A 1600 well within reach of middle-class Indians without compromising with any of the high-end features.

The high-memory capacity Motorola model MOTOMING A 1600 is laced with bundle of attractive user-friendly features, which include high precision GPS service (pre-loaded with navigational data of 30 major cities), dazzling multimedia features, Linux-based 3.2 mega pixel camera with 8X zoom supporting multiple capture modes, transparent flip cover, highly sensitive and instantaneous responsive touchscreen, integration with some features of MapmyIndia, 1GB MicroSD card with expandable memory of up to 4GB and voice-guided navigation in select areas etc.

Talking about the necessity of offering one more mobile phone in the Indian market, Lloyd Mathias of Motorola Mobile Devices India and South West Asia said, “MOTOMING A 1600, is the first GPS-enabled mobile phone. The navigation service is free with no activation charges, independent of mobile networks and can be used even without inserting the SIM card”. The satellite based GPS of MOTOMING A 1600 will offer you a rare opportunity of enjoying free GPS navigation for lifetime.

More About Motoming A1600 …
The MOTOMING A1600 is powerful business devices armed with Linux, GPS, touchscreen and a bunch of other goodies.The Motorola MING A1600 should support English as well as Chinese, so you can expect to see a small number coming into Europe and the US as special imports.
The Motorola MING A1600 flaunts a 2.4-inch 262K color TFT display with a QVGA resolution. It’s touchscreen and there is also a stylus to help you get around.

Technical Specifications:
* 2.4″ 262K color TFT display
* touchscreen and stylus
* Linux OS
* quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
* 3MP camera with continuous autofocus
* microSD card slot (up to 4GB)
* Bluetooth (A2DP)
* microUSB port
* FM radio
* built-in GPS receiver

Apple MacBooks with Nvidia chips put a threat to Intel inside

Apple has recently unleashed its superior notebooks in the MacBook range; but the most dramatic and challenging issue on the new release is that they have used high-efficiency Nvidia graphic chips to take on the Intel chips. Apple has adopted this revolutionary new GPU for its incredible new Apple MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air. Apple and NVIDIA have worked together to harness the massive parallel processing power of NVIDIA GPUs to deliver a rich visual experience for consumers on the go.

"The NVIDIA GeForce 9400M architecture delivers an ideal combination of visual computing horsepower and energy efficiency in a single, highly-integrated package that we're using to bring a whole new level of graphics performance to our MacBook users," said David Moody, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Mac Product Marketing.

With the great success and huge market response to the new MacBooks released by Apple, it seems that the long monopoly of Intel graphic cards is likely to face a real threat in the coming days. At least, now people will have better option in front of them deciding true value for their money.

A market survey has predicted that the newly introduced Nvidia GeForce 9400M 3D graphic chipsets have the potential to grab at least 20% market share in the Intel CPU-based notebook arena. Apple is not the only one, first one of course, to use Nvidia’s GeForce 9400M chipset in their notebooks, several other global notebook makers such as Acer, Asustek Computer, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard (HP), etc. are also planning seriously to include the dazzling chipset in their products to enhance their graphics capability. MCP79-based notebooks of these celebrated vendors are the immediate products that will use Nvidia GeForce 9400M after the Apple’s MacBook series.

About the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M GPU:-

The NVIDIA GeForce 9400M is a single chip, high performance, highly integrated design that is ideal for notebooks and smaller computing devices. It features 16 parallel processing cores that deliver a whopping 54 GFLOPs of processing power, making it the most powerful integrated GPU on the market today. It also delivers up to 5x faster graphics performance than Intel Centrino 2, and long-lasting battery power, allowing consumers to watch a complete, full-length HD movie on a single charge.

AMD unleashes ATI Radeon HD 4830 Graphics Card

AMD has recently unleashed a high performance less expensive ATI Radeon HD 4830 graphics card, raising the performance bar for graphics cards priced at less than $150 (USD) and presenting gamers with even more affordable access to award-winning ATI Radeon HD 4800 series performance. Like all ATI Radeon HD 4800 series products, the new offering delivers class-leading game performance and superior HD multimedia capabilities, as well support for the latest DirectX 10.1 games soon to be released for the holiday season.

