Samsung S8000 Jet Vs Nokia N97 Mini – Really a Tough Comparison

Posted on March 27, 2023 by schatzi

With the outburst of smart phones, users are provided with the innumerable options to choose from. Almost all the leading brands try and attract the people with their advanced gadgets which make their life lot more easier. Now the people keep looking for those handsets which are flooded with the upgraded features which enhance their style statement. Similarly, devices from the houses of Samsung and Nokia offer beautiful mobile phones having fantastic features. Likewise, Samsung S8000 Jet & Nokia N97 Mini are two smart phones which fulfill both the requirements of style and capability and come at the affordable prices. The comparison between the two devices is quite tough to make as both are provided with the brilliant features. The handsets are extremely easy to use and are appropriate for all types of users. Now let’s start with the connectivity applications and the handsets are not going to disappoint you at all. On one hand, the first device is capable of supporting Wi-Fi which always assists you with the hassle free Internet browsing. Likewise, on the other hand, Nokia gadget is also made to support Wi-Fi which itself establishes connection with the local WLAN or with the nearby hotspot to provide hassle free web browsing.
 
Apart from this, the two smart phones allow the people to stay connected with their loved ones all the time and to facilitate hassle free communication come flooded with the easy messaging options of SMS, MMS and Emails. Then the two devices do not compromise with the imaging department and here also, the comparison between Samsung S8000 Jet & Nokia N97 Mini cannot be made as both the devices come equipped with the high resolution cameras of 5 MP. These two gadgets are good for gamers as well and both the products ensure amazing gaming experience having fabulous animations and superior sound effects. Moreover, the two smart phones are designed to keep the music freaks occupied and the gadgets emerge winners much to the users’ joy. On one hand, built-in music players make the mobile phones extremely popular among the masses and in addition to this, FM radio never fails to amaze the users and they can browse through the number of frequencies in order to get tuned to favourite tracks.
 
Last but not the least, the mobile phones are provided with the touchscreens to enrich the viewing experience. While on one hand, the first device comes with the large AMOLED resistive screen of 3.1 inches whereas on the other hand, the size of the display unit of the second gadget measures 3.2 inches. Apart from this, users also get benefited with the accelerometer sensors which facilitate auto-rotate and proximity sensor for auto turn-off. Apart from this, both the gadgets are provided with the large storage capabilities and one can easily store data and files. Not only this, Nokia N97 Mini also assists the users with the full QWERTY keyboard and handwriting recognition facility to make the text and numeric input lot easier. Apart from this, users can also get to know about different locations and can visit them with much ease, thanks to the upgraded feature of A-GPS navigation support.
 
Now let’s talk about the battery backup of these two handsets which is surely going to impress you. On one hand, fitted rechargeable battery of the Samsung S8000 Jet delivers up to 8 hours 20 min GSM talk time, 5 hours 3G talk time, 422 hours GSM stand by time and 406 hours 3G stand by time. Likewise, on the other hand, Nokia N97 Mini also boasts of a standard battery which is capable of delivering up to 7 hours 10 min 2G talk time, 6 hours 3G talk time, 320 hours 2G stand by time and 310 hours 3G stand by time.
 
Thus, on the whole, it can be concluded that the two mobile phones are flooded with a number of upgraded and equally user friendly features so that the people can avail more and more benefits and most importantly can stay connected with the other people as well as with the advanced technology.

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Digital Cards and Nostalgia is Back

Posted on March 26, 2023 by schatzi

The other day I saw a report in RTVE.es and Noticias 2 (Spanish channel) called “Llega el Cromo Digital” and all my childhood came into my head, especially all that picture cards collecting…

I still remember those huge amounts of children in the school trying to get the latest collection album and the picture cards for free (what a marketing strategy!), the waiting in your house for your father or grandfather to come with new envelopes, happiness or disillusion when opening it and find new or repeated ones, those Sundays in the park trying to get those cards you still haven’t got, to get those impossible to find ones; that innocence…

I still remember those albums and picture cards, those huge stacks with the repeated ones, that paper list, torn out, so bended and written, those unique cards you have to make business to give and get; that happiness…

I still remember those football collections, the League ones, the NBA basketball albums, The Return of The Jedi and Star wars cards; those paper cards…

And now, digital collecting arrives, the collections of the near future, but… can these collections give us back the childhood illusion? Will we talk about them after a few years as we are talking about past ones now? Will we make it together with our children? We will se…

What do you think about this? Can paper and digital collections co-exist together? Which were your favourite ones? I wish I could be a child again.

