BlackBerry Bold 9930

The design of the BlackBerry Bold 9930BlackBerry Bold 9930 is one of RIM's first phone running BlackBerry OS 7. Keyboard is just awesome - this is the best physical keyboard on any phone I've ever used, boasting the right size and shape for the thumb, with the perfect amount of backlighting. It really is not too surprising, because the keyboard mobile phone which RIM is usually superior, but still very much appreciated. Texture button feels a little more "matte" than some previous bolds, a definite improvement if you think they are a bit slippery.
The buttons on the panel incredible juga.kontrol smooth chrome colored, each one stands out just the right distance from the frame up. Even the volume buttons slightly sloping downward toward each other, so that the trained fingertips can quickly tell by touch up and down. And screen-lock button hidden wise. It is the details, but it was said that RIM has serious consideration each and every one of them.
Finally, Bold weighs just 4.6 ounces, less hefty than the previous 9650 (which must have felt too heavy). It's not quite as featherlight as the Curve, Bold but certainly much more feature rich. For what this phone does not, the weight feels just right - a touchscreen and a 1.2GHz processor need batteries to support them, after all. It's still very friendly to the hands and pockets (and, especially, 0.3 ounces lighter than the iPhone 4S).

BlackBerry Bold 9930 is one of RIM's first phone running BlackBerry OS 7. But the system 7 is the last iteration of the "old" software BlackBerry, RIM switched stopgap until completely rewritten to QNX-based BlackBerry 10 later this year. To be sure, BlackBerry 7 provides a great mobile experience.
Then when you download, the real fun begins. First, there is no easy "upgrade all" option when you have to wait a few upgrades. Apps also routinely require you to reboot before you use them, and for some reason they sometimes they want you to install a version after version prior to the latest one. What is this, Windows? At least you do not have to enter a password for every single download, even free ones, like on iOS.
On the good side, has a touch screen to complement keyboard is a big plus. I have used all kinds of BlackBerry and Bold button combo hard and virtual interfaces are far the most powerful. Whenever you are having trouble navigating the screen, just tap, slide or pinch yourself through it. And for banging out a text message or email, the keyboard is second to none.
Phone calls are good, nice and crisp with minimal distortion. I have always found to be a competent mobile phone BlackBerry, but surprisingly the opposite is used for voice calls. Because the device began as an email-only pager, the basics of BlackBerry phones demotes design calls for the kind of reflection (ie the number of "borrowed" from the keyboard, the phone app is not front and center).
Bold offers a 1.2GHz processor, but strangely sluggish at times. Maybe I'm just used to the offerings of dual-core Android and Apple, but I found the Bold into mediocrity in doing things like browsing the web, play YouTube videos and Facebook to call the album. It is a decent phone for today, but years from now it will definitely be in the slow lane.
The camera is very good, good performance in low light without flash (as long as you and your subject silent), with very short shutter lag. Most camera phones these days are comparable, so it's good to see RIM have not fallen behind here. Video maxes out at 720p resolution, but it will be more than enough for most.
The bottom line: The BlackBerry Bold 9930 is a phone that is very beautiful and well designed, with solid features and even a cool little extras (such as near field communication, or NFC, mobile payment applications). Which makes it a shame that it is burdened with BlackBerry 7 OS, which is just not the full smartphone experience here in 2012. This is a phone you might want casual dating for a few months because it's so pretty, but it's really just not bright enough to meet your needs in a long-term relationship.
Pro

    Solid industrial design and detailed
    Excellent battery
    Good low-light camera with minimal shutter lag
Cons

    Operating system primitives
    Small screen
    Elections poor app
Key Specifications

    2.6 x 4.5 x 0.41 inches (W x H x D)
    4.59 ounces
    Mobile world: CDMA / GSM / UMTS
    35-key backlit QWERTY keyboard
    2.8-inch capacitive touchscreen
    640 x 480 pixels (287 dpi)
    5-megapixel camera with flash
    720p video recording
    8GB of storage
    Bluetooth 2.1
    Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11b/g/n)

