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Sony Ericsson W980 Review

It’ll be available soon in July or September on your SE local stores, I think it is better for me to make a review for it. Absolutely! Cause this one is different ….

When we talk about music phone, W series from Sony Ericsson must be at the top ten chart if it is not the best one. Cool design with a complete features and new technology is SE’s perfect weapon to serve customers, especially young generation for such a music mobile phone.

SE newest Walkman phone, W980 series perhaps is a good example to proof this mantra. The design, features, and technology that comes with this black-red clamshell is worth enough to make you spend some money from your bank account. But before you had gone through your local bank, let’s take a look inside first.

Design

This clamshell W980 comes with a mix of black and red. Though I occasionally said that a clamshell is a designed-for-ladies handset, I would dare to convince myself and you that this one will perfect for gentleman too. Even for myself. Yeah.

Storage

For music mobile phone, an 8 GB internal memory is pretty cool. If not storing about 7500 audio files, perhaps this will fit for 6000 songs you have. Depends on what kind of songs and format your audio files is. In case when you want to store more files into this 3G handset, you have a chance to upgrade that 8 GB with the new one. Sounds very interesting …

Internet

This W Series is not a mediocre 3G. Powered with 3,6 Mbit/s transfer rate HSDPA technology, W980 will makes browsing run seamlessly. Video call, multimedia messages, email or even audio and video streaming from Odeo and YouTube have never been so easy to engage with.

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Sony Ericsson W960 Review

Similar to Apple’s iPhone, the Sony Ericsson W960 sports 8GB of on board memory and a 2.6″ 262k color, QVGA resolution touch screen display. This means up to 700 albums worth of music can be stored on the device and navigated with the new Walkman Touch player. Bluetooth with A2DP stereo headset support is also included to allow wireless enjoyment of your music. Sony Ericsson’s TrackID feature has also been beefed up in the latest Walkman range, with detailed information on artists and albums being delivered with the touch of a button.

Music isn’t the only trick up the W960’s sleeve though, as built in WiFi connectivity allows for high speed web browsing and email. Out of range of a wireless hotspot? The W960 also includes UMTS 2100MHz 3G connectivity and tri-band GSM/GPRS. Imaging is also easily handled with the 3.2MP auto focus camera, and since the W960 is a UIQ smartphone, all you PIM data is available as well. What is even more surprising is that all these features are housed in a phone only 16mm think and weighing just 119g.

The Sony Ericsson W960 Walkman phone will be available in select markets from Q4 2007.

Key features:

• Walkman Touch music player
• Symbian OS 9.1 with UIQ 3.0
• 3G support with video calls
• Wi-Fi support
• 3 megapixel camera with autofocus
• 8GB of storage space
• Dedicated touch-sensitive player keys
• 262K color TFT touchscreen display
• FM radio

Main disadvantages:

• Not as impressive in life as in the promotional photos
• Slow interface response as storage gets nearly used up
• Back key location changed
• No memory card slot (yeah, we know it has 8GB of internal memory)
• Music player cannot sort tracks by filename
• No EDGE support

The Sony Ericsson W960 is the successor of Sony Ericsson W950, which came with 4GB of integrated memory, but failed to gain popularity for the lack of camera and Wi-Fi capabilities. In fact, featurewise the W960 resembles more the Sony Ericsson P1 - they are almost identical in terms of hardware (although the P1 has an Infrared port, which lacks in W960). The W960 features the same 208MHz processor and the same amount of RAM - 128MB. However, the W960 boasts a dedicated Walkman key, three touch-sensitive keys for controlling the music player and, finally, that all-important Walkman home screen application with fullscreen visualizations.

Opera 9.51 RC1 Download

Opera 9.5 was released on June 12, 2008, sporting boosted performance, a brand new graphical user interface, an overhauled address bar, as well as bookmarks, Speed Dial, and Notes synchronization capabilities. Sadly, at the same time, Opera 9.5 brought to the table a series of functionality issues, which prompted critics that the browser had been released before it was ready. Opera acknowledged the problems of Build 9.5 RTM and is hard at work on version 9.51 to soften all the rough edges of the initial release.

