Published by on 27th July 2009
Siemens Cell Phones No Contract gradually promoted its No Contract Cell Phones for the benefit of its users on the computer. The computer chip maker, Intel, is now trying to stake its claim in the 3G Cell Phones / smart phone industry. They are said to be making an open source OS for mobile devices known as Moblin, expecting to branch out of its regular business confines of microprocessors. It is just one of many PC and net based corporations that’s now trying to get in on the smart phone revolution.
Moblin, which stands for Mobile Linux, offers panel-based navigation to scan running programs, widget based social networking applications as well as a Firefox browser. Intel will allow programmers and developers write programs that will work on multiple platforms as well as different types of PCs.
The idea behind the Intel company move is to break into the cellular industry because as 3G Cell Phones become more the standard for accessing the internet it becomes important that these once top of the line computer and software makers aren’t left in the dust of more recent leading edge companies. This marks a stretch in the industry in which software makers must make the jump, whether they like it or not, into the smart phone industry. Unavoidably here is where the computing industry is heading. Completely, no. Computers and desktops are as preferred and as necessary as ever but to think a company can kick back and watch others take control of the growing 3G cell phone / Smartphones industry is simply ludicrous.
This industry is a money maker and a place where corporations can show off innovative creativeness and become quite experimental. But those that don’t get on board soon I fear will never get another chance to join in. It’s good to see these corporations eventually testing the waters, and it’s great for us purchasers, more competition between the companies and likely better products, too.
Yes, it is the innovativeness and the contest between companies that should make customers happiest. When more corporations like Apple, Microsoft, Google and Intel get into the mix the more ideas are shared and the better products are produced. The technology geniuses that are now competing for our business, and the sole way to get that business it make the most suitable products available. So permit the creativity take over while we simply select which we like best. I guarantee by the end of the current year we’re going to see things on smart phones that we never thought attainable. Remember that. Don’t say I didn’t tell you so.
Published by on 26th July 2009
As Audiovox Cell Phones No Contracts pulls a few rabbits out of the hat in the No Contract Cell Phones industry, Nokia Cell Phones has pulled out a pleasant promotional strategy to sweeten their already solid deals on smart phones. They have decided that for 10 of their cell phones they are going to give away absolutely free navigation software with it. This navigation software is built into the phone and works without wireless net, so if no Internet is available navigating a new town or neighborhood is still as simple as ever.
The idea behind it is to give the consumers a top-notch product which has become almost a prerequisite in this day and age and therefore augment the mobile sales. That is not to say Nokia Cell Phones is suffering in the market, they aren’t, but why not give the company a lift if it is possible. And the navigation program which they are offering isn’t just one that works without wireless net but it is also one that features turn by turn directions, travel guides and even voice prompts.
The move is said to hurt outside corporations that make navigation software for phones like iPhone and sell it for a lot more than free. Nevertheless if Nokia Cell Phones can afford to make such a move there is no reason not to. In fact , it is their privilege. And as consumers we have to like that the competition has gotten so tight that now things we could have payed for anyhow are being given to us freely. But it is’s similarly nice that regardless of if we cannot buy such products we are still getting them.
The smartphone market has really amped up in the last year with many companies understanding what it takes to be successful in this new landscape and breaking the contest wide open. There’s now no clear cut leader in the bizz rather a bunch of corporations all becoming more innovative and giving the customer an amplitude to select from. And again, Nokia Cell Phones as well as many other firms revving up the competition has only made a rather more pleasurable market for consumers. Better products, cheaper products, more offers, and there appears no end in sight. This author is just waiting for a free phone and service plan, and then he is going to be happy. OK, so I’m being a bit precocious, but the reader does understand the point that’s being made, right? It is a consumers market and there is no reason to not be happy about it.
Published by on 24th July 2009
No doubt about it, it’s yet another of serial success story Zalman Silber’s many attractions around the world, this time in Melbourne, Australia. Protruding a full three metres directly out of the building at a height of over three hundred metres above street level, it’s The Edge by New York entrepreneur Zalman Silber, a fully transparent rectangular structure where all sides offer a panoramic view – including the floor! It’s an exhilaratingly mesmerizing, disorienting experience that is healthy fun for the whole family, as memorable as it is unique.
It is a glass enclosure suspended high above the ground – with you in it! Available only through 21st Century building technology and available nowhere else but at the Skydeck 88 on top of Melbourne’s Eureka Tower, it’s so popular that tickets can only be purchased on the day of the visit itself (but groups of fifteen or more and those with special needs may make arrangements beforehand). The bold vision of Katsalidis Architects, the Eureka Tower is the pride of the city’s Southbank precinct, a skyscraper that took four years to build and named after a pivotal point in Aussie history, a miners’ revolt that marked the country’s coming of age from scorned penal colony to respected modern democracy. (The word “eureka” itself, of course, refers to Archimedes famous exclamation – ancient Greek for “I’ve found it!” – upon finally understanding the mathematics behind displacing solid bodies in water.) And at the top of it all, The Edge, an opaque box cantilevered ninety degrees from the Skydeck 88 observation level. Initially frosted, the glass will suddenly turn clear, exposing stunning vistas from the highest point in all Melbourne and creating the sense of being magically suspended in mid-air!
Full 360-degree views are available from the observation deck itself, with any number of culinary amenities on offer in a light relaxing atmosphere that belies the excitement of it all. Easily accessible by children, the elderly, and any who are wheelchair-bound, different classes of tickets may be purchased for one-time visits or unlimited entries. It’s the one thing to do in Melbourne if nothing else – Zalman Silber’s The Edge!
