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ماهو أمامكم هو الهاتف المحمول X10 Mini من سوني أريكسون وكل شيء هنا عادي لايوجد شيء مميز ولكن أذا أرت رؤية المعالج Qualcomm MSM7227 بصور أوضحه فهذه هي فرصتك توجه إلى المصدر لترى المزيد .
The talk of the Android world is mostly Froyo updates but there are still plenty of devices that haven’t even made it to Eclair. Well, there’s hope for some of Motorola’s own as the company just revealed its upgrade plans for a number for smartphones.
The Motorola CLIQ (or DEXT if you will) and CLIQ XT (a.k.a. QUENCH) will be the first to get a taste of Android 2.1. Their updates from 1.5 (Cupcake) to Eclair should come before the end of Q2, which means somewhere in the following 9 days.
The Motorola BACKFLIP owners should be next to celebrate as their update will be pushed in the following quarter. The source only mentions the AT&T BACKFLIP units, but we guess once the update is ready, releasing it to the Euro handsets can’t take too long.
Modern always-on web-connected generation need so much equipment to get through the day it’s a small wonder they don’t have to lug tool bags around – the small wonder in this case is the Sony Ericsson Vivaz pro. It’s a full-featured smartphone with a QWERTY keyboard for great messaging and 720p video recording, all in an impressively compact body.
The term “cameraphone” emerged soon after pictures taken with a mobile phone began to look less like impressionist paintings and more like actual photos. Today we’re at a point when 5MP are nothing to write home about.
So, this here pro is the lesser cameraphone of the Vivaz pair. And “camcorderphone” does sound clumsy. But if competing phones are any indication, 5MP stills and 720p video is quite an exciting combo.
Less attention grabbing, but no less useful is the hardware QWERTY keyboard. Sure, there are plenty of phones around with a full keyboard, but how many of them can match the Sony Ericsson Vivaz feature set?
To answer that, we need to know what those features are of course, so here’s the traditional list of pros and cons.
Key features
3.2″ 16M-color resistive touchscreen of 640 x 360 pixel resolution
5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash, face and smile detection, geotagging and touch focus
HD 720p video recording @ 24fps with continuous auto focus
Symbian OS 9.4 S60 5th, topped with a custom-brewed homescreen and media menu
microSD card slot (up to 16GB, 8GB card in the box)
Built-in accelerometer; Turn-to-mute
TV out
Wisepilot navigation software preinstalled (30 day trial)
Four-row QWERTY keyboard
Office document viewer
Stereo FM Radio with RDS; TrackID
microUSB and stereo Bluetooth v2.0
Web browser with full Flash support
Decent audio quality
Main disadvantages
Camera downgraded from 8MP on the regular Vivaz
No camera lens protection
The S60 5th edition UI isn’t the best in usability
No auto locking of the screen during a call
No DivX or XviD support out-of-the-box
No smart or voice dialing
No secondary videocalling camera
The scales are swinging both ways. A point in favor of the Vivaz pro is the mature Symbian platform. It cannot hide its age and is struggling to catch up with the best in business. But it’s been around since the dawn of time (the time of smartphones that is), which makes it well supported and very reliable.
The QWERTY keyboard, the document viewer and the ActiveSync support are real must-haves for the business crowd. High-quality photos and videos may be a teenage thing but they can help be creative with a presentation too.
Another way to look at the Vivaz pro is as a great travel companion. Posting status updates on Twitter and Facebook is a breeze thanks to the keyboard and dedicated apps. And so is uploading 720p videos to YouTube. There’s even voice guided navigation included.
Sony Ericsson Vivaz pro runs the Symbian OS 5th edition – it’s the touch enabled Symbian that all Nokia touch smartphones use (aside from the Nokia N900 that is).
However, the 5th edition user interface is identical to the non-touch 3rd edition. And what was convenient to use with a D-pad, turned out less convenient for finger use. And while the Symbian Foundation scrambles to deliver Symbian^3, which should improve the touch experience, Sony Ericsson have refurbished the old OS.
