Holiday calls cheaper from Wednesday.

Holiday greetings by mobile phone this summer are less expensive. From Wednesday, operators must disclose their fee according to EU requirements reduced. blogs ONLINE explains what it calls when abroad must respect, to make the new tariffs to benefit.

 

Berlin - And again it is the rip off prices to the neck: from Wednesday cost calls using your mobile abroad again less money. Calls with a German mobile phone on holiday or on business in the states of the European Union, according to an EU regulation as from 1 July did not exceed about 51 cents per minute. Accepting the call will also be a maximum of 22.6 cents cheaper. For the sending of SMS messages within the European Union on Wednesday a price limit of 13 cents.

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Cell phone calls from abroad: From 1 July, lowered the fees again

From July, operators must also cheaper for consumers clocking offer: Up to now, most expected mobile operator in minutes from now, the companies after the first half a minute every second bill. In the traditional settlement paid by the minute, the consumer, according to the EU Commission just over 20 percent of it.

If you are traveling abroad with your mobile phone or laptop on the Internet surfing, getting from 1 July from its domestic mobile service provider for each connection information on roaming prices in the country sent. By no later than 1 March 2010, mobile operators will also offer customers, to protect against unexpectedly high bills when the connection is reaching a specific amount to be cut. For consumers who, until 1 July 2010 stipulate otherwise, this will amount to 50 EUR.

AS THE STATEMENT ALSO IN HANDY HOLIDAY remains

Can I just abroad with my mobile phone?

Most phones are designed from the outset for roaming, so the phone calls to foreign mobile networks, unlocked. Some providers require a specific activation but - although the cost mostly nothing, but may take some time. Especially with more exotic destinations is an appropriate demand.

How much does it cost phone calls abroad?

Under the new EU Regulation, outgoing calls within the EU from 1 July for German mobile phone owners 51 cents a maximum cost of incoming calls no more than 22.6 cents. In countries outside the EU - and thus, for example, in Switzerland, Croatia and Turkey - are depending on the country and the network often very different tariffs, each of the suppliers are to ask.

Is there a special international fare in my mobile operator?

Especially for contract customers, many mobile phone companies abroad special rates. These often offer cheaper per-minute prices, it will usually but connection fees per call added. This is only worth it for longer conversations. Particularly interesting may be the option tariffs but stay outside the EU, where per-minute prices are often otherwise.

How to SMS and MMS note?

The prices of short messages within the EU is now considerably reduced, with a maximum of 13 cents, the SMS so sometimes cheaper than in Germany. The SMS receiving is free. MMS can be expensive - with some vacation photos can be sent via mobile phone. The price for this sometimes very difficult - depending on the size of the MMS, the country and are often different network costs. Also, the MMS reception abroad is partly a fee.

Can I use abroad with your mobile phone and the Internet?

If you leave quickly his e-mails, football results or the weather on the Internet wants to check, this can also be done with his cellphone. This can be expensive. The EU has for the data roaming only the wholesale prices down - that is, the fees charged by the operators themselves. This should also decrease the prices, really cheap but it will not. Cheaper data rates of the providers also often need to be booked - and then other prices for calls to itself.

How can I save money?

Abroad, the mailbox can be a real cost to be the case - therefore better off before the flight! An alternative is to fully divert all calls to the mailbox - then the customer is only accessible via SMS or can call itself. Who long time in a country, you should be under circumstances where a prepaid card growth, so a card in for the talks will be paid in advance. It is recommendable that these in a store to buy several mobile providers represents - not calculated in the most expensive fare to come.

The leading German mobile operators want the new euro tariffs to implement one to one, as spokesman for T-Mobile, Vodafone and E-Plus news agency AP unanimously confirmed. In package deals or special travel rates, but some were clearly more favorable offers available.

Even domestically, the mobile phone costs more transparent: Provider of hotlines with 0180-code must be the cost for calls from mobile phones specify. The most often very expensive calls may also be no more than 28 cents per minute, or 40 cents per call cost.

Manufacturers agree on standard connectors.

Concludes with the cable-Chaos: From 2010 to the major mobile phone manufacturers to design devices with uniform Ladekabeln equip - not entirely voluntary. With the commitment, the company of a possible Directive of the EU Commission before.

 

Brussels - Who does not know the desperate Bittgänge of colleagues in search of something fresh for your current phone? Nokia Power Supply Wanted "or" Did someone may have a Sony Ericsson charger here? "Are typical titles of circular mail, the desperate mobile phone users with discharged battery by mail circular sent to all employees. Such desperate measures could be coming to an end, because some of the major mobile phone manufacturers have agreed on a uniform standard for chargers agreed.

The first generation of new cell phones that are no longer only with a certain power supply can be charged, from 2010 onwards should be available, said the EU Commission on Monday in Brussels.

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This mobile phone users need not each time a new charger when they move from one mobile phone manufacturer to another. The Chargers will be on the basis of a so-called Micro-USB connector standardized. The agreement was signed among others by the company Apple, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Texas Instruments signed.
The introduction of international standards on the same basis is only planned for 2012.

The fact that most chargers and mobile phones do not work together, be a big disadvantage for the users and leads to unnecessary waste, said EU Industry Commissioner Guenter Verheugen. "I am very pleased that the industry has reached an agreement with the consumer's life a lot easier," said Verheugen further. He was very pleased that an industry solution and have found no statutory regulation of the EU is more necessary. The EU Commission had the mobile phone manufacturers with a regulator warned that no single power should be standard to be created.

Through old power supplies currently incur several thousand tonnes of waste per year. The industry estimates that now the number of produced chargers could be halved. Moreover, the new power supplies consume less power.

The first-gigahertz phone.

TG01 Toshiba has the stuff to the winner: It has the largest screen, the fastest processor, a touchscreen and navigation software. blogs ONINE has tested whether the slim smartphone the high expectations may be.

