The Crusaders

The wait is over and July 11 is today. Today Apple’s 2nd generation iPhone 3G will be released in dozens of countries worldwide. The launch started in New Zealand and Japan on Friday. The first to get the opportunity to get this so called revolutionary device were the New Zealanders when reportedly three stores opened the sale just after midnight. The Japanese were the second who followed just after a short while. It’s releasing in several other countries today and in many others soon. Right now it will be available only in Apple Retail Stores and AT&T stores.
I haven’t got the chance to get a close look at this much-hyped iPhone 3G but rumors tell that this is lighter than the first gen one and is twice faster while the price is just $199 (half the price of the 1st Gen iPhone). I’m sure the buyers of the 1st Gen must be banging their head on the wall. Anyways Apple products are always overestimated but later they go puff. Hope the same doesn’t happen with this iPhone too. Ahh!!! I forgot one thing. Congrats to Apple on the release on iPhone 3G and best of luck on it’s sale.

written by rajit \\ tags: Apple, iPhone 3G

In this advanced world, we should agree that mobiles have become an essential gadget in each and everyone’s life. Based on the requirements of the customers each and every telecommunication company launch their mobile phones with advanced features. Likewise, recently Sony has launched one model to offer the best to its customers. The new Sony Ericsson J230i is well – designed with various advanced functions that look both fashionable and impressive.

The new Sony Ericsson J230i is a dual band mobile phone that supports the network frequencies of GSM 900 & GSM 1800. This model is very compact and looks smart with a dimension of 102 x 44 x 18 mm and weighs just 84g, so not to be bothered whether it weighs too much. This Sony mobile phone supports bright STN type display screen with a resolution of 128 x 128 pixels, 65K colours. In addition to this, it supports Polyphonic ringtones (32 channels), Vibration and Customisation Composer. One of the noteworthy aspects in this Sony Ericsson J230i is that it features phonebook that allows you to store 200 contact entries effectively. As well as it supports picture call feature that helps you to identify the caller quickly. Using the GPRS Class 8 (4+1 slots) with a speed of 32 - 40 kbps you can transfer the data easily, but if you are looking for a high- end functions like HSCSD, EDGE 3G, WLAN, Bluetooth, Infrared port and USB this phone may dissatisfy you in lacking of these features.

Then this Sony Ericsson handset won’t disappoint you in offering general features such as SMS, EMS , MMS, browser WAP 1.2.1, FM radio, T9, calculator, image viewer and more. The Battery of this model is standard i.e. Li-Ion 900 mAh (BST-37) that supports Stand-by Up to 280 h and a Talk time Up to 6 h.

Though this Sony Ericsson J230i is well built with good features, it’s failed to offer the most advanced features such as camera, Bluetooth and infrared port. So this model cannot be categorised as a sophisticated model, but it is widely used by the people who are looking for a mobile phone with basic functionalities.

You can surf the internet and find mobile phone reviews website, exclusive mobile phone directories for exclusive information about Sony Ericsson mobile phones.

written by rajit \\ tags: Mobile Phones, Sony Ericsson, Sony Ericsson J230i

Nokia N95 is one of the most complete cell phones in the world. Like everyone else ever since I’ve seen it, I have my eye on this Nseries smart phone. The first ever cell phone to receive Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) certification, N95 runs on Symbian OS v9.2, with an S60 3rd Edition platform with Feature Pack 1. With 160MB storage capacity for messages, ring tones, images, video clips, calendar notes, to-do list, and applications, N95 has in fact more RAM than any of its predecessors.

Enough of the details on this gadget; you must be tired of listening about its features…what extra it has got and how it’s better than it’s other ancestors. The important thing is getting your hands on this mobile technology and I have come through just the deal for N95 wanna have folks. At TigerDirect.com, they are giving out Nokia N95 Unlocked GSM Cell Phone for only $489.99. This is a 5.0 Megapixel Camera, 3G, Built-In GPS, Media Player, MicroSD Slot (US Version) N95-3 which at BestBuy.com will cost you $624.99. Cheap isn’t it? Well, you can check out in the net for yourself. This is the cheapest that I’ve found till date. Whatever you can look for in a mobile phone, N95 has it. If you want it hurry up. They might run out of stock soon.

written by rajit \\ tags: Cell Phone, Deals, Mobile, Mobile Phone, N95, Nokia N95, Nseries

“Gosto de criar celular toques para o meu celular” - I love creating ringtones for my mobile (I’ve been trying to learn Portuguese lately). It’s one of my hobbies and passion. During my leisure time, it’s what I do and what entertains me the most (after playing basketball). Well, before I didn’t knew about those cool software that are used make ringtones, I used to record voices and sounds and use them as ringtones in my mobile. Some of my created recordings were really crazy and popular among my friends. So, you can see that you don’t really need any type of expertise to create ringtones. All you need is a little bit of creativity and also you’ve gotta be a little crazy too. After all a ringtone is just the sound made by a telephone to indicate an incoming call, isn’t it? How you create a ringtone, doesn’t matter if it strikes your ear drum.