In a nutshell, if you are familiar with the Satio, Vivaz pro won’t be a surprise. The changes are restricted to the homescreen, the gallery (Sony Ericsson have put on their excellent Walkman UI), and the camera.
The homescreen uses a tabbed interface but not like the “Vertical icon bar” often seen (though rarely used) in Nokia handsets. There are five tabs, which are in effect five alternative homescreen panes. You can assign a different function to every screen – favorite contacts, flow animation, camera album, shortcuts, static picture, Flash animation or the Twitter app.
Excellent messaging
The messaging menu is pretty much the same, though there are some Sony Ericsson touches here and there.
The Sony Ericsson Vivaz pro supports all common message types – SMS, MMS and email. They all share a common intuitive editor which by this point should be quite familiar.
Once you insert some multimedia content or an email address as recipient, the character counter is replaced by a data counter showing the size of your email.
Media center: Sony Ericsson knows the drill
The Sony Ericsson Vivaz pro Media center is a replica of what you usually find on the company’s feature phones (and Sony PlayStation, mind you) – an attractive and convenient way of accessing the media content on your phone.
Sony Ericsson used the tight Media layout just like in the Satio, and there are only the three essential shortcuts to make up the media main menu – Photo, Music and Video.
As you may’ve already guessed, the first one will lead you to the main gallery with all its various options available. The second give access to the Walkman player and all playlists. Finally, the third one will take you to all the video clips stored on the Vivaz pro.
Image gallery
The photo gallery is the same as in the Satio and the first Vivaz and definitely among the best we’ve seen: with great customization capabilities and features aplenty. Some of those options include: one-click access to the latest snapshot you’ve taken, timeline view for your images and tags.
Tags are a very helpful feature offering better ways to make albums – a photo can have multiple tags, which you can’t do with folders.
Viewing photos is fun with the Vivaz pro, especially when browsing images fullscreen. When you want to go to the next in line, it doesn’t simply pop up but instead slides in from left or right.
Walkman on Symbian really works
The Sony Ericsson Vivaz pro comes with the Walkman music player with all the implied features but not all the usual eye-candy. Much like the rest of the media menu, the accelerometer is used here for automatic rotation of the display. The accelerometer is a bit trigger happy, and frequently auto-rotation kicked in when it wasn’t supposed to.
Naturally, the music player also offers step-by-step filtering of the tracks you want to listen to. The “Now playing” screen is simple but offers all the needed controls and information. The tracks are controlled by comfortably large and thumbable on-screen keys at the bottom.
Video player plays HD, but not DivX/XviD
The video player on the Sony Ericsson Vivaz pro is nothing spectacular. Sure, it plays 720p videos but it’s limited in the codec department.
Lacking DivX/XviD support can be overcome by re-encoding the video you want to upload. For that you can use the MediaGo application that Sony Ericsson launched a while back. It’s not without its limitations, but it’s still a pretty sweet app.
You could of course buy a third-party video player that supports DivX/XviD.
Vivaz pro can snap some nice shots
The Sony Ericsson Vivaz pro packs a 5-megapixel camera and is capable of taking photos of up to 2592 x 1944 pixels. There’s also a LED flash, but it’s better suited as a video light.
The Vivaz pro camera interface is quite comfortable. The viewfinder usually occupies the center of the screen with two black bars around it. The camera UI buttons are over the bars, so it’s not big deal. You could switch to 16:9 mode but that drops the photo resolution down to 3MP.
On the left side of the viewfinder there are five shortcuts. Those cover Scenes, Shoot mode, Focus settings, Exposure compensation and Auto mode.
Image quality is nice
The Sony Ericsson Vivaz pro may have a 5MP camera rather than a 8MP one, but the images it produces are very pleasant.