The ATI Radeon HD 4830 graphics card delivers outstanding value to gamers. With the launch of this card, even the most intimidating games that were previously unplayable on a graphics card selling for less than $150 can now be enjoyed at playable frame rates, even when using image enhancements such as anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering. For those gamers looking to get even more performance out of their gaming rigs, ATI Radeon HD 4830 cards support ATI CrossFireX technology allowing gamers to combine as many as four cards in one PC.

More than just a gaming card, the ATI Radeon HD 4830 offers up exceptional HD multimedia performance as well. All ATI Radeon HD 4800 series cards allow users to enjoy HD digital content with uncompromising visual fidelity while helping to enhance the definition and clarity of lower resolution visual media. AMD’s second generation Unified Video Decoder (UVD 2.0) ensures users experience smooth HD video playback, and sharp, crisp images and vibrant colors through ATI Avivo HD technology. Combined with capabilities like picture-in-picture, and support for the latest HD audio technologies like 7.1 surround sound, the ATI Radeon HD 4830 graphics card serves up an impressive cinema-quality home entertainment experience.

The ATI Radeon HD 4830 graphics card is supported by a dozen add-in-board companies offering custom designs of the products. Partners include ASUS, Club 3D, Diamond Multimedia, Force3D, GECUBE, GIGABYTE, HIS (Hightech Information Systems), Jetway, MSI, Palit Multimedia, PowerColor, SAPPHIRE Technology and VisionTek.

“The $100-$150 graphics card price band represents the ‘sweet spot’ of the desktop PC graphics market where the consumer gets the most graphics performance per dollar spent,” said Dean McCarron, founder and principal, Mercury Research. “This is where the latest graphics technologies reach the mainstream PC audience, and this is the level that most PC games target.”

Expressing sheer joy and happiness on the new product launch, Rick Bergman, senior VP and general manager of AMD’s Graphics Products Group said, “The ATI Radeon HD 4830 graphics card is another example of how AMD’s scalable design strategy is paying off. With a single chip, we have been able to quickly and efficiently bring to market graphics card designs ranging from below $150 through $549 SEP, with leading performance in every segment. The ATI Radeon HD 4830 continues that great trend, providing tremendous value to gamers for less than $150.”

MOTOROKR EM30 Arrives to India

Motorola has recently announced launching of it’s trendy mobile handset MOTOROKR EM30. The device is a wonderful blend of mobile phone and music player. The highly customized tech gadget will certainly add colors to the festival of light in the Indian sub-continent.

The Motorola ROKR EM30 is Motorola’s latest addition to its ROKR series. Being focused towards music, with a morphing ModeShift keypad that changes from numbers to music playback keys when the music player is activated makes it a perfect choice for music lovers who prefer music on the go.

Equipped with state-of-the-art ModeShift technology, the candy bar MOTOROKR EM30 provides an excellent mobile interface to switch between sensuous talking and enjoying aesthetic music. By simply touching a button, you will be able to quickly move from talk to text1. Whether you are in music mode or phone mode, that will be indicated by appropriate colorful illumination of your conspicuous keypad i.e. red and brilliant blue keypad appearances for music mode and phone mode respectively.

With the availability of in-built 3D stereo sound compatible advanced audio equalizers, the new Motorola mobile phone becomes a splendid option for enjoying music on move in most vivacious way. An optional microSD card will allow you to enhance the phone’s 27 MB on-board memory up to 8 GB. Few momentous features of the new MOTOROKR mobile phone include a 2MP camera with 8X zoom for recording vibrant videos along with high-quality images, integration with Windows Media Player 11 to allow seamless transfer of music from computer to the ROKR EM30, FM radio with Radio Data System technology, text to speech recognition, 3.5mm stereo headset jack, and support for crystal talk technology, etc. among others.

