Smart Phones of today

The ROKR E8 is the latest mobile phone/media player from Motorola and ticks all the right boxes when it comes to media playback on a mobile phone.

The candy bar shaped ROKR E8 comes with ModeShift technology that switches the device from a phone to a media player and to a camera with a touch of a button. The phone also features a navigation wheel for scrolling through your music, contacts and images effortlessly.

The ROKR E8 includes 2GB of internal memory and a microSD card slot to add an additional 4GB if required. The media player supports the usual audio formats like MP3, AAC, WAV and WMA and has a 3.5mm headphone jack and A2DP stereo Bluetooth for connecting to wireless speakers.

Being a small device, the ROKR E8 has a 2 inch QVGA screen and only weights 100 grams.

Probably the biggest drawbacks of the phone are that it only has a 2 megapixel camera with no flash and the phone lacks Wi-Fi and 3G, which is becoming more and more popular with other manufacturers.

The Motorola ROKR E8 is out now and contracts and prices vary.

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A pity read this morning that one of the most anticipated phones this year, Garmin Nuvifone, was delayed until 2009. And it does so theoretically by its success, however that it remains to be seen. Apparently, instead leaving freely, Garmin plans to reach an agreement with some phone companies to associate with them, so the formalities to exit the market longer.

The Nuvifone was a phone, or better, an electronic device, with curiosities from birth. To begin with Garmin, the company that pulls the market comes from the world of GPS. On the other hand, does not follow the usual trend of phones, which is the basis of a communicative, extras include other elements as GPS or Internet browser. In the case of this phone Garmin, is part of a deep feature of GPS navigator, and he added a phone, Internet browser and media player.

The Garmin Nuvifone stands as an important element among new multifunctional mobile teams. 3.5-inch touch screen, the largest of all, 3 megapixel camera, WiFi, HSDPA, media player and an excellent GPS system guaranteed to be a Garmin. In addition, its estimated price of $ 500 is very attractive. And do not forget that the operating system will also own and therefore will have to see what has made Garmin, which already has experience dealing with either the user with their browsers.

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Nokia E71 made its US debut at the Nokia Flagship Store in New York at a private event in the Nokia Flagship Store in midtown Manhattan last week Thursday. Nokia introduced the E71 and E66 last month.

The invited guests had each signed up to ensure that they would be among the first people in the United States to bring home this exciting new device. The Nokia E71, which at .39 inches thick, is the slimmest QWERTY device on the market, is now available to the general public through a variety of consumer electronics, wireless and online retailers, and at the Nokia Flagship Stores in Chicago and New York

The Nokia E71 also includes a number of entertainment features and supports many of the latest Ovi services including Nokia Maps and Share on Ovi. With integrated A-GPS and Nokia Maps 2.0, the Nokia E71 can easily pinpoint locations and provide optional turn-by-turn navigation information. The device also captures high-quality images and videos with its 3.2 megapixel camera, which can be quickly uploaded and shared with friends and family around the world using the fun and easy Share on Ovi service.

Easy-to-configure email, including support for both enterprise-grade email including Mail for Exchange and Intellisync as well as the most popular consumer email services like Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail, combined with real-time access to calendar information, contacts and to-do lists make the Nokia E71 a perfect productivity tool. Built-in encryption technology for both the device memory and an optional microSD memory card is also included with the Nokia E71.

Key features:

Quad-band GSM support
3G with HSDPA 3.6Mbps support
Landscape 2.36? 16M color display of QVGA resolution
Comfortable full QWERTY keypad
Convenient business-minded shortcut keys
Symbian 9.2 OS, S60 UI with FP1 (topped with some FP2 goodies)
369 MHz ARM 11 CPU and 128 MB of SDRAM
Wi-Fi
Built-in GPS receiver, A-GPS
3.15 megapixel auto focus camera with LED flash
110 MB of internal memory, microSD expansion, ships with a 2GB card
The slimmest smartphone ever
Stainless steel casing
Standard 2.5mm audio jack
Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP support
microUSB v2.0
FM radio
Infrared port
Great battery life
Office document editor
Rich retail package

Main disadvantages:

Below average camera performance
Video recording maxes out at QVGA@15fps
No dedicated camera key
Smaller display than its predecessor
Cheap-looking power key
No RDS for the FM radio

The new Nokia E71 is now available for an unsubsidized retail price of approximately USD 500.