The amount of captured detail is great – there’s a great balance between noise-reduction and sharpening and there’s no sign of the typical side effects of both. The resolved detail is great, even foliage – which usually gets an oil-painting look after the noise reduction – comes out quite well.
There’s one problem with the photos though – the contrast in all photos is low. The colors are accurate though.
Vivaz pro shoots HD video
We’ve reached the good stuff – the Sony Ericsson Vivaz pro captures 720p videos at 24 fps, joining the cool kids club.
Probably the best feature of the Vivaz pro is the continuous auto focus during video recording – it allows it to act just like a dedicated video camera. We have a video demo below that shows the feature in action.
The frame rate hovers around and just below 24fps – depending on the scene, and under close inspection that might become visible.
As far as the 24 vs. 30 frames per second – this is one of those rare cases where more isn’t better. All of us are used to seeing 24fps as “movie quality” and faster frame rates have a certain look that many rec recognize as “that cheap camcorder look”.
Despite having different image sensors, the videos from the Vivaz and Vivaz pro are almost a match in video quality.
The quality of the Sony Ericsson Vivaz videos is nice with reasonably well-resolved detail and accurate colors. The contrast is low here too, like the still camera, but the sharpening is excessive, which sometimes leads to visible artifacts
We’re also pleased to report that the rolling shutter effect that the first Vivaz suffered from has been greatly reduced.
Here’s a couple of other Sony Ericsson Vivaz pro camera video samples:
And a demo of the continuous auto-focus feature in action:
Connectivity is full-suite
The Sony Ericsson Vivaz pro has quite a few connectivity options. Starting with GSM connectivity, there’s quad-band GSM/EDGE for 2G networks and two-band (or three-band in the Americas) 3G, which gets a bump in speed from the 10.2Mbps HSDPA and 2Mbps HSPA.
Moving on to local connectivity, there’s Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP and Wi-Fi b/g with DLNA and microUSB and TV out for the wired connectivity.
An 8GB microSD card comes in the box, but you can plug in a 16GB card if you have one. Mass Storage mode is supported, so you don’t even need a PC suite installed to browse the files on the card.
The web browser is good at rendering, bad at usability
Sony Ericsson Vivaz pro uses the S60 5th edition browser and starts up with the typical Sony Ericsson homepage.
Browsing has quite a few usability issues though. The kinetic scrolling for one – it doesn’t have enough momentum and stops way too abruptly. The tap-to-zoom feature switches between three levels of zoom: 30%, 100% and 200%. Strangely, it was a little hard to trigger, so you are better off using the zoom bar.
You can view a page fullscreen, which gets the controls out of the way, and Overview, which shows fits the page on the screen and lets you pick which zone to zoom back to. While the browser has support for multiple pages opened at the same time, this only works for popups – you can’t open a new tab manually and punch in a new web address.
Symbian-grade organizer
The S60 organizer didn’t get tweaked that much for the new OS beyond basic touch optimization, but this time you will be glad to have Copy/Paste in the menu options.
The calendar has four different view modes – monthly, weekly, daily and to-do, which allows you to check up all your pending tasks regardless of their date. There are the same four types of events available for setting up as on S60 3rd edition – Meeting, Memo, Anniversary and To-do.
Each event has unique fields of its own, and some of them allow an alarm to be activated at a preset time to act as a reminder.
Applications unusually few
The preinstalled applications on the Sony Ericsson Vivaz pro include RoadSync, SMS Preview and Facebook. There’s also dedicated voice-guided navigation software, which we’ll cover later on.
The DataViz RoadSync is among the most useful preinstalled applications if you plan to use your Vivaz in a corporate environment. In essence, it’s an ActiveSync client, which provides secure, wireless and direct push synchronization of corporate e-mail, calendar, contacts, tasks and attachments. You don’t have to be a white-collar to use that. You may just as well sync your phone to the Google cloud service – contacts, email and calendar.
