Motorola has finally launched the Defy in India. This is 3 months after it was launched in US by T-Mobile. Motorola is improving, some of their other phones, took 4-5 months to be launched in India. Lets hope they launch the Atrix sooner in India.

Here is whats cool:

• Waterproof, scratchproof, dust proof. Should I say child proof ?
• 3.7″ touchscreen  display
• 5 Megapixel Camera with Video recording
• MicroSD Card slot for additional Memory
• 3G with HSDPA 7.2Mbps
• WiFi
• MicroUSB for charging (This is soon becoming a standard)
• 3.5mm standard headphones jack
• AGPS and Digital Compass
• Accelerometer, Proximity Sensor, Light Sensor
• Android 2.1 with Flash player, this will get upgraded to 2.2
• FM Radio

What would be nicer:

• Device should have shipped with 2.3 or atleast 2.2, no word yet on when it will receive 2.3 update
• Gyroscope for the gaming enthusiast
• Xenon flash for indoor night photography for the party animals
• HSDPA+ with 14.4Mbps
• AMOLED display.

Nevertheless its a nice phone for its price. Its available for Rs 18,900 at Croma.

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A cool looking phone from Google. Bbuilt by Samsung, hence the similarity to Samsung Galsxy S.

Here is what I like:

• Android 2.3 (first and currently the only phone to have this)
• 16GB Internal Memory
• 4″ Display
• 1 GHZ Processor

Here is what I don’t like:

No expandable memory slot, Whith 16 GB built in, you may not need it..but why not have it?

Only HSDPA 7.2Mbps, No HSDPA+ which offers 14.4 Mbps

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Motorola has managed to come up with a very good concept. Its essentially a very powerful phone, which can be converted into a PC or a netbook. This will provide a serious competition to the iPhone4 and also provide a single device which can double up as a PC or a netbook.

It has two docks which are optional accessories

• The Motorola HD Multimedia Dock has three USB ports and an HDMI port enabling connections to a keyboard, mouse, speakers and HDMI-compatible monitor for working at your desk/office, or connecting to an HDMI-compatible television and home theater audio system for interacting with content and enjoying video, music, games and more in your living room.



• The Motorola Laptop Dock has an incredibly thin design with an 11.6-inch screen, full keyboard, stereo speakers, 36Wh three-cell battery that delivers up to eight hours of battery life and weighs just 2.4 pounds. Users simply dock their Motorola ATRIX 4G into the back of the Laptop Dock to turn it into an active, connected machine to experience true mobility at work, home and playing on-the-go in a form factor that’s lighter and smaller than most laptops on the market.

Comparison between Motorola Atrix 4G and Apple iPhone 4

Image curtesy: Motorola.com

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ARM which is already leading in Smart phones, is now gaining popular on Tablets.

With Microsoft also announcing today at CES that Windows will run on ARM chips and with Google’s Android Linux, Apple’s iOS, and Canonical’s Ubuntu already on the low-powered processors, that’s a big portion of modern computing.

Throw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its clones from CentOS and Oracle, and you can pretty much call it a day in terms of OS coverage for ARM. Alas, today was not Intel’s lucky day, no matter how much revenues and profits it stands it get in the near-term from its new “Sandy Bridge” Core PC chips and future Xeon variants for workstations and servers. With Nvidia and Microsoft jumping into the ARM race, the future for Intel is going to get a whole lot tougher.

Read the complete article.

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???More than 40% of U.S. customers who purchased smartphones over the last six months have chosen Android-based phones.

Apple is still leading with 28.6 percent, followed by RIM (Blackberry) at 26.1 percent and Andorid at 25. percent. With the current growth, it won’t be long before Andorid becomes number 1. Read the complete report.

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???Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak says:

The Google OS is likely to win the race similarly to the way that Windows ultimately dominated the PC world. Woz stressed that the iPhone, “Has very few weak points. There aren’t any real complaints and problems. In terms of quality, the iPhone is leading.” However, he then conceded that, “Android phones have more features,” and offer more choice for more people. Eventually, he thinks that Android quality, consistency, and user satisfaction will match iOS.

