Japan Lifestyle. Mobile cameras ever more efficient, thanks to NEC

Really interesting news appeared today on the two main sites that deal with Japanese mobile phones, both united by concerns the field of digital photography mobile.


The Japanese believe a lot in this area and continue to improve the technology for image capture, both as regards the number of megapixels that the stability of pictures taken. As regards the first point, in fact, NEC has announced that it will present at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona a new LSI chip, the CE151, capable of driving CMOS sensors 13Mpixel, while managing high quality Full HD video thanks to a new technique for reducing the 'noise'. All this, reducing consumption than previous older generation of chips at least a 25% faster image capture through an algorithm called SpeedTags, made by Sweden's Scalado.

Associate this news to that Varioptic, a French company, will be presenting again in Barcelona a lens capable of stabilizing the image, even in very low light conditions, and with a very low consumption, and understand that even if accompanied by many the camera of our smartphones have no intention of slowing down their development

New version of Nimbuzz for Android. SkypeOut calls arrive, the secretariat and the ringtone customizable

Nimbuzz good news for users who have a smartphone Android. The software company has just released a new version of its popular instant messaging software and VOIP.

We see the main innovations:

• Ability to customize the ringtone for incoming calls;
• A voicemail;
• Able to call SkypeOut contacts present book;
• Ability to enable the display of the Nimbuzz tray notifications, if the application is active.
  

Nexus One. Google finally introduced the multitouch! It also updates Google Maps

As announced just minutes ago, was finally released from the Google one of the most anticipated updates to all users of the Nexus One. We are talking about Multi Touch, which finally reaches the smartphone screen of the search engine, through an update made available last night.

The update, available both OTA that via USB, the phone fixes some known bugs and introduces some new interesting features. Let's look at the changelog:

• Goggles: installed default application that lets you use your phone's camera to search the web.
• Google Maps: Updated to version 3.4, which now provides the ability to access their favorite places, even by telephone, and offers search suggestions taken directly from the history of the posts already previously searched, interesting can also use Google Maps Navigation nottura with vision, even if GMN is not usable for now, officially, at du outside the United States.
• Multitouch: introduced in the browser, the photo gallery and Google Maps.
• 3G: who solved the problem worse performance on some models.
  

Read the news of Google Reader with gReader, soon also on Nokia N900

Among the services that I personally use Google more, there is certainly Reader: The RSS aggregator for news in real time from the network. Although it is present a mobile version of the same, and not exclude the presence of specific clients for this service.

One of the best and the only devices on Symbian, touchscreen or not, is about to get even on the Maemo platform 5, and then on Nokia N900. This is gReader, developed by German and distributed by Viking Mojos Studios, with advanced graphical interface and easy to use, provides all the information present on the web version of the product of big G.

Besides offering a continuous synchronization and reading online content, gReader also allows you to share the news read by SMS, email or Twitter. There are currently unknown price and availability but, most likely, could be released on Ovi Store. More information about the features, are available from the Support page.

DivX Mobile Player software to view movies on your Smartphone you update

For all users passionate about the movies and television series, we inform you that it was issued one of the programs best suited for mobile entertainment. These DivX Mobile Player, the free player for videos compressed using this format widespread.

After the latest update, received in April, the player reaches the version 0.93 that supports nearly all smartphones. It is not, as is clear from the numbers, a major upgrade if not for the support of the development itself.

Unfortunately, still not compatible with Symbian S60 5th edition and even with the latest terminal Android. To download, depending on your mobile OS, we refer to the official site. This update is not necessary for terminal DivX certified.

Nokia free of cost licenses for car navigation and pedestrian Ovi Maps: Free GPS navigation

In a surprise move, has just reached us in drafting the press release in which Nokia has announced to release free GPS navigation and for life with its excellent product Ovi Maps. Indeed, despite pre-installed on their mobile phones is the software in question and up to date for use during the voyage had to buy a license for voice guidance.


Available in 74 countries and 46 languages, the voice guidance for navigation pedestrian or automobile will now be free as they were already maps and maps of over 180 countries. Satellite navigation for mobile devices, according to research conducted by Canalys, reached 27 million users by the end of 2009, while Nokia points to an exponential growth of these numbers, thanks to over 50 million compatible devices Ovi Maps.