 

The reaction in the initial contact with the TG01 is almost always the same: "Boah is great!" And yes, actually: it is large in size and must be. Toshiba TG01 Because not only has a screen that was much higher than the usual degree beyond, it is also driven by a processor, already in small notebooks has been sighted. Best ingredients for a potential multimedia highlight also.

It wants the device at the first viewing will confirm. Its screen is of 4.1 inch (10.4 cm) diagonal, not only almost as big as an entire iPhone, it is still two and a half times more pixels than the Apple phone. This promises more details, more clarity, finer colors.

More speed gives the processor on the other hand, a QSD8250 by Qualcomm, better known as Snapdragons. With a clock frequency of 1 gigahertz, he sets a new mobile high. For comparison: the new iPhone 3G will be a maximum of 600 S MegaHertz said. Indeed, the Qualcomm chip in the Toshiba phone to fix that even small notebooks, he should drive, which then
Smart Books will be read.

The combination of a giant screen, and Turbo-Toshiba chip developers have used to disguise as striking to that their new mobile work with Windows Mobile 6.1 equipped. Of these, at first glance, however, nothing to see. The Home screen greets with three color whose hue upwards in a gentle run to the black slip. Each color stands for a program group that contains three symbols, which - the high resolution can greet - with tiny letters are.

This color bar can be moved by clue, like a blind fold to the side. Actually, only three fit on the screen by sliding the trick, but a total of eight such bars prepared according to color a certain program group, three icons for quick launch of software can record.

When you start, however, one of these programs, followed by the disillusionment: after just one click you'll come to the surface of Windows Mobile on a device like this has plenty of old-fashioned. Above all, however, is the version 6.1 only poorly by finger control. Better be with the successor to the version number 6.5, but the leaves in coming.

Navi with expiration dates

Extremely thin, the Toshiba phone equipped with memory. Only 256 megabytes of RAM are installed in the device. That's enough, even the operating system optics angehübschten not always sufficient. In the surprise test the device on several occasions with the error message "menu functions for memory shortage restricted. Close some applications." Still, the test was based on a microSD memory card with 1 GB of storage space for.

Of all the rings are good already with 650 MB of data from the supplied CoPilot navigation software shows. The gut makes a perfectly good impression, it is fine finger control by use, but has a major shortcoming: There is only one trial included the 14 days after the service recruits - or must be purchased.

Glossy Display

The multimedia facilities on the other hand, is characterized mainly by the included media player
Core player, which pretty much all the current audio and video formats can play. This is fine to try, whether and how well the screen is actually the TG01. The result: Actually, he is class, he would not be so bad blogsn.

View makes movies only in dark environments really fun. Not because he is not bright enough, but because they usually require more of themselves than by the film looks, especially in dark passages. Did you but a neighborhood and found an angle where you have a glare-free view of the screen gets, you will be greeted with fine detail and a resolution rewarded, all the pixels disappear.

USB interface unit

Just out the graphics prepared in the test also recurrent problems. When surfing the Web, whether with the preinstalled Internet Explorer Mobile or Opera Mobile browser, showed regularly at the screen edges confused pixel pattern (see pictures stretch). At a crash, these pixels are not errors resulted but could only stop and restart the browser removed.

What is a reboot can not eliminate, the poverty of interfaces. Contact with the outside world, the TG01 prefer forth wirelessly, via cellular, Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. Physical contact is only via USB. About this data must be an interface with the PC off, the battery and headphones can be connected. Standard headsets fit because of course not.

Toshiba TG01

Operating System
Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional

Integrated Memory
256 MB

Expansion slot
microSD (1 GB included)

Screen Resolution
800 x 480 pixels

Screen Size
4.1 inch

Digital Camera
3.2 megapixel

PC Connection
USB

Weight
129 grams

Bulk
129 x 70 x 9.9 millimeters

Wireless connections
GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth

Standby time
11.5 days

Talk
up to 5 hours

Specialties
Touchscreen, GPS

Price
500 (My O2 mobile finance)

All values are the manufacturer's specifications

But this is perhaps one of the swabs, the Toshiba's developer had to make to the electronics of the TG01, despite the large screen in such a flat housing squeeze them. Only 9.9 millimeters thick, it is, in this way compensates a little for that of its outer dimensions far larger than any other touch screen phone on the market. From a shirt pocket lugt it will always be a few centimeters out. Nevertheless, one can in this way unnoticed recordings with the integrated 3.2 megapixel camera make.

And that is precisely the strength of the muscle shallow. As a mobile multimedia player with which you can also still make phone calls, TG01 makes a very good figure. The screen shows all previously assembled in Mobile Phones Displays negligent in the shade (as long as one sees him in the shade), the fast processor itself raises AVCHD and DivX movies on the brilliant flicker-free screen. Who likes to adorn with a gadget that is different than the others, because hardly anything can go wrong. The sensation that one of the first gigahertz phone is expected, but Toshiba has not succeeded.

But that could still come. The models TG02 and TG03 are Web rumored to already being planned.

MOBILE BROADBAND FORMATS

UMTS

Universal Mobile Telecommunications System - is often referred to as standard for third generation (3G) that it takes much higher data rates than its predecessor, enables GSM. German UMTS networks typically create a bandwidth of 384 kbit / s for data transmission from the terminal Mobilfunkmast. Regular DSL connections offer today übrlicherweise 1024 Kbit / s. (more on blogs KNOW)

HSDPA

High Speed Downlink Packet Access - is based on UMTS to achieve but significantly higher transmission rates in the transmission of Mobilfunkmast to the terminal. The practically achievable data rate is currently at 1.4 Mb / s. Through technological improvements, it gradually to 5.1 Mbit / s rise. (more on blogs KNOW)

GPRS

General Packet Radio Service - this standard decomposed data at stations in individual packets, transmits them gestückelt and puts them back together at the receiver. By bundling multiple transmission channels is theoretically a transmission rate of up to 171.2 kbits / s possible. In practical operation, it is usually 55.6 Kbps - modems were so slow in the days before DSL. (more on blogs KNOW)