Wisepilot to guide your way
The Sony Ericsson Vivaz pro features a built-in GPS receiver. Its sensitivity is nothing spectacular – it managed to get a lock from a cold start in a couple of minutes.
The Vivaz pro is equipped with the Wisepilot navigation software on a 30 day trial. It offers all the features you’d expect in a proper SatNav solution. There’s voice-guided walk and drive navigation, maps are courtesy of NAVTEQ, there’s 3D view of the maps, extensive route-planning settings, speed camera alerts, POI and weather.
ألا تجدون أي هاتف من سامسونج وخاصة من عائلة Galaxy يكون رائع بكل ماتعنيه هذه الكلمة ؟ أليكم هذا الهاتف الجديد وهو الهاتف المحمول Galaxy Q والذي يستهدف محبي البلاك بيري ومحبي E فئة الأعمال من نوكيا.
طبعا الصوره هذه لاتعبر عن الشكل الحقيقي لهاتف Galaxy Q فهي مجرد تصميم لا أكثر ولا أقل ولكن حسب المصادر التي تم أخذها من مقرّ شركة سامسونج فإن الهاتف سيكون مزود بنظام الأندرويد وشاشة تدعم خاصية اللمس المتعدد ومدجج بالمواقع الأجتماعية .
لاتوجد تفاصيل عن مواصفات الهاتف القادم ولكن من المتوقع أن يصدر في الربع الرابع من العام الجاري عن طريق شركة الأتصالات الأمريكية AT&t والنظام الأندرويد هو عباره عن بيئه مناسبه جدا لفئة الأعمال ولا أحد ينكر ذالك .
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Smartphones for the masses is what Samsung want and Bada alone won’t be enough perhaps to get them there. Why not the Samsung I5800 Galaxy 3 then? A mid-range Android phone with a custom paintjob on the OS and few nice software surprises – doesn’t sound bad at all.
Android is infiltrating the lower smartphone ranks. Mission objective: cut down on expensive hardware features and provide a robust experience. The Samsung I5800 Galaxy 3 does just that. The hardware won’t make it a flagship, but with 3G, Wi-Fi, GPS, Android OS (slightly modified and even improved) and a 1500mAh battery it sounds like a reliable phone that can do the job for most people.
Connectivity: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0 with A2DP, standard microUSB port, GPS receiver with A-GPS, digital compass, 3.5mm audio jack
Misc: Accelerometer for screen auto rotate, DivX/XviD support, FM radio with RDS, Swype text input, social networking integration, Layar Augmented Reality browser
Battery: Li-Ion battery, 1500mAh
The Samsung I5800 Galaxy 3 has no flagship aspirations and it doesn’t need to look like a million bucks. The minimalist design means it’s not too extravagant, but it’s not boring either. High-end, cutting edge phones are reputation builders, but it’s usually the mid and low end handsets that end up in most people’s pockets. Pocket is the keyword and the Samsung I5800 Galaxy 3 seems well aware of that.
About the software surprises we mentioned – one of them is Swype, a novel way to type on a virtual QWERTY keyboard, and the other is the excellent DivX/XviD support. Not that it’s a surprise coming from Samsung, but certainly a great feature to have. And it’s rare enough on Android.
On the next page, we take the Samsung I5800 Galaxy 3 for a spin and check the newborn droid in and out.
Disclaimer: This preview is based on an early Samsung I5800 Galaxy 3 prototype. Changes in the final retail product are highly probable. We’ll update this article when we get a more final version of both the hardware and software.
Design and construction
The design of the Samsung I5800 is not revolutionary, but the touchscreen bar is very limiting in what manufacturers can do. Samsung have given us another neat and simple, all-plastic device.
The design is utterly minimalistic and hides away most of the functional elements. The Android keys (menu, home, back and search) are touch sensitive and are only visible when their backlight is on. The D-pad looks like a simple center key, even the volume rocker is not very prominent.
