Jawbone 2007's "Best of What's New"

Since July 1, 2008 people are not allowed to drive while talking on the phone unless with a bluetooth head set or with speaker phone. Before only busy people would need the bluetooth head set, but now that everyone will need one, what is a good bluetooth head set to be considered? The Jawbone bluetooth head set was awarded 2007's "Best of What's New" award. The jawbone head set can cancel out the background sounds when you are talking to someone on the other end creating a non-echoing conversation with no background noise. What is more annoying than not being able to hear the other person you're talking to from background noise? Well the Jawbone's new technology of canceling out the background noise creates clarity in your conversations with whomever you're talking to on the other line. Aliph, a leading developer of mobile audio products, today announced the Jawbone® Bluetooth headset has been recognized by Popular Science as a 2007 "Best of What's New" award winner - adding to its numerous awards for technological innovation and product design excellence received in 2007. Jawbone is a groundbreaking Bluetooth headset that integrates the latest innovations in acoustics and audio processing with premium product design to provide users unparalleled incoming and outgoing voice clarity.

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Nokia 8800 Carbon Arte Luxury Phone Made from Carbon Fiber

Have you ever seen those cars driving around and it just looks like they have a black hood? Well its most likely not just a "black" hood. Its probably what they call, a carbon fiber hood. Racing car enthusiasts put these on their cars for the looks and the for what it does. But can you really put carbon fiber as a phone? Well Nokia did just that. Nokia today introduced its 8800 Carbon Arte, a premium mobile phone engineered from carbon fiber, titanium, polished glass and stainless steel. Keeping with the Nokia 8800 Arte range, the 8800 Carbon Arte has a minimalistic and seamless surfaces, slide mechanism and lightweight feel. Crafted from an ultra light and strong material, it reflects 3D patterns, a modern feel and unique tones, textures and sculpted shapes. The 8800 Carbon Arte offers the unique tap-for-time feature. Consumers can tap the steel surface below the display twice and a clock appears on the screen. Background images organically change during the day, giving a unique appearance to the display. The turn-to-mute silencing mechanism lets users silence incoming calls in a discrete manner by turning the phone over, screen-side down. In addition to 3G capabilities, the 8800 Carbon Arte has a 3.2-megapixel auto-focus camera, high-quality audio, and a vivid OLED screen. Nokia's anti-fingerprint coating reduces smudges on metal and glass and unsightly outer seams are hidden by a unique all-in-one micro-USB connector.

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Siemens opens exiderdome to public

OK. Here's something I have never heard about. When someone mentions Siemens, the first image that comes to mind is a cellular phone. How would I have known that its vast conglomerate extends in the food, beverage, auto, and energy industries. The company is now set to hold an exhibit of all its products in Toronto, Canada. According to The Mississauga News, the Canada-based company "has a goal to bring productivity solutions and systems to Canadian industry". The traveling show had just arrived by barge via the Great Lakes, and will be on the move in various places in Canada. It features about 130,00 products from in "various industries such as food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, automotive, oil and gas, and building construction". It will also hold "guided tours" by Siemens representatives as well as seminars open to the public. Those who want to go need to make an appointment, however.

The tour has been going on since 2005, making its first stop in China. Its last tour will be held in the United States, in Boston.

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Prime Minister to head cellular company

I do know that former government officials usually land pretty lucrative jobs after exiting from public service. But here's something that I do not hear very often: a former prime minister taking over one of the top reins of a cellular phone giant. Former Finnish Prime Minster Esko Aho will be in charge of Nokia's "corporate relations and responsibility" department. According to a Bloomberg article, the move was meant to "[tap]the country's youngest leader to lobby for the company's interests." Nokia CEO Peka Kallasvuo also said that Aho's "experience and knowledge of international affairs" will come in handy as the company expands throughout the international market." The former prime minister will join Nokia in November and will be seated as a board member in January to replace the retiring Veli Sundbaeck, who will step down form his post in December.

According to Bloomberg, Aho, who now heads the "Finnish Innovations Fund called SITRA, presided as Prime Minister at a time when Finland was in a dire recession. He had also been a member of the Parliament and had had an unsuccessful bid for presidency in 2000.

