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As you must have read everywhere about the Motorola Droid that just entered the market, there is nothing much to talk about it. However, unboxing the Motorola Droid is something that you don’t want to miss out.

The official Nokia Blog has done a video of unboxing of the new Motorola Droid phone.

A quick revisit to the features of Motorola Droid smartphone:

• 3.7 inch touchscreen display.
• 5 megapixel camera
• QWERTY Keyboard
• 16GB microSD card
• GPS, WiFi, and Bluetooth
• Runs on Android 2.0 OS.

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Blogging is amazing when it is unrestricted and hassle-free. And to make blogging a smooth experience, there are many desktop blog-publishing applications available but most of them are ‘typical’ softwares that you need to install. Some might require you to download a suite in order to get a simple blog-publishing application. Here is something for those who love blogging on Blogger and hate installing a blog-publishing software – Blogger Buddy.

Blogger Buddy is a Windows Vista/Windows 7 Gadget that lets you create new posts and publish them to your Blogger blog. It also lets you preview the content before you publish.

Although a mere 120kb download, this small utility has full fledged text editor where you’ll find everything you need.

 

Features of Blogger Buddy:

» Unlike a typical blog publishing software, Blogger Buddy is a Windows Vista/Windows 7 Gadget.

» Just 120KB download size and low on resources.

» Rich text editor.

» Post previews are available before publishing to Blogger blog.

So, if you are a Blogger user out there, I would recommend you to use thisgadget for posting to your blog just because it is too hassle-free and has a footprint of an ant.

Download Blogger Buddy / 120kb

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Want to make your wired connection a wireless one but don’t have a wireless router? Wish to share your wired internet connection when your friends come over with their laptops? Well, how about turning your own laptop into a WiFi Hotspot to which other laptop computers can connect to and share the internet connection? ‘Connectify’ does the precise job of transforming your laptop to a secure WiFi hotspot.

The setup is simpler than you think. Just follow these steps:

1. Go to Connectify website and download the installer. It’s a painless 1.4 MB download.
2. Install the software and click its icon in the notification area.
   
   
3. Everything is pretty intuitive. Give ‘WiFi Name’ which will be the SSID of the wireless network and the ‘Passphrase’ for security. Choose the internet connection and click the red ‘Hotspot Off’ button. The devices that connect to your laptop are shown in the box above.

Once done, your laptop will now act as a red hot WiFi Hotspot! Let other WiFi enabled devices to connect with internet using your laptop computer as a WiFi hotspot.

Features of Connectify:

» Easy to setup a WiFi Hotspot within seconds.

» Secured WiFi connectivity.

» Eliminates the need of a wireless router for internet sharing if you have a WiFi enabled laptop.

» It is a software based wireless router that takes any type of internet connection (wired or wireless) and lets you share it wirelessly.

» Runs on Windows 7 32bit (x86) as well as 64bit (x64).

Connectify website explicitly states that the Beta version of Connectify is built for Windows 7. However, if you find any problems with Connectify in Windows Vista or Windows XP, mention it in the comments.

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As many of you have figured out that Samsung has entered the Android arena and the Samsung i5700 Galaxy phone, now officially dubbed Samsung Galaxy Spica, is the second of its kind to run on Android.

Although Galaxy Spica has been officially announced in Russia today, it is yet to speak the word out in other countries.

Now let’e take a quick look on what the figures have to say.

Specs and Features:

OS: Android 1.5

Display: 3.2 inch touch screen.

Hardware: 800 MHz processor, 128MB RAM, 1500 mAh battery.

Camera: 3.2 megapixels

Memory: 100MB inbuilt, extendable upto 32GB (microSDHC)

New multimedia feature: Plays even unconverted video files of popular formats.

Other features include GPS Sensor, Compass, WiFi, Bluetooth and supports HSDPA connectivity.

Price of Samsung Galaxy Spica is rumored to be around 320 Euros.

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Nokia unveiled its brand new low end/entry level mobile phone with a slider structure. This small slider phone is said to be set loose in the markets by the end of 2009. Without much ado, lets take a dive into the specs and features of the Nokia 2220 Slider phone.

Specs and features:

1) Nokia 2200 Slider measures 97.2mm x 47mm x 15.9mm, has a TFT display with 160 x 128 resolution.

2) 0.3 megapixel camera

3) 10MB internal memory

4) FM tuner

5) Opera Mini web browser (supports GSM/GPRS connectivity)

6) Battery life: 8hrs (talk time), 400hrs (standby)

Although the features are bare minimum, considering Nokia 2220 Slider an entry level phone, it certainly is a decent buy. As mentioned above, it will be on sale by the end of 2009 and its price is expected to be announced soon.

This is what the trade group called ‘The Wi-Fi Alliance’ has to say -  “A new wireless specification called Wi-Fi Direct is all set to make its entry by mid 2010.” Formerly known as Wi-Fi peer-to-peer, this new specification will be a super advanced version of Bluetooth as we know it.

This specification does not require a wireless hub and any device certified as Wi-Fi Direct will be able to connect with each other seamlessly as it would do in case of Bluetooth. The Wi-Fi Alliance further states that, a software update will be made available for older devices so there is nothing to lose for those who already have Wi-Fi enabled devices sans the Wi-Fi Direct specification.

Electronic gadget makers will surely grab the opportunity to make every device Wi-Fi enabled to fully enjoy the power of Wi-Fi Direct. This ultimately means that in less than a year, you may be able to transfer files across multiple Wi-Fi enabled devices, transfer songs and videos to your portable player, record TV shows directly on your computer – all wirelessly. The possibilities are endless because this will forever change our modus oprendi to transfer digital data across devices.

