Samsung Balck Jack II

Released for AT&T, the Samsung BlackJack II is the successor to the BlackJack, an thin and lightweight QWERTY smartphone. Delivering a Windows Mobile operating system, the BlackJack II offers a complete package of email, voice, and entertainment in one device. Flexible mobile email through Microsoft's Windows Mobile software, advanced mobile phone technology, and rich multimedia capabilities, make the BlackJack II is a fully-loaded device designed for seamless connectivity.

Samsung BlackJack II (I617) Features

# GSM quad-band and HSDPA dual-band technologies for communication around the globe
# Operates under the Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 platform with Pocket versions of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Internet Explorer Mobile to surf the Web, and Microsoft Office Outlook Mobile to send emails
# Bluetooth wireless technology allows users to go truly wireless and discreet with friends and co-workers, and connect the BlackJack II to a computer and printer without cables
# Integrated MP3 Player and Video Media Player to play favorite songs right on the phone
# Store additional pictures, videos, and songs on the phones removable microSD memory card
# HSDPA technology for high-speed data transmission with WAP 2.0 compliant browser

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Full Specification

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Network:	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 / UMTS 850 / 1900
Form Factor:	PDA / Windows Mobile 6
Dimensions:	114 x 61 x 13 mm
Weight:	116 g
Antenna:	Internal
Navigation:	QWERTY Keypad / 5-Way Keypad
Battery Type:	1700 mAh Li-Ion
Talk Time:	7.00
Standby Time:	336
Memory:	155.0 MB
Expandable Memory:	microSD / TransFlash
Imaging
Main Screen:	65000 colors (TFT) 320 x 240 px
External Screen:
Camera:	2.0 MP / Zoom / Video Recorder
Audio
MP3 Player:	AT&T Music / Windows Media Player
FM Radio:
Speakerphone:
Push-To-Talk:
Multimedia
Wallpapers:	320 x 240 px
Screen Savers:	320 x 240 px
Ring Tones:
Themes:
Games:	J2ME
Streaming Multimedia:	AT&T Video / Windows Media Player
Messaging
SMS:
EMS:
MMS:
Email:	POP3 / IMAP4 / SMTP / Exchange / Outlook
Chat:	AOL / ICQ / Windows Live / Yahoo!
Predictive Text:	T9
Applications
Phonebook Capacity:
Calendar:	Pocket Outlook
To-Do List:
WAP:	2.0 (Pocket Internet Explorer)
Voice Commands:
Calculator:
Connectivity
Bluetooth:	2.0
Infrared Port:
High-Speed Data:	HSDPA
Wi-Fi:
GPS:
PC Sync:	Microsoft ActiveSync

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Editing a Video Presentation on the N95

One of the great features on the Nokia N95 that marks it out as “more than a phone” is the ability to edit your media on the device to create a pretty good video presentation – while it might not be up to the standards of the BBC, it is more than good enough for the vast majority of users to put together short clips, montages, and ‘video diaries’ without having to resort to (potentially) expensive and complicated PC or Mac based solutions.

To kick off the video editor (as opposed to the Muvee editor, which is something different entirely) you’ll need to go to Gallery and select Video Editor from the Edit menu. This will take you into the main editing window.

Along the top of the screen you’ll see details on file size and length of the video, then a smaller display of the video picture. The filename of the section you’re editing is under there. Then you have the timeline, represented by two bars. The top is for visuals, the bottom is for sound.

As with any project, a touch of planning is always recommended, so this tutorial is going to look at doing an opening text screen, a few still images to set the scene, a portion of video, and then finish with some credits. Over that I’ll place some music while the images are displayed, and then do a voice-over for the video. This will cover the main functions of the Video Editor.

Text screens

You have three styles of text to choose from, the Title Text (a central block of text), Sub Title (aligned bottom left) and Credits. The first two also have the option to be faded out for a more gentle look. The credits do a traditional scroll up the screen. Once you’ve entered text and chosen the style, you can easily alter them, try other effects, change the text and background colours, and generally fiddle around.

One of the key options (and you’ll see this in all the edit boxes of each element) is ‘Set duration’. This defaults to 5 seconds, and unless you’re going for a rapid cut MTV style music video, this is a good, gentle default to work with.

Transitions and Images

Let's add in our second visual section; a number of camera images taken on a day out to create a slideshow. So use left and right on the cursor pad to move the cursor on the visual timeline to the next empty ‘slot.’ But before you get there, you’ll find something called ‘transition.’ This is exactly as it says, with up and down selecting either no transition, fade to black or fade to white. How you set this up is an artistic choice, but generally put a fade between each block of scenes, otherwise leave them as no transition.

Adding images into your video is a simple matter of 'Insert | Image' and selecting the image from the file browser. It will then appear in the timeline, and you can scroll left and right to add another image, tweak the transitions, and add a colour tint effect.

Video

Of course, the power of a video editing application is in editing video itself. As with images, selecting a video recorded on the N95 is a matter of inserting it from the menu. You can now set three things – where the clip starts, where the clip ends and the sound level.

