Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Thinking of buying a mobile? How about HTC Touch?


How we generally want to use our mobile? Make calls, send/receive messages, listen to music, take snaps, manage contact, add reminders, play games. These are normal features. How about installing applications on mobile which make your daily activities on a move? Like tracking your daily expenses, keeping track of your investment profile, shares files via Bluetooth/ Wi Fi / USB, converting in multiple media formats, watching movies, playing network games, working on your office documents, record an interview, use as webcam… and many many more.

Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Samsung and LG are dominating in mobile market. They are having wide range of mobile phones with common features like audio, video and camera. Symbian is the dominating Operating System in most of today’s handsets. Keeping a very high stake in Symbiam, Nokia is dominating in handset market.

High Tech Computers, popularly know as HTC is Taiwan-based company since 1997. It was originally an Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) and was outsourcing for mobile companies. Now, they are into self-branded handsets. Its HTC Touch model already made record sell by selling 800,000 units in Europe and Asia from June’07 to September’07 that competing sell of iPhone in US. However, iPhone started sell in Europe this month. Meanwhile HTC Touch launched its second phone in Touch with a slider keypad and third HTC Touch Cruise. HTC is member of Open Handset Alliance (OHA) that means it’s working on making standards for mobile device which will run open source OS and application on its device. It also started working on Google Phone which will run Android OS by second half of 2008.

Till date HTC is distributing Microsoft Windows Mobile with handset and it is the largest handset maker using that OS in the world. However, it will distribute both, Android and Windows Mobile.

Presently, HTC having wide range of handsets and many are on the way. You can check out current HTC Touch, Smartphone, PDA and Mobile Computer models on their website www.htc.com . For the devices available in your region and language check on region and language link on top of the page.

With the other common features like media player, camera, games windows mobile 6 allows you to install other Smartphone and PDA applications. It Supports Java application (MIDP 2.0). For file transfer, most of the handset having Bluetooth 2.0, Wi-Fi, miniUSB support. Most have slot of microSD cards from 2GB plus. Special series of Touch phone provide TouchFLO™ interface which is very revolutionary.

Do keep your comments on HTC!


Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Mobile-cation, Today!

Mobile evolution in last 7-8 years is very much. I remember Nokia’s popular 3310 model, had gain a huge popularity. However, today making a call on phone is last feature. Mobiles are not only connected with telecom companies, they are roaming Internet gadget (iPhone, windows mobile), mp3 player (iPhone, sony ericsson, nokia) and digicam (sony ericsson, samsung) too!

Mobile operating systems have big market now a day. With Symbian OS, Windows Mobiles, Mobile Linux and BlackBerry’s proprietary multi-tasking operating system started gaining popularity. Looking out in huge potential in this market, Google is on the way with its mobile phone platform ‘Android’.

Open Handset Alliance (OHA) is the new business alliance initiated by Google, HTC, Intel, Motorola, Qualcomm, T-Mobile, and NVIDIA on 5th November 2007, with a goal to make open standards for mobile devices. It offers SDK of Android for developers to start playing with. Soon, Google is going to announce Android Developer Challenge to make it popular among Developer.

Let’s explore the next mobile communication with Mobile-cation!
[mobile + communication = mobilecation]