You can use softwares though if you really want to be a professional ringtone maker. Some of the softwares you can use are Mobile Music Polyphonic, Oxygen Ringtone Workshop, MAGIX Ringtone Maker and the Ringtone Converter. Also there are online tools too which you can use to create ringtones from any of your favorite song. MakeOwnRingtone.com, Mobicious.com, Mobile17.com are some of the such popular online tools. But if you think that you are lazy enough to create your own ringtones then “Você pode baixar toques gratis facilmente”. Opps!!! It means you can easily download ringtones for free. Just a quick search over your favorite search engine and WALLAA…a never ending list of sites will appears from where you can download ringtones without spending a penny out of your pocket or your brain too.

written by rajit \\ tags: Create Ringtones, Free ringtones, Make Ringtones, Ringtone Making Online Tool, Ringtone Making Software, ringtones

I’ve been telling a lot about how internet is growing in size lately and how millions of websites are being launched everyday. Every business house or a person has or is on its way to publish a website. Also, the common trends nowadays are mobile sites often called as WAP (Wire Access Protocol) sites. Mobile site are similar to websites but as they have to be viewed in mobiles and PDAs, their size is reduced to fit the screen of the cell phones. Of course your mobile has to be WAP enabled and then only you can browse the pages from any corner of the world.

Even for people who are into web-designing, it might be confusing on how to make a WAP site. What special programming skill is needed (WAP sites are written in WML-Wireless Markup Language)? How to make the page appear full screen on every mobile and things like that? Well, programmers might read the syntax and create such site but for novices it might be a little difficult. There is a solution though for all this - Mobilemo which has come up with an innovative, user-friendly platform enabling people to create and manage their very own mobile sites the way they like it.

The site is very interactive, easy to use, with each step briefly discussed and with lots of possibilities towards design and innovatong making it effortless for even a newbie to create a mini-website that actually reflects your interest and personality for your mobile phones. But though the site is simple, its end products are not. Your mobile site doesn’t have to plain text WAP site. The customizable color schemes, background templates, image insertion and other tools available here make sure that your mini-site is as attractive and flashy as web pages that one sees over the PC.

Mobile sites are the new ways to express you intentions, advertisement, promotions and marketing. So, its better you go with the flow before you’re behind everyone else. Start with something really small for now, think big for future.

written by rajit \\ tags: Internet, Make Mobile Site, Mobile, Mobile Site, Mobile Websites, WAP Site

I have written about online storage and back up provider IBackup a couple of months ago in the post titled Online Storage and Backup. Briefly, online storage means storing your data online somewhere in remote servers so that it can be retrieved anywhere anytime and even in cases your data is lost in your PC, it can be backed up from the online source. IBackup as I’ve already mentioned in my previous post is a leading Online Storage and backup for small businesses.

Recent enhancements include ‘IBackup for Mac’ which is a desktop client build for Mac. But the latest news is that IBackup has been optimized for the iPhone device too with its introduction of ILite. It’s the newest feature that has been added by IBackup just for handheld devices like iPhone, Blackberry, PocketPC and Treo. With ILite, you can access and share data while on the move using your iPhone and other handheld devices. This way it’s much more flexible than before as you are even able to download and open your word, excel and text files and view images in your iPhone, Blackberry or whatever. Cool!!! Huh? I think so too. You can just browse ilite.com on your handheld device and login to your IBackup account to access your data. Easy as it can get.

ILite features:

• Easy navigation between folders
• Provision to share your files/folders with associates
• Provision for your associates to view the shared files/folders on their iPhone/handheld devices

written by rajit \\ tags: , IBackup, ILite, Online Backup, Online Storage

When mobile was invented or even better imagined, the first person who invented it or thought about it the first time, even he never must have imagined in his wildest dreams that mobiles will ever reach the heights and popularity that it has reached now. Today mobiles have grown up into full-fledge multi-purpose gadget in which you can listen to music, see and capture photos and record videos, surf over the internet, keep schedules of your daily task, chat with friends, transfer files and do numerous other things. Why mobile were actually built was to make phones portable & movable but it has come a long way than just being a movable communicating device in your pocket.

One of the essential and attractive things that your mobile carries in my view is ringtones. I am just crazy for ringtones. I’ve got some of the craziest ringtones in my cell phone and I’ve assigned different tones for different peopleJ.

