Thursday, September 30, 2010

Tony curtis

U.S. actor Tony Curtis, who died Thursday at age 85, was shot in a hundred films and long embodied the role of playful charmers. Transvestite unforgettable Some Like It Hot with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe in 1959, he was known in the 1950s playing in many adventure films, before triumphing in the comic genre. Son of a Hungarian Jewish tailor, Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz, whose real name) was born June 3, 1925 in New York in the poor neighborhood of the Bronx.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Blackberry playbook

As expected, Research in Motion (RIM) has unveiled its own touch pad at its Developer Conference DevCon 2010 in San Francisco. BlackPad, SurfBook ... finally, it will be Blackberry Playbook with a brand new OS: Blackberry OS Tablet provided by QNX, which was acquired by RIM in 2008.

The Blackberry is a tablet with Playbook multitouch display 7 "1024 x 600 pixels, and versatile meeting multimedia needs as those of the company through its compatibility with BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server). It is designed as a client lightweight and does not store information and content posted from a BlackBerry smartphone.

It also offers integration with Blackberry services when connected to a RIM smartphone via a Bluetooth wireless link. It will show on the big screen Blackberry data: email, instant messaging, calendar, tasks, documents, with the possibility to modify some elements, the changes being made directly on the smartphone.

Motorola Droid 2

When one uses the functions mails, SMS and social networks of its smartphone, it quickly Interesting to invest in a model with a real keyboard: it tends to strike more quickly while maintaining a full display.

And that's why Motorola is one of the most active builders, including his Droid. It employed the OS Google signed with a real keyboard under a sliding screen of 3.7 ". But in its first incarnation, it was not necessarily the most practical. The manufacturer is back with the Motorola Droid 2 which is supposed to solve defects of his predecessor and who embarks Android version 2.2.

Tested by our users, professionals and amateurs smartphone, which we paint a complete picture when they oppose it to other smartphones on the market, he has managed to convince them?

Motorola droid

The Motorola Droid will be the most advanced in terms of hardware, all Android phones on the market today. Like the software perspective, which is the first to welcome Android 2.0.

It includes:

  1. Processor Texas Instruments OMAP 3430 clocked at 550MHz
  2. GPU (graphics processor) PowerVR
  3. 256MB RAM
  4. CDMA Rev A
  5. WiFi
  6. GPS
  7. Digital magnetometer
  8. Accelerometer
  9. Proximity sensor
  10. 5 megapixel camera with dual-LED flash
  11. LED notification
  12. 4 navigation buttons tactile
  13. Qwerty keyboard slidable
  14. 3.5mm jack
  15. MicroUSB port
The Motorola Droid will first marketed in the United States. It is highly anticipated with the commitment from Verizon.
In Europe it should be marketed under a different name likely: Milstone, Motorola gave no details about it.