After Google announced the Froyo earlier this year, which is a consecutive update of the well known open source mobile platform Android, there has been a number of rumors as well as a few official hesitations whether the flagship Android devices like sonyericsson’s XPeria X10 and Motorola Milestone. Since there was no response from the mobile phone manufacturers there were doubt among the Android users whether those devices were going to get the Froyo (Android 2.2) update since the update includes some crucial features for the smartphone users.

After the German telecom operator O2 gave some words that they will roll out updates for Motorola Milestone, the official confirmation of the update came a little bit later. Last week, Motorola has finally gave a schedule to update their Android lineup. Even though all the devices are not going the get the update for Hardware Limitations, the most anticipated update is finally coming to Milestone. It is sad to know that the update will not be available in all regions. But those who will be able to update their Android experience, I can say that, will be happy. Lets hope that everything that Moto announced, comes to be true as per the schedule.

Today the telecom market leader in Bangladesh,Grameenphone has finally announced the long deserving tarrif plan. With the announcement of three new price packages Shohoj, Aapon,
Bondhu, along with djuice,
the pre-paid subscribers will enjoy a greatly reduced call rate as well as other benefits. The packages are interchangeable and easy to
migrate.

Grameenphone has confirmed that the Existing users can switch to the new
packages free of cost by next
month. New subscribers will also have the advantage of the new tarrif plan when they buy the connection at a reduced price. Any Grameenphone user can now switch to djuice, or vice versa. Tk 10 will be charged after April 13 for migration.

The Shohoj package will let
users who need to call all
mobile networks and offers
callers a low, flat rate of Tk
0.79 a minute and SMS at Tk 1
to any operator.
The Aapon package offers a
special daytime tariff
(12pm-4pm) and nighttime
tariff (12am-8am) of Tk 0.49
a minute.

Aapon users can
also call at Tk 0.49 a minute
and send SMS at Tk 0.50 to
three Grameenphone FnF
(friends and family) numbers
any time and SMS to any
operator at Tk 1.

The Bondhu package is for
users whose calls are usually
limited to a tight FnF circle.
This package offers the
highest number of FnFs and
users can call seven FnF
numbers at Tk 0.49 a minute
any time. Calls to all other
numbers are Tk 0.99 a
minute. SMS rates are Tk 0.50
a SMS to GP numbers and Tk 1
to other operator numbers.

However, the instructions for switching to packages has not yet been on the net. Watch the space for detail as soon as I get them,

So, who are you? Apon, Shohoj or Bondhu?

They call it a ‘Magical and Revolutionary’ Product (Source:Apple). The Apple iPad is set to hit the market on April 3rd. It is expected (at least the by manufacturers that it will be a sure shot like the iPhone, since it has much resemblance with the latter. With the features and appearance, it makes a clear assumption that millions of iPhone lovers is going to grasp the half-an-inch portable device that will allow them to surf the web, enjoy the movies and let do a lot more. Apple will begin pre-orders from 12th of this month. So are you after the iPad?

It has a loads of features to enjoy your multimedia experiences from watching a movie to surf the web. But what it more lacks, it seems to me, are the productivity. It’s not for you if you’re looking forward to consider it for. Watch out! it’s for Play only but the lightest. Even though there are thousands of applications available to the platform, it’s not offering a comprehensive productivity solution. You may call it a XXL size iPhone.

In short, however, the device is lightweight, thin and brilliantly designed. The more advantage is that it has a ‘Unbelievable’ price of $499!

This year at CES there has been a number of new and innovative technology has been exhibited with a promise of making a lot of them available for the public in a short time.

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Apple’s iPhone is a very successful phone and is really a popular gadget of the time. Alongside the hardware features what makes is special is it’s powerful user interface, the iPhone platform. Google’s android, however, has been trying to overdo and compete the iPhone and it’s first attempt has received much admiration from the tech savvy people around the world.

Google, the internet giant, has been working to make Android a success and has been working in partnership with well known operators. Along with their present venture with T-Mobile and Sprint, recently they have came into partnership with Verizon which was considered to be a ‘unusual’ partnership; yet earlier this month, after working for 18 months, they are about to bring two mobile phones in Verizon USA network running Google’s Android mobile operating system and announces to continue the venture to make Android a more mature mobile operating system and expect to equip the platform in more smartphones. The company spokesmen, however, kept a secret about their partnership with the actual hardware manufacturer. But there is a rumor around that Motorola and HTC may work on the Android phone’s.

