“Emerging Women Live is important because belonging in a tribe is important for women,” states Brené Brown.

Emerging Women is proud to present a lineup of speakers who are each movers and shakers in their own industry and will be headlining the Emerging Live Speaker Panel. Emerging Women is a multi-tiered platform that exists to support and inspire women to express themselves authentically through the work that they do. Chantal Pierrat, a University of Colorado MBA graduate and former VP of Sales and Marketing of a multimedia publishing company, created Emerging Women in September 2012 in order to support the integration of consciousness and business. Chantal’s ultimate vision is to weave feminine leadership and authenticity into businesses, and to create a world where women have a strong voice in the shaping of our future.

“Emerging Women Live offers cutting edge leadership technologies for women that are based in authenticity, collaboration and heart, said Chantal Pierrat, Emerging Women Founder. “We are about creating an ecosystem for women who are on fire to change our current leadership paradigms by putting our humanity at the center of everything we do.”

Over five hundred women come together annually for this one-of-a-kind immersive experience focused on empowering women to lead from a place of personal and collective power. Four days of keynote speakers, workshops and mentoring circles become the catalyst for women to embody their most impactful leadership identity in both their personal and professional lives. Limited tickets are still available for Emerging Women Live and can be purchased here. Ticket pricing is also available at Corporate Group Ticket Rates. For those unable to come to the conference, Emerging Women Live will be providing a free Live Stream to all women who want to enhance their leadership qualities.

To see the Schedule of Events, please click Here.

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Hampshire, UK: 15th September 2015: New findings from leading hi-tech analysts Juniper Research reveal that wearable VR HMD (Virtual Reality Head Mounted Display) headset shipments will approach 30 million globally by 2020, compared to just over 3 million in 2016. Juniper Research observes that with technological advances such as low latency and smarter graphics, coupled with the corresponding growth in interest from major players, VR is now in a position where the market can finally take off.

The technology is poised to transform the entertainment industry, including gaming and video, in the coming years whilst offering the potential to quickly expand into other markets such as industrial and healthcare.

2016 – A Watershed Year for VR

Juniper’s latest Insights research report, Virtual Reality: Market Dynamics & Future Prospects 2015-2020, identifies 2016 as the watershed year for virtual reality headsets, in terms of product launches and consumer roll outs. Oculus, Sony, and HTC are amongst the leading players expected to launch key VR products over the next 12 months.

Report co-author Joe Crabtree added: “The recent attention to and investment into virtual reality is helping to revitalise the industry and with major brand commercial launches imminent, there is huge potential for rapid market expansion”.

As a result, Juniper expects significant VR uptake over the forecast period as consumers benefit from a combination of improved VR technology allied to immersive applications, as well as reduced prices.

Other key findings

• Far East & China will witness an increased development and production activities, driven by a sharp rise in consumer demand.
• Hardware retail revenue from VR HMD headset sales will exceed $4 billion by 2020.

The whitepaper, The Rise of Virtual Reality, is available to download from the Juniper Research website together with details of the new research and interactive dataset.

Juniper Research provides research and analytical services to the global hi-tech communications sector, providing consultancy, analyst reports and industry commentary

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Tiny Mighty is a captivating game centralized around super heroes; players can enjoy the fun to unlock different features by leveling-up. In the Tiny Mighty world, teams will include different heroes that will have different powers, players can upgrade heroes and level up stars to make their team stronger! There is not only the PvP duel, but also the league fight. Collect heroes, upgrade skills, synth various items and exclusive gears, all features players can find within Tiny Mighty. Tiny Mighty is the Brand-New RPG game that lets you play as a commander like never before. To protect the peace of the world, players must lead, summon and even hire other players’ heroes to create an unstoppable team and fight with the enemies. Meanwhile in this world, it has Mysterious Fairyland, Energy Treasure, Endless Trial and deadly World Boss, which wait for players to explore and challenge.

Players can keep up to date on Tiny Mighty news on the official website at http://tm.amzgame.com/?pr or by social media on the official Twitter at https://twitter.com/AMZGame_TM and Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/ TinyMighty.AMZ?fref=ts.

About AMZGame
AMZGame is a global game publisher that delivers micro transaction-based, free-to-play browser game forward-looking and video center around the world. AMZGame now has several popular games such as LEAGUE OF ANGELS, SIEGE LORD and LORDS ROAD. AMZGame Team manages marketing, PR, locates distribution channels, and carries out day-to-day operations including customer support, community management, and event design/implementation. AMZGame is also a platform to gather players all around the world to share the game experience, show yourselves and enjoy the game enjoy the life. More details please visit http://www.amzgame.com/?pr.

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DUBLIN, IRELAND–(Marketwired – Sep 14, 2015) –  Mobiliya Edvelop, a leading digital classroom platform with 1,800+ institutes as customers, has launched a virtual bag feature on its LMS platform. The virtual bag will replace the school bags that the children carry to school on their shoulders and gives access to curriculum text books on the Mobiliya Edvelop platform. The virtual bag allows the student to access textbooks and bookmark, annotate, highlight and doodle over the text books. The students can also make side notes on each page.

Mobiliya Edvelop, an advanced digital classroom platform, is set to transform learning as we know today. Designed to make education more personalised and engaging, Mobiliya Edvelop offers all the tools that students and teachers need in one unified dashboard — virtual classrooms, tests, assignments, discussion board among several others. Mobiliya Edvelop seamlessly blends a bouquet of learning features — live lectures, assignments, tests, report cards and library, making it a comprehensive learning platform.

School Bag Inside Your Education Tablets

The virtual bag feature of Mobiliya Edvelop is practically a replacement for a school bag. It offers key benefits to all the stakeholders — students, teachers and content publishers, making it ideal for even those schools where internet connectivity is intermittent.

Benefits for Students:

• Access to curriculum textbooks on device of their choice.
• Can weekly reveal new content even in an offline mode — a puzzle or a crossword can be activated each Monday by the teacher.
• Students no longer need to bear the weight of heavy school bags stuffed with text books and note books.
• Works in an offline mode, wherein, the content is encrypted and stored on the device. Thus, even with no internet access, students can access all the content from anywhere anytime.

Benefits for Teachers:

• Highlight-Annotate-Share feature allows teachers to instantly make and share notes for every chapter/section.
• Teachers can also attach additional reference materials (text/video/PPTs) with every chapter and share with students, making learning much more interactive and engaging.
• Allows uniformity of content and reduces redundancy or duplication of work. Teachers can share same content across schools and locations.

