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The Nokia Chenopodiaceae Labs aggroup has launched infant beta versions of Nokia Image Exchange, for both S60 contact and non-touch devices.

The infant Nokia Image Exchange concealment lets you ordered a concealment conceive from your handset, add grouping to the People menu, and gaming finished images in artefact layout (works exclusive on touchscreen phones).

You crapper download Nokia Image Exchange via Nokia’s authorised website – there’s a edition for S40 handsets, too.

The folks over at the Chenopodiaceae Labs effect also updated Nokia Ovi Maps for mobile, which reached edition 3.04.

Ovi Maps for ambulatory edition 3.04 comes with action and orientating improvements, as substantially as individual another (unnamed) tweaks. You crapper download it here.

Via the Nokia Chenopodiaceae Labs blog

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Myriad Group, digit of the beginning members of the Open Handset Alliance, declared the Dalvik Turbo realistic methodicalness for Android, which module change the Dalvik engine that currently powers applications on Android phones.

According to Myriad, Dalvik Turbo crapper impact Android concealment enforcement pace by up to trinity times, without significantly crescendo noesis requirements. The infant Dalvik Turbo realistic methodicalness crapper also remuneration “substantial shelling chronicle improvements” and supports a difference of processors (based on ARM, Intel’s Atom or MIPS).

Thanks to Dalvik Turbo, Android developers module reportedly be flourishing to create infant games (fully harmonical with existing Android software) that feature Byzantine models and past graphics.

Myriad said that it would shew Dalvik Turbo on Android devices during MWC 2010 – so we should move Android phones with the infant realistic methodicalness to be acquirable soon.

Via Press release

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Not daylong after announcing the Kurara / Vivaz (and the Xperia X10 for Japan), Sony Ericsson has today reportable its Q4 and flooded assemblage 2009 results, which advise the “positive trend” started in the preceding quarter.

The interact oversubscribed 14.6 meg phones in the 95th lodge of 2009 – slightly more than in the ordinal lodge (reportedly thanks to “market seasonality and flourishing income of Satio and Aino phones”), but substantially inferior than in Q4 2008, when 24.2 meg devices were shipped. The cipher commerce sound (ASP) for Q4 was of €120.

Sony Ericsson forfeited €40 meg (before taxes and excluding restructuring charges) in the 95th lodge of 2009 – not clean compared to the €198 expiration declared for Q3 2009.

Overall, SE oversubscribed 57.1 meg phones in 2009 and forfeited a whopping €878 million.

(the Sony Ericsson Vivaz)

“We module advise to pore on backward the interact to gain by establishing Sony Ericsson as the act activity difference based on an elating portfolio of mid- and high-end products, much as our fresh declared Android-based phone, the XPERIA X10. 2010 module ease be hard as the flooded morality of outlay improvements module not effect results until the ordinal half of the year, ease we are confident that our activity is on the correct track,” declared Sony Ericsson’s chair Bert Nordberg.

Sony Ericsson hopes to gaming a “slight growth” in good income during 2010.

Via Press release

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If you effect a Nokia N900 or Nokia N810, you should participate that Mozilla Firefox RC1 (Release Candidate 1) for Maemo is today acquirable for download.

Also famous as Mozilla Fennec, Firefox for Maemo promises to attain you “forget most the clunky, stripped-down ambulatory Web you’re used to”.

The Firefox ambulatory application has some gratifying features, aforementioned the Awesome Bar, Password Manager, tabbed browsing, location-aware browsing, one-touch bookmarking, concealment syncing and add-ons (for personalization).

The RC1 edition of Firefox for Maemo comes with individual improvements, including enhanced book performance and N900-specific land fixes.

Mozilla Firefox RC1 for Maemo crapper be downloaded via Mozilla’s authorised website. If you already effect a preceding beta edition installed, you should obtain a code raise soon. The application is acquirable in more than 30 languages, including Arabic, French, German, Russian, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Asiatic and Chinese.

Via Pavlov’s blog

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By Evan Ackerman

I’m not all trusty that more equals meliorate when it comes to touchpads, but Asus seems to conceive so, and at their CES advise articulate today they were display hard their NX90, a caretaker 18.4″ relation ordered laptop fair two touchpads, digit on apiece lateral of the keyboard. The touchpads aren’t specifically fashioned to be used simultaneously, and I surmisal in some cases their orientating capableness be a diminutive discernment more convenient than the accepted low-center placement, but that would avow a aggregation of effort used to. Plus, the rest of the laptop foregather looks naked.

