Garmin, officially announced an interesting application, which is called the Pilot My-Cast, and is intended for flight and navigation. Annex adapted for the iPhone and iPod. With its user can easily and quickly plan a route aviapoletov, given the weather conditions, location of airports and much more. Request filed with the Pilot My-Cast is served by such organizations as the National Weather Service, Environment Canada and the Federal Aviation Administration, so complete and accurate information to the user provided. The application also useful in case of any unforeseen circumstances or in the emergency situations. Cost of services Pilot My-Cast is $ 10 per month, but it works only in the U.S. and Canada.   Source: GSMPress ®

Thanks to the Korean newspaper The Korea Times became known the details of the next version of iPhone. Its release is scheduled for June 2010. New model of iPhone will be called iPhone 4G. The first test model will be available in your cellular service provider KT in May this year, and the global release is scheduled for June this year. It is reported that the iPhone 4G will be equipped with touch-sensitive OLED-display, as well as a replaceable battery, which will provide longer battery life. In addition to this new version of the iPhone, will be equipped with dual-core processor, improved graphics engine, as well as the front camera. Resolution of the main camera will increase up to 5 megapixels. Source: GSMPress ®  

Each year, Time magazine ranks the best devices. And the first line in The Top 10 of Everything of 2009 took Communicator Motorola DROID. According to the magazine Time, Communicator Motorola DROID worthy to lead the ranking of the best units this year with an operating system, Android, as well as physical QWERTY-keyboard, 3.7-inch touch screen and a fairly low cost. Second place belongs to the rating of an e-book Barnes & Noble Nook,. Third place went to bezlopastny fan Dyson Air Multiplier. And only the fourth place went to iPhone 3GS. It said that the smartphone has started a worthy rival. Source: GSMPress ®

In the third quarter of 2009, sales of mobile phones worldwide reached 308.9 million units, it is by 0,1% more than the result for the same period in 2008 This was confirmed by the data research company Gartner. According to the researchers, the growth of the world market mobile handsets to promote the sale of "gray" markets such as China, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region.   Market leader in the reporting period was the Finnish Nokia, realized 113.4 million phones, and took part in 36,7%. Second place - South Korea's Samsung (19,6%), managed to sell 60.6 million mobile handsets.   LG Electronics was the third with a market share of 10,3% (31,9 million handsets), the fourth position - the U.S. Motorola (13,9 million tubes, 4,5% of the market), and closes the top five leaders of the Swedish-Japanese company Sony Ericsson, handset sales which amounted to 13.4 million units (4.3% market share). The volume of sales of smartphones in the third quarter broke the mark of 41 million units;-year growth of 12,8%. In the Gaza smartphones leader again - Nokia, which has taken a 39.3% market share (16.156 million vehicles). Second line rating is Research in Motion (20,8%) with 8.5 million sold devices. Followed by Apple

  We previously published a rating of popularity of mobile phones on the version of the Swedish company Krusell, which is the largest manufacturer of covers for mobile phones and other portable equipment. And again Krusell was a rating based on sales results of covers for mobile phones in more than 50 countries. And so ... at the first position rankings again is the popular smartphone Apple iPhone 3G. Second place goes to a music tachfon Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, the same place he occupied in September, and the communicator HTC Touch HD is an honorable third position. The head of the company Krusell Ulf Sandberg (Ulf Sandberg) said that he was not surprised Leadership smartphone iPhone, as well as nice happy combination of old and new models in the ranking. TOP 10 best-selling phones in October 2009 Release Krusell (the place occupied by the phone in September, indicated in parentheses) 1. (1) Apple iPhone 3G 2. (2) Nokia 5800 XpressMusic 3. (-) HTC Touch HD 4. (5) Nokia 3109/3110 Evolve 5. (9) Nokia 6700 6. (10) Samsung B2100 7. (3) Nokia N97 8. (4) Nokia 6303 Classic 9. (6) Nokia E51 10. (7) Nokia 6300/6300i/6301 Source: GSMPress

Company Directed Electronics has developed a new system called Viper SmartStart, which allows you to open, close and start the car with the iPhone. As part of the solution comes Viper SmartStart application for the iPhone, as well as a special receiver, which is installed in the machine itself. According to the creators of Viper SmartStart, the system can work in any car with electric locks. The cost of this solution is $ 499, reports USA Today. Special applications for the iPhone is now developing, and many car manufacturers. Thus, the application Mini Road Assist allows owners of BMW cars cause evacuators pressing just one button and perform other actions. And Ford has cooperated with several universities in the program, which encourages students to develop mobile applications for cars of this brand.   Source: GSMPress ®   

 Apple Inc. on Sept. 28 announced the sale of two billion applications for the iPhone and iPod touch through the internet-shop App Store. Total world there are about 50 million devices that support such programs. In the App Store at the end of September, offered 85 thousand programs, and all the desire to develop applications for iPhone OS reported 125 thousand of developers. This makes the App Store's largest store for mobile applications. Billion downloads mark in the App Store came in April 2009. This store took nine months. Second billion applications, so users have downloaded in just five months. Only for the third quarter were downloaded half a program. Average per day from the App Store is downloaded 6.6 million program. Store applications for the iPhone and iPod touch was opened in July 2008. Initially, there were 500 programs. For the first month of the owners of the devices on the iPhone OS applications to buy 30 million dollars. Source: GSMPress ®  

