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ZAGGskins: Custom Mobile Phone Skins

NoNo — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:25:43 +0000

Zagg just unveiled their new product or service named the ZAGGskin, which provides unparalleled scratch resistance and user customizations. The item is essentially an Invisible Shield that it is possible to customize with a picture or design. It is possible to upload a photo and generate your own custom skin style for your mobilephone. Should you dont would like to make your custom design and style, you’ll be able to decide on common ZAGG pattern. I think it extremely nice as well. For a couple bucks, these are a pretty nice investment for protecting the display screens on your expensive gadget. ZAGGskins are offered for the iPhone, iPhone 3G/3GS, iPod Touch, Blackberry, Nokia, motorola, samsung, HTC Android, MacBook, Palm, cameras and others electronic devices.

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Easy way to design your own custom mobilephone skin:

Register and logon at ZAGG website and go to ZAGGskins category.
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Take Care of Your Cell Phone Battery

NoNo — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:55:01 +0000

A mobile phone is an electronic device used for communication over a network. Mobile phones may support many additional services and accessories, such as SMS for text messaging, packet switching for access to the Internet, email, gaming, infrared, bluetooth, MMS for sending and receiving photos and video and camera with video recorder. Here some tips about your cell phone battery:

1. Turn the phone off if you dont want answering the phone while sleeping or after business hours or in an area with no reception. This is simplest way of saving your battery’s power. .

2. Switch off the vibrate function on your cell phone because the vibrate function uses up a lot of battery power. Keep the ring tone volume as low as possible.

3. Stop searching for a signal When you are in an area with poor or no signal because cell phones will use up all power for searching signal. Make sure you have a great signal where you use your phone to keep battery life.

4. Turn off Bluetooth option because bluetooth will drain your battery very quickly, and having it on can cause your problems near virus infected.

5. Turn off your phones back light because the light also uses battery power. Some phones have an ambient light sensor, which can turn off the back light in bright conditions and enable it in darker ones.

6. Turn off WIFI and GPS if your phone has these features built in to save more power.

7. If your phone has a Battery Save option, you can turn this on to increase the life of your battery.

8. You should not have to turn off your phone to charge it. Most battery chargers deliver more than enough current to power your phone and charge it at the same time. Doing so will not lengthen the charge time, and leaving a phone on allows the user to be aware of its fuel gauge, so that you can remove it when the battery is full.

9. When using a Cell Phone Chargers in your car, do not charge the battery when the inside temperature of your car is hot. Wait until the car temperature has cooled before you start charging your cell phone.

10. Never dispose of old batteries in the trash because batteries contain toxic metals, and electronic waste from batteries and other electronic components is becoming a major problem.

11. Do not store a lithium battery with a very low charge for a long time, the battery monitor will draw a small current, which might cause a ‘deep discharge’ which may cause damage to the battery.

12. You can play games in your cell phone but think about your cell phone battery too because playing games in your phone will drain your battery very quickly.

13. If you are using a Nickel-Metal Hydride (NiMh) or Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) battery, your battery charging time should be less than 14 hours or you risk damaging the battery by overcharging.

How to convert DVD video to iPhone 3G

treese — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:31:06 +0000

Most humans who own an iPhone 3G apperceive they can watch videos but they may not apperceive how to exactly. So the afterward tutorial is committed to allowance you apprentice how to watch DVD movies and videos of assorted sources on your cast new iPhone 3G. First, let’s yield a attending at the video/audio formats iPhone 3G supports:

Video formats supported:

H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 3.0 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats

Audio formats supported:

AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV. So, in order to enjoy DVD’s and videos on iPhone 3G, you just charge to rip the DVD movies and catechumen the video files to video/audio formats iPhone 3G accepts, and again alteration the achievement video/audio files to your iPhone 3G with the accompany of iTunes Library. The tool you will need is Clone2go DVD to iPhone Converter. And below is its step by step user guide:

1. Add DVD movies or video files

Click the Open DVD button if the DVD cine you are traveling to adore on your iPhone 3G is on the disc drive. If the DVD cine is adored as a binder on your computer, you charge to bang the Add Video button to locate that folder, which is composed of two abstracted folders: VIDEO_TS and AUIDO_TS. From the VIDEO_TS folder, baddest the .vob book to acceptation and again click OK. You can aswell acceptation videos of assorted sources by beat the Add Video button. The acknowledging formats are:

