Mobile TV Headset, the headset from Nokia to bring DVB-H in its smartphones

What happened to the protocol DVB-H ? Probably many of you will remember little. It 'a European standard to enable the spread of digital TV for smartphones. Apparently when a technology is rarely used because the handsets are not as widespread as expected.

Launched during the Olympics a few years ago, is now widespread in some countries only. Nokia tries to revive the protocol through a new device: the Mobile TV Headset. This is a pair of headphones that integrate the DVB-H to bring its smartphone with Symbian OS ^ 3.

Unfortunately terminals with that operating system are not yet widespread. The use, for example, the Nokia N8. We wait to see it in Christmas sales. The expected price is € 40 excluding taxes.

The capacitive screen smartphones will reach over 50% in 2011

Many wonder why the smartphone market has welcomed with open arms the use of the touchscreen only since 2007, when Apple launched its iPhone. What did the producers first, maybe the market was not ready, or were they not want this market?

Anyway the market today there are two types of touch screen: capacitive and resistive. The second is composed of a film that rests on a surface when using a stylus. Currently occupies most of the devices on the market because it is cheap. The first, however, work through the electrostatic force of the fingers.

The capacitive screen is much better looking and easy to use. According to a recent analysis, moreover, by 2011 the growth of this technology will occupy half of the market. This will certainly lead to lower prices and increased investment in the sector.

Social networks and smartphones: face2face helps us to meet our friends

Very often, social networking is synonymous with surface reports of people, mostly based on the distance. Just think of the ease with which you can add a stranger to their network of friends and can very quickly get to know many things about this new "friend."

Back to us, social networks go well with mobile phones, with the ability to stay in touch via your mobile phone or Smartphone. The new project of Global Proxima, called face2face and offers new possibilities to all users of the main sites.

Through a single interface, face2face group of his friends Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and MySpace, giving you the chance to contact them via IM or call them or send them text messages and so on. In addition to simply standing aggregator, this software was created to help us meet our friends, sharing in a discreet way our position.

Indeed, using a system of geo-location, you can see the closeness of our contacts and so can meet friends, acquaintances and colleagues. The application is free and is compatible with iPhone, Android and Blackberry. This version is also soon to be released J2ME for all other terminals. More information and downloads, the official website.