Samsung Launches 8MP Camera Phone

It’s official! Samsung's 8 megapixel phone that we saw floating around earlier this month, has been officially announced, say reports. This quad-band GSM handset called the i8510 INNOV8, as in ‘Innovate’, runs on a Symbian S60 smartphone OS (3rd edition Feature Pack 2).


The i8510 is equipped with a 2.8-inch QVGA display that supports 16 million colors and a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels and an accelerometer for automatically adjusting the screen orientation. It comes with a whopping 16 GB and 8 GB of onboard memory so space is not going to be an issue. It will also support external memory via microSD. Other features also include TV out, DivX playback, FM radio with RDS and it's also DLNA compatible. The handset will also be equipped with 128MB of RAM and a 3D graphics accelerator so gaming should be a real ‘blast’.

This monster is a fully equipped device featuring inbuilt GPS (A-GPS support also) capabilities, Wi-fi, Bluetooth with A2DP and of course USB 2.0 connectivity as well as 3G with HSDPA support. The i8510 also comes with a geotagging feature for the 8MP auto focus camera that also has an LED flash (WHAT?!!! No xenon???). The camera also has other features like face and smile recognition and an auto panorama mode.

Media capabilities include stereo speakers, 3D surround sound effect and DNSe 2.0. Thankfully the i8510 has a standard 3.5mm audio jack and not one of Samsung’s multi utility proprietary ports.

The handset will hit Europe first and should be priced at approximately Rs. 51,000 (780 Euro).

Google Launches Wikipedia Competitor, knol

Google Inc. is taking the wraps off an Internet encyclopedia designed to give people a chance to show off - and profit from - their expertise on any topic.

The service, dubbed ''knol'' in reference to a unit of knowledge, had been limited to an invitation-only audience of contributors and readers for the past seven months.

Now anyone with a Google login will be able to submit an article and, if they choose, have ads displayed through the Internet search leader's marketing system. The contributing author and Google will share any revenue generated from the ads, which are supposed to be related to the topic covered in the knol.

The advertising option could encourage people to write more entries about commercial subjects than the more academic topics covered in traditional encyclopedias.

Since Google disclosed its intention to build knol, it has been widely viewed as the company's answer to Wikipedia, which has emerged as one of the Web's leading reference tools by drawing upon the collective wisdom of unpaid, anonymous contributors.

But Google views knol more as a supplement to Wikipedia than a competitor, said Cedric Dupont, a Google product manager. Google reasons that Wikipedia's contributors will be able to use some of the expertise shared on knol to improve Wikipedia's existing entries.

With a seven-year head start on knol, Wikipedia already has nearly 2.5 million English-language articles and millions more in dozens of other languages.

Knol is starting out with several hundred entries. The initial topics covered include an overview of constipation by a University of San Francisco associate professor of gastroenterology and backpacking advice from one of Google's own software engineers.

Unlike Wikipedia, knol requires the authors to identify themselves to help the audience assess the source's credibility. Google doesn't intend to screen the submissions for accuracy, Dupont said, and instead will rely on its search formulas to highlight the articles that readers believe are credible.

Google has had mixed success so far in its attempts to expand beyond its ubiquitous search engine, which generates most of its profits. While products like its e-mail service have been hits, other forays like a listing system called ''Base'' and a social network called Orkut haven't fared as well.

DELL XPS M1330

A very impresseive yet complicated lappy with full of suprizes . I recently got the XPS m1330 , on using it for a week i kinda found some of its pros and cons...well firstly its a very powerful lappy in a tiny size ..it has a 13.3 inch lcd screen which is quite impressive and more over the touch pad to windowsmedia player near the powerbuttons and the touch to eject cd are some of the features that will surely impress you.

Talking about the battry life is quite decent it runs 4 hours on low brightness and the sound is also quite impressive with two speakers .

moving on to further details the lappy got a finger sensor(which most of the lappys now are fitted with ) and an inbuilt cd drive i.e. you cannot take out the cd drive only the cd gets ejected.

Some of the cons are that the notebook gets quite hot when using so a cool pad for the laptop is recommend .I dont know the exact reason for the laptop to get hot but i think because of its extreme specs it becomes hot and further the ventilation grills for the laptop are not located properly which is also one of the reasons for the laptop to get quite hot while using.

In short its a great lappy for those who want style with powerful gaming experience .

PS : I forgot to mention that this lappy comes with a bundle of utilities the box in which it comes itself is quite impresseive and you get a creative inear earphones that sound amazingly great.

well here are the other specs of my lappy...

Windows vista home premium
intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU T5850 @ 2.16 GHz
NVIDIA GEFORCE 8400M GS
2 GB RAM
2Mega Pixel Webcam
inbuilt Mic
Dual Headphone jacks
wifi catcher
hdmi port

Nokia To Launch a New Flip Phone

Nokia’s latest offering is a stylish flip clamshell handset called the 3640 fold. This GSM handset is equipped with an internal display of 2 inches with 256K colors and it also has an external 1.36-inch display that also features 265k colors. It features a large analog clock as a screen saver.

The 3640 fold comes with a 1.3 megapixel camera and 30MB of internal memory with microSD card support as well. Other features will include a media player for audio and video, Bluetooth and USB connectivity.The handset will also support GPRS/EDGE.

According to reports, the handset should start shipping anytime soon and is priced at approximately Rs. 7,910 (125 Euro) before taxes and subsidies.

Lenovo Offers Olympic Branded USB Range

Lenovo, in its capacity as an official sponsor of the Olympic Games has released a couple of limited edition usb drives. These drives have been released under the Mascot series and are priced at $29 for 4 GB. In all, six drives have been released with their front side printed with a Fuwa image. Apart from this, the company is offering a 1 GB titanium limited edition drive that comes with a swiveling USB plug in a special mahogany box.

Considering the amount, the company has probably already had to spend, it may be brave enough to venture a guess that we just might see an Olympic branded laptop sooner or later.