The main disadvantage of iPhone is the lack of physical keyboard. Many companies are trying to solve this problem in its own way. One attractive solution to this problem has become a gadget called iTwinge. iTwinge represents a real QWERTY-keyboard. On top of the gadget is the connector where, in fact, is inserted into iPhone. The result is a monolithic device, somewhat resembling smartphones BlackBerry. An accessory is compatible with the iPhone 3G and 3G S, and its price is only $ 30.   Source: GSMPress ®

In France, there were two cases of explosion iPhone. Affected users claim that the iPhone screen blew up quite suddenly, without any apparent reason. In one case, a splinter even got the owner of the communicator in the eye. For consideration of these cases met the regional sales manager of Apple France and the French Minister of Consumer Affairs Herve Novelli. The parties discussed the "explosive" the communicator, the Minister stated that he intends to require the adoption of measures that would increase the liability of the users about the safety of products. The representative of Apple, promising that investigates cases of explosions, however, considers this one-off incidents, rather than a universal problem. And this despite the fact that such troubles occurred with the iPod.   Source: GSMPress ®

  Many manufacturers create original, comfortable and above all useful accessories for the iPhone. In our news mentioned earlier projection Mili Pro, metal covers, photo accessories for the iPhone. Despite the fact that the smartphone iPhone created a huge number of accessories, various manufacturers tirelessly create new ones. The company offers a fairly useful SendStation adapter PocketDock. On the one hand PocketDock adapter is a standard 30-pin connector that is inserted into the iPhone, but on the other - miniUSB connector and 3.5-mm jack for headphones. PocketDock Adapter allows you to synchronize and charge the iPhone using the miniUSB-cable, and 3.5-mm connector allowing you to connect your favorite headphones. For PocketDock company SendStation requests $ 30. Source: GSMPress ®

Apple is proprietary technology that would facilitate the work with your mobile device while driving in vehicles on rough roads. Many noticed how uncomfortable to read or watch videos while driving on rough roads. Company Apple offers software to compensate for shaking the device to determine its motion with the built accelerometer. Add to this, to simplify the input of information, with shaking, the user interface of the device will automatically increase to touch the display area for data entry. In order to exclude erroneous touches to the display, the possibility of installing a threshold value of force touches to the display, in which the weaker will be touching false. The implementation of this patent, first of all, users will appreciate the products Apple, who spend much time on public transport.   Source: GSMPress ®  

  The Swedish company Krusell published a rating of popularity of mobile phones in July 2009. Company Krusell rating is the most popular models, based on the sales of covers for mobile phones in more than 50 countries. In the ten winners of the July rate of six a «new» and only four remained in the phone since June. At the head of the rating is a smartphone Apple iPhone 3G, but is dominated by a dozen company Nokia - its share of seven seats. TOP 10 best selling phones in July 2009 version of Krusell (place of the phone in June, indicated in parentheses) 1. (2) Apple iPhone 3G 2. (6) Nokia 5800 3. (-) Nokia N97 4. (-) Nokia 6303 Classic 5. (4) Nokia 3109/3110 Evolve 6. (-) Nokia 3120 Classic 7. (1) Nokia 6301/6300/6300i 8. (-) Samsung B2100 9. (-) Sony Ericsson C702 10. (-) Nokia 6120/6121

Ten companies producing mobile phones June 29, submitted a memorandum, which pledged to bring into the territory of the European Union, only phones with the same chargers. Since 2010, sold in the EU phone chargers are equipped with micro-USB connector.   The list of signatories included: Nokia, Samsung, Apple, Sony Ericsson and Texas Instruments.Motorola, LG, NEC, Qualcomm, Research in Motion (RIM, produces communicators Blackberry).   According to the European Commission, this decision will make life easier for users of cellular services and reduce the amount of garbage dumped from the old charges.   "Today the EU - an abundance of charges. Many of them work only with one particular phone model. Almost every household has an excessive number of" zaryadnikov ", which several thousand tons of garbage a year," - said the European Commission. Source: GSMPress ®  

  Wi-Fi problems that appear after the latest firmware update are irreversible and cannot be solved by rolling back to the previous version. The upgraded iPhone controls the Wi-Fi chip wrongly and it gets hot. It has been noted that the malfunction occurs only in iPhone 2G and 3G. Most likely, the firmware version 2.2.1 removes a kind of power restriction of the chip and it begins to work at full power and gets hot. The only thing you can do is to place the device in the refrigerator and it really makes iPhone work properly. If the problem is software related, then we can expect the manufacturer to provide us with the solution. If it is hardware related, then there seems to be no solution at all.  

  The report is devoted to Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile operating systems and smartphones that run them. Key points are as follows: • BlackBerry 8300 (Curve) is the most popular RIM smartphone. It left behind BlackBerry 8100 (Pearl) and has 45% of traffic. Verizon mobile Internet is mostly accessed from BlackBerry Storm handsets that generate 38% of traffic. • The most popular mobile devices running Symbian and Windows Mobile are much older than RIM smartphones. Nevertheless, most of the worldwide Symbian devices traffic is generated by Nokia N70 mobile phones and makes 17%. • Among Windows Mobile devices Samsung Blackjack II is mostly used. It is interesting that the mobile Internet is generally accessed from phones running operating system that is several years old. • Within the USA 5% of traffic is generated by mobile devices running Android. Not long ago HTC Dream (G1) was the number 13 mobile device in the US with 1.7% and now is the number one handset on the T-Mobile network. Top Smartphones and Operating Systems   • Worldwide traffic generated by smartphones in February 2009 reached 33%, up from 26% half a year ago. • Symbian remains the most popular operating system with 43% of traffic from 6