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As per last quarter reports published by Gartner, Android is now number two Mobile operating system with 25.5 percent market share. While Symbian is loosing market share, it still retails the number 1 slot due to Nokia.

Android market-share jumped from 3.5 percent to 25.5 percent vs the same quarter last year. Android 2.3 is just round the corner, expect it to fuel more growth for Android phones.

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A while back, my friend Ramnath forwarded me this interesting flow chart, It holds true for iPad and may apply to many of our wants [not needs].

A few people who owned iPads, [althought many would not admit], were finding their iPad had diminishing marignal utility. After a few days of use, they were not find much utility for it.

Are tablets good computing devices or just for browsing and viewing? Are tablets going to replace the netbook? Well lets wait to have more tablet options based on Android platform. In fact Android team says Android is not designed for Tablets and Android 3.0 expected by end of the year, is expected is suppose to be tablet ready.

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If you have loads of money to spare, feeling itchy and love Google Earth. You can setup Google Earth on multiple screens,  this can be on  a full wall or all your walls, depending on how many large screens you can have. Ok, you can still set it up with 2 monitors to try it out.

Here is the link on how to set it up:

http://code.google.com/p/liquid-galaxy/wiki/QuickStart

Now would it be more fun if the screens were 3D and had touch support too?

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What do you get when you marry a Tata Nano Engine with a Merc ? You get a Nokia N8  Nokia has been struggling to maintain market share, and this looks like a desperate attempt.

As always Nokia has added so many hardware features which others can’t matchup, read till the end before you decide.

Whats good:

• 12MP Camera! Yes that 12!
• HD Video recording
• 3.5″ Touch Screen
• Bright AMOLED display with ???640 x 360 pixels resolution
• Accelerometer/Compass/Proximity Sensor
• Choice of 5 Colours
• 16GB Internal Memory
• GPS and A-GPS
• Radio
• Flash support
• USB-on-the-go (so you can connect to other USB devices without a PC)
• Bluetooth 3.0
• HDMI Port
• 3.5 mm Audio jack
• 3G
• DivX/H.264 Playback
• 680 MHz processor (slow compared to 1GHz getting common today)

What not so good is the Symbian operating system. Which is now started showings its age, its time Nokia offers Android as an option.  While they can continue experimenting with their Linux  variants (Meego/Maemo) and extend the life of Symbian.

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Motorola has announced Motorola Defy which is Water Resistant, Dust Resistant and Scratch Resistant. Which is excellent if you had kids around who like to throw phones into the water!

Here are some interesting features:

• 3.7″ touchscreen  display
• 480X864 resolution screen
• 5 Megapixel Camera with Video recording
• LED Flash
• 2 GB Internal Memory
• MicroSD Card slot for additional Memory
• 512 MB RAM
• Dual Band 3G and Quad Band 2G
• WiFi
• Bluetooth
• MicroUSB
• 3.5mm standard headphones jack
• AGPS and Digital Compass
• Accelerometer, Proximity Sensor, Light Sensor
• Android 2.1 with Flash player

What would be nicer:

If It has Android 2.2 update available which Motorola hasn’t announced yet, but is likely to come.

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Nokia has serious competition with Videocon, Mcromax, Acer and Motorola launching sub $200 (Rs. 10,000) phones in India.

India already has the 2nd largest number of people accessing the internet from their cellphones.

Android should fuel this market as:

And yes it runs Linux

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From a Newsweek article:

What began as a trickle now has turned into a tidal wave. In August Google announced it was activating 200,000 Android phones each day. On at least one day since then, that number surged to more than 250,000, Rubin says. Android now has leapt past Apple to become the biggest smart-phone platform in the United States, the third-biggest worldwide, and by far the fastest growing.

Microsoft last week sued Motorola, alleging its Android phones violate Microsoft patents. Similarly, Apple has sued HTC over its Android phones, and Oracle has sued Google, alleging Android itself violates Oracle patents. If nothing else, the lawsuits demonstrate that rivals recognize Android has become a serious threat.

