Monday, September 14, 2009
Apple Introduces New iPod nano With Built-in Video Camera
World's Most Popular Music Player Now Available in Nine Brilliant Colors
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple® today introduced the new iPod nano®, adding a video camera, mic and speaker to the world's most popular music player. Music lovers can now shoot video wherever they are, view it on their iPod nano and use their computers to easily transfer their videos to YouTube. The new iPod nano features an ultra-thin and sleek design with a larger 2.2-inch color display and gorgeous polished aluminum and glass enclosure. iPod nano also features a built-in FM radio with live pause and iTunes® Tagging, as well as a built-in pedometer. The new iPod nano is available today in an 8GB model for $149 and a 16GB model for $179, and comes in nine brilliant colors including silver, black, purple, blue, green, orange, yellow, (PRODUCT) RED and pink.
"iPod nano is the world's most popular music player with over 100 million sold," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "And now we've added a video camera to its incredibly thin design, without any additional cost to the user."
iPod nano features a larger 2.2-inch display for easier navigating, enjoying album art, or shooting and viewing video clips. iPod nano is ultra-portable so users can shoot video wherever they are, in either portrait or landscape. iPod nano customers can share videos instantly with friends using its display and speaker, or sync with a Mac® or PC and share them on YouTube, MobileMe(TM), Facebook or via email.* iPod nano can even shoot videos with fun real-time effects such as Thermal, Film Grain, Kaleido and X-Ray.
iPod nano now has a built-in FM radio with live pause and iTunes Tagging. Live pause lets iPod nano users pause and resume playing their favorite FM radio shows. iTunes Tagging is great when users hear a song they like, they can simply tag it, and then preview and purchase that song when they sync to iTunes.** iPod nano also features Genius Mixes, which automatically creates up to 12 endless mixes of songs from your iTunes library that go great together.
iPod nano is also now an even better workout companion with the new built-in pedometer. iPod nano can keep track of your steps taken and calories burned, helping you meet your short and long-term fitness goals.
iPod nano provides up to 24 hours of music playback or five hours of video playback on a single charge. The 8GB model holds up to 2,000 songs, 7,000 photos, eight hours of video and seven hours of captured video; and the 16GB model holds up to 4,000 songs, 14,000 photos, 16 hours of video and 14 hours of captured video.***
iPod® is the world's most popular family of digital music players with over 220 million sold. Apple's new holiday lineup includes iPod shuffle® in five great colors starting at just $59; iPod classic® in a new 160GB model holding up to 40,000 songs for $249; the new iPod nano with a video camera available in nine brilliant polished aluminum colors starting at $149; and the revolutionary iPod touch® now starting at the breakthrough price of just $199.
Pricing & Availability
The new iPod nano is available immediately for a suggested price of $149 (US) for the 8GB model and $179 (US) for the 16GB model in silver, black, purple, blue, green, orange and pink through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com), Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers. The 8GB and 16GB iPod nano in yellow and (PRODUCT) RED are available through the Apple Store (www.apple.com) and Apple's retail stores. iPod nano requires a Mac with a USB 2.0 port, Mac OS® X v10.4.11 or later and iTunes 9; or a Windows PC with a USB 2.0 port and Windows Vista or Windows XP Home or Professional (Service Pack 3) or later and iTunes 9.
*MobileMe is available to persons 13 and older. Annual membership fee and Internet access required. Terms apply.
**Currently available only in the US on radio stations that support iTunes Tagging.
***Battery life and number of charge cycles vary by use and settings. See www.apple.com/batteries for more information. Music capacity is based on four minutes per song and 128-Kbps AAC encoding; photo capacity is based on iPod-viewable photos transferred from iTunes; and video capacity is based on H.264 1.5 Mbps video at 640-by-480 resolution.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
The role of technology in reducing inequity
By Wilson Ng
INQUIRER.net
Last month, June, was wedding month. It was also back-to-school month. In the United States, which does not have the same academic year as ours, June was also traditionally graduation month.
Two years ago, Stanford University, one of the most prominent universities in the United States and acknowledged as the thought and education center of Silicon Valley, invited Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computers, to be their commencement speaker. His speech, entitled, "Stay Hungry, Stay foolish," was a very big hit and it was talked about in various articles, and I received many copies of that through my email where many people thought it was inspiring. That speech, delivered on June 12, can be found on Stanford website at: http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html .