Edge

Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution - technology to increase the rate of data transmission in GSM mobile networks. Through more efficient modulation techniques are in the sum up to 384 kbit / s can be achieved - that is UMTS speed. Edge has been accessed in 75 countries. (more on blogs KNOW)

WiMax

The WiMax technology includes several standards, data on different radio frequencies. Some WiMax standards need sight between the transmitter and receiver, other signals can also penetrate walls. Tests WiMax will have data transfer rates of more than 100 Mbit / s has been achieved. Hermann Lipfert, an expert in wireless networks at the Munich Institute for Broadcasting Technology (IRT) estimates that in a regular-WiMax wireless cell Tranferraten from 50 Mbit / s are realistic - under ideal conditions and with application of all presently available technical tricks. This range would need to be as in UMTS all users share in the respective cell line. (more on blogs KNOW)

DVB-T

The DVB-T standard provides for the distribution of digital television signals by radio. The DVB standard is also designed to evaluate Internet content to transfer - in the frequency range of a single analogue television channel (about 7 MHz) fit, but just 13 megabits per second into it. If a single broadcast station that is 20 users hanging around the same time, a file download attempt, it is already tightly - the data rate for each user would be less than one Mbit / s, ie lower than the cheapest DSL connections that are currently on offer are. "The greatest danger to this technique is different from the present to be overhauled," said Sven Hansen from the computer magazine "c't". Applying the content via DVB, which also goes in only one direction - just like in television. The return channel must then be produced by other means, such as through a conventional telephone line. Mouse clicks in the browser went with this method over the telephone line to the provider, the req!
uested pages would be of the DVB broadcast station back to the receiver gefunkt. This is cumbersome - and slow. (more on blogs KNOW)

LTE

Long Term Evolution is the name that a number of mobile phone companies a broader standard of the fourth generation mobile phone has been given. LTE is basically an evolution of UMTS - but requires completely new hardware, including new stations. LTE competes with the WiMax standard to the market leader in the mobile Internet of the future - between the two standards may be a new format war. LTE has been estimated by experts to WiMax, however, about two years behind in terms of technological development. (More at blogs KNOW)

Apple Rejects iPhone from C64.

The project sounds programmed Success: A software makes the legendary C64 on the iPhone after - including a virtual joystick and quick way for Games. The program is ready and it threatens to fail, because Apple will not publish it.

 

It sounds like the software has become a dream of many old-school gamers: the C64 alive! And the very modern, to-be-Always have, always ready for a quick mid-game. On the iPhone that you could soon be the classic
good old bread box again leave. But only if Apple's software assessor change their minds. Their ruling that allowed the virtual C64 is not on Apple's mobile phone.

It all began so well that which. As Brian Lyscarz Apple over its project, including the C64 joystick control and play on the cult touchscreen phone to transfer outlined, it was by the idea evidently pleased, said the programmer support. But now came the provisional Off. Apple's testing laboratory for iPhone programs rejected the "
Commodore 64 for iPhone "ab.

It seemed Lyscarz everything, but really all right to have made. Support for the costly project, he is in the mobile games company specialized Danish Kiloo. And to make things right with anything approaching, he settled for Commodore Gaming, which today have the rights to the brand Commodore hold a license for its iPhone-C64 exhibit.

Can others, what the C64 can not?

Despite all these safeguards could be Apple's software Vorkoster not soften. Their reasoning: The software injured paragraph 3.3.2 of the Terms and Conditions for Apple's iPhone software developer, the iPhone SDK. It says iPhone software could not install executable programs or download. That would, however, the C64 emulator do.

The Apple now but precisely for this reason the intake of the C64 in its software shop denied, but makes aback. Finally, it Lyscarz, there are already some iPhone programs, which worked very similar way. As an example he gives the program "Frotz", a software-old Infocomm Adventures playable on the iPhone does.

Unclear registration practice

Apple's practice, the iPhone software only after prior review for sale or to give on the App Store release, has since the opening of the Software Stores with harsh criticism to fight. First, because the accreditation process for the software vendor is not transparent, they are not informed about how far a new software title in the approval process is and when the publication is to be expected. Marketing and advertising can hardly be planned.

Above all, however, surprised both providers and users time and again about the criteria according to which applications may be rejected. For example, the humorous "
Me so holy ", the portrait photos with Saints images linked, flatly rejected, while a very questionable game in which
virtual babies almost shaken to death should be durchgewunken was initially uncritically.

On other phones already running the Commodore

Programmers Lyscarz hopes that public pressure on Apple to be able to exercise. On the Web site of his company
Manomio it calls on, as much as possible about the "C64 for iPhone" on blogging, and tweeter to be reported - at least in Twitter with full success.

Whether Apple, however, a little web chirping restores, is questionable. So far at any rate, the company remains silent as ever, refuses any comment on the C64 emulator from.

So if you are actually on the old C64 games again to be carried out, must still draw on other smartphones. For mobile phones with Google Android OS and Nokia phones, there are some long-emulator software, the old Commodore on the mini-screen magic. Consistent with the retro look of the "C64 for iPhone" however, can not keep both.

This may be Apple's high-speed mobile phone.

When iPhone 3G Apple sets S Turbo A. Should it be faster and many new features. But is Geschwindigeit for a cell phone really important? Or is the magic of this program? blogs ONLINE Web Apple has already tested mobile phone.

 

On unpacking the disillusionment follows: "That looks so like the old" one would say. Visually, this is at first sight clearly, does the iPhone 3G S hardly by his predecessor. Only the lettering on the black back is no longer kept in discreet dark gray, but silver shines in the same color as on the Apple logo. Inside the cult-mobile, but Apple's engineers have no chip on the other left.

Faster is it that you notice immediately. Everything goes a bit quick and fluid out of hand. But seriously anyway gemeckert has hardly anyone on the speed of the Apple phones. What iPhone users, but then noticed the screen of the new model bears an improved coating. Something with "nano" must be. At least it feels somehow softer, it seems less easy to pollute.