Benefits for Content Publishers:

• Be it a tablet, smartphone, laptop or a desktop, Mobiliya Edvelop offers a uniform user experience and functionalities, making it a device agnostic proposition.
• Since the books are encrypted, there is no threat of any copyright infringement or violation.
• Any change in syllabus would allow publishers to simply edit the books by adding/deleting chapters instead of re-publishing the books all over again, saving huge costs and resources.

Krish Kupathil, CEO of Mobiliya Technologies, adds, “In our various discussions with government officials, teachers and parents a common theme that came out was to reduce the weight of the schoolbag for the student. In some geographies there are government notices that have been delivered to reduce the weight that the student carries every day to school. With a virtual bag feature on Mobiliya Edvelop — a student can access text books at the touch of a button. More so, we have integrated with DRM platform to encrypt the text books to each user giving comfort to the publishers. The feature has been rolled out to 14,000+ students over the last couple of month and we are working with school authorities and publishers to roll it out to all our customer base.”

Mobiliya Edvelop is partnered with Microsoft and powered by Microsoft Office 365. With a growing customer base and users in India, China and North America, the platform brings together all features required for teaching and learning and can be accessed from a tablet, mobile or web.

For more information, visit http://www.edveloplms.com

ABOUT MOBILIYA: Mobiliya is a global product and solutions companies that designs and builds differentiated products for enterprise mobility and education market. With R&D centers in North America and Asia, the company has a large product portfolio in Mobility, security and cloud products. For more information please visit www.mobiliya.com.

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BELLEVUE, Wash. – September 14, 2015 – Today, 4G Americas released an executive summary titled, Inside 3GPP Release 13: Understanding the Standards for HSPA+ and LTE-Advanced Enhancements. This condensed document provides an overview of the key features for HSPA+ and LTE-Advanced enhancements found in 3^rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Release 13 (Rel-13). The executive summary is ideal for journalists, analysts, regulators and others who seek a shortened version of major technical features of HSPA+ and LTE-Advanced.

“It may seem as if the tide is rising quickly with the amount of discussion around 5G; however, this is all within a normal cycle of development for the mobile industry’s technology standards,” observed Teck Hu, Senior Standards Manager at Alcatel-Lucent, and co-leader of the Release 13 Executive Summary working group. “With seven billion connections using 3GPP standards today, the roadmap for future development of LTE mobile broadband will assure a firm footing for the next generation.”

As featured in the white paper, the focus of Rel-13 standards for LTE-Advanced includes:

• Active Antenna Systems (AAS), including elevation beamforming enhancements and Self-Organizing Network (SON) aspects for AAS
• Enhanced signaling to support inter-site Coordinated Multi-Point Transmission and Reception (CoMP)
• Carrier Aggregation (CA) enhancements to support up to 32 component carriers
• Dual Connectivity (DC) enhancements to better support multi-vendor deployments with improved traffic steering
• Improvements in Radio Access Network (RAN) sharing
• Enhancements to Machine Type Communication (MTC)
• Enhancements to Proximity Services (ProSe)
• Licensed Assisted Access for LTE (LAA-LTE), in which LTE can be deployed in unlicensed spectrum
• LTE Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) Aggregation (LWA) where the data bearer can be served by the LTE radio link and/or Wi-Fi through LTE-WLAN aggregation
• Downlink Multi-User Superposition Transmission (MUST) for transmission of more than one data layer to multiple users without time, frequency or spatial separation

• Support for dual band Uplink (UL) Carrier Aggregation
• Enhancements for reducing control channel overhead

• Introduction of Wi-Fi integration enhancements to support Network-Based IP Flow Mobility (NBIFOM) and harmonize the support of voice and video services over Wi-Fi
• Enhancements to support Mission Critical Push-to-Talk (MCPTT) over LTE, Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (MBMS) enhancements and group based enhancements (GROUPE) for public safety
• Optimizing performance for MTC services by defining a Dedicated Core (DECOR) and Monitoring Enhancement (MONTE)
• User Plane Congestion Management (UPCON) features which enable the identification of cells and users in congested situations so that policy decisions can be used to mitigate congestion
• Application Specific Congestion Control for Data Communication (ACDC) to manage access attempts on a per application basis
• Architecture Enhancements for Service Capability Exposure (AESE) to expose valuable information to third party application providers

Vicki Livingston, Head of Communications at 4G Americas noted, “As work on 3GPP Rel-13 continues to develop the standards for HSPA+ and LTE/LTE-Advanced, simultaneous discussion on future network requirements and recommendations for the next generation of 5G technologies has begun. Groups such as 4G Americas are contributing to the discussion and are liaising with other organizations such as NGMN Alliance, 3GPP, 5G PPP, ITU, CITEL, ATIS, Small Cell Forum and others. It is expected that discussions in the 3GPP working groups will turn to 5G standardization in Rel-14.”

The executive summary, Inside 3GPP Release 13: Understanding the Standards for HSPA+ and LTE-Advanced Enhancements, written collaboratively by members of 4G Americas, is available for free download at www.4gamericas.org. More detailed explanations of 3GPP Rel-13 are provided in the 4G Americas white paper, Mobile Broadband Evolution Towards 5G: Rel-12 & Rel-13 and Beyond.

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About 4G Americas: Unifying the Americas Through Mobile Broadband Technology
4G Americas is an industry trade organization composed of leading telecommunications service providers and manufacturers. The organization’s mission is to advocate for and foster the advancement and full capabilities of the LTE mobile broadband technology and its evolution beyond to 5G, throughout the ecosystem’s networks, services, applications and wirelessly connected devices in the Americas. 4G Americas, the voice of 5G for the Americas, is invested in leading 5G development for the Americas and maintaining the current global innovation lead in North America with LTE technology. 4G Americas is headquartered in Bellevue, Wash. More information is available at www.4gamericas.org. Follow our news on Twitter at @4GAmericas and Facebook at www.facebook.com/4gamericas .

4G Americas’ Board of Governors members include: Alcatel-Lucent, América Móvil, AT&T, Cable & Wireless, Cisco, CommScope, Entel, Ericsson, HP, Intel, Mitel, Nokia, Qualcomm, Sprint, T-Mobile US, Inc. and Telefónica.