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SamsungGalaxy Tab 10.1

 

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

Specifications Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
platform

     GSM & EDGE Band 850/900/1.800/1.900MHz
     Band 3G 900/1.900/2.100MHz
     Internet Browser (Android)

Video

     Touch Screen
     Supports Video Players
     Supports Video Recording
     Supports Video Message
     Supports Streaming Video

Business & Office

     Supports Document Viewer
     available eReader
     Offline mode

connectivity

     USB support
     Supports Internet Browser
     Available SyncML (DS)
     Available SyncML (DM)
     supports WIFI

Display

     TFT Screen (Internal)

Music & Sound

     Music player is included
     Music libraries are included

memory

     SMS: Depending on the memory
     Users 16GB of memory
     Phone Book Entries: Depends on Memory

Personal Information Management

     supports Calendar
     Scheduler is included
     Available Task List
     supports Clock
     Supports World Time
     supports Alarm
     supports Calculator
     Memo book included

camera

     Auto Focus included
     Photo Effects Gray / Negative / Sepia
     ISO Auto

entertainment

     Wallpaper available integrated

Messaging

     MMS is included
     Supports Predictive Text Input T9
     Email support
     Supports the vCard / vCalendar
     Supports Instant Messaging

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HP Pavilion DV6

                                             HP Pavilion DV6

spesifikasi laptop HP Pavilion DV6
• Chipset: AMD M770
• L2 Cache : 1MB
• FSB : Up to 3600MHz
• 4GB PC2-6400 DDR2 RAM (800MHz)
• 320GB SATA Hard Disk Drive with HDD Protection ( RPM 5400)
• Super Multi Drive DVD +/- RW / +/-R Writer (Light Scribe)
• 15.6″ Widescreen (WXGA) with Bright view Technology
• Windows Vista Home Premium Operating System (32Bit)
• Fingerprint Reader
• VGA Webcam
• Microphones
• Integrated 802.11a/b/g/draft-n Wireless LAN
• Bluetooth
• ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650 -1GB Dedicated Graphics
• One HDMI v1.3 Port
• One eSATA/USB Combo Port
• 3 USB 2.0 Ports
• Weight : 2.93Kgs
• 6 Cell Lithium Battery
• Carry Case
• HP Mobile Express Card Remote Control
• HP Games

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Toshiba Satellite L645D

                                                      Toshiba Satellite L645D

Spesifikasi Laptop L645
• 14.0 inches of diagonal wide screen TruBrite TFT screen
• 1366 x 768 pixel of screen resolution
• 1MB L2 cache
• 3GB DDR3 system memory
• 320GB (5400 RPM) hard disk drive
• Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium operating system (64-bit version)
• 2.2 GHz AMD Athlon II Dual-Core P340 processor
• ATI Radeon HD 4250 graphics card
• 8x SuperMulti DVD drive
• Toshiba Media Controller
• Wi-Fi networking connectivity
• Fast Ethernet (10/100)
• Microsoft Office Starter 2010
• Multi in 1 digital media reader
• Built-in stereo speakers with Dolby Advanced Audio
• 3 total USB 2.0 ports with 1 eSATA/USB combo port
• 6 cell/48Wh Lithium Ion battery
• VGA video output
• Microphone and headphone jacks
• 13.3 x 9.13 x 1.5 inches of dimension
• 4.98 pounds of weight
 

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Lenovo G550

                                                                    Lenovo G550

spesifikasi laptop Lenovo G550

• Intel Pentium Dual-Core T4200 (2.00GHz, 1MB L2 cache, 800MHz FSB)
• Microsoft Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium (w/ SP1)
• 15.6-inch glossy 16:9 display (1366×768)
• Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
• 3GB DDR3 1066MHz RAM
• 250GB Western Digital 5400RPM HDD
• SuperMulti DVD+/-RW Optical Drive
• Broadcom WiFi (802.11b/g), 10/100 Ethernet, Modem
• 6-Cell 11.1V 48WHr Battery
• Limited 1-year standard parts and labor warranty
• Dimensions: LxWxH, 14.9 x 9.6 x 1.4″
• Weight: 5lbs 9.0oz