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The Fragility of Computers

Posted on March 25, 2023 by schatzi

Computers, it could be said, are a marvel of the twenty-first century. The number of tasks a PC can achieve quicker and more efficiently than a human seems endless. In fact computers are now doing hundreds of thousands of jobs that a few decades ago employers would have had to have hired workers for.

It could be argued that because of this, computers have changed the way society now lives and works yet, although computers may never call in sick, they can be even more vulnerable than human employees.

PCs are incredibly sensitive to all sorts of environmental conditions which can cause permanent damage to any computer. Even the most expensive and rugged PCs are only designed to run in the most favourable conditions and excessive heat, dust or dampness could instantly shut down a PC for good.

As most computers are designed to work in offices and homes, conditions in other environments, such as industry or manufacturing, can shorten a PCs life drastically.

One of the most common causes for PC malfunction is dust which can block filters causing a processor to overheat and it can also clog up moving parts such as the hard drive and even cause a short circuit.

Water and computers obviously don’t mix well either. Even slight spray or splashing can cause terminal problems with a computer, especially if fluid finds its way into the electronics.

Excessive temperatures are also a problem for computers. Computer processors are usually cooled by internal fans, if they get too hot they can burn out as can most of the electronics inside a PC. However, excessive dust, dirt or grime can also cause an overheat, as will computers kept near a heat source such as a radiator or oven. Excessive cold can effect a computers operation also, if any condensation inside a computer freezes, it will expand, potentially damaging the components.

Shocks, vibrations, knocks and bangs can also finish off a computer for good. Even just moving a PC from one location to another can play havoc, dislodging PCI cards or unsettling wiring. A large enough of a jolt and it can cause irreparable damage. Computers have protective enclosures of course but these are only made from thin sheets of metal (normally aluminium) and offer little protection.

For computers having to operate in hostile conditions such as dusty warehouse or production line then the best protection comes in the shape of an industrial PC enclosure.

These computer enclosures allow a standard PC all the protection of the most expensive and rugged industrial machine, shielding the sensitive components from dust, water, dirt, vibration, banging, knocks, heat and cold.

By protecting a PC from these types of hostilities a PC’s life span can be dramatically lengthened.

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Kindle Fire Vs Other Tablets

Posted on March 24, 2023 by schatzi

The Amazon Kindle Fire has already become a tablet to be reckoned with since its introduction on Sept. 28. In just one month (Sept. 28-Oct. 28) Amazon is rumored to have collected 500,000 pre-orders for the new tablet, with possibly another million or more pre-sales made through retail partners such as Target, Walmart, and Best Buy.

What makes the Kindle Fire so popular? How does it compare with other tablets on the market? Here’s the low-down.

The 5 Best Features

Price— Price is undoubtedly the most attractive feature. At $199, the Kindle Fire is less than half the price of most other tablets; its nearest cost competitor is the Nook Tablet from Barnes & Noble at $249.

To achieve this cost advantage, Amazon has likely adopted a loss-leader strategy and priced its tablet below cost, anticipating that it will create more sales for Amazon down the line. In addition, the device forgoes many of the frills offered by other tablets. For example, it has no camera/video, no GPS, no microphone, and no Bluetooth or 3G wireless connectivity. (More on that below.)

Portability — The 7-in. touchscreen makes the Kindle Fire more portable than larger tablets such as Apple’s iPad2 and HP’s TouchPad. The whole tablet is less than half an inch thick and slightly smaller than a mid-sized paperback book in width and height. It weighs just 14.6 oz.

Of course, size is a classic Goldilocks dilemma when it comes to tablets. Too big, too small, and just right depend on how you use it. If you do mostly Web browsing, then a 7-in. screen is usually too small for the typical Web page. You’d be doing a lot of scrolling around. But if you like to watch streaming video or movies, play games, listen to music, or read an e-book, then a 7-in. screen is usually just right.

The device is clearly designed as a portable content-delivery device, particularly for Amazon content (but not exclusively). The 7-in., 1024 x 600-pixel display works well for streamed or downloaded visual media and delivers crisp, bright, vibrant images.

Seamless Access to Amazon Portal — When you order the Kindle Fire from Amazon’s online store, it will be delivered with pre-links to all your favorite Amazon accounts, such as Apps, Games, Kindle eBooks, Cloud Player and Kindle Prime. The media can be bought or rented and then streamed or downloaded to the tablet from the vast server farms of Amazon Web Services (AWS).

If you have other devices for streaming media, Amazon’s Whispersync technology keeps them all synchronized with the tablet. For example, if you stop watching a movie on the Kindle Fire, and later you want to start watching it again on your MacBook, Whispersync saves your place so you can pick up where you left off whenever you reconnect to the Web.

