BLACKBERRY STORM OFF TO A SHAKY START

Blackberry storm was specifically designed for Vodafone users.It has got all the features that a smart phone needs tohavelikeWirelessemail,OrganizerBrowser,PhoneCamera (3.2 MP),Video Recording,BlackBerry® Maps,Media Player,Built-in GPSCorporate data access,SMS and MMS.All said and done,the sales of the Blackberry storm is still looking a bit of a bumpy ride.

Verizon Wireless and Research In Motion Ltd. have high hopes for the BlackBerry Storm, which they spent nearly two years developing as their big response to Apple iPhone and have broght on Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton to endorse their product with a overall ad campaign costing around $100 million.Surely any new product is susceptible to a few glitches and this one is no revelation in this aspect.Blackberry Storm has sold roughly 500,000 units in the first month after nov 21 launch but very modest sales when compared to 2.4 million.

Some Storm owners have complained about everything from clunky software for typing on the touch screen to the device's sluggish performance with basic tasks like dialing-by-voice or taking photographs.Infact NY Times called the Storm touch screen a 'dud'.Global economic downturn is certainly not a turn on.But storm has to sort out its issues if it has to face the iphone golliath.

GOOGLE LAUNCHES M-LAB -TO TEST YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION

Global Tech Giant Google along with a couple of non profit partners has launched measurementlab.net called MLAB in short to enable users to test their internet connection using google's own list of diagnostic tools.The MLAB aims to check broadband connections by briefly communicating with a server elsewhere on the internet to reveal possible interference and traffic management by service providers.
Apart from helping users to check their broadband connection using its Network Diagnostic Tool,MLAB seems to offer much more including the Glasnost which helps to detect whether your Internet access provider is performing application-specific traffic shaping. Currently, you can test if your ISP is throttling or blocking BitTorrent.The measurement server records the user's IP address, and all data packets received by the server from your computer or sent by the server to your computer. In addition, it monitors errors in the communication with the server and the throughput of the transfers for those communication "flows," and sends them to the server.

The NPAD (Network Path and Applicaton Diagnosis) tool diagnoses some of the common problems effecting the last network mile and end-users' systems. These are the most common causes of all performance problems on wide area network paths.

The Diffprobe which helps to detect if an Internet access provider is classifying certain kinds of traffic as "low priority," providing it with an inferior level of service. DiffProbe actively and non-intrusively probes the network path and tries to diagnose the nature and extent of traffic discrimination.

The NANO attempts to detect whether an ISP is degrading the performance of a certain subset of users, applications, or destinations.NANO will conduct some tests between the client and an M-Lab server, such as generating downloads of different types of application traffic. This data will be sent to the M-Lab server.NANO will also monitor the user's network traffic and collect summary statistics about performance when the user visits popular Internet destinations. Rather than generating tests, it monitors the user's activity in the course of his or her normal Internet usage.

The MLAB is being released only in its beta form and services like Diffprobe and NANO are not yet available fully.Besides providing the users with essential diagnostic tools,google is inviting researchers who would like to help expand the platform and ensure its growth and success.

MOTION SENSING IN MOBILE PHONE! -GAMES IN MOBILE PHONES THAT USE MOTION SENSING

Motion sensing technology in mobile phones is something for here to stay.Just shake your phone to have a truckload of fun.Its only a natural progression that with the advent of motion sensing in mobile phones ,motion sensing games make the whole experience much more enjoyable.
Several mobile giants like Samsung with its F305,Sony with its W90i,K850i and Nokia with its 5500 and not to forget the iphone,have made this segment of the mobile phone market much more competitive and much more exciting to choose from.Basically the mobile phone giants are trying their best to emulate the motion sensing fun element that is being widely appreciated with Nintendo's gaming console WII.

There are several games which harness this motion sensing technology.The popular ones being I-play Bowling,Marble Revolution,Marble Madness 3D really have revolutionalised the mobile gaming field - and this is not a overstatement!.Now lets look at some of these games .

I-play Bowling

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Marble Madness 3D