Toshiba officially introduced its Tablet called Thrive. Now the device is already available for pre-order in the United States, delivery will start next month. Toshiba Thrive is a tablet with a 10.1-inch touchscreen display, with a resolution 1280×800.
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The South Korean company LG Electronics at its North American site has published information on the new model of Android Smartphone LG Genesis (US760) for local mobile operator U.S.Cellular. It has two touch screens and “iron” QWERTY keyboard.
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Because the version of the operating system Android, which was originally adapted for use on Tablet devices, still remains in the future tense, and Tablets with Android on board already exist, then actual remains the creation of custom applications for them. Avoid drinking in relation to the model of Adam of the term “phone-overgrown”, engineers of Notion Ink engaged in the creation of a complex application that provides customer experience of a tablet, not the phone.
Apacer Technology introduced a new slim MP4-player Audio Steno AU851. The thin casing of the new device looks very stylish rear panel is made of aluminum.
German company Cizmo introduces a new 15.4″ notebook with Centrino-2 technology, known as CX15. Cizmo CX15 is equipped with the processors P8400, P8600 or P9400 Core 2 Duo, video cards NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX, fast DDR3 memory, an optical drive Blu-ray (optional), eSATA port and the usual amount of hard disk 32GB or 64GB SSD capacity of the drive.
Coca-Cola makes the products in Austria closer to mobile phones, together with the operator VeriSign. From now the subscribers of VeriSign can with the use of a mobile telephone buy drinks of Coca-Cola in automatical mashines.
For every purchase in the automats of Coca-Cola VeriSign will get a certain percent from the spent money (a percent is unknown).
American operator of mobile communication Virgin Mobile, joined in the program of processing of old mobile phones. Procedure of selection of old mobile phones is rather interesting. It means that a person who comes to the shop of Virgin Mobile and purchas a new mobile phone, is suggested to leave the old mobile phone in the specially given out package.
All of the left mobile phones will be directed to tha partner of Virgin Mobile, namely ReCellular, which will restore old mobile phones in same queue, all of the restored mobile telephones will be sold whereupon. All of the rescued money will go on charity – to help the homeless young people.
Nokia signed the research acceding with the army of the USA, within the framework of which specialists of Nokia and armies of the USA, will test possibilities of technologies of Nokia in area of PCS, WCDMA 3G, GSM and WIMAX.
Thus, these tests will allow to find out whether technologies of Nokia befit for the American army.
The first researches will begin in the fourth quarter of 2006 and will proceed five years.
The Japanese operator of mobile communication NTT DoCoMo, starting it’s service 3G FOMA on the 1-th of October, 2001, a couple of days ago marked the connecting of the 30-millionth subscriber.
From the moment of the launching of network of FOMA, operator NTT DoCoMo annually increased the amount of the base stations of FOMA on 50%.
Besides, that an operator increased an amount of the base stations, the engineers of the company conduct modernization of already existent network, in order to realize a support of technology of high-speed communication of data HSDPA.
The operator of mobile communication Grameen Phone, one of the greatest operator in Bangladesh (the state in South Asia), reported that the 10-millionth subscriber was connected to the network of Grameen Phone at the beginning of November, 2006.