It is now just a matter of sitting down and wait for the ‘Wireless Revolution’ to happen!

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The evil is everywhere. The virtual world is no exception. If you thought your digital data in your computer is secured because you have a strong antivirus application running then you are probably wrong. With the advent of technology and thereby the rise of electronic gadgets, malicious codes in the form of viruses and trojans have paved their way to pendrives, iPods, mp3 players and cell-phones.

That’s right, a cell phone is as vulnerable to virus attacks as your computer. Viruses can creep in your smart-phone via blue tooth or an unsecured Wi-Fi network and the after-effects are not very pleasant. To tackle this out, ESET, makers of one of the very best PC antivirus suites, has introduced an antivirus application for cell phones. And to make that grin on your face a little bigger, this ESET Mobile Antivirus is a freeware.  

Features of ESET Mobile Antivirus:

1. Heuristic scanning: Blocks and sweeps out even the latest of the threats and smarter protection for mobile platform.
2. On-Access Protection: Scanning is done when a file is accessed (opened), scans received files over an unsecured Wi-Fi network or bluetooth.
3. On-Demand Protection: Scans at specified time and specified locations; maintains a log
4. Quarantine facility: Maintains a folder for infected objects. This helps you identify those false positives which you can restore them back.
5. Automatic updation of program modules and virus definitions: updates can be downloaded at user specified intervals.
6. User friendly: With a very intuitive GUI, ESET Mobile Antivirus is darn easy to use.

ESET Mobile Antivirus has a strikingly small setup file of just 384KB which can be instantly downloaded. Moreover it is free. So all those Symbian smartphone owners, what are you waiting for. Download the little master. But before you do, please note that the application runs on following platforms:

1) Symbian S60 3rd Edition (feature pack 1 or 2)

2) Symbian S60 5th Edition

Visit the Beta Program page to download the installation guides.

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Recently visited Apple’s iPod nano website and read the line “nano shoots video”. Sounds cool right. Beneath it was written a some more surprise “Also making its debut: FM Radio Live Pause”. Without any kind of word mumbo jumbo, let’s see what the latest iPod nano all about:

Usual features of the new iPod nano:

• 2.2 inch TFT screen (240 x 376 resolution @ 204ppi)
• Available in two flavors: 8GB or 16GB
• Built-in mic support to record voice memos, class lectures, etc.
• Holds upto 4000 songs or 15000 photos or 16 hours of video (on a 16GB iPod nano)
• Available in 9 super brilliant colors

Not-so-usual features of the new iPod nano:

• The new iPod nano is capable of shooting H.264 VGA video with 640 x 480 resolution @ 30 frames per second with AAC audio
• You can shoot video with many real time effects like: X-Ray, Sepia, Black and White, Film Grain, Thermal, Bulge, Kaleido, Motion Blur, Mirror, Light Tunnel, Security Cam, Cyborg, Dent, Twirl, and Stretch.
• iPod nano has built in FM radio with ‘Live Pause’ feature using which you can pause the live FM stream.
• Built-in Pedometer functionality which assists you in your daily workout
• Genius Mixes which makes music mixing a lot easier.

Price:

The price of iPod nano 8GB is $149 (approx. 7450/- INR) and that of the 16GB model is $179 (approx. 8950/- INR)

Some interesting news is coming our way. Nokia, the mobile phone giant, has rolled up sleeves and has entered the laptop race. Nokia recently launched Booklet 3G – a brand new netbook power packed with some usual and some not so usual features. Why is this netbook important? Well, it comes from a company that changed the face of cell phones all around the world so this netbook surely seems like a big deal.

Of course when it comes from Nokia, the Booklet 3G has to be connectivity-centric. The specifications say that it has integrated 3G wireless module, Bluetooth, a SIM card slot which definitely makes it a laptop-cum-mobile phone, A-GPS with Ovi maps, HDMI output all packed inside a sophisticated aluminium body weighing no more than 1.25 kg (2.7 lbs). Nokia claims the Booklet 3G’s battery life to be 12 hours which is not so great for a netbook but pretty decent. However, there is still no indications about the price and the date of the official release to the public which means Nokia fanboys have to wait a little bit more to get their hands dirty on this netbook-cum-mobile phone. Click the below image to see more Nokia Booklet 3G images (Courtesy: Engadget.com)

This is funny but if you believe in the research results, this might give you an eerie feeling. A research was done recently to see whether inserting more and more songs into an iPod or MP3 players make them actually heavy. The results turned out to be shocking.

The results showed that iPods, iPhones and MP3 players get a ‘little’ heavy upon installing files in them. The tests were done by weighing an empty iPod and a full one. The difference turned out to be 0.4 grams. Upon filling 3500 songs in a 16GB iPhone, it weighed 133.6 grams compared to an empty iPhone which weighed 133.2 grams. Professor Roger Banks quoted that this was for the first time a digital data has been measured in a real world measuring unit. We all know it is made up of 0s and 1s but the ratio of ones to zeros actually seems to make a difference. Further research is being carried on to ascertain whether different file formats weigh differently with the same file size. [via]

With all the hype and excitement all over, the much awaited, much drooled over iPhone finally lands up in Indian market. With no two thoughts, the hype is justified. This new phone from Apple, is a revolution in mobile experience. It has been flashing all over the news channels since two days, with all the reporters boasting over its super cool features. And I am going to do the same thing here. Let me tell you, although I am not an Apple freak and Windows being my first love, I am really really getting drooled over this beauty. Although I won't go into much deeper specs here, I would like to point out some eye catching featutes of the iPhone.