At one moment ROKR EM30 is a mobile phone; the next, it transforms into your favorite music player. It uses Motorola’s innovative ModeShift technology to illuminate the keyboard- red keys illuminate in music mode and a brilliant blue keypad appears in phone mode—taking users from talk to text1 to complete music immersion with a touch of a button.

With colorful cues that let users know exactly which mode they are in, the ROKR EM30 connects the sounds that matter most: family, friends and favorite artists. In addition to the basics in talking and texting, ROKR EM30 is loaded with other great features for music lovers too, including high-fidelity audio and seconds-fast MP3 downloads1-3 for listening to their favorite tunes. Consumers will know the artist and song playing on the FM radio with Radio Data System (RDS)4 technology. The 3.5mm stereo headset jack provides consumers the flexibility to use the headset of their choice with ROKR EM30. Compatibility with Windows Media® Player 11 provides the freedom to download music from more than 200 online music stores worldwide.

The MOTOROKR EM30 comes in two elegant colors: cherry red and silver. The handset is priced at Rs 8,959.

Nokia announces CDMA phone Nokia 2228

Nokia has recently announced launching a CDMA mobile phone, Nokia 2228. The stylish Nokia CDMA phone offering several messaging modes is expected to hit the market before Q4 of 2008. The 12 mm unique monoblock device will be an ultra-lightweight compact device giving an innovative sagacity to its style-conscious users.

The 1.3 mega pixel camera-phone Nokia 2228 supports all most all types of common digital file formats in order to make your phoning, gaming, imaging, and messaging experiences absolutely enjoyable and seamless. An advanced media player coupled with a built-in hands free speaker and a speaker dependent voice-recognition trait will make your Nokia 2228 a true entertainment companion.

A MicroUSB will allow the new Nokia CDMA slim phone to be connected with your PC and the phone will act as a modem for a fast Internet access. With around 20-25 MB of functional storage memory, you will be able to use the phone for all your practical purposes. An arresting flash will notify you for all your incoming calls, while all your waiting messaging will be indicated by LED flashes in interval. Other attractive features of Nokia 2228 include a 2.5 mm headset jack, FM radio, and a powerful battery with 3.5 hours talk-time and up to ten days of stand-by time. Price of the phone is not yet disclosed.

Apple MacBooks unveiled in India

One of the most celebrated digital leaders of the world, Apple has recently landed in Mumbai, India with their superior MacBook models initiating new effervescent waves in the fields of high-end digital world. The new notebooks from Apple are believed to be of thinnest and lightest, and of course not with the least price tags.

MacBooks were unveiled in India just after a week they were launched in US. The product, made out of aluminum frames, is available in 7 models under 3 different product categories, which include MacBook, MacBookPro and MacBook Air categories. Most exciting feature of these new models of MacBook notebooks is that they are highly customized for seamless video editing works. Thrilling gaming experience coupled with awesome entertainment options forms integral part of these high-end costly notebooks.

Powered with Intel’s Core 2 Duo processor chips, Apple’s MacBooks become first users of latest GeForce 9400M 3-D processor. Speeds of these classic notebooks vary from 2 GHz to 2.5 GHz. NVIDIA’s innovative graphics-centric integrated chips inside the ‘unibody’ ultra-light aluminum chassis make these machines unique and creditable.

You will find these varying-cost smart MacBooks in different sizes, such as 13.3 inches, 15.4 inches, and 17 inches under the price tags from Rs. 79,700 to Rs. 1.62 lakh. Touch pad and light-adjusting keyboards made available with these next-generation notebooks represent Apple’s innovative efforts towards bringing user-friendly machines. Expressing happiness on the new launch, Angeline Tan, Apple’s Product Marketing Manager for Portables and Wireless (Asia Pac), said, “they are designed to be as beautiful inside as they are outside.” She also endorsed, “It is specifically for the professionals working in the area of graphics, gaming, designing software and programs.”

Spice Mobiles launches Spice S-580

Spice Mobiles has announced a new handset Spice S-580. Apparently, the unique feature of this handset is the Dazzle Ring-tone that plays a fresh ring tone with every incoming call. Actually,the phone shuffles and picks a ring tone for every call from its list of 10 user-selected ring tones.

