As more and more cell phones and smartphones offers GPS, GPS devices must had to be clever beautify themselves. That's what made Papago!, Ä Taiwanese company, released Ä R5800. The main function of this device is GPS, but have extra facilities such as a card reader for SD Card. The goal? If SD card is filled photos, music or video, GPS can also be a multimedia player. Frankly, we never expect a GPS can be multifunctional, such as this, especially considering that the car is usually already available audio devices, and (sometimes) video. But when we try, the result is spelled out fairly. The screen size of 5 inches and 480x272 pixel resolution display is good enough movie, although we expect a wider viewing angles in order to keep a good image when viewed from the side. The screen itself is touch screen that requires no stylus. To access the menu, we just press with your finger. The screen itself is responsive, although several times we experienced a push of the fingers that are not listed. All menus are presented in the Indonesian language, so it is easy to understand. Maps that are included are very complete because it is supported by a community navigasi.net. We note there are maps for 33 provinces in Indonesia, from Aceh to Papua. For small towns, addresses available is limited. But for large cities, especially in Java, spelled complete data available. In addition, the map also includes the POI (Point of Interest) including banks, shopping centers, to retail outlets. But so complete, address lookup requires several stages. For example to enter the address look up in Jakarta, it takes four buttons to get into the Keyword menu from the main page. In our view, the main page should have been there so we only search field type in the address that we are headed. Fortunately, Papago has a smart approach in the process of writing the keywords. When we pressed the sequence of letters, the board lit keyboard letters existing only correlations; the rest off. Examples like this. When we press the P button, some buttons are still lit. But when we next pressing the letter B (so in a column written PB), only the S button is lit. This means that in the GPS database there is only one address containing the PBS sequence, namely Peace PBSI (an area in East Jakarta). This mode makes the process of typing quickly and effectively was signaled when we enter the wrong keyword. If an address is often we visit, we were able to enter the address to the Favorites column so we only squeeze the menu twice to get the route to that address. We tried this device with a drive from Pondok Cabe area to area Kebon Jeruk (approximately 20 km). First lit, this device takes about 10 seconds to find the initial position, and less than a minute to find a route to the destination address. By default, the display provides two-dimensional type, but we can choose to display three-dimensional (Junction View). In order not bother glancing at the screen, Papago! R5800 has a female voice that speaks the navigation in the Indonesian language. The follow up gone smoothly, though some seem not quite fit the way the election. For example in the tunnel ahead of Pondok Indah Mall, Papago! R5800 led us stay in left lane. In fact, it should go into the tunnel. But outside of that minor faults, this GPS works well. *** Though can be a multimedia player, we think the biggest attraction Papago! R5800 is in the Indonesian-language menu and complete map database. The price is around Rp.3 millions also spelled competitive in its class. Even if there are to be repaired is a touch-screen menus and more intuitive.
There was much discussion on the Internet about OLED TVs and plasma displays last replacement, 3-D television has been introduced as the next best thing based on a presentation at CES Panasonic surprising. Panasonic offers look back in 2009, many new television shows will happen Panasonic plasma TV.
Plasma TVs are not anything new, but many models introduced by Panasonic happen very well in today's technology standards and comes in different models to serve the budget users and almost all people want plasma screens for their living room. The best living room plus a TV that measures 42-50 inches diagonally, but there are still many models to choose from. For Budget Users The C1 is as basic things that can get and although it does not have a Full HD specification, still has two HDMI inputs, 15,000:1 contrast ratio, 600Hz Sub-field Drive for smooth performance, and come in 42 "and 50" sizes. Through a little extra for the X1 to double the contrast ratio, a bump up to three HDMI inputs and to enjoy the benefits of the Anti-Reflective Filter. The U1 is the best budget model to get a Full HD 1080p if necessary to make the most out of HD cable and enjoy the latest Blu-ray titles in top resolution. A 46-inch size for this model there as well. When Money is not a Factor Spending a lot on Panasonic plasma TVs actually benefit these days considering all the great addition and the technology to make the Panasonic includes more than just watching TV and cable movies. Starting with the G10, this Panasonic plasma TV stand out with a THX-certified logo, which means that the films are played back in the best performance. This was combined with native 40,000:1 contrast ratio and NEO PDP approach to big energy savings while maintaining its brightness. He also has a LAN port on the back that uses independent features VIERA CAST brings web content to your TV allowing specific web content for display on TV, including services such as YouTube, Amazon Video on Demand, and other news sites. It also allows viewing images on the camera or video in AVCHD camcorders. S1 VIERA CAST and the lack of AVCHD support, but offers 58 "and 65" sizes as well. V10 is the most feature-rich packages and begins at 50 ". In addition to features of the G10, V10 Panasonic plasma TV has four HDMI inputs and RS-232C for maximum connectivity with home theater systems and sports 24p cinematic playback to add a home theater experience. 50 "model is not only the best high-end TVs to save money, but also the best in flexibility because it is equipped with a swivel base. The Z1 also a good 54" TV to choose because it offers wireless connectivity of HD. The best place to get one of these TVs on Amazon.com. With a line-up, every plasma TV has a unique purpose to fulfill all customer needs are diverse.