The display is a 3.2” touchscreen of WQVGA resolution. It’s the first Android smartphone we see that has this particular resolution. It uses capacitive technology to sense even very light taps. The image quality is good as far as TFT screens go, with good brightness and decent contrast.
The sunlight legibility is pretty bad however – there’re too much reflections and the display often ends up reflecting sunlight right into your eyes, obscuring everything on screen.
Below the display are the D-pad and the standard arrangement of Android keys. The D-pad has the appearance of a simple center key, but can be used to scroll both vertically and sideways. You probably won’t use it much, the only time it’s actually better than just using the touchscreen is when you need to go back a couple of letters and fix a typo.
The other four keys – Menu and Home keys on the left; Back and Search on the right – are touch sensitive. When their backlighting is off, they become invisible and blend with the black plastic of the front.
The keys are capacitive, which means they react only to bare fingers. They don’t provide any haptic feedback at this point, but that’s about to be fixed we guess. There’s a setting for it in the menu.
User interface – best of both worlds
Putting a custom skin on the OS is what manufacturers have always been keen to do. They would tailor the user interface to their own understanding of usability. The bottom line though, is making it unique and recognizable, to set it apart from competing devices using the same software.
The Samsung I5800 is no different – the interface has been tweaked to look very much like Samsung’s pride and joy, the Bada OS.
Much like on the Samsung Galaxy S, on the I5800 Samsung have managed to blend their interface with the native UI, rather than just slap one on top of the other. Given the inherent similarities between Bada and Android, the I5800 UI is very smooth and consistent.
People who have used TouchWiz before (few have yet got a chance on its successor, Bada) won’t take long to feel at home. The good news though is the same holds true for Android users. Samsung have changed the vanilla Android enough to make it their own, but all the strengths of the Android interface are intact.
There are four buttons at the bottom of the homescreen that provide shortcuts to the main functions of the phone – dialer, contacts, messaging and applications. There are 7 homescreen panes instead of the five in Android 2.1, and the current position is indicated by numbered dots top of the screen.
The notification area has also been tweaked – it now has four toggles to mute sound and turn Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS on and off. These are accessible from pretty much anywhere, so if the app requests, say, your location or wants to download lots of data, you can switch on GPS or Wi-Fi in a couple of clicks.
The homescreen makes heavy use of widgets – they are not just cute little apps that show the weather or tell you to quit smoking. Some custom Samsung widgets have enough functionality to be apps in their own right.
For example, the Feeds & updates widget streamlines the updates from Facebook, MySpace and Twitter into a single feed and lets you post updates to these sites straight from the widget itself. You get full-blown apps for Facebook and MySpace for the more complex tasks.
The Daily Briefing widget is an exact copy of the eponymous application in Bada OS and being on the homescreen feels much more natural for what it provides – a one-stop summary of the weather, stock quotes, news and upcoming appointments in the calendar.
There’s also the StockClock, which combines the clock with a stock quote ticker, and the Days widget, which works with the Mini Diary app – it’s similar to HTC’s Footsteps.
Text input, Android meets Swype
Text input is not usually a particularly exciting part of a preview but the Samsung I5800 is different. Just like Samsung Galaxy S, it features a Swype-enhanced on-screen QWERTY keyboard in both portrait and landscape.
The way Swype works is instead of tapping on keys you sweep a finger across the keyboard. To “type” quick, you need to put a finger on the Q key and sweep over to U, then I, then C and all the way to K. There’s a visual trail that marks your finger movement across the keyboard.
It doesn’t matter if the trace goes over other keys, in fact you can’t help it. But Swype recognizes the word you intended to enter with surprising accuracy – it correctly guessed “xylophone” without breaking a sweat. The high precision means that even fast sweeps will be recognized correctly, so you can enter text very quickly and keep the error rate low at the same time.
Browser got a touch of make-up too
The web browser has got some of the skinning treatment. The changes are cosmetic mostly and all the excellent functionality of the Eclair browser is there.
