Jumat, 03 Juli 2009

Samsung E2510: Ponsel Kantoran Multimedia Harga Sejutaan



Satu hal yang menggoda Sinyal ketika menyambangi ponsel bergaya tangkupan ini adalah model fisiknya yang tampak elegan. Tentunya ini menjadi bagian menarik sebab tidak banyak pilihan ponsel bergaya kantoran yang ditawarkan untuk kelas menengah-bawah.

Bentuk tubuhnya tidak neko-neko, sebelum tangkupan dibuka E2510 tampak sederhana karena fisiknya yang cuma dibuat mengkotak. Sepertiga muka luar dipoles hitam metalik yang diteruskan teknik garis-garis di bawahnya. Sementara sekujur bodi sampingnya dipolah dengan aksen silver guna menutup kesan kaku. Dengan variasi tersebut Anda bisa menyimpulkan bahwa E2510 ini bermaksud untuk memunculkan aura elegan meski memang tidak begitu terlihat premium.

Salah satu faktor yang tidak boleh terlewatkan pada ponsel ini adalah tidak adanya layar atau indikator di panel luar. Tentu saja ini menjadi minus yang cukup besar karena Anda harus membuka flip secara berkala jika ingin mengecek miscall atau SMS masuk.

Menyoal desain fisik, seperti ponsel bermotif clamshell pada umumnya, E2510 harus rela dengan dimensi yang agak tebal (17 mm). Ketika dipegang, ponsel buatan Korea Selatan ini memang begitu mantap pada genggaman, tapi menjadi terasa bongsor saat diselipkan pada kantong kemeja karena cukup menonjol.

Sekujur casing bagian dalamnya masih didominasi warna hitam, tombol-tombol angka akan langsung menyala mengikuti tangkupan yang terbuka. Sementara jemari jempol Anda akan dibuat manja ketika mengetik sms karena bahannya yang terbuat dari karet terasa empuk dengan ukuran yang cukup lapang.

Di atas angka-angka berderet banyak tombol, seperti: panggilan, clear dan D-Pad. Ada pula tombol radio dan kamera yang hadir di sisi kanan-kiri, sedangkan pintasan untuk menelusur web diletakan pada tengah-tengah D-Pad. Sayangnya tombol-tombol ini tidak senyaman pada angka, selain karena modelnya yang mendatar jarak antar tombolnya tidak dipisahkan parit sehingga cukup riskan terjadi salah pencet.

Tentunya kenyamanan fisik ini akan menjadi sempurna apabila disokong sistem perangkat lunak yang mumpuni. Untuk urusan ini Samsung memperlihatkan kapasitasnya sebagai salah satu raksasa perangkat genggam. Meski layarnya masih 65 ribu warna antarmuka E2510 terlihat cukup terang dengan animasi saat menutup atau membuka menu.

Dengan memposisikan sebagai ponsel bergaya elegan, E2510 akan terlihat pas bila ditenteng oleh mereka yang berprofesi kantoran. Guna menyokong keperluan kerja ini E2510 melengkapi fungsi bisnisnya dengan menyediakan fitur email yang sudah mendukung protokol POP3, IMAP4 dan SMTP.

Ketika dicoba mengaktifkan layanan e-mail seperti Gmail, E2510 ternyata dapat menjalankan tugasnya dengan lancar. Untuk memudahkan aktivasi e-mail, E2510 menyediakan sebuah wizzard dengan langkah-langkah yang mudah dicerna. Apabila kurang mengerti dengan bahasa Inggris Anda bisa memilih opsi bahasa Indonesia atau bahasa Jawa melalui Pengaturan.

Sementara fasilitas hiburan pada Samsung E2510 bisa dinikmati melalui fitur musik, radio FM dan kamera sebesar VGA (640x480 piksel). Yang menarik perhatian Sinyal, speaker-nya diletakkan di bawah tangkup, tepatnya di atas layar. Anda tidak perlu khawatir karena output suaranya masih terdengar lantang sekalipun flip tertutup.

Untuk memainkan musik bisa melakukannya melalui menu atau dengan menekan tombol khusus di bodi kanan. Melalui beberapa lagu yang dimainkan, suara yang dikeluarkan speakernya terdengar cukup keras namun masih menyisakan pecah. Kualitas musiknya menjadi lebih sempurna saat menggunakan headset, disini paduan bass dan treble-nya terdengar lebih kompak dan bertenaga. Sayang Sinyal tidak menemukan menu equaliser sehingga setiap lagu yang dimainkan harus melantun dengan mode musik yang datar.

DENGAN KATA LAIN:
Ponsel kantoran terjangkau berdesain clamshell yang elegan dengan fungsi hiburan yang cukup lengkap.

PLUS: Antarmuka beranimasi; e-mail dukung banyak akun; pilihan bahasa Jawa.