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The E-Tech Awards winners represent the most innovative emerging mobile services, solutions and technology from areas such as the cloud, network equipment, M2M and the Internet of Things. The Hot for the Holidays Awards recognize the hottest mobile consumer electronics— including gadgets and accessories from entertainment and health to the connected car and home—just in time for the holiday shopping season. The MobITs Awards represent the most innovative IT solutions that help companies secure their operations and improve their customers’ experience by enhancing performance, efficiency and productivity.

Industry experts, analysts and media judged the hundreds of entries across CTIA’s three programs to determine the finalists and winners. AT&T Mobile and Business Solutions Wi-Fi – Small Site, Synchronoss Mobile Content Transfer and AT&T Mobile and Business Solutions Modio LTE Case were the “Crowd Favorites” that represent the favorite products of Super Mobility 2015 attendees and online users.

The 2015 CTIA E-Tech Awards winners (first, second and third place) are:

In-Building Wireless–Small Cell, Wi-Fi, LAN 

1. AT&T Mobile and Business Solutions, AT&T Wi-Fi – Small Site
2. Xirrus, Inc., Xirrus Xtreme Density (XD4) Wi-Fi
3. Airvana, S1000 LTE and Dual-Band Wi-Fi SMB Small Cell

M2M, IoT, Sensors, RFID & NFC    

1. Atheer, Atheer AiR Smart Glasses platform
2. Ossia, Cota
3. Qualcomm Incorporated, Qualcomm® Snapdragon SenseTM ID 3D Fingerprint Technology

Mobile Cloud    

1. Rave Mobile Safety, Smart911 Location Cloud
2. Azuga Fleet, Azuga Fleet Driver Rewards App
3. Tangoe, MatrixCloud

Mobile Money, Payments, Banking & Commerce

1. Blackhawk Network, GoWallet
2. Panasonic System Communications Company North America, Toughpad® FZ-R1
3. Invoice2go, Invoice2go

Wide Area Network        

1. Plug Power, ReliOn Integrated Outside Plant solution with GenFuel
2. ItsOn, Inc, The ItsOn Platform
3. Parallel Wireless, Inc., Enabling RAN Hyperconnectivity with HetNet Gateway

E-Tech Crowd Favorite: AT&T Mobile and Business Solutions, AT&T Wi-Fi – Small Site

The 2015 Hot for the Holidays Awards winners (first, second and third place) are:

Accessories 

1. Ztylus, Ztylus Metal Camera Kit for iPhone 6/6+ (Premium Case and 4 in 1 Revolver Lens Attachment)
2. Scosche Industries, Inc., Scosche goBATTM 12000
3. Otter Products, LifeProof FRE Power

Connected Car    

1. splitsecnd , splitsecnd
2. Cobra Electronics , CDR 855 BT Drive HDTM Dash Cam by Cobra
3. Directed, Viper SmartStart 4.0

Connected Home  

1. Sengled, Sengled Snap
2. Piper by Icontrol Networks, Piper nv
3. Lineage Labs, Bevy

Devices & Gadgets 

1. Samsung, Samsung Galaxy S 6 edge
2. Edyn, Edyn Smart Garden Sensor
3. Intel Corporation, ASUS ZenFone 2 (ZE551ML) Powered by Intel

Entertainment, Audio, Music & Video 

1. Sengled, Sengled Pulse
2. Wearality Corporation, Wearality Sky ™
3. Samsung, Samsung Gear VR Innovator Edition

Wearables, Health, Fitness & Wellness      

1. Microsoft, Microsoft Band
2. Aeris Communications, GPS SmartSoles
3. Samsung, Samsung Gear S

Hot for the Holidays Crowd Favorite: AT&T Mobile and Business Solutions, AT&T Modio LTE Case

The 2015 CTIA MobITs Awards winners (first, second and third place) are:

Mobile Applications, Development & Platforms 

1. Kony, Inc., Kony MobileFabric
2. BlackBerry, BlackBerry Blend
3. KORE, KORE’s 3rd Generation PRiSMPro
4. Geotab, Geotab Marketplace and application development platform
5. LifeSafe, Inc., LifeSafe, Inc.

Mobile Customer Experience Management 

1. Ericsson, Ericsson Expert Analytics 15.0
2. Synchronoss, Synchronoss Mobile Content Transfer
3. LogMeIn, Rescue Lens
4. SAP Mobile Services, SAP Intelligent Notification 365
5. Hotel Internet Services, BeyondTV Wireles Streaming System

Mobile Device Management 

1. AirWatch, AirWatch by VMware Enterprise Mobility Management Version 8.0
2. Citrix, Citrix XenMobile
3. AT&T Mobile and Business Solutions, AT&T Work Platform
4. SOTI, SOTI MobiControl 12
5. BlackBerry, BES®12 Cloud

Mobile Enterprise Innovation 

1. sigmo, Virtual SIMTM for Smartphone
2. AirWatch, AirWatch by VMware Enterprise Mobility Management Version 8.0
3. INRIX, INRIX Intermodal and EV Navigation
4. Hypori, Inc., Hypori Android Cloud Environment (ACE)
5. Good Technology, Good Work

Mobile Security & Privacy  

1. BlackBerry, WatchDox by BlackBerry
2. Arxan Technologies, Arxan expanded application protection for all major IoT platforms
3. Data Theorem, Data Theorem Scan & Secures
4. mSIGNIA, mSIGNIA’s iDNATM Platform
5. Cellrox Ltd., Cellrox Mobile Virtualization

MobITS Crowd Favorite: Synchronoss, Synchronoss Mobile Content Transfer

About CTIA Shows

CTIA Shows bring together all industries advanced by wireless technology for intense business, learning and networking. Super Mobility Week (www.supermobilityweek.com) takes place Sept. 9, 10 and 11, 2014 at the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas. Twitter: @ctiashows | Facebook: www.ctiashows.com/facebook | LinkedIn: www.ctiashows.com/linkedin

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New York, NY (August 5th, 2015) – Rebtel, (http://www.rebtel.com), has thrown down the gauntlet and officially made a play for the telecom throne this month with the release of the only REAL Unlimited Calling to India Plan, costing just $8.00 a month, with the first month free. “So what,” you say? Unlimited plans have been announced before? No Biggie.  Well, surprisingly enough the dirty truth is no they have not.  Not an actual app or plan that offers true unlimited calling to India without insanely deceptive hidden fees, minute overages, and deviously hidden costs. According to the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs and the CIA there are an estimated 3,443,063 Indian Americans living within the United States and 1,250,000,000 worldwide that are being terribly ripped off by both calling cards and competitors. That’s an insanely large number. In response to this, Rebtel is not holding back releasing the Unlimited Calling to India offer via their iPhone and Android apps.