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Samsung Increases Embedded Memory Efficiency of Smartphones

Samsung today introduced software to optimize flash memory in smartphones. The software optimizes data transactions as they interact with operating systems. By boosting performance through faster booting, downloading and searching, it improves multimedia intensive operations. The embedded-flash software is comprised file systems and supportive flash drivers. The file systems, UniFS, PocketFS and RFS, execute typical operations like creating, removing, reading, and writing files. The flash drivers, UniStore, PocketStore, XSR and FSR, prolong the device's lifetime. The software shortens application design-in times and broadens management of high-speed video images and high-resolution still images. OneNAND is offered in a broad range of densities - 256 Megabit (Mb) through 2 Gigabit (Gb). Having achieved 100 million units of sales (512Mb-equivalent) in two years after initial shipments in 2006, Samsung expects its OneNAND business to exceed 500 million units by the end of this year. Introduced earlier this year, Flex-OneNAND is a single-die solution with the high-speed characteristics of SLC (single level cell) NAND and the high-density of MLC (multi level cell) NAND. "The new software, which significantly upgrades performance of our embedded memory solutions," said Young Joon Choi, Vice President, Memory Division, Samsung. MoviNAND combines a MultiMediaCard v.4 (MMC) controller with NAND to simplify system design requirements for embedded non-volatile storage in data-intensive multimedia handsets.

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Apple Sells One Million iPhone 3Gs, 10 Million App Downloads

No one thought that there would be something that would triumph the original Apple iPhone. Until they came out wioth the 3G iPhone. With its release in July, no one thought it would have as big as an impact as it did. As of July 14, 2008, Apple announced it has sold over one million iPhone 3Gs and users have downloaded more than 10 million applications, just three days after its launch. The iPhone 3G is now available in 21 countries - Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the U.S. - and will go on sale in France on July 17. "The iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend," said Steve Jobs, Apple CEO. "It took 74 days to sell the first one million original iPhones, so the new iPhone 3G is clearly off to a great start around the world." The new iPhone 3G combines all the revolutionary features of iPhone plus 3G networking that is twice as fast, built-in GPS for expanded location-based mobile services, and iPhone 2.0 software which includes support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and runs over 800 third party applications available through the new App Store. More than 800 applications are available on the App Store, with more than 200 offered for free and more than 90 percent priced at less than $10. Developers have created mobile applications ranging from games to location-based social networking to medical applications to enterprise productivity tools. Users can wirelessly download applications directly onto their iPhone or iPod touch. "The App Store is a grand slam, with a staggering 10 million applications downloaded in just three days," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "Developers have created some extraordinary applications, and the App Store can wirelessly deliver them to every iPhone and iPod touch user instantly."

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Verizon Wireless Offers Visual Voice Mail

Visual voicemail. Pioneered by the iPhone and up until today, the iPhone from AT&T Wireless was the only phone that was able to use it. Verizon Wireless has introduced today Visual Voice Mail, an application that manages voice mail on phones. Available initially on the LG Voyager, users can delete, reply and forward voice mail messages without listening to prior messages or voice instructions, making it a more effective way to manage and respond to messages. Visual Voice Mail lists voice mail messages with date and time of receipt and message duration. When a caller leaves a new voice mail, it pops up, alerting users of the new message. From the display, customers can call back, reply, forward, add to contacts, and archive message (to internal or external memory). Users can store 40 messages for 40 days, double the storage and retention time of Basic Voice Mail. In addition, they can create up to 10 greetings, 20 distribution lists and 50 distribution members to receive messages. "Voice mail plays a large role in how customers conduct business," said Mike Willsey, Director for Marketing of Verizon Wireless. "With Visual Voice Mail, we're able to offer customers more options to help them better prioritize voice mail messages." Visual Voice Mail is available for $2.99 monthly access, per line, plus airtime or megabyte charges and messaging fees, depending on the plan. Customers should take their LG Voyager to a Verizon Wireless store to receive the free software update. Visual Voice Mail will be offered on additional devices in the coming months.

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