Smartphones are incredibly useful devices, and the amount of people using them has skyrocketed over recent years. Businesses have adopted them wholeheartedly, and now making sure employees have smartphones is as essential as buying business insurance policy. It seems that accessing the internet for communication through email, social media, and instant messaging has now taken a firm foothold, and it is much cheaper than traditional voice calls. Even voice calls can be made for free using Skype, so smart phones really have everything covered.

The only problem with the transition from using a traditional personal computer and physical keyboard to a smart phone is the touch screen interface that many of them now use. Some people find touch-typing on the new on-screen keyboards cumbersome and less efficient than with a traditional keyboard. The small keys make hitting the correct letter harder, and typing at speed can result in a lot of mistakes.

The Android operating system comes with touch-typing software pre-installed, but it is by no means the best software out there. Other software developers have noticed that problem that some smartphone users have with touch screen typing, and have endeavoured to solve that problem with new apps. Different apps will suit different users, so it is worth taking a look at all of them to see which one is right for you. Installing new software to make typing on a smartphone easier cold save you a lot of time and reduce the frustration of trying to write that urgent email on your smartphone.

SwiftKey X\

This handy app is really quite clever. It’s an intelligent keyboard app that collects information about your typing style and adapts itself to suit you. Once you begin using tis keyboard app it will see what words you use the most and the mistakes you commonly make. The more you use it the better it gets at predicting the word you are planning to type, so much so that just a couple of letters can be enough for it to present your chosen word. The only downside to this app is that it’s not free, but you can use it for one month, which should be enough time to decide whether you like it or not.

SWYPE

If you have a new Android smartphone the chances are that SWYPE may already be installed on your operating system. Just check your keyboard setting to see if there is a SWYPE option. This app lets you swipe the word you want to type instead of hitting each individual key. So you just glide your finger over the keyboard and move from letter to letter. The app predicts which word you are trying to type, and its clever algorithm is pretty good at picked the word you are trying to write. If it’s not already on your phone you can download it for free.

TouchPal

TouchPal works in the same way as SWYPE, by gliding your fingers over the touch-screen keyboard to each letter of the word you want to input. However, the developers of this app are trying to improve this system by adding a host of extra features to improve it even further. Things like swiping up to type a number and swiping down for a special character, and the ability to cut, copy, and paste can be done with TouchPal. At the moment it is in its beta stage and is still free, so try it out and see what you think.

Go Keyboard

The Go Keyboard app is a great looking keyboard app that allows you to customize the layout of different keys and add characters not usually present on a standard keyboard. You can add a key for things like smileys, and change the size and position of where your keys are placed. There are also a number of different themes to choose from to add the finishing touch to your customized keyboard. It is equipped with standard features like auto-correct, and also supports slide input.

ICS Keyboard

This free keyboard app is very effective at text prediction, and also has a speech to text feature, although this is only available for some languages. Other features it has include a built-in dictionary and an auto-correction option that is customizable. If that is not enough, it allows different smileys to be selected by holding down the ‘Enter’ key, and domains to be selected by holding down the ‘/’ key. Some of the technology used in ICS Keyboard is included in the latest version of Android, but download the app if you are running an earlier version.

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Nokia Touch Mobiles.

1. Nokia C5-06

2. Nokia 5230

3. Nokia x2-03 Touch & Type.

HTC Explorer Smartphone Android OS.

Samsung Mobiles and Smartphones.

1.Samsung Galaxy Y 5360 Smartphone Android OS

2. Samsung Corby.

3. Samsung C3312b.

Sony Ericson Mobiles.

SonyEricson Xperia Mini Smartphone Android OS.

Qmobile Pakistani Brand.

1. E900 soap.

2. E900 Music.

3. E950.

4. Qmobile Icon.

5. Qmobile E990.

Megagate Mobiles.

1. Titan t610

2. w710.

3. w750.

4. Megagate Swipe

New Voice Mobiles.

1. Voice Smartphone V900 Android OS.

2. Voice V700.

3. V610 Detachable Keypad.

Touchtel Mobile

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There exist quite a few online services that let you convert files from one format to another. You upload the source file, specify the output format and within seconds, the converted file in the desired format becomes available for download. That’s easy but there are somes limitations with this approach:

1. When you want to convert a file, you have to upload it to the file conversion service. This is not an issue when you are converting files from the desktop but how do you upload files from iPhone, Android or any other mobile browser.
2. Sometimes clients will send you files in obscure formats as email attachments. In order to convert those files in a format that your apps can understand, you will download the attachments to your desktop and then upload them to the file conversion service. That’s work.

