Free T-Mobile Phones Deal at This Weekend

If you have been waiting for a deal on a T-Mobile cell phone — any T-mobile mobile phone — you have chance this weekend.

According to Mashable, T-Mobile is give away any of its phones for free this weekend with a new two-year contract.

T-Mobile will suggest 30 devices for free as part of this promotion, including high-end smartphones such as the HTC HD7, T-Mobile G2 and Samsung Vibrant.

The promotion offer some really solid savings; for example, the HTC HD7 normally costs $499 and the Garmin-Asus Garminfone’s normal price is $449.

And of course, T-Mobile doesn’t want you to forget that it’s the country largest 4G network, therefore the “piggyback” commercial.

Are you ready to move to T-Mobile for a free phone? If you’re previously a T-Mobile member, is the customer service significance staying for?

Latest Version of Internet Explorer 9 is Live

We have enclosed plenty of news relating to Microsoft’s latest web browser but now the wait is finally over as Internet Explorer 9 has gone live.

Believe it or not Microsoft is previously boasting that its new browser is ahead of competitors Google and Firefox. This seems like quite a bold statement to make as it comes off the back of news that it is losing 10% of the market share to Google Chrome. However, as the IE9 Beta has been downloaded more than 25 million times this at least bares some proof to the above statement.

Out of all the features that IE9 is said to offer the two that stand out the most are the privacy and speed enhancement. With regaards to privacy, the software deploys tracking protection that can limit communication with other websites, thus allowing you to connect to sites that have been directly requested. For example, you would only see content from the source and not 3rd party plug-ins such as advertisements.

As for the speed enhancements, these come up to from its new expanded support for HTML5 which can render web pages a lot quicker than its closest rivals. It achieve this due to the added hardware acceleration support which can take full advantage of your graphics card’s GPU.

Sad News is that Windows XP users will not be able to download the browser update as it is only available on Vista and Windows 7 computers.

Read more at Microsoft or download it.

Australian Airline Plans to Rent Apple IPads on Flights

The iPad offer a lot in a relatively compact package. The device can be used to watch movies, read books and magazines, listen to music and play games.

That’s most likely for those who travel often might carry their beloved iPad with them on the plane.

That’s also why it makes perfect logic that one airline sees the iPad as an chance to make some additional revenue.

Jetstar, a low-cost Australian airline, and also a subsidiary of Qantas, performed a trial back June in which 30 iPads were experienced over a two week period on domestic flights over an hour in length.

Based on the success of that trial, the airline is ready to move forward with a full deployment of the program which will permit passengers to rent an iPad for AUD$10 a flight beginning in April.

The program’s scheduled launch will be dependent upon the airline finalizing license agreements with Apple.

The airline hopes to use the iPads on its A320s in Australia and Asia Pacific in addition to is whole domestic and international network.

Airlines have previously shown signs they are keen to embrace the iPad. Back in June of last year Malaysia Airlines began offering self-checkout kiosks powered by iPads and the airline’s own MHmobile app.

Other airlines have also started offering iPad apps include Oneworld which is an alliance of airlines including American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Iberia, Japan Airlines, LAN, Mexicana and a number of other carriers.

HTC Incredible S

The HTC Incredible S does look rather dapper, we have to give it to the Taiwanese firm. Complete with a rear side that looks like it’s shrink wrapped around the phone’s innards,the weight and feel of the phone is certainly up there with the best thanks to the aluminium unibody effect AGAIN.The bottom of the phone has the now standard touch sensitive Home, Menu, Back and Search buttons, which are easy enough to hit below the 4-inch Super LCD screen.

HTC is making a big deal about the Super LCD technology since it decided to drop AMOLED options (apparently because there was a shortage of the tech) and while it looks pin sharp and clear, it’s not a patch on the Super AMOLED+ option on the Samsung Galaxy S2.

General

2G Network     GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 , 3G Network     HSDPA 900 / 2100

Availability

Announced      2011, February , Status     Coming soon. Exp. release 2011, March

Size

Dimensions     120 x 64 x 11.7 mm  ,    Weight         135.5 g

Sound

Alert types       Vibration, MP3, WAV ringtones

Loudspeaker        Yes  , 3.5mm jack    Yes

Display

Type    S-LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors , Multi-touch input method

Size      480 x 800 pixels, 4.0 inches ,   Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate

Proximity sensor for auto turn-off  ,  HTC Sense v3.0 UI

Touch-sensitive controls with rotating icons

Memory

Phonebook      Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall

Call records     Practically unlimited  , Internal          1.1 GB ROM, 768 MB RAM

Card slot          microSD, up to 32GB

Camera

Primary           8 MP, 3264×2448 pixels, autofocus, dual-LED flash

Features          Geo-tagging, touch-focus, image stabilization

Video        Yes, 720p@30fps  , Secondary       Yes, 1.3 MP

Data Types

GPRS    Up to 114 kbps  , EDGE      Up to 560 kbps  , Infrared port    No

3G        HSDPA, 14.4 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps  , WLAN  Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA

Bluetooth        Yes, v2.1 with A2DP, EDR  ,  USB        Yes, microUSB v2.0

Features

OS        Android OS, v2.2 Froyo, upgradable to v2.3  ,  Browser        HTML

CPU     1 GHz Scorpion processor, Adreno 205 GPU, Qualcomm MSM8255

Snapdragon   ,  Messaging     SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM

