Features Highlight

Controls

The display is relatively large than a normal personal or a music phone. It makes the content and enhances the image and video display features. In addition it is much developed with the 262 color scheme to deliver much colorful content. Keypad consists of two parts. The controller keypad is a much strengthen and attractive one. The number pad is relatively soft, but can look fine with the background light. It is much similar to a Nokia keypad. Motion Sensitivity is one of the well highlighted and attractive features available on the Sony Ericsson C905. It let the user feel much comfortable by reducing the number of times he has to press the buttons for switching between landscape and portrait. Users can enjoy the games without pressing the keypad at all. The ‘Need for Speed Pro Street’ is supported by the motion sensor option. With the implementation of the Horizontal menu it has given more space to the user. It contained a navigation wheel in the early versions of the Sony Ericsson and the accuracy was less than the new rectangular navigation menu. A common complain that had with the previous editions of the Navigation Menus was that the lack of water resistance. That can be reduced with this type of a navigation menu. The long living battery and the power consumption techniques increase the efficiency of the usage of the phone. There are power saving facilities available for the usage. Power can be saved by several ways. Brightness control, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi saving are the best ones among them. Number of Bluetooth accessible devices is being restricted to one with the power saving functionality.

Cyber-shot 8.1 Mega Pixel Camera

8.1 Mega Pixel camera can be named as the most valuable option of the phone. It is the first time this kind of quality camera came with a personal phone. In addition there are options available to reduce the size as well. The 8.1 Mega Pixel image is higher than 2 Megabytes and it allows the zooming without any distortion for a long. The Xenon Flash Light with 3-LED video light gives a better light for the images. The night mood images are much better than the Blackberry Curve 8900 and the LG KU990. The flash light can lighten for more than 10 meters and give a better quality picture. Face detection and Smile Shutter options also available with the latest software version for Sony Ericsson C905. The phone might have been very much perfect if there was a front camera. Therefore the 3G calls are also need to get the support of the main camera. It is said that this phone is the phone with most advanced zooming capabilities. It supports up to 16X digital zoom while giving QVGA video recording with 30 frames per second. The lens protection is also enhanced with the mechanical lens cover that has a slider and push back cover in it.

Walkman Headset And The Music Player

The Sony Ericsson C905 Walkman Media Player 3.0 is attractive and optimized than the any previous editions of the Sony Ericsson phones and it can add playlists of the Windows Media Player that runs on the computer from Bluetooth. The flash interface looks gorgeous and the Stereo Widening option gives a better quality audio output. There are number of equalizing techniques available. Base, Mega Base, Full Treble and voice are them. Super Base is the best quality equalizer among them. Other than the Walkman (‘W’ series) phones are provided with a normal stereo headset. But, the Sony Ericsson C905 phone comes with a Walkman headset although it is not a walkman phone. It also includes a FM Radio as in several other versions and the Play Now 5.0 application.

GPS Navigation

Global Positioning System has been a promising implementation for the mobile phones in the recent past. Enabling GPS and Google maps has made the phone much useful for consumers. The ‘Wayfinder Navigator 7’ is an application provided for the tracking purposes. It helps the users to manage journeys, calculate distance and several other features.

Bluetooth And Wi-Fi

Bluetooth is a common option in the mobile phones over a time. Sony Ericsson C905 is not only providing the general factors that are available. The remote controller application connects several devices such like computers and projectors using Bluetooth. Wi-Fi is the latest trend for the mobile phones. Though it has being for the mobile devices such as laptops, notebooks from a long time, mobile phones were facilitated very recently. The latest update for the Sony Ericsson C905 gives the Apple iSync support which was only supported by MAC OS before.

