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There is a good news for those who are patiently waited for the HTC Desire, the HTC's flagship device is launched in the US today for $200 with a 2-year contract through US Cellular.

The carrier announced that the device will be available in stores on 27 august, the device comes with the Google Android 2.1 with HTC Sense UI which is graphically very good than his younger brother Nexus One.It features a big 3.7 inch WVGA AMOLED touch screen, 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 576 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM and a 5 mega pixel camera.The phone is a CDMA version and not available for the pre-paid plans from the carrier.HTC have to fight with the market leader iPhone to stand up in the US market.

The carrier told that they will introduce three more Android phones including Samsung's flagship device Galaxy S(i9000) and two LG handsets.


Specification of HTC Desire:-

Size Dimensions: 119 x 60 x 11.9 mm
Weight: 135 g
Display: AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size: 480 x 800 pixels, 3.7 inches

Features:-
- Android OS, v2.1 (Eclair)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 1 GHz processor
- Multi-touch input method
- With A-GPS support
- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- Optical trackpad
- HTC Sense UI
- 3.5 mm audio jack
- Dedicated search key

Internal Memory 576 MB RAM; 512 MB ROM
Card slot: microSD, up to 32GB, 4GB included
WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth: v2.1 with A2DP
Infrared: No
USB: microUSB v2.0

Camera
- 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
- Geo-tagging
- Video cam: WVGA (800x480 pixels) @ 15fps
- No cam for video call

Misc:-
- Stereo FM radio with RDS
- Colours: Black, Brown, Silver(the availability of colours may vary in US)
- YouTube, Google Talk, Picasa integration
- MP3/AAC+/WAV/WMA9 player
- MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV9 player
- Facebook, Flickr, Twitter applications
- Voice memo

No one like to use their microphone and speakers when they talk to their family and friend in Yahoo messenger, Msn Messenger, Skype, Google Talks and so many instant messenger software Now you can make use of you mobile as microphone and speakers to talk with you friends and family believe me it's simple and easy, just follow the step by step guide and you will throw you microphone into bin forever.

You don't have to remain in one place to talk with friends an family if you have USB bluetooth or WIFI router you can remain anywhere in your home and enjoy talking with your friends and save your cost forever.

Here is the step by step guide to make your mobile phone as microphone.

1. Download the file from This link and read the following steps.
2. In this file you will get one folder (I_LOVE_DVT) and two separate file. One is for PC application and another is for mobile application.
3. Install the PC software name as "mobiolaheadset2_wl_s60v3" in PC and install the mobile application name as "headset_s60_v_2_0" into mobile.
4. Remember if your don't have Blue tooth or WIFI functions, it will not work. Yeah it works for Cable but what is the difference between a cable and normal Microphone.
5. Installed the application in PC as well in mobile now open the folder "I_LOVE_DVT" and in it you will find two files, one is "keymaker" and other is "runme". Copy these two files into the install directory such as "C:\Program Files\Mobiola Headset for S60" and paste it.
6. Now run the "runme" and "keymaker" as well. From "runme" copy the Hardware fingerprint something like "373D-BCC0" into "keymaker's" H/W ID and press generate.
7. Now copy the keys and the name from "keymaker" into "runme" and press ok. It show valid. Now run the PC application and check it.
8. Than go to control Panel, sound and device. Run the sound and devices settings find the microphones one, select your microphone driver to mobiola and select the speaker driver.
9. Check your microphone by going to Volume controls and run any song to check your speakers that you can hear the song in your mobile speaker.
   
10. Enjoy talking with your friends and family and save your cost

How to send sms from email? Which website allows us to send sms from computer?How to send anonymous sms? Where to send sms from internet? I’ve compiled a list of free SMS services via internet, the following services allows you to send sms messages from your computer to most countries such as India, Australia, China, Taiwan, UK and more.

Send SMS From Web

Send sms via email using the following email address, replace ‘PhoneNumber’ with the recipient’s phone number. Leave the subject line empty as shown in the image below.

Jaxtr – A new web SMS service, free to use, tested by geckoandfly and found it to be reliable as promised at the time of writing.

Free Global SMS – Send free international SMS messages, comes with a world map that lists providers that offer free SMS messaging services.

Send a Free SMS – Send free SMS to USA and Canada only.

Gizmo SMS – Send FREE messages to any Mobile Phone, international SMS allowed.

