8 Megapixel Samsung ‘INNOV8’ To Hit European Markets By August

Finally the technology giant Samsung rolled out its much-awaited cellular phone, named ‘INNOV8’, which will hit European markets by next month (August 2008), while it will make its way to other markets during September.

Based on Symbian OS v9.3, INNOV8 is the first 8 megapixel camera phone, which will surely strengthen Samsung’s notable supremacy in the GSM market.

The newly launched phone comes equipped with astounding features, which brings the highest level of power efficiency, platform security and phone performance.

The phone works speedily and best-suited for users desiring more from their handset. Moreover, it offers surround-sound cinematic video, wonderful mobile Internet browsing together with mobile gaming capacities.

Mr. Geesung Choi, President of Samsung Telecommunication Business said, “Samsung innov8 is made for tech-savvy users who want to enjoy the best possible multimedia entertainment with their mobile phone. With the 8-megapixel camera, pre-embedded 3D games, high speed data connections and much more other features will help users gain the true benefits of mobile entertainment.”

The other features of innov8 phone includes GPS technology for navigation, geo-tagging services, an optical mouse, a crystal clear 2.8” 16M color LCD, 8 GB or 16 GB Flash memory, external memory slot up to 16 GB, 4-way navigation key, WiFi and HSDPA connectivity, external dual speakers, 3D surround sound supported by DNSe 2.0 and a 1200mAh battery.

The phone backs up DivX, WMV, Real Player and MPEG4 video formats.

This is Samsung's eighth phone, which is based on Symbian OS. No pricing details have been released by the company up till now.

Halo 3's Cold Storage free on Bungie Day!

Lest you have no idea what Bungie Day is, that's Monday, July 7 (7/7, get it?). Yes, starting on July 7, Halo 3's newest map Cold Storage will be available on Xbox Live Marketplace absolutely free. Not only that, but Microsoft will also be lowering the price of the Legendary Map Pack from 800 Microsoft Points to 600 Microsoft Points. The best part of all is that these prices will become the permanent prices of the content. In other words, Cold Storage and the Legendary Map Pack price drop aren't part of the limited time, one day only Bungie Day goodies that will be on Marketplace. Joy!

In celebration of Bungie Day and the release of Cold Storage, a special 48-hour free for all playlist is going up. Specific details are sparse, but Bungie's Luke Smith promises that players will be able to control "Rockets, Invis and Snipe." Mmmm ... sounds nice and spammy. Finally, "one last thing" about Cold Storage is set to drop some time today on Bungie.net. Keep your eyes glued to X3F for whatever that may be.

HP TouchSmart IQ770 PC

It seems every company is debuting some kind of touch device lately -- Microsoft now has its Milan table and Apple has its iPhone -- but HP was first to market with its HP TouchSmart IQ770. The TouchSmart is operated with a single finger and is designed to form the centre of a bustling family's living space.

Design
We're guessing that the HP design team have seen Short Circuit a few times -- the TouchSmart resembles "Number 5" in several ways, with its squat little body and craning, head-like LCD monitor.

The TouchSmart is roughly the same size as the Apple iMac, but with the main CPU housing kept in a separate unit at the base of the machine. There is a real attention to detail with this PC which includes side mounted volume buttons and a slot at the base to poke an HP photo printer such as the A510 through.

It's built tough, with the LCD attached firmly to the base. The hinge mechanism is reinforced steel which means it will take a few knocks, but also makes the PC hard to move due to its monstrous 17kg (approx.) weight.

The PC is designed to be operated by touch, and includes two optical sensors at the top of the screen to track your finger. The advantage of this is it's cheaper than resistive or capacitive designs, according to HP designers, and that you don't need a special stylus. The 19-inch widescreen is very clear and bright, and being a touchscreen it does get quite smudgy, but it's not noticeable -- despite the fact that the screen has a high gloss coating.