On the other hand, the concept has not changed. And even some of the user request has not yet been met. For example, after a higher-resolution screen. The real innovations, but stuck in the software. A function for a lost iPhone again to find some, improved Bluetooth data radio and a new virtual keyboard.

Read the following pages what the new iPhone 3G S differs from its predecessors, what features the iPhone 3.0 software offers and much more.

What really is luxury phones.

Who is a precious cellphone for thousands of euros to buy, white in the rule that what is really special because the price is: In the often complex hull potter mostly normal off the shelf equipment. Exceptions prove the rule - and then are really expensive.

 

Not only has Apple's iPhone may be smart phones. With the launch of the Prada phone in early 2007 about making the genus of aufgehübschten design phones as a result of collaboration between manufacturers and fashion labels has already been the center of attention. But the touch screen of the Prada phone, almost no one noticed - unlike a short time later genius imported from California with the apple logo.

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The GoldVish "Piece Unique" shoots in all respects to the bird: the sock design with precious metals and diamonds, the Edeltelefon a sales value of one million euro

Meanwhile, the mobile phone a status symbol more than ever, and often hides under the cover of a design-mobile commercial goods - except for the wickedly expensive equipment.

The fashion designer or company, together with producers of mobile devices from the ground up exclusively to develop was "rare," says Markus Eckstein, editor of the magazine "Connect".

Sample Boss: Hugo Boss Behind the Mobile Phone hide is a popular Samsung SGH-F480 in a new guise, he says. Also, the mark of a designer for Armani Samsung sought such cooperation into the boat. What started as a designer mobile phone coming on the market, was mostly a device from the portfolio of manufacturers, only with a new brand logo, the so-called co-branding: New shell, different logo, refreshed menu design, the packaging and maybe even new ringtones.

"This is common marketing practice, and nothing special any more," says Eckstein.

Also at the first Prada phone was not different. It was in the standard version previously as the manufacturer LG KE850 in trading skillfully. On fruitful cooperation as well put Sagem and Porsche Design. Sharp introduced in 2007 model named 770SH McLaren Mercedes, Alcatel an association with the Italian brand Mandarina Duck bag on the market. Also, the designer or fashion label Dolce & Gabbana, Giambattista Valli, Dior, Versace and Escada have made excursions into the mobile world.

Luxury cars: mainly outside hui

"Is the branding, or what I really want an exclusive?" - Based on this question is the boundary between design and real mobile luxury cars to move, says Eckstein. Like the Nokia 8800 with titanium casing for around 900 euro fell the Motorola Aura model with its retail price of 2000 euros in the jet class.

As a partner won Motorola no designer, but as a style icon traded footballer David Beckham. Highlighted in this "first cell phone with circular display" the stainless steel casing and the chemically etched surface structure "- and that the manufacturing front alone takes two weeks.

THE COSTS AND DESIGNER LUXURY PHONES

Emporio Armani (Samsung SGH-M7500, 399 euros)
Hugo Boss Ringtones (Samsung SGH-F480, 499 euros)
Prada Phone by LG (from 530 Euro)
Georgio Armani (Samsung SGH-P520, 649 euros)
Porsche Design P 9521 and P9522 (1200 or 600 euros)
Bang and Olufsen Serenata (Samsung SGH-F310, from just under 400 euros on the Internet; MSRP around 1300 Euro)
Motorola Aura (1999 euros in Germany exclusively through Phone House)
Tag Heuer Meridiist (from 3400 euros, depending on equipment)
Vertu (Edelhandys from Euro 4100, new collection in April: "Constellation Vivre" from 5200 to 21000 Euro)
Goldvish (devices from 20,900 Euro)

"In principle I have the luxury device to view, and it must also feel that it is not a mass product," says Eckstein. What should apply for Motorola, Nokia writes for many years on the flags - especially with its luxury brand Vertu, in a higher league. Since 1998, there is Vertu. After watching Eckstein operated the first luxury brand, with moderate success, but now profitable: "The approach pays off slowly."

Vertu devices cost from 4100 to 60,000 euro, the more noble metals and diamonds adorn the Handschmeichler and the more rare it is a model limitation is, the higher the price. The manufacturer claims "made from pure gold or platinum" produced models of the Signature series are Feingehaltsstempel with the Swiss Central Office for Precious Metals Control provide. All the ringtones and sounds of the signature, therefore, come from a specially designed for Vertu composed piece of music from the pen of Oscar-winner Dario Marianelli, by the London Symphony Orchestra was recorded. The price includes: A so-called concierge service, according to Eckstein a 24-hour service (Vertu: Lifestyle consultant), for example in the hotel or restaurant reservations worldwide customer support subtle promise.

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Edelware off the shelf: Normal is the combination of aufgehübschtem design with brand logo and standard phone

The marketing bird shot three years ago, the Swiss manufacturer GoldVish, who, with Le million actually as much for his money in diamonds and gold gewandetes phone sweetie demanded a million euros. Were sold by its own account three devices. Currently the most expensive costs GoldVish device 255,000 Euros.

Illusion Collection models are available depending on the diamond upgrade from 20,900 euros in the list. GoldVish but promises "the best Swiss craftsmanship." Even in the crisis means the manufacturer's business as "stable" and justified this with his offer for the niche nots, those who already bought. About sales figures and further details keep you covered.

Eckstein still an expert sees a contradiction, which is the manufacturer of the Edeltelefone not completely dissolve, "If I buy an expensive product, it should be timeless." Since the functionality of the ever increasing mobile phone, mobile phones are anything but timeless. Vertu, GoldVish and Co. are talking thus appears that cell phones only for calls and SMS's letter would be used.

Sun shines brightly Samsungs Google Galaxy.

