Nokia N95 style with China/mobile phone/manufacturer
March 29th, 2008 | by Manufacturing Business |
Main Feature:
Slide up and down
User Interface
FM
Bluetooth
Dedicated keys for camera, internet access, volume up and down, voice commands
Video Player
Support MPEG4/3GP
Full Screen
Audio Player
Repeat(Single/all), Random Play, Play as background song
3 Audio Player interfaces
Mp3 tingtone setting
Video Recorder
2.0Mega pixel Digital video taking
14 special Effecting setting (Normal, Grayscale, Sepia, Sepia Green, Sepia Blue, Color Invert,Gray Invert, Blackboard, Whiteboard, Copper Carving, Blue Carving, Embossment, Contrast, Sketch )
6 White Balances (Auto, Daylight, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Cloud, Incandescence)
Night Mode and Exposure Compensation
3 Image Quality modes
File size and video time adjustment
Banding adjustment (50Hz/60Hz)
Camera
2.0 Mega pixel Digital Camera
240*320/320*240/640*480/1280*1024
10 Photo frames as background
Timer capture and cont shot
14 special Effects setting (Normal, Grayscale, Sepia, Sepia Green, Sepia Blue, Color Invert,Gray Invert, Blackboard, Whiteboard, Copper Carving, Blue Carving, Embossment, Contrast, Sketch )
6 White Balances (Auto, Daylight, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Cloud, Incandescence)
Night mode
9 Exposure Compensation modes
Banding adjustment (50Hz/60Hz)
Others:
Phonebook 300
Drawing board/Alarm/Perpetual Calendar/Voice Recorder/
World times/Calculator/clock/Converter/Currency converter/Stop watch/My Planner/Health
Technical Specification:
Language: French , Russian, Arabic,English
Frequency: 900/1800mhz
Dimension: (LxWxH, mm) 99mm*53mm*21mm
Weight(g): 110
color: silver,black
Stand by time: 200 hour
Talk time: 120~150 (min)
Battery Capacity: 850(mAh)
Display: 2.6 Inch 262K
Camera (Pixels): 2.0M
Hey, electronics consumers and students of human despair! Its time for another edition of Ask a Paranoid Psychotic, the only column that brings you the gadget advice you need with the delusional ravings you enjoy. Lets get right to it before the cable company sends David Schwimmer to strangle us all and grind up our corpses into fuel for their weather-controlling satellites.
Dear Paranoid Psychotic,
Im looking for a webcam that provides decent-quality video chatting and conferencing functions, and preferably includes a multimedia headset. And of course, I have a limited budget to work with, so the fancy caviar webcams are out. A friend recommended the Philips SPC700NC/37, but I wasnt sure. What do you think?
Needs A Zesty Image
Dear NAZI,
I know it doesnt matter since the radiation from our toasters is giving us all stomach cancer anyway, but Im just going to come out and ask: who are you working for? Who sent you? I just find it a little coincidental that you wrote me with a gadget questionand I happen to write a gadget column. Not to mention, ex-CIA agent Philip Agee died just a couple of months ago in Havana, where he was forced into exile in 1975 after blowing the whistle on the Agencys scheme to take control of the domestic fried-chicken industry by slipping DMT to Colonel Sanders. Notice his name was Philip. One L. An unusual spelling. And yet here you are asking me about the Philips webcamalso spelled with one L. As Green Day said, It all keeps adding up. So tell your masters, and we both know who they are, to find themselves another patsy. I didnt let the smokescreens and dirty tricks of the Nickelodeon network throw me off the trail of the real story behind 9/11, so Im certainly not going to play ball with you or your overlords. Now I have to go. Theres a woman walking down the street wearing a Toronto Blue Jays cap the very same Toronto Blue Jays who implanted circuitry into my kidneys to make me crave Labatts and Im pretty sure thats not a baby in her stroller. It all keeps adding up.
Thanks for nothing -
A Paranoid Psychotic
Warranty:
90 Day Manufacturer
Features:
High picture & video quality
- SVGA photo resolution for sharp images
- 30 frames per second video
Face-to-face video chatting
- Multimedia headset and boom mic for best sound quality
- Go face-to-face with free instant messaging services
- Face tracking automatically follows your face
- Digital zoom for frame-filling images
- Built-in digital microphone for quality sound
Easy to use
- Multifunctional stand mounts on any monitor or notebook
- V(ideo)Launch software
- Get started in a second with VLounge with QuickLaunch button
- Snapshot button for instant photos
- Rotating lens for perfect aiming and natural images
Video Capturing
- Frame rate: 30 fps
SVGA snapshot resolution
- The SVGA resolution of your snapshots ensures sharp images for use in documents, webpages and e-mails.
