Posts Tagged ‘Bluetooth’

Most expensive application

Monday, December 27th, 2010

Recently the company ASiQ (don’t confuse with ICQ) has launched the application SafeCell which is intended for the users who have their own planes with satellite communication. The application uses this communication and Bluetooth. Now you can make calls from your mobile phone during the flight.
At present the application is available for the platforms Symbian and BlackBerry and soon will be available for Android and iOS. And, which is more important, the price of this application is $12,500 (!). So far this application is the most expensive app in the world.google-android-apps-market-paid

As the mobile application developers admitted, despite the high price of this product, it is much cheaper than the equipment for providing mobile communication on board the plane which costs about $500,000. Thus, if you have a plane, now you know how to save money on mobile communication!

But, in general, mobile developers create applications for iPhones and Android much lower and the price of such apps is about 5-10 dollars.

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Behold! New Google Android 2.0 ‘Eclair’ SDK

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Google has released the new SDK version (package for mobile application development) – Android 2.0 (Eclair).

Android 2.0 is the major platform for Android gadgets. Producers plan to put phones based on this OS on sale in November. Release includes new features for Android developers and users. For developers the platform is available as a downloadable component for Android SDK. SDK includes fully compatible Android libraries and image system, and also a set of skins for an emulator. The platform requires no third-party libraries.



Changes in the SDK:
Bluetooth — turn on / off, connection to a remote device using RFCOMM.
Account Manager — Centralized Account Manager allows secure storage and access to tokens and passwords.
Others — new theme systems and wallpaper manager.

List of changes in Android 2.0:
Accounts — several user accounts can be added to synchronize contacts.
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Mail — Exchange support
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Bluetooth — bluetooth 2.1, new BT profiles — OPP, PBAP (Object Push Profile and Phone Book Access Profile).
Media — upgraded graphics architecture improves performance and ensures hardware acceleration.
Calendar — endless scrolling in an agenda mode, statuses for each guest invited for user events.
Browser — updated user interface, bookmarks with web-pages thumbnails, double tap zoom, HTML5 support, client databases using SQL, tags in full screen mode, Geolocation API information showing device location.
Camera — flash bulb, digital zoom, white balance control, macro mode, color effects.
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Virtual Keyboard — an improved layout increases typing speed and reduce errors. Multi-touch support allows you to be sure that nothing will be missed while typing with two hands.

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What do you want to see in your ideal smartphone?

Friday, September 25th, 2009

iphone_jokeMany of us are Smartphone owners, some use Windows Mobile, others prefer such OS as iPhone or Android. But we all need different additional applications to personalize our high-tech “friend”. Mobile application developers released thousands of programs for smartphones, but users always want more.

So let’s review the list of functions, which you may wish to add in your future ideal smartphone, so called “can do anything” device. Of course we will be realistic and will not add such functions as “to make coffee”. :)

Wish # 1: RSS reader, Twitter client, mail client with voice synthesizer and voice control. Such functions will be very useful on the way to work. For example, you can read news headlines, and then give a voice command to read the full version. Many users say that existing applications for voice control are far from the ideal, so there is a lot of work for mobile programs developers.

Wish # 2: Built-in FM transmitter. Many of us save a lot of music files on our smarts (iPhones), and it would be nice to listen to it in a car (a car radio) without awkward adapters and cables. Of course, we must admit that such features somehow have been already implemented on the basis of Bluetooth.

To be continued…

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