Now the Android phones: Samsung provides with the Galaxy its first mobile phone with Google operating system before, immediately shows what you can do it better than the competition. blogs ONLINE has the high-tech gem before the market tested.

 

Long did it take a very long time. Actually should be the first mobile phones with the Google Android operating system launched at the end of 2008 on the market, it was nothing. But now it is finally happening. With the Galaxy makes Samsung the first Android phone, and thus heralds the summer of Google's smartphone.

Pretty is the Galaxy. Its dimensions agree almost with those of the iPhone agreed that only the Samsung mobile phone curves a little differently distributed. Moreover, in his shiny back cover, unlike Apple's cell phone, take off, gives you access to the battery, SIM and microSD card slot.

But these are only optical and mechanical properties. however, it is to clarify the difference between the Galaxy from other Google mobile phone is different. Finally, the outstanding feature of Android phones yet their operating system - and that is currently available on all Google phones are identical.

Sometimes one loses points

Samsung model is only the third Android-based phone, which will be introduced in Germany. The beginning made in January, T-Mobile with the HTC-manufactured T - Mobile G1. Its outstanding features are its postponement keyboard control and the various possibilities. It is via touch screen or trackball control.

Fewer options than the control G1, the Magic, also developed by HTC and produced. It is flatter than the G1, because it lacks the keyboard. Instead you have this model, which in Germany is being offered by Vodafone, with screen buttons take preference.

Similarly does the Galaxy. Articles, news and notes you write on a virtual keyboard. This is nice and big enough, but nothing for quick Schreiber. before they actually set one letter, she forced a short break. Who typing too fast, loses necessarily letters. For occasional short typing SMS or e-mail messages but it is all.

A shining example: The screen

As for the Galaxy but really stand out from its competitors is its display. That is amazingly bright, high contrast and colorful. The reason: The Korean construction in the Galaxy called AMOLED display, a relatively new display. Its preference is to make a direct comparison with other cell phones sometimes dramatically noticeable (see photo gallery), lift the Galaxy has its luminosity forth from the mass showed. It can be smooth as a reading lamp use.

It would be better suited as a media player of course. For one, because it is built with 8 GB of memory from the factory already a lot of space for music and movies offered on the other hand, because it is a true 3.5-millimeter headphone jack has. This can be any type of headphones, whether from the discounters or the hi-fi dealer. The two phones HTC G1 and the Magic have only via a USB jack. The required special USB headset or a USB-to-jack adapter.

In addition, the memory of the Galaxy via a microSD card of up to 32 GB, so if you have a large memory card can perform. In any case, but it offers plenty of space for a mobile music collection - or photographs. Even when the Galaxy consume a little more space than most camera phones, Samsung as a 5-megapixel image sensor fitting. Geknipst The pictures are good, but even with those cheap digital cameras do not keep up.

MOBILE BROADBAND FORMATS

UMTS

Universal Mobile Telecommunications System - is often referred to as standard for third generation (3G) that it takes much higher data rates than its predecessor, enables GSM. German UMTS networks typically create a bandwidth of 384 kbit / s for data transmission from the terminal Mobilfunkmast. Regular DSL connections offer today übrlicherweise 1024 Kbit / s. (more on blogs KNOW)

HSDPA

High Speed Downlink Packet Access - is based on UMTS to achieve but significantly higher transmission rates in the transmission of Mobilfunkmast to the terminal. The practically achievable data rate is currently at 1.4 Mb / s. Through technological improvements, it gradually to 5.1 Mbit / s rise. (more on blogs KNOW)

GPRS

General Packet Radio Service - this standard decomposed data at stations in individual packets, transmits them gestückelt and puts them back together at the receiver. By bundling multiple transmission channels is theoretically a transmission rate of up to 171.2 kbits / s possible. In practical operation, it is usually 55.6 Kbps - modems were so slow in the days before DSL. (more on blogs KNOW)

Edge

Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution - technology to increase the rate of data transmission in GSM mobile networks. Through more efficient modulation techniques are in the sum up to 384 kbit / s can be achieved - that is UMTS speed. Edge has been accessed in 75 countries. (more on blogs KNOW)

WiMax

The WiMax technology includes several standards, data on different radio frequencies. Some WiMax standards need sight between the transmitter and receiver, other signals can also penetrate walls. Tests WiMax will have data transfer rates of more than 100 Mbit / s has been achieved. Hermann Lipfert, an expert in wireless networks at the Munich Institute for Broadcasting Technology (IRT) estimates that in a regular-WiMax wireless cell Tranferraten from 50 Mbit / s are realistic - under ideal conditions and with application of all presently available technical tricks. This range would need to be as in UMTS all users share in the respective cell line. (more on blogs KNOW)

DVB-T

The DVB-T standard provides for the distribution of digital television signals by radio. The DVB standard is also designed to evaluate Internet content to transfer - in the frequency range of a single analogue television channel (about 7 MHz) fit, but just 13 megabits per second into it. If a single broadcast station that is 20 users hanging around the same time, a file download attempt, it is already tightly - the data rate for each user would be less than one Mbit / s, ie lower than the cheapest DSL connections that are currently on offer are. "The greatest danger to this technique is different from the present to be overhauled," said Sven Hansen from the computer magazine "c't". Applying the content via DVB, which also goes in only one direction - just like in television. The return channel must then be produced by other means, such as through a conventional telephone line. Mouse clicks in the browser went with this method over the telephone line to the provider, the req!
uested pages would be of the DVB broadcast station back to the receiver gefunkt. This is cumbersome - and slow. (more on blogs KNOW)

LTE

Long Term Evolution is the name that a number of mobile phone companies a broader standard of the fourth generation mobile phone has been given. LTE is basically an evolution of UMTS - but requires completely new hardware, including new stations. LTE competes with the WiMax standard to the market leader in the mobile Internet of the future - between the two standards may be a new format war. LTE has been estimated by experts to WiMax, however, about two years behind in terms of technological development. (More at blogs KNOW)

The fact that the Galaxy also to communicate with all the Google services understand is systemic. Gmail on Maps
Latitude and the calendar are all important Google offers directly available. In addition, a mail program installed, with which e-mail accounts outside the Google universe can retrieve. So it is no longer bound to the search engines empire bind to a Google mobile phone use.