30 frames per second video
With a 30 frames per second refresh rate you will enjoy natural-looking and full motion video calls without jumpy images some webcams produce.
Multimedia headset included
- The matching multimedia headset supplied with this webcam increases the convenience and comfort of video chatting and other interactive on-line activities. It has a boom microphone incorporated into the design, so wherever you move, your voice will be recorded at the same level for best sound quality.
Works with all IM services
- Add video to Yahoo!, MSN and AOL Messenger. This PC Camera also works with Windows Messenger and NetMeeting.
Automatic face tracking
- The state-of-the-art camera software automatically detects your face and moves the lens to follow you as you move. You stay in the center of the image even if you move during a video conference. It gives you the freedom to express yourself and converse naturally.
Digital zoom
- Zoom in and out to get the perfect framing for any image all digitally so you dont have to touch the webcam or lens.
Built-in digital microphone
- The built-in digital microphone allows you to talk naturally and freely or to add sound to a video clip recording.
Mounts on any monitor
- The multifunctional stand makes it easy for you to mount the webcam on any monitor, laptop, notebook or flat surface.
VLounge software
- Sofware for capturing, managing and archiving snapshots and video clips in a very convenient way. With just a couple of mouse clicks you will able to create and send Video mails. This software package provides all you need to take fully advantage of your Philips PC Camera.
VLounge QuickLaunch button
- To start up VLounge, simply press the QuickLaunch button
Snapshot button
- With just one press of this button, your webcam takes a picture automatically ready for adding to e-mails, web pages or documents.
Rotating lens
- Rotating lens for perfect aiming and natural images. You can get the right camera angle quickly and easily without having to put things underneath it to change the tilt.
In the box:
- Philips Webcam
- Headset
- Installation CD
- Quick Installation Manual
This morning's Squawk Box recording quality is a little poor, which I apologize for. We have some noisy background coming from one of the lines and it was impossible to remove. Still, we had a good call talking about:
The winners of the 700Mhz auction in the US last week. Verizon appeared to be the big winner picking up a huge chunk of the 700Mhz "C" block, while AT&T won 227 licenses in the B block. What many people didn't realize was that on February 8th, the FCC also approved the sale of Aloha Communications to AT&T, which was the big winner in 700Mhz auctions in 2001 and 2003. Neither Sprint nor T-Mobile participated in the auction, but T-Mobile was the winner of a nationwide license in the 2006 AWS spectrum auction. Google didn't win any spectrum, despite their noisy entry into the auction. Did Google want to win anything? What does it mean for Sprint in the 3G world? Will Canadian regulators be following this as we prepare for our own auction here?
This morning Michael Arrington is calling out the big market players who have committed to openID, but are simply providing identities to their users. Microsoft and Yahoo, for example, allow people to use identities created by them on other openID supporting systems. They don't accept openID's in return. Arrington says that these ompanies are exploiting openID for PR benefit, but not actually committing to it. Is he right?
And stupid marketing blunders. The one I held up us an example was last week's announcement by Sony of a program called Fresh Start. Everyone is familiar with the mountains of trial software that you get on every new PC. The stuff we all call bloatware, or craplets… Last week Sony announced a new program called Fresh Start where… for a fee of just $50… they would send you your PC without all that garbage. Clean, fresh… naturally there was an uproar, and Sony quickly backpedalled and took the fee away. Companies pay to be on the desktops of these PCs, and for the PC manufacturers this is a revenue stream. Sony apparently decided that they would try to get the consumer to pay this premium directly, and is now faced with all their customers potentially saying "just ship it to me clean". We discussed how Sony might have handled this differently.
I recently heard a CBC interview (MP3) with Vanessa Farquharson. Have I already mentioned her around here? Apparently not.
She’s been spending the last year making one environmentally-friendly change to her life each day. She’s been blogging about her experience, writing a column in the National Post, and has a forthcoming book.
On a related note, the CBC opted not to specify that Ms. Farquharson was a journalist. For some inexplicable reason, that felt ingenuine (screw you, I’m using it).
Mach 3 or Plugged In?
