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  1. quote from http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

    This summer there are some very strong devices out there including Blackberry Tour, Nokia N97, HTC Magic, iPhone 3G S, Palm Pre. Some may prefer iPhone 3G S or Palm Pre, but at last I have narrowed down my choices to Blackberry Tour and Nokia N97, and I've had a really tough time choosing between the two:

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    Blackberry tour:

    · Supports high-speed 3G EV-DO Rev

    · Non-touchscreen, a large, highly tactile, full-QWERTY keyboard for fast and precise typing

    · Advanced media player for videos, pictures and music, a 3.5 mm stereo headset jack and support for the Bluetooth Stereo Audio Profile (A2DP/AVCRP)

    · 256MB Flash memory, support cards of up to 16GB

    · Built-in GPS with support for geotagging, BlackBerry Maps

    · Allowing users to edit Microsoft® Word, Excel and PowerPoint files directly on the handset

    · Easy mobile access to Facebook®, MySpace and Flickr®, as well as popular instant messaging services including BlackBerry Messenger, Yahoo! IM, AIM®, Google Talk and Windows Live Messenger

    · Support for BlackBerry App World, as well as third-party mobile applications

    · BlackBerry Internet Service allows access to up to 10 supported personal and corporate email accounts

    · No Wi-Fi, it is said to be added in the future.

     

    Nokia N97:

    · Sliding QWERTY keypad and touchscreen display

    · Memory â 32GB Internal memory, 128 MB RAM, microSD up to 16GB

    · Camera â 5 MP (Carl Zeiss optics)

    · OS â Symbian

    · Battery â 6.6 hours talk-time and 430 hours standby

    · Radio â Stereo FM radio with RDS, Visual radio; FM transmitter

    · Widescreen â 16:9, 3.5in TFT, 640 x 360 pixels

    · 802.11b/g; USB; Bluetooth with A2DP; GPS with A-GPS

    · 3.5mm audio jack

    · Handwriting Recognition

    · A little expensive, at about $650

     

    That's the simple information I have got about the two phones. Here I should explain my smartphone requirements. I'm looking for a device to serve as my personal telephone, media player, mini computer and business assistant. For personal telephone, it is used for daily contact, to make calls and receive calls. Both Blackberry tour and Nokia N97 were easy to use and very convenient to dial a number.

     

    For multimedia, both of them are advanced media player for videos, music and pictures. Blackberry tour supports video formats including MPEG4, H.263, H.264 (encoding and decoding 30fps), WMV and audio format including MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA. Nokia N97 can play mp4 and 3gp videos with up to 640*360 pixels resolution. Personally I prefer to watch movies with Blackberry tour. In the meantime I go to Nidesoft Inc to get programs Nidesoft Blackberry Converter Suite, which rip DVDs and videos into Blackberry-friendly files. Just copy the converted file to memory card, pop it into phone's card slot, and enjoy. Or use program Nidesoft Nokia video converter if you would like to choose N97 as media player.

     

    As for connectivity, the Nokia N97 looks like a good all-rounder, with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and an Infrared port. The BlackBerry Tour features Bluetooth as well, (with A2DP) but is somehow lacking Wi-Fi (just like the much-derided BlackBerry Storm). Although the rumor said that the Blackberry Storm 2 will have Wi-Fi. N97 also features an FM radio, which the Tour doesn't.

     

    If you always travel around for work then Blackberry can be a wonderful assistant. The BlackBerry Tour smartphone provides the industry's leading mobile solution for email, messaging (IM, SMS, MMS) and social networking together with built-in GPS. I like type emails and message with the full-QWERTY keyboards fast and easily. N97 also have GPS and can send emails, but the business-oriented Blackberry tour is better for business assistant.

     

    In the end, I make up my decision. The Blackberry tour won out, it made the most sense to me as media player and business assistant. But as I've noted the Nokia N97 was also pretty impressive and could be a viable option for many others.


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    Sony Walkman has turned 30 years old today. Thirty years ago, the device was revolutionary changed the way people listened to music. Sony sold 30,000 Walkmans in the first two months after its launch, and 50 million within a decade. It created the portable media player market. Three decades on, however, Sony is struggling against rivals such as Apple, which has enjoyed immense success with its iPod music player. Apple iPod might be the market leader today. While people celebrate Walkmanâs 30th birthday, I wonder what makes iPod became dominance in the media player market instead of the original Sony Walkman?

