THE DETECTIVE TRICK (Mobile Spying)
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Now you can spy on anyone using your cellphone. Just do the following.
- Activate the “Automatic Answer” in the headset profile of your cellphone and set the ringing volume to “Mute”
- Short-circuit the left middle and right pins on the bottom of the mobile phone with all connections touching each other this will activate profile “Headset”.
If you cant do this just keep your earphone connected to mobile. - Now place it under a table in a room and call it. Now you can use your phone for checking out what people are talking about in a room. Just call on your phone.
- The phone receives the call without ringing and you can listen to what people are saying.
Nokia Launches 5 New Phones.
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Nokia is launching 5 new phones at their GoPlay event in London. They aren’t all new models to be precise, but a few are simply re-hashed and upgraded versions of older designs. We don’t have the information yet as to when they’ll be hitting our stores, but I can only hope soon, considering India is Nokia’s second largest market for their devices.
Nokia N95 8GB Edition
First off is the new version of their ‘Super-Phone’ the N95. This new model is totally black to begin with and now comes with a whopping 8GB of internal memory. It’s also going to have a 1200 mAh battery (950 mAh - original). Another major redesign feature is that the screen size has been upped to 2.8 inches (2.6 inches – original).
Nokia N81
The next Symbian smartphone from Nokia is the N81 which will have a 2.4 inch TFT display with QVGA resolution. It will also be equipped with Wi-Fi capabilities, is EDGE/HSDPA-enabled and will also support Bluetooth with A2DP compatibility as well. The N81 will also have dedicated gaming keys and 8GB of internal memory. The main camera is 2 megapixels and there’s also a secondary CIF camera for video calls.
Nokia XpressMusic Series
5700
Nokia is also adding 2 more phones to their XpressMusic series and has given their new 5700 model a makeover. The latest 5700 will have a Black coat with a Blue or Red trim. But there’s no confirmation on if there will be any other significant differences.
5310
This smartphone is going to run off the series 40 platform. It has a QVGA TFT display and has a 2 megapixel camera. Like it’s predecessor the 5300, this model will also support Bluetooth with A2DP compatibility and also support external memory with microSD cards.
5610
he second XpressMusic phone to be released is the 5610 which has a candy-bar design and will also run on the series 40 platform.
We don’t have too much information on all the specs these phones will have, but as soon as we know, you’ll know.
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Apple iPhone Review
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[digg-reddit-me]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 walkthrough of the phone features. Jaws on 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 pathbreaking mobile device and I wouldnt 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 (Watch video)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 (Watch Video)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 (Watch Video)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 (Watch Video)This is another cool feature. When you get a call, the screen and your cheek make all sorts of conact, 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. Please visit this link to see a Flash Slide Show of the iPhone Let us now 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, dont worry dahling.. And dont 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,smooth multi-tasking..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.iPodThe 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, Mail and SafariThe 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.I havent quite been able to setup EDGe over here in India and neither do I have access to a Wi-Fi hotspot. So, I’ll reserve judgement till then. But going by the reports I am reading, everyone seems to be having a good time with Mail and Safari.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 daysBut, 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
- Sexy!!
- 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(Prices from eBay.in, 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!From Techspot
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