Bluetooth Explained

When you use PC, music devices or mobile cell phones, the different components make up a world of electronic devices. These various devices talk to one another other using a different connectors, cables, signaling and IR light rays.

Allowing devices to communicate with each other gets harder almost daily as technology changes. Bluetooth, simplifies this problem. A Bluetooth setup is totally wireless and protocol free. Simple enough to become a standard adopted by many vendors

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When any two devices need to exchange information with one another, they need to establish certain rules first. Initially the point of establishment is physical: Will they talk over a wire? Or via a wireless signal? If they do use wires, how many are needed -- Then the physical conditions are decided, many more questions pop up:

* Amount of data that will be sent at once? Eg, serial ports send data 1 bit at a time, while a parallel port send multiple bits at once.


* How will they chat to one another? All of the participants in an electronic exchange need to know what the bits mean and if the message they get is the same message that was sent. So ensuring a set of commands and acknowledgements is known as a protocol.

Bluetooth offers a solution to this problem.

Mobile and Cell Phone World

Solar Mobile Cell Phone

The first ever 'green' mobile cell phone is now available - running on solar power!

Manufactured by company: HiTech Wealth, the new model S116 phone has the following specs which are very juicy! The price tag is quite high at US$510 (comparable with the new Apple iPhone in terms of pice) so it does have you thinking why you don’t just get an iPhone?

Only a 1.3 megapixel camera is available for the S116, it does include an MP3 player and the solar panels do make the cell phone stand out from the mobile crowd.

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S116
The solar panels trickle-charge the battery in even limited sunlight, can be charged even by indoor lights and candle lights, the battery life is approx 2 and a half times longer than it would be minus the solar panels. One hour of direct sunlight will create an extra 45 minutes of talk time for the S116 user.

Nokia N95 Forums

With the Nokia N95 continuing to grow in popularity - the demand from Nokia users for more info, hacks, software updates etc is growing.

We've had quite a few requests for Nokia N95 info here at 'Cell and Mobile Phones' - so we thought we would publish a link to some good decent Nokia N95 fourms.

Please check it out below:

Nokia N95 Forums

Nokia N800, Skype, Software Update

Nokia has now released a new operation software for the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet model handset. Now Skype Integration is available!. Initial, Nokia didn't bundle this feature into the N800 series, Skype was initially on the list of features when the N800 was released at CES 2007 in January.

Apart from Skype integration on the N800, Nokia's N-series bigcreen phone comes equipped with a top notch features: 800x480 pixel display, full QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 and a built-in webcam.

Are you currently using a Nokia N800 series? We'd love to hear from you

Buying Phone Numbers on eBay

I learnt a little trick yesterday, it seems you can advertise and buy some of the best phone numbers available on eBay.

So if you want that easy to remember cell phone number, a number featuring 007 for those movie fans or even if you happen to have a catchy cell phone number you wish to sell - you can advertise it on eBay and possibly get big dollars for it.

Not only are phone numbers traded on eBay, but pre-paid SIM cards, phone covers and most areas of mobile and cell phones are handled.

With the wide reach of eBay you can also achieve better prices in buying certain types and models of phones that might be harder to get or more expensive locally.

Youtube feature on LG Phones

LG Electronics Co announced Tuesday it had signed an agreement with YouTube, the world's biggest video-sharing site, to develop a cell / mobile phone which can operate the YouTube service. The proposed setup will enable LG phone users to upload, view and share video clips or user-created content online freely without using computers to access YouTube.

For the upcoming YouTube-enabled handsets, LG will setup a new user interface for easily accessing and uploading video content. LG's YouTube-enabled handsets will be available worldwide starting at end of 2007.

LG first announced its new agreement to setup Google's services on its handsets in March 2007. As a first step in this new partnership, LG and Google have already setup the world's first HSDPA smartphone with Google / YouTube services pre-installed, the model mobile /cell LG-KS10, which has Google Search, Gmail Mobile, and Google Maps Mobile already. The LG-KS10 first hit shelves in Italy this past April, 2007.