Anyways, I don’t want to discuss on their types and how they are created. If you want such details you can simply download some ringtone making software over the net and then start making your own ringtones. Mobile Music Polyphonic, AVS Audio Tools 4.3 are some of the ringtone making and converting s/ws. But my view is that why to even bother on something when there are professional scratching their head already on it. Making ringtones is quite a tedious task. Instead, there are so many sites that are allowing you to download ringtones for you mobile phones, often free. People frequently complain that they couldn’t find the tones for their brand or carrier. Well good news for them, I just caught up this site called MyRingtonesHub.com from where you can choose and download ringtones and ringback tones for almost all the brands and carriers; even ringtones for iPhones which are usually hard to find. So, live my theory. Let the geeks do the work. You just enjoy your ringtones. 

written by rajit \\ tags: Download Ringtones, iPhone, Mobile, Ringback Tones, Ringtone

Today everywhere, anywhere, in the hands, in the pocket of every person there is a mobile phone. Mobile phones or popularly known as just mobiles have become not just a means of communication but also emerged as a fashion component nowadays. People from all age group, sex, economy carry a mobile with them for many different purposes rather than just for talking on the phones.

People have started to make a lot of expectations with mobiles, and mobile technology has also proven itself to the expectations of the people. Mobile technology has come a long way since its inception. Today, there are very less things now that you can’t do with a mobile but do with your computer. Playing games, listening to music, taking photos/videos, recording, surfing in the internet, organizing your schedule any many more features are packed in your small cell phone and these are the things that you need to consider while buying a mobile phone which can be a very annoying task as the options are unlimited in front of you. Also due to the price variation of different models in different shops and emergence of cheap quality mobiles in the market, shopping for mobile for some is just too irritating.

For those, I want them to check out iMobilePlaza.com which is an online cell phone wholesaler/retailer from Indonesia with a huge collection of the most popular and the best mobile phones around. Here, you can find phones manufactured by Apple, HP, HTC, Blackberry, Dopod, Eten, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Motorola, Siemens, LG, PalmOne, O2, Benq-Siemens and Vertu. Price is very competitive with other online shops that I’ve checked out. My personal favorite is Vertu Ascent about which many may not know but is one of the most expensive mobiles around.

Ascent is made of ceramic, stainless steel and a durable alloy called Liquidmetal, finished with hand-sewn leather and a screen of sapphire crystal, a material second only to diamond in hardness.

Its price is whooping $4,236.00 at iMobilePlaza. I hop to buy it some day. Till then I’ll just do window shopping.

written by rajit \\ tags: Cell Phone, Cheap Mobile, iPhone, Mobile, Mobile Phone, Mobile Store, Vertu Ascent

Mobile Music Polyphonic is a polyphonic ringtone composition and converting software. It can convert your favorite MP3 wave and midi music to mobile phone polyphonic ringtone. You can write your own music in Mobile Music Polyphonic and save to polyphonic ringtone format file. It can save your music into standard MIDI, SP midi and SMAF format (*.mmf) file. You can convert mid to mmf, mmf (based on midi) to mid, standard midi to sp midi, wave to mmf, mp3 to mmf, mp3 to midi, wave to midi and mp3 to wave file.

Main features:

• Compose your own music by click mouse, setup different key signature, clef and meter. Setup score tempo.
• Seperate several midi channels from many complex channels midi file
• Can save part midi data from long complex midi file.
• Setup music instrument to every midi channel.
• Compose any complex music sheet, including channel position, volume, priority in sp-midi.
• Convert midi to mmf, midi to sp-midi.
• Convert mp3 to mmf, wave to mmf, mp3 to midi/sp-midi, wave to midi/sp-mdii and mp3 to wave.

The process of writing your own music:

1. Click new file button.
2. Select track number of score.
3. Select instrument for every track.
4. Setup Clef, Key signature, Meter. Adjust the score view to good font size.
5. Notes operation.
6. The rest symbol will be showed automatically.
7. Move notes.
8. Note sharp or flat.
9. Move note to another track.
10. Enjoy your music.
    

You can also convert the wave or mp3 files to ringtone. And convert mp3/wave to midi/sp-midi format with Audio Midi Converter.

You can download it from http://www.ringtone4me.com/download.html

written by rajit \\ tags: Audio Midi Converter, Make Ringtones, polyphonic ringtone, ringtones

There are numerous online cell phones stores that you can find over the internet but that one place where all the big names with all kinds of mobile phones can be found is pretty hard to find.

PureMobile.com though can be just the place if you are looking for such a store where you can choose between varieties of cell phones without caring about it being tied to some specific network. It’s the perfect shopping store which has detail information about all kinds of cellular phones and accessories with their images and price tags. You can find latest unlocked GSM cell phones, smartphones, PDAs, iPhones together with different extra mobile accessories as well, in cheaper price than in any other stores. Since, its cell phones are GSM unlocked, they can operate in any networks without being bound to any contracts. All the biggest brands names from Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, and Sony to LG cell phone are included here along with Bluetooth headsets, Bluetooth car kits, batteries, chargers, data cards, data cables, fun gadgets, remote unlocking, and numerous others accessories.