Features
This is a fully-specified entertainment PC, and includes all the features you'd want, including: a digital HD tuner, remote control, card reader, and camcorder-friendly, front-mounted RCA and FireWire points.

The PC boots into HP's own SmartCenter application, which integrates with Vista Media Center. As it's designed as a family PC, one of the main applications on the landing page is a note-taking/calendar application called SmartCalendar. In it you can write notes on "stickies" with your fingers or the stylus, and move them around the screen or onto the calendar itself for other family members to read. You can also leave voice messages with the built-in microphone. The application works as it should, even if it's not as intuitive as it could be -- for example, to listen to a voice message you have to click three different icons instead of simply clicking the message itself.

Despite all the graphical niceties, this is still a Windows Vista PC -- with all the compatibility and instability problems that entails. For example, we were able to crash IE7 just by having five tabs open. But then again, IE7 is pretty unstable at the best of times.

To deliver a full "experience", the PC also comes with a wireless keyboard and mouse. The mouse has a laser sensor instead of the regular optical one so it can be used on shiny surfaces such as bench tops.

Performance
Using Vista through touch is a very intuitive experience, and dragging and dropping is great fun -- though we did notice that there was occasionally some lag when dragging. The sensors don't always track your finger correctly, so it can also be difficult to activate some of the smaller icons.

Touch computing is a good idea, especially in an environment where it can double as a TV. In a kitchen it could be used to research recipes or do some IM chat. Once you've gotten used to the experience it's hard to get back into the old keyboard and mouse mode.

The peripherals, though, are a mixed bunch. The keyboard is pretty terrible, and is quite cramped. It's very easy to hit the Caps Lock key as it's twice as big as the Shift key, for example. The keyboard is also poorly labelled -- there's no "@" symbol, even though "Shift-2" still works, but there is no apostrophe key at all. The last straw is that this machine is designed to be used in a living room or kitchen. Spill any liquid on this keyboard and you'll kill it -- there is no waterproofing. At least it docks neatly underneath the TouchSmart. The remote and mouse, on the other hand, are quite good.

The TouchSmart is quite a decent performer, and its dual-core AMD processor and 2GB of RAM help it chew through most tasks. When confronted with our PCMark05 benchmark, it put in a decent effort of 4079 marks. Not great when compared to other desktops of the same price, but this is no ordinary desktop at that.

As this is a multimedia machine, we tested the TouchSmart with some music and TV watching. MP3 tracks from the bombastic Killers sounded a little lost on the HP TouchSmart speakers, but listening to the integrated digital tuner the folk rock of the Mountain Goats sounded clear and intimate.

The digital TV tuner worked very well, though changing channels via touch on the Media Center interface was a little fiddly. There are dedicated channel buttons on the right edge of the screen, however.

Despite some quirks, this is a great device, and will submit to most of the rigours of a busy household. The price may at first seem high, but give most people 30 seconds with the TouchSmart and they'll fall in love.

5 tips to increase your adsense revenue..

The tips i have mentioned below are the ones that have worked for me.But i would encourage you to try different things with your site as each site is different.

1. Colour and Position

This is probably the optimization which is mentioned most regularly, but it’s for good reason. You really should experiment with different ad positions and different colour combinations. Each time you make a change leave the ads for a week and see how your earnings alter. Make a note of what works and then try something new. I was always sceptical when I read these comments before but since I have started playing with positioning my adsense revenue has multiplied by 4 times (crazy but true). Personally I’ve found that blending ads into the site works very well but it’s not the only way and you should try all the combinations you can think of.

2. Different date, different adverts

This is one of my favourites and I intend to write a post on how to do this next week, for now I will stick to the what and why.

In simple terms, the older the page the more ads you show.

Despite the fact that I have advertising, I don’t actually like it. I have 0 to very few adverts on new posts, and increase the ads on older ones. This isn’t so obvious here on Binary Moon, but on Binary Joy I have gone a little crazy - but there is a method to my madness. The theory is that older posts will be more appealing to search engines, and visitors who come from search engines are more likely to click on ads. Another side effect is that I “reward” regular visitors by not annoying them with adverts, so I feel this is a good compromise. As I said above I’ll go into this one in more detail next week (with code).