Competition With Other Models

LG KU990 is a much cheaper and recently introduced phone that can gives some features like this. It has a 5 Mega Pixel Camera with the Xenon Flash that gives bright and good looking images. In addition its video frame rate is four times greater than the video frame rate of the Sony Ericsson C905. The LG KM900 Arena is also an upcoming model to give a good competition to this model. It has the dual display function in it. LG KM900 model is slim and also provides the touch screen availability. Therefore the next Sony Ericsson ‘C’ model will have to give a good competition to lead the market. It is a well known fact that the mobile phone is not just a phone today. It is a combination of several other features as well. Those other feature implementation should be well done more than it is now. Sony Ericsson can give a good competition to the business level mobile phones as well. Most of the Sony Ericsson ‘C’ series users wait for a good implementation that could compete with the iPhone in the near future.

The code name ‘Natal’ is a Brazilian city which showing Microsoft naming culture. The project coordinator Alex Kipman was from Brazil and it his choice to use this name. The first announcement of project natal was made on June 1st, 2009 by Microsoft at Los Angeles Convention Center. There was various promotional videos was launched and they got huge numbers of hits in YouTube. The commercial release of the produced to the market is unofficially schedules on October 2010 and the expected price would be around USD 150.

Technology

The Natal sensor contains three sensors which are RGB camera, Infrared depth sensor and multi array microphone. The RGB camera will be used to capture the 2D image and motions in front of the sensor along with the color details of it.  The IR depth sensor will be used to capture the distance variations from the sensor to the users. The multi array microphone will be used to capture the voice and the direction of it. Combining all the above factors the Natal sensor can determine the full body motion of the user. In order to do that there must be complex image and voice processing algorithms. The full body motions will be digitally transfer in to controlling signals and will be send to the Game console Xbox.

However there are various arguments about the practicality of this technology. Theoretically the above process is justifiable. But in the real gaming environment, especially in multiplayer games things can go wrong easily with the multiple movement. Furthermore some demonstrations in promotional videos seem not real and practical including the speed, response time and feedback. Many people believe that it’s not the real functionality, but a promotional staged act. As an answer to these arguments the Microsoft has released live demo of Project Natal which can be found on YouTube.

Applications

Gaming Controller

The primary application of project natal is as a Gaming controller. This extends the boundaries of gaming in to new dimension. With the Natal sensor the gamer can interact with the Gaming environment as he is actually living inside that. As long as it captures the full body motions without any gadget attached in to the body, the games will be free to express his self with the body motions and voice commands very precisely. Probably this will help Microsoft it increase their sales exponentially and expand their gaming empire.

Artificial Intelligence Application Interfacing

The development of artificial intelligent application is facing huge challenge that there are no proper input devices to interact with them. No matter how much the researchers develop the software, to make it ‘looks like human’ there has to be next generation input device which can understand human voice and activities. Project Natal provides perfect solution for these applications interfacing. There is a popular video found on YouTube which demonstrate this AI interfacing with Natal sensor for the Character ‘Milo’.

3D Graphic Designing

Project Natal will provide good support for 3D graphic designing industry. The current challenge is to model the Object correctly. The traditional controllers including keyboard and mouse don’t provide much support for that. Even when it comes to Laser scanning the process is complex and takes lots of time. The natal sensor will provide accurate interface for the artists to design 3D models without touching any controller, simply by their body motions.

When it comes to the motions capturing project natal can provide perfect solutions there as well. This is one of the major challenges faced by the film industry to capture the accurate human emotions and put it in to a 3D model. In addition to that the sensor can capture the voice too. This kind of emotion capturing process would provide a relaxed environment to the actor to give his best performance without getting attached to so many sensors.

Automated Customer Relation Management

This might sound like a crazy idea but the natal sensor could be used to automated and improved customer relationship management. At the door step of a costume store they can place a natal sensor and connect it to a computer which is having huge Plasma screen in front of that. Once the customer step in the natal sensor can capture that and automatically suggest some costumes which are suitable with an aid of AI character like ‘Milo’. Furthermore it can generate a 3D image of customer and show a demonstration of suggested costume as well. If technology manages to implement this, it will be the next generation of customer relations.