Audio file(*.mp2;*.mp3;*.wav)
window media player(*.ani;*.wmv;*.asf;*.dvr-ms;*.ms-dvr)
MOV/MP4 files (*.mov;*.mp4;*.3gp;*.m4v;*.qt)
real media files (*.rm;*.rmvb)
flash video files (*.flv)
MKV video files (*.mkv)
Avisynth scripts (*.avs)
Other video files (*.mp2;*.vob;*.dv;*.m1v;*.m2v;*.dat;*.amv)
All files (*.*)

After the DVD or video is imported, you can examination it on the capital interface. If you alone wish a blow of the DVD/video, you can annoyance the Start to trim and Stop to trim button to get the assertive segment.

2. Choose a profile

From the bead down account of Profile, you can baddest a contour that best meets your needs:

From the blueprint above, we can apprentice Clone2go DVD to iPhone Converter aswell applies to converting DVD movies and video files to video/audio formats for Apple iPod, Apple TV, YouTube FLV, AVI Video, etc.

3. Start to encode

And now you can bang the Start Encode button to starting ripping DVD’s or converting videos for your iPhone 3G. The achievement video/audio files are calmly accessible by artlessly beat the Folder button on the capital card afterwards the ripping/converting action is done.

Extend your mobile phones battery

raymond — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:55:39 +0000

There’s little in activity added arresting than accepting your adaptable buzz run out of array in the average of the day, if you’ve larboard your charger at home. But you don’t just acquire to acquire this follow these simple tips to extend your phone’s array activity and abstain getting bent short.

Tip 1: Appearance and settings

Nowadays phones acquire a tonne of functions and all of them cesspool array power, so if you don’t allegation something, about-face it off. Some phones accommodate means of extenuative activity by putting the buzz in standby approach or axis off non-essential appearance if idle. You can usually accomplish any changes to your phone’s appearance via the ‘Settings’ or ‘Tools’ breadth in the menu. Almost every avant-garde affection on a adaptable buzz puts a ache on the array and while batteries are improving, they’re still not acceptable abundant to abutment all the appearance accessible on avant-garde adaptable phones for continued periods of time.

Turn off your Bluetooth if you’re not application it

One of the a lot of abominable battery-draining culprits is Bluetooth, which can be larboard on unintentionally. Bluetooth is a radio accepted that can accept and address information, but to do this it consumes array power. Unless you’re application a Bluetooth headset, appointment files or sending advice to someone, afresh you should about-face it off and alone use it if you allegation to.

Lower your screen’s brightness

Another affection that you should accumulate an eye on is your screen’s brightness. Some phones acclimatize the display’s accuracy automatically according to the ambient light, but a lot of don’t. The majority of adaptable buzz displays will be set to abounding accuracy if you aboriginal about-face them on and, unless you change it manually, they will break on that setting.

You don’t usually allegation abounding accuracy to appearance the awning appropriately and ambience it as low as accessible will save affluence of energy. Some phones aswell acquire an advantage absolution you acclimatize how continued the backlight stays on for. It’s best to accumulate the backlight on for as abbreviate an bulk of time as possible, so about-face it down to about 15 seconds, or beneath if possible.

Keep it apparent and accumulate it quiet

Screensavers and affective wallpapers may attending appealing but they use up array power, so about-face them off. A loud ring and the beat approach aswell use up a lot of power, so about-face down the aggregate and about-face off the beat approach if you don’t allegation it.

Watch out for GPRS, 3G and Wi-Fi

Other appearance that cesspool ability but aren’t featured on every buzz are 3G connectivity and Wi-Fi adaptors. You should be able to about-face off a Wi-Fi adaptor and about-face from 3G to GSM in the ‘Connectivity’ breadth of your mobile’s menu. If you adore browsing the Web on a GPRS connection, accomplish abiding you set the GPRS affiliation to ‘only if needed’ so that it turns itself off if you stop application it.

Use your buzz sparingly and about-face it off if you don’t allegation it

If you bind your buzz acceptance to argument messaging or buzz calls and about-face it off if you don’t allegation it, your array will endure abundant longer. It may be fun arena amateur or browsing the Web at the bus stop, but your array will acquire run out by the time you get to work.