Amazon also provides 5 GB of free Cloud storage, which helps compensate for the meager 8-GB of onboard storage. (More on that below.)

In addition to Amazon’s ginormous library of more than 18 million movies, TV shows, songs, books, and magazines, the Kindle Fire also provides seamless access to many other sources of content such as Netflix, Rhapsody, Pandora, Twitter, Comics by comiXology, Facebook, The Weather Channel and games from Zynga, EA, Gameloft, PopCap and Rovio.

Simplicity — Amazon has done a great job with the user interface (UI). The home screen is intuitively graphical, consisting of two virtual bookshelves with media icons arrayed on them. The upper, larger bookshelf, called the “carousel,” contains icons that are stacked chronologically with the last-used item on top. The lower, smaller shelf is designed to hold your favorites.

In one stroke, Amazon’s bookshelf UI pays homage to its bookstore roots while also demonstrating a flair for form and function once found only in Apple products.

Innovative ‘Silk’ Web Browser— Perhaps the most innovative feature is the Web browser. Unlike standard browsers, Amazon’s “Silk” browser does not compose a requested page locally. Instead, the high-speed AWS Cloud server caches the page first, then sends it to the tablet in one stream of code.

The result is a split browser system that resides both on the tablet and in the server cloud. The division of labor enables web pages to download faster than with typical Android devices. According to Amazon, the servers also adapt to your browsing habits, so the process gets faster over time.

Kindle Fire vs. Other Tablets

Much has been said about the Kindle Fire vs. the Apple iPad2. Let’s be clear: Apple has nothing to worry about. The two tablets are not really comparable in any meaningful way. In fact, Amazon has created its own genre of tablet, which makes it a little awkward to draw straight comparisons with other devices. Amazon has also created its own closed-platform version of Google’s Android OS, so even comparing the Kindle Fire with other Android tablets is tricky. Nevertheless, it is useful to list the specs of other popular tablets just to see how the Amazon Kindle Fire stacks up against them.

Kindle Fire:

  • Operating System: Android (custom)
  • Processor: 1-GHz Dual-Core TI OMAP 4
  • RAM: 512 MB
  • Storage: 8 GB
  • Display: 7-in. IPS LCD
  • Resolution: 1024 x 600
  • Cameras: None
  • Video: None
  • Battery Life: 8 hrs. (reading only)
  • WiFi: 802.11 b/g/n
  • 3G/4G: No
  • Bluetooth: No
  • GPS: No
  • Dimensions: 7.5 x 4.7 x 0.45 in.
  • Weight: 14.6 oz.
  • Price: $199

Apple iPad2:

  • Operating System: iOS 4
  • Processor: 1-GHz Dual-Core Apple A5
  • RAM: 512 MB
  • Storage: 16 GB
  • Display: 9.7-in. IPS LCD
  • Resolution: 1024 x 768
  • Cameras: Two
  • Video: 720p
  • Battery Life: 10 hrs. (browsing, video, etc.)
  • WiFi: 802.11 b/g/n
  • 3G/4G: 3G (+$130)
  • Bluetooth: Yes
  • GPS: Yes
  • Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.3 x 0.35 in.
  • Weight: 1.33 lb.
  • Price: $499

BlackBerry Playbook:

  • Operating System: QNX
  • Processor: 1-GHz Dual-Core TI OMAP 4430
  • RAM: 1 GB
  • Storage: 16 GB
  • Display: 7-in. IPS LCD
  • Resolution: 1024 x 600
  • Cameras: Two
  • Video: 1080p
  • Battery Life: 7 hrs. (playing video)
  • WiFi: 802.11 b/g/n
  • 3G/4G: 3G/4G
  • Bluetooth: Yes
  • GPS: Yes
  • Dimensions: 5.1 x 7.6 x 0.4 in.
  • Weight: 0.9 lb.
  • Price: $499

Nook Tablet:

  • Operating System: Android (custom)
  • Processor: 1-GHz Dual-Core TI OMAP 4
  • RAM: 1 GB
  • Storage: 16 GB
  • Display: 7-in. IPS LCD
  • Resolution: 1024 x 600
  • Cameras: None
  • Video: None
  • Battery Life: 11.5 hrs. (reading only)
  • WiFi: 802.11 b/g/n
  • 3G/4G: No
  • Bluetooth: No
  • GPS: No
  • Dimensions: 8.1 x 5 x 0.48 in.
  • Weight: 14.1 oz.
  • Price: $249