     

    Sony Company has always been developing its video and audio products. Sony Walkmanâs latest flagship model, the NW-X1060, packs noise canceling, a bright touch screen display, mobile TV, and the ability to surf the Internet With the storage of 32GB, it can hold 8,000 songs (128kbps mp3) or 120h video playback (at 384kbps). It support all major file types includes MP3, MP4, WMA, AAC, Linear PCM, AVC, WMV, JPEG.

    The Sony PSP Go will come in fall of this year. It is a much smaller, sexier device that drops the UMD, adds 16GB of flash RAM and Bluetooth, and compresses the older PSPâs brick-like form factor to a narrower, sleeker size and shape. Itâs got a huge amount of storage space for you to store music, videos and games. The files support MPEG-4, AVI video format and MP3 audio format.

    Besides the multimedia player, Sonyâs phone also has powerful multimedia function. The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 is convergence of multimedia entertainment and mobile web communication. It has a 3.0 inches TFT touchscreen with shades of 65K internal screen colours and gives a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels. This let the users to play games and watch video clips on its wide screen easily. The video resolution support 640x480 pixels and video format support MPEG-4. The music format support: MP3, AAC, AAC+, eACC+, WMA (including protected WMA).

    By the way, a lot of people donât know where to get videos and songs when they take a Sony multimedia device. Some may purchase music and movies online. If you still donât know where to get or donât want to buy online, you may use Nidesoft DVD to Sony Xperia Converter to convert DVD files into your Sony device, or use Nidesoft Sony Xperia Converter to convert all other video files into Sony device. It can be used for all Sony products.

     

    After look into Sony product, letâs turn our attention to iPod. Apple first released the original iPod in late 2001, and it was quickly destined to be a huge success. It was exactly what people wanted. It has simple interface, large capacity, fashionable, and visually attractive.

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    Simple Interface - The Apple iPod has an extremely simple interface, needing only a few seconds of use to be able to master it. It is very easy to use.

     

    Large capacity - The current regular iPod has 8GB or 16GB capacity. It can holds large amount of songs and movies, enable you to enjoy them.

     

    It's visually attractive â The appearance of iPod was fashionable. They made it look very sexy, appealing to just about everyone, and is now extremely recognizable.

     

    Windows and Mac compatibility - When they crossed over to the windows market, they more than tripled their market, literally reaching anyone that owned a computer.

     

    These are the things that really make the Apple iPod dominate the mobile MP3 player market, reaching over 70% of the market share. Apple never simply wanted to dominate the market with one product though, they're still releasing new products at an alarming rate, each of which are doing extremely well. From iPod Mini to iPod Shuffle, iPod Touch, iPod Nano, from first generation to second generation, third generation. The Apple iPod will never stop giving us surprise by improving its iPod products, and I think that is the most important reason why iPod lead the media player market.


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    The competition in the mobile phone world will never stop. On June 6th Palm have published its new competitive phone Palm Pre. Then on June 8, Apple has unveiled new iPhone at WWDC - the iPhone 3G S. It announced that new iPhone 3G S will sell on June 19th. The price of iPhone 3G 3.0 has slow down to 99 dollars and the rumor said that new iPhone will sell at 199 dollars of 16GB and 299 dollars of 32GB. Besides the price strategy, the new iPhone will largely improve its function as well as bring many new features to compete with Palm Pre. Then let's have a close look at the new iPhone 3G S: How does the new iPhone improved compare with the original iPhone 3G 3.0?

     

    Appearance: unchanged

    From the picture we can found that there is not much change on iPhone's appearance.

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    Battery life: longer

    The new iPhone battery life last longer than the original iPhone 3G: for talk time, iPhone 3G can last up to 10 hours on 2G and iPhone 3G S is 2 hours longer; On Internet use, iPhone 3G can last up to 6 hours on Wi-Fi, and iPhone 3G S can last 9 hours on Wi-Fi; For audio playback iPhone 3G S can last up to 30 hours while iPhone 3.0 24 hours, and for video playback, iPhone 3G S can last up to 10 hours, 3 hours longer than iPhone 3G.

     

    Storage capacity: bigger

    The rumors said the capacity of new iPhone would be bumped to 16GB and 32GB. Much bigger than the 8GB of iPhone 3G,

     

    The Speed: Faster

    Apple is promising faster performance — the "S" in 3G S signifies "speed." Apple claims it'll render Web pages and launch applications twice as fast on average as the iPhone 3G. So the new iPhone would be faster to use.

