The Demo Site

The network has information about the first Android-smartphone of Sony Ericsson - Rachael. This is the code name, the final index, or the name is not yet known, reported only that the model will be included in a series of Xperia. Sony Ericsson Rachael is based on a 1-GHz processor Qualcomm QSD8250 Snapdragon, equipped with 8.1-MP camera, mini-USB and 3.5-mm connectors. More than anything about the characteristics of Sony Ericsson Rachael is not precisely known.

If we talk about to the source image, the Sony Ericsson Rachael - besklaviaturny monoblock with a large touch screen in almost the entire front panel. In all likelihood, the smartphone supports the standard HSPA (7,2 Mbit / s), GPS and Wi-Fi, because the Qualcomm Snapdragon such functionality is provided. It is not clear when the issue first Android-smartphone Sony Ericsson for sale, but it is likely that by the end of the year.

In addition to image Sony Ericsson Rachael, the first Android-smartphone company resource Mobil published information on another upcoming device, the supplier, its code name Kiki. The country is a model more like a futuristic concept than a real cell phone. Perhaps that is the case, although the source claims that the machine is now developing a Sony Ericsson. At the same time, no data on the characteristics, moreover, that directly visible in the image, Mobil had not provided.

Telephone (or Communicator?) Sony Ericsson Kiki is equipped with a transparent screen, below which the body added a few buttons and a smooth cover. Judging about the submitted images, the image on a display can be seen from both Strachan phone. Display apparently constructed from glass, and the image projected on its surface. Hardware keyboard from the device are not visible, presumably, the buttons can be touch and even the dynamic and appear at the time of inclusion. Cameras from Sony Ericsson Kiki also not visible. It is also possible that the resource is published pictures of early prototypes, or even the design concept. About that, when Kiki will be on sale until nothing is reported.

1.(3) Nokia 6300.
2.(-) Apple iphone 3G.
3.(-) HTC Touch Diamond 2.
4.(2) Nokia 3109.
5.(-) Nokia E51.
6.(1) Nokia 5800.
7.(5) Nokia E71.
8.(6) HTC Touch HD.
9.(-) HTC Magic.
10.(-)HTC Touch Pro2.
11.(4) Samsung SGH-i900/i910 Omnia.
() = Last month’s position.

Last month Nokia took a Grand Slam by taking all Top 3 positions at Krusell’s best seller list for May. The list in June also gives an impression something is happening in the market. Nokia takes 5 out of 10 positions, HTC takes 4 and Apple one. Samsung, LG and Sony Ericsson are all out of the list. - To me it is surprising even the previous best seller Omnia had to leave the list this month, says Ulf Sandberg MD at Krusell. Yet another surprise is that everybody in the industry always talks about how short the lifecycles of mobile phones have become. This month’s No 1, Nokia 6300, was introduced in February 2007 in Krusell’s assortment and is now back on the No 1 position 28 months later, he ends.

The Swedish manufacturer of carrying cases for portable electronics, Krusell, releases its "Top 10"-list for June 2009. The list is based on number of pieces of model specific mobile and smart phone cases ordered from Krusell during June 2009. Krusell's list is unique due to the fact that it reflects the sales of phones on six continents and in more than 50 countries around the globe.
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Facts:
Krusell International AB with 130 million SEK in turnover and 300 employees is a Swedish company exporting high-end cases around the world. After more than 15 years in the cell phone industry, Krusell is established as one of the leading brands in its niche. Besides cases for mobile phones, Krusell also produces cases for digital cameras, laptops, MP3-players, GPS and portable gaming. Most Krusell cases sold are equipped with their patented carrying solution, Multidapt.
The headquarters of Krusell are located in Mölndal, Sweden.

For information about Krusell, please visit www.krusell.se

"Harmattan" going to drop GTK+ / Hildon - Nokia emphasizes the advantages for cross-platform-development.