Smartphone industry has grown in a large proportion and may be Google has chosen Verizon keeping the huge number of subscriber, even though Verizon do not have a good history of feature-rich phones for their subscribers.

Google will be glad to continue it’s efforts in making Android a better mobile platform. Let’s see if Android could put a deep imprint in the smartphone market in these recession days.

If nature has given men the power to innovate, wouldn’t it be better if the innovations reflects the nature? And obviously, imitating nature is not going to cause harm to humanity rather than bringing some convenience to the people. Well, I am talking about the latest innovation by Qualcomm, a kind of reflective display technology that has been developed inspired by nature and gives a better performance and is more comfortable to eye than the traditional display technologies like LED or AMOLED.

They call it mirasol, a display technology that is based on a reflective technology called IMOD (Interferometric MODulation), putting the MEMS structures as the base making the whole thing extremely low power consuming, and highly reflective enabling the display to be seen even in direct sunlight.

According to Qualcomm, their engineers have developed the mirasol display by “studying and mimicking nature’s processes and structures”.

Since, it’s a relatively new technology, it may appear to be costlier for the device manufacturers to implement as a result of which the device may become of high-price range. But as the technology is both energy efficient and human-friendly, they will be chosen by device manufacturers aiming at providing consumers with better experience and more mobility by enhancing the battery life. It looks like that this display technology is a major breakthrough in the industry.

The Bluray format is struggling to achieve the popularity but it seems that the growth of Bluray market is noticeably slower than former mainstream disk media like the DVD. Cost is may be an important factor behind this but the most important fact the users are still not reluctant to accept blueray is the speed and performance.  Those who love bluray or want to use the features of the format, there is definitely a good news. The very new BDR-205 of Pioneer Electronics is an 5.25-inch internal Blu-ray writer which is announced to be available in the market in the later October and at an estimated cost of around $200-$250.

Pioneer’s achievement here is in gaining the speed. Even though it’s not a giant leap of promising you a multiplex of its present 8x speed this small shift of speed to (50% faster than the previous one) a 12x cannot be ignored either.it’s the industry’s first computer blueray writer that has the fastest speed to write at an speed of 12x for both single and dual-layer Blu-ray Disc. A blue ray disc can contain around 50 GB of storage space on a dual-layer Blu-ray Disc, enabling data backup an easy task ease which has become a bit easier with the speed-up feature.

So, it seems that the blu-ray platform is getting faster and making it’s way through. However, Pioneers achievements with BDR-205 blu-ray optical drive strikes the note that the development continues to make blu-ray more reliable, faster and of better performance.

World leaders in environmental movement urges that alternative energy resources should be discovered and utilized to make the world a better place for the next generation.

Solar Power, which is an enormous source of power has always been a point of focus. The developments in Solar Energy as a renewable and efficient energy source for the people around the world are getting popular. The only problem has been the complexity and technical skills required in setting up a solar panel and maintaining it. Good news spread really fast and in recent years, scientists have developed and nourished a technology through which solar cells can be made with plastic components only that can turn the sun’s huge power into electrical energy regardless of the clouds in the sky.
The plastic material used to produce electric current from  solar power uses nanotechnology through harnessing the sun’s invisible, infrared rays. These cells are the first of the kind to absorb the infrared rays of the sun and turn it into power. This breakthrough has led to an idea that sooner, the plastic component based solar technology will gain more and more popularity and efficiency as well as become cost effective.

The best of the news is that the components are too light and small that the composite can be easily sprayed onto other materials, similar to the paint we use.  Plastic solar cells are nothing new but the latest development has enabled it to harness the invisible power in the infrared spectrum.

Now the form can be utilized in many different ways from charging our cellphones through the power generated by our jacket painted with solar cells or to meet our day to day power requirements.

The researchers expect that Solar Power will potentially replace traditional power sources reducing the risk of environmental damages.

The concept of twitter is to follow your favourite people and know their updates in real time. TakeTake is a similar application going to be launched later this month which will have the same idea implemented but in this case the program will let the users follow their favourite stuff.

With the opening of taketake, following the favourite gadget or books and games will become really easy. Along with sharing the stuff, one can maintain a list of things that a user presently have, previously had or wishes to have in the future.

However, all the expectations will be evaluated once the service is open to the public. Bookmark now to stay in touch with the future updates.