     

    New features of the new iPhone:

    iPhone 3G S Camera

    With 3 Megapixel, auto-focus camera the new iPhone will allow you to tap on the part of the photo you want to focus, and it will automatically do so. It will also be adding the ability to automatically handle exposure, white balance and better low-light sensitivity. If you want to get close to a photo subject, say up to 10cm away, the new camera will also have an auto-macro.

    iPhone 3G S Compass

    With the new iPhone you may always be able to find north, and if you double-tap the screen, it will show you your current orientation, even in the Maps app.

    iPhone 3G S Voice Control

    Why bother with touching your phone when you can just voice command it? Hold down the home button for a second and you will be prompted to start issuing voice commands which can include making calls, asking your device what song is playing, telling it to find similar songs and so on.

     

    More multimedia functions:

    Record video

    The new iPhone camera is going to be able to shoot video! The new feature will allow you to record at 30 frames per second (fps) at VGA resolution with audio, auto-focus, auto-white balance and auto-exposure.

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    Edit video on the go

    With the new iPhone you needn't to wait until you're at your computer to start editing your mobile movies. You may trim your footage right on iPhone. Just drag to select start and end points on a filmstrip.

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    Audio playback

    iPhone 3G S supports audio formats: AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV

    Video playback

    As video files, the iPhone 3G S supported: H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;

    H.264 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 3.0 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;

    MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats.

    If you haven't H.264 or MPEG-4 videos on your computer, you may use Nidesoft DVD to iPhone Converter to convert DVD files into iPhone 3G S compatible formats or use Nidesoft iPhone video converter to convert all other video files into iPhone 3G S, just follow the step by step guide.

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    Share video anywhere

    With the new iPhone 3G S, you may send your video via MMS, or select video from the Camera Roll and let iPhone add it to a new email message. You may also publish videos to YouTube to share your videos.

     

    So, after the comparison, the new iPhone 3G S seems more promising than the iPhone 3.0 to hit the new Palm Pre. Of course, nobody knows the result before it is published, let's just wait for its official release date of June 19th.


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    Hi, guys. Here I worked out comprehensive Nokia tutorial with my lovely Nokia 5800. You will find all the most commonly asked questions for Nokia 5800.

     

    Review of My Nokia 5800

    I got one 5800 last month and then I was deeply fascinated by this smart phone. It is the first Nokia touch screen phone and you may use your finger or stylus to operate it. Also Nokia 5800 XpressMusic provides wonderful devices for users to enjoy music. Taking advantage of touch screen technology, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic introduces the 'Media Bar', a handy drop down menu that provides direct access to music and entertainment, including favourite tracks, videos and photos. The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic offers all the music essentials, including a graphic equalizer, 8GB memory for up to 6000 tracks, a 3.5mm jack, support for main digital video formats 3GP?H.264/AVC?MPEG4, RM.and audio formats MP3, AAC, WMA, WMV. Built-in surround sound stereo speakers offer the industry's most powerful sound. So it is really wonderful experience of enjoy music and movies with Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.

     

    How to update the firmware of Nokia 5800 to v21

    It is good news that firmware update for Nokia 5800 was released already. New firmware v21 is available. If you also own a 5800, just follow the simple instruction to update your v20 or v10 to the newest v21.

    Make sure that your battery is full (VERY IMPORTANT)

    1. Go to Dial screen and press *#0000#

    2. Press Options -> Check for updates

    3. Connect to the Internet with any APN (WiFi is recommended, however EDGE is fast enough for this).

    4. Wait until the download finished. Phone will launch the dialog asking for update, just press Now.

    5. Press Accept and Accept and the phone will be switched to Updating mode.

    6. It takes around 10 minutes to update, so be patient. After that, the phone will be rebooted automatically.

    7. Check by *#0000# again. Congrats! Your 5800 is now v21!

    As I can see, there are so many improvements and worth to update for example, better camera functionality and the phone operates faster than previous version.

     

    Best Settings for Video Playback on Nokia 5800 Xpress Music

    Nokia 5800 as the multimedia phones makes you able to enjoy watching the video and music with it. The question is, how's to do to convert that videos and what are the best setting used for. I have convert many videos into my phone, I found that most video files can play with this phone such as mp4, 3gp, rmvb and flv files. But of them plays well but some are not. After many tries, I finally got the best results for Nokia video files. My video in 5800 was full screen, high quality and sounds very well. Here are my settings:

    Video Resolution: 480*320

    Video Bitrate: 768 kbps

    Audio Bitrate: 128 kbps

    Video Format: MPEG-4 (be sure not to use H264, as it's not supported in the current firmware)

    Audio Format: MP3

    Audio Channels: 2 Channels

    You can apply these settings above in whatever application you used when converting videos into 5800. Then I am sure you will get full screen, high quality and flawless video in your phone.

     

    Settings for video playback on Nokia N97, N95, N85 and other Nokia phones.

