Samsung Omnia HD review

Samsung Omnia HD is the new slim phone, with thickness of 12.9mm, from Samsung. It has a large screen size which is absolutely suitable for a touch screen phone. The call buttons are large and placed on the sides of menu button. On the sides of Samsung Omnia we have buttons for locking the screen, volume control buttons and the camera button. The interface of Samsung Omnia is very easy to navigate and its also an attractive one. The operating system of Samsung Omnia is based on Symbian OS. The touch screen has a good response and Samsung Omnia has got an option for onscreen QWERTY keyboard.

Samsung Omnia HD is powered by an ARM Cortes A8 600 MHz processor and it has a dedicated graphics chip. The 8 Mega Pixel camera is good for taking large pictures with better quality but the video clarity in low light is not as good as the still photos. Samsung Omnia HD supports 720pvideo recording. The sound clarity through head phones are good but the loud speakers are not having large volume.

Samsung Omnia HD supports WiFi, GPS and bluetooth connectivity. The inbuilt memory of Samsung Omnia HD is 8/16 GB and the memory is expandable using a micro SD card. Samsung Omnia provides a good browsing experience with its browser which has the option to resize web pages at a finger swipe.

The battery life of Samsung Omnia HD is not good as for a high end phone. We need to recharge the battery daily even if we are not using highly. The Samsung Omnia HD price in India is approximately Rs.33,990.

Special Features of Samsung Omnia HD:

• The World's First HD Video Recording on Mobile
• 3.7" QHD Super Vivid AMOLED Display
• HSUPA 5.76Mbps/HSDPA 7.2Mbps
• 8 Megapixel Autofocus Camera
• Multi Codec (DivX, MPEG4)
• Web Browsing (S60 OSS-Safari core)
• Full Touch Screen

Technical Specifications Of Samsung Omnia HD:

Size: 123 mm x 58mm x 12.9mm

Weight: 144g

Talk time: Up to 13.5H

Stand by: Up to 600H

OS: Symbian S60 5.0 (full touch UI)

JAVA: JAVA™ MIDP 2.0

Internet Browser: S60 OSS (Safari Core)

Camera resolution: 8 Megapixel CMOS + CIF

Zoom: Digital zoom X4

Flash: Power LED Flash

Focus: Auto Focus

Ringtones: wma, mp3, m4a, amr, 3pg, aac, mp4, mmf, wav, awb, ra, mid , imy, rtx, rttl, rng, mxmf, xmf1, xmf0, xmf, rmf, midi

Player: MP3/ AAC / AAC+ / eAAC+ / WMA / RA

Radio: FM Radio with RDS

Radio Recording: Yes

Podcasts: Yes

Download Applications: Yes

Document Viewer: Yes

Mobile Printing: Yes

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Sony Ericsson K550i

Sony Ericsson K550i is one of the best feature rich multimedia phone from Sony Ericsson in the mid range. It is one of the entry level phones from Sony Ericsson in the cybershot category. It has got a stylish design which catches everyone's eyes. The looks of Sony Ericsson K550i is amazing but it has got very small keys in the keypad. So it's difficult to type faster initially, but its easy when we get used to it. Another feature is that unlike other Sony Ericsson phones it doesn't have a joystick for navigation but a 5 way navigation key is used. So you need not get worried of loosing joystick by playing games on your mobile. The keypad also has shortcut keys for connecting internet and accessing minimized applications.

Sony Ericsson K550i is the entry level model in the cybershot series with a 2 mega pixel camera. It has also got an LED flash and a covering slide to protect the camera. Also some useful photo editing tools are also pre-installed in Sony Ericsson K550i. Options to upload photo to your blog and send directly through MMS are also available with Sony Ericsson K550i. We can record video and take snapshots from the video using tools in this mobile phone.

It supports audio formats like mp3, aac and video formats like 3gp for playing your audio and video files. Sony Ericsson K 550i also has separate players for audio and video playing. The sound through speakers is little bit low, but the quality of sound through head sets are amazing. It has got an internal memory of 64 MB and you can expand the memory using a micro memory card upto 2 GB which is enough for storing lot of music and photos.