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2011 The 25 Best Smartphones

this past year was an unpredictable one for smartphones. Google captured a majority of the mobile marketshare with its Android platform. Apple proved it didn't need the iPhone 5 to generate record-breaking sales. Microsoft revamped its Windows Phone 7 platform for the better. BlackBerry somehow stayed in business even after suffering a near 70 percent profit drop. Handset manufacturers like HTC, Motorola, and Samsung blessed us with new phones on what seemed like a bi-weekly basis. And we witnessed the evolution of mobile computing in the form of dual-core processing, LTE/4G service, Near-Field Communication technology, mobile cloud services, and voice-recognition software.

That said, it's no easy chore narrowing down a selection of the year's hottest smartphones, especially when 50 percent of the best stuff was rushed into stores within the last four months. Nevertheless, we managed to tackle nearly every major mobile release and ranked the industry's most elite and distinguished handsets of this year. So without further ado, check out the 25 Best Smartphones Of 2011.

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smartphone kill the PC

When he was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes last summer, Tim Smith was given a blood sugar monitor, and a notebook with a pencil. The monitor, obviously, to test his sugar levels; the notebook to note them down so he could tell his doctor.

Given his job in IT for Sainsbury's, Smith wasn't about to use something so low-tech as pencil and paper. "I would have lost it or torn it," he says. A few years ago, he says, he probably would have taken the readings and entered them in an Excel spreadsheet on his PC, to make pretty graphs.

But this was 2010, and so he turned to his smartphone, and quickly found an app – Glucose Buddy – that let him take his readings anywhere he liked. They'd be uploaded to the internet, so he could access them any time. Graphs? Of course. Alarms to remind him to take a reading? If he wanted. Advice on diet? Available for a cheap upgrade to the free app.

Smith is just one of the millions of people around the world who now own a smartphone, and the number is growing rapidly. In the first three months of this year, just under half of all the 45m mobile phones sold in western Europe fell into that category – able to browse the web, send and receive email, and run custom-written apps. That's as well as storing contacts and calendars, sending text messages and (how quaint) making phone calls. Worldwide, smartphones represent 24% of all mobiles sold worldwide between January and March – up from 15% a year before. The tipping point when they make up 50% may only be a year or so away. And before the end of the decade, every phone sold will be what we'd now call a smartphone.

Smith's use of his iPhone is typical of the way smartphones are used: to connect to the internet, hold data, run programs, organise our lives. They're fast replacing what we perhaps wrongly thought was an embedded part of our lives: the PC. Notice what Smith, an IT professional, didn't do: he didn't use a PC, and he didn't fire up Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program. That's indicative of a huge shift that's coming to computing, and was behind Microsoft's $8bn splurge in May when it bought the Skype internet telephone service, and behind the rumours that Microsoft is going to buy Nokia, the Finnish company that makes the most mobile handsets and smartphones.

In this shift, there was an earthquake at the end of 2010. PCs had always sold far more than smartphones (which only date back to 2003 or so). In the first three months of 2010, 85m PCs were sold worldwide, compared with 55m smartphones. Optimistic analysts forecast that the crossover might happen in 2012. Instead, by the last three months of 2010, 94m PCs were sold – and 100m smartphones. Analysts believe that this trend will never reverse. (It continued in the first quarter of this year: 82m PCs, 100m smartphones.)

"Smartphones will keep growing in sales approaching the billion-plus levels of total handset sales before this decade is done," says Tomi Ahonen, a former Nokia executive who now has his own mobile industry consultancy. "The trend of PC sales is stagnant or at best modest growth, selling around 300m per year."