I was shaving yesterday, and thinking about green choices. Staring at my razor blade, I wondered which was the greener option: an electric razor or one with disposable blades?
To compare, we need to think about all the factors that contribute to the manufacturing, shipping, usage and disposal of each technology.
For the average Gilette Mach 3, we need to consider:
- The environmental costs and energy usage of manufacturing the razor shafts, disposable razors and shaving cream. I use a shaving brush, too.
- The fuel consumed during shipping to stores.
- The waste generated in packaging.
- The water used during shaving. I probably shave 300 days out of the year, and use, maybe, 750 ml of water each time. If I shave for, say, 65 years, that’s 91 oil drums of water. Or, if you like, 15 hot tubs worth of water. Just on shaving. That’s depressing.
- The energy used to heat the water.
- Cost of disposal, including the fuel consumed to transport the discarded razors and shaving cream containers. More importantly, how long will the plastic bits hang around?
There’s a similar, though shorter list for an electric razor:
- Manufacturing the razor.
- Shipping it to the store.
- Electricity used in powering the razor over its lifetime.
- Disposal of the razor.
Which is the greener option? I have no idea. It’s an easy thought experiment, but practically speaking, a remarkably difficult thing to figure out. Environmental impact is measured in lots of ways: energy consumed, ecosystems impacted, pollution, and so forth. The first problem that I can see is that there’s no common currency for all of these factors.
Thinking about this stuff is, admittedly, one of those things that white people like to do. Still, I can imagine a good blog entitled “What’s Greener” that asks and answers these questions about small, everyday items like razors.
For the record, the greenest shaving option is to just let that mofo grow. The next greenest is to use an old school straight-razor (no ivory handle, thanks very much). I’ve never had the pleasure–are they difficult to use?
UPDATE: Elijah points out in the comments that there’s already a blog by Grist on this very subject. Handy.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, released to manufacturing recently, is designed with a single unified-code base for both on-premise and on-demand deployments. It enables customers to choose the right deployment model for their specific business and IT needs with flexibility to change deployment models over time. Sanjay Jain speaks with Kevin Wydra, vice president and director of R&D with Client Profiles, a successful ISV in the legal industry with their flagship application CRM4Legal, to discuss their experience of adopting Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Platform, value addition it brings to their big customer base of law firms, their innovative approaches of utilizing Agile SDLC Methodologies and cross-collaboration between on-site and off-shore teams.
Tags: Business Application Platform, Client Profiles, CRM, CRM4Legal, Dynamics, Kevin Wydra, Law, Microsoft, Sanjay Jain, Software + Services, USISV
Dear Subscribers: Be sure to check out the new America’s Business vodcast at www.americasbusiness.org…Sen. George Voinovich says a pending Senate bill that would address global warming by limiting U.S. greenhouse gas emissions is ineffective, would hurt the economy and spark higher energy prices. Voinovich is a guest on this weeks Americas Business with Mike Hambrick” radio program. Basically, what it does is it ignores the international impact of greenhouse gases and just concentrates on the United States, the Ohio Republican says about the Americas Climate Security Act of 2007. In addition, it really is a real blow to the jaw of the U.S economy. Frivolous lawsuits are tying up courts around the country. A Pacific Research Institute expert will talk to Mike about a report on states that are saints and sinners when it comes to tort costs and litigation risk. March Madness, the college basketball championship season, is here. It would be hard to keep up with the action on the court without manufacturers such as Daktronics. Well visit the South Dakota electronic scoreboard maker. Americas Business will explore issues important to state-level manufacturers in a conversation with officials from the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association and the Association of Washington Business. And well find out how the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce in Tennessee is pitching the regions ample water supplies to attract manufacturers. In our regular segments, Renee Giachino of America Justice Partnership gives us the latest on tort reform and commentator Hank Cox recalls the The Way It Was. And the National Association of Manufacturers President Gov. John Engler will close the program with The Last Word. For more about Americas Business with Mike Hambrick and to listen to the program online, please click here. And for video highlights and more, check out www.americasbusiness.org.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, released to manufacturing recently is designed with a single unified-code base for both on-premise and on-demand deployments. It enables customers to choose the right deployment model for their specific business and IT needs with flexibility to change deployment models over time. blogs.msdn.com/SanjayJain Sanjay Jain sits down with William Barrow, CTO of Axonom, a successful ISV with their flagship application Powertrak CRM, to discuss their experience of adopting Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Platform, value addition it brings to their big customer base, expanding global footprint and execution of their Go-Vertical strategy.
