4. Palm Pre
Palm Inc unveiled the new palm pre at 2009 Consumer Electronics Show. Palm pre is a multimedia smart phone with sliding keyboard and multi-touch screen. The phone which was launched on June 6, 2009 is the first phone to use the latest Palm’s Linux-based Operating system called webOS. Palm pre can function as a portable media player, a camera phone, a GPS navigator and as an internet client.
The camera in Palm pre is a 3.1 mega pixel camera and the screen size of pre is 3.1 inches. Palm pre is the first to use 600 MHZ CPU from Texas instruments OMAP 3430. The 3.1 inch Palm pre screen displays 24-bit colour with a resolution of 320×480 and it the screen is HVGA liquid-crystal display.
Palm pro has an internal flash storage of 8.0 Gb and only disadvantage is it doesn’t have flash memory card slot. If you are wondering what this palm pre is specialized at, then here are some of the important details which are more worthy and technologically advanced than other smart phones.
a. The touch screen user interface of Palm pre looks similar to iphone and also ahead of next generation iphone.
b. It is featured with three sensors which will respond according to the surrounding environment.
- Palm pre is embedded with “ambient light sensor” which adjusts the brightness of display automatically.
- An “Accelerometer” that changes orientation of display from between landscape and portrait automatically when pre is rotated.
- A “proximity sensor” which will not make the device respond to touch inputs when the phone is very near to face during calls.
c. Most advanced feature Palm pre have is “Wireless charging” through electromagnetic induction with an optional wireless charging dock. Still you can charge this phone through micro USB.
d. The last important thing that I haven’t list out here is the new webOS which is Linux-based operating system.
e. Palm pre runs applications simultaneously at a time.
5. Google Wave
Still Google is working on this project and available later this year and seems Google takes this project as one of the future-centric projects ever made.
The new project from Google makes a new model of communication and collaboration on the web.
Aim of this project:
- People can communicate with each other and work together with richly formatted text, videos, photos, maps and many more.
- Participant can edit the content, reply to any message and can add participants at any point.
- Participants on a wave can have quick way of conversation through live transmission. In real time participants can see, edit and interact with extensions.
6. Project Natal
Good news for gamers who really want a change in gaming and Microsoft is one who took this change by introducing the gaming fans with the term motion gaming through the project “Project Natal”.
This news shook the gaming world before when Microsoft announced this project but it is coming true because it introduced control free gaming and it is achieved through “motion tracking”. This project allows the gamers to control and interact with XBOX 360 with out the need of gaming controls. Gamers can use spoken commands, motion of body for gaming with out use of hand held controls.
Project Natal features with RGB camera, depth sensor, multi-array microphone and custom processor that runs proprietary software.
7. Sun open cloud computing
Sun Microsystems relinquished infrastructure on Open Cloud Computing at Communityone developer event in New York on March 2009. Although they are not the first to enter Open Cloud Computing, their system are fitted out with open source and leading Software technologies like Open Solaris, Open Storage, MYSQL and Java. Sun Open Cloud Computing benefits for students, developers and also for start ups.
Sun Cloud Storage Service and Compute Service are main components of Sun Open Cloud Computing. Sun Cloud Storage Service Supports WebDAV for easy access to files and object store API’s. These API’s are compatible with Amazon’s S3 API’s. Compute Service provides every thing a developer needs to build and operate a data center in the cloud.
Zune and iPod: Most people compare the Zune to the Touch, but after seeing how slim and surprisingly small and light it is, I consider it to be a rather unique hybrid that combines qualities of both the Touch and the Nano. It’s very colorful and lovely OLED screen is slightly smaller than the touch screen, but the player itself feels quite a bit smaller and lighter. It weighs about 2/3 as much, and is noticeably smaller in width and height, while being just a hair thicker.
Apple now has Rhapsody as an app, which is a great start, but it is currently hampered by the inability to store locally on your iPod, and has a dismal 64kbps bit rate. If this changes, then it will somewhat negate this advantage for the Zune, but the 10 songs per month will still be a big plus in Zune Pass’ favor. Have you tried the ipad?