Varun Atrey, US Marketing Manager says “At Rebtel, we do things differently. Most of our competitors treat their customers as silly immigrants that can’t read the fine print. Our customers are a different type of user and breed. They are the budget conscious Rebels who do things like pass up medical school to launch a tech company, date adventurously on Tinder, and have an unyielding curiosity and zest for life. They are the positive realists, the ones who sing it all out loud, obsessive online shoppers, the charging bulls in the proverbial china shop.”

So just how is Rebtel able to provide an Unlimited Calling Plan to India that just won’t quit? Well, the process is simpler than anyone could imagine. Let’s say that Manish, an artist in San Francisco, wants to call his mother, living in India, to give her the daily update that she so vehemently requests. Rather than making an international call using his mobile operator (let’s say, Verizon), that will cause him to pay an expensive rate per minute, Manish can simply visit Rebtel.com, buy the unlimited plan and download the app. Easy peasy. Manish is now able to save a fortune on international calling, while keeping in regular touch with his loved ones overseas.

“Who wants to lose those connections due to cost concerns?  It’s insanity and an unnecessary evil that we are about to zap out.  The Indian community does not want hidden charges.” continues Atrey, “They want to connect when they want, and where they want. They want value and we are handing it to them and saying this belongs to you.”

Want to hit up and get additional deets on Rebtels Unlimited Calling to India plan or connect for media purposes, email eosborn@beautifulplanning.com or call 1.877.841.7244. To download the app visit:  www.rebtel.com/indiaunlimited.

ABOUT REBTEL

From its beginnings as a plucky start-up intent on disrupting the telecom industry to its present day status as one of the most successful digital international calling companies in the world, Rebtel has always remained true to its vision of providing user friendly, cheap, and high quality communication to immigrant communities across the globe. Rebtel was founded in 2006 and is a profitable company with a turnover of $95 million in 2014. Rebtel is headquartered in Stockholm with team members across the globe.

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“DENSO terminals already lead the market in quality, durability and reliability, and with the new pricing, DENSO is positioned as the best value in the industry,” said David Keller, business manager of DENSO ADC, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of mobile data capture systems and the Americas’ sales arm of DENSO Wave Inc., inventor of the QR Code®.

As before, installation, service, software upgrades and a no-cost three-year limited extended warranty with registration that exceeds the industry standard are included. Under the new pricing, the total cost of ownership is a better investment than ever.

“We offer the extended warranty at no additional cost because the failure rate of our terminals is so low,” Keller said. “Less reliable alternatives are likely to cost customers up to 20 percent of the purchase price in repairs alone. Lost productivity increases that cost.”

DENSO’s new pricing is available on the BHT-1100BWB-CE series models, with or without the camera function, and the BHT-1200 CE 1D and 2D models. All four terminals are popular models in warehousing, logistics and retail operations, especially in some of the Asia-Pacific region where DENSO holds 70 percent of the barcode terminal market share.

Standard features on all four models include:

• High-speed efficiency and advanced Wi-Fi communications systems: DENSO terminals connect easily to existing computer networks and incorporate DENSO’s Advanced Scan Plus™ CCD technology to perform almost three times faster than conventional laser scanners. Fast, reliable wireless communication supports the latest IEEE802.11b/g/n standards.

• Operational ease in a compact, ergonomic design:Lightweight terminals include an easy-to-read, 3.5-inch HVGA color display screen with a large keyboard and a slim, comfortable grip for convenient one-handed operation. Models also offer floor-to-ceiling scanning from a distance of up to 25 feet, reducing the need for ladders and improving workplace safety.

• Reliability and security: All four models offer precision scanning of barcodes, including scratched, smeared or otherwise damaged codes, for smooth data transfers. High-speed reading MicroSDHC, 512 MB RAM and flash ROM of 2GB support data backup systems. Highly reliable WPA/WP2 network security prevents unauthorized access to data.

• Durability: The protective design guards against dust, water and impact. DENSO terminals are built to withstand repeated drops and temperatures of -20 to about 50 C (-4 to 122 F) for use in diverse environments from cold storage warehouses to manufacturing.

• Global Support: All four terminals come with free software updates, a limited extended three-year warranty at no cost with product registration, and prompt sales and support service worldwide.

Each model offers additional advantages, features and accessories. For more information, visit www.denso-adc.com

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SAN FRANCISCO — September 9, 2015 — Apple® today announced the all-new Apple TV®, bringing a revolutionary experience to the living room based on apps built for the television. Apps on Apple TV let you choose what to watch and when you watch it.The new Apple TV’s remote features Siri®, so you can search with your voice for TV shows and movies across multiple content providers simultaneously.

The all-new Apple TV is built from the ground up with a new generation of high-performance hardware and introduces an intuitive and fun user interface using the Siri Remote™. Apple TV runs the all-new tvOS™ operating system, based on Apple’s iOS, enabling millions of iOS developers to create innovative new apps and games specifically for Apple TV and deliver them directly to users through the new Apple TV App Store™.

“There has been so much innovation in entertainment and programming through iOS apps, we want to bring that same excitement to the television,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “Apps make the TV experience even more compelling for viewers and we think apps represent the future of TV.”

The new Siri Remote dramatically simplifies how you select, scroll and navigate through your favorite content while bringing unique interactivity to the new Apple TV by using a glass touch surface that handles both small, accurate movements as well as big, sweeping ones. Adding touch to Apple TV creates a natural, connected experience, even if the TV screen is on the other side of the room. Developers can take advantage of the built-in accelerometer and gyroscope, and the touch surface on the Siri Remote to create games and other app experiences that have never been seen on TV before.