This year, on June 7, 2007, Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, was invited to be the commencement speaker for Harvard University. Gates, who famously dropped out of Harvard to start Microsoft, has been the world's richest man for the last 10 years, as well as the world's most generous philanthropist, having donated over 30 billion dollars of his wealth to philanthropic causes.
In his speech, Gates lauded the new ideas in economics and politics that he learned from Harvard, as well as the rapid advances made in various sciences. However, he says the most important advance and achievement that we can rightly say that should be our focus reducing inequity.
He says his greatest regret was that the school or even the system did not allow its students to understand better the millions of people who live in unspeakable poverty and disease in developing countries. He says he read about millions of children dying every year of measles, malaria, pneumonia, heptatitis B, and yellow fever, and could not understand why it was not apparent to Americans. In fact, a disease called rotavirus kills 500,000 kids a year, but most Americans probably never heard about it, because it is almost unheard of in the United States.
Apparently, the reason why people died of such diseases, he said, is that the market, or the democratic economy did not reward the saving of lives of these children, and government could not, and did not subsidize therefore its cure. So the children died because their parents had no power (no money) in the market, and no voice in the system.
He challenged the people to work so that market forces can become more responsive to the poor, so that capitalism can reach its hands so that more people can make a profit, or at least a living, by serving people who are suffering from the worst inequities. He stresses on how to enable policies of government, as well as spend public money in the government so that profits for businesses and votes for politicians will come to those people who help reduce inequity for the poor?
He also said that it is not because we as human beings, don't care. All of us, he says, have seen human tragedies. In most cases we did nothing, not because we don't care, but because we didn't know what to do. If we have known how to help, many of us would have acted. So the barrier to getting people to change is not that they don't want to, but because it was too complex. So the solution is to get people to start to see the problem, forward a solution, and enable the people who are helping to immediately see the impact.
He believes that pretty soon, emerging technology which is making our world smaller, more open, more visible and less distant will help solve these problems as more and more people are able to use technology to cut through the complexity.
Largely responsible for helping people gain access to technology is the emergence of low-cost personal computers, which has created opportunities for learning and communicating between and among people, where there used to be none. He likens this to magic, because this newly created network “collapses distance and makes everyone your neighbor.” This network links together brilliant minds that can work together in solving the world’s problems. But of course, not everyone can have access to technology and this leaves out much needed ideas and cooperation from those left out.
By allowing more and more people to have access to technology, a digital revolution is sparked that enables human beings to help one another and allowing governments, corporations and other organizations to identify and help solve the global problem of hunger, poverty and desperation.
It is a moving speech, and forces us to think through our goals. If you want to read the full text, it can be found here: http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/06.14/99-gates.html.
INQUIRER.net
Last month, June, was wedding month. It was also back-to-school month. In the United States, which does not have the same academic year as ours, June was also traditionally graduation month.
Two years ago, Stanford University, one of the most prominent universities in the United States and acknowledged as the thought and education center of Silicon Valley, invited Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computers, to be their commencement speaker. His speech, entitled, "Stay Hungry, Stay foolish," was a very big hit and it was talked about in various articles, and I received many copies of that through my email where many people thought it was inspiring. That speech, delivered on June 12, can be found on Stanford website at: http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html .
This year, on June 7, 2007, Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, was invited to be the commencement speaker for Harvard University. Gates, who famously dropped out of Harvard to start Microsoft, has been the world's richest man for the last 10 years, as well as the world's most generous philanthropist, having donated over 30 billion dollars of his wealth to philanthropic causes.
In his speech, Gates lauded the new ideas in economics and politics that he learned from Harvard, as well as the rapid advances made in various sciences. However, he says the most important advance and achievement that we can rightly say that should be our focus reducing inequity.
He says his greatest regret was that the school or even the system did not allow its students to understand better the millions of people who live in unspeakable poverty and disease in developing countries. He says he read about millions of children dying every year of measles, malaria, pneumonia, heptatitis B, and yellow fever, and could not understand why it was not apparent to Americans. In fact, a disease called rotavirus kills 500,000 kids a year, but most Americans probably never heard about it, because it is almost unheard of in the United States.