After having the phone for a good month now, I finally feel qualified to review the various features of this phone and give low-down on some more esoteric features of this fantastic little kit.
Phone Basics ------------------- In short, great call quality, contact management is sensible, but detailed and menus and general layout is very much in our blood vessels come to expect from Nokia. The battery is very dependent on what you use the phone, but you can manage about 2 hours max a day with some moderate applications. This can improve if you dim the screen, turn off 3g etc, but frankly, as a magical toy, really want to do it? My advice, charger for a job to go along with one house. When I spent a few thousand a month minutes on the phone, I found I quickly identify interference with basic features, and so far, have had none with the N95. Symbian element means it is relatively easy to do fancy things like taking pictures, looking for contacts or calendar entries, or even go to a web page, while the middle of the call! The screen is one of the best I've seen on a handheld device, and mobile phone form factor is slightly smaller than my old N80, and pretty sexy (my wife, never in style junkie agrees). In fact, last night to pick up the old N80 I felt like I was stepping back five years.
Texting is allegedly good, Nokia dictionary is easy to add, the force input to be switched, symbols (including new-line character finally) inserted etc. I was quite impressed to see if you select the input language! "French" for example has a French dictionary associated and correctly accented letter. Maybe this is a common feature in modern mobile phones-I have never seen one before.
There was also some improvement over the N80 in the form, like the slider a little more spring up. Keylock function is a big improvement on the previous slider phone and it seems to keep me from calling friends randomly. More advanced "basic", video calls worked fine, first time working with my wife's K800i. In fact, one of the most subtle impressions I have of this phone is that the simplest things are not working, the first time.
Contacts standards, supports businesscards (although still having communication problems when formatted sony ericsson receive a business card). All contacts have voice tags linked automatically to their computer-sound basically trying to say the name you have entered into your contacts. This is used to allow you to activate the voice-contacts without really need to record sound and then associate it with the contacts. This works for the most part, quite good. Sometimes if you contact this strange name, you do better to say it phonetically as it will not always get the right pronunciation!
Camera ------------ 5 megapixel camera is a respectable resolution for a camera phone, and I think Nokia has done well with a clear criticism of the previous answer-phone is, they have been implemented autofocus (although it was slow enough to hurt), and they've included a very durable cover switch ( so the lens you can not destroyed). Add to that some features of higher-end photo-like white balance, scene modes (portrait mode etc), carl Zeiss lens is required and I think they have a winner in the category of a camera phone. flash is a waste of time though, and the response speed of the shot would make him feel awkward in comparison to all but the actual camera, cheapest digital world. Apparently the latest firmware to increase this slightly, but overall I thought it consigns itself to the camera-phone world rather than a promotion for a replacement digital camera!
Video -------- Frankly, I find this far more impressive than the reality-camera video clips are 640x480 and 30 frames per second makes great video quality to be honest and miles better than the old VHS cameras and certainly very little worse than the right digital video camera . Certainly good enough for normal TV screen and good enough to make friends jaw dropped when I plugged mine into my set one night. The sound quality when recording is also very good, very sharp and very useful. I'm considering establishing a music video for-fun with this because this is very "mobile" so special camera effects should not be difficult to achieve!
GPS ------- This feature is definitely one feature I'm most happy to get the phone. Having a sense of navigation from badgers to death, I imagined myself sitting-navving way around the streets of London on foot, never lost again. Since then I discovered that the length of time connected to the satellite (sometimes up to 10 minutes) makes it quite practical for the short ad-hoc navigation. A Google map (the application is installed) is much better for it. Fortunately, two weekends back, decided to buy a cat in Reading and got a chance to try it in anger. My wife is a techno-skeptic and forced me to print a map of AA as well, but we do not end up using it. Volume on the phone more than enough to be heard in the car, and the navigation is sound, properly identify when we went off track and adjust routes accordingly. There is a single error in the roundabout (it did not work to say who came out to leave off), but may have up to the fact that it is dynamically loading more maps 3g. I would recommend downloading the necessary maps to the phone.