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I am highly fascinated by the Plug Computer, ever since I got one (courtesy Marvell). Since its small, consumers very little power (2 watts) hence environmental friendly and can do a number of things like downloading latest Ubuntu  over night

I was trying to get Reliance Netconnect data card to setup on the Plug Computer, to be able to download during the night when its more cost effective to download. I have the plug sitting around for a year now but I finally thought of putting it to some use. The plug computer was pre-installed with Ubuntu 9.10, that runs an older kernel on which my data card was not detected. Hence I decided to install Debian.

I followed These instructions:  Installing Deiban on flashi.

Note: It is a long process to install, so attempt if you have ample amount of time and know Linux reasonably well. And yes are willing to burn the midnight oil

Most of the steps given on the wiki worked well. Here are a few suggestions based on my experience in installing.

• You can monitor the progress on another laptop, just connect a standard USB cable into your computer and plug the other side micro USB slot into the Plug Computer. Now start any terminal client (such as putty) and configure with the following settings:

Connection Type: Serial

Port: /dev/ttyUSB0

Speed: 115,200

Data Bits: 8

Stop Bits: 1

Parity (Bits): None

Flow Control: None

On Ubuntu,  I just start terminal and type

screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200

This will show all the bootup messages  on the plug.

• You need an empty SD Card/USB pen drive plugged in. Without this, you will go through the installation process and then at the final stages it will not be able to install. This is because Debian first installs on an external media, and then you can copy the image to internal flash. Note: Ensure that you have 512-1GB free and its a blank SD Card/USB drive with no critical data as it will need to be formatted. I used

• I first tried to start the boot loader from a pen drive but I had all kinds of issues. I tried different pendrives/external drives, etc. But none of them worked. I tried formatting as fat32 and ext2, but no luck. I finally setup a tftpd server and that worked well. My suggestion is use a tftpd server. You can easily set this up on another Ubuntu system on the network. You will also need to open your firewall port for tftp to boot. Note: The standard tftpd server document is outdated, so better to install any other tftpd server such as atftpd or tftpd-hpa. I tried the atptpd and it worked well.

After going through the whole process, I was rather surprised to see that there was no wvdial,  so I used pppconfig, which took sometime to setup but worked with my 3G data card.

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“In terms of sales, smartphones powered by Android are expected to surpass these of Symbian as early as 2012,” he said, reports the Telegraph.

Its time Nokia considers offering Android based phone.

“If Nokia joins the Android party, the support of this eco-system by all key players could help the mobile smartphone industry to potentially commoditise its software business much like what Microsoft did in the PC world,” he said.

If Nokia continues in its current strategy, it would be addressing “niche markets,” Kamal-Saadi added.

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I have been using Siemens Gigaset A580IP for couple of months now. I find it works well with Nonoh.net, Voipbuster.com and Asterisks based system. Here is my brief review.

• Excellent voice quality.
• has both VOIP and land line option.
• Connects to multiple VOIP service providers (upto 6).
• Can easily switch VOIP provider.
• Can connect to corporate VOIP system based on Asterisks or other open standard based solution
• In expensive
• Runs Linux inside

What I don’t like:

• Setup take time initially, primarily because its slow to respond. But once its setup it works beautifully.
• You can’t dial another VOIP service provider directly, for example you can’t dial anyone on username@serviceprovider, you can only dial numbers. How ever you can receive calls if someone calls your username@gigaset.net
• Cant connect to Skype, primarily because Skype uses a propriety protocol.
• Not a replacement for Skype video as it doesn’t do video.

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After  the HTC Desire, HTC has announced the HTC Desire HD. Here are the specs:

• 4.3 inch LCD screen: Thats big!
• 8 Megapixel Camera
• 1 GHz Processor (same as HTC Desire)
• 720p High Definition Video Capture
• HD Video Playback
• DivX playback
• Surround sound.
• 4 GB Internal Memory: Nice but more the better.
• Android 2.2.: Will also be available on HTC Desire, Wildfire and Legend.