This new strategy has been explained by Anssi Vanjoki, head of Market of the Finnish giant, which has argued that: "This new strategic move by Nokia, wants to leverage the acquisition of NAVTEQ and all services associated with it, for bring a complete system of navigation in the palm of your hand, anywhere in the world you are wherever you need, at no additional cost.

Finally, Nokia aims to sensitize operators also given the ability of the program to access the network to download content in real time, but not all, new opportunities for developers who can develop similar content through the upcoming release of Ovi SDK. Currently Ovi Maps is compatible with a selection of devices, such as XM Nokia 5800, Nokia N97, Nokia E72 and many others (by March 2010 will be preinstalled on all new devices). More information on the official site.

Here comes an app store homemade free software for Symbian: PyStore

After having presented the draft OpnMarket, the store alternative to Windows Mobile, to talk again to store application for smartphones that offer free content. To qualify, at least this time, shall own a Symbian device.

Developed user Bongoman, totally made in Italy, is called PyStore and is an aggregator of free content such as applications, games, themes, font for the system and more. Defined by the creator himself as an alternative to Ovi history, thanks to the philosophy closer to that hidden behind Cydia for iPhone.

The project, although it is still in its infancy, promises well thanks to the simplicity with which you can navigate between the sections and perform the download. However, everything still has to mature and grow stronger, both as regards the content, basically, with regard to the user interface (currently just skinny). A praise and encouragement to the developer for the continuation of his work.

For the correct operation requires the presence of the Python, which must be installed on your device, while for downloading PyStore, we refer to the official page.

Acceso Universal Twitter with Tvider: PC, iPhone, BlackBerry, Symbian and J2ME phones

After noting the tremendous growth of mobile social networking phenomenon, what better occasion to speak of yet another free application for access to the well-known microblogging service Twitter?

We present the first mobile software platform that allows you to interact with the known portal and quickly send multimedia content such as photos, video and audio. It's called Tvider and comes with an excellent user interface colorful the immediate ease of use, was created to meet a specific need, namely that they can easily share their media content even on the move.

Tvider addition to being accessible from any computer, can claim to be almost compatible with almost all mobile platforms: 2me Java, Symbian, BlackBerry, iPhone OS, and soon Windows Phone and Android. Among the key features of the product include:

* Update status
* Send your fast media - images, video, audio.
* Response and Re-Tweet with ability to attach media.
* Follow the users want.

By Nokia software to manage the T9 dictionary

One of the major limitations of recent years, for every type of mobile phone with alphanumeric keyboard, is the limited memory of the T9 dictionary for the word recognition memory. Problem which has not yet resolved.

However, today the Nokia Beta Labs have released an interesting application that enables the management of our personal dictionary. In fact, before now there was no way to access and manage their own phraseology T9, which is possible today with Nokia Custom Dictionary.

Under testing, allows you to add new words to the dictionary and view those already added earlier, with the ability to backup (with subsequent restoration). To download the software, completely free and compatible with Symbian S60 3rd and 5th Edition, you must register on the official site.

Two utilities for Symbian: NetworkSwitcher and LangSwitcher

Today we introduce two lightweight program for Symbian S60, both free and in beta. Pressed that to install on your device procedures are required more or less complex. Both are unsigned, because it requires a sort of online registration, or the use of a cell called hacked.

Go to the first: NetworkSwitcher is totally devoid of interface, with its launch, the phone switches automatically (ie making a way) that the dual-mode GSM or UMTS only and so on. It 'very useful to move from a 3G network to a classic GPRS where maybe there is a signal dancer. Also, could prove useful in many other circumstances, for greater energy savings. Of course, the application is compatible with S60 5th Edition with traditional ones, and only on UMTS terminals.

The second application will have the joy of those who, for business or for any other reason, tend to use the predictive assisted your phone to write in different languages. Thank LangSwitcher, you can quickly switch from one language to write another with the push of a few shortcuts and quick keys. The download is available after registration on the forum DailyMobile the following addresses, respectively: NetworkSwitcher and LangSwitcher.