The ‘Cut’ option brings up a video player screen. Start playing the clip and you can mark the ‘start’ and ‘end’ points of the clip that will be shown in your final video. A good rule of thumb on where to edit your clips is to start the clip as close to the story/action as possible, and leave as quickly as you can.

You can also mute all the sound from the video, or alter the volume – which is useful if you plan to add a musical track, or a voiceover, and also if you’re stringing together a number of video clips to keep everything consistent.

Audio Options

Right, onto the bottom line of the timeline. This is the audio, and you have two options here. The first is to add in a music track that is already on your phone. In exactly the same way as adding an image or a video clip, you select 'Insert Sound Clip' (just make sure that you press the down cursor to highlight the bottom time line) and you’ll get the by now familiar file browser. You’ve also got a search box to help you find a clip, if you have a lot of music.

The second option is to record a voiceover with the built in microphone or hands free kit. While the timeline does fill up as you record (so you can sync to the individual elements), you’ll need to remember each one as it doesn’t play the movie alongside.

As with the video clip, you can edit the start and end points of your audio, and set the volume of that section in a basic editor.

Previewing and Exporting Your Video

At any point in the editing process, you can preview your video either as a ‘small’ or ‘large’ video. Unless you need pixel perfection, a small preview will be enough to check everything is okay (and save some of the precious RAM on the N95) while you continue to add content to your video.

When the time comes to export the final video, both Steve's and my recommendation is to export at the 'medium' size (in Settings). The RAM on the N95 makes exporting at the 'high' setting (resolution 640x480) just out of reach. In any case the popular video storage sites (such as YouTube) and the almost de facto resolution for video podcasts all run at 320x240 pixels, which just happens to be that of the 'medium' setting.

The outputted MP4 will sit in your Videos folder, and can be copied over the PC Suite or USB connection (if saved on the MicroSD card) to any PC, where the use of a standard format means that it should be viewable in most of the world’s media players.

While the built in video editor is no Final Cut Pro or VideoStudio Plus, to put together a capable editing suite inside a phone is an admirable goal. There’s no reason why, even with these basic tools, that you can’t put together a good multimedia video in the palm of your hand.
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Nokia N810

Nokia has announced a new version of its Linux-based Internet tablet. The N810 is smaller, heavier, and faster than the older N800, with new features that include a slide-out hardware QWERTY thumb keyboard, GPS receiver, FM transmitter (for in-car listening), and a light-sensing screen dimmer.

The N810 is slightly smaller than its predecessor, the N800, and slightly heavier, leading users to "perceive more value" in the device, predicts Olavi Toivainen, Nokia's director of product management. However, under the hood, the devices are substantively similar, with the newer device's processor merely clocked a bit faster.

The N810 is the first of Nokia's Internet tablets to integrate a GPS receiver, although a GPS add-on was available for earlier tablets. The N810's auto-dimming screen could help improve readability in environments such as cars, with variable ambient light conditions. Additionally, the N810's screen is reportedly 20 percent brighter.

The N810 will come with free maps specific to the country of purchase, according to Toivainen. Optional voice-controlled navigation will be available as a $120/3-year third-party add-on from WayFinder, which will offer a free 7-day trial in the U.S.

The N810 is also the first of Nokia's Linux-based tablets to feature a full Mozilla-based browser, although a user-installable Mozilla-based browser was available for the N800. The new device's browser aims to let users enjoy the most sophisticated "Web 2.0" social networking sites with an experience very similar to Firefox on the desktop, Nokia says.

The N810's browser has a Flash 9 plugin, and supports "class 8 and 9" AJAX (asynchronous Javascript and XML), something no other mobile device can do, Toivainen claims. A browser abstraction layer is still there, leaving the door open to WebKit-based browsers in the future. However, Opera is no longer present on the device.

Also new is support for Windows Media codecs, enabling users to access more of the Internet's multimedia offerings, Nokia says.

Other software enhancements reportedly include:

* A refresh of the Rhapsody client; "Rhapsody has been nicely improved, especially in terms of editorial content," said Toivanien.
* Gizmo supports videochat with PCs users.
* The device's Skype support has been refreshed, making the N810 "one of the best Skype phones out there," according to Taivanien.
* Devicescape's easy login client supports more networks than ever, now including hotspots from Boingo (about $8/month in the U.S.), Earthlink, The Cloud, and many more.

Missing in the new N810 is Nokia's promised WiMax support, although WiMax-enabled N-series devices are likely to be distributed through Sprint as it rolls out service areas next year.

What's under the hood?

Like the earlier N800, the N810 is based on a Texas Instruments (TI) OMAP2420 SoC. Whereas the N800 was clocked at 320MHz, the N810 ups the clock to 400MHz.

Like the older N800, the N810 boasts a 4.13-inch 800x480 color touchscreen, 128MB of RAM, 256MB of flash, and two SD card slots supporting cards up to 8GB apiece.

