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Opera Company reported that a fresh version of its mobile browser – Opera Mini 5.1. Opera Mini 5.1 is optimized for mobile phones with a small amount of memory, including the Nokia 5130 XpressMusic, Nokia 6300 and Nokia 2700. Also, it is optimized for phones with small displays, for example, SE K550i and SE W810i. Get updates from the site can m.opera.com.

Nokia said that he rejected the American company MetaCarta Inc., Acquired in April 2010. Research Company regarding geolokatsionnyh services, Nokia plans to use, but the company itself Finns apparently did not need. All that is needed, they have already received and further work MetaCarta not interested.

France has a couple of new android-smartphone – different in form, identical in content handset Samsung Galaxy Naos and Galaxy Teos, which are modifications of the Samsung i5800 – that also imzvesten named Galaxy 3, wrote Unwiredview. Both devices run on Android 2.1 interface TouchWiz, based on a 667 MHz processor, have a 3.2 “WQVGA-capacitive touchscreen, supports WiFi 802.11 b / g / n and have a 3-megapixel camera. Galaxy Naos is designed for operator Orange and is offered for EUR 1 (with a special contract), Teos – for others (without specifying which ones) operators.

The difference – in the design and size. 113.5h55×12.4 mm at Naos and 113.5×55x 2.8 mm at the Galaxy Teos. As can be seen from its tradition of breed names for the same mobil Korean manufacturer is not going to give up.

According to the company Ericsson, the world is now carried out more than 5 billion subscribers registered in the mobile networks. In general, growth gives developing countries like China and India: there recently subscribers of mobile communication is becoming more and more people. At the same time, in developed countries, many users have not a single mobile device, and often connected to mobile networks, second and even third.

For comparison, in 2000, the number of mobile connections was not more than 720 million and now over 10 years this number has reached 5 billion. And in the next 10 years, according to Ericsson, the number of connections to mobile networks could reach 50 billion. Experts also evaluated the development of the market for mobile broadband. They believe that by 2015 the number of such connections will be 3.4 billion, while in 2009 it did not exceed 360 million. In percentage terms, soon 80% of all people will get mobile Internet access.

Company Motorola, apparently, soon replenish its portfolio of new model. The device is called the Motorola WX445 – the Internet appeared his first pictures. The unit, based on photographs, is a candy bar without a hardware keyboard, the form it resembles Palm Pre Plus, which has removed the block with QWERTY.

At Motorola WX445 has a touch screen rather small, about 2,6 – 3,2 inches. On the back of the device is visible to the camera, flash it does not. What is the resolution of built-in camera – remains unknown.

According to the source, Motorola WX445 running an operating system Android 2.1 and is equipped with battery capacity of 1170 mAh.

This smartphone will be sold in the U.S. market in CDMA-operator Verizon Wireless. It is not clear whether this decision the European counterparts. Most likely, the device is simple and inexpensive, but still accurate data on its other features and price there. Not clear, when a new smartphone Motorola WX445 will be available.

According to International Data Corporation, in the first quarter of this year in the Western European mobile phone market was replaced by the king – if the previously undisputed leader was Nokia, now it outdid the company Samsung.

The Koreans had sold 12.2 million phones (we are talking about phones, not on smartphones – Nokia here meanwhile lead to a left) and Finns – only 9.1. If you take smartphones and prostotelefony in the amount, Nokia is still the first step.

Money from love – well-known truth. However, Sys-Con media wrote about how this truth is ignored. For example, are residents of the UK. It turns out they are overpaid, some 800 million pounds a year, because choosing the wrong tariff for their mobile phones, according to the site Top10.com.

Switch to another contract, which is more suitable, can save more than 60 pounds per person per year. 42% of users admit that mobile tariffs lead them into confusion. 46% are concerned that chose a bad rate and therefore overpaid.

More than half (55%), which are connected to mobile plans with a certain number of minutes, never use them until the end, so that in the end, too, pay more than necessary. But about 8% overrun their limits (usually ? 10 a month), using more time to negotiate than normal for their fare. Most of this sin Londoners.

Some Croatian website has published a couple of pictures have not yet announced the device HTC. Title HTC Vision for the Net – not news, but the live image as long as nobody saw.

The device has a 4-row QWERTY-keyboard, 3.7-inch WVGA-screen, 1 GHz processor and system Android 2.1, although at the time of release, it certainly should be replaced by Android 2.2.

WSJ to talk about why Apple has not been able to truly conquer the Chinese market.

Of course, partially to blame black market, where you can find cheap copies of famous brands, plus a mandatory two-year contract, which must conclude by purchasing the iPhone. But the main problem, according to WSJ, a bad partner of Apple in China, China Unicom.

There was a survey of users aged 23 to 32 years, and found that most customers are dissatisfied with China Unicom service quality, so they are not too eager to purchase new devices at the operator. In general, the unpopular partners directly related to the unpopularity of available products.

The main competitor of China Unicom – China Mobile, is considered far more reliable provider, 95% of respondents believe that he has the quality of mobile communication is satisfactory.

Bitstream company reported that a version 2.1 of its mobile browser Bolt. Now Bolt supports HTML5 video on websites, Flash-video, and offers a more active interaction with Facebook, including a Facebook-chat. You can also open a browser on multiple tabs. Bolt 2.1 can be installed on any devays Java-enabled smartphones and BlackBerry.