HP TouchPad:

  • Operating System: WebOS 3.0
  • Processor: 1.2-GHz Dual-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon
  • RAM: 1 GB
  • Storage: 16 GB
  • Display: 10.1-in. IPS LCD
  • Resolution: 1024 x 768
  • Cameras: None
  • Video: None
  • Battery Life: 9 hrs. (playing video)
  • WiFi: 802.11 b/g/n
  • 3G/4G: 3G
  • Bluetooth: Yes
  • GPS: Yes
  • Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.5 0.54 in.
  • Weight: 1.6 lb.
  • Price: $499

The list makes it pretty clear how Amazon can offer its tablet for only $199. It’s no-frills all the way. The tablet has 512 MB of RAM, 8 GB of storage memory (half the storage of other devices), no camera, no video, no microphone, no 3G/4G, no Bluetooth, and no GPS. It also lacks an expandable memory slot.

If the Amazon Kindle Fire were competing head-to-head with other more-established tablets, it would lose. Instead, Amazon has shrewdly recognized that content is king, so it has created a low-cost, no-frills tablet that taps into what is arguably the largest online repository of content on the planet. Who needs a GPS for that? Do I really need to know my exact coordinates while streaming my favorite episode of “Mad Men?”

Of all the other tablets in the above list, Barnes & Noble’s newly announced Nook is the closest competitor. The Nook also runs a custom Android OS and taps into Barnes & Noble’s content. The Nook has twice the RAM (1 GB), twice the storage (16 GB), and a longer-lasting battery. It also has an expandable memory slot and a microphone. Based on hardware specs alone, the Nook offers more, but it also costs $50 more. Moreover, when it comes to content Barnes & Noble is still mostly an online bookstore. Not even Apple can compete across the board with Amazon’s vast array of media, products, software, etc. When it comes to overall content, Amazon is king.

The 3 Worst Features

7-in. Display— Although the 7-in. display is an asset when it comes to portability, it is an annoyance when viewing certain content. Web browsing and magazine reading, for example, are frustrating on a 7-in. screen. Screen size, therefore, cuts both ways.

There is no obvious way to avoid this “Goldilocks dilemma” for all types of content without a technological breakthrough such as a flexible, roll-up tablet (which is probably just around the corner). For now, the trade-off is between the full viewing experience of larger displays vs. the more limited experience of smaller, cheaper, more portable screens.

No Expandable Memory Slot— When designing a bare-bones tablet, it makes sense to skimp on memory to lower your cost. But how much more, if anything, does it cost to include an expandable memory slot in your design? Including a memory slot not only keeps your manufacturing costs low, it also adds value for your customers, who now have the option of adding more memory.

One can only assume that Amazon wants its users to store their media in the Amazon Cloud. Amazon provides free, unlimited cloud storage for all Amazon-acquired content, but non-Amazon content over 5 GB costs money to store. When combined with the onboard storage of 8 GB, the total free storage for generic content is just 13 GB. That’s still less capacity than the onboard storage of other tablets, and not very much capacity for digital media.

Also, the only access to the Amazon Cloud is through the Wi-Fi modem. There is no 3G or 4G connectivity. If you’re traveling, for example, and have no Wi-Fi connection to the Cloud, all of the content you want to access must be pre-loaded. It would be better for Amazon and its customers if the Kindle Fire came with a memory slot.

Mediocre Battery Life— When compared to its closest competitor, Barnes & Noble’s Nook, the stated battery life of the Kindle Fire comes up short by about 3 1/2 hours. An 8-hr. battery life for just reading is nothing to write home about. Besides, most people would be doing a lot more than just reading.

Unfortunately, the rechargeable battery is sealed inside and can’t be upgraded.

Verdict

Kudos to Amazon for recognizing the value of a low-cost tablet specifically designed for delivering content. The beauty of this tablet is that it plays to Amazon’s indisputable strength as a content provider while also extending the Kindle legacy. It’s ironic to think back to November of 2007 when the Kindle First Generation was introduced for $399. It sold out in 5 1/2 hours. It was the only Kindle to have an expandable memory slot, too. (Hint, hint.)

If pre-sales are any indication, the Kindle Fire is going to be another raging success. Despite the dismal economy, or perhaps because of it, people were lining up to buy this low-cost no-frills tablet even before it started to ship.

The Kindle Fire is no iPad2, but it has the potential to become an important new media and information platform. Only time will tell if this is just another Kindle or something else altogether. Who knows, the Kindle Fire could do for Amazon what the Walkman did for Sony.

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