Sony Ericsson K550i has connectivity options like GPRS, EDGE and it doesn't have 3G support which is a major drawback. It has good battery backup but not the best for a phone in cybershot series. The Sony Ericsson K550i gets heated when we use it continuously for a long time which is also a drawback. Overall its a good phone in the mid range budget with a price of around Rs.7000 (approximately). If you need 3GP facility you can look for Sony Ericsson K530i which having almost same functions and price.

Technical Specification:

Screen:

262.144 color TFD, 176x220 pixels

Memory

- Memory Stick Micro™ (M2™) support (up to 2 GB)
- Phone memory 64MB

Networks

- GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900

Available colours: Jet Black - Plum Ruby - Pearl White - Sophisticated Silver

Sizes

- 102.0 x 46.0 x 14.0 mm
- 4.0 x 1.8 x 0.6 inches

Kurbaan Movie Review

Kurbaan was one of the most expected film from Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor and directed by Rensil D'Silva. The move is related to love and terrorism, some what like movie Fanna but not exactly the same story. Only the first few scenes of the movie was shooted in India and the rest was in America. The cators in leading roles are Vivek Oberoi, Dia Mirza, Om Puri and Kirron Kher.

Avantika and Ehsaan are colleagues in a Delhi University where Avantika has joined there recently. She was in US and returned to Delhi after her father faces a cardiac arrest. Ehsaan and Avantika falls in love and soon Avantika gets her call letter to join back in US University. Ehsaan was not ready to loose her so he also goes with her to USA and joins in the same University as a professor teaching Islam and Modern World, where Avantika is working.

Avantika's life changes when she meets her neighbor Salma. Salma tells her that her life is in danger and requests her to help her by contacting her friend Rihana who is a TV reporter. Avantika meets Rihana and Riyaz (news reporter) and informs what she saw. In the next day she searches the basement of Salmas house and founds Salmas dead body and saw some terrorists planing to blast a aeroplane. She tries to inform Rihana but fails, soon Ehsaan comes there and she tells him to call police. Then she realizes that he was also in there gang and he was using her as a medium to reach USA safely.Rihana also dies in the plane explosion.

The terrorists then plans to bomb blast several metro stations in US by suicidal missions. Riyaz also joins with terrorist group to know about there plans. In the climax Riyaz was caught and he shots one among them and tries to escape. Then Ehsaan came to know than one bomb was also placed in Avantika's bag. He rescues Riyaz and tells him to save Avantika's life. Ehsaan changes his mind and diffuses his bomb but other two bombs blasts in two statios. In the end Avantika was saved by Ehsaan and then the cops came to arrest him but he dies to save Avantika.

The movie is not upto the standard of a most expected film but the climax is little bit long  and exciting.

Directed by Rensil D'Silva

Produced by Karan Johar and Hiroo Johar

Written by Rensil D'Silva, Niranjan Iyengar, Anurag Kashyap

Starring : Saif Ali Khan - Ehsaan

              Kareena Kapoor - Avantika

              Om Puri - Terrorist

              Vivek Oberoi - Riyaz

              Diya Mirza - Rihana

Distributed by UTV Motion Pictures

Kurbaan Movie Trailer

Microsoft Windows Movie Maker - The Free Video Editing Software

Microsoft Windows Movie Maker is one of the simple and free video editing software from Microsoft. It is included in Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Windows Vista, but not in Microsoft Windows 7. Windows Movie Maker was first introduced in 2000 in Windows ME and the latest versions available are Windows Movie Maker 2.1 for Windows XP SP2, Windows Movie Maker 2.5 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 and Windows Movie Maker 2.6 for Windows Vista. You can download and use Windows Movie Maker in Windows 7, even though it is not pre-installed.

Features of Windows Movie Maker:

The main features in Windows Movie Maker are effects, transitions, titles/credits, audio track, time line narration and auto movie. A video transition decides how the movie plays from one clip to the next one, video effect determines how a video clip, picture or title is displayed in the movie, titles/credits are for adding text based information to the the movie and the auto movie feature helps to create movie quickly with pre defined effects and transitions.