Zamzar, a popular tool for converting files online, has added a new option that lets you convert files by email itself. You can forward your email attachments directly to Zamzar, without downloading them to the desktop, and they’ll be converted in no time.

Convert Email attachment into Different File Formats

To get started, you need to forward the input (source) files to a specific email address like format@zamzar.com where format represents the file type of the desired output format.

For instance, if you have a Word document that you want to convert to PDF, you can send the file as an email attachment to pdf@zamzar.com. If you have a PDF file that you want to convert into an ebook, the corresponding conversion address would be epub@zamzar.com or mobi@zamzar.com depending on your ebook reader.

Here’s a complete list of input-output file formats that are currently supported by Zamzar. You can convert documents, presentations, ebooks, videos, audio files, archives and more.

In my test, the converted files were delivered quickly and the quality of the converted files was impressive. There’s no need to create any account at Zamzar and you can convert files up to 1 MB in a single batch. You may go for a pro account to convert bigger files that starts from $7 per month.

One more thing. You can only upload files by email and initiate the conversion process but you’ll still have to visit the Zamzar website to download the converted file. It stays on Zamzar servers for about a day and their download page is actually very confusing when accessed on a mobile phone.

This story, Use Email to Convert Files into Different Formats, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 10/02/2012 under Convert, Email, Internet.

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Microsoft will align its next major updates of Windows, both for phone and computers. Windows Phone 8 & Windows 8 will have several features and architecture in common like networking stacks, security and multimedia architecture.

It is also being reported that Windows Phone 8 will support multi-core processors, multiple screen resolutions, SD Cards and even C/ C++ programming. It is also worth noting that Windows 8 & Windows Phone 8 will both run Metro apps, hence harmonizing the user experience over various Microsoft devices and reducing the time in learning curve of the user.

In a video, Joe Belfiore, manager of Windows Phone for Microsoft, said that the intention is for developers to be able to

“re-use, by far, most of their code” when moving behind the desktop and smartphone platforms. This should also help Microsoft to seamlessly transition many of its existing PC developers to mobile, resulting in a much larger pool creating apps. (Quote Courtesy: Mobile Business Briefing)

If the unification of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 occurs as planned and some applications could be used in both platforms while others easily portable,  there is no doubt that a lot of developers will be attracted to develop apps for Windows based devices and hit maximum customers by a single app. This will also support the Windows Phone marketplace which has considerably lesser apps as compared to Apple Store and Android Market.

All of it depends on Microsoft’s ability to pull off the coup and change the app marketplace forever. However, if it fails to do so, Microsoft will lose credibility and will be left far behind Google and Apple especially in battle to attain superiority in the mobile and tablet platforms.

News for software developers who want to sell their software locally online! Wi-tribe has just announced the beta launch of wi-tribe Bazaar – Pakistan’s first Buy and Sell software portal – as a platform where Pakistani software developers can sell and monetize their software. The portal, as all things wi-tribe, is slick and the User Interface is very simple to use. This is in beta so developers are warned that there might be a few bugs – and these should be reported so that they can be fixed.

The basic categories that they have defined in the portal include:

• Anti-virus & anti-spam
• Business
• Communication
• Games
• Graphics
• Internet & Networking
• Mobile Applications
• PC Widgets
• Systems Utilities

So all a software developer has to do is fill in the details in the online application form, mention the price, provide a description, the OS the app runs on and send it to w-tribe alongwith a sign up fee of Rs. 1000. According to the information on the portal, wi-tribe will get a contract to the developer within 7 days. In accordance with the contract, the developer will get 65% of all revenues minus taxes. There are some pre-requisites though. The software must have had a minimum of 100 downloads and should have been on the portal for at least 3 months. The shopping experience for buyers is very simple – add to shopping cart, use the scratch card and download! You can also create a wish list if you are not sure how many products you want to end up buying.

According to Ali Fahd, Director Marketing wi-tribe, the wi-tribe Bazaar is powered by wi-tribe scratch cards, allowing the purchase of software through scratch cards available at over 600 locations throughout Karachi, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore and Faisalabad. There is no hassle or requirement of credit cards or other e-commerce payment methods. Understanding the Pakistani market, they are aware of the fact that consumers in Pakistan are familiar with scratch cards and use them frequently for various services. So why not software?