The Spice S-580 phone integrates an MP3 player, FM recording, playback, expandable memory up to 2 GB, one-touch torch light, mobile tracker and GPRS and WAP functions. With this musical handset SMS can be scheduled by typing the message with the date and time of delivery and the message reaches its destination accordingly.

Besides, the call blacklist facility on the handset allows users to bar unwanted calls. The candy bar phone comes with a chess design keypad and is priced at MRP of Rs. 2249.

Nokia launches super sleek N85

Nokia has recently launched super sleek mobile model N85 in the Indian market is highly customized to offer complete entertainment experience. Especially, the model offers unique gaming experience against a price tag of Rs. 27299. Nokia N85 slider phone is an upgrade to Nokia N81 and the Nokia N79, which is a minor update to the Nokia N78.

Feature-rich Nokia N85 offers seamless gaming option in addition to other striking specialties such as 3D stereo speakers, 20x digital zoom, 2x digital video zoom, VGA video capturing capabilities, and dedicated camera key, etc. In order to ensure enhanced gaming experience, the specially designed exotic Nokia handset N85 supports all most all multimedia file formats such as AAC, AVC/H.264, eAAC, eAAC+, Flash Video, H.263/3GPP, MP3, MPEG4, RV, WMA, and WMV etc.

The Dual-slider Mobile Phone Nokia N85 will present you with 15 pre-downloaded N-Gage games that are popularly known as try-and-buy made-for-mobile games. Besides, you will also receive a voucher offering a full-game license. The new Nokia mobile model comes with various user-friendly external attachments, such as 3.5 mm AV connector, Bluetooth, high-speed USB 2.0, and micro-USB, etc. Nokia XpressShare and Nokia XpressTransfer that form integral parts of N85 will just mesmerize your mobile experience.

Expressing happiness on the new launch, Nokia India’s Marketing Director Devinder Kishore said, “The Nokia N85 was created to be more than the sum of its parts, offering a complete mobile entertainment package. Combined with landscape gaming and dedicated gaming keys for additional comfort, the Nokia N85 breaks the boundaries of mobile gameplay.”

Elegant N85 has a flamboyant 2.6 inch OLED screen, is just 128 gms in weight. It offers super 16.7 million colours amidst QVGA resolution of 320×240 pixels. Carl Zeiss optics of the 5 mega pixel in-built phone-camera will ensure highly defined mobile images. Few other vital characteristics of N85 include 30 hours of active battery life, location tagging capabilities, great finish, Wi-Fi connectivity, 74 MB internal memory extendable upto 8 GB with 8 GB microSD, in-built FM transmitter, and 3.5G HSDPA, etc.

India launches Chandrayaan-1 successfully

PSLV-C11 carrying India's first unmanned moon spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 lifted off successfully from ISRO's Satish Dhawan Space Centre today.

At the end of the 49-hour countdown, the 44.4 meter tall four-stage PSLV-C11 blasted off from the second launch pad catapulting the country into the select club that have sent missions to the moon, after the US, former Soviet Union, European Space Agency, China and Japan.

Carrying aloft the lunar orbiter Chandrayaan, the rocket, Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV C11) lifted off from the second launchpad of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here and broke through the scudding cloud cover at 6.22 a.m., exactly on schedule.

Trailing its characteristic orange plume, the 44-metre-tall 316-tonne PSLV started to move into its designated orbit within minutes, to sling Chandrayaan into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO), as scientists of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) cheered at this spaceport off the Andhra Pradesh coast, 80 km north of Chennai.

From the GTO the satellite's onboard liquid apogee motor (LAM) will be fired to take it to the lunar orbit - 387,000 km from earth - around Nov 8.

Once the 1,380-kg Chandrayaan gets near the moon its speed will be reduced to enable the gravity of the moon to capture it into an elliptical orbit.