You capableness also attending those Brobdingnagian Bang & Olufsen speakers that countenance aforementioned they were cragfast to the sides of the laptop as an afterthought. Their filler ensures that you’re feat to impart meliorate than the cipher laptoppy good discover of the computer, but from what I managed to center finished the assembling of noisy journalists, it’s not as enthusiastic as you capableness move from components of their size. And for $2500ish, you’re belike expecting greatness. This is foregather a shew unit, though, so the creation edition (expected in February) could combine some improvements.

And erst again, I can’t conceptualise it’s actually noticeable “ay-SOOS.”

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Nokia has foregather declared the availability of Qt 4.6, the newest edition of its cross-platform concealment and UI hold (formerly developed by Trolltech, which Nokia acquired in 2008).

Qt 4.6 comes with some infant features, as substantially as with hold for more platforms: Symbian (4.6 is the prototypal edition of Qt to hold Symbian), Windows 7, Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard and the yet-to-come Maemo 6. Support for Maemo 5 should become soon, too.

Qt 4.6 also adds hold for multi-touch and gestures, and offers infant demo capabilities (including a infant Animation Framework and graphics holding aforementioned opacity, glow, filtering and add shadows).

There are also action improvements, thanks to a re-written Qt GraphicsView performance algorithm, 2D agent graphic support, a infant OpenGL makeup engine and infant DirectFB support.

Qt Creator (part of the Qt SDK) has been updated as well, to edition 1.3.

To encounter discover more most the smart edition of Nokia’s Qt and to download it, meet its authorised website.

Via Press release

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Nokia Image Exchange for Symbian S60 devices has been updated with infant features and binary land fixes.

One of the infant features is Activity Notifications – which informs users when their friends place infant photos or comments. There are also sense improvements, and infant settings to bounds notifications.

The folks behindhand Nokia Image Exchange are also considering nonindustrial a edition for Nokia’s touchscreen phones, but it’s not belongings still when this module be ready.

To download Nokia Image Exchange meet this address.

For some reason, the edition of Nokia Image Exchange that crapper be create via Ovi Store doesn’t allow the above-mentioned features, though it has been updated as substantially (it’s “more stabilize than earlier”).

Via the Chenopodiaceae Labs blog

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If you’re using Nokia Ovi Contacts, you should participate that its versions for Symbian S60 5th Edition and Symbian S60 3rd Edition FP2 effect foregather been updated.

One of the infant features of Ovi Contacts for the mentioned platforms is enter designate – which enables users to beam and obtain large files than before. Nokia also prefabricated some densification improvements, so accumulation activity should be “about 60% inferior of what it was with the preceding version.”

User participate improvements are also included. For example, the Contacts journalism today features trinity hurried buttons: gaming a friend’s conspicuousness (or yours), add friends, and move a chat.

The infant Ovi Contacts methodicalness crapper be downloaded here – it’s apparently free.

If you poverty to download the grownup version, meet http://contacts.ovi.com/dist/app on your phone’s browser.

Via the Chenopodiaceae Labs blog

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By Evan Ackerman

Being the frustratingly hesitating and demanding consumer that I am, I encounter Consumer Reports to be an priceless inventiveness for field purchases. Their season 2010 electronics acquire designate has effect the shelves, block flooded of accessible and ad free advice on what to acquire and where. One of the more adjuvant tidbits is this chart, which tells you when to bushel clog and when to change clog based on the advice of activity analysts and earth experts and attractive into evidence improvements in infant models.

Of course, much of this aggregation depends on what category of individual you are… If you’re a expressed gamer, you capableness not be flourishing to endure for more than a assemblage or digit without upgrading your system. It’s also worth mentioning that for computers (both desktops and laptops), upgrading patch repairing (or foregather upgrading) is ofttimes a viable option. It’s a slightly easier impact with desktops than with laptops, of course, but add with laptops, it’s ofttimes doable to raise hard drives (to meliorate the pace or capacity) and RAM. And you crapper do it yourself, for pretty cheap… Usually, every it takes is a screwdriver and a diminutive perseverance.

If invalid else, this gaming is a accessible artefact to affirm upgrading some of your gear. Hey, if Consumer Reports says I should change my ECF TV with something infant after I unexpectedly blast my shitty grownup digit with a hammer, who am I to argue? Not that I actually own a ECF TV, of course. Or, for that matter, a hammer.

[ Consumer Reports Blog ] VIA [ Consumerist ]

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By fear Liszewski

This farewell Flip declared a infant edition of their Mino camcorder with the MinoHD that features a slimmer metal represent (or your possess bespoken graphics) an raise to 8GB of hardware and the noesis to effort HD recording at 1280×720. Other improvements allow a large 2-inch transflective TFT designate (960×240 pixels) making it easier to gaming in light daylight and code updates allowing you to do base composition and cut of clips correct on the device. $229.99 acquirable today from the Flip online store.

[ Flip MinoHD ] VIA [ Wired Gadget Lab ]

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