new Watch Phones

Description:
Keeping you in touch with the world, without weighing you down, the GSM Watch Phone is a sleek and sophisticated innovation, which works like a regular watch and a regular phone both at the same time. Incorporating Blue Tooth technology for ease of use, the Watch Phone also features a 1.8” 260,000 color TFT screen, an alarm clock, a stopwatch, a currency converter and a unit exchange. If none of the 64 polyphonic ring tones catch your fancy, you can set your favorite mp3s as your ring tone. Weighing in at only 50g strapped to your wrist, the Watch Phone comes in four colors: black, argent, blue or red. You get a talk-time of 240 minutes and an idle time of 200 hours. The Watch Phone has 64M of memory and data can be transferred via USB cable, Bluetooth file transfer or headset. This item makes a great gift and is a must-have for all gadget-lovers.



SKU: GSM-Watch-Phone-Mobile300


Language: English, Simple Chinese
Screen: 1.8” 260,000-color TFT; resolution: 176 x 220px
Ring tone: 64 chords, compatible formats: mp3, midi
Music player: mp3, can set MP3 songs as ring tone of incoming calls
Memory: 64M memory
Data transfer: USB cable transfer / bluetooth file transfer/ bluetooth headset/ voice
Network: GSM
Frequency: 900 / 1800 / 1900MHz
Ring Tone: 64 Polyphonic

Battery: Lithium Ion

Talk time: 120/240 minutes
Idle time: 150/200 hours
Time to market: 2007.06
Appearance: Straight board
Dimensions: 72.5 x 63.4 x 23.5 mm

Major iPhone upgrade coming this summer

Apple unveiled a slew of new features — more than 100 in all — in the third major revision of the iPhone’s basic operating system. Among the enhancements demonstrated at a special media event at its Cupertino headquarters on Tuesday were many of the functions users had been clamoring for — in some cases for nearly two years. Among the highlights:
Cut, copy and paste across applications
So-called “push notification” — for example, of breaking news or sports results
Multimedia messaging service (MMS) for sending pictures or voice memos in instant messages
Landscape viewing when the iPhone is turned sideways in most applications, including Mail
The ability to search Mail, Calendar and other applications for key words
Improved calendar functions
Stereo Bluetooth for wireless earphones
And much more. At the end of the 90 minute presentation, senior vice president Scott Forstall (who stood in for the ailing Steve Jobs) was rattling off features faster than reporters could type: Notes Sync, audio/video tags, live streaming, shake to shuffle, Wi-Fi auto login, Stereo Bluetooth, LDAP, iTunes account creation, YouTube ratings, anti-phishing, call log, parental controls, media ccrubber, OTA profiles, VPN on demand, languages, YouTube subscriptions, YouTube accounts, encrypted profiles, auto-fills…
“Many minor features add up to a major change,” was Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster’s take-away message.
Apple also announced a raft of improvements — including more than 1,000 new APIs (application programming interfaces) — in the so-called SDK (software development kit) that programmers use to create applications for the iPhone and the iPod touch. Chief among them:
Peer to peer connectivity (through Bluetooth) to allow multiplayer games with people in close proximity
Support for turn-by-turn navigation and other sophisticated map applications
A subscription model that allows micropayments by the item ($9.95 for an electronic book, say, or a more $0.99 for a more powerful weapon in a shooting game)
The ability to interact with hardware accessories such as speakers or glucose monitoring kits
A beta (preliminary) version of new SDK is available to developers for free download today.
iPhone 3.0 with all the added end-user features won’t be available until sometime this summer. It will be free to owners of existing iPhones and will cost $9.95 for the iPod touch. Some of the new functions — for example stereo Bluetooth and MMS — won’t work on the first generation phones.
Apple also announced some App Store milestones:
25,000 apps available for download (the actual figure is now more than 28,000)
800 million apps downloaded
17 million iPhones sold through Dec. 2008
13 million iPod touches (for a total installed base of more than 30 million App Store-ready devices)
800,000 downloads of the original SDK
50,000 developers — 62% of them new to Apple
96% of apps submitted in February were approved — 98% within seven days — but still not fast enough to satisfy some developers
One user request that wasn’t addressed was support for Adobe Flash, the widely used standard for online video and other multimedia files. Asked in a Q&A what Apple planned to do about Flash, Forstall ducked the question. “We have no announcements on that topic today,” he said, suggesting that there were other ways to send video to mobile devices.
See Jon Fortt’s Big Tech for a live blog of the event. Apple’s press release is available
Apple closed Tuesday $99.66, up 4.4% for the day. The stock has gained $16.55 a share in just over two weeks.
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Top 5 Free VOIP Providers For Making Free Calls Worldwide