At the earliest possible opportunity Chandrayaan will drop its Moon Impact Probe (MIP) which will land on the moon's soil carrying India's flag, among many scientific instruments. After that, the spacecraft will also activate its cameras and other instruments on board.

Chandrayaan will orbit the moon for two years. It carries 11 experimental payloads, five Indian and six from the European Space Agency (3), the US (2) and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (1).

At liftoff, PSLV C11 weighed 22 tonnes more than earlier PSLV models, as its six strap-on motors were 3.5 metres bigger at 13.5 metre and the rocket carried 12 tonnes of solid propellant as against the usual 9 tonnes.

India to build Astronaut Training Centre

India plans to build a new satellite launch pad and a major training facility for astronauts as it proposed to undertake a manned space mission by 2015. The cost for setting up the launch pad will be around Rs 600 crore.

A major national facility for training astronauts will be established at Bangalore, Indian Space research Organisation Chairman G Madhavan Nair told. It would be the third launch pad in the Sriharikota spaceport on the east-coast in Andhra Pradesh, some 100 kms north of Chennai. Nair said the manned mission has been approved by the Space Commission, and a formal government nod is expected in the next few months.

The Technologically-challenging manned mission (human space flight) envisages development of a fully autonomous manned space vehicle to carry crew (two members) to low earth orbit and their safe return to earth, development of critical/new technologies for crew module, service module, launch escape system, establishment of long-term facilities and identifying detailed elements required for undertaking the venture. "Basically, technology elements required for development of habitable module is the top-most priority", Nair, also Secretary in the Department of Space, said.

"Technology elements required for improving the reliability of launch systems have been identified.Crew escape and mission management system has to be in place," he said.

In 2006, ISRO said the preliminary estimated cost for the manned space mission was Rs 10,000 crore spread over a period of eight years.

Chandrayaan-1 to be launched tomorrow

If things go as planned, India's unmanned moon spacecraft - Chandrayaan-1 - embarks on a two-year mission tomorrow seeking to throw more light on earth's only natural satellite. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) spokesman S Satish said the sky is overcast and there are heavy rains, but it is not a cause for worry.

A delay will happen only in case of a cyclone or lightning. Rains will not hamper the spacecraft's lift off, ISRO sources said.

"Only cyclone-related incidents and lightning could force a delay," the sources said. The lift-off is slated around 0620 hours on board indigenously-built rocket, PSLV-C11, from the spaceport of Sriharikota on the east coast in Andhra Pradesh, some 100 kms north of Chennai.

The event would mark India's entry into select band of lunar explorers - the European Space Agency (ESA), Japan, China, the US and Russia which have undertaken moon missions.

"Basically, this (Chandrayaan-1) is meant for a comprehensive mapping of the lunar surface," ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair said. "Earlier missions (by others) focused on specific regions or looked at one aspect or other only.

It's for the first time (in the world) that we will have the entire lunar surface mapped up." Chandrayaan-1 is seen by some analysis as a move by India to catch up with Asian rivals China and Japan, and not lag behind in the race for moon.

Coupled with the "pride factor", Chandrayaan-1 would signal India's rising international stature, seen as a reflection of its space prowess as well as build on its technological capability to undertake inter-planetary missions in the coming years.

Epson launches Ultra Portable Projectors

Epson has launched two Ultra Portable Multimedia Projectors in the Indian market.

The projectors weigh 1.8 kg and have 3,000 lumens of brightness. They can achieve a contrast ratio up to 2000:1. They have a special wireless USB connection that can be used to connect the laptop to projector. After setting up the connection once the settings are detected automatically.

The projector has many high end facilities. Now you can use one notebook to connect to four different projectors at the same time. The power point shows can be run from the projector itself. The Epson Twin Optimized Reflection Lamp (E-TORL) technology eliminates light leakage and enables clear images. It also assists in a longer lamp life of almost 4,000 hours, which is a key issue in projectors and reduces energy costs.

The EB-1725 and EB-1735W projectors have been priced at around Rs. 92 thousands and Rs. 1 Lakh respectively.