Radio     Stereo FM radio with RDS  , Games                 Yes  , Colors                  Black

GPS      Yes, with A-GPS support  ,   Java         Via third party application

SNS integration , Digital compass , Dedicated search key ,  Document viewer

Google Search, Maps, Gmail ,  YouTube, Google Talk, Picasa integration

MP3/AAC+/WAV/WMA player , DivX/XviD/MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV player

Organizer  , Voice memo/dial/commands  , Predictive text input

Battery

Standard battery, Li-Ion 1450 mAh

Stand-by          Up to 290 h (2G) / Up to 370 h (3G)

Talk time         Up to 9 h 40 min (2G) / Up to 6 h 20 min (3G)

HTC Salsa

HTC salsa has newly came up with couple of models of Facebook button integrated phones. So like mentioned these phones will have a dedicated facebook button which will let you to instantly begin facebook in your phone and not only that, when your phone identify any content which can be shared on facebook, the button glows automatically. Apart from this integration it behave as your regular smart phone.

General

2G Network     GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 , 3G Network     HSDPA 900 / 2100

Availability

Announced      2011, February  ,  Status         Coming soon. Exp. release 2011, Q2

Size

Dimensions     109.1 x 58.9 x 12.3 mm  , Weight      120 g

Display

Type    TFT capacitive touchscreen, 256K colors

Size      320 x 480 pixels, 3.4 inches  , Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate

Proximity sensor for auto turn-off  , HTC Sense UI

Memory

Phonebook      Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall

Call records     Practically unlimited  ,   Internal        512 MB ROM, 512 MB RAM

Card slot          microSD, up to 32GB

Sound

Alert types       Vibration, MP3, WAV ringtones

Loudspeaker        Yes  , 3.5mm jack      Yes

Camera

Primary           5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash

Features      Geo-tagging, face detection , Video       Yes  , Secondary      Yes, VGA

Data Types

GPRS    Up to 114 kbps  ,   EDGE      Up to 560 kbps  , WLAN     Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n

3G        HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 384 Kbps  , Bluetooth       Yes, v3.0 with A2DP

Infrared port     No  , USB       Yes, microUSB v2.0

Features

OS        Android OS, v2.4 (Gingerbread)  ,  CPU         600 MHz processor

Messaging       SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM

Browser      HTML  , Games    Yes  , Colors    Black, Silver , Facebook dedicated

Key,  GPS        Yes, with A-GPS support  ,   Java         Via third party application

SNS integration  ,  Digital compass ,  Google Search, Maps, Gmail , Organizer

YouTube, Google Talk, Picasa integration , Document viewer , Voice memo

MP3/AAC+/WAV/WMA player  ,  MP4/H.264 player  , Voice memo

Predictive text input

Battery

Standard battery, Li-Ion 1520 mAh

Stand-by          Up to 445 h (2G) / Up to 530 h (3G)

Talk time         Up to 9 h (2G) / Up to 7 h 50 min (3G)

Skype Video Removes from HTC Thunderbolt by Verizon

It would come into view as while the closer we get to the release of the HTC Thunderbolt the further we get from the device we were initially promised.

The Thunderbolt, Verizon’s first 4G LTE device, was initially announced at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show.

Since then we’ve exposed that while it is a 4G LTE device for data it will still use CDMA for voice. Now, it seems that as we get closer to launch more features are being removed.

From: [redacted]

Subject: *INFO* ThunderBolt by HTC – Training Documents
To:

The ThunderBolt by HTC trainings have been updated and replaced in InfoCenter.

The Skype Mobile with Video references have been removed.

There could be many explanations for this. Skype may not be ended incorporating QIK into their existing set up, which may be a vital component for video chat in app form.

It may also be Verizon plans to suggest Skype for Video on their first true 4G LTE device, such as the LG Optimus 2X.
Neither Verizon nor Skype were available to speak on the matter, but as per the email above, Skype Video has been removed from the Thunderbolt.

So, no Skype video, no channelized voice, and that excessive out of contract price at Best Buy leads me to wonder how many of us will be the skipping over the Thunderbolt in hopes that the next Verizon 4G LTE device will deliver.

12 File Formats can be Open Using Google Docs Viewer

Google Docs is rapid becoming a major candidate to established office suites similar to Microsoft Office and the free-to-use OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice. For some, it has previously replaced such desktop software.

Google isn’t a group to sit back and relax, though, and late last week Google Docs Viewer got 12 new file formats it could open.

What that means is, 12 more files you can view with a single click in Google Docs putting it ahead of the competition in some respects.

The 12 new formats available include:

Microsoft Excel (.XLS and .XLSX)

Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 / 2010 (.PPTX)

Apple Pages (.PAGES)

Adobe Illustrator (.AI)

Adobe Photoshop (.PSD)

Autodesk AutoCad (.DXF)

Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG)

PostScript (.EPS, .PS)

TrueType (.TTF)

XML Paper Specification (.XPS)

Google is viewing this update as a major target as Viewer now has support for all the major Microsoft Office formats.
Accessing the new formats is done in accurately the same way as previously supported file formats.

If you get sent a file in Gmail, for example, just click the view link and it will load in your browser. Not only is that faster than say, opening Adobe Photoshop on your desktop, but Google also say it is safer due to the fact you don’t need to download the file to your machine’s hard drive.