Text Memos – Schedule a SMS for special events such as birthday wishes and more. TextMemos.com will send a free text message reminder to the phone at the scheduled time. No Registration Required! Only for American mobile carrier.

Send SMS Now – Free international sms, registration required. Allows the sender to receive text replies in their SendSMSnow inbox. send and receive sms messages online. Send UNLIMITED text messages to your contacts and more.

SMS Everywhere – Free SMS service to USA cell phone only.

Freebie SMS – Free SMS to UK phone numbers. Send bulk sms for a small sum of fee.

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Opera is no doubt one of the most sophisticated web-browsers for mobiles and smartphones, and it just got a whole lot better for Nokia phones.

The new Opera 10 Mobile beta for Nokia and symbian smartphones brings a whole new generation of mobile browsing to life, all with some new features and a totally new interface.

The crisp, new look introduces the Speed Dial, tabbed browsing and the always convenient password manager to Opera Mobile. Opera Mobile 10 beta is optimized for both touchscreen and keypad-style navigation. Here is what the new Opera 10 Mobile beta looks on the Nokia N97.

The major focus was put on performance and that's what makes this release twice as faster than its predecessor. Opera Turbo is also integrated, saving end users both time and money with its server-side compression technology.

For those not having a smartphone, they can still download Opera Mini 5 beta to play around with almost the same features.

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Nokia N97 lovers can have a new released N97 software update 2.0 that brings a new user experience elements and functionalities to the device. It is available immediately from PC on the Nokia Software Update site. Meanwhile, the Nokia N97 mini is making its debut in stores with stainless steel case. It is designed for stylish experience and to those who are active with social networks just like us. With this device you can have, a tilting 3.2” touch display, QWERTY keyboard and fully customizable homescreen.

Features Of New Software:
• In the entire user interface, a flip scrolling has been added to scroll in all views smooth and soft.
• You can have shortcuts to personalized homescreen.
• Ovi Maps 3.1 with 3-D maps.
• Nokia messaging.
• Ovi Contacts.
• Ovi store.

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Gizmo5

Fring – Community Based VoIP

fring is the industry first Symbian S60 mobile VoIP software, unlike others, fring is more of a community based mobile internet service that enables you to access & interact with your social networks on-the-go, make free calls and live chat with all your fring, Skype, MSN Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo! and AIM friends using your handset’s internet connection.

Beyond fring’s social appeal, it also saves money letting you make affordable local and international calls to landline and regular cellular numbers using your SkypeOut/SkypeIn account or almost any internet voice service (SIP) such as SIPNET, EuteliaVoIP, VoIPVoIP and VoIPTalk, even from non-SIP enabled handsets. What’s more, fring does all the work for you, automatically logging you into your favorite WiFi hotspots so you save time and hassle without having to configure your WiFi access points each time.

The only drawback on fring’s VoIP software is it does not have its own network to do VoIP call. It uses other network, such as Skype, Gizmo, thus making it uncompetitive in term of VoIP rates.

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Nokia 5800 XpressMusic seems to have it all - large 3.2" touchscreen display, 3G and Wi-Fi support and even a GPS receiver aboard. The cute Nokia 5530 XpressMusic kept only the Wi-Fi, its display shrank to 2.9 inches and the battery capacity was decreased to 1000 mAh but the device costs considerably less than its smarter bro. Then the 5230 was introduced. And now we've got some live shots of it.

Nokia 5230 official photos

When it comes to the recently announced Nokia 5230, the situation with the specs is only a tad different. It shares the same design and touchscreen with the 5800 XpressMusic and just like it comes with a built-in GPS receiver, 3G capabilities and a promising 1320 mAh Li-Ion battery. There is no support for Wi-Fi, though, and instead of the 3.15 autofocus snapper of 5800 XpressMusic you'll get a 2-megapixel fixed focus one. Well, at least it can take VGA videos at 30 fps.

And here are the live images of Nokia 5230 we told you about just a second ago. Some of the color versions are missing but the red and the blue ones are here, posing just for us. Take a peep.

Live shots of Nokia 5230

Even if our source predicts that the Nokia 5230 will hit the market some time in January 2010, we believe that the actual launch will take part sooner than expected - Nokia promised that the device will become available during the last quarter of this year. By the way, Nokia 5230 showed up on the Italian operator TIM online shop page several days ago and the price they set is 189 euro. Not bad, huh?