Aside from the different look of the address bar, there are five buttons at the bottom row – back and forward, more, bookmarks and tabs. In full-screen mode those are hidden and the only thing to see is the full-screen mode toggle.
Camera: no lights, but action!
The camera on the Samsung I5800 is modest by today’s standards – 3.2 megapixel with autofocus and QVGA video at 15fps. There isn’t even a dedicated shutter key (but then again the Nexus One doesn’t either).
Samsung have a lot of experience with cameraphones, so they’ve developed a really good touch camera interface. And they’ve ported it to the Samsung I5800.
Multimedia: music and video players, FM radio and Media Browser
The Samsung I5800 boasts an impressive multimedia package – in both audio and video.
Let’s start with the Music player. It’s a custom job by Samsung and offers 5.1 channel emulation, DNSe with Music Clarity, Bass enhancement, Concert hall, externalization and a few other presets.
Apps galore
There are dedicated apps for Facebook and MySpace, though for simply updating your status you can use the Feeds & Update widget. Unfortunately, the apps couldn’t log in, so we’ll have to wait for the review to test them.
Mini diary is similar to HTC’s Footsteps. You can add entries into it with dates, the weather (automatically pulled from AccuWeather) plus a photo and a short text. It’s great for a travel diary, though we would have liked it to have a way to post diary entries online.
First impressions
There are quite a few impressive things about the Samsung I5800. For one, the re-skinned Android looks like Bada OS, but isn’t a half-baked mess. Instead, it promises comfort to both Android users and those coming from a Samsung handset with TouchWiz.
Swype too – it’s a fresh take on touchscreen QWERTY and could easily become the way to touch-type in the future. It’s faster and more accurate than handwriting recognition, and once you get used to it, it’s certainly faster than tapping the keys.
The Video Player that handled DVD quality DivX was impressive as well – DivX/XviD players for Android are hard to come by. There are other things as well, like the balanced selection of widgets and apps for business and fun.
The hardware, unlike the top-notch software, is average. That’s not to say bad, but it’s not ahead of the competition either.
Well, there you go. Android is a mature platform already and it brings excellent user experience – especially with a few tasty add-ons like Swype and DivX video. The Samsung I5800 is one of the finer examples of what the OS can do in the midrange. With the right price tag this phone can really push on value for money.
تسربت قبل عدة أيام صورة لجوال سوني إريكسون إكسبيريا شاكيرا. و المتوقع أن يكون حجمه متوسطاً بين إكسبيريا X10 و إكسبيريا X10 ميني. اليوم تتسرب بعض الأخبار و الصور الرسمية الواضحة لهذا الجوال. و مفاد الخبر أن شاكيرا سيحصل على إسم سوني إريكسون إكسبيريا X8 رسميا. هذا و قد تسربت هذه الصور الرسمية للجوال و يبدو أن الصور تدحض المزاعم القائلة أنه سيقدم لوحة مفاتيح انزلاقية QWERTY.
A press release graced our inbox and we were pleasantly surprised at what it said – the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X8 is official, Sony Ericsson dusted off the Walkman brand with the Yendo and finally, the Sony Ericsson Cedar joins the GreenHeart ranks.
As we’ve already heard Sony Ericsson now reconfirms it’s working to bring Android 2.1 to their XPERIA X10 lineup, while the the big X10 should get 720p video capture too. These updates are coming in Q3 this year.
The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X8 is like a grown up X10 mini. It features a 3″ HVGA (320 x 480) screen with a scratch resistant surface, a 600MHz CPU running Android 1.6 with the same customizations that the X10 mini has and Timescape too.
The camera on the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X8 is a 3.2MP snapper and the phone comes with a 2GB microSD card in the box. As far as connectivity goes, it offers quad-band GSM/EDGE, 3G with HSPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS.
According to GSMHelpDesk, the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X8 will run for 259 euro.
