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Samsung S3100 is upcoming stylish slider mobile phone for budget conscious users. It has not yet been officially announced manufacturer.With a rounded navigation key, the S3100 also has a microSD slot, which could mean a media player snuck inside. There are not detail about specs at this moment. Samsung S3100 should feature the following: FM radio, Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR, USB 2.0 and MicroSDHC card support. The phone has a release scheduled for “this summer,”.
Palm releases the Mojo Software Development Kit at its developer portal, open to anyone who want to develope webOS application. Any developer with an e-mail address can download the SDK and get to work writing code for the Palm Pre’s operating system. The Mojo SDK and associated documents are the tools that developers need to create applications, games and other content for the webOS platform. Additionally, Palm said it has new applications for the Palm Pre and webOS in the pipeline for the Palm App Catalog. Palm will begin accepting submissions for new applications starting in the fall.
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Late on July 15, mobile software maker Symbian previewed Symbian Horizon, an application-publishing program, which aims to reduce the barriers developers face when taking their products to market and thus increase the profitability of creating Symbian applications.
The program will assist with application certification, language translations, and marketing programs. The program will target individual developers and companies striving to reach a broader mobile consumer market–in addition, Symbian will partner with app retail portals like Nokia’s Ovi Store and AT&T’s MEdia Mall to source smartphone applications. Still, Symbian’s operating system is found on over 70 different types of handset across 26 countries, and currently has a 49.3% share of the smartphone market, according to research firm Gartner. “Apple’s application strategy is tied to a single [handset] model product line, and one store front,” said Puckrin.
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After a couple live pictures have surfaced over on a German forum, LG BL40 Chocolate was approved by the FCC, so now its official BL40 model number is confirmed. All that Cinema 21:9 resolution the real candybar form factor and the new S-Class UI next gen look really great on paper and on video. Along with its sibling the BL42, LG BL40 look virtually identical in the shots, except one is a bit longer than the other. Recap the specs quickly: there’s 5 megapixel camera on board, huge 800×345 touchscreen, HSPA, WiFi, GPS, and so on.
Nokia’s future operating system release, Maemo is the talk of the town today. Maemo is Nokia (NYSE: NOK)’s open source operating system built on top of the Linux kernel. Nokia currently ships a few internet tablets, namely the Nokia 770, N800 and N810, that run the Maemo OS. However, unlike Android, the operating system hasn’t strayed far from it’s developer. Today the fourth one has been announced by a little known Chinese company called Optima. The OP5-E does boast much better specs than Nokia’s Tablet trio however: 5.6 x 2.9 x 0.69 inch frame, 806MHz Marvell PXA320 CPU, 128MB RAM, 256MB ROM, microSDHC support, 4.3-inch WVGA resistive touchscreen, GPS, EV-DO, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, a 3.2-megapixel camera and a 2600 mAh battery. The first version of the software, which is probably built on Maemo 4.1.2, to ship on the OP5-E will only support data via the built-in EVDO.
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