Sunday, October 31, 2010

Wanna buy Nokia N8?



Out in the world of mobile phones, the new Nokia N8 poses to be one among the best. But the question is, is it right? Does Nokia N8 deserve to be in the fight?

Well, it has both Pros and Cons just like every mobile phone has. If you love to take beautiful and detailed pictures and watch them on television, N8 is just for you.You may say that you can buy a handycam or digicam but you can't make phone calls with them.

And if you prefer a mobile phone with a strong body with sturdy look, N8 is the best choice.

Nokia N8 comes with 3.5 inch Amoled capacitive touchscreen unlike 5800 (with resistive touchscreen). Of course, the screen is bright even in direct sunlight. The big improvement in this NOkia N8 is the Multitouch support.

Talking about the New Nokia N8's operating system, it doesn't compete against Google's android which is far ahead of any other OSs. The intuitive User Interface in android phones is far better than the one used in Nokia N8. The N8 runs Symbian 3 Operating system.

The symbian 3 Operating system presents 3 page homescreen with manageable widgets. We should say Nokia has succeeded to that extent. But it is not so good as android.

But there are some awesome features in N8. With the 12 Megapixel camera supported by a very big lense, you are ready to shoot brilliant pictures and videos with 720p, which is quite brilliant. The HDMI output complements the picture and video quality. Unlike Samsung Tab, Nokia provides HDMI output cable. It avoids the trouble of buying another accessory for a mobile which costs a lot of money.

The 'USB on the go' is an excellent idea. That is why Nokia calls N8 'The mobile computer'. With the given 'USB on the go' cable you can use USB pen drives and transfer files between the phone and the USB drive.

But the most disappointing thing with N8 is its built-in web browser. People have already started complaining that it is so annoying since it hangs suddenly. Hope Nokia puts in further effort to improve the performance of the browser.

If you would like to look at the specifications of Nokia N8 given by gsmarena.com, see below:

General 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100
Announced 2010, April
Status Available. Released 2010, October
Size Dimensions 113.5 x 59.1 x 12.9 mm, 86 cc
Weight 135 g
Display Type AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 360 x 640 pixels, 3.5 inches

- Multi-touch input method
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
- Scratch resistant Gorilla glass display
Sound Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Speakerphone Yes

- 3.5 mm audio jack
Memory Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records Detailed, max 30 days
Internal 16 GB storage, 256MB RAM, 512 MB ROM
Card slot microSD, up to 32GB, buy memory
Data GPRS Class 33
EDGE Class 33
3G HSDPA, 10.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 2.0 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, UPnP technology
Bluetooth Yes, v3.0 with A2DP
Infrared port No
USB Yes, microUSB v2.0, USB On-the-go support
Camera Primary 12 MP, 4000x3000 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, Xenon flash
Features 1/1.83'' sensor size, ND filter, geo-tagging, face detection
Video Yes, 720p@25fps
Secondary VGA videocall camera
Features OS Symbian^3 OS
CPU ARM 11 680 MHz processor, 3D Graphics HW accelerator
Messaging SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds
Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS; FM transmitter
Games Yes + downloadable
Colors Dark Grey, Silver White, Green, Blue, Orange
GPS Yes, with A-GPS support; Ovi Maps 3.0
Java Yes, MIDP 2.1

- TV-out (720p video) via HDMI with Dolby Digital Plus sound
- Anodized aluminum casing
- Active noise cancellation with a dedicated mic
- Digital compass
- MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ player
- DivX/XviD/MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV player
- Voice command/dial
- Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
- Video/photo editor
- Flash Lite v4.0
- T9
Battery
Standard battery, Li-Ion 1200 mAh (BL-4D)
Stand-by Up to 390 h (2G) / Up to 400 h (3G)
Talk time Up to 12 h 30 min (2G) / Up to 5 h 30 min (3G)
Music play Up to 50 h

World's best selling cars-Top 3

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End of the Universe

Washington, Oct 30 (ANI): Right around the time when Sun is slated to die, the universe too would come to an end-in just five billion years-a new study has predicted.

The prediction comes from the theory of eternal inflation, which says our universe is part of the multiverse.

The problem with a multiverse is that anything that can happen will happen an infinite number of times, and that makes calculating probabilities-such as the odds that Earth-size planets are common-seemingly impossible.

"Normal notions of probability-where you say, Event A happens twice and Event B happens four times, so Event B is twice as likely-don't work, because instead of two and four, you have infinity," National Geographic News quoted Ken Olum of Tufts University in Massachusetts, as saying.

And calculating probabilities in a multiverse wouldn't just be a problem for cosmologists.

"If infinitely many observers throughout the universe win the lottery, on what grounds can one still claim that winning the lottery is unlikely?" theoretical physicist Raphael Bousso of the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues wrote in the new study.

Physicists have been circumventing this problem using a mathematical approach called geometric cutoffs, which involves taking a finite swath of the multiverse and calculating probabilities based on that limited sample.

But in the new paper, Bousso's team noted that this technique has an unintended and, until now, overlooked consequence.

"You cannot use [cutoffs] as mere mathematical tools that leave no imprint.

"The same cutoff that gave you these nice and possibly correct predictions also predicts the end of time," said Bousso.

In fact, many physicists think eternal inflation is a natural extension of the theory of inflation, which solved some of the problems with the original big bang theory.

Eternal inflation is a next step in inflation theory, and it allows scientists to avoid some other tricky cosmology questions, such as what existed before our universe (answer: other universes) and why our universe appears to have properties fine-tuned for life.

"Although we don't have a theory [to explain the earliest moments of the universe], we have some pretty good ideas about what such a theory would look like ... and these ideas seem to necessarily include other universes," said Charles Lineweaver, an astrophysicist at Australian National University.

If probabilities are to work in a multiverse, there must be actual cutoffs that bring various universes to their ends, study leader said Bousso.

According to the formulas used to calculate cutoffs, a universe that is 13.7 billion years old will reach its cutoff in about 5 billion years, his team concludes.

For most people, the idea that a mathematical tool could be elevated to a real-world event might seem strange, but there are precedents for it in physics.

Scientists think our sun-now a middle-age star at about 4.57 billion years old-will be reaching the end of its life in about five billion years.

At that point in time, the sun will run out of fuel in its core and will start to shed its outer layers of gas, inflating to become a red giant and ultimately a planetary nebula.

Earth's exact fate during this event is unclear, but few scientists would argue that life on the planet could survive the sun's death.

The story was published at the Cornell University website arXiv.org. (ANI)