Apparently, the reason why people died of such diseases, he said, is that the market, or the democratic economy did not reward the saving of lives of these children, and government could not, and did not subsidize therefore its cure. So the children died because their parents had no power (no money) in the market, and no voice in the system.
He challenged the people to work so that market forces can become more responsive to the poor, so that capitalism can reach its hands so that more people can make a profit, or at least a living, by serving people who are suffering from the worst inequities. He stresses on how to enable policies of government, as well as spend public money in the government so that profits for businesses and votes for politicians will come to those people who help reduce inequity for the poor?
He also said that it is not because we as human beings, don't care. All of us, he says, have seen human tragedies. In most cases we did nothing, not because we don't care, but because we didn't know what to do. If we have known how to help, many of us would have acted. So the barrier to getting people to change is not that they don't want to, but because it was too complex. So the solution is to get people to start to see the problem, forward a solution, and enable the people who are helping to immediately see the impact.
He believes that pretty soon, emerging technology which is making our world smaller, more open, more visible and less distant will help solve these problems as more and more people are able to use technology to cut through the complexity.
Largely responsible for helping people gain access to technology is the emergence of low-cost personal computers, which has created opportunities for learning and communicating between and among people, where there used to be none. He likens this to magic, because this newly created network “collapses distance and makes everyone your neighbor.” This network links together brilliant minds that can work together in solving the world’s problems. But of course, not everyone can have access to technology and this leaves out much needed ideas and cooperation from those left out.
By allowing more and more people to have access to technology, a digital revolution is sparked that enables human beings to help one another and allowing governments, corporations and other organizations to identify and help solve the global problem of hunger, poverty and desperation.
It is a moving speech, and forces us to think through our goals. If you want to read the full text, it can be found here: http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/06.14/99-gates.html.
Friday, September 11, 2009
P1.1B set to hook up public schools to Net
INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines—A total of P1.1 billion has been allotted to provide Internet connectivity to a total of 9,048 public elementary and high schools countrywide, Catanduanes Representative Joseph Santiago, chairman of the House committee on information and communications technology, said Sunday.
Santiago said the fresh funding, contained in the proposed P1.541-trillion national budget for next year, would also cover the acquisition of additional computer sets for 577 public high schools.
"Technology and the Internet are definitely taking on bigger roles in basic education—in providing essential instructional support. Our public schools cannot afford to be left farther behind," Santiago said.
"It has become absolutely imperative for us to provide students and teachers alike greater access to the wealth of knowledge and information on the Internet," he added.
As of April this year, with the support of private and non-government partners, Santiago said the Department of Education had managed to install computer laboratories in 4,019 public high schools.
More than half of these schools are now hooked up to the Internet, according to Santiago, former chief of the National Telecommunications Commission.
"We are now living in a world where Internet access is increasingly becoming a necessity, not a luxury. We have to ensure that every public high school graduate has ample computer literacy," Santiago said.
Without counting the new P1.1-billion allocation for 2010, Santiago said the government intends to provide a total of 6,650 public high schools nationwide with computers and Internet connectivity by the end of this year.
Gearing up Internet Literacy and Access for Students (Gilas) has been the largest private contributor to the push to improve the public school system’s access to computers and the World Wide Web.
Led by the Ayala Foundation Inc., Gilas is a program driven mainly by corporations and non-profit institutions "that realize the need to invest in bridging the digital divide among the nation's public high school students."
MANILA, Philippines—A total of P1.1 billion has been allotted to provide Internet connectivity to a total of 9,048 public elementary and high schools countrywide, Catanduanes Representative Joseph Santiago, chairman of the House committee on information and communications technology, said Sunday.
Santiago said the fresh funding, contained in the proposed P1.541-trillion national budget for next year, would also cover the acquisition of additional computer sets for 577 public high schools.
"Technology and the Internet are definitely taking on bigger roles in basic education—in providing essential instructional support. Our public schools cannot afford to be left farther behind," Santiago said.
"It has become absolutely imperative for us to provide students and teachers alike greater access to the wealth of knowledge and information on the Internet," he added.
As of April this year, with the support of private and non-government partners, Santiago said the Department of Education had managed to install computer laboratories in 4,019 public high schools.
More than half of these schools are now hooked up to the Internet, according to Santiago, former chief of the National Telecommunications Commission.