3. Content Targeting

This one is a very simple change and is ridiculously straight forward to implement. Google have a simple comment tag that you can place around your primary content, and this is what your ads will be targeted to.

The idea is that you place these comments around your core page content. That is, the content which is mostly text, and which best reflects the content of your site. On a blog this will generally be the main post content. The reason you do this is so that the adverts don’t target irrelevant content such as the links in your sidebar.

You can also add regions you want Google to ignore. I haven’t used these myself but they are something I intend to try in the not too distant future. You can read more on the section targeting page of the Google Adsense help.

4. Referrals

Google Referrals don’t make me a huge amount of money, but I like to include them on all my sites. Currently I only use one referral package and it only displays in Internet Explorer on the PC. It’s for the Firefox browser, and earns me roughly a dollar for every new install I generate. Some sneaky css removes the ad for Firefox users so that they don’t get pestered with unnecessary adverts.

To do the show/ hide css on your refferal code all I do is have a div with my referral button in it, which I hide. I then use conditional css comments to load some css to display the advert in IE.

5. SEO and Content

I get about 75% of my traffic from search engines and, in my opinion, search engine visitors are the ones most likely to click on adverts, far more so than the regular visitors (which ties into the date based adverts above). Search engine visitors are on a journey to find some information, if they can’t find what they want on my site then they might as well find it on one of my advertisers sites, and that’s the good thing about contextual advertising - the ads are relevant to my readers.

Cell phone review:Nokia 3110 classic

Dont go by its simple looks people, nokia 3110 classic is quite an impressive and a handy instrument in the hands of a person who dosent have such a big bulge in his back pocket so as to go after an Nseries or a Sony ericson.

Coming to its specifications this phone sports a 1.3megapixel camera which is the only limiting factor of this phone. the pictures are not so sharp and sometimes appear pretty blurred.Its has a music player which offers a really impressive sound quality. the keypad is big and easy to use.

The major attraction is it expandable memory which can go upto 2GB.

Bluetooth and infrared are the two unique features which NOKIA has given in Rs.5000 range.

It also has a good message & contact memory. Around 1000 contacts & more than 500 SMS can be stored.

It also has Picture phone book which is a good feature but looses its charm as the resolution of the screen is not that good.

Reception & sound quality is good but battery may be a concern if you keep the bluetooth on for long.

out of personal experience i think this phone offers value for money and has everything that would satisfy a customer who is looking for a phone at Rs 5000 range.

Indian Americans are squeezed by outsourcing

The game is fast changing for the Indian BPO industry, as for several players; entry into the billion-dollar club may be round the corner.