Tip 2: Arresting strength

If your buzz is consistently abrupt to acquisition a arrangement arresting it will use added ability than if it’s not. If your buzz is in an breadth with poor arrangement advantage it will use added ability to force a affiliation with the abutting adaptable mast abject station. Because of this, it’s best not to leave your buzz in areas of the appointment or abode breadth the arresting is poor. Also, if you accomplish a call, try to accomplish abiding that you acquire three or added confined of arresting on your phone.

If you’re underground or in addition breadth with no signal, about-face your buzz off. About-face it on afresh if you apperceive you’ll acquire a signal, or about-face it on every now and afresh to check.

In summary: Accomplish abiding your buzz has a acceptable arresting even if you’re not application it
If you allegation to accomplish a call, try and acquisition an breadth with as able a arresting as possible
About-face your buzz off if you’re in an breadth with no arresting for a continued aeon of time

Tip 3: Understand your battery

Most adaptable buzz batteries these canicule are lithium-based rather than nickel-based. While nickel batteries had to be answerable for over 10 hours afore aboriginal use (to prime the battery), lithium batteries alone allegation to be answerable until the adaptable buzz says the array is full.

Don’t let the array run collapsed too generally and administer approved accuse Addition advantage of application a lithium array is that it doesn’t ache from ‘memory’–a charging affair that affects nickel batteries. If nickel batteries are answerable about and aren’t absolutely absolved regularly, afresh ample crystals will anatomy on the centralized corpuscle plates, which causes it to underperform.

A lithium array can be answerable whenever it needs it. Abounding discharges are not needed–indeed, they are not advisable. Instead, let the array run down to about a third of its accommodation and allegation it on a approved base rather than active the array absolutely flat.

If your buzz is not announcement the actual bulk of activity larboard in your battery, afresh let it run absolutely collapsed and this should break the problem.

Keep the array air-conditioned and don’t leave it in the sun

Lithium batteries appear with congenital chip that protects them from overheating, so abrogation a buzz to allegation brief or over a brace of canicule won’t accident it. However, if a lithium array is over-charged for too continued (eg. a week) it will alpha to calefaction up. Overheating is a lithium battery’s capital adversary and could aftereffect in abiding accident to the battery. The array can aswell get overheated if your adaptable buzz is larboard in the sun or abreast a radiator, so abstain accomplishing this as well.

After about two years buy a new array for your adaptable phone

A lithium array alone lasts for about 300 to 500 charges, so if you acquire been application the aforementioned array for added than a brace of years you may allegation a new battery. Buying a additional array is not appropriate unless you use it on a approved base because lithium batteries adulterate even if they’re not getting used.

AT&T Tilt

Mimi — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:10:33 +0000

The AT&T Tilt is one of these smartphones, but what makes this model stand out in comparison to its rivals is its long list of connectivity options and features. The Tilt has built-in Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) and 3G (thirdgeneration) wireless connectivity in the form of HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access). The Tilt also has a built-in GPS receiver. You can use a free applications that can interact with the GPS receiver to provide directions, such as Windows Live Search or Google Maps. To keeping you connected on the road, the Tilt can provide entertainment for downtime with its music player, AT&T Mobile Music, and Cellular Video capabilities.

Because the phone has Bluetooth 2.0 stereo support, you can listen to your music wirelessly, if you prefer. Youll also find an instant messaging client installed on the phone that can connect to Yahoo, AOL, and Windows Live Messenger. Should a Kodak moment strike while you’re out, you can capture the action with the Tilts 3MP camera and 10X digital zoom. Although the pictures I took with the camera were acceptable, you must have a steady hand in order to get a decent picture. To input commands or text, the Tilt has a large, 2.8-inch touchscreen display along with a QWERTY keyboard that is revealed when you slide the screen horizontally. For easy viewing while using the keyboard, you can tilt the screen up to 40 degrees to a notebook-like viewing angle. The tilted screen is handy for watching videos or reading email while the phone is resting on a desk.

The keyboard is comfortable to use, although the two small softkey buttons at the top of the keyboard are slightly hard to access when the screen is tilted a full 40 degrees. When its time to work on the road, youll find Microsoft Office Mobile preloaded on the device with support for Word, Excel, Power- Point, and Outlook. AT&T claims that the phone supports a talk time up to four hours and standby time up to eight days. Although the Tilt may not be quite as thin or stylish as other smartphones on the market (such as the Apple iPhone), it is still very stylish and has a reasonable size, at 6 ounces and 4.4 x 2.3 x 0.73 inches (HxWxD). Overall, the Tilts true strength comes in the form of functionality. For that reason, its definitely worth considering for new smartphone owners or for current users looking for an upgrade to their AT&T 8525 or other device.