After Nokia bought Qt-developer Trolltech, a lot of people where raising questions about the future of Maemo, as the mobile software uses GTK+ as central piece of its platform. Those people now seem to have gotten an answer: During a keynote at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Nokia's Quim Gil announced that a future release of Maemo is going to be built around Qt.

Further planning

While Maemo 5 is still going to be based on GTK+ / Hildon, in the release after that - codenamed Harmattan - Qt will take its role. GTK+ / Hildon on the other hand will be reduced to a "Community supported"-status, a role Qt holds for now.

Cross-plattform

In front of a mixture of hackers from both the KDE and GNOME camps - the GCDS is co-hosting the respective developer conferences Akademy and GUADEC - Gil explained Nokias motivation for this move as being mostly driven through the desire for easier cross-platform-development, citing Maemo, Symbian and the desktop as examples.

GNOME mobile

On the other hand the development platform product manager stresses that this does in no way signify a total break with the GNOME mobile platform. A lot of the components that are used in Maemo 5 are also going to be present in "Harmattan" and the following release. Gil also was quick to point out, that this might be a good chance for increase collaboration between both Desktop worlds, hinting at Nokia taking a more active role in this regard in the future. (Andreas Proschofsky [@suka_hiroaki on Twitter] reporting from Las Palmas / Gran Canaria, derStandard.at, 04.07.2009)

Today the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit has started, bringing KDE and Gnome developers together in the biggest conference of its type. It is situated on the beautiful Atlantic island of Gran Canaria and housed in the spectacular Alfredo Kraus Auditorium which dominates the skyline of Las Palmas, capital of Gran Canaria. The conference was opened by a series of talks from various people in the Canaries local government and the organisation. After that the keynotes started with star speakers and impressive announcements including an Open PC developed by the community and Maemo switching to Qt. Read on for an impression of the GCDS!

Yesterday (Friday) from 16:00 onwards registration for the GCDS opened. Hundreds of community members entered the foyer, received their badge and the sponsored items. Everyone now has a big green Qt towel, a Google sports drink bottle and a Nokia mini SD card reader. Importantly we received coupons for morning coffee and free ice cream sponsored by Intel.

After the registration closed, a Canonical-sponsored party began. Hundreds of attendants gathered on the large area behind the conference building. The beach is just outside the auditorium, and during the day is full of people enjoying the heat. Many of us have been walking along the beach, enjoying the view, having some food there and even having a swim. At night, we had beer. There was supposed to be free beer from 9 to 11 but we obviously did not drink it fast enough and it lasted until after midnight. Still many were unhappy when the beer stopped flowing - luckily the bar continued to be open.

Next morning at 10 the conference started. It was opened by a group of government and local officials and representatives of KDE and Gnome:

•Fernando Navarro, Cardoso Counselor for the government of innovation, employment and human resources for the city of Las Palmas in Gran Canaria
•Jose Regidor, Rector for the University of Las Palmas in Gran Canaria
•D. Juan Junquera Temprano, Director of the State Department of IT Society and Telecommunication
•D. Roberto Mereno Díaz, Advisor to the government for tourism, technological innovation and international commerce for Gran Canaria.
•Adriaan de Groot, Vice Chairman of KDE e.V. Board
•Behdad Esfahbod, President of the board of directors for Gnome
Each welcomed us and thanked the many participants for the work they have been and will be doing. After these short introductions we moved on to the keynotes.

The first keynote of the day was held by engineer and speaker Robert Lefkowitz. Robert drew a wider picture of how software, and especially Free Software fits into our culture. Robert's main point was probably that Free Software is best viewed as literature, with the side effect of it also being able to get work done. This has important implications for the view we have on software patents and copyright.

Walter Bender, executive director of Sugar Labs, spoke about the Sugar children interface and why they started to work on Sugar. He spoke about sharing, cooperation and the plans and wishes the Sugar community had for this summit. Bender related the development of technologies such as Sugar to the learning process of children. His talk was directed at Free Software developers and asked them to join the group hacking on Sugar. His presentation was "programmed" in a Sugar learning software environment. At the end of Bender's talk, he quickly demonstrated a small application he wrote using this system which paints graphical artifacts on the screen.