Ron Hira‘s views on outsourcing have had an impact on US policymakers. But he’s also the man who MNCs and India Inc love to hate. Ron Hira is a well-known expert on offshore outsourcing and has testified before the US Congress twice on its implications. He is also co-author of the book, Outsourcing America, which has generated a lot of debate. And Dr Hira is a man who many Indian and American companies love to hate. Of course, he does not agree with the view that he’s anti-outsourcing. He feels that the discussion on offshoring should be much more nuanced to more faithfully reflect reality. “Our book originates from how the nature of work and the economy and politics in America has transformed over the past 20 years. What’s good for America is no longer good for IBM (or take your pick of major US corporation) and vice versa. But IBM has enormous influence over the political process, ensuring that it gains even at America’s expense. So, offshoring has been - falsely- framed as America against the countries gaining from outsourcing, such as India. I am genuinely ecstatic that India as a country has the opportunity to improve the lives of its citizens. My concern is that America’s policymakers are working against what’s in the interest of the majority of Americans, making their lives worse. The problem isn’t about what India, or other low-cost countries, have done, it’s about what the US has not done in response to this economic change,” Dr Hira told ET. He feels that Indian Americans are not monolithic on the issue of outsourcing. “Those who are most vocal in the discussion on outsourcing are benefitting the most - by being liaisons within corporations or by taking advantage as entrepreneurs. Since they are making tons of money from offshoring it should be no surprise that they are promoting it. But just because the vocal portion of the Indian American community supports outsourcing doesn’t mean that a majority of the community supports it. I have received many emails from Indians in America who are being squeezed by outsourcing. Second, what is good for India isn’t automatically good for the Indian American community or vice versa,” says Dr Hira who is an assistant professor of public policy at Rochester Institute of Technology where he specialises in engineering workforce issues, high-skill immigration, and innovation policy. He feels that Indian American organisations should go in for a major makeover, so that they represent the interests of Indian Americans rather than the interests of the narrow and deep pocketed corporates. Dr Hira who recently served as a consultant to the US House of Representatives committee on science & technology and helped organise a series of hearings on the ‘globalisation of innovation & R&D’, feels that in the run-up to the US Presidential elections, the US electorate is considering economy as clearly one of the most, if not most, important issues. “I think most of the discussion is rhetorical so far. Job creation has been weak for this whole decade and people are rightfully feeling uneasy, even if it hasn’t showed up in traditional metrics like unemployment and inflation. Much of the presidential rhetoric has focused on free trade agreements such as NAFTA, yet even if NAFTA was renegotiated it would have zero effect on white-collar outsourcing,” he feels. The first step, for him, would be to recognise that high-wage jobs for US workers don’t simply fall from the sky. “The notion that more education will automatically generate success for US workers and for the US economy is downright dangerous. Not because more education is a bad thing, but because it gives us a false sense that we will be okay as long as we have more/better education. US workers are losing due to offshoring yet they have no voice in Washington policy-making. We know that outsourcing results in job loss and lower wages for US workers, yet we have no policies to redress this inequity,” he says. As for immigration policy reforms, Dr Hira feels that while permanent immigration is good for Americans, guest worker programmes are vulnerable to abuse.

[antivirus software] How To Easily Remove the MonaRonaDona 'Virus'

The MonaRonaDona Trojan is designed to scam infected users into shelling out $40 for a bogus scanner dubbed Unigray Antivirus. The scammers completed the hoax by positioning several forum posts from alleged victims touting the bogus Unigray Antivirus as a miracle cure for the MonaRonaDona 'virus'. In reality, removal is very simple and requires absolutely no tools, nor parting with any of your hard-earned cash. Just boot into safe mode and follow the directions below.

Difficulty: Easy

Time Required: 15 minutes

Here's How:

1. If you haven't already done so, boot into safe mode.

2. Search for and delete the following folder, if found:

   C:\Program Files\UniGray Antivirus

   You may also wish to delete the following:

   C:\Program Files\RegistryCleanFix2008

3. Search the global startup folder for the following file and delete the file if found:

   SRVSPOOL.EXE

   By default, the global startup folder location is
   C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

4. Click Start, click Run, type REGEDIT, and click OK. The Registry Editor will now open.

   Note: To avoid unwanted page wrapping, the following abbreviations are used in the steps below:

   HKCU = HKEY_CURRENT_USER
   HKLM = HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

5. To fix the title bar changes to Internet Explorer and Outlook Express caused by MonaRonaDona, browse to the following keys and delete the values indicated:

   HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
   Delete value: Window Title

   HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
   Delete value: Window Title

   HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express
   Delete value: WindowTitle

6. To regain access to Task Manager, which was disabled by MonaRonaDona, browse to the following keys and delete the values indicated:

   HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
   Delete value: DisableTaskMgr

   HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
   Delete value: DisableTaskMgr

7. You may also wish to delete the following:

   HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
   Delete value: RegistryCleanFixMFC

8. Close the Registry editor by choosing File | Exit

9. Reboot the computer normally. The system should now be free of the MonaRonaDona 'virus' and the system changes made by the Trojan should now be reversed.