Samsung ACE

NoNo — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:01:53 +0000

The new Samsung ACE from Sprint is a applicable accompaniment for the hardiest of apple travelers. With operating capabilities that cover abutment for CDMA and GSM/GPRS networks, as able-bodied as the calm Sprint Mobile Broadband Network, ACE users can accomplish bright articulation calls in about 180 countries and admission their clandestine and able email, cream the Web, and appearance their online abstracts in about 100 nations. Of course, the ACE’s versatility isn’t its alone benefit. It combines simple admission to absolute Sprint content, such as Sprint TVSM, TFT blush display, a abounding QWERTY keyboard, centralized antenna, 1.3MP camera and camcorder, and accelerate bang caster into an ultra-slim, ultra-light anatomy factor. The ACE aswell supports up to 2GB of alien accumulator amplitude with a microSD agenda slot.

Specification:

- Includes Windows Media Player 10 Mobile for music and video playback on the device and seamless interaction with Windows Media Player 10 on Windows XP computers
- CDMA/EVDO (800/1900MHz); GSM/GPRS (900/1800MHz)
- 2.3-inch TFT display with 65,000 colors and 320 x 240 resolution
- 3.9 ounces
- 4.65 x 2.32 x 0.46 inches (HxWxD)
- 64MB RAM; 128MB ROM
- Qualcomm MSM6500 chipset
- Operates on Sprint Mobile Broadband Network in the U.S., with domestic voice and data roaming on CDMA networks and international roaming on GSM/GPRS networks with Sprint agreements
- Supports wireless access to Microsoft Outlook via direct connection to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, as well as access to commercial POP3 and IMAP accounts
- Windows Mobile 6 Standard OS
- Up to 4.3 hours of continuous digital talk time

Palm Centro

Mimi — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 06:38:55 +0000

The newest Palm Centro from AT&T Wireless is a smartphone for everyone. Priced affordably, the Centro is both the absolute access akin smartphone for the accomplished ancestors and a abundant additional smartphone for businesspeople who adopt to accept two phones to accumulate plan and play separate. The Palm Centro (also accessible in Glacier White) afresh anesthetized the 1 actor mark in sales, a attestation to its agreeable architecture and solid affection set. With a abounding QWERTY keyboard and touchscreen in a small, smooth, failing package, the Centro is both humble and accessible for action. It handles email, burning messaging, and Push to Talk and EDGE chic 10 connectivity for fast abstracts transfers.

Specification:

- Up to four hours talk time
- Up to 300 hours standby time
- 64MB available storage, expandable up to 4GB with microSD card
- GSM/GPRS/EDGE quadband (850/900/1800/1900MHz)
- Multiconnector
- 4.4 ounces
- 4.22 x 2.11 x 0.73 inches (HxWxD)
- 2.2-inch, 320- x 320-pixel touchscreen display
- Includes a 1.3MP camera with 2X zoom and video capture capability
- Provides access to AT&T Mall, AT&T Music, MobiTV, and Music ID
- Supports TeleNav GPS Navigator and XM Satellite Radio when youre in a supported coverage area
- Bluetooth 1.2
- Infrared

Mogul

Mimi — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 06:17:15 +0000

With Sprints latest do-everything smartphone, the Mogul by HTC, youll enjoy full functionality in a pocketable device that makes you wonder why youve been lugging your laptop through airport security for so long. Windows Mobile 6, email, Microsoft Office, Internet, and multimedia capabilities give you everything you need to work on the road. Thanks to a recent firmware update, this smartphone now supports EVDO (Evolution Data Optimized) Rev. A, which provides average download speeds of 600Kbps to 1.4Mbps and average upload speeds of 350 to 500Kbps. Thats significantly faster than the previous download speeds of 400 to 700Kbps and upload speeds of 50 to 70Kbps. This firmware update also improves Bluetooth performance and adds advanced GPS functionality and a Task Manager for the Today screen.