“It’s time for maintenance – we have been fixing several of the most reported issues in 9.50 – including a rather nasty crash on Yahoo Mail”, stated Claudio Santambrogio, Opera QA Desktop Test Manager. But in addition to the resolved glitches with Yahoo mail, Opera 9.1 takes care of a variety of problems.

Fixed crash on Yahoo! Mail. Fixed a crash when clicking the feeds button. Fixed a crash when installing Shockwave Player 11. Fixed some issues with the search engines when upgrading from 9.2x: it is now possible again to edit the Google search. Fixed a leak when printing or in print preview. Fixed a GDI handle leak in the transfers window on Windows. Fixed thread expanding in Mail when receiving new messages. Fixed some issues with subscription to IMAP folders. Fixed a too zealous reconnection of the IRC client. Fixed “reuse current tab” feature in speed dial on Mac. Finetuned some issues in the new skin,” Santambrogio added.

On June 25, 2008, Opera 9.51 Build 10074 Release Candidate 1 was made available for download. Version 9.51 is to Opera 9.5 what Firefox 3.0.1 is to version 3.0 of Mozilla’s open source browser, namely the first update. All the major problems reported with Build 9.5 RTM have been resolved at this point in time and Opera is testing the latest version for eventual regression issues that might follow.

Here’s the link:

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Firefox 3.0 Download

The Firefox project (formerly Firebird, which was formerly Phoenix) is a redesign of Mozilla’s browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform.

Firefox is a small, fast and very easy to use browser that offers many advantages over other web browsers, such as the ability to block pop-up windows and the tabbed browsing.

Features of Mozilla Firefox:

· comprehensive popup controls to keep unwanted advertising off your desktop;
· a tab browsing mode that lets you open several pages in a single window, allowing you to load links in the background without leaving the page you’re on;
· integrated search (powered by Google);
· industry leading accessibility with Find As You Type - find links and page text by simply typing;
· simplified privacy controls that let you cover your tracks more effectively;
· a streamlined browser window that lets you see more of the page than any other browser while at the same time being more configurable;
· a large variety of free downloadable extensions and themes that add specific functionality and visual changes to the browser.

Now that Firefox 3.0 is widely available to the general public, Mozilla is cooking the next version which is planed for delivery either in the last quarter of this year, or in Q1 2009. With the first beta Build scheduled for the end of August, the development process will not permit Mozilla to ship a major update to Firefox, but only integrate the features and capabilities that were cut out of Firefox 3.0. And version 3.1 will have some rather big shoes to fill when it is made available.

Mozilla received the official Guinness World Record certificate for the ‘largest number of software downloads in 24 hours’. From 18:16 UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 UTC on June 18, 2008, 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3! Tristan Nitot, President of Mozilla Europe, accepted the certificate from Gareth Deaves, Records Manager for Internet and Technology at Guinness World Records, on behalf the Firefox Community,” revealed Jane Hatton Finette, Director of European Marketing at Mozilla Corporation.

Firefox 3.1 is the successor of Firefox 3.0, and Mozilla is currently cooking the first Alpha version of the next iteration of its open source browser. Pre-Alpha versions of Firefox 3.1 codename Shiretoko are already available for download and testing, and the fully fledged Alpha is right on track for delivery by the end of this month. Damon Sicore, Director of Platform Engineering at Mozilla, pointed to two potential dates for the availability of Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1 which could drop at the end of the next week along the Firefox 3.0.1 security and stability
update, or the week after that.

Here’s the link:

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Remove Security Alerts from System Tray

Remove Security Alerts From System Tray Go to Start > Control Panel > Security Center.

In the left pane, click the Change the way Security Center alerts me link, located right at the end of the column.
In the new window that popsup, uncheck everything.