With Siri, you can use your voice to search TV shows and movies by title, genre, cast, crew, rating or popularity, making it easy to say things like “Show me New Girl,” “Find the best funny movies from the ‘80s,” “Find movies with Jason Bateman” and “Find popular TV shows for kids.” Apple TV will search iTunes® and popular apps from Netflix, Hulu, HBO and Showtime, displaying all the ways the resulting TV shows and movies can be played. Siri also offers playback control and on-screen navigation, as well as quick access to sports, stock and weather information.*

tvOS is the new operating system for Apple TV, and the tvOS SDK provides tools and APIs for developers to create amazing experiences for the living room the same way they created a global app phenomenon for iPhone® and iPad®. The new, more powerful Apple TV features the Apple-designed A8 chip for even better performance so developers can build engaging games and custom content apps for the TV. tvOS supports key iOS technologies including Metal™, for detailed graphics, complex visual effects and Game Center, to play and share games with friends.

Pricing & Availability
The new Apple TV will be available at the end of October starting at $149 (US) for a 32GB model and $199 (US) for a 64GB model from Apple.com, Apple’s retail stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers. A new Xcode® beta is available for developers today that includes the tvOS SDK at developer.apple.com/xcode/downloads. Developers can request an Apple TV developer kit at developer.apple.com/tvos/.

*Siri availability and functionality varies by country. Subscription required for some content.

Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, the Mac and Apple Watch. Apple’s three software platforms — iOS, OS X and watchOS — provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and empower people with breakthrough services including the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay and iCloud. Apple’s 100,000 employees are dedicated to making the best products on earth, and to leaving the world better than we found it.

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New York, NY – September 9, 2015 – iotum, a leader in teleconference and group calling solutions, announced today the re-launch of its flagship product FreeConference.com, with enhanced service offerings. The new FreeConference.com provides customers an enriched conference call experience with HD audio, free video conferencing and screen sharing.

Jason Martin, CEO of FreeConference.com’s parent company iotum, said, “We are the original free conference calling provider and have consistently provided best-in-class services. We’ve made significant investments to give customers a superior FreeConference.com. This sets a new standard in free conference calling, packed with features for modern-day virtual collaboration.”

The new FreeConference.com introduces pre-packaged upgrade bundle plans and boasts an easy-to-use interface, high-quality sound, global numbers and several updated features, including reminders, PINless Entry and in-call dashboards. Highlights include download-free video conferencing and screen sharing as well as an in-browser web conferencing tool and international call numbers with free dial-in access for USA, UK, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, South Korea and more. FreeConference.com now also offers transcription, toll-free numbers and recording controls for a small fee.

Additionally, FreeConference.com provides the following features for free:

• Unlimited audio conference calls connecting up to 200 participants by phone and web browser.
• Dedicated conference line to use at any time.
• Personal online conference room with moderator controls, text chat, screen share and video conference features.
• Interactive online meetings with up to five (5) participants.
• Three (3) live HD video feeds per meeting.
• Share your screen with the click of a button – 100% download free.
• Mobile apps, automated invitations and reminders, moderator controls
• Additional free features include reminders, detailed call summaries, text chat, reservationless conference calling, address book, and more

Martin adds, “We are the only conferencing product offering free no-download video conferencing, free no-download screen sharing and free unlimited audio dial-in conferencing, in addition to excellent customer service and all the usual stuff you expect from FreeConference.com. Some companies pay a fortune for what we’re offering for free. You have got to try it to see all the functions we’ve packed in. And there’s more coming.”

For more information on the new FreeConference.com, visit www.freeconference.com.

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About iotum

An award-winning leader in teleconferencing and group communications solutions, iotum provides collaboration SaaS products for organizations of any size. Each iotum service is an easy, reliable and feature-rich conferencing alternative to over-priced or under-featured competitors. iotum’s flagship product, FreeConference.com, serves over a billion minutes a year of all–digital conference calls.

With offices in Los Angeles and Toronto, iotum is #199 on Inc. Magazine’s list of fastest growing private companies in America. For more information about iotum, its team, solutions and services, please visit www.iotum.com.

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It has almost become an accepted fact that Eseries devices from Nokia have better build quality than their Nseries siblings, for a long time I thought so too. However, for the good or the bad, that belief of mine has been shattered. Eseries devices have disappointed too and that leads me to this post.

In the last two month or so I or my friends have picked up three Nokia E90’s and two N82’s and what is bad is that all but one have had some problem or the other.

E90

I’ll start with the E90’s – Above is a almost new E90 that has been treated like a baby, literally. Yet, within one week of usage that is what I have, and believe me this is one reason I don’t want to use this phone again. The D pad looks battered for no reason at all. Moreover the device creaks like anything, the sides and even the battery cover is a little loose. Pure disgust. Moreover since this is a cosmetic defect, Nokia won’t cover it in the warranty.

The above was the story of the Mocha variant. This is the part where two of my friends got the latest Black E90 with the revamped keyboard. To their disgust, the thing still creaks – right out of the box. If that wasn’t enough, within two weeks both phones lost their inner screens i.e. some connector inside messed up and on opening the phone all they would get was a blank screen or some flicker.

So we went to the Nokia Service Center, which Nokia fortunately has quite a few of here in Chandigarh, India. What did they tell us? Please come back after seven days and we’ll have your phones fixed. SEVEN days? We made some enquiries and found out that almost a hundred E90’s in the region have had that fault and are awaiting repair.

Now is this a problem with a batch of phones that came out of China or something that bothers most black E90’s – I don’t know. The point is it shouldn’t be happening. Not with Nokia most expensive device if we take the 88XX luxury series out.

N82

Moving back to the Nseries. This is an N82 which is barely a week old. Right from the first day it had something which looked like a dead pixel, but with time another friend found out that it wasn’t so dead, in fact it was growing by the day. The Nokia Service centers (all 4 of them in the city) did not have an replacement screen at hand and again put in the SEVEN day waiting period. Seriously, replacing the screen takes under ten minutes. Lastly, the N78 I have, has a piece of paper tucked between the battery and the cover to prevent creaks.

What bothers me the most is that all of these are high end handsets for which the customer pays a premium, yet he still gets the bad end of the bargain. A 800$ plus phone which creaks, has light coming out from under the screen and can’t last two weeks while it is being treated with the utmost care? I won’t want one, no matter what the features are.

Nokia, if I sum it up, you have three devices that have build quality issues out of a grand total of four. Is that where you’d like to be headed? My experience could have been a fluke but I doubt it. Something is surely amiss and its high time you fixed it.

I’m sure quite a few of you would have had such issues, feel free to share.