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In the past in order to be able to sync your iPhone with multiple computers you always had to ?erase? one iTunes library and sync with another, no longer! Thanks to Andrew Grant at Shiny Things who create a step by step instruction for syncing your iPhone with multiple computers and giving you full manual control on how you want to organize your iPhone music between multiple iTunes libraries.

This is NOT for the faint hearted as it does involve tweaking of files, please proceed with caution and BACKUP everything, especially your ?iTunes Library? and ?iTunes Music Library.xml? files before proceeding. I have performed this and it works flawlessly but if for any reason your iTunes or your iPhone or your data becomes destroyed, I am NOT responsible. Now that we have gotten the disclaimer aside, let?s proceed with the fun stuff.

Make sure iTunes on BOTH computers are NOT running.

How to Sync iPhone with multiple computers

Step 1:

On the computer that already has an iPhone synced, (if you not synced your iPhone, please sync it once), locate your ?iTunes Library? and ?iTunes Music Library.xml? files, they should be located in either your ?User > Music > iTunes? on your Mac or ?My Music or Music > iTunes? on your PC

Step 2:

Open up the ?iTunes Music Library.xml? file, locate the <string> tag and copy the 16 digital string in between the <string> tags

Step 3:

Switch over to the other computer with the iTunes you want to sync your iPhone with and locate the ?iTunes Library? and ?iTunes Music Library.xml? again.

Step 4:

Open up the ?iTunes Music Library.xml? on the new computer and locate the <string> tags again, COPY the EXISTING 16 digital string, and place it somewhere for save keeping as we will need it later and REPLACE the EXISTING 16 digital string with the one you copied from your other ?iTunes Music Library.xml? file

Step 5:

Open up the ?iTunes Library? file, with a Hex Editor, I told you it is not for the faint hearted, come on it is easy, I assure you. If you don?t have a Hex Editor, you can either download HexEdit for the Mac or AptEdit or Free Hex Editor Neo for the PC

Step 6:

Use the Find and Replace command in the Hex Editor, I have only used HexEdit, but I am sure there is a Find and Replace command in both PC versions, now under the Find dialog, paste the EXISTING 16 digital string you kept for safe keeping and under the Replace dialog, paste the 16 digital string you COPIED from your other computer and hit return or enter. Save and close the file.

Step 7:

Startup iTunes on the other computer and hook up your iPhone to it and you are good to go!

If you need further help, just leave me comment.

Note: This even works for syncing with multiple accounts on the same computer.

Enjoy!

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Now older IPhone users users can upgrade to firmware 2.0 and IPhone 3G users have a possibility to have jailbreaked IPhones. That is because PwnageTool 2.0 is released today. Download links are:

mirror1, mirror2, mirror3.

Just a reminder: this tool jailbreaks and unlocks older iPhones, and jailbreaks iPhone 3Gs and iPod Touches. No unlock for Iphone 3G yet. The supported firmware is 2.0 only. Platform is Mac OS.

If you get Error 1600 from iTunes (or if you see in your log a failure to repare?x12220000_4_Recovery.ipsw), try: mkdir ?~/Library/iTunes/Device Support??; ?if that directory already exists, remove any files in it. ?Then re-run PwnageTool.

Reminder: as of right now, there are no apps out for 2.0. Over the next few days some will come out. So do not update yet if you have some favorite 1.1.x apps you are using! 2.0 will not run 1.1.4 apps

Now how to Unlock iPhone 2.0 for Windows Users

Well it?s still not available for Windows users officially, but what you can do is follow these instructions and load the pre-built custom firmware image. You will have to download the image from a torrent. The details are able to be found here.

Step 1: Use WinPWN 1.0 To PWN Your 1.1.4 iPhone. If you need WinPWN Get it: http://www.winpwn.com/files/winpwn_1.0.0.3_RC1_Setup.zip
Step 2: Install BootNeuter (Available Via Installer).
Step 3: Run BootNeuter and have it Neuter your iphone
Step 4: Make sure your iTunes version is at 7.7
Step 5: Grab a pre-created IPSW Made with PWNAGE 2.0 Mac. If you dont have one made you can grab one here: http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4305453/iThor__s_iPhone_2.0_Custom_Firmware_Vanilla_(5A347)
Step 6:Put your phone into recovery or DFU mode.
Step 7: In iTunes Shif+Click the Restore button and find your custom IPSW Firmware file.
Step 8: Wait for it to complete! ENJOY!

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