You need to open the slider phone as the GPS receiver is under the "#" key smash, which is a shame, but not a train. This may be annoying if you intend to mount it on your dashboard.
Overall, the restrictions on the satellite link rather long time (to remind the old tom-tom), the experience was very positive, and certainly won more than my wife. This is enabled via SMS, so it is very easy. I believe it is something like a cheap price for a three-year navigation. If I have a permanent car, I would activate it. Of course you can calculate a route and see a map area without paying for the navigation feature. This will not track you on the ground. GPS itself has all the bells and whistles, including the level of street view, the English woman's voice crisp and clear display that works well as you expect. One warning gets a car charger, because it sucks the battery dry your phone in about an hour and a half (although in my opinion, is still quite impressive).
Music -------- Wow, that's right to play other MP3 phones-a big deal? Well, I really enjoyed it, first as find online sites that sell my 2 GB card for a very cheap price (!)? It was 35-40 cd on my phone. The next step is to see how I can get music onto it. I cheered when I found the Nokia supports MTP and therefore Napster. For those who do not know, you can purchase a music subscription, which allows you to download an unlimited number of tracks and use them as long as you keep paying. As I'm a serious music consumers, I think it's fair price to pay (others may disagree), and it's possible to have up to three mobile devices embedded in Napster you can use "not connected". They call it the Napster-to-go which effectively means I can keep topping up my Nokia with any new CD took luxury and legal.
The player itself is also feature-can display thumbnails from that album, has a graphic equalizer so you can tweak the bass, or treble, so knock out a song White Stripes unexpectedly pierce your eardrums. You can create playlists, repeat and shuffle, and even showed a bit of visual oscilloscope graph if that interests you. There are two built in effects "stereo widening" and "loudness" that I personally do not think is necessary, but it still shows that Nokia has put in a little extra effort.
And the bright sparks at Nokia brilliant add a normal headphone jack to the phone so you can finally use your Bose headphones (or a cheap old favorite) to the phone without having to buy any adapter. Ergonomics of the socket is not ideal, because in addition to, but not too much trouble. The sound quality was fine (although depending on the choice of earphones, the bit rate of MP3 etc. etc.).
Menu ---------- Everything can be customized, from the normal Nokia menu, the menu slide slick visuals (icons in a sort of curve, with a lens that rotates when you slide in between them). Menu front has a set of useful shortcuts that can run applications downloaded (so I've installed Gmail to one of them) and generally very helpful. You can also assign shortcuts to the key directions.
Improvement ----------------- The theme of this phone, beyond all the techno gadgetry are improvements, repairs, improvements. In no particular order, here are some things that have really impressed me. -The form factor is incredible charger that will never disturb the neighbors like the old chunkier plug adapter. This small and also, more importantly, quiet. Some older chargers have a barely audible scream high note, which disturb the hell out of my wife's bionic.
-You can see on your screen menu, what is running in the background, like pulling a small spinning circle icon next to a very good if you accidentally let the battery run some heavy applications accidentally.
-Very good alarm clock that lets you set some alarm that is very quick and easy, they just go on weekdays, or a specific date
-When receiving a call and your profile is set to have the ringing tone is heard, the screen will appear titled "silence" is fantastic to silence the phone quickly without hanging over your caller. So useful!
-I 'always hated joysticks (aka Sony Ericssons) they die quickly and become annoying. I also have some Nokias, including the N80 and 6320 (which has one direction to push the button to apply evenly press "" as the opposite direction "" I've always found the ergonomics of the navigation becomes a bit this Shakey N95 has a central button (not directional) in directional pad. This worked perfectly, and I do not have any problems with it.
-The web browser is one of the best I have ever used on mobile devices have a small cursor; use the directional pad is easy to maneuver. It made the most perfect web page for part-and through 3g, this is fast enough to be actually used. I've used extensively to catch up with the version of (non-mobile) bbc news on the train into work. It also has many additional features such as the technophile ability to read syndicated news feeds (basically a summary of news headlines that link to the main story), navigate backwards and forwards, run javascript, dealing with pop-ups, dealing with encrypted pages, etc etc. etc
They put a mini-usb cable standard on it (Hooray!) - We all have tons of standard cable digital camera in our house today, and the nokia n95 to use one of them to connect, this means you no longer tied to a cable (expensive) patents, but can take the necessary if you lose you for under five pounds. Also, if you keep one connected to your PC for use with other cameras or MP3 players, you can use it as normal with the phone. That's the big surprise victory in my opinion.