Nokia 3120 classic

Design

The black metallic casing gives this Nokia a look stylish enough to appeal to a wide spectrum of users. Its metallic frame ringing the edge of the phone gives an overall assuring feel that comes across as solid and impact-proof. The only gripe we have here is its black and glossy make which is a fingerprint and dust magnet. So be prepared to wipe down the handset every time you whip it out to use.

Size-wise, the 3120 (at 111.3 x 45.4 x 13.4mm), is two-third the width of the 5070 making it a good fit in the hand. A rubber back casing provides a good grip. Being small had its tradeoff, however. We found the keypad positioned slightly too low for comfortable use. Nokia probably had to squeeze this down to make way for a display screen that sits over half the phone's length. This made for comfortable use. That said, the buttons were big and easy enough to text on.

Like most Nokia handsets, there's a center directional button at the top center of the phone, although you may need to get used to the rather flush surface which could be an issue for those with large digits.

Features

For a basic phone, this candybar packs some pretty decent features targeted at the masses. There's a 2-megapixel camera with flash, though as with all budget camera-phones, don't expect startling clear snaps, particularly in low light. Interestingly, the 3120 classic comes with a front-facing VGA camera for video-conferencing via 3G, not something we would have expected to find in an entry-level model.

Nokia has also packed onboard Bluetooth, so transferring music and images will be easier among friends. There's no data cable provided in the retail unit though.

There's 24MB of internal memory (about 20MB is available to the user), which is absolutely insufficient if you plan to store lots of pictures and music files. Fortunately, for your money, this comes with a microSD card slot at the back of the phone to expand to an extra 4GB.

The 2-inch display is big enough for watching your videos and view pictures without straining your eyes too much. Even under bright sunlight, we found text and pictures still legible.

Performance

Music reproduction was good, although the equalizer wasn't impressively powerful enough. It hardly makes any different when switching between rock, pop, jazz and classical equalizer. When played through the loudspeaker, it sounded flat to our ears.

Call quality was loud and clear, although ringtones produce through the loudspeaker tended to be a tad soft, causing us to miss a few calls as a result.

Nokia rates the phone's battery life at 12.5 days on standby and 3 hours 20 minutes of talktime. In actual use, which comprised making calls, photo-taking, text messaging and listening to the radio, the phone lasted a good five days before the next charge.

Conclusion

At S$388 without an operator plan, the phone is certainly worth the money. Although the camera is just 2-megapixels, it's hard to find a handsomer budget phone out there with 3G, Bluetooth, and MP3.

Do you love Windows vista? If not then you will need to wait for Windows 7 till 2010

Microsoft’s Windows Operating system. The current version of Windows vista is not so popular as expected by the Microsoft Company. Many companies are speaking negative about Vista. Still Microsoft is now busy in developing next windows version i.e. Windows 7 and it will be introduced after three years from now, approximately in January 2010!

Steven Sinofsky, the Microsoft man having all responsibilities of Windows 7, shared some details about windows 7 in an interview with CNET. Though he hasn’t revealed most of the details TechCrunch concluded some basic facts from this interview.

The interesting feature in windows 7 is ‘Touch screen interface’. Multi-touch software will allow user to use their fingers to draw pictures, zoom in and out, search and skim maps and even play on screen using piano. This multi-touch functionality is similar to the latest Apple’s iPhone touch screen feature.

Windows 7 few details are:
1) Windows 7 will arrive after general availability of windows Vista i.e. approximately after 3 years sometimes around January 2010.

2) All drivers and softwares working on windows Vista will still continue to work on Windows 7. No other additional device compatibilities. The basic driver model will be the same. No new kernel for windows 7. It will be built on Windows server 2008 kernel base.

3) To maintain compatibility, Windows 7 will be available both in 32 and 64 bit versions.