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• Build Quality: The build quality on this thing is phenomenal. There are zero creaks, the slide is smooth, no play anywhere and the device just feels one solid monoblock. A person who’s new to the E75 won’t come to know that the QWERTY slides out as well, that solid.

• 3.5mm Jack: This makes a huge difference in the music quality on the E75. It is now upto the mid range Nseries level. The radio features both the Visual Radio for FM and the Internet radio. The FM quality is way better, the E71 or the E90 even with the 2.5mm to 3.5mm adapter plugged in came no where close.

• Camera: The camera software is now a copy of the one found in the Nseries and I’m glad Nokia have not held back features like Geo-Tagging and LED support for video just because this was an ‘Eseries’.

• Email: The Nokia E75 incorporates the Nokia Messaging like layout within the messaging client and its setup is a breeze. The part I liked was that it handles Google Apps email accounts seamlessly as well. The one thing I’d like to get rid off are those transitions, it makes the client much slower or perhaps tries to hide its slowness.  Either way, this must be worked upon.

• Keyboard: When I first saw the E75 I wasn’t too impressed with its flat keyboard, however after using it for a few days I like it. The feedback from a press of a key is definite and the speeds I can achieve are pretty reasonable as well. This is without much practice, with time I’m sure this will improve further.

• Speed: To be honest, I’ve never really liked FP2 much just because I’ve always felt that it was much slower as compared to its predecessor. The FP2 on this Eseries doesn’t seem to suffer from this and I have found the E75 to be pretty snappy, not E71 fast but fast enough for the other FP2 benefits to weigh in.

• MicroSD & MicroUSB Flaps: The flaps on the microSD and USB slots now have a special opening on their sides for the fingernail so that they can be opened easily. This is a pretty small thing, but goes a long way in the overall experience.

• Charging: The E75 supports charging from BOTH the propriety Nokia charger as well as USB and this is the way it should be. Insanely convenient. On the N85 they just had USB charging and I had a pretty bad time when I would forget the charger at home.

• Standby Screen Dialing: The standby screen dialing, introduced on the E71, allows you to bring up a contact right on the standby screen by simply typing in his/her name. You then have the options to make a call, send a text and so on. Incredibly convenient and I’m glad it found its way on the E75 as well.

• Gallery: Nokia have done a commendable job briging the old 6680/6630 gallery back. The ‘Songs’ no longer opens the music player, it just lists whatever tracks I have. The images and videos are now listed separately as well. The thumbnail generation is also pretty quick. Check out these screenshots below for a better idea.

If you want me address any specific aspect of the Nokia E75 in the coming days, please drop a line below. For the latest updates make sure you follows us on Twitter as well.

First up are a few observations I want to share with you:

• The first thing is that the N97 will not feature the touch FULL QWERTY or MINI QWERTY keyboard options that we saw on the 5800 Xpress Music. The Alphanumeric mode and the handwriting recognition will be the only two writing modes available apart from the hardware QWERTY. I personally am not too bothered by this as I prefer the alphanumeric for touch based typing anyway. If required, Nokia can always bring this back via a firmware update.

• One thing that I like is the way the browser automatically switches to the full screen mode after the page is loaded and when there is no need to see the progress bar. This implementation is similar to the one we was on the N85 and recently the E75 as well. Screenshots below in the browser section.

• The next is a entry in the settings menu entitled ‘Default Applications‘ (Screenshot). I am not sure how it works, but from the looks of things this should allow the user to select a default application for a particular task. For example, set Core Player as the default for playing video. (Note: Core Player support for S60 5th Edition is coming in Core Player v2, which should be out by the time the N97 hits markets around the world)

• The settings menu is now much better organised and finding the setting you are looking for is much easier. Have a look for yourself in the settings screenshot walkthrough below.

• Scroll all the way down for a bonus link about something that will ship with the N97.

THE SETTINGS MENU SCREENSHOT SECTION

As you can see, the menu is pretty straightforward, similar to the one of the 5800. The one thing that I liked here was that the settings for the widgets aren’t found here, they are exclusively controlled via the standby screen. This makes for much lesser clutter.

THE WEB BROWSER SCREENSHOT SECTION

You can see the alphanumeric keyboard in action, the auto complete option at work and the automatic switching to the full screen mode after the website loads.

THE EMAIL SETUP SCREENSHOT SECTION

Pretty straightforward again, a little more information and the addition of the option of using Ovi mail. The Nokia Messaging link was still not there. This is firmware v10.

THE PhoNetInfo SCREENSHOT SECTION

Nothing much to see here as all most of the details about the N97′s processor, RAM and so on are already out. But if you, like me, enjoy looking at every minuscule detail of a device first hand even if you know of it earlier, the screenshots below are for you.

Lastly as a something of a bonus link from Stefan, I would like to share with you very first pictures of the stylus that would be shipping with the N97. The pictures come from Eldar’s review of the N97. I never thought the stylus would be such, but I’d have to say it doesn’t look bad at all.

The review covers aspects like positioning, design, size, controls, display, keyboard, battery, music ability and software features of Nokia N97, finally concluding with his own impressions. The review has some interesting tidbits like the possibility to of a Linux based Communicator, talk about the Nokia 5900 and so on. Also present are comparison shots with a multitude of other QWERTY and Nokia devices. Here are a few highlights:

BUILD QUALITY: Good, hinges despite being plastic will survive if you take reasonable care.

MUSIC QUALITY: Excellent, probably the best. Better than the Nokia 5800 because of a separate chip. Loudspeakers similar. Music playback time of 30+ hours.

CAMERA: Review has loads of sample images and three videos available for download.

BATTERY: Takes 2.5 hours to charge completely and can last for 4 days on moderate usage. Heavy users can expect 1 day. If the widgets aren’t fetching data continuously, the battery life increases by 20-25%.

• GPS Navigation – 5 hours
• Video Playback – 4 hours 15 minutes
• WEB-surfing (EDGE-connection) – 4.5 hours
• Listening to music via headphones – 32 hours
• WiFi – 166 hours in standby mode, with continuous data transmission – 6 hours

DATA TRANSFER: Speeds of 5MB/s via USB, Bluetooth is the usual 100 KBPS.

Head over for the Google Translated version of the review.

As a blogger I often have the good fortune of playing with a lot of new devices and at times having in a possession quite a few of them at one time. I make it a point to use a smartphone myself for at least two weeks before reviewing it, however I have found myself coming back to the E71 again and again after the said period is over.