Free Software Love Third was Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation. He spoke about what Free Software is (Software that respect the users freedom and the social solidarity of the user's community). Proprietary software keeps users divided and helpless (they are not allowed to share and they do not have source code so they can not control it). Free software is defined by 4 freedoms: freedom 0 gives the user the freedom to run the software where and whenever he or she wishes. Freedom 1 allows users to study source code & change it. Freedom 2 is the freedom to share the product. Freedom 3 is the freedom to distribute the improvements and changes to anyone who wants them. Thanks to these freedoms, Free Software is under control of its users, both individually and collectively. It is developed democratically, which is what it is all about.

Stallman continues to talk about the history of KDE and Gnome, the two Free Desktops who are at this Summit. Back in 1997, KDE used Qt, a semi-proprietary toolkit which was free of cost to use with Free Software. Stallman and the Free Software foundation considered this a danger to the freedom of the users, and started two projects to do something about it. One was project Harmony who's goal was to rewrite Qt as Free Software. The second project was Gnome, a replacement for KDE. This had the intended effect, and in 2000 Qt was released as Free Software by the company behind it. Richard continues to talk about the current dangers to Free Software and freedom. Sometimes you have to use what is not the best thing technically, so he argues.

Richard finally mentions how the Spanish government is planning to hand out computers with Windows to school children. Even worse, these computers use Digital Restrictions Management for books distributed on these computers. According to Richard this plan is evil. Teaching children that taking away their freedom is good seems like a bad move by the government.

After a short introduction to the Church of Emacs, Stallman auctioned a Gnu to the audience for benefit of the Free Software Foundation.

Quim Gil's Keynote After a break, one more keynote was held by Quim Gil from the Maemo community. He made a very surprising announcement. Showing an architecture diagram with the current stack for Maemo with Qt in the community supported area. Then a button was pushed, and Qt moved to the foundation stack and the old toolkit moved into the community support area. In a later interview, Quim Gil and Aron Kozak from Nokia expanded on the plans. The upcoming release of Maemo, Maemo 5, will be based on GTK. It is currently being stabilised and finished. The following release, codenamed Harmatan, will be build around Qt. Nokia wants to offer third party developers a common platform to build upon on both Symbian and Maemo, attracting more contributions and applications. For KDE, this move will mean a huge potential userbase, and the Nokia engineers have been watching KDE technology closely for opportunities for closer integration and cooperation.

A Spanish Band Played Us Out The rest of the afternoon was filled with 5 minute cross-desktop lightning talks. Frank Karlitschek from Open Desktop announced Open-PC, a project to create "A Linux PC from the community for the community". He said that they currently have one hardware manufacturer as a partner to build the laptops. The website currently has a questionnaire to take suggestions on the software to include.

Matthew Paul Thomas, usability man from Canonical, gave an amusing talk highlighting common usability problems in applications. Top of his list was applications with a silly name, first impressions count. Alex Spehr gave two talks. First covering KDE's BugSquad, which she highlighted as an excellent way for contributors to get into KDE. She also talked about the improvements in DrKonqi and how this had improved the quality of submitted bug report. Laura Dragan gave talks on her SemNotes application which uses Nepomuk to create linked notes, and the Konduit visual RDF application.

Videos of most of the talks should be available for download in the next day or so.

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Nokia N97 Review Part 1.
A full in-depth review of the Nokia N97 (Part I) Included in Part I: Build Quality, Qwerty Keyboard, Hardware, Speaker test.


Nokia N97 Review Part 2.
A full in-depth review of the Nokia N97. Included in Part II: User interface, Camera, Gaming, GPS Navigation, Video Benchmark and Conclusion.

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Check out this new Sony Ericsson stylish clamshell code named Bao.





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