Equally self-evident as the Google integration is the diversity of wireless network technologies, the Samsung mobile dominates. These include UMTS and HSDPA with other Bluetooth and wireless LAN. A GPS receiver is also somewhere in the device, hidden, and helps to navigate using Google Maps.

On the equipment, the functions and the user interface of the Samsung Galaxy, there is neither suspend such as T-Mobile G1. The graphical symbols of Android flut chen lightly over the screen to launch applications swiftly, only the camera is reduced in the test a little, needs at least seven seconds before the first motif can shoot.

Android-PROJECT: THE ADVANTAGES OF GOOGLE PHONE SYSTEM

Long range

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Google's operating system is compatible with many mobile devices. The more terminal manufacturers in Google's Coalition of the Willing are, the greater the reach of Android. more ...

Free use

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The use of open-source operating system is in contrast to other mobile operating systems for free, the production of mobile devices will be cheaper - the use of Android so appealing.

Demanding services for everyone

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Experts say the potential for Google, the market disintegrated together. Users of very different devices could in future be able to move to demanding on-line services access. The range of available applications is expected to expand. more ...

Expansion of market users

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Online service providers can thus with higher traffic and new fields expected, operators with higher capacity utilization. more ...

Much more serious, however, that the Galaxy, just as before, the G1, with an imbalance between battery capacity and power suffers. It's always online, asks regular e-mails and sucks in the current memory is empty. Longer than a day one should therefore not be removed from a wall outlet. Even after a night in a drawer wanders the charging of the battery into the yellow area that signals the imminent end of the power supply.

One end has, at least for O2, the Galaxy for a few weeks exclusive offer, including the binding of the mobile phone to a purchase contract. After all, the Galaxy offers the mobile group also customers of other network operators. Under the title "My O2 mobile phone" can the new Android mobile phone via installment purchase. Over two years will be a total of 437.50 euros for the unit due.

A mobile phone contract, preferably with flat rate data you need then of course still there.

Samsung Galaxy

Operating System
Android 1.5

Integrated Memory
8 GB

Expansion slot
microSD

Screen Resolution
320 x 480 pixels

Screen Size
3.2 inch

Digital Camera
5 Megapixel

PC Connection
USB - only to recharge

Weight
119 grams

Bulk
115 x 56 x 12 millimeters

Wireless connections
GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth

Standby time
Not Disclosed

Talk
Not Disclosed

Specialties:
Touchscreen, GPS, accelerometer sensor

Price:
437.50 (O2 My mobile finance)

All values are the manufacturer's specifications

Summer of smartphones.

Apple has released just in time for WWDC Developers Conference a new version of the iPhone presented. But this is only the beginning: In the coming weeks and months there will be smartphones rain.

 

Truly ground-breaking innovations, the new iPhone 3G S not to offer. It is faster, of course, but on the performance there were hardly any complaints. It can now record videos, shoot some better photos and has a compass chip installed. Moreover, it is now controlled by language, knows the Copy and Paste commands, and can finally send MMS messages and as a mobile modem on your notebook can be used.

Whether the latter also features the German iPhone partner T-Mobile can use on Monday night was still unclear. Meanwhile, a company spokesman confirmed blogs ONLINE: Yes, MMS will be in the German network can use. Depending on the contract are different quotas such multimedia messages included in the basic price. Any additional MMS should be charged 0.39 euro.

Also, the modem function, the so-called "Tethering", T-Mobile support. There is, however, a separate fee, similar to what the group already in the Internet telephony (VoIP) networks in its handling. Exact prices for this are still not fixed.

The rise will cost extra

It is clear what the future iPhone will cost: The high-end version with 32 GB of memory is in the cheapest fare (Complete XS, 25 euros per month) 250 euros. In the most expensive tariff (Complete L, 120 euros per month), it is almost a gift euro. S 3G iPhone with 16 GB will cost about half, so a maximum of 130 euros, while the price for the more recent iPhone 3G with 8GB to a maximum of 60 euro is lowered.

If you are already a 3G iPhone have in place before buying the new model, however, exactly as expected. Although there is the possibility of 3G on the 3G upgrade S, but T-Mobile wants to unconfirmed but reported to be 25 euros per month for the remaining term of the contract still in force calculated. So, for example, even twelve months of his contract iPhone is bound to pay for the transition 300 euros extra.

But that is probably not necessary, because many of the new iPhone features you will encounter the iPhones of the first and second generation can use. The corresponding update is on 17 Of June are available - free of charge.

But who still has no iPhone, only with the purchase of a new mobile phone with touch screen, internet connectivity and multimedia features toying should not hastily go shopping. Finally, other parents have beautiful daughters. Should read: Much of what the iPhone 3G is S, other smartphones, too.

Even Nokia, Research in Motion (RIM), Samsung and all the others have new smartphones in the pipeline. Many of them will be in the next few weeks on the market, at least one of which already exist. One thing is for sure but in any case that it is a mobile hot summer. The mobile phone giants and their smaller competitors are dealing with spectacular announcements are trying to beat.

Read the following pages all about the mobile phone highlights of the summer. blogs ONLINE, the main iPhone followers gathered.

Apple iPhone pimpt.

More speed, better camera with video function, a built-in compass: Apple presents its new iPhone 3G S ". For all owners of the phone also has a new operating system that has many features that rival far dominate - even copy & paste.

 

Hamburg - 3G iPhone was the previous version - now depends Apple an S for "Speed" on it. Many frequently used functions should be at least twice run faster. Otherwise, there are mainly the features you can from other mobile phones already familiar: a high-resolution camera that can record video, a battery that runs longer than before, and a voice control.