MINUS: Tidak ada kabel USB; tanpa layar atau indikator pada panel luar


Spesifikasi Samsung E2510
Jaringan : 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
Form Factor : chalmshell
Dimensi : 89x44x17 mm
Bobot : 79,3 gram
Baterai : Li-ion 800 mAh
Waktu Siaga : 7,5 jam
Waktu Bicara : 450 jam
Layar : TFT 65 ribu warna, 1.9 inci, 128x160 piksel
Memori internal : 17 jam
Memori tambahan : MicroSD
Konektivitas antar peranti : Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0
Konektivitas internet :GPRS kelas 10
Fasilitas internet : wap 2.0, xhtml
Kamera : VGA; video 160x120 piksel
Ringtone : Polyphonic 64 channel
Phonebook : 500 nama
Messaging : SMS (300 entry), MMS, Email (POP3/SMTP/IMAP4)
Aplikasi : Mobile printing, voice memo, voice mail, voice recorder, games (paris hilton's diamond quest, minigolf las vegas, tetris mania, midnight pool, asphalt2, brickbraker revolution, pyramid bloxx), kalender, memo, world clock, kalkulator, converter, stopwatch, timer, alarm
Isi paket : Samsung E2510, charger, baterai, buku panduan, headset

source : kompas

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Yahoo Messenger 10 Telah Datang



Setelah versi 9.0, kini Yahoo Messenger hadir dengan versi lanjutannya berbekal beberapa fitur terbaru. Ya,Yahoo Messenger 10 kini hadir. Namun ini bukanlah versi final, melainkan versi yang masih sangat 'orok' yakni YM 10 (10.0.0.331) Pre-Alpha Version.

Beberapa bulan lalu memang santer beredar kabar, versi YM yang khusus hadir bagi Windows Vista. Sayang tampilan YM khusus Vista tersebut, hingga kini tidak terdengar kabarnya lagi.

Di bawah ini adalah versi 'orok' YM 10 tersebut. Walaupun masih menyandang versi pre-alpha, namun ketika detikINET mencobanya, Jumat (3/03/2009) ada beberapa perubahan yang cukup menarik. Diantaranya adalah Y!updates. Y! updates merupakan tampilan visual status YM kita, yang sekilas mirip interface dari twitter.

Memang tidak (atau belum) banyak perubahan yang ditemukan pada versi pre-alpha
YM 10 ini, namun ada beberapa perubahan signifikan seperti:

* Y! Updates Tab
* Support beberapa bahasa asing, termasuk Indonesia
* Pengguna dapat mengakses My Pingbox
* Pengguna dapat mengatur pilihan I broadcast update
* Pengguna dapat mengakses My Pingbox ( membutuhkan Adobe Flash versi terakhir)

Jika berminat, pengguna bisa mengunduh pada link berikut ini. Versi ini telah dicoba oleh detikINET dan bebas dari virus maupun Trojan.

source : detik

Kamis, 02 Juli 2009

Firefox 3.5 Reaches 5 Million Downloads in Its First Day

The highly anticipated Firefox 3.5 was just launched two days ago and already it's beginning to see some traction in the browser market with reports putting it at a 2 percent share. It also hit more than 5 million downloads in the first 24 hours, a very respectable number, though smaller than last year's launch of Firefox 3.

“The fastest version yet of Firefox has certainly sprinted out of the blocks with 2.06% usage in the US in a short time,” commented Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter. “This latest addition boosts competition for Microsoft Internet Explorer in the browser market wars.”

Dublin, Ireland-based traffic analysis firm StatCounter saw the new browser rise to a 2.06 percent share of the overall browser market in the US bringing Firefox's total share at 31.8 percent, a very secure second place but still far from the 60 percent owned by Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Globally, the numbers followed a similar trend, with Firefox 3.5 gaining 1.95 percent and all of the Firefox versions at 30.7 percent. Meanwhile, Internet Explorer owns 55.8 percent of the world browser market, while Google Chrome has a 2.9 percent share in the US and 2.87 percent worldwide.

In just a few hours after launch, Firefox 3.5 was already at 1 million downloads and managed to get 5 million in 24 hours. That is somewhat lower than the 8.3 million Firefox 3 downloads last year, a number that set the Guinness World Record for the most downloaded piece of software in a 24 hour time frame. Safari 4 also boasted 11 million downloads during its first three days recently, though at least some of those can be attributed to the OS X automated update system. Still, Apple claims 6 million downloads were on Windows machines and Firefox also has an automated update feature.

source : softpedia

Rabu, 01 Juli 2009

iPhone 3G S Badly Overheats

Over the past two weeks, it has been revealed that Apple’s iPhone 3G S suffers from overheating issues. Perhaps not all handsets are faulty, but, certainly, the issue exists with some devices, several reports have confirmed. White iPhone 3G S models, for example, get so hot that the plastic case on the back turns pink, or brown.