The shopping is easy and secure with eBay, yahoo, PayPal. It is Cnet certified store with live store guaranteed. You can also return your purchased product back within 10 days if you feel that it’s not the right stuff for you. PureMobile does not have any physical retail stores though. It is a complete online retailer of cell phones and accessories – one of the main reasons of its price being cheap and very competitive. Its services are fast and reliable and the Live Online Customer Service is available in working days from 10.30am to 4.00pm [EST]. Also it has online order tracking system so you know where your order has reached. No customs and duty fees are charged while ordering products online, which is a plus factor.

I got my eyes stuck to HTC touch phones at PureMoblie. Check to see what strikes your eyes.

written by rajit \\ tags: iPhones, Mobiles, unlocked GSM cell phones, unlocked phones

The main purpose behind a mobile phone was to make a phone mobile or movable. But now it’s not just a phone that people are carrying in their pocket. Today, your mobile isn’t just a means for you to talk or communicate with others. It’s much more than that.

A mobile now is a multi-purpose gadget from which you can take snaps, videos, play game, listen to music, surf over the internet, chat with friends, and do many other cool stuffs.

Anyways, one of the most attractive features that many people think is extremely important in mobile phones is the ringtones. People are always on the hunt for new trendiest ringtones. Some people, they just go crazy for ringtones. Transfer of ringtones between friends via Bluetooth and Infrared, searching for cool, free ringtones over the internet and downloading them to their cell phones are common scenes. But before downloading the ringtones you should check if that ringtones goes with your mobile set because not every ringtones are compatible with every handset. You may download free Cingular ringtones from some site but it may not work in your Nokia handset. So, don’t forget to check the compatibility of ringtones with your handset.

My view is that ringtones add a life to your mobile phones and it’s also the means to express you in a way. One of my favorite ringtones is the Mosquito ringtones because of the reason that most of the old people aren’t able to hear them. We can have our cell phones in class, sms or call each other and our teachers won’t even know. Try it. It’s really cool and the trick works.

written by rajit \\ tags: Free ringtones, Mobile ringtones, Mosquito Ringtones, ringtones

After pictures was leaked a couple of months ago, a multimedia computer N96 is official now. Nokia made the phone available at GSMA Barcelona in Feb 11, 2008. The N96 has a 5MP camera with Carl-Zeiss lens and Xenon flash, and will come with S60 3rd feature pack, which is yet to make a release. It has brilliant 2.8” display and with superb sound. The phone is said to be come with 16GB of space built in, with an option to double that with expandable memory.

I don’t think it going to make N95 superseded. Always a company should make their old product obsolete otherwise some other company will do it. But N96 seems weak to obsolete N95. After launching N95, its looks foolish to have launch N96 with the same feature like N95 except the built in memory of 16 GB, double the memory of N95. This would be the largest inbuilt memory on a Nokia mobile phone so far but it is no better to say the successor of N95. Nokia is just increasing its storage to compete with iPhone, iPod but is completely ignoring other better Mobile Phones like LG with 5.1 Mega Pixel Camera.

“What I fell like is ……this is not good idea to launch it after N95 this could have been done very before”, one of the Nokia user said. And I completely agree with him. No one is going to pay N96 higher (600 Euros) than N95 just because it’s built in memory is double than before i.e. 16 GB. Nowadays, N-Series Nokia phones comes with features of expandable memory to 24GB using a micro/mini SD card. Now why to buy N96???

When my friend told me that N96 has been unveiled, I was expecting some extra feature than N95, like 6 to 8 Mega pixel Camera, touch screen and other features. But it seemed like Nokia don’t have any bows left to shoot in offence. They are just trying to sell the old product in a new packaging with higher prices. Anyways there are some major sites that are offering cool nokia N96 deals. Be sure to check them out before buying this phone for a high price.

written by rajit \\ tags: N96, Nokia N96, Nokia N96 deals

People must have used free sms sending services over the internet. But how many are familiar to a similar service in a mobile phone. Of course you can browse the same page that you can through your computer and then send sms from that site from your mobile but here is an easy way out. You can just download this free software called cellity freeSMS and use it to send free sms from your mobile. But this software has a big drawback i.e. it’s not just the sms message that gets to the received. With the message go a long link and an advertisement of this software. So, only may be 10 letters of your message will reach the receiver. Anyways, this software still can be used in case of really short smses. I am using it and I must say I am pretty satisfied. It is free after all. One more thing that I forgot to mention. The phone must have internet connection for this software to work. I suggest my readers to give it a shot.

written by rajit \\ tags: cellity freeSMS, free sms, sms