Specification

- Use the phone as a high-speed modem for your laptop
- Get audio and visual turnby turn directions with Sprint Navigation
- Download stereo-quality songs from the Sprint Music Store directly to your phone
- Find, download, and buy software, games, ringtones, graphics, and other applications through the Sprint PCS Software Store
- Dual-band, CDMA2000 1X/EVDO, Rev. Aupgradeable
- Up to 4.1 hours talk time
- 256MB ROM, 64MB RAM
- Memory expandable with microSD card; 512MB microSD card included in the box
- Sliding QWERTY keyboard
- Wi-Fi
- 2.8-inch color touchscreen
- Bluetooth 2.0 with stereo support
- 2MP camera with camcorder
- 5.8 ounces
- 4.3 x 2.3 x 0.7 inches (HxWxD)

LG Voyager

Mimi — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:41:38 +0000

The LG Voyager is abundant added than your accustomed multimedia phone. With its clamshell design, bifold 2.8-inch screens, 2MP camera with camcorder, and a music amateur that supports all of your admired formats, the Voyager has just what you charge in an entertainment- axial phone. To advice advance a sleek, no-button attending while aswell getting adequate to use, the Voyager’s foreground affectation incorporates concrete feedback, acceptation it vibrates anniversary time you blow an on-screen button. Multimedia isn’t the Voyager’s alone strength: This buzz aswell has a amount of accessible tools, including a calculator, calendar, anxiety clock, stopwatch, apple clock, notepad, and tip calculator. In addition, the Voyager’s Bluetooth capabilities let you affix added accessories wirelessly, with abutment for headset, handsfree, dial-up networking, and avant-garde audio administration (stereo) profiles.

Specification:

- Up to 480 hours standby time
- Memory expandable up to 8GB with microSD card
- Features V CAST Mobile TV, V CAST Music & Video, and VZ Navigator
- 1.9GHz CDMA PCS, 800MHz CDMA, EVDO
- Up to 240 minutes talk time
- Dual speakers for stereo sound
- Supports full HTML Internet browsing
- Handles text, picture, and video messaging
- 2.81-inch external touchscreen with vibration feedback
- Ready to play, with a music player for MP3, WMA, AAC, and AAC files and 2MP camera and camcorder
- 4.69 ounces
- 4.64 x 2.12 x 0.71 inches (HxWxD)
- 2.81-inch internal display
- Bluetooth 1.2
- USB charging via your computer

N95 8GB

Mimi — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:10:18 +0000

Smartphones incorporate the functions of many devices (a cell phone, PDA, music player, camera, etc.) into a single, handheld unit. As with many converged devices, however, there are often trade-offs in terms of functionality. The Nokia N95 8GB overcomes many of those trade-offs. The phones 5MP (megapixel) camera took good-quality photos, though some lighting conditions yielded significantly better photos than others did. I also like that this phone isn’t much larger than the phone I currently carry. The price of the N95 8GB will deter some, but when you consider that this single device can function as a cell phone, camera, organizer, GPS navigation system, music player, portable gaming device, and portable storage drive, youre getting a lot of functionality for the money.

Specifications:

2G Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
Infrared port: Yes
USB: Yes, v2.0 miniUSB
Display: TFT, 16M colors, 240 x 320 pixels, 2.8 inches
OS: Symbian OS 9.2, S60 rel. 3.1
3G Network: HSDPA 2100, HSDPA 850 / 1900 – US version
Size: 99 x 53 x 21 mm, 96 cc, 128 g
Ringtones: Polyphonic (64 channels), Monophonic, True Tones, MP3
Memory: Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate, 128 MB SDRAM memory, 8 GB internal memory, ARM 11 332 MHz processor
GPRS: Class 32, 107 / 64.2 kbps
HSCSD: Yes
EDGE: Class 32, 296 kbps; DTM Class 11, 177 kbps
3G: HSDPA
WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, UPnP technology
Bluetooth: Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
Messaging: SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
Browser: WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
System: Carl Zeiss optics, MP3/AAC/AAC+/eAAC+/WMA player, autofocus, video(VGA 30fps), flash; secondary CIF videocall camera, Built-in GPS receiver, A-GPS function, Camera 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, Installed Maps application covering over 100 countries, T9, Push to talk, Voice dial/memo, Built-in handsfree, Dual slide design, Java MIDP 2.0, 3.5 mm audio output jack, TV out, Stereo FM Radio, Organizer, Office document viewer
Battery: Standard battery, Li-Ion 1200mAH (BL-6F)