Nokia N95: The most advanced cell phone ever

Personaly I don`t need an advaced cell phone with touch screen, tv, web access and a lot of function that advanced cell phones have, since i use mine for talk, mostly textinkg and most of all mp3 player :P But CP (Cell Phone) producers must earn, so they will do everything to put as much as they can to our pocket ... se we put our money in theirs :P So Nokia N95 seems to be the most advanced CP as for now. I wonder what they will think of next :) But enough of my whining :P

Nokia being the world leader in mobile telecommunication has brought a new and most advanced cell phone in its N series portfolio. You can call the Nokia N95 as a business or multimedia phone. Endowed with 3G technology, multimedia, advanced camera and external memory card – the phone is all set to please you in every aspect. 

Design: 
The dual slider phone is very intuitive – when you slide up the phone, user-friendly keypad is displayed and when pushed downward, you can access media keypad. As far as media keys are concerned, it could have been placed on the side of the keypad, there is no need for a separate media keypad, as there are few buttons on that. 

On the side of the phone, you can see camera button and another button that allows you to directly browse the gallery. On the other side, you can see options like microSD slot, the infrared port, AV outlet and speaker. The camera lens is located on the rear side. However, the camera display is brilliant – it has 2.6-inch display with a resolution of 320x240 pixels and 16 million colors. Though the Nokia N95 is considered as the most advanced phone, yet it has similar resolution to that of E – series phones. 

Cell phone features: 
The Nokia N95 is endowed with several advanced features, but I would like to start with display. Yes, you can use the phone in either portrait or landscape mode. When you slide out the media keypad, the screen automatically changes to landscape mode. So, while watching videos or browsing the Internet, you can enjoy the real view. 

Business features: 
From business point of view, the Nokia N95 offers a gamut of features such as QuickOffice and allows you to access Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. The phone also features PDF viewer and Zip software. In addition, the cell phone has Series 60 OS and you can download new applications easily. 

In addition to the above features, the phone features basic functions such as notes, reminders, and calculator, etc. The Nokia N95 lacks does not have a business card reader. 

Multimedia feature: 
The sound quality of the Nokia N95 music player is really awesome. The EQ is quite intuitive and you can adjust it easily for fine-tuning. In addition, the 3.5mm AV jack is really good. And if you are using the Nokia microphone, you can attend calls while listening or watching videos. 

Camera feature: 
The Nokia N95 offers a high quality 5.0 MP camera. It has an auto focus Carl Zeiss Lens and also comes attached with LED flash, but it has no optical zoom as the Nokia N73. Camera quality is really good and if you want to take close up pictures then the Nokia N95 is really good. 

Technology and Phone Memory: 
The phone technology has really been upgraded. The Nokia N95 runs on Symbian OS 9.2. It’s a real Smartphone and comes equipped with HSDPA (3.5G) for fast downloading. It also has EDGE connectivity. The RSS feed feature keeps you updated with the latest news and other things. In addition, the Nokia N95 also supports push email. 

As far as Internet connectivity is concerned, you can use either EDGE or Wi-Fi. The phone also offers VOIP feature that allows you to call on the Internet. The phone also offers Bluetooth and GPS services. As far as phone memory is concerned, the Nokia N95 has 160MB of internal memory, and comes with 1GB external card. So, download more music, videos and games without worrying about phone space. 

Battery: 
The Nokia N95 cell phone has Li-ion 950 mAH battery. But it is the bitter truth that the phone battery really sucks. With numerous business and media features, a low quality battery is really the problem. The batter only gives you 5 hours of talk time, which is really not up to the mark. 