In addition, the new edition of the multimedia cell phones have built a compass. The digital street maps of the "Maps" application is one which helps automatically in the right direction can rotate. Aufgebohrt was also previously abundant rudimentary camera. The resolution of the autofocus camera is now three megapixels, the focus can be via pointer on the preview image are sharp. In addition, you can now also videos in VGA resolution with sound are recorded.

The S is also 3G with various voice commands around - and not just on call to make calls, but also the built music player control. When asked about the iPhone, especially for what music is playing, answering the phone and gives title and artist of. The duration of the device with a built-in battery should be firmly based on up to five hours talk time in 3G network, or up to nine hours in total wireless internet - extra three hours Internet use Apple promises so its customers. Fast is also the connection, if the provider plays HSDPA is now running at 7.2 megabits per second, so far, there were 3.6.

The 16-gigabyte device will cost $ 199, the 32-gigabyte version $ 299. The old 8-gigabyte iPhone for $ 99 will be available. The publication in the U.S., Germany and six other countries for 19 Announced in June, and August, the new device in 80 states available.

At the developer conference in San Francisco was the next version of the iPhone operating system presents. In the third edition provides Apple now functions under the iPhone rivals dominate long: Copy & paste is below, including MMS. New is also a feature that allows the iPhone's internet connection via USB or Bluetooth with other devices can share, without any additional software. How to Mac and PC The "Tethering" must, however, by the mobile operators are supported.

With the new operating system is the iPhone for full navigation system: The system known TomTom now runs on Apple's pocket computer, computer voice included. In the trade sector also an enhancement that enables the iPhone to the windshield of a car makes paperboard and it is still more accurate GPS data for locating receives.

Cheaper mobile roaming tariffs in the EU.

The call from holiday this summer will be cheaper: According to the EU Parliament on Monday, the Consumer Minister new ceilings for mobile phone calls within the EU approved. And this is not the end: In the coming years, the prices continue to fall.

 

Luxembourg - Just in time for the holiday season will be mobile phone calls and text messages abroad cheaper. From 1 July calls from cell phones may be a maximum of 43 cents per minute instead of 46 cent as hitherto. The cost for receiving calls are from 22 to 19 cents reduced. That is a decision by the EU consumer ministers on Monday before. The step comes as no surprise, because in April, the EU Parliament approved the compromise.

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Holiday call: Cell phone calls within the EU are getting cheaper

From July 2010 to apply maximum fares of 39 cents for calls and 15 cents for receiving calls. A year later, the ceiling at 35 cents and 11 cents reduced. SMS text messages in other EU countries may be from 1 July maximum of 11 cents cost. Currently they cost about 29 cents, in some countries even up to 80 cents. The EU Commission estimates that the cost of the so-called roaming around up to 60 percent could.

For data transfers from one EU country to another, the ceiling of one euro per megabyte. From July 2010 apply to 80 cents and 2011 then 50 cents (plus VAT).

Consumers can agree that the connection from a certain amount is automatically disconnected. This is to "shock bills" should be avoided. Furthermore, discussions following the first half minute seconds basis.

Since July 2007, a "Euro Tariff" for mobile phone conversations, the ceilings for the so-called roaming charges provided. These are the tariffs, the telecom providers charge each other when their customers make calls abroad or write an SMS. The new regulation will apply until the end of June 2012.

What is Apple's new iPhone.

It will be able to have a cost and that the speculation about Apple's new iPhone thrive for weeks now, the idea of mobile phones is expected for today. Whether the new cult device actually made his debut will be is unclear - what is it is not.

 

Today, a new Apple iPhone, as are (almost) all agree. At
Macmagazin.de for example, says marketing chief Phil Schiller will "- that much is sure - to announce a new iPhone." The justification for this assumption, however, is thin. Telecom employees were already in place for an introduction on 19 Been trained in June, T-Mobile try to remaining stocks of the current iPhone 3G poised to bargain prices - in combination with matching mobile phone contracts.

For T-Mobile in the Netherlands had already activated the new iPhone data appeared. "iPhone 2009" should be hot, with storage capacities of up to 32 GB in black and white will be shipped. And even from a cheap iPhone with only 4 GB of memory to some rumors have already experienced cooks. $ 149 it cost, a kind of folk his iPhone.

So far, however, is only so much clear: A Milestone, as the first iPhone, the new model will be difficult. In the second edition, the iPhone 3G, one could still have a faster Internet connection via UMTS and HSDPA are delighted that one, however, with a cheap plastic back instead of the previously used metal had bought back part. The model is now expected, it in turn to evolution rather than revolution act.

In the center of the opening speech, the keynote, the marketing chief Phil Schiller tonight in the Moscone Center West in San Francisco will hold, something else will stand. Apple's future operating system Mac OS X, Snow Leopard. Its publication has already been announced for the summer, must be forthcoming shortly, already Microsoft's Windows 7 pre-empt.

Read the following pages: Highlights of the new iPhone, which the new mobile software, and whether Steve Jobs will indeed come.

Palms risky game with the Pre.

Saturday is the Palm Day: In the U.S. at the weekend is the new smartphone in the U.S. producer in the sale. Critics give the device high marks, fans eagerly wait for it. The success is still not secured.

 

San Francisco - Just over a year ago, some experts have hardly anything left on the pocket computer pioneer Palm to. The computer-phones from the Palm Treo series were at that time with modern smartphones like the iPhone, Apple does not keep pace.

And the big announcement
Foleo project for a new ultra-mobile PC in the autumn of 2007 was again stopped. Now Palm prove that the legendary company to product successes, such as the PalmPilot, the first "personal digital assistant (PDA) for the masses, can once again pick up. Together with the U.S. mobile provider Sprint Nextel launched the company in California this Saturday (June 6) the marketing of the smartphone Palm Pre.