Microsoft is concerned about what is happening with mobile, because it knows it is the future, and threatens the two PC-based monopolies – Windows and Office – that have earned it billions over the past couple of decades.

The change that smartphones bring is computing power in the palm of our hands or in our pockets. It is internet connectivity almost anywhere on earth. That's going to have profound effects. Horace Dediu, another former Nokia executive who now runs the consultancy Asymco, says: "Besides being powerful, they're going to be ubiquitous. Not only in the hands of nearly every person on the planet, but also with them, or by them, all day long. They will be more popular than TVs and more intimate than wallets."

They're going to do far more than wallets (although they can already serve that function: a system called NFC, for Near Field Communications, is being built into smartphones and will let you pay for small items with the press of a button). All the things you can now do with a smartphone would have seemed like science-fiction only a decade ago: translate signs, translate words, take voice input and search the web, recognise a face, add another layer to reality showing you the quickest way to a tube or restaurant or the history of your immediate surroundings, show you where your friends are in real time, tell you what your friends think of a restaurant you're standing outside, show you where you are on a map, navigate you while you drive, contact the Starship Enterprise. Well, perhaps not the last one. Even so, "A smartphone today would have been the most powerful computer in the world in 1985," observes Dediu. In fact, today's phones have about the same raw processing power as a laptop from 10 years ago. And every year they close the gap.

The element of personalisation and intimacy takes smartphones beyond what we've had before. Our mobile phone used just to be a repository of our phone contacts, some photos and texts. Now it's our emails as well, our photos, our Twitter and Facebook accounts (and, by proxy, friends), plus all those apps and games that we've downloaded to give it our own personal experience.

Yet ironically these new, more powerful phones are more not less disposable than the "feature phones" they are replacing. Ten years ago, if your phone was stolen, you faced a nightmarish fortnight trying to get your friends' numbers into your replacement phone's address book. As for the photos, videos, games and ringtones (remember ringtones? Record companies do, wistfully) you had stored? Gone for ever.

Not so nowadays. The other week a friend had her iPhone stolen from her hand as she walked down the street. After a brief attempt to catch the thief, she wiped the phone remotely from her computer. Then she called her mobile carrier and reported the phone stolen. The next day she picked up a fresh one and installed all her old apps, emails, contacts and photos on it. Within a few hours, she was back at status quo ante. See if you can manage that if your PC is stolen or its hard drive dies.

Smartphones' really dramatic effect though will be on people in developing countries, where electricity supplies may be expensive or discontinuous, and the cost of a PC prohibitive, says Carolina Milanesi, who studies the mobile market for the research company Gartner. "Look at what a difference internet cafes have made in developing countries. Now imagine everyone having that capability – surfing the web, having an email address – in the palm of their hand." And even the thirstiest smartphone only needs charging once a day, and consumes less electricity than a PC. Says Ahonen: "The mass market consumer will increasingly find the smartphone is 'good enough' for most PC types of uses – similar to how the cameraphone was good enough to replace most cheap consumer cameras, and the clock on the phone replacing wristwatches, and so on."

Some might doubt the economic benefits of the smartphone in remote lands. But even normal mobiles can make a huge difference. For example, ocean fishermen in Africa discovered they could phone ahead to coastal markets to find the best prices for their catches. Imagine an app that fed that data directly to their phone: the benefits would multiply for a comparatively small extra cost. And that's before you start thinking about using them for healthcare. For Smith in the UK, uploading his blood sugar levels is a convenience; in a country where medical help is a day's trek away, it could be a lifesaver.

For that reason, Milanesi suggests, PC penetration in those countries may never reach the levels it did in the west. You don't need a PC on your desktop when you have the equivalent in your hand. "People are still thinking that the 1.1bn smartphones that will be out there in 2015 will all cost $600 [£370]," she says. "But we'll get to 1.1bn because some of them will only cost $75 [£46]."