1) Raketu- Pretty decent service which offers FREE calls to 42 countries. I am rating it higher than VOIPbuster/Discount for the very reason thats its not a clone and it uses a diff technology than skype. Skype uses Supernodes which can be vulnerable to hacking. I covered that issues in my blog earlier. Additionally it integrates with Yahoo, MSN messengers etc.
Benefits: Better technology, Clear Voice, 42 countries FREE, Integrate with other messengers Drawbcks- Haven’t found any yet.
2) Jajah : I tried jajah about 1 month back and with their FREE minutes i made calls to India. The difference between jajah and other VOIP providers is Jajah only allows you to make calls from your phone. That means You need to give your phone number and your calling party number before you can make a call. When you intiate a call Jajah first connect your phone. You pick up the call and then jajah connects to the other party.
Benefits: No software download needed. Just visit their site. No credits needed for free calls. Drawbacks: Have to use a legitimate number before calling. Cant use PC to make call.
3) Gizmo : Popularly known as ” Skype Killer”. This software lets you call anyone in more than 60 countries. The only downside is that you and other party both should be registered with Gizmo and should also register your numbers. I am sure that this project will be successful and in short time the daatabase of people will be built and then its a FREE calling world.
Benefits: Making calls is easier than ever, Killer Application interface, Drawbacks: Requires both parties to register their numbers with Gizmo.
4) Voipcheap - This is the original VOIPcheap and not the UK version of this company. Although VOIPbuster, voipcheap.co.uk uses the same software, i found this software more reliable and voice quality is of high level. This is an straight winner when it comes to making FREE calls worldwide. You can virtually call more than 50 countries on normal PSTN landlines and mobiles in singapore, USA, HK & Canada. With some hacks, you can call from countries which are not listed in FREE list but you have a work around. You need to check my blog for that.
Benefits: Clear voice, You can make calls from your PC. No need to buy any credits from them before making free calls. Allows PC or Phone to initiate call (via Directdial)
Drawbacks: really none.
5) voipraider/ voipbuster: All these companies belong to Betamax GMBH, a European company dealing in VOIP. They offer extremely low competitive rates to many countries but have almost zero customer service.
Benefits:1 or more additional countries (Thailand + mobile) on Voipdiscount. Drawbacks: No customer service. Change rate any time.
I hope this article will benefit you in making Free International CallsVinay is avid reader and follower in VOIP space and is currently busy writing a VOIP blog.
You can check his blog on Free VOIP

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Google shows Web-based offline Gmail on iPhone

Showing that its Web application priorities extend to the mobile world, Google on Wednesday demonstrated a version of Gmail for the iPhone that could be used even when the phone had no network connection.

Google is eyeing a new version of its Web-based Gmail application for Apple's iPhone.

Vic Gundotra, Google's vice president of engineering, showed what he called a "technical concept" of Gmail even when the iPhone was offline. In January, Google released an offline version of Gmail for desktops and laptops, and like it, mobile phone incarnation runs in a Web browser, not as a native application.
The software let Gundotra browse and read e-mail even after he switched the phone into airplane mode, which shuts off the wireless network.
Offline applications can't of course retrieve new data from the network, but they do synchronize when network access is restored. Meanwhile, it stores e-mail in a local database on the phone, even when online.
"You'll note that it's very, very fast because it's using that local database," Gundotra said. The application also showed a floating toolbar that was visible even as he scrolled through his inbox.
It's significant for several reasons that Google is eyeing a new version of its Web-based Gmail application for the iPhone. For one thing, the company wants to bring to the iPhone all of Gmail's features -- search, labels, and conversations, for example -- and Apple's built-in mail application lacks those abilities.
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But more broadly, the move is significant because it shows how Web-based applications can bypass the control particular companies such as Apple or Microsoft have over a computing technology.
Apple has achieved tremendous success with its App Store, which lets people download and buy software for the iPhone and iPod Touch. But it controls that conduit, and it only can deliver software written specifically for those devices.
Web applications run in a Web browser, and all smart phones have browsers -- though of course hardware and network constraints typically mean they're anemic compared to desktop versions.
In case this point about the power of Web applications was lost on observers, Gundotra showed the same Gmail software running on the HTC Magic, a new phone using Google's Android operating system.
"You now have an ability to build an app that spans devices as long as that device implements the latest specifications of these modern HTML 5 Web browsers," Gundotra said.
The mobile phone version of the Gmail software uses a somewhat different approach to enable offline access.
Where the desktop version uses a Google-developed open-source browser plug-in called Gears to enable offline support, the iPhone version uses the offline data storage standard of HTML 5, the gradually emerging overhaul of the language used to describe Web pages. That technology can cache the state of an application as well as data such as messages.
Of course, getting a modern, full-featured browser on a PC with plenty of memory is hard enough, and mobile browsers generally lag PC versions.
However, it should be noted that Safari on the iPhone, like the browser in Android, is based on the WebKit open-source project, and WebKit has been building in offline support. So at least on some higher-end phones, a Web-based version of offline Gmail could be an option sooner rather than later