Touted hardware features and specifications include:

* Processor -- TI OMAP 2420, clocked at 400MHz
* Memory -- 128MB DDR RAM; 256MB flash
* Storage:
o 2GB internal memory
o Expansion slot supports flash cards up to 8GB; compatible with miniSD and microSD with extender
* Display -- 4.13-inch widescreen LCD; 800x480 pixel resolution; 65K colors
* Ambient light sensor adjusts screen brightness and keyboard lights according to light conditions
* Slide-out QWERTY keyboard; on-screen (soft) keyboard also provided
* Built-in web camera
* Connectivity:
o 802.11b/g WiFi
o USB 2.0 via micro-connector
o Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR
* Audio:
o Built-in microphone and stereo speakers
o 3.5mm A/V connector (stereo audio output)
* Built-in web camera
* Built-in GPS receiver and antenna
* Built-in FM transmitter
* Hardware key to lock touchscreen and keys
* Power:
o 1500mAh rechargeable removable battery
o Continuous usage -- up to 4 hours
o Always online -- up to 5 days
o Standby time -- up to 14 days
o Music playback -- up to 10 hours
* Dimensions -- 5.04 x 2.83 x 0.55 inches
* Weight -- 7.97 ounces

Hardware similarities should simplify porting existing Maemo software to the N810's Tablet OS 2008 Linux OS. The Tablet OS 2008 SDK also supports the older N800 tablet, suggesting Nokia will offer Tablet OS 2008 for the older N800 at some point.

Ari Virtanen, VP of convergence at Nokia, stated, "The Nokia N810 packs the power of a traditional computer into a pocket-sized format. [It] offers users a true Web 2.0 experience [and] connects people to what matters to them."

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Nokia N92

Can't live without your favourite programming? Fret not; Nokia's N92 TV phone shows DVB-H transmissions on the go and in glorious high-resolution on its superb 2.8-inch display, complete with impressive audio quality and the ability to record live TV. The clamshell design opens both ways to reveal landscape and portrait use modes as well as an unusual yet comfortable keypad, also harbouring a decent 2 Megapixel camera; Wi-Fi connectivity and Bluetooth for stereo audio streaming or providing 3G connectivity to laptop users.

Unveiled alongside the digital home-targeted N80 and multimedia-focused N71 at the Nokia Mobility Conference held in Barcelona today, Nokia presented the very first device from a European handset maker to integrate DVB-H reception in the Nokia N92. A digital standard for receiving TV signals from terrestrial transmitters aimed specifically at mobile devices, DVB-H is a subset of the DVB standard growing increasingly popular for digital TV transmissions across Europe.

Boasting a 2.8-inch display with a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels and the ability to open the smartphone both in a standard clamshell configuration as well as in a landscape-oriented palmtop fashion, the N92 offers four different usage modes. The landscape oriented mode has been dubbed 'View Mode', offering rapid access to TV and video through a press of a dedicated Multimedia key.

An Electronic Service Guide (ESG) contains information about the available TV channels, programs and services, with the N92 offering a watch time of up to four hours as well as the ability to record live TV and do an on-demand 30-second replay.

Also boasting the full application and feature set of Nokia's other Series 60 based smartphones, the N92 adds several new gems including a new Nokia Web Browser with Mini Map which provides a semi-transparent zoomed-out view of web pages for improved navigation.

The Nokia N92 is also an XpressMusic device, harbouring a music player with support for MP3, WMA and AAC formats as well as a memory card slot allowing for up to 2 GB cards. Also on the slate is dual stereo speakers and the ability to connect a stereo headset, as well as an integrated stereo FM radio complete with Nokia's Visual Radio client.

Additional highlights of the N92 includes a 2 Megapixel camera, as well as high-speed Wi-Fi 802.11b/g connectivity - a feature first introduced in the N92's smaller sibling, the N91 music smartphone - along with Bluetooth, USB 2.0 and Infrared.

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Full Specification

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General	Network	UMTS / GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900
	Announced	2005, 4Q
	Status	Available

Size	Dimensions	107.4 x 58.2 x 24.8 mm, 136 cc
	Weight	191 g

Display	Type	TFT, 16M colors
	Size	320 x 240 pixels, 42 x 57 mm, 2.8 inches
		- Second external display 65K colors, (128x36 pixels), 1 inch

Ringtones	Type	Polyphonic (64 channels), Monophonic, True Tones, MP3
	Customization	Download
	Vibration	No

Memory	Phonebook	Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
	Call records	Detailed, max 30 days
	Card slot	miniSD, (up to 2GB), hot swap, buy memory
		- 40 MB internal memory

Data	GPRS	Class 11
	HSCSD	No
	EDGE	Class 10, 236.8 kbps
	3G	Yes, 384 kbps
	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
	Bluetooth	Yes
	Infrared port	Yes
	USB	Yes, v2.0

Features	OS	S60 3rd edition (Symbian OS , Series 60 UI)
	Messaging	SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
	Browser	WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
	Games	Java downloadable, order now
	Colors
	Camera	2 MP, 1600x1200 pixels, video(CIF), flash; secondary video(CIF) call camera
		- DVB-H TV broadcast receiver - Java MIDP 2.0 - MP3/AAC player - T9 - Voice command/memo - PIM including calendar, to-do list - FM radio (visual radio)

Battery		Standard battery, Li-Po 1500 mAh
	Stand-by	Up to 216 h
	Talk time	Up to 6 h

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