Tags: Axonom, Business Application Platform, CRM, Dynamics, Microsoft, Powertrak, Sanjay Jain, Software + Services, USISV, William Barrow
Who Took Those Tibet Pictures? Can the Chinese government track them down? By Michelle Tsai The Chinese government has restricted foreign reporters from entering Tibet, but amateur photos and videos of protesters have found their way onto YouTube and various media sites outside the Great Firewall. Is it possible to trace who took those pictures? Probably not, unless the owner registered the camera with the manufacturer. A little detective work can easily pinpoint the make and model of the camera that took them, but it would be hard to extract identifying information from the digital images themselves. Most JPEG files include pieces of information called metadata that cover everything from when the photo was taken to how long the exposure lasted. Manufacturers usually include the make and model of the camera as part of this information, but it’s easy to delete or falsify these tags by using editing software like Photoshop. Listing the camera’s serial number is less common, but, when available, this tidbit can be used to track down the country where the device was sold, or even, if there’s a superb paper trail, the store. When the final Harry Potter novel was leaked online after a fan photographed every single page last summer, investigators gathered from the metadata that a Canon Rebel 350 was used to take the pictures. Some Canon models also automatically include the camera’s serial number in the metadata, but it’s not clear if the culprit was ever caught. Of course, if you’ve registered the device with the manufacturer, a photo’s metadata can lead straight to you. It’s harder to generalize about tracing cell-phone pictures, since manufacturers may choose to include less metadata because of space considerations. U.S. cellular plans make it a bit easier to connect phones with their owners, but this is less true in Asia, where people buy minutes of air time rather than subscription plans. If, however, the metadata on a photo includes a piece of information known as the IMEI number, it’s theoretically possible to track down the camera phone while it is turned on, triangulate the position of the person carrying it to within a mile, then chase him down. Even if all the metadata has been erased, you can still uncover the camera’s make and model. To do this, search the JPEG file for something called the quantization table. This series of numbers reflects the way the image has been compressed. Since manufacturers use different compression methods, a quantization table can narrow the field to a few camera models. (Something else that’s also embedded into digital files from certain cameras: a thumbnail of the original photo. Even if you edit out faces from the photo, a low-resolution copy of the undoctored image will still be available.) If you have a lot of digital images (say, 100 photos or five minutes of video) and a suspected camera on hand, a process similar to handgun ballistics is an option. To prove that a particular camera took those photos, you’d need to examine the “noise” patterns in the pictures. Sensors aren’t perfect, so each pixel of color contains tiny variationssay, random colors when the whole pixel should be sky blue. If you tease out the noise from each photo and then average the noise to form a pattern, you may be able to match them to new photos from the camera.
You are your own brand and it’s important to convey what your brand stands for to the world. Understanding the role of design in that message is essential.
So tap into your creative side.
You may feel burned out.
Tap into your creative side.
You want to get in touch with your inner self.
Tap into your creative side. Here are seven ways to do just that:
#1 – Read a magazine
You may not have time to ready a book, but you can certainly devour an article or two. Pay attention to the magazine’s design and layout. Also study the words and the writing style.
#2 – Go shopping
Pay attention to how manufacturers package their products. How retailers display them. How they promote special deals and new items. The way they group products together. Where things are located in the store.
#3 – Visit an art museum
Study a particular work. What is the artist saying? How does he or she convey it? What colors and textures did they use?
#4 – Spend time with kids
See the world through their eyes. Learn how to explore like they do.
#5 – Listen to great music
What does it make you feel? How do the lyrics and the music fit together? If it’s classical music, listen closely to the crescendos. If you’re listening to jazz, take in the improvisational solos and the crispness of each note.
#6 – Go to a nice restaurant
Look at how their menu is designed. How the staff presents the entrees. How they display the food on your plate. The design of the restaurant itself.
#7 – Write
Taking a note from the excellent book, The Artist’s Way, write down anything and everything that comes to your mind. Get in touch with yourself. Don’t edit or analyze. Just write whatever you think, whether it’s good or bad.
Consider going somewhere with a lot of activity. Use your senses to write down what you see, hear, feel, and smell.
Our bigg quote today comes from Arthur Koestler.
teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.”
Now, you should be able to get a good grade in that class!
Next time, we’ll discuss five places to find cash for your business now. Until then, here’s to your bigg success!
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