Motorola RAZR Officially Introduced in Saudi Arabia

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Motorola Mobility has just announced that its latest Android flagship, the Motorola RAZR is now available in Saudi Arabia.

Customers who want to purchase the smartphone can do so for no less than SR 2,499 (US$ 665 or 500 EUR) via STC and Jarir bookstores.

Although the phone is delivered with Android 2.3 Gingerbread on board, the new and improved RAZR family device has been recently confirmed for an Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade in early 2012.

Following the same design line that made the old Motorola RAZR clamshell so popular among youngsters, the Android-based device is one of the thinnest LTE-enabled smartphones at only 7.1mm.

“The new Motorola RAZR is a stunning combination of beauty and brains that meets a growing consumer need in the Middle East for smartphones that are thinner, smarter and faster. STC is proud to offer such a visionary smartphone to our loyal and valued customers,” said Eng. Ibrahim Abdulrahman Al Omar, Vice President Personal Services, STC.

Motorola RAZR is all glass and steel. It boasts a stunning 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Advanced display and KEVLAR fiber on the back.

Corning Gorilla Glass protects the screen stand up to scratches and scrapes, while every other part of the smartphone, including the electrical board inside, features splash-guard coating.

Hardware-wise, the superphone is equipped with a 1.2 GHz dual core TI OMAP 4430 CPU, a PowerVR SGX540 graphics processing unit, 16 GB onboard memory, 1 GB of RAM and microSD card slot for memory expansion (up to 32GB).

“Jarir’s success is founded on our ability to offer customers the most up-to-date and desirable products, so it made absolute sense to team up with Motorola to sell the new Motorola RAZR. This is truly a smartphone that will stand out from the crowd, and we are confident it will become a best-seller,” concluded Nasser Abdel Aziz Al Aqeel, COO, Jarir Bookstore.

The RAZR boasts an enhanced 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and autofocus, as well as a secondary 1.3-megapixel front facing camera for video calls and chats.

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N 281 Handset by ZONG

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G is all set to shake the telecom industry with its startling new Touch Screen phone being offered at an unbelievable price. Along with this splendid TouchScreen handset and high-quality camera you will also get an incredible bundle deal of free GPRS and balance to make calls and SMS to any network in Pakistan.

Visit your nearest ZONG Customer Service Center, Franchise or Retailer to get your new handset.
Handset Features
Touch Screen
2 MP Camera
EDGE Support
FM Radio
20MB Internal Memory
Micro SD card Supported
8 Pre-Loaded Bookmarks (which include Facebook, Gmail, Google, CricInfo, ZONG, Wikipedia, Yahoo)
ZONG Music Hot Key for one touch access to ZONG Music IVR

Handset with new ZONG SIM: Rs. 6,999/-*
Rs 300 worth of airtime divided over 3 months ( Rs 100/month); the balance is valid for on-net calls, off-net calls and SMS
6MB of free GPRS each month for 3 months.

Note

* Discount of Rs 150/- for Subscribers who want to avail the offer on their existing ZONG SIM.

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Windows Phone 7.5 Now Arriving on Samsung Focus at AT&T

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Microsoft is finally making the last Windows Phone 7.5 bits available for its users, and those who own a Samsung Focus 1.4 handset at AT&T are the lucky people to receive the update now.

The journey isn't over yet, as there still are some devices set to receive the update at a later date, such as the Samsung Omnia 7 on the airwaves of Telefonica in Spain, though it should not be too long before it receives the update as well.

According to Microsoft, they have already concluded the testing of this software, and the deployment should start soon.

In addition to this roll-out, Microsoft kicked off the delivery of a special update for some handsets based on Windows Phone.

“We’re also sending out another wave of firmware updates from our manufacturers to select Windows Phone models,” Eric Hautala, GM, Customer Experience Engineering, notes in a recent blog post.

“As I’ve mentioned before, these updates improve the overall function of your particular make and model of Windows Phone.

“You’ll see these firmware updates from time to time; they’re easy to recognize because the update information in the Zune software shows your device name. If you get one, I encourage you to install it.”

Moreover, the company is gearing up for the release of a new software update for some handsets in Europe in order to fix some issues that have been reported with voice mail notifications and with Exchange Server 2003.

The new Windows Phone software update will be pushed out as build 7740 and is meant to fix the said issues that appeared in some European and Asian networks under specific conditions. The update will arrive on devices on Vodafone, Orange, and Deutsche Telekom in Europe, Eric Hautala continues.

“This service release is being assessed by other mobile operators,” he explains.

For those out of the loop, we should note that Nokia was recently rumored to plan the release of a similar update for the newly launched Nokia Lumia 800, an update that will fix said issues and will also enhance the battery life of the device

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Nokia N9 to Get Bigger Fonts Soon via Software Update

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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is gearing up for the release of a new software update for its high-end Nokia N9 smartphone that was launched only recently with the MeeGo OS on board, and plans on making some changes to the fonts on the mobile phone.

At the moment, Nokia N9 users the default font “Nokia Pure Text,” but that will change in the future, and the move might affect a series of applications user interfaces.

Basically, the change will affect only the font metrics, but not the typeface of Nokia Pure Text as well.

“The most significant change is that by default, the text will take approximately 20% more space vertically, i.e. the height of the 'bounding box' of text items will increase,” a recent post on Nokia Developer explains.

“The current height of the font is actually a bit too small. E.g., some of the diacritic/accent marks or descenders do not fit to the bounding box. Fixing this is important especially for non-european languages using non-latin script.”

You can have a look at the photo attached to the left to learn some more info on how the text in the two different software releases would look like (the current PR1.0/PR1.1 is on the left).

Depending on the manner in which the application has been built, the new change will impact it or not, Nokia notes. In most cases, applications built for the N9 should not be impacted by the change. Some examples include:

- Short text labels centered on top of other graphical items (like buttons)
- Lists and other pannable areas where the size anyway varies.
- By using margins and other buffer, you have anyway prepared for changes in the size of the text items e.g. for localization purposes.

However, when the layout directly depends on the height of the bounding box of the text items, things might become a bit complicated.

The company recommends the designing of the application UI so that the size of the text could vary both horizontally and vertically, something that should have been already implemented in the app when offering localizations for different languages.

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