Phone Specifications:
· Network: Quad band, GPRS, EDGE, 3G HSDPA
· Dimension: 99x53x21 mm, 120g
· Memory: 160MB internal memory, MicroSD card (1GB)
· Media: MP3, AAC, FM, 3GP, MP4, Voice Recording, TV-Out
· Camera: 5MP with Carl Zeiss Lens, Autofocus, VGA, Srcondary CIF Videocall camera
· Connectivity: USB 2.0, Bluetooth, A2DP, IR, GPS receiver, QuickOffice, JAVA MIDP
· Battery: 220 hours stand by, 5 hours of talk time




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Boeing's New Spaceship

Aching to visit the International Space Station but don’t like the idea of spending months in Russia training to fly aboard a cramped three-man Soyuz? Boeing and its new partner Space Adventures may have a better way if plans gel for Boeing’s seven-seat Crew Space Transportation-100 (CST-100) capsule.

The new spacecraft, scheduled to be operational by 2015, is designed to be used not only by NASA astronauts but by any other potential customers Space Adventures can line up for a trip to the ISS. That includes individuals, companies, and other U.S. government agencies. No price per seat has been set, but the cost will be “competitive” with the $40 million Russia charged last year for a Soyuz ride, Boeing and Space Adventures officials said September 15 at Boeing’s offices in Arlington, Virginia.

“The price should be less emphasized than safety and reliability,” said Eric Anderson, co-founder and chairman of Space Adventures of Vienna, Virginia, which has so far sent seven people to the ISS on eight Soyuz flights (one person, Charles Simonyi, flew twice). “We’re still talking tens of millions of dollars. People ask me, when is it going to get cheaper, like $40,000? I always say it’ll never be $40,000 if it doesn’t start at $40 million. We’ll get there. The problem is, there’s not enough access to space.”

The training to fly on the new Boeing capsule will be “much less arduous,” Anderson said, than what is now required to ride on a Soyuz. For one thing, there won’t be a need for Russian language training, which takes several months in Russia. And the CST-100 will launch from Florida’s balmy Cape Canaveral atop an Atlas V, Delta IV, or SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, rather than from the barren steppes of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Boeing is building the CST-100 with $18 million seed money provided under NASA’s Commercial Crew Development Space Act, and the company is counting on Congress continuing the funding and NASA eventually buying seats (the space agency plans to keep four astronauts aboard the ISS). “If we had to do this with Boeing [money] only, we wouldn’t be able to close the business case,” said John Elbon, the company’s vice president and program manager for commercial crew transportation systems. “How deep is the commercial space market? We won’t know until we get into it. This is an uncertain market.”

Anderson pointed out that although his company has sold every seat that was available on Soyuz, “we’re not sure how big the market is. We believe it can grow to a size that is very significant. The building of that market is something that benefits us all.” Space Adventures, he said, has had discussions not only with wealthy individuals, but pharmaceutical companies and foreign governments.

For now, the CST-100’s primary destination is the space station, but there may be other stops to make in low Earth orbit, Anderson suggested. He declined to elaborate, but one possibility is Bigelow Aerospace’s planned orbital commercial lab, sometimes referred to as a space “hotel.” Las Vegas-based Bigelow is another Boeing partner in the commercial crew program to service the ISS. NASA already has contracts with SpaceX and Orbital Sciences Corporation to ferry cargo to the station.

The CST-100 is designed to be docked at the station for up to six or seven months, Elbon said. It would carry 48 hours worth of air, food, and other supplies, so mission planners expect it would dock the same day it launched. Upon return to Earth, the spacecraft would use parachutes and air bags to land in White Sands, New Mexico. Each capsule would be designed for a minimum of 10 flights, with a turnaround time between launches of about six months to replace components such as the heat shield and parachutes and install a new service module.

Design work continues in Houston, Texas, and Huntington Beach, California with a team of 80 to 100 engineers, Elbon said. Pressure tests on a prototype are scheduled to begin September 18 in Las Vegas, with a docking simulation set for September 29 in Houston, and a systems design review on October 4. Four test flights, including one with a crew, are scheduled to occur in 2014, depending on funding from NASA.

Boeing plans to build a second test article, although the company has not decided how many capsules it would ultimately produce for actual missions. But Elbon sounded optimistic: “Becoming the commercial airplane company of space is a cool thing to work on.”

Source: http://www.airspacemag.com/space-exploration/Boeings-New-Spaceship.html