Apple iPhone

Trust Apple to build the hype. I’ll bet no one and their uncle can do what Apple did with the iPhone. First call a press conference and give a stylish walk through of the phone features. Jaws on the floor, its Apple, baby. Everyone starts buzzing about the iPhone and how it is going to be a “breakthrough internet and communications device”. Everyone’s waiting for the next big thing after “electricity and sliced bread”. Everyone wants one. Steve’s rubbing his hands in glee…

The iPhone indeed is a path breaking mobile device and I wouldn’t hesitate to call it the best phone in the world.It has its fair share of niggles, but then, which phone doesn’t? Lets take a better look.

Since this is not your usual hum-drum phone, and has many innovative features in it, I would like to talk about them first.

1) Multi-touch

With multi-touch you can flick, pinch AND tap. To zoom out of a photo, pinch, to zoom in, just reverse the pinching action. It senses touches by means of an electrical field and allows very natural actions. Supremely functional and all the girls could say was “WoW!” @ 150dB.

2) OS X

The legendary,sexy Apple OS X on a phone!! You gotta be kidding me! Well, no I’m not. And somehow Apple seem to have got the whole integration very right. Its very multitasking friendly and I only wish there was someway to control all the running applications like on Symbian OS.

3) Accelerometer

This has to be one of the coolest features on the phone! In essence it is a motion sensor, which detects whether the phone is vertical or horizontal. Accordingly it changes the viewing from Portrait to Landscape.(only in apps that support it, mind)

4) Proximity Sensor

This is another cool feature. When you get a call, the screen and your cheek make all sorts of contact, and there might be inadvertent touches. So, in order to avoid that, we have a sensor which, during a call, turns of the touch screen and saves battery. How thoughtful.

Now, if I may have your attention, we shall get on to reviewing the phone as I usually do.

Looks,Design and Build Quality

Apple always makes sure that their products might not always have the best of features but they certainly do have gorgeous looks. Nothing different with the iPhone here. Sleek, sensuous and sophisticated. The smooth curves, the chrome lining, the lightly brushed aluminum finish at the back… its all top notch. It has a solid feel to it and makes for a nice fit in the palm. The heads will turn, don’t worry dahling.. And don’t be too surprised if someone comes and gets too chatty with you. Its a conversation starter in every sense of the term.

Input and Output

The beautiful 3.5 inch 480 x 320 multi-touch screen is the primary input as well as output. It is easily the most stunning display i’ve ever seen on a mobile device. Period. Your fingers are the only way to operate it, and its quite the fingerprint magnet. But it is absolutely scratch resistant, and you can use your shirt sleeve or jeans to wipe it off. Better still, get a good screen protector, and life will be much better.

The on-screen keyboard is the way to enter all the numbers and letters. This one is easily the best on-screen keyboard in mobile history and can easily stake claim to be the best substitute for the physical keyboard. The iPhone uses a combination of dictionary and keymap prediction to help out typing.

There arent too many buttons around on the phone. Just a home button on the front(which takes you back to the SpringBoard or the main screen), a volume and a silent switch to the left and a Sleep/Wake button on the top. Thats it. The multi-touch screen will handle all the rest of the inputs. Thank you,very much. Also, to the top is the sim card tray. You insert a pin and the tray comes out gracefully. But, you do need a pin. Bah.

There is also a 3.5mm headphone jack to the top and Apple provides a pair of ear buds. They are the ones which can be found on iPods with a slight difference. It has a mic-cum-switch. I was really amazed by the size of the microphone and was even more surprised when it turned out to be a switch as well. Apple. Jaw drop inducer par excellence. And the voice quality (according to the people on the other end) was better than the in-built microphone. All the more reason for you to use it.

Performance and the Phone part of it..

Honey, this thing is fast!! There, I said it straight of. That is what happens when you plonk a 620MHz ARM processor and 128MB of RAM in a device which probably took lessons on “how to be anorexic” from Angelina Jolie. But such specs are a necessity when you look at that beautiful interface. I just cant stop emphasizing how fast it really is. The time taken from clicking the picture and saving it takes all of 2 seconds. Booting up in less that 10 seconds. Instantaneous firing up of any application. I could go on and on, but you probably have got an idea.