Military Applications

Another possible application of Natal sensor is to control advance military applications. The modern unmanned military aircrafts are controlled by Joystick from a ground base. However with the improvement of other implications, it’s asking for better and advanced controller where the project Natal might give a solution. In addition to that this can be used to control unmanned war robots. Finally let’s hope no one will ever use these things against Humans, but some kind of Alien invasion may be.

Future Development

Apparently the technology in project natal in something no one ever dreamed of. But still there can be improvements to be made. The most important factor would be the accuracy. That matters a lot in gaming environment to deliver an extraordinary gaming experience to the user. The usability of hardware seems good since you can easily place it on top of your TV.  The next most important factor would be the identification of multiple movements, especially in multiplayer environments. Though it started as a gaming controller, there is a huge possibility to use it for many other applications as mentioned above. Let’s have a curious mind about this path breaking hardware by Microsoft.

References

• Hruschak, P. (2009, June). E3 2009: Microsoft wants to make you the controller with Project Natal. Retrieved May 2010, from gamertell.com: http://www.gamertell.com/gaming/comment/e3-2009-microsoft-wants-to-make-you-the-controller-with-project-natal/

Current Camera Of iPhone

The current version of the iPhone has a 3.0 Megapixels camera in it. With the Auto focus and Tap to focus options, it gives better performances to the user. The video recording performances are also better. It gives a quality video output with 30 frames per second.

Image Management In iPhone

Although the other phones have better quality cameras, they do not provide a better image management system like in iPhone. The iPhone image management system provides facility to manage image galleries according to the subject and may other filtering factors. The competition in the world market today does not looking for the better product, It always needs the best. iPhone provides iTunes to share images from MAC or photoshop album on the PC. Through this synchronization, iPhone became more user friendly for the people who love it.

Next iPhone

The Apple Inc. wishes to release their next version of the iPhone in this June.  Although they tried to hide the specifications and technological stuffs from public, some things were exposed to the public recently. According to that information, people can think of an 80GB device with iPhone 4G phone.

Next iPhone’s Camera

The next iPhone will be equipied with a 5Megapixel camera and that make it a shining sophisticated mobile device in 2010 WWDC event where they plan to release it on next June. The device will have a larger lens than the previous versions and a LED flash light will be there to add light in night or indoor moods. The most important thing is that the internal hardware will be ‘Apple’ specific. The Omnivison’s CMOS image sensors will provide a high accuracy and the quality output.

Camera Applications

BestCamera

The iPhone is looking to make their features from better to best. There is software that allows users to name BestCamera to allow users to do whatever they like to do with images. The next iPhone users are waiting for something new and improved other than what they have seen so far. The user friendly image gallery is one of the most attractive facts that anyone like to see. The user can scroll through the touch screen and add the image effect he needs from the number of available effects. The next iPhone may include more effects and more interactive options. It is said that Adobe Photoshop is the best and easiest software to manage and edit pictures for general users. A person who has used the BestCamera software might think twice before making that statement. The image editing and managing can be easily done through this software. The users expect much better BestCamera software to manage images better than ever.

Snapture

This software gives user a special feature to rotate the phone but not to get the image rotated. Snapture allows the user to take images by tapping anywhere of the screen. In most of the cameras user has to click on a specific button to get a shot. But with this software it makes easy to the user. The volume level zoom control while taking images is another special facility provided by this software. Snapture Premium allows the quick view enhancement. The user can take several snapshots at the same time and check each and every image with just one click. It enables the possibility to delete the rest of images while keeping the one the user wants with. It allows a special feature of making the images of several color modes available in a strip in the left side.

Camera Genius

This enables user to have a non-optical zoom. This gives a clear image without any distortion in it. Sound capture facility enables capturing the images in the place where can get the maximum sound. Different types of guides and timer facilities give user an interactive and special ability to enjoy photography.

Colorsplash

This is a great image management application which was introduced with editing the colors of images. The user can add or edit colors of an image with just a one click.