"We are now living in a world where Internet access is increasingly becoming a necessity, not a luxury. We have to ensure that every public high school graduate has ample computer literacy," Santiago said.
Without counting the new P1.1-billion allocation for 2010, Santiago said the government intends to provide a total of 6,650 public high schools nationwide with computers and Internet connectivity by the end of this year.
Gearing up Internet Literacy and Access for Students (Gilas) has been the largest private contributor to the push to improve the public school system’s access to computers and the World Wide Web.
Led by the Ayala Foundation Inc., Gilas is a program driven mainly by corporations and non-profit institutions "that realize the need to invest in bridging the digital divide among the nation's public high school students."
Thursday, September 10, 2009
New ATM technology offered to rural banks
By Doris Dumlao
Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines - The country's largest independent automated teller machine provider is expanding its ATM network to 200 by the end of the year or early 2010, while making it affordable for small banks to become ATM card issuers using a new technology platform.
Electronic Network Cash Tellers Inc. (Encash), which currently has 126 ATMs deployed mostly in areas not attractive to regular banks, has also diversified its services by offering a new core banking solution called Savant.
The solution is a web-based suite of applications designed to provide rural banks a real, centralized, multibranch, online system with account balance updates performed in real time.
“Savant is getting good reaction. The application really fits the requirement of the rural banks,” Encash president Eric Severino said in an interview.
“We think of it as a vehicle where it would add more ATM transactions to our ATM business because it now allow rural banks to issue ATM cards and use this in our network as well as in other networks,” Encash director Mike Mapa added.
Four of the country’s leading rural banks have already signed up for this banking solution—GM Bank of Nueva Ecija, Bank of Florida of Pampanga, Bangko Kabayan of Batangas and 1st Valley Bank of Lanao del Norte.
Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines - The country's largest independent automated teller machine provider is expanding its ATM network to 200 by the end of the year or early 2010, while making it affordable for small banks to become ATM card issuers using a new technology platform.
Electronic Network Cash Tellers Inc. (Encash), which currently has 126 ATMs deployed mostly in areas not attractive to regular banks, has also diversified its services by offering a new core banking solution called Savant.
The solution is a web-based suite of applications designed to provide rural banks a real, centralized, multibranch, online system with account balance updates performed in real time.
“Savant is getting good reaction. The application really fits the requirement of the rural banks,” Encash president Eric Severino said in an interview.
“We think of it as a vehicle where it would add more ATM transactions to our ATM business because it now allow rural banks to issue ATM cards and use this in our network as well as in other networks,” Encash director Mike Mapa added.
Four of the country’s leading rural banks have already signed up for this banking solution—GM Bank of Nueva Ecija, Bank of Florida of Pampanga, Bangko Kabayan of Batangas and 1st Valley Bank of Lanao del Norte.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Smile – it’s the first dual-LCD camera ever
By Gibbs Cadiz
Philippine Daily Inquirer
AFTER aggressively making its mark in cutting-edge mobile phones and home electronics like LCD television (it now has the largest LCD TV market shares in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Singapore, according to market research firm GfK), Samsung is revving up its promotional guns behind another product it hopes would equal its brand best sellers: digital cameras.
Launched three weeks ago in Bangkok was the Samsung 2 View ST550, the first in a new line of Samsung digital cameras that, in the words of Jeong-Wook Kim, vice president of Samsung Digital Imaging Co.’s marketing communications strategic marketing team, are “packed with groundbreaking, unrivalled technology [marked by] ease of use, more intelligent image management and greater connectivity.”
“The ST550 will change your photographic experience,” promised Samsung Asia president and CEO Yoon-Ho Ha, during the dinner that followed the unveiling of the camera at the Centara Grand in Central World.
Novel features
Samsung’s strategy is to innovate on existing standard features of point-and-shoot digital cameras to differentiate its own. Consider nine of the most novel features of the ST550:
Dual LCD. Designed to help users shoot better self-portraits, the ST550 is the first dual-LCD camera in the world. Aside from its 3.5”-wide, 1,152-resolution touch-screen LCD at the back (four times more resolution than traditional displays, already the world’s highest resolution for this type of camera, says Samsung), a 1.5” LCD screen in front, activated with a mere tap of the finger, allows users to see how they look in the frame before they take that profile picture, thus eliminating repeat shots due to cropped, out-of-frame or out-of-focus images.