    Nokia N97: Video playback formats are 3GP formats, Flash Video, H.264/AVC, MPEG-4; the video resolution is 640×360. Audio formats are AAC, M4A, MP3, WAV, WMA etc.

    Nokia N96: video playback formats are 3GP, Flash video, H.264/AVC, MPEG-4, RealVideo, WMV 9; the video resolution is 320×240. Audio formats are AAC, MP3, WAV, WMA etc.

    Nokia N95: video playback formats are MP4, 3GP. Video resolution is up to 640*480, audio format is AAC stereo.

    Nokia N85: video playback formats are 3GP formats, Flash video, H.264/AVC, MPEG-4, and WMV. The resolution is 320×240. The audio formats are AAC, M4A, MP3, WAV and WMA etc.

    OK, I will not list all settings of Nokia phones. If you are interested you may get more relative information on Nokia official website.

     

    How to transfer video files into Nokia 5800

    I have download some videos from video website such as Youtube, Google video. But I can't watch these videos in my phone. Nokia 5800 can't play such videos. I use Internet Tablet Video Converter to convert it, but it shows "Unsupported Video File Type". Then I got to know Nidesoft Nokia Video Converter that seems professional for Nokia phone, I free download its trial version and tried it, and it works very well. Below are what I do:

    1. Download this program from its official website: http://www.nidesoft.com/nokia-video-converter.html and install it.

    2. Click Add button to add video files you want to convert from your computer

    3. According to the settings I listed above, you may set size as 480*320, Crop Mode as Full Screen, video quality as 640 kbps, audio quality as 128 kbps; click Format drop list, you may select video format: Nokia 5800 Video MPEG-4

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    4. Click Convert button to start the conversion. After the conversion complete, you may watch these videos with Nokia 5800.

    Options: you may get music from video follow this way. But pay attention to the format. As Nokia 5800 support mp3 audio format, you should select "MP3 – MPEG Layer-3 Audio (*.mp3)".

     

    How to convert DVD files into Nokia 5800

    Obviously phones don't have DVD drives, so to watch DVD on a phone you have to convert it into a video file on your PC then drag it into your phone. I also follow the above settings and convert DVD files into MPEG-4 video with Nidesoft DVD to Nokia Converter; the results are excellent. You may free download its trial version to try it in this way:

    1. Insert your DVD into the DVD Drive. Click the Open DVD button, browse your computer, find the DVD folder of the movie, and open it. Select titles and chapters you want to convert, or select the whole movie.

    2. Click Settings button, set your video resolution, bitrate, audio channels and audio bitrate.

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    3. Click Profile drop list to select "Nokia 5800 Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)" format for your Nokia video.

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    4. Click Convert button to start the conversion. In few minutes the whole process will completed.

    If you select audio format "MP3 – MPEG Layer-3 Audio (*.mp3)" you may also get music from DVD.

     

    To transfer files into Nokia 5800

    In the above tutorial I have explain you how to convert Nokia videos from DVD and other video files. Then you need to transfer these videos into your phone.

    1. Make sure your computer and phone are both switched on. Also make sure your 5800 have a memory card in its slot.

    2. Plug the small end of the microUSB cable into the phone's USB socket, which s under a plastic flap in the top left corner.

    3. Plug the larger end of the microUSB cable into a USB port on your computer.

    4. On your 5800 it should ask which mode you wish to use. Choose "Mass Storage".

    5. Open the memory card window (probably called "Removable Disk E:"), drag your video files into the video folder.

    6. After finished transfer files, do not disconnect the cable yet. You should make it safe to disconnect the cable. You may do this by click a small icon in the bottom right corner of the screen that appears when the phone is connected.

    7. After you have made the device safe to remove, you can unplug the cable at both ends.

     

    Some useful tips to make the Nokia 5800's battery last as long as possible

    Sometimes you may have to stop talking with your friend or watching videos with your phone as low power of your battery. It is more inconvenient if you are in travel and have no alternative battery. Here are some tips to make your phone battery last as long as possible when using telephone.

    Do not switch the phone off. As switching a phone on uses far more battery power than simply leaving the phone on.

    Shut down unnecessary applications.

    Turn down the 5800's screen brightness to the lowest acceptable level.

    Switch off your 5800's screen when not in use.

    Use headphones instead of speakers when listening to music or watching movies.

    Avoid using the camera flash unnecessarily.

    Use 2G instead of 3G.

    Switch off Bluetooth and/or Wi-Fi.

     

    Ok, I have typed out all my thoughts about Nokia 5800 here. Hope my tutorial is helpful to you. And all the other Nokia 5800 tutorials and useful how-to information should come here! It is welcome.

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