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Editing, enhancing or having fun with photos in your iPhone is not a dream anymore as the latest 3Gs iPhone is now furnished with an auto-focus mechanism taking 3 megapixel images. A look around the internet will show you rather decent photos taken by iPhone as people quit printing photos – who will when with a few taps, they can share theirs instantly.

Plenty of photography apps are available for that cause, be it subtle enhancements or quirky modifications – It’s time to put your new iPhone on play and show off to your friends! In this article, we put together 20 Free Photography Apps and recommendation of some good paid apps. On top of that, we’ve also included 10 best Free Video Applications. Free apps after jump.

Photography Apps

1. Free Photo Filters
   Free photo filters app provides filters include Lomography Filter, Poloarizing Filter, Black and White Filter, Retro Effect Filter and more.

2. SP Photo Fix Lite
   You can fix your photo (brightness, contrast, sharpness, hue, saturation) before sending it by email directly on your iPhone.
   

3. PhotoBox
   PhotoBox is the all in one solution for the weekend warrior photographer, giving you a large range of photo filters and effects.

4. iRetouch Lite
   iRetouch List is an advanced image retouching application for iPhone.
   

5. Photonasis 4.0 Lite
   Photonasis is the must have program for anyone who’s into photography and wants to add very nice touches into his/her photos.

6. PhotoCurves
   PhotoCurves enables you to create your own filers: tones and contrast.
   

7. Crop for Free
   Crop for Free is an utilities for your iPhone to crop your photos, retains image quality, rotate your photos and ability to crop multiple times before saving.

8. Photon
   Photon allows your entire photo and video collection securely stored in the cloud and available on your iphone with musical slide shows and editing tools.
   

9. Puri! Lite
   Puri! Lite is a photo sticker booth that you canbring with you everywhere. With the latest update, you can show off your great photos to your friends on Facebook with a click of a button!

10. Real Cam LE
    Control your iPhone camera with built-in screen touches. Everything you need to control and set up your camera is in the same live preview screen.
    

11. Polarize
    Want to add a funky retro look to your photos? Polarize will do the job for you!

12. AA+ Shake Pic Lite
    Shake your device to open Pandora’s box, in simply 2 steps and see what amazing outcome you’ll get.
    

13. iSwap Faces
    iSwap Faces morphs one person into another for everyone’s entertainment.

14. SP Photo Cal Lite
    The easy way to create a calendar for your iPhone wallpaper, using pictures from the Picture Library.
    

15. Comic Touch Lite
    Make your photos come alive by giving them the Comic Touch. Add balloon to give your subjects thoughts and words

16. iFunto Lite
    With your photograph, iFunto will merge it with fun and interesting background and you will not be able to stop laughing.
    

17. BeamCatcher
    BeamCatcher is the free app that lets your friends and family wirelessly share photos with you.

18. Private Pics
    The perfect application for anyone who wants to keep people from accidentally seeing their private pictures.
    

19. Rotzy Photo Sharing
    Rotzy helps you share and discuss everything around you through photos and send photos to Twitter, Facebook, Thumblr and your own website. You can even use it to create your own mobile photo blog!

20. AroundShare
    AroundShare integrates with your existing blogs, social networking sites and tools like RSS, Flickr, Twitter, WordPress blogs, Google maps and more.
    

Video Apps

1. Video Downloader iWoopie Lit
   iWoopie Lite can search global video portals (Youtube/DailyMotion and match more), watch and download videos to your iPhone.

2. Wiki Tap
   WikiTap uses special tools geared towards phone-centred community participation. Community members upload relevant videos, pictures and audio-commentaries into the larger knowledge community.
   

3. 12seconds.tv
   The 12seconds iPhone application allows you to create and post fun slideshows on the go!

4. Comcast Mobile App
   The Comcast Mobile App is an iPhone app from Comcast Cable Communications that lets you read your email, check your digital voice mail and get TV and Movie information on your iPhone.
   

5. Joost
   Watch over 46000 videos from Joost on your iPhone or iPod touch with this free app Store app download from Joost.

6. AppVee
   AppVee is the largest and most extensive resource for professional, high-quality video reviews of iPhone applications.
   

7. Air Video Free
   Air Video Free is a fully functional ad-supported application that allows you to stream videos to your iPhone over Wi-Fi. You don’t need to copy the videos to the device.