Unlike other video editing software Windows Movie Maker is simple to use. We can import video clip, audio clip or a picture from our computer or any external sources with a single click. The editing is also simple, we have to drag and drop each clip to the time line according to the order it has to be displayed, we can also change the order in later (before saving). The video effects available for each clip can be selected by right clicking the clip after placing it in the time line storyboard. For adding video transition just drag the selected transition effect and drop it in the space between two clips.After editing we can save the movie in our computer in .wma format or DV AVI. Other options like send to email and publish in web are also available to share small clips through internet in Windows Movie Maker. You can also burn your video in a disc for sharing.

Another advantage of Windows Movie Maker is that all the effects are XML based, so if you know XML you can create custom effects and transitions for your video.

Windows Live Movie Maker

Windows Livw Movie Maker is a part of Windows Live and it is for replacing the Windows Movie Maker in Windows Vista. Currently Windows Movie Maker is not pre installed in WIndows 7 and users can use it online as Windows Live Movie Maker. It allows users to make HD videos and publish videos to YouTube. Windows Live Movie Maker is not compatible with the Windows versions prior to Windows Vista.

Yamaha Fazer - The New Look

Yamaha introduced Fazer in the mid of 2004 with 125cc engine. But it was a flop in the market. So it was the reason for the introduction of all new Yamaha with new trendy looks and powerful 150cc engine.

There is no much difference in Yamaha FZ and Fazer when we compare. The front portion of Fazer looks like the Yamaha R15 and we can see changes in the rear view mirrors. So the new Yamaha Fazer becomes more stylish than the old one. Fazer has also got new and stylish graphics in its body. The plastic resin covering over the fuel tank has given a new look to Fazer. The instrument panels including fuel gauge, speedometer, tachometer and trip meter of Fazer is fully made of Liquid Crystal Display (LED). It has also got an additional indicator which indicates whether the engine has started or not. The Fazer is available in different colors like lava red, mid night black, flaming orange and electric blue.

The Yamaha Fazer has got a 153cc, four stroke, single cylinder engine which can produce 13.8bhp power at 7500 rpm. The maximum torque is 14NM at 6000 rpm. To improve the response of the bike with power of engine, Yamaha has added negative pressure type 26 mm carburetor with Yamaha throttle response sensor to the Fazer. The gear is return type 5 speed transmission in international way like first gear up and rest down. The mono shock suspension in the Fazer provides better riding to the passenger in the back seat. To improve the grip and handling of bike, a 140/60 - 17'' tyre is at the rear side and 100/80 - 17'' tyre is on the front side. It has got 267 mm disk break on the front wheel and 130mm drum break on the rear wheel.

Yamaha Fazer is an excellent partner for a city ride but it's not advised to use it for a long ride or tour. Normally you can expect a mileage of 45-50 km per liter from Yamaha Fazer and the fuel tank has capacity of 12 liters.

The price of Yamaha with electric start and disk break is approximately Rs.72,000 excluding the tax, insurance and registration amounts.

Special Features of Yamaha Fazer:

•  Widest Radial Tyre
•  Slick Graphics
•  Suspension    Meter Console
•  Sporty Twin Headlights  
•  Sheet Skin
  

Technical Specification of Yamaha Fazer:

Engine of Yamaha Fazer

Engine type                : Air-cooled, 4-stroke, SOHC, 2-valve
Displacement               : 153.0cm3
Maximum power         : 14PS / 7500 rpm
Maximum torque         : 14 Nm / 6000 rpm
Starting system            : Electric start
Fuel tank capacity       : 12 litres
Transmission type        : Return type 5-speed

Chassis of Yamaha Fazer

Brake type(front/rear)     : Hydraulic single disc / drum
Headlight     1                 : 2V35W/35W+35W

Dimensions of Yamaha Fazer

Overall Length × Width × Height   : 1,975mm × 770mm × 1,045mm
Seat height                                    : 790mm
Wheelbase                                    : 1,335mm
Minimum ground clearance            : 160mm
Dry weight/Kerb weight                : 130 kg / 141 kg

Nokia N900 - RAW COMPUTER POWER

 Nokia N900 the new mobile with the power of a computer from Nokia has lot of features. The mobile is powered by a 600 Hz processor and upto 1 GB application memory (256 MB RAM and & 768 MB virtual memory). The ARM Cortex -A8 super scalar microprocessor provides an unimaginable power and speed to the applications you work. The Nokia N900 is supported by a Linux based operating system which is new in the Nokia mobiles and it also has 3D graphics accelerator with OpenGL ES 2.0 support.