Or even less, suggests Ahonen: "If we take today's top phones with a 3.5in screen, 3G, Wi-Fi, 8-megapixel camera, full web browser – that kind of phone will cost $10 to sell profitably in 10 years. That means that anyone on the planet – even the poorest in Africa, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Paraguay etc – if they can afford a $25 phone today, they can easily afford what we consider a top smartphone of today – and buy that as a new device – in far less than 10 years."

It's also much easier and cheaper to add internet connectivity over a mobile network than to build physical telephone lines: countries such as China and India with their vast and distributed populations have far more penetration of mobile systems than of fixed phone lines. That's part of the reason why smartphones – especially cheap ones based on Google's free Android mobile operating system, and made in their millions by "white box" firms – are taking off in those countries.

And that's where Microsoft gets edgy. For most people in the west its name is synonymous with computing: Windows powers at least 95% of all PCs. For every PC sold, Microsoft's finances suggest it gets $56.50 in revenue, and makes $39.90 in profit – because once it's made one copy of Windows, it can make 100m for barely any extra cost. That's the joy of monopoly.

But on mobile phones, Microsoft hasn't been able to get any traction. Its new Windows Phone OS, launched in October, was on 1.6m handsets out of that 100m sold, less than 2%. Its Windows Mobile product sold more but is officially being shunted off into the shadows and hasn't been updated for two years.

Instead the dominant share belongs to Google, which gives Android away in return for providing its services – search, maps, access to apps in its "Market" (equivalent to Apple's App Store). It gets users for its search engine and adverts; mobile handset makers get a free, flexible product. Android now powers more than a third of all smartphones sold from various manufacturers, and the proportion is expected to keep rising. Google expects searches from mobile to exceed searches from PCs in 2013 – though that might happen sooner.

Yet Nokia, which kicked off the smartphone business with its N9000 "Communicator" years ago, isn't thriving. The competition – from Apple at the high end and Android at the low end – is chewing up its business so badly that when Stephen Elop, a Canadian ex-Microsoft executive (previously in charge of the Office division), took over as chief executive in September, he decided that its software wasn't up to the job – and signed a huge deal to put Windows Phone on future Nokia smartphones. As part of the dowry, all those phones will use its Bing search engine; but it is to pay Nokia billions of dollars in return.

With the PC market showing early signs of a global slowdown, might this be Microsoft's salvation? The trouble is it might not yield much in the way of profits. Compared with that near-$40 in profit per PC, each Windows Phone handset licence generates about $15 revenue. Profits? Not really.

In that context, Microsoft's $8.5bn purchase of Skype looks like a plan to try to capture revenues from future smartphone users who already use the service to avoid high overseas phone call charges. The fact that the Skype purchase had strong support from Bill Gates, one of the technology's true visionaries who can see the landscape some distance off, means that is probably a big part of the plan. Compared with the money from putting Windows on PCs, the money from Skype and Windows Phone looks like slim pickings. But it might be all Microsoft is left with. There's no guarantee, after all, that giant companies will continue to be so.

What does Milanesi think the effect will be on society of the broader spread of smartphones? The analyst becomes less effusive and more reflective. "I think we're becoming worse at communicating with people because of these devices," she says. "Look around a restaurant or coffee bar at how many people, couples even, are sitting across from each other and they're both looking down at their mobiles."

Of course you'd never dream of getting your chunky laptop out in such circumstances. But because your smartphone is smaller, more personal, its promise of new information is more seductive. And so we use it.

"There's a part of this that's useful, where you get information where and when you need it – such as maps or prices," says Milanesi. "But then there's also the aspect where my eyes are constantly diverted by a little screen. And we lose that human side of ourselves, which I think is quite worrying."

It's a strange vision of a connected world where we're all a little more disconnected. One thing is certain though: we're all going to have one.

• This article was amended on 6 June 2011. A phrase in the original described Nokia as the Finnish company that makes most mobile handsets and smartphones. Elsewhere, the piece quoted Tomi Ahonen as seeming to say that today's best smartphones would likely cost $10m a decade from now. These points have been corrected.

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