8. Air Cam Live Video (Lite)
   Air Cam Live Video for the iPhone is a great application for viewing your live webcam feeds over local, Wi-Fi or 3G and EDGE networks.
   

9. Pixelpipe
   Liberate your media with Pixelpipe and get your photos off of your iPhone and out to your favorite social network, micro-blog, photo/video and blog services. Video uploads from the 3GS at original resolution up to 200MB.

10. CNNMoney (News, Stock, Video)
    CNNMoney iPhone application delivers breaking business news and comprehensive market coverage from the leader in business and financial news. The application includes news, analysis, financial data and original video content.

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Resolution: 240x320
Size: 6.65 MB

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iPhone 3G S finally has multimedia messaging (MMS) is officially live and functioning

What you have to do is, Plug your iPhone into iTunes, run a quick update (that takes just a few seconds and reboot your phone to get access to all the multimedia messaging fun that most other phones have had access to since 2003.

Additional Information
The carrier update files are stored in the following locations.
• In Mac OS X:
/Users/[Username]/Library/iTunes/iPhone Carrier Support/
• In Windows XP:
C:\Documents and Settings\[Username]\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes\iPhone Carrier Support
• In Windows Vista:
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\iTunes\iPhone Carrier Support\
After the installation your Messages app will gain a small camera icon to the left of the input box now a screen allowing you to take a picture or video or to use an existing one from your iPhoto library by tapping the icon.

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A handful of new features are available in this new OS update, both for the users of iPhone and iPod Touch. Here are some.

• Apps organization through iTunes
• Genius recommendation for Apps
• Save video from Mail to Camera roll.
• Better saving options for video clips in 3GS.
• Remotely lock iPhone with a passcode via MobileMe.
• Anti-phising features for Safari on iPhone.

And a lot of more. And also whats rumored about this new OS update is that it updates your iPhone baseband, thus making it permanently locked.

So unless you have an iPhone with contract, a wise deal would be not to update to the iPhone OS 3.1 until the dev team comes out with a solution. iPod Touch users can update directly however.

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Installation package also includes QuickTime 7.6.4 player. As expected, new version come with loads of new features and enhancements for managing favorite movies, TV shows. Apps, games, podcasts and more.

Features:

iTunes LP : Listen to your favorite songs, you can dive into animated lyrics and liner notes, watch performance videos, view artist and band photos, and enjoy other bonus materials.

Home Sharing : Makes easier to share music, movies, TV show, browse the iTunes libraries of up to five authorized computers in your house, import what you like, and automatically add new purchases made on any of the computers to your own library.

The Redesigned iTunes Store With a beautiful redesign and refined navigation, the new iTunes Store makes it easy to explore songs, movies, TV shows, and more.

iTunes Extras special features you can experience right in your iTunes library. Watch interviews and trailers, view photos, and more on your Mac or PC.
Perfect mixes come automatically that searches new features your iTunes library, finds songs that go great together, and creates multiple mixes you’ll love. All automatically you can discover songs knew never you had

Improved Syncing makes simple sync iTunes brings new, more flexible ways to sync your media from your computer to your iPhone or iPod. And it’s easier to organize all the apps on your iPhone or iPod touch, because now you can do it right in iTunes, right from your computer.

Download new iTunes 9 to enjoy newly added features.

A lot of people depend on their mobile phones in every aspect of their lives, from talking to family and friends to business, from emailing and texting to playing games. When someone is so reliant on their mobile phone for almost everything they do, it will be quite aggravating when their mobile phone's battery dies at the time they need their phone, not to mention in an emergency. I will tell you a few tips and tricks to extend your mobile phone battery's life and make it last longer.

1. The easiest and most effective way to preserve your mobile phone's charge is to switch your phone off when not in use. When you're going to bed, or going to work and are not planning on answering your mobile phone, just switch it off.

2. Try not to put up wallpapers. They might be nice and cool to look at - but you won't be saying that when you need your phone and you can't switch it on because the battery is drained. Wallpapers use a lot of energy and power so by not using them it will increase battery life. Why not just put a nice picture up instead?

3. Turn off your Bluetooth when you're not using it. Bluetooth uses up a LOT of your battery life so if you aren't using it just switch it off. Or, switch to a regular corded headset, because they use less power. Also, leaving your Bluetooth on when not using it allows hackers to just hack into your phone, which you don't really want.