“wi-tribe Bazaar is our effort to support, encourage and proliferate the local IT industry and software developers in particular,” says Ali Fahd. “We understand that there are a lot of developers with products that they would like to sell in the local market. We are also aware of the challenges in monetizing software and applications (apps) in Pakistan. With wi-tribe Bazaar, software developers will enjoy a significant portion of the revenue share as the main beneficiary. The software and apps can be priced at Rs.100, Rs.250, Rs.500 or Rs.1,000 by the developer. wi-tribe Bazaar also offers hundreds of free applications, which will support developers in building and reaching a larger market.”

Currently, wi-tribe Bazaar supports Windows Desktop and Mobile Apps for Android, Blackberry and Symbian. It is a robust platform for selling any windows software and mobile applications such as games, system utilities, wallpapers and customized themes. The platform is open to all types of developers who would like to bring either their commercial product or even a final year university project to their target market, says Ali Fahd.

wi-tribe state that they are only acting as a catalyst by providing the platform. To help build a local ecosystem of software and apps, wi-tribe has taken a conscious decision to open the platform to all – not just to wi-tribe users. They will aggressively market the wi-tribe bazaar in Pakistan.

Test drive the beta version at http://bazaar.wi-tribe.pk.

Provide feedback on the Bazaar to support.bazaar@wi-tribe.pk.

Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL) is leading all operators in the country by providing to consumers the highest quality Broadband Internet service, according to the second nationwide Quality of Service (QoS) 2011 survey conducted by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA).

Released last week, the PTA survey places PTCL in category A (more than 95%) at Lahore, Rawalpindi, Peshawar and Quetta, and in category B (more than 80%) at Karachi for the 1Mbps wire-line broadband service.

The survey was carried out in Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, Quetta, Rawalpindi/Islamabad and Muzaffarabad for categories of 512Kbps and 1Mbps in both wire-line and wireless broadband services offered by different operators.

The survey measures operators’ overall performance based on PTA’s key performance indicators (KPIs), including service availability, download and upload bandwidth speed, round-trip time, and service retain-ability.

“Pakistan is the world’s 4th fastest growing broadband market, and PTCL is the country’s single largest broadband service provider with 95% market share,” said Senior Executive Vice President, Naveed Saeed. “In line with the Government’s vision for Broadband growth in Pakistan, we are leading the country’s broadband revolution from the front by making this technology affordable through lowered entry barriers; by geographically bringing the service within the reach of a common user across the country; and by continuous improvements in customer care.”

The PTA terms Broadband as “a significant economic stimulus for any country”, and PTCL DSL is spearheading its exponential growth in Pakistan with a footprint in over 1,100 cities and towns. PTCL is the world’s first operator to introduce “UltraNet” using VDSL2 bonding technology with speeds up to 50mbps on a copper network; and it has deployed the Fiber to the Home (FTTH) technology.

Last year, PTCL again became the world’s first operator to commercially launch 3G EVDO Rev B service. In the form of EVO NITRO, it gives consumers the market’s maximum speed of 9.3MBPs. PTCL has Pakistan’s largest and fastest growing 3G EVDO wireless broadband network, with connectivity and roaming in nearly 200 cities.

“PTCL is one of the most progressive data connectivity providers of the world and Broadband is now a driver for Pakistan’s national GDP,” said Mr. Saeed. “We have a responsibility to develop Pakistan’s technology and data network for establishing the echo system conducive for our country’s economic growth and social uplift, and PTCL is fully primed to facilitate that.”

The first to bring to Pakistan EVO dongles with Internet connectivity, PTCL has followed by launching its innovative 3G EVO Wi-Fi Cloud to connect multiple Wi-Fi devices simultaneously and the first ever PTCL 3G Android EVO Tab with built-in wireless broadband offering Internet connectivity on the go.

This month, PTCL launched Pakistan’s first 3G enabled Android Smartphone, IVIO Icon Pro that offers dual support for both EVDO and GSM/CDMA network.

Via: PTCL Media Center

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Zong Revised the price of  its Ideos Handset, The new price is unbelievable, you can buy this Phone in just RS. 6,999. The first price of this Phone was 15,999 RS, Later it was 10,999 Rs. This Mobile Phone is powered by Android v2.2 (Froyo), a Builtin GPS. Also includes Google Applictaions like Gmail, Youtube, Google [...]