Battery life is just too good. The claimed figures are 8hrs of talk time and around 20hrs of music. I havent tested it to such levels yet, but other reports tell me, that actually is the case. Which is all too good. The iPhone wont demand a run to the wall socket for its cuppa every day even under heavy usage.

Now, let me get on to the phone part of it. Its quite simple to make and recieve calls on the iPhone.(Watch Video) The only problem is finding contacts in the address book, because it has no physical keyboard and neither do you have search. You can either flick through contacts or use the alphabet index on the right,which makes it a tad easier to get your contacts. One good thing is that, the faster you flick your finger, the more contacts it traverses. So you can jump down some 50 contacts in one flick.

Voice quality through the earpiece is nothing remarkable. But those at the other end reported a crisp voice.

iPod

The iPod part of the phone has been given a complete overhaul. And like Apple is advertising, it is the best iPod to date. The media integration is extremely good. Plug it into iTunes, and you’re done.

Fire up the Pod from the SpringBoard and just twist it to display in landscape mode. Now you can witness one more of Apple’s gems, CoverFlow. The effect is similar to shuffling CD’s in your own rack. See the pic below.

If you want to play a song from a certain album, just get it to the middle of the screen by flicking it and tap on the album cover once. The album cover will rotate smoothly to display the tracks in that album, tap it once to play your song. (sigh, why cant we have such eye-candy on other phones..). The audio quality is just as on the iPod’s and we wont get into the “Apple ear-buds, suck or not”, debate. Thats personal taste and for you to decide.

The jack provided is a standard 3.5mm jack, but its recessed. Thin pins will easily fit,but if your pin is on the fatter side, you will need an adapter to fit in your own ear/head-phones into it.

Camera and Internet

The camera is a 2.0MP unit. You can just click and watch the shutter animation. Thats about it. The image quality is pretty good, considering the fact that, there are no settings, whatsoever.

Here are some pics of the cam

Surfing the net on the iPhone is a joy! Rendering is spot on, and the muti-touch gestures are applicable here too. Safari works for me and the speed on the Vodafone EDGe network is perfectly usable.

Time to Crib!!

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!! Apple usually are perfect at whatever little they do. Hence, I take immense pleasure in bashing them up. So why did Steve & Co. decide to give the MMS feature a skip?? And no 3G as well. Whats so “breakthrough” about not having 2 of the most basic communication options which everybody is offering. No video recording either. Also, why cant I pair to any other device to transfer at least photos and stuff, if not music.

Also, the camera should have had some more settings and a larger pixel rating. 3.2 is the de-facto standard these days. But, I think most of these problems will be solved by means of Firmware updates. Or maybe the next generation of iPhones. Which was precisely why I chose to buy the SE P1i and not the Apple iPhone.

Whats Hot

• Seamless design
• Multi-touch, accelerometer, proximity sensor
• OS X on a mobile device!
• Awesome interface
• Amazing Media Player
• Great Internet Experience

Whats Not

• No MMS
• No 3G
• AT&T only (can be hacked, not much of an issue)
• No custom camera settings
• No native 3rd party application support (this too can be worked around)
• Screen prone to finger prints (slap on a screen protector as soon as you buy it)

Whats in the box? Phone, USB cable, Wall socket, wiping cloth, USB docking stand, manual.

Price (8GB, all taxes inclusive)

• US $450
• India 30000/- onwards (not officially on sale)

Conclusion : The iPhone is an amazing device and it has certainly raised the bar in many aspects and the way we go about managing our business on a phone. One more thing it has successfully managed to do is that it has pushed every other manufacturer back to the drawing board. Expect better phones from everybody now. This is going to be good in the end for, you, the consumer. Till then, chew the Apple!