It has got stylish looks and a sleek compact design. The 800 x 480 touch screen (3.5'' WVGA) display provides high clarity in watching movies and photos. It has a tactile and onscreen keyboard and a removable battery. The integrated assisted-GPS receiver helps you to find your position immediately and it has also got Ovi maps pre-installed in it.

Coming to multimedia features, it has got a 5 Megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optical lens and dual LED flash and supports video recording at a resolution of 800 x 480. The built in memory of 32 GB allows you to store upto 7000 songs or 40 hours of DVD quality video. It also supports an additional memory of 48 GB with an external microSD card.

The connectivity features include 3.5G, WLAN, Quad band GSM with GPRS and EDGE. It allows the  data transfer spped up to 10/2 Mbps over supported cellular network and 54 Mbps data transfer over a WiFi network. It also supports Flash version 9.4 and full screen browsing as in a mini laptop.

Other Features of Nokia N900:

• Powerful Maemo web browser powered by Mozilla engine to surf like a browser in a computer.
• Easy multitasking like switching between different applications and ongoing conversations.
• Personalized multiple desktops with features to add calendar, map, media player, web shortcuts and more to your desktop.
• Geo tagging which adds GPS tags to you pictures to know from where exactly it is taken.
• Friend connect helps to check whether your friend is online in Skype, Gtalk or other instant messengers.
• Options to automatically share your current location with friends.
• Options to copy and paste text and images across different applications without any restrictions.
• FM transmitter to listen music from your player through car stereo or FM radio.

Price of Nokia N900: $650 (approx.)

Technical Specification of Nokia N900:

Display

• 3.5 inch touch-sensitive widescreen display
• 800 × 480 pixel resolution

Language support

British English, American English, Canadian French, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Swedish, Russian

Connectivity

• 3.5mm AV connector
• TV out (PAL/NTSC) with Nokia Video Connectivity Cable
• Micro-USB connector, High-Speed USB 2.0
• Bluetooth v2.1 including support for stereo headsets
• Integrated FM transmitter
• Integrated GPS with A-GPS

Processor and 3D accelerator

TI OMAP 3430: ARM Cortex-A8 600 MHz, PowerVR SGX with OpenGL ES 2.0 support

Memory

Up to 1GB of application memory (256 MB RAM, 768 MB virtual memory)

Size and weight

Volume:

Approx 113cc

Dimensions:

110.9 × 59.8 × 18 (19.55 at thickest part) mm

Weight:

Approx 181g

Mass memory

• 32 GB internal storage
• Store up to 7000 MP3 songs or 40 hours of high-quality video
• Up to 16 GB of additional storage with an external microSD card

Keys and input method

• Full QWERTY tactile keyboard
• Full QWERTY onscreen keyboard

Operating frequency

• Quad-band GSM EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
• WCDMA 900/1700/2100 MHz

Data network

GPRS class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 107/64.2 kbps (DL/UL) EDGE class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 296/177.6 kbps (DL/UL) WCDMA 900/1700/2100. Maximum speed PS 384/384 kbps (DL/UL) HSPA 900/1700/2100. Maximum speed PS 10/2 Mbps (DL/UL) WLAN IEEE 802.11b/g

Call features

• Integrated hands-free stereo speakers
• Call waiting, call hold, call divert
• Call timer
• Logging of dialed, received and missed calls
• Speed dialing via contact widget
• Virbrating alert (internal)
• Side volume keys
• Mute/unmute
• Contacts with images
• Conference calling with up to 3 participants
• Internet calling

Email & Messaging

• Supported protocols: Mail for Exchange, IMAP, POP3, SMTP
• Support for email attachments
• Support for rich HTML
• SMS and Instant Messages as conversations
• Support for Nokia Messaging service
• Instant messaging and presence enhanced contacts
• Multiple number, email and Instant Messaging details per contact, contacts with images
• Support for assigning images to contacts