Ufone at present start one wesome sale of thier handsets, Ufone descide to decreased the rates of their G1000 and G3610 mobile phones to an incredible lowest prices.

Ufone New Handset Offer

Ufone Handset G1000

G1000, that was previously charging Rs. 999 has become provided just for Rs. 799 and this will include a SIM in addition to Rs. 50 mobile balance; you’ll find this particular mobile phone for Rs. 749 in case you do not need new Ufone SIM. This particular mobile phone is definitely fashionable and still budget friendly. G1000 provides you a lot amenities mainly because it includes functions for example speaker phone, flashlight and also FM radio which will works without having a hands-free.

Ufone Handset G3610

In the same way, G3610 can be obtained for Rs. 1,699 rather than Rs. 1,999. This particular mobile phone has functions that may absolutely make all of us need to have one. G3610 is available in Internet ease of access, camera, phone speaker, FM radio, flashlight and also color display. This is best phone at best price, How much more does anybody need?

The one unfortunate element will this be limited time offer. Because of this, I will suggest for you to rush to the closest Ufone customer support center, franchise, UStar or UShop and possess these types of extraordinary cellular phones only at that Amazing sale. There is no doubt that ufone handset prices are extremely low.

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As the company struggles to compete with competition such as Apple, Google or Microsoft,  it’s investors demand a strategic change that would give them a good return for what they have been investing in Research in Motion (RIM).

Blackberry makers, Research In Motion (RIM) say that there co-chief executives Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie have stepped down due to this struggle that company is constantly enduring against its latest competition such as Google Android, Apple iPhone, Apple iPad or Microsoft Windows Phone.

Mr. Mike Lazaridis, who founded RIM in 1984, is going to become the Vice Chairman of RIM while Mr. Jim Balsillie would be sitting in the board of directors and will have no operational role.

Thorsten Heins, who came into RIM from Siemens Communications in 2007 became chief operating officer of RIM in August, 2011 (according to the company), will now be replacing Mr. Lazaridis and Mr. Balsillie starting from Monday.

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There have been a lot of technological advances since 2000 that deserve their place in history. Its amazing to think how far we have come in such a short time, with gadgets seemingly taking leaps and bounds every year and improving on already amazing ideas and technology. These not only make our lives easier but also help more products enter the marketplace based upon these technologies.

There are five advances that I think really stand out more than the others simply because they have turned the world upside down with their place in our world, making it easier for consumers and businesses alike to reach more people, bring in new products and generally live a better life.

1. Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi is now found in just about every store, hotel, house, and café around the world, making it possible to connect to the internet without stringing a bunch of cables into the back of the computer. Since this advance, it has helped cell phones, tablets, laptops and other devices enter the marketplace more successfully as well. When our wifi goes down we forget how amazing this technology actually is.

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2. Social media

Sites like Facebook and Twitter are extremely technologically advanced and it’s not just about helping others stay in touch with each other. Businesses rely on this social media more than anyone else in order to reach their target demographics, get feedback on their products and market successfully. A number of technologies have imitated these sites and the academic world has latched on by offering courses in social media.

3. The Smart Phone

The cell phone was advanced but the smart phone has gone above and beyond. The Android and the iPhone have popularized the concept but there are many manufacturers who have entered the arena. With apps becoming more and more popular as a way of doing business, the smart phone has internet access, a camera, gps, and many other features, making it an integral part of one’s life. It’s no longer just for making phone calls – it’s used for school, shopping, business, gaming, research and other aspects of life.

4. Electric Cars

There’s no longer a need to use gas or petrol to fuel cars. With the advancement of electrical and hybrid cars, it’s truly a green solution for the earth. Since the first prototype was designed, many manufacturers have piggy-backed on the idea to create more designs that use just electric or a combination of electric/petrol. As technology advances are made, the electric car is getting larger and faster as well.

5. 3D technology

3D technology is getting smaller and more readily available. The technology is going into televisions, smart phones, cinemas, laptops and everywhere else. Over the past 5 years, there’s been more 3D movies released to the big screen than ever before and the trend will continue as more television brands are releasing 3D televisions to the public. The 3D glasses are more advanced than the old paper ones and it’s changing the way people think about watching television and playing video games. However glasses less technology on a mass scale will bring this even further.

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