Motorola Milestone in Russia: keyboard virtually impossible to use

Motorola has recently launched the Milestone in one of the larger mobile market, the Russian, with the obvious hope of selling as many terminals as possible. Unfortunately, the Milestone in its Russian version seems to present major problems, so that many customers have canceled their pre-order.
It appears that Motorola has had problems with the integration of Russian characters in the QWERTY keyboard of the terminal, making it almost impossible to use. Some letters were paired on a single key, but the biggest mistake seems to be in the shift key and Ze E (Sebra similar but are totally indifferent), not including the comma, which is extremely important.
To use it, we need to change the layout and switch to the English. Users are clearly calling for Motorola to change keyboards. We hope that Motorola will move soon.

Tattoo HTC and Android 2.1. Becomes more uncertain the release of an update...

Cold shower for owners of HTC Tattoo awaiting an official update to Android 2.1. Unlike what we also wrote a few days ago, it seems that HTC will not release any update for your smartphone low end, at least according to what has appeared on a British blog, contacted the company, has received the following response:

    Upon upgrading the Tattoo is not scheduled to Eclair.
An answer of course is completely different from those issued by HTC a few days before France. Crossing our fingers and hope this is just a mismatch between areas belonging to different nations. The important thing is that, somewhere, the update comes out ...

Disney DM005SH, a cell phone with 22 diamonds

Although it has the Disney brand, the new DM005SH does not seem destined for a mobile world of children. Equipped with a clamshell design, has fewer than 22 diamond-shaped houses scattered on the Disney logo.
The final destination is of course the luxury sector. Among its technical features, we read the presence of an 8-megapixel camera and a large display 3.4 "with a resolution of 854 x 480 pixels with LED technology. Currently not know the availability and price, but maybe it's better that way.
[thanks for reporting virgin]

Nokia Ovi. News for Contacts. New server and user interface tweaks

I often wonder how they work cycles of production and release software. For example, Nokia, in the last two days, is making updates available for virtually any software that has produced, almost.


Beyond exaggeration, the Finns have also just updated the web version of Ovi Contacts. The major upgrade is invisible to the eye, because it is an update of the server running the system for synchronizing phone contacts, which will soon share contacts with all other web applications Ovi. Even the user interface has changed slightly, especially as concertne the registration page for new users and the section where you create groups.

The new version of Ovi Web Contacts, still in beta, is available at contactsui.ovi.com.

TomTom for iPhone: new version 1.3, with updated maps and local search

At a distance of only a day dall'aggiornamento of CoPilot for the iPhone, that's now also news from major competitor, as well as probably the best known brands of navigation software in the world. We are obviously talking about TomTom, whose new version 1.3 is available from a few hours on the App Store.


Many innovations, amongst these is certainly the possibility, again, to search for POIs and landmarks in real time, using Google Local Search. But of course there's more, because these maps are also updated to the latest version available, the ability to send music to fade when the browser is going to give us directions, automatic switching between day and night mode, and Finally, the fantastic possibilities for other applications, adding locations and destinations as a favorite.

Not bad I would say, no?

Qualcomm patented folding screen

Apparently the screens of smartphones start to become tight. The touchscreen technology pushes to use them as the tablet, then the objective is to ensure that there is more usable space for interaction with programs.


A few days ago we saw a Motorola patent for screens communicating. In practice, the approach of providing multiple screens together to form a larger single screen. Qualcomm, however, patented folding screen. A big screen can be folded into several sections for integration into mobile devices.

At present there is only one project, but hope to see it implemented soon.

In India there is a Nexus One Cheaper?

A Lite version of the Nexus One? And 'the rumor of the last hours. Google, in fact, could conquer the market of emerging countries through a cheaper version of its smartphone.

The goal is to use less powerful hardware to lower the selling price. Everything has only one goal: to bring Android to the widest possible dissemination to counter effectively the competition.

We have no other news about it. Must see if Google will confirm this strategy.

LG GD350, a clamshell phone

The unmistakable style of juxtaposition of black and gold leaves us immediately understood that the new GD350 LG seems designed for users of the East. It is a clamshell device, design is not used more in favor of the devices touchscreen or slide.




The interior features a 2 Megapixel camera, an external LED indicator, FM radio, expandable memory with microSD card and Bluetooth. The price for the sale is $ 186, equivalent to about 135 €.

Alcatel's 2010 line-up: 880 OT's first crossover Touch Qwerty dedicated to social network and IM

Ringleader of the family that includes Crossover Alcatel phones that combine both features Touch Qwerty, the OT 880 as the title itself is the first Alcatel mobile phone that combines both features keep costs to below 100 €.

Rugged and compact, LL OT 880 combines new metallic finishes chrome materials on the front wheel to the back cover, it is pleasant to the touch, and thanks to the union of a touch screen and QWERTY keyboard, as well as easily compose text messages and emails, we may update our social networks like Facebook and Twitter and communicate with instant messaging programs like we were in front of the PC.
Among the characteristics of 'OT 880 there is also the ability to manage a mailbox, EDGE internet connection, an MP3 player, FM radio and RDS 2 Megapixel camera with webcam functionality. The internal memory is expandable up to 8 GB through the inclusion of micro SD.
Bella the ability to access several widgets online as weather forecasts, real-time news and other useful applications. To update the widget bar we just drag the icons of the applications that interest us, arrange them according to our needs and that's it in a few steps we have at hand the information needed most often when we're around ... somebody remembers l 'Samsung interface?
OT 880 will be available in April at a price of € 89,00.

More news from Nokia. It also updates Ovi Player

Day of updates, this, for Nokia. After Ovi Suites, in fact, was released a few hours a new version of Ovi Player, an application of the Finnish manufacturer a little 'less known, which runs under Windows. Heir of Nokia Music Player Ovi serves to keep your music library on your PC, then synchronize it with the one on your mobile.

Among the innovations present in Ovi Player 2.1, the resolution of several bugs that plagued the performance in terms of quality, performance and usability. Not only, obviously. are now present as well:



• The ability to download music and songs more reliably, from the Nokia Music Stores and Ovi, you can pause and restart a download;

• the ability to import your music collection from iTunes (smart playlists and files protected by DRM included);

• the possibility to include in its playlist entire albums in a simple and fast;

• new tooltips that show artist, album and cover of a song;

• a choice much simpler than the Music Store of the Area;

• a much more robust and efficient use of memory;

• the possibility to skip the splash screen.

CoPilot Live 8.0.0.649 Italy. IPhone arrives on local search and support for Facebook

New version, after a bit 'last time made available for us Italians, CoPilot Live, one of the best GPS navigators available for iPhone.

Main features of the release, 8.0.0.649, besides the usual various tranches of bugs and problems are fixed, are able to update your status on Facebook, sharing position, destination and music heard in the background, the ability to make local searches on the Internet to find products, services, brands, shops and anything else that can serve the option, finally, to decide the volume of music during the voice prompts.



In the coming days we will still CoPilot, sold at € 33.99 in the App Store, during a review that we are finishing.