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Apple iPhone Review Info

This little phone, capping literally years and years of speculation on the most heavily followed and unconfirmed product reports in Apple's history (and there haven't been any mobile or cell phones in Apples history) -- and that's saying a lot -- the Apple iPhone has been announced recently.

Yes, we said it: "The Apple iPhone," the name itself, the entire world had all but unanimously given the new Apple device from the time it'd been nothing more than a blueprint (the name iPhone which was previously held by Cisco Systems).

The amazing specs of the 11.6 millimeter device (that's very, very thin, by the way) include a 3.5-inch 480 x 320 touchscreen display with multi-touch support and a proximity sensor to turn off the screen, touch and drag and, 2 megapixel cam, optional 4GB or 8 GB of storage, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR and A2DP, inbuilt WiFi that automatically engages itself when in range, and a full featured (Cell) quad-band GSM radio with EDGE. Of course, though, the Apple iPhone runs Max OS X with support for Widgets, Google Maps, and Safari, and iTunes with CoverFlow out of the gate.

An Apple partnership with Yahoo will allow all Apple iPhone customers to hook up with free push IMAP email builds. Apple also quotes 5 hours of battery life for talk , video, with a full 16 hours in iPod music mode .

The 4GB iPhone will sell in the US as a Cingular exclusive for $499 on a two-year contract, 8GB for $599.

Ships Stateside in June, Europe in fourth quarter, Asia in 2008.

Soon we will put the Apple iPhone against the new Nokia n95 and give you the low down on which PDA phone is the outright winner.

Mobile and Cell Phone Insurance

A lot of mobile and cell phone network carriers offer insurance for the phone handset in the instance of theft or loss.

We've heard from a few owners of cell / mobile phones - who have taken up the option and payed somewhere between $3 US and $5 US per month to obtain the insurance.

The problem is, like any insurance - getting payment on a claim can be tricky. The phone and cell phone carriers will do their utmost to get out of claims. Many will only cover for theft, and it can be hard to prove theft in some instances. (As many users will lose or misplace their phone and still try and claim theft)

A more wide ranging cover for your mobile and cell phone - covering damage, theft and loss is probably the best way to go. With this broad coverage you will not have as much trouble trying to prove anything.

It also pays to do the sums. If you're paying a high rate of mobile / cell phone insurance (Say $7 a month) thats something like $84 a year. In under 2 years you could have a new decent phone for that amount, or the insurance could be paying for your call bills.

It also comes down to your lifestyle, if you risk the phone weekly (at work or in risky locations) then certainly it may be worth the coverage.

We'd like to hear about your cell phone insurance stories? Good and Bad - please comment below.

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Nokia N95 Firmware ROM Upgrade

I got three screenshots yesterday. The first shows that the complete firmware is dated, 6-19-2007, and is numbered v12.0.013.Ok, there’s not *too* many changes in this firmware that I’ve can see. Available N95 RAM after a fresh boot is still the amount of 18MB. I did check for FOTA, and it’s not there . The new version of the N95 Nokia Maps is in there, and you will see from this screenshot. This also adds the N95 ability of Assisted-GPS, which uses mobile cell ID’s and their actual known location to help speed up the mapping process of locking into a location.

With A-GPS turned off / disabled, it took the Nokia N95 a full 74 seconds to finally lock-on. With A-GPS enabled / on (and after a complete power cycle with battery taken out), it was only 57 seconds total. That’s a massive 17 second speed boost, and because its the model A-GPS is a full blown learning system that keeps track of known mobile cell-IDs, it will get better and smoother and also faster. Also, with the A-GPS, we were able to get a location lock INDOORS, which is very rare! I also tested this by walking from one end of the house to the other end, and it followed me completely on the screen.

The product code for this Nokia update is 0536062.