Future Of iPhone’s Camera And Applications

There are several types of application for the iPhone with various unbelievable features. Although it has come up with several types of sophisticated apps, there will be better in near future. A noise sensor zoom facility will be something new that people can expect. Think of a party, the camera will be auto zoomed to the place where people dancing and singing. Most of the iPhone users are not that good at photography. So the users will be able to take much accurate images with this facility. A run time stop caption will be another great invention. The camera can be improved with the large number of frames per second in it. But think of an application that counts the position in 2 several times and allowing the median to guess the final image. This will be a great invention for any kind of a camera. But for the iPhone users, this will be something special.

No Camera iPhones?

Having a camera is good for someone. But, it may be a reason for someone to not to use an iPhone. Think of people who are working in security zones. So Apple may think of introducing a phone without a camera in the future. Think of a person who works in google, that person will not be able to use the iPhone because of its camera.

References

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Specification and Features

Its operating system is similar to iPhone’s operating system and has custom designed A4, Apple 1GHz Processor. It has 1024 x 768 resolutions, 9.7 inch LED touch screen, 1.5 pounds weight, 0.5 inch thin and it has around 10 hours of battery life as well. iPad has the fasters built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi connection, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and 7.2 Mbps 3G data speed. There are particularly designed games and apps available for iPad and an iWork suite which contains word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software especially for business use also announced. The starting price will be around $499 (16 GB). If you want to use AT&T connectivity, which is Apple recommended, another $130 will be added to the price. Apple’s iBook the virtual bookshop is one of the main features in iPad. You can turn pages with a single tap in the right-hand margin.

In addition, you can have a bunch of photo album in your iPad, and when it’s charging state, you can use it as a digital photo frame. Moreover, its high-resolution screen makes it perfect for watching any kind of video such as HD movies, TV shows and music videos. It has a unique YouTube app where you can easily navigate videos and organize videos. With the iPod application, you can browse, organize and listen to music with the powerful built-in speaker. The iTune store lets you to browse, buy music, TV shows or you can buy or rent movies with thousands of collections or you can sync with your Mac or PC to share the contents through iTune. There are around 140,000 applications available for iPad and you can easily browse, buy and download them from App Store.

The Google powered helps you to navigate with high-resolution satellite images where you can use your current location as well as you can get the directions. To taking notes, iPad has an onscreen keyboard and in landscape view, you can see your list of notes and the current one will shown win a red circle. From the Home Screen, you can have access to everything in your iPad in a tap and you can move apps around the screen in any order you want. Finally, the Spotlight Search allows you to search across iPad and its built-in apps.

Lack Of Functionalities

Even though iPad has the entire above-mentioned feature, it has failed some functionality as well. Due to lack of multitasking that means that you cannot listen to music while editing a photo. It’s a major issue in iPad. It does not have a camera. Even the iPod nano has a camera, so a business product without a web cam or at least a normal cam. So no video chatting, no photo snaps. It does not include a USB port, so file transfer between other devices will be difficult and inconvenient. Users have to depend on a USB adapter. Most of the users never accept this. iPad doesn’t support Flash. Which means you cannot view Flash embedded sites and applications. The main arguments against Flash running on the iPad are that it’s a resource hog and a security risk, but the lack of Flash support is nonetheless a hindrance for users. While the iPad’s display has been praised as crisp and sharp, its screen — LED-backlit with In-Plane Switching (IPS) — has its downsides. The iPad’s screen is not as power efficient as OLED devices, which don’t drain batteries as quickly. Moreover, LED screen tends to be harder on the eyes than the e-ink screens used on eReaders such as the Kindle. Apple has its own App Store for iPad and it has a lot of restriction on apps like no porn, nothing that infringes on the Apple trademark etc. The Free Software Foundation has already criticized the product, saying iPad is bad for freedom.

People have to think is it worth to buy this product for $500? Moreover, user has to depend on the iStore.  We can expect more features and bug fixed updates in future. However, for now its people have to decide do they really want to replace their current device to iPad.

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