Web browsing

• Maemo browser powered by Mozilla technology
• Adobe Flash™ 9.4 support
• Full screen browsing

GPS

• Integrated GPS, Assisted-GPS, and Cell-based receivers
• Pre-loaded Ovi Maps application
• Automatic geotagging

Camera

• 5 megapixel camera (2584 × 1938 pixels)
• Image formats: JPEG
• CMOS sensor, Carl Zeiss optics, Tessar lens
• 3 × digital zoom
• Autofocus with assist light and two-stage capture key
• Dual LED flash
• Full-screen viewfinder
• Photo editor on device
• TV out (PAL/NTSC) with Nokia Video Connectivity Cable (CA-75U, included in box) or WLAN/UPnP
• Landscape (horizontal) orientation
• Capture modes: Automatic, portrait, video, macro, landscape, action

Video

• Wide aspect ratio 16:9 (WVGA)
• Video recording file format: .mp4; codec: MPEG-4
• Video recording at up to 848 × 480 pixels (WVGA) and up to 25fps
• Video playback file formats: .mp4, .avi, .wmv, .3gp; codecs: H.264, MPEG-4, Xvid, WMV, H.263

Music and audio playback

• Maemo media player
• Music playback file formats: .wav, .mp3, .AAC, .eAAC, .wma, .m4a
• Built-in FM transmitter
• Ring tones: .wav, .mp3, .AAC, .eAAC, .wma, .m4a
• FR, EFR, WCDMA, and GSM AMR

Personalisation

• Background pictures
• Widgets on your desktops
• Intelligent contact shortcuts
• Shortcuts to your favourite websites
• Shortcuts to applications
• Themes

Operating system

Maemo 5 software on Linux

Applications

• Maemo Browser
• Phone
• Conversations
• Contacts
• Camera
• Photos
• Media player
• Email
• Calendar
• Ovi Maps
• Clock
• Notes
• Calculator
• PDF reader
• File manager
• RSS reader
• Sketch
• Games
• Widgets
• Application manager for downloads

Contents in Box:

• Nokia N900
• Nokia Battery (BL-5J)
• Nokia High Efficiency Charger (AC-10)
• Nokia Stereo Headset (WH-205)
• Video out cable (CA-75U)
• Nokia charger adapter (CA-146C)
• Cleaning cloth

IndiaStudyChannel - Best Educational Website in India

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2012 Movie Review

2012 is the movie from the great director of movies Independence Day and Day After Tomorrow,  Roland Emmerich. The movie tells the story about how world is going to end and if it is possible for human race to continue in earth.

The story starts with discovery of sudden increase of heat in the earth's crust due to penetrated neutrinos from sun by a astrophysicist in India. It was reported to the US President by his friend Adrian Helmsley and at the 36th G8 summit the leaders of the nation decided to choose 400000 people and accommodate them safely in huge arks for the continuity of human life.

The hero in the movie is Jackson Curtis who is a writer and a part time limousine driver to a billionaire. He plans to go for a trip with his children Noha and Lily to the Yellowstone National Park. They enters into the restricted area and saw an evaporated lake. They found Charlie Forst a radio show analyst who knows about the Mayans prediction about the world end and he also tolds them that he has got a map on the ark's location, which is the only way of survival on earth. Jackson and his children returns to home and by that time earth quakes occur in San Fransisco and California.

In the next day he dropped the Russian billionaires children on a private plane and was confused of there talking, so he arranged a private plane for his family also to escape from there if anything happens. Soon the earth's crust began displacement and he collects his family including Gordon his ex-wife's husband and fly towards Los Angels.

He now believes what Charlie told him and he flies to Yellowstone Nationals park to collect the map of ark's location from Charlie. He gets the map from Charlie and found that the ark's are in China.