4. Only use your ringer OR the vibrate function for calls, but avoid using them both at the same time. A lot of battery power can be lost by using the vibrate function alone, so using both can put an overwhelming drain on your battery.

5. Turn down the brightness of your screen. The screen sucks a tremendous amount of power from your battery, just like the screens on laptops. Visit your phone's settings menu to find the screen controls and lower the brightness to increase battery life.

6. Try not to play games, scroll through pictures or watch videos too often, as these functions use a lot of power. This is especially important when you know you'll have to wait a long while to charge your phone.

7. Charge your mobile phone less often as charging when you don't need to (say, when the battery is at 50%) will reduce the battery's capacity. On average, cell phone charge lasts about 3 days so it is unnecessary to charge more often than about 3 days, depending on your phone of course.

8. Try to avoid playing music without earphones. When you listen to music make sure you are listening through earphones and not just through the phone. Playing music without earphones will decrease battery life faster than when you listen music with earphones as your phone uses more energy and power to play the music without earphones.

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If the title makes you think that Microsoft is about to launch a whole new line of self-branded smartphones in October, think again. In fact the buzz is simply about Windows Mobile 6.5, the new touch-friendly mobile OS by Microsoft, which shall be coming to phones in October this year.

Perhaps a new strategy by Microsoft is to advertise the devices that run on its mobile OS platform as Windows Phones instead of labelling them as the traditional Windows Mobile phones. Now this might be a good thing in the sense that since most of the rebranded products and services by Microsoft have gone quite successful so far, this one might too.

Though we do appreciate the new features in the updated version of Windows mobile OS and that Microsoft has done its best at providing a more touch-friendly experience in the new UI, making one less dependent on the stylus culture.

Apart from the touch-friendliness, we expect to see the Windows Marketplace which is a one-stop place to shop for apps, support for MyPhone backup service and a new Office Mobile.

Earlier there have been quite a few rumors about Nokia entering the Netbook market but until now, the debate was nothing more than a piece of wind-talk. However, this morning Nokia announced that it will soon be shipping a new product which it calls as the Nokia Booklet 3G and from what it looks like, its more than just a Netbook.

Interestingly! Nokia itself is hesitating to brand this machine as a Netbook and goes on by calling it as a mini-laptop. Though we definitely would like to support Nokia on this as this device is more powerful and efficient than a regular netbook, even though it bears the guts of an Intel Atom processor which is now a standard for Netbook devices.



Below are some of the detailed features of the Nokia Booklet 3G.

• Intel Atom Processor on the back-end.
• A Windows-based machine running Windows 7.
• Glass display of 10.1 inches with HD display.
• Battery life up to 12-hours.
• Integrated 3G wireless and WiFi.
• A-GPS, webcam, Bluetooth and SD card reader.

So basically you can think of it as something between a smartphone and a laptop, but still its impressive.

No word yet on the price and availability of the device but I guess we will be seeing more of it at Nokia World 09 on September 2nd, along with the detailed specifications and probably even a preview.

Good news from the iPhone Dev Team tells us that the new version of Redsnow, the multi-platform unlocking tool for the iPhone 2G and iPhone 3G, now also works with the iPhone 3GS.

An unlock tool for the iPhone 3GS has been much anticipated by Apple fans since its release and even though there was a tool named Purplerain to unlock the iPhone 3GS, the fact that it wasn't backup up by the iPhone Dev Team didn't bring relief to many hearts.

However! The new Redsnow fully supports unlock for iPhone 3GS with any carrier running on iPhone 3.0 and can be downloaded at ThePirateBay.

Latest version is now dubbed as Redsnow 0.8. Once downloaded, follow the following steps:

1. Download the iPhone 3GS firmware provided by Apple [Part1 | Part2]
2. Extract the rar-archive with WinRar or UnrarX such that it makes up into one file.
3. Open Redsnow and follow the onscreen instructions to Jailbreak the device.
4. Once Jailbroken, fire-up Cydia and add repo repo666.ultrasn0w.com
5. Now search for 'Ultrasnow' and install it.
6. Restart your iPhone 3GS.

Now I don't really have an iPhone 3GS (at least for now?) but I am pretty sure this method will work out for most of you. Please let us know in the comments if it works.

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