If you are looking for a Qwerty phone, wait for the HTC Desire Z, which has a qwerty or look at Motorola Backflip.

These phones are expected to hit the market by the end of the year/Early Next year.

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Linux powered devices are experiencing an exponential growth. E-book readers are gaining popularity because they can carry huge volumes of books, are environmental friendly and can do other things amongst being a book reader like listen to music or run apps.

I didn’t realise that so many of the popular e-book readers run Linux:

• Amazon Kindle DX
• Sony Reader PRS-900
• Spring Design Alex
• enTourage eDGe
• PocketBook 302

I find the enTourage very interesting. which is a dual screen one is e-ink based (easy for reading) and another is a LCD.

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What happens when a Taiwan ODM (Original Device Manufacturer) starts making their own phone? Result is you get good value for money, it start selling well and as a result they also get sued!

For those who came in late, ODMs are the actual manufactures of the device sold by the likes of Apple. ODMs actually make the devices and these are branded and sold by the big MNC brands.

HTC is  an ODM for many big brands. For example they manufactured the Google Nexus One for Google which is similar to HTC Desire. They have now been releasing their own phones.

They are so successful, that Apple sued them for patent infringement cause they enabled multi-touch on their phone and actually did a better job than Apple did on its iPhone.

HTC the number 1 brand as per GSMArena,  has launched some nice  phones to give customers a choice:

• HTC Wildfire
• HTCL Legend
• HTC Desire

Here is whats common between them:

• 5 Megapixel Camera
• LED Flash
• 3G with HSDPA for upto 7.2Mbps download speeds (network dependent)
• Wi-Fi
• Stereo Bluetooth
• GPS receiver
• FM Radio
• Touch screen with Multi-touch support
• Proximity sensor
• Accelerometer
• Optical Trackpad
• Flash Player
• 3.5mm standard audio jack
• Unlimited phonebook (limited by memory)
• MicroUSB
• Limitations: No front video camera for video conferencing. No Qwerty keyboard.

• All of them Run the latest Linux based Android 2.1 and are expected to be upgradable to 2.2 this quarter.

Android 2.2 will add:

• HTML 5
• Flash 10.1 support
• Faster speeds due to JIT compiler

Now here is the main difference between the three:

Features	HTC Wildfire	HTC Legend	HTC Desire
Display Type	TFT	AMOLED	AMOLED
Display Resolution	240×320	320 x 480	480 x 800
Display Size	3.2 Inches	3.2 Inches	3.7 Inches
Internal Memory	384 MB RAM	384 MB RAM	576 MB RAM
CPU	528 MHz Qualcomm	600 MHz Qualcomm	1GHz Qualcomm
Weight	118g	126g	135g
Price	$379/Rs. 15,000	$495/Rs. 21,000	$659/Rs. 26,000

The main difference between these phones are processor speeds, display quality and the price. The Legend and the Desire sports an AMOLED display which is the latest LED display, which is razor sharp.  The Desire also sports a slight larger display of 3.7 inches with the highest resolution. It also bundles a 4 GB MicroSD Memory Card. The processor speed is not so important if the OS works well and you don’t need to run too many apps simultaneously.

Here is my suggestion:

If you want an Android phone but not willing to shell out a bomb, the Wildfire is your best bet. Since the Wildfire is the latest amongst these, it also has some newer features.

If you don’t have budget constrains and wants to show off to your iPhone friends, then go in for the Desire. Its will also do justice in video playback capabilities. The Legend is ofcourse for people who want the best of both worlds: Lower cost than desire but with better display than the Wildfire.

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Android has overtaken Apple OS (iPhone,itouch,iPad) to be number 2. Blackberry RIM is still Number one,  however they are quickly loosing marketshare to Android.

• RIM’s BlackBerry OS at 36 percent;
• Android at 28 percent;
• Apple iPhone OS at 21 percent.

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