Then they lands on another airport and founds the Russian billionaire and his children there with Sasha pilot and his girlfriend Tamara. They flew to China in a new plane and on the way they found that they have not enough fuel to reach China. SO they crash lands the plane and Sasha dies. They found that they are on China due to the displacement of earth's crust and a rescue mission founds them. But they only take the Russian millionaire and his children who were having tickets to ark with them. Jackson and his family starts walking and they found a truck going towards the mountains where ark is situated. Nima a Buddhist monk was in the truck with his grandparents he helps them to reach ark and Nima's brother who was working with the ark's construction helps them to get into the ark through another way.But on that adventures way Tamara and Gordon loss there life and the others where escaped.

The tsunami hits the ark but all were safe in the ark and then the title appears as Day 27 Month 00, Year 00. The tsunami eventually recedes and arks set sail to the Cape of Good Hope. In the ending the continents of Earth have merged to become one landmass in the shape of Africa.

Director: Roland Emmerich

Writers: Roland Emmerich and Harold Kloser

Cast:  John Cusack - Jackson Curtis

         Amanda Peet - Kate Curtis

         Chiwetel Ejiofor - Adrian Helmsley

         Zlatko Buric - Yuri Karpov (Russian Millionare)

         Woody Harrelson - Charlie Frost

You can read about the theories and predictions on year 2012 end of world from here: 2012 end of world

2012 Movie Trailer

Windows XP

Windows XP is the best operating system for a beginner in the world of computers. It’s having one of the best user interface system which supports both the entry level and top level users. It supports every features that a user needs including multimedia facilities, office utilities, security features and lot more. It is the best reliable and compatible operating system from Microsoft with latest Windows 2000 technology and multi language support of about 24 languages. We can check the features in XP one by one now.

User Interface of Windows XP:

As said earlier Windows XP has got one of the best user interface among the Microsoft family of operating system. We can add/create shortcut icons in the ‘Desktop’ itself for each program we regularly uses. The ‘Start’ menu is also very useful, we don’t have look inside the program files for our installed software's . Every installed software's is listed in the ‘Start’ menu of Windows XP. We can browse through the folders very easily through the ’My Computer’ in XP. All the drives in XP is listed in ‘My Computer’. The Windows explorer has got easy navigation tools like ‘Back’, ‘Forward’, ‘Up’ and a search utility to find our files and folders easily.

Windows XP also has ‘Switch User’ option in the ‘Shut Down’ menu. With this option w can switch users in a fast and simple way without log off of current user. Also you don’t need to be an expert in configuring your internet connection or your software installation or what ever things in XP, the WIZARD in XP will help you to do each task. Each and every tool or window in XP has got a help option to ensure easy use of XP.

Multimedia Facility in Windows XP:

Windows XP comes with the built in media player called ‘Windows Media Player’ for streaming your media files like mp3, mpeg etc. But for playing some additional types of files you need to install additional codecs and plugins. Some of the common files supported by Windows Media Player by default are .asf, .wma, .wmv, .wav, .mp3, .midi, .aiff. Files like .avi and .flv can be played by installing codecs to the Windows Media Player or by installing additional software's like VLC Media Player which is free. Windows Media Player also has options to stream internet radio, online video broadcasts, download music or videos from the web and rip (convert) audio CD’s to .wma format.

Windows XP also has latest Microsoft Direct X technology which gives an ultimate experience in playing computer games and watching high definition DVD quality movies

Office Utilities in Windows XP:

The default office utilities available in XP are Notepad, Word pad, Calculator and Address book. But you can install additional software Microsoft Office which is a paid one. If you have no bucks to spent for that then you can choose free office packages like Open Office. These packages has got tools for writing notes, creating databases, configuring emails, creating web pages and lot more .

Networking and Security features in Windows XP:

Windows XP has got easy networking wizards to share files and printers between computers connected in a network. Windows Firewall always alerts the user if an external or vulnerability is found in the network. But it is said that the most of attacks through internet is targeted mainly to Windows XP machines. So it is better to use a good internet security software before you connect your machine to any network.

Internet Explorer is the default browser in Windows XP and you can easily browse web pages through it. You need to install additional plugins in order to watch streaming videos and animations through your browser. Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera are the other good internet browsers for Windows XP.

Microsoft is regularly updating the vulnerabilities in Windows XP and Windows XP SP 3 is the latest service pack available for users.