Meizu closed for MP3 issues

Yeah, reports Engadget.

Here’s a QuickStract:

in a Meizu forum post, Jack Wong says that an Italian company called Sisvel complained about another Meizu PMP’s unlicensed use of the MP3 codec, and that’s what prompted the 5-0 to arrive. Interestingly, Jack also says that it’s all a big misunderstanding, because Meizu products, including the M8, don’t actually play MP3s, just WMA, and that local distributors have to cough up the licensing fees for MP3 playback. Apparently the booth is now open again, with the offending PMP removed — the M8 remains on display, probably because it doesn’t actually work yet.

Meizu copies iPhone and gets shut down

The M8 is being demonstrated at CeBIT no more.

Engadget had a chance to get their hands on it before the German authorities shut the booth down on the grounds of something undisclosed but guessed iPhone. Damn right. The Meizu’s M8 mini one OS strongly represents the iPhone.

“The venue is closed until further notice” is all you will see there for now.

So here are the final specs and features now expected at launch:

• quad-band GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
• Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
• 802.11b/g WiFi
• 3.4-inch 720 x 480 capacitive touch LTPS TFT-LCD
• 3 megapixel autofocus camera
• 667MHz ARM11 processor
• WinCE 6.0 based Meizu OS
• H/W encoder/decoder
• 107 x 59 x 11.9-mm
• 8GB of 16GB of flash NAND
• TV-out
• phone, music, video, camera, internet browser
• automatic backlight and display orientation adjustment

Some videos after the break:

BriefTech: Nokia N96

Nokia N96 Video on BriefTech.

Sorry about it I sound a little Wierd.

I want to update the Video Center… But I am focusing on the content more than the browsing of videos.

The updated Video-Center will not use the long browsing methods now. It will feature 2 iFrames with video on one side and selections on the other.  If the Video-Center gets enough popularity, this project will go on.

Enjoy the video all!

Nokia+Microsoft? Whats next?!?!?!?

Engadget Reports:

According to Microsoft’s mobile communications business international marketing director (phew) John Starkweather, Redmond is in talks with the folks from Finland about getting Windows Mobile onto Nokia handsets. “They obviously have significant investments in Symbian but there are a lot of places where we have significant synergies and we would love to see the day where those synergies would extend completely with Windows Mobile,” said Starkweather, though he couldn’t say when or if any agreement will be met. “We work closely with Nokia and we would love to have them go all the way,” Starkweather said. “It’s something we talk about all the time.”

SkyFire, Mobile Browser with Flash.

The Skyfire browser is set to finally bring PC-like browsing to your Windows Mobile device with crazy speeds and support for all manner of embedded content. Follow the read link to get signed up for the beta. Facebook, Myspace, YouTube and everything on the web in your palm!

The technical trick of Skyfire is that it’s a proxy browser. The Skyfire app itself isn’t a full browser. Instead, big Skyfire servers elsewhere process Web pages, including all the media and browser formats — like Flash, Java, and Ajax — that a normal desktop browser would handle but that most phones can’t. Then it streams data to phones, which the mobile half of Skyfire displays. To the end user, it looks like a browser, but the mobile app is just one part of the product.

This means that Skyfire can do things on mobile phones that mobile browsers, including Safari and Opera, cannot, at least not without bogging down the phone. The danger is that the Skyfire servers themselves will bog down, due to over-use, and ruin the experience for mobile users. This is the experience I had with Micrsoft’s Deepfish, a proxy browser project we covered last year and that appears to have gone dormant. Bhandari told me the service is “built to scale,” and that “once at escape velocity,” the company can plug in additional servers to handle a growing user base. He would not reveal the technical underpinnings of Skyfire beyond that.

K510i Washed….

Oh ya. My friend came over with this!

He forgot to remove his phone from his pocket and washed it….

Battery Wet and washed.

Thanks to this little tip and a lack of a hair drier at my hous, I decided to heat it with a lamp.

I am uploading a few videos and some photos will put it up here as soon as possible.

UPDATE VIDEOS AFTER THE BREAK:

UPDATE PICTURES ADDED:

Mobile Games + Top 5

Did I mention I got a new phone? This post brings you a review of Top 5 and mobile games on my phone!

Oh well I should update the My Stuff page.

Well I got the Nokia 6300 – Slim yet powerful and its already won a place in my heart. It does everything i wanted my old phone to do(Bluetooth, Songs, Memory Card, Good themes and Software compatibility).

6300 has bluetooth, Songs, Memory Card (128 included 2GB costs 15,000RS here[Approx 150$]), Awesome themes, Millions of games and software to download. The only bummer is the battery life and no boxed data cable(which costs 4000Rs [Approx 40$]).  Well that I can handle.

Now for the games

Go! Yahoo Go!

 

Yahoo! Go

The new Yahoo Go 3.0 is a free downloadable application compatible with about 30 different handsets so far. (The company says that dozens more are on the way.) A “start page” allows Yahoo users to access a number of the company’s applications, like Yahoo Mail and Flickr, as well as the requisite news-and-weather mobile features.

CES 2008 | Sony | SE W760

Sit back and enjoy the ride, 3G fans, as Sony Ericsson has a new cell phone for you. The company’s W760, which it announced today at CES, is one of the first handsets to support wireless broadband networks around the globe. It offers support for three UMTS/HSDPA networks (850/900/2100), and as a quad-band world phone (GSM 850/900/1800/1900), it will make calls in most countries. The tri-band 3G support is especially welcome in the United States and Canada; the W760 is only Sony Ericsson’s second 3G handset specifically for North America after the Sony Ericsson Z750.

Other features include a Walkman music player with the shake control from the W580, stereo Bluetooth, e-mail and messaging, a speakerphone, USB mass storage, a Memory Stick Micro slot, personal organizer applications, and a 3.2-megapixel camera. The slider handset is available in three colors: rocky silver, fiery red, and intense black.

Via CNET 

CES 2008 | Samsung | SGH-i450 coming to America!

The SGH-i450 is a music phone with a dual-slider design that offers a lot more than you might expect. When the keypad is exposed, you can make calls as normal, but when you slide it in the other direction the music player activates and you can use a unique touch wheel to navigate through the menus. Hmmm…. N95ish?

The handset runs Symbian Series 60, third edition, and also has Bluetooth, a 2-megapixel camera, a separate VGA camera, an FM radio, a 3.5mm headset jack, a 262,000-color display, 35MB of internal memory, and a microSD card slot. As a quad-band GSM phone, it will work almost anywhere in the world, and it supports 3.5G HSDPA networks.