Self-Timer. A standard feature in all digital cameras, but in the Samsung ST550, users won’t have to count by themselves the seconds before the shutter clicks. Instead, the front LCD screen flashes a countdown timer, giving a precise grip on how much time users have left before striking a pose.
Children Mode. Shooting babies is usually a case of patient, endless cooing to get that perfect upfront smile. The ST550 makes things easier with the Children Mode, in which an animated clown appears on the front LCD screen to help the baby focus and break into a smile.
Smile Shot. Again, a feature present in most digital cameras, but improved in the Samsung ST550. Once the subject smiles, the camera automatically detects the movement and clicks on its own. An allied feature is Blink Detection, which programs the camera to shoot only when the subject has his or her eyes open.
Beauty Shot. Wrinkles, blemishes and other facial imperfections are removed from the subject’s face with this feature. Skin tone and complexion come out healthy- and radiant-looking – a one-touch Photoshop right there on the camera.
One-Touch Auto Focus. The touch-screen LCD allows for focusing on a subject that may be in the background. Simply touch the part of the image to be highlighted for two seconds, or click the shutter, and the resulting picture will have the rest of the shot softened and only the designated area in focus. Pictures can be up to 12.2 megapixels, using a 27mm wide-angle lens with 4.6x optical zoom.
Smart Face Recognition. The ST550’s internal memory has the ability to remember up to 20 preferred faces. Whenever one of these regular faces comes before the lens, the camera “will identify them as a priority for focus and exposure,” says the ST500 user manual. “Users can also save time sorting through their photos by searching only for those that contain a specific face.”
Smart Gesture User Interface. To look at pictures one has taken, simply tilt the camera in either direction and the photos will scroll automatically. A slide-show feature is also available, for highlighting the best images. And deleting photos is a cinch: Simply draw an X on the screen with one’s fingers.
Dual Image Stabilization. Shaky hands? The ST550 automatically eliminates blurry images with the two-option Dual Image Stabilization feature, which captures sharp images taken by unstable hands even without flash.
WiFi connectivity
The dual LCD is the crown feature of two cameras, the ST550 and ST500. Both can also function as a high-definition video camera, equipped to record “twice as much as an MP4 and four times than an MJPG – the format used in many other digital cameras.” For bigger memory, a micro-SD card slot is provided.
Another camera in the Samsung 2 View line, the ST1000, embraces social networking with its Bluetooth, geo-tagging and WiFi connectivity features. These permit users to upload and share pictures online right after they’re taken, along with embedded GPS data on location, time and such.
“Ease of use, plus very good design, is how we differentiate ourselves in the market,” said Kim. “This [the ST550] is a very good gadget for style-oriented customers.”
The camera, also launched in New York, Beijing, London and Seoul, had its Southeast Asian premiere in Bangkok because Thailand had become “one of the largest markets for Samsung digital cameras in the region,” said Ha in his speech.
“Worldwide, there are more than 500 million first-time camera buyers,” he added.
Many of them have bought Samsung mobile phones or LCD TVs, propelling the products to market dominance. Ha and company are hoping they’d soon bet their money on the brand’s new offerings – the ST550 and its digital cousins.
(The ST550 and ST500 will be available in the Philippines this month, the ST1000 in October.)
Philippine Daily Inquirer
AFTER aggressively making its mark in cutting-edge mobile phones and home electronics like LCD television (it now has the largest LCD TV market shares in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Singapore, according to market research firm GfK), Samsung is revving up its promotional guns behind another product it hopes would equal its brand best sellers: digital cameras.
Launched three weeks ago in Bangkok was the Samsung 2 View ST550, the first in a new line of Samsung digital cameras that, in the words of Jeong-Wook Kim, vice president of Samsung Digital Imaging Co.’s marketing communications strategic marketing team, are “packed with groundbreaking, unrivalled technology [marked by] ease of use, more intelligent image management and greater connectivity.”
“The ST550 will change your photographic experience,” promised Samsung Asia president and CEO Yoon-Ho Ha, during the dinner that followed the unveiling of the camera at the Centara Grand in Central World.