Countless anonymous posters have filled Apple Discussions and other Apple-focused forums with complaints of iPhone 3G S handsets overheating, most of whom have isolated the cause in running resource-hungry applications, web browsing over 3G or using GPS. It is a common fact (and one that Apple undoubtedly admits) that all iPhone models tend to warm up a bit when the handsets’ features are heavily used. However, simply running an application, or browsing the web should not spell problems for a million-unit selling device.

And it’s not just forum posters that have been reporting these issues, Wired’s Gadget Lab reveals. The site posts a quote from Melissa J. Perenson writing over at PC World, who, apparently, has a faulty device as well. The quote follows below.

“And at some point, I became aware the handset had become very hot. Very, very hot — not just on the back, but the entire length of the front face, too. I was using a game, and then later the Web browser for reading the news about Michael Jackson, all over a Wi-Fi connection while plugged in. And in those circumstances, well…toasty doesn’t even describe how surprisingly hot it got. It was too hot to even put the phone against my face. No discoloration to report, though; I have the black handset, and didn’t see any effects.”

Apple is yet to respond to these allegations, and is likely to remain silent on the matter until the issue becomes more widespread. It is known that, sometimes, next-generation devices (not just Apple’s) experience issues upon their debut. Should Apple acknowledge this problem, replacements may be in order.

Has anyone here experienced overheating issues with their iPhone or iPod touch and, if so, under what circumstances?

source : softpedia

StarCraft II Won't Have LAN Support for Multiplayer, Only Battle.Net

Blizzard is one of the most respected video game developers in the industry, largely because it makes titles that are very reliable, run on a lot of PC configurations and have features that are extremely intuitive.

Another reason why old titles like StarCraft, Warcraft III or Diablo II are still being played today is that they support Local Area Networks (LANs) and, by doing this, players that are on the same network can play together without worrying of a high latency or lag.

But one of the most expected titles from the large company, StarCraft II, won't have this feature, as a Blizzard representative revealed to Kotaku that it would use only the Battle.Net online service for its multiplayer mode.

“We don't currently plan to support LAN play with StarCraft II, as we are building Battle.net to be the ideal destination for multiplayer gaming with StarCraft II and future Blizzard Entertainment games. While this was a difficult decision for us, we felt that moving away from LAN play and directing players to our upgraded Battle.net service was the best option to ensure a quality multiplayer experience with StarCraft II and safeguard against piracy.”

He also revealed that a lot of the new features in the improved Battle.Net experience would more than make up for the lack of LAN support. “Several Battle.net features like advanced communication options, achievements, stat-tracking, and more, require players to be connected to the service, so we're encouraging everyone to use Battle.net as much as possible to get the most out of StarCraft II. We're looking forward to sharing more details about Battle.net and online functionality for StarCraft II in the near future.”

How do you feel about this decision to not include LAN support for StarCraft II? Do you think that it will stop piracy and make everyone adopt the service, or will it have a negative impact on the sales of the title? Leave us a comment with your thoughts.

source : softpedia

VirtualBox 3.0.0 for Linux Brings 3D and OpenGL 2.0 Support


VirtualBox, the popular, amazing, open-source, virtualization software from Sun Microsystems, reached version 3.0.0 a few minutes ago. This major update brings lots of new features, many bugfixes and improvements over previous 2.x versions. The big and breathtaking news is that users can now use Direct3D 8 and 9 games or applications! Moreover, with VirtualBox 3.0.0, support for OpenGL 2.0 (only for Linux, Solaris and Windows guests) has been implemented. Another important feature is the new SMP (Symmetrical Multiprocessing) guest support with no more than 32 virtual processors. Without any further introduction, let's have a look at the main fixes/additions in VirtualBox 3.0.0 for Linux:

· Support for Linux kernel 2.6.31;
· Support for Guest Additions in Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11;
· Fixed CentOS 64-bit support;
· Better performance for PAE guests on Linux kernel 2.6.29 or higher;
· Better network I/O;
· Revamped settings dialog;
· Added a minimalistic toolbar for seamless and fullscreen modes;
· Ability to create or remove more than one host-only network adapter;
· Lots of fixes for 3D support;
· Windows 7 Remote Desktop Protocol client support;
· Fixed TX checksum offloading for Linux kernel 2.16.8 or higher;
· Time synchronization handler provided by the new vboxadd-service module;
· Added guest properties, which offers information about logged in users, operating system or network;
· Added USB high-speed isochronous endpoints support, with read-ahead buffering for input endpoints;
· Fixed USB dongles issues;
· New registration dialog that uses Sun Online accounts;
· Various clipboard fixes;
...and many more!

source : softpedia