But when I see the E55, I see immense potential. Potential to become my next primary device, a device that finally manages to dethrone the E71. The 5800 came close, but not close enough and for the purposes of this post, I shall not consider the N97. So lets how the E71 matches up to the next generation Eseries.

So there you have it, the E71 is getting trumped on a lot of things. FP2 brings OTA Firmware updates, higher speed USB transfers, better browser download capabilities, access point prioritization amongst the eye candy. The E55 owing to the 3.5mm jack and WMA/WMV support is a better audio and video device. It also has better video capture, a faster CPU and the biggest of them all N-Gage. Then there is another Nseries exclusive, the on board video editor. Nokia has also added a dedicated camera key and accelerometer support, not to mention the beautiful brushed aluminum that takes away the fingerprint magnet tag. The size is definitely going to work for it and it is also 32 grams lighter than the E71. That’s a long list.

The aspects that could get people to hold on are the keypad and perhaps for some, the screen. The obvious argument being why give up full QWERTY? The answer is in the above paragraph, plus I am sure a few weeks of getting used to the new keypad will do the trick. Next is the matter of the screen, yes its the same size but the orientation makes a huge difference in readability and even otherwise. I find reading on the E71’s screen easier than say on the 2.6″ of the N95 just because of this simple thing.

The E55 thus comes up drubbing the E71 in almost all departments, so will it replace the E71? I don’t know. The reason I say that is because I am yet to play with one and also experience how fast (or slow) it is. The E71 is like greased lightning and so far no FP2 device I have played with has managed to match upto it (N78, N96 & N85 included). If it can do that, who knows… I fancy the white one. What do you think?

E55 Image Via – Mail.ru

BACKGROUND

When the Nokia 5800 was announced, it did got get me too excited. My experience with touch devices in the past (both WinMo and the iPhone) had always led me to the conclusion that I wouldn’t be able to use a device that lacked a physical keyboard. Secondly, the specifications on 5800 weren’t earth shattering and the 3.2 megapixel camera was a bit of a disappointment.

Having the used the 5800, today I can safely say that my prejudice was baseless and Nokia has done a great job bringing touch in, while keeping the familiarity of the S60 platform intact.

HARDWARE

The 5800 comes in a monoblock form factor with the screen taking up most of the front. The right handside of the phone packs the camera button, volume/zoom keys and the supremely useful keypad/screen lock switch. The left hand side houses the SIM slot and the microSD slot. The top is relatively packed with the power button, the 3.5mm jack, the charger inlet and the microUSB slot that is protected from dust by a rubber cover. The back houses the stylus of the right hand side and the 3.2 MP AF camera with the dual-LED flash. Coming back to the front, the top right hand side contains the secondary camera for video calls and just below it is the touch sensitive multimedia menu switch. Just below the screen are present the three call, menu and end keys.

When I first came to know that the 5800 had the SIM slot on the side, I was happy for the simple reason that I could switch SIM cards easily without the hassle of removing the battery. However, I shortly found out that my joy was shortlived and  removing the SIM still needed removing the battery and even the use of a stylus. Also, inserting a SIM while the phone is in the Offline mode and then switching to ‘General’ doesn’t help the phone detect the SIM either. Opportunity lost, Nokia. But, to their credit, the instructions relating to the SIM have been imprinted on the inside of the back cover so those new to the 5800 do not get confused.

BUILD QUALITY

The phone is completely made of plastic and one can easily make that out from all the gloss. That being said, the phone doesn’t look cheap and features almost stellar build quality. There are no creaks anywhere, the back cover fits snugly and none of the buttons is hard to press. The back is made of a rubberised material, like that on the N95 and that makes the phone feel better in the hand. The stylus is a little more than 3/4’s of the phone’s length and feels solid.

Since it is a touch based device, the use of a screen guard is mandatory as otherwise the stylus would scratch the surface in a matter of minutes, specially if you used an application such as Mobile Paint. I would have gladly given the 5800 10/10 in this department but for the fact that the first few batches of the device have problems with ear piece volume during calls, the Nokia service centers do offer to fix this, however it is quite disconcerting nevertheless. This problem should have been hopefully fixed by now for newer batches.

TOUCH IMPLEMENTATION

Like I’ve said earlier, I’m actually very pleased with the touch implementation on the 5800, that’s even more commendable considering the fact that this is Nokia’s first touch based S60 handset. Despite the presence of a stylus, the handset is optimised for a single handed finger based operation. Due to the nature of the touchscreen used, you will find the that you need to press the screen with a little more force than say on the iPhone.  This is disconcerting at first, but you quickly get used to it. (That being said, I’d still like capacitive touchscreens on future Nokia’s). The single most useful feature that helps use touch is the generalised haptic feedback on the phone.

Since the feedback (in the form of a short vibration) is general, it won’t make you feel as if you have pressed a button but it still adds considerably to the experience. The phone offers three different levels of vibration, I’ve found 2 to be perfect. Additionally, you can also set the phone to play a tone along with the vibration for an even better on the move experience.

The one thing that is a major irritant is the fact that the menu is not accessible via touch and that diminishes the experience. This is specially true when using the stylus as you don’t really have a free hand to press the menu key. (Nokia, if nothing else please add the menu option to the multimedia bar or let users swap the bar with the menu). Another aspect that needs optimisation is the waste of two key spots between the softkeys while the phone is in the landscape mode. There is still room for optimisation but Nokia has clearly come out with a very usable first edition. Those of you familiar with S60 will take only a few days to get used to the device and start liking it. For others, the curve might be slightly longer.

One of the biggest reasons why I like the touch implementation is because it offers four different text entry modes. A full QWERTY, a mini QWERTY, handwriting recognition and a T9 capable alphanumeric keyboard — my favorite by far. Due to it, I never felt the handicap of a touch only device and didn’t even feel like using the full QWERTY option. Although, that might also be due to the fact that the QWERTY mode lacks predictive text/corrections.

MUSIC

The 5800 is part of the Xpress Music lineup of Nokia devices that are music centric. It features a 3.5mm jack, stereo loudspeakers and ships with a 8GB card — all the essentials for a killer music device, but it falls slightly short. The loudspeakers that the 5800 packs are easily the best ones even shipped by Nokia, they are LOUD, yet absolutely clear in the reproduction of the sound. I am yet to see a mobile device beat the 5800 in this department, leaving aside the Chinese phones that sometimes pack upto 4-6 loudspeakers.