Novel features
Samsung’s strategy is to innovate on existing standard features of point-and-shoot digital cameras to differentiate its own. Consider nine of the most novel features of the ST550:
Dual LCD. Designed to help users shoot better self-portraits, the ST550 is the first dual-LCD camera in the world. Aside from its 3.5”-wide, 1,152-resolution touch-screen LCD at the back (four times more resolution than traditional displays, already the world’s highest resolution for this type of camera, says Samsung), a 1.5” LCD screen in front, activated with a mere tap of the finger, allows users to see how they look in the frame before they take that profile picture, thus eliminating repeat shots due to cropped, out-of-frame or out-of-focus images.
Self-Timer. A standard feature in all digital cameras, but in the Samsung ST550, users won’t have to count by themselves the seconds before the shutter clicks. Instead, the front LCD screen flashes a countdown timer, giving a precise grip on how much time users have left before striking a pose.
Children Mode. Shooting babies is usually a case of patient, endless cooing to get that perfect upfront smile. The ST550 makes things easier with the Children Mode, in which an animated clown appears on the front LCD screen to help the baby focus and break into a smile.
Smile Shot. Again, a feature present in most digital cameras, but improved in the Samsung ST550. Once the subject smiles, the camera automatically detects the movement and clicks on its own. An allied feature is Blink Detection, which programs the camera to shoot only when the subject has his or her eyes open.
Beauty Shot. Wrinkles, blemishes and other facial imperfections are removed from the subject’s face with this feature. Skin tone and complexion come out healthy- and radiant-looking – a one-touch Photoshop right there on the camera.
One-Touch Auto Focus. The touch-screen LCD allows for focusing on a subject that may be in the background. Simply touch the part of the image to be highlighted for two seconds, or click the shutter, and the resulting picture will have the rest of the shot softened and only the designated area in focus. Pictures can be up to 12.2 megapixels, using a 27mm wide-angle lens with 4.6x optical zoom.
Smart Face Recognition. The ST550’s internal memory has the ability to remember up to 20 preferred faces. Whenever one of these regular faces comes before the lens, the camera “will identify them as a priority for focus and exposure,” says the ST500 user manual. “Users can also save time sorting through their photos by searching only for those that contain a specific face.”
Smart Gesture User Interface. To look at pictures one has taken, simply tilt the camera in either direction and the photos will scroll automatically. A slide-show feature is also available, for highlighting the best images. And deleting photos is a cinch: Simply draw an X on the screen with one’s fingers.
Dual Image Stabilization. Shaky hands? The ST550 automatically eliminates blurry images with the two-option Dual Image Stabilization feature, which captures sharp images taken by unstable hands even without flash.
WiFi connectivity
The dual LCD is the crown feature of two cameras, the ST550 and ST500. Both can also function as a high-definition video camera, equipped to record “twice as much as an MP4 and four times than an MJPG – the format used in many other digital cameras.” For bigger memory, a micro-SD card slot is provided.
Another camera in the Samsung 2 View line, the ST1000, embraces social networking with its Bluetooth, geo-tagging and WiFi connectivity features. These permit users to upload and share pictures online right after they’re taken, along with embedded GPS data on location, time and such.
“Ease of use, plus very good design, is how we differentiate ourselves in the market,” said Kim. “This [the ST550] is a very good gadget for style-oriented customers.”
The camera, also launched in New York, Beijing, London and Seoul, had its Southeast Asian premiere in Bangkok because Thailand had become “one of the largest markets for Samsung digital cameras in the region,” said Ha in his speech.
“Worldwide, there are more than 500 million first-time camera buyers,” he added.
Many of them have bought Samsung mobile phones or LCD TVs, propelling the products to market dominance. Ha and company are hoping they’d soon bet their money on the brand’s new offerings – the ST550 and its digital cousins.
(The ST550 and ST500 will be available in the Philippines this month, the ST1000 in October.)
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Send pictures, email–all from your phone
By Pam Pastor
Philippine Daily Inquirer
TO OVI or not to ovi? That’s not a question. Because if you’re a Nokia user, you should definitely Ovi.
With Ovi, Nokia has built you a door to the Internet. Ovi (www.ovi.com), which means door in Finnish, provides a single place of interaction where users can download applications and content for your mobile device, upload photos and videos, send and receive mail, back up your contacts and calendar online, access maps all over the world and keep documents, photos and other files ready for accessing from anywhere.