Gallery ---------- This gallery contains a very functional program that allows you to slide through the preview pics etc or run a slideshow (if, for example attached to a tv!) A large one. Slide-show very apple-mac, that is not just a static image after image, it starts at slightly enlarged and slowly raise or pot, which adds a lot of interest and make it more interesting to watch it was almost "generated". This was also cross-fades the picture that makes all feel a lot more slippery. You can even play a song for a while he did the slide-show, set the delay and turn the zoom / pan or disable the feature. Office Equipment --------------- This lets you view Word docs, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations even, but of course, was debated for usability when dealing with large docs or spreadsheets. I have not played with this much (because I'm not a salesman)! This phone also opens PDF that can be useful when surfing to a site that only has a PDF you need to read something. There is also a flash player, which plays back the most static but animated show for the fox's interactivity.
Useful bits'n'bobs ------------------------- There are small units of large converters, including the mass, weight, etc., very useful. A "barcode" reader, though not the barcode as we know them, but "semacodes" which is sort of an array of black and white blocks that you can find on web pages, often contain a link "code". Kind of weird, you can point a camera phone at a page on the screen, and will read semacode and show your address and let you surf to it on the phone. Not sure what to use for this, but praised the ideas are things like putting semacode at a tourist spot that contains the wikipedia link for additional information. Could be interesting but maybe a little. I do not know, was the point?
Application ---------------- There are a number of standard applications are quite interesting on the phone. Even doing this review, I discover new things all the time about this phone. VideoCenter: For example there is a service called "video center" that allows you to download a small video clip Reuters news to your phone in the background and watch while downloading. The video clip allegedly small, but it looks like the infrastructure for some pretty interesting technology.
Life-blog: Okay, not strictly N95 applications, I decided to activate a blog to mine (mikeanddan.typepad.com) which I have used a bit, for testing purposes. The ability to take photos, and through 3g upload directly to the blog is frankly quite amazing. If I am a Twitter addict, I think I can every blog message I sent (to Lifeblog save a list of everything you have done over the phone in one day and allows you to upload these conversations, text, images etc as you go) , but I think the mundanity element prevents me ... still, good in theory. One major weakness is that too much time fiddling with such applications inevitably means that when you see that the spontaneous surprises morris dancing, or someone with a ridiculous hat, your battery is flat before you can press "upload". Probably better than permanent legal perspective ahem.
Radio: A very good radio (which unfortunately earphones plugged the need to gain acceptance; download all the settings for the local radio station, so no tuning or auto-everything nonsense (although you can perform manual tuning if desired). Games: Maybe a little interesting; Snake 3d and demos called SRE very prominent 3d but generally unplayable and dull, fortunately there are many other things on the N95 to entertain and I'd say it pretty easy to download N95 games either through our catalog or web in general.
I've managed to load the proprietary applications, such as google mail, fring (basically skype for mobile, and allows you to make calls through a wireless connection), a business card reader (take pictures of business cards and applications! Read all the details and the stick in contacts in one easy step) and! no problem-it really feels like the phone has been due to the small woman. Connectivity
---------------- UMTS, GSM, Wifi, Bluetooth, although this has more of everything you use, the faster you lose your battery life. Wi-fi works very well, and have a wifi connection at home, for example, is often easier to check gmail through the phone than turn on the computer, log in etc etc. Phone love wifi, and it makes browsing the web or any internet enabled applications easier to use, detect network quickly and easily. You can also connect to a PC via a USB cable, as mentioned earlier, and this also allows you to transfer music, backup / restore, using the phone as a modem if you're running away with a laptop that is not related (although Bluetooth is better!) use the phone memory as a USB mass storage key alias.
Nokia Software --------------------- Man, this software has come a long-gone is the day the interface awkward and the date and the options that work intermittently even upgrade the firmware of the phone (something I did last night) worked perfectly the first time, with the reserve requirements of all the details of my first phone and then restore (although I did not realize I would lose my application I installed, but it isn't a big problem). Firmware update, for which basically means do not know the software reset the phone, so for those who are afraid to call the train, rest assured, the Nokia makes updating quite often to fix bugs, and you can now update your phone completely from home ( not taken into the service centers and sat with the phone courteously again!).
Conclusion ---------------- Even my wife was impressed by the techno-skeptics merely things this phone can do, and I have found myself surprised on more than one time in revealing some new features. Overall, with the sole exception of battery life, I've been very happy with the phone, and have tried in anger at least 90% of the features, and have yet to find something that is not operating, as I expected, out of the box. Add to that the 2gb memory card (although I heard that 4gb is out now and work with the phone, though with a much heftier price tag) and I think you will agree the phone really a winner. Without doubt, the best phone I ever owned by a margin that is very long!