The let down comes in the form of the output through the headphones, the volume is on the low side and the bass slightly weak. The 5800 doesn’t come close to the N91/N96 quality, it is more like the N95. Also, owing to the fact that it is a touch based device that lacks dedicated music keys, managing music on the go sometimes becomes a problem if you are not using the wired 3.5mm remote that ships with the device.

Unlike newer S60 FP2 devices, the 5800 doesn’t have an Internet Radio application embedded into the radio. The RDS capable FM radio exists and it performs well. Listening to the radio in the loud speaker mode is also a pleasant experience.

CAMERA

If I were to pick faults with the 5800, the camera would be one. The quality is ordinary compared to a few of Nokia’s 5MP camera phones that are priced in the same region. That being said, it is a tad unfair to compare the 5800 to the likes of N95 and N82. The 5800 is not a camera phone, so despite the Carl Zeiss lens, do not expect to be blown away by the camera quality. The images during the day come out nice and crisp, but indoors or in bad light even the dual LED cannot prevent loads of noise from creeping into the photos. The dualLED’s are available for video capture, and this mode makes the 5800 into a handy flashlight. It is seriously useful. Video is shot in the widescreen 640×360 resolution and makes for great viewing on the phone’s screen or via TV out.

As far as camera performance on the 5800 goes, it is quite speedy. If the phone is in the unlocked mode, you can expect to be able to click a photo withing 5-6 seconds from a cold start and start recording video in even lesser time. All the camera’s controls are touch optimised and the entire screen is available as the viewfinder during both video recording and image capture. The front camera sadly cannot be used for anything but video calls, why did Nokia do that? I can’t understand, since this is not even a Eseries device!

All in all, the 5800 cannot be your only camera on holidays, but it will do well for the odd moment when you need one. In terms of quality it beats Nokia’s competition with ease.

GAMING

The large screen on the 5800 is ideal for gaming, but the lack of  physical controls is a huge handicap so I doubt whether hardcore gaming will ever take off on the 5800. Although the presence of an accelerometer has opened the door to motion games such as the inbuilt modified Global Racer that is controlled by tilting the phone to the sides or Marble Maze, pictured above, which is controlled in a similar manner.

There are a few touch based games available from the Nokia website — Touch Manuver and Touch Popper. The iconic game DOOM has also been ported over to S60 5th Edition and is capable of being fully controlled by touch. The gaming experience on the whole is fun for short bursts, nothing more.

WEB BROWSING

The 5800 is a great web device for obvious reasons. Access point prioritisation, good battery life, WIFI, touch and the large screen come together to spell — winner. Check out the video embedded above for an overview of this feature.

SOFTWARE

Although theoretically S60 5th Edition is binary compatible with S60 v3, but owing to the complete different input mechanism of the 5800, only a few applications work properly. Thus, there has been a general lack of 3rd party applications that are optimised for the 5800. The 5800 lacks a ZIP client of the the box and the document (.DOC and .PDF) viewers are also missing. Although, to its credit, Nokia has tried to offer at least a few applications via the Download! client and through its regional websites — Nokia India and Nokia HK. (I’m not happy with the regionalisation though).

Quick Office viewers are available via the Download! client and the problem of not having a .Zip client is easily solved with either X-Plore or Y-Browser.

The good news is that this scenario is changing as more and more applications become compatible. S60 has also started a section on S60 5th Edition applications that they will update regularly. Popular essentials such as Y-Browser, SymTorrent and applications from companies such as Epocware have already become available. Basically, if you buy a 5800 now, you can rest assured that the 3rd party application catalogue will quickly fill up.

The java applications run well on the 5800 and with the full screen view in play, applications such as Gmail are a treat. The 5800 also offers a virtual Navi pad which you can use with applications that seem hard to use with touch. In most java applications, the use of a stylus greatly helps in enhancing usability.

NAVIGATION

I had the opportunity of taking the 5800 with me while I was travelling and I can safely tell you that the presence of a large wide screen really improves the experience as the user can get a better overview of the route. Both Google Maps and Nokia’s own solution run beautifully on the 5800 and if you are in the US, street view on the 5800 is simply wicked.

BATTERY LIFE

The 5800 houses a 1320 mAh battery to power its 3.2″ touchscreen and it does a good job of keeping the phone alive for long periods. I can easily get upto 2 days with moderate usage that includes listening to music via the loundspeakers, web browsing over EDGE/WIFI, calls, a few text messages and some miscellaneous usage. Along with this the phone is set to ping my Gmail inbox for new messages every 30 minutes. On an average, even with heavy usage that includes a lot of web browsing, the phone will live for about 24 hours.

CONCLUSION

My device came pre loaded with the version 11 firmware and I have got to say that it makes the 5800 one of the most stable devices at launch, ever. The UI is quick and snappy and even with transitions enabled the phone is fairly fast. This along with its web browsing capabilities, good battery, loudspeakers and large screen makes the 5800 a very likeable phone indeed. The one thing that is weak on the 5800 is email, there is Mail for Exchange support but apart from that you will need to rely on the inbuilt S60 email application. I personally am happy with that because I’ve never loved push email much. Having set the phone to ping my mailbox every 30 minutes, it retrieves the headers for me,  infact that’s the exact setup I use on my other devices too.

There are still a few gaps that need to be filled in, but I personally love the device and that quotient increases almost everyday, it is the only device that has let me move away from my trusty E71 without heartburn.

The 5800 Xpress Music is a recommended BUY.

The first change that you will notice is the ‘Load more items..’ dialog once you reach the end of a page, this gets rid of the page by page display of apps and is helpful if you quickly want to go back to an app that you may have overlooked. Next is the fact that search is now much better, it probably searches the entitle and description instead of just the start of the app’s name, as was the case earlier.

• Its a smallish download and a install that takes about a minute.

• The look and feel is similar to what we are used to, so if you were hoping for a Qt based client you will have to wait some more.

• Notice that none of the apps start with the word ‘Symbian’. This improved search should help in discovering more apps.

• While on the subject on the Ovi Store, you can also download our very own ‘The Symbian Blog’ app for free from the Ovi Store. For non touch devices and this is the link for touch devices.

There is better use of channels and labeling to help discover more content, and the team at AAS thinks that the client seems faster as well. Notice any other improvements? Let us know in the comments section below.