“Ovi is a person’s door to his Internet experiences. Ovi makes it easy for Nokia phone users to send and receive e-mail, upload photos and share them easily with anyone in their phonebook and download free apps and content to personalize their Nokia phone.
In the near future, it will be even easier for them to update the world on where they are and what they are doing from their Nokia phone through Ovi,” says Nokia’s software and services manager Rhomel Marcojos.
Fun, significant
In other words, Ovi allows you to maximize the use of your Nokia phone and enriches your Internet experience at the same time.
And the best part, you can choose how you use Ovi. Marcohon shares, “Ovi can be different things to different people. For some, they go to Ovi to download apps and content for their mobile device. For those who want a new e-mail address, Ovi is about sending and receiving e-mail on a phone or PC. For those who like to be connected with their loved ones, Ovi is the place to share fun and significant moments.”
Ovi Mail is Ovi’s most popular feature, and Marcohon isn’t surprised.
“It’s easy to set up and has a simple web interface, too. What’s interesting about it is that Nokia phone users can create their new Ovi Mail account with their preferred username and password right on their Nokia phone without having to use a PC at all. No other e-mail service provides that kind of ease of e-mail creation on a phone.”
Marcohon enjoys uploading photos to Ovi using his Nokia N97.
“When I went on vacation with my family to Camiguin last summer, I stayed in a resort with WiFi. It was quite fun to share our family moments, taken from my N97, with friends at the end of a fun-filled day. I even chose from my phonebook with whom I shared the photos. They got instant notification through SMS!” he said.
Beginners need not worry, because Ovi is easy to use. Marcohon says, “If you’re a Nokia phone user, try out the Ovi Store. Just go to store.ovi.com on your Nokia phone browser and start downloading app and content to personalize your Nokia phone.”
Inquirer Lifestyle and Nokia, with Look Magazine, hold “The Look of Style,” September7, Ayala Museum.
Philippine Daily Inquirer
TO OVI or not to ovi? That’s not a question. Because if you’re a Nokia user, you should definitely Ovi.
With Ovi, Nokia has built you a door to the Internet. Ovi (www.ovi.com), which means door in Finnish, provides a single place of interaction where users can download applications and content for your mobile device, upload photos and videos, send and receive mail, back up your contacts and calendar online, access maps all over the world and keep documents, photos and other files ready for accessing from anywhere.
“Ovi is a person’s door to his Internet experiences. Ovi makes it easy for Nokia phone users to send and receive e-mail, upload photos and share them easily with anyone in their phonebook and download free apps and content to personalize their Nokia phone.
In the near future, it will be even easier for them to update the world on where they are and what they are doing from their Nokia phone through Ovi,” says Nokia’s software and services manager Rhomel Marcojos.
Fun, significant
In other words, Ovi allows you to maximize the use of your Nokia phone and enriches your Internet experience at the same time.
And the best part, you can choose how you use Ovi. Marcohon shares, “Ovi can be different things to different people. For some, they go to Ovi to download apps and content for their mobile device. For those who want a new e-mail address, Ovi is about sending and receiving e-mail on a phone or PC. For those who like to be connected with their loved ones, Ovi is the place to share fun and significant moments.”
Ovi Mail is Ovi’s most popular feature, and Marcohon isn’t surprised.
“It’s easy to set up and has a simple web interface, too. What’s interesting about it is that Nokia phone users can create their new Ovi Mail account with their preferred username and password right on their Nokia phone without having to use a PC at all. No other e-mail service provides that kind of ease of e-mail creation on a phone.”
Marcohon enjoys uploading photos to Ovi using his Nokia N97.
“When I went on vacation with my family to Camiguin last summer, I stayed in a resort with WiFi. It was quite fun to share our family moments, taken from my N97, with friends at the end of a fun-filled day. I even chose from my phonebook with whom I shared the photos. They got instant notification through SMS!” he said.
Beginners need not worry, because Ovi is easy to use. Marcohon says, “If you’re a Nokia phone user, try out the Ovi Store. Just go to store.ovi.com on your Nokia phone browser and start downloading app and content to personalize your Nokia phone.”
Inquirer Lifestyle and Nokia, with Look Magazine, hold “The Look of Style,” September7, Ayala Museum.
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