Nokia Launched N82

The world's top cell phone maker Nokia has unveiled a new N-series multimedia phone, Nokia N82.

Features-

• 5 megapixel camera with a Carl Zeiss lens, up to 10x digital zoom, and can capture MPEG-4 VGA video at 30 frames per second.
• Xenon flash
• A-GPS for navigation with preinstalled Nokia maps and all the standard packages
• Wi-Fi connectivity
• 3G capabilities with HSDPA for faster Internet connection
• Bluetooth
  
• An integrated Stereo FM radio, TV output and document viewer
  

Source: 3G

Text Entry Error Rate Goes High With iPhone

User Centric, Inc., a Chicago-based usability consultancy, finished a third and final study examining the user experience of Apple’s iPhone. The study involved data from 60 participants who were asked to enter specific text messages and complete several mobile device tasks.

Previous studies by User Centric showed that overall design and usability of the iPhone was good, but the iPhone’s touch keyboard was a weak point for many users. The current study examines specific interactions with the iPhone touch keyboard and compares the texting experiences of iPhone owners and non-owners across devices.

Source: Cellphone Digest

Yahoo! Joined Hands With Mobile Operators in Asia Pacific

Yahoo! has announced 9 new partnerships with some of the leading mobile operators across the Asia Pacific region. Through Yahoo!'s partnerships with mobile operators, Yahoo! oneSearch, will power the search experience for consumers on partner mobile internet sites.

Mobile operators are:

• Aircel Limited (India)
• BPL Mobile (India)
• Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL; India)
• DiGi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd (DiGi; Malaysia)
• PT EXCELCOMINDO PRATAMA Tbk. (Excelcom; Indonesia)
• PT Hutchison CP Telecom (Hutch 3; Indonesia)
• PT Indosat, Tbk (Indosat; Indonesia)
• PCCW Mobile HK Limited (Hong Kong)
  
• Starhub Ltd (Singapore)

Source: Cellphone Digest

Hinglish As First Choice

To woo the young consumers, Motorola is banking onto Hinglish with the soon to be launched MotoYuva W180.

Handsets with the dual Hindi-English mode etched on keypads are already there in the market. But for the first time, there will be an embedded dictionary in a phone with 30,000 Hindi words, which would prompt the user with Hinglish terms the moment he/she keys in the first couple of alphabets.

Source: ET