Behind the design of the Pre is Jon Rubinstein, who was previously at Apple in the development of the iPod music player was responsible. For the development of pre Rubinstein canvassed some 250 experts mainly from Apple and other Silicon Valley companies. With this team, he wanted an Internet mobile phone design, which makes it not only with the iPhone or the new Google mobile phone record, but the models in some areas also have to be taken. Funding will be the last burst of Palm from venture capitalists Elevation Partners, in July 2007 more than 300 million U.S. dollars into the ailing company invested.

Integration of Social Networks

The result can be clearly seen: Known IT journalists in the U.S. such as David Pogue of the New York Times "or Walter Mossberg from the Wall Street Journal was the Palm before pre launch test and distribute good marks. "The Palm is a spectacular success. From zero to a hundred in the first version," writes Pogue. Mossberg looks at the pre an "intelligent and sophisticated product that will appeal especially those who (for a smartphone) want a physical keyboard."

Unlike the iPhone, the Palm is not only pre on a virtual keyboard, with the large number of recorders can not be friends. Furthermore, the pre run multiple programs simultaneously, resulting in the iPhone it is not possible.

Furthermore, the Palm Pre scores with a successful integration of social networks like Facebook or web services like Google Calendar.

Europe must wait again

Whether the Palm Pre laurels after the advance of the critics also a major sales success, is still out. For one can not pre anywhere with the iPhone to keep up. Since the Palm software developers only an extremely short lead time has to be the launch of the Pre little add-on programs available.

For the Apple cellphone, however, are now in the iTunes store more than 40,000 "Apps" are offered. Extensive games from the iTunes bestseller list, it will be for the Palm do not pre enter, since the Palm device for grafiklastige programs is not suitable.

The Sprint Nextel in the U.S. offered Pre Palm is outside the U.S. can hardly be used because it is based on the U.S. CDMA mobile standard running. A variant for Europe (GSM / UMTS) Palm has at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. For Germany, however, has neither a start date nor the partner for the mobile market announced.

Apple could make trouble

Palm also inconvenience threatens foes from Apple. Two days after the launch of Apple's pre gathered on Monday in San Francisco software developer for the World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC). There could be Apple's marketing chief Phil Schiller a new version of the iPhone imagine the Palm Pre immediately from the wind takes the sails.

In addition, Palm Apple to take legal action. The Palm Pre used not only by Apple's patented multi-touch technology "to control the smartphone with multiple fingers. A week ago Palm announced a surprise, precisely
the iTunes software from Apple to have chosen to download music tracks, videos and photos between a computer and the Palm Pre exchange. Thus the comparison between the pre and iTunes works, camouflages the Palm device technically seen as a music player from Apple. And how it works, knows the former iPod product manager Jon Rubinstein only too well.

Sony Ericsson painted with watercolors.

Mobile phone manufacturer Sony Ericsson has always had a green logo. Now, with years of delay compared to the rest of the industry, the group tries to get a matching green zuzulegen image - but is only moderately ambitious to work.

 

With two new phones, the Group intends to implement its goal, "the ecological footprint of the company to reduce." The German translation is slightly stupid-sounding phrase stands for the environmental damage caused by an activity occurring - from the mobile phone production to barbecue at the weekend. A large "footprint" stands for large loads and the environment is a matter for the image not at all good. The race for small footprints is part of the industry-wide competition. Now Sony Ericsson is also part of it - a Spätstart.

Only in September 2008 Sony Ericsson had the goal postulated to be a green future, and will now begin with the implementation. Very radical but it will probably not proceed: Until 2015, the CO2 balance of Sony Ericsson mobile phones by 15 percent.

How protects the environment while saving, Sony Ericsson wants its customers to show that they will no longer be bothered with printed manuals will be. Their task will be, at least for two on Thursday introduced mobile phones, electronic, pre-loaded on the mobile phone manuals assume. The paper consumption would be reduced by 90 percent, says the manufacturer. That is certainly true, but holds pitfalls - such as when the battery is empty or someone with the user needs exactly why, because he deals with mobile phones really do not know.

By eliminating the paper inserts can however also be smaller packaging. On this rotation is also Nokia have come - in a while. The waiver of packing material improves not only the LCA, but also the profit margin. Finally, smaller packages cost less, can be shipped cheaper. In addition to the environment also seems to be Sony Ericsson from the savings benefit.

Water color and recycled plastic

In addition to such cost-cutting measures, however, there is also real environmental improvements. Thus, the new model C901 Green Heart with a water color and painted with a headset that you almost completely from recycled plastic is produced. The model presented simultaneously Nait is opposed by a particularly economical charger.

Both phones is common, according to Sony Ericsson that their housing about half from recycled plastic. Furthermore, a very sensitive light sensor, the brightness of the display particularly sensitive to the ambient light and adjust as helping to save energy.

Apart from these changes and eco-supplied applications such as a CO2 calculator, it is two devices in order to completely normal mobile phones. While the Nait with its price of 159 euros apparently little more to users, is intended to the C901 Green Heart, with its 5-megapixel camera with xenon flash mobile photographers seem to address. Very interesting is the choice of storage media: When C901 is Sony's Memory Stick Micro for use, the cheaper Nait uses the Sony Ericsson long spurned microSD cards.

Good is not good enough

The idea of mobile phones more environmentally friendly, is quite understandable and encouraged. Just as Sony Ericsson is trying to take out, but remains the bland taste that only the bare minimum has been done. If it is an economical power supply, why are not all equipment delivered? And when a method has developed, environmentally friendly paints to use, then why not the same as in the manufacture of all products?

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Maybe because it is enough to set itself to achieve objectives. Total is supported by the innovations in both products' CO2 emissions by 15 percent, "reads a press release. This is sometimes good, is still half-heartedly. Perhaps we should simply aim to savings of 15 percent CO2 and revise rephrased into "as much as possible."

Sony Ericsson would have at least the eco-balance the nose before Nokia. The Finns have it that even with a mobile eco-tries, but the first model, the Evolve 3110, stuck. Also because there is pent-up demand.