Representatives of the Chinese consumer electronics company Shenzhen Great Loong Brother announced that the newly introduced Apple iPad follows the design tablet P88, which released the company in Shenzhen last year.   Chinese manufacturers do not rule out a meeting with Apple in the courtroom. "We do not understand. Why they released the same thing that we do? "- Said in an interview with AFP Juan Syaofan, representative of the company. Tablet P88 appeared in the implementation in August 2009. Chodstvo with American iPad primarily in design: a touch screen (diagonal at 10.2 "Chinese" and 9.7 for iPad), framed in black frame. Other features of P88 - availability of USB-ports and a more powerful processor (as stated on the manufacturer's site characteristics). In all other characteristics of the Chinese model is far behind the U.S.: the weight of 1030 g versus 680-730 g at the iPad, the thickness of 24 mm against 13.4 mm, and the battery life - 1-1,5 hours to 10 hours.   Shenzhen Great Loong Brother known phones - imitations of the model known manufacturers. In its list of products is an external copy of iPhone. So what can be considered in the calculation of the company! Source: GSMPress

The French company Parrot has developed a controlled using a phone iPhone toy aircraft called AR.Drone. The creators of the device believe that their invention can make a revolution in game video industry. To control the model there is no need to use a special remote control. Just turn the iPhone in one direction or another. The machine is equipped with 4 screws, is nearly silent, and 2 video cameras, transmitting the image on the user's phone via Wi-Fi. Apparatus AR.Drone able to fly at a speed of 18 km / h and hang in the air for 15 minutes. Currently, the maximum range of the device is 50 m. Weight AR.Drone - 300 g. According to the developers, the model will sell for about 340 euros, reports Daily Mail. Source:

  Recently, Apple has officially announced the Tablet PC Apple iPad. Have become available official images and specifications of new items.  "The new gadget - a first-class mobile device, so part of the current iPod touch owners probably will pass on the iPad» - said Gene Munster senior analyst of Piper Jaffray. Characteristics   iPad pretty neat device: it is slightly smaller album sheet A4, with a thickness of 1.3 cm and weighs only 680 grams, or 730, depending on whether the module is installed whether or not the 3G connection. LED-display on the IPS-matrix has a 9.7 inch diagonal, resolution 1024x768 pixels with a density of 132 dots per inch. He has a special coating that does not leave marks on the fingers, and standard viewing angles of 178 degrees. Apple A4 processor with a clock speed of 1GHz. The company says about this chip, so it is on its high performance and low power consumption.    Apple iPad Apple iPad Apple iPad       During the presentation it was said that the graphics processor supports OpenGLS. Through dock connector iPad can be connected to an external display or TV panel. In this picture resolution screen will be the same

A week ago, the operator Vodafone started selling Apple iPhone in the UK. Even despite the fact that the previously implemented by the operators O2, Orange and Tesco Mobile, demand is still high. Worth saying that Vodafone offers the most favorable conditions for customers than other operators. For example, the operator proposes to enter into 18 - and 24-month contract at a price of 30 pounds per month, each of which includes unlimited Wi-Fi and 1 GB of mobile web traffic, as well as affordable tariff plans and good coverage of cellular networks. All this contributed to the fact that Vodafone has managed just one week to sell 100 thousand iPhone. iPhone become as ordinary users and businessmen. "They want a great phone, works in a different network - that we provide," says CEO of Vodafone UK, Lawrence Guy.   Source: GSMPress ®

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 ®

 Many iPhone owners want their vehicle was equipped with a QWERTY-keyboard. Chinese manufacturers to correct this deficiency in the smartphone and the territory of the Celestial appeared Phone Cooli902. Mobile Cooli902 made in the form factor of the horizontal QWERTY-slider, its display may be lifted by a small angle above the keyboard. When closed, this apparatus is similar to the iPhone, but opened - on Nokia N97. Specifications Cooli902: Support networks a GSM 900/1800 MHz, 3-inches touch screen display with a resolution of 240х400 pixels, which displays 262 thousand colors, 2-megapixel camera module Bluetooth, module Wi-Fi, TV tuner, FM-receiver and slot for memory cards format microSD (up to 4 GB). Enclosure dimensions of this apparatus are 113x57hx16 mm and its weight is 104 g. Built-in rechargeable battery provides up to 160-200 hours of standby time and up to 300-400 minutes of talk time. Camera phone Cooli902 sells at retail for $ 142. 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

  I do not think once you have the desire with all his strength to throw your phone on the floor or smash it on the wall? Such feelings just once, but visited every one of us. And what stops us? Of course, first of all, the price of the phone, on which some accumulated for several months. Especially for such cases was created iPhone Dummy - device that copies the entire exterior of iPhone. However, with all this iPhone Dummy does not work and only costs 19.95 dollars. So break it will not pity, and feeling almost the same. iPhone Dummy-toy for adults, which can surprise friends, for example, if their eyes to break our beloved iPhone. Producers are hoping that their vehicle will be used in videos and films, for example, if you want to move his car, or drop into the water.   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 ®

  Member of the United States laid out a video on YouTube, which boasts of its sociability. He set a record by sending SMS with iPhone 3GS. According to records, the month he sent the 662 258 text messages through a brand new iPhone 3GS. As a result, mobile operator AT & T sent him a receipt, consisting of more than 12 thousand pages. It is estimated that every day he gathered 22 752 SMS - it is 919 per hour, 15.3 per minute, or 1 message every 3.9 seconds.