Motorola, iconic mobile phone, as soon as the company known for flashy equipment, placing their hopes on Comeback quality of their software.

General Director of Motorola Sanjay Jha will not go so far that Motorola is unconcerned with hardware these days, hours after the opening of the upcoming Motorola Cliq to mobilize in 2009, but the balance has clearly changed with the introduction of Motoblur, software layer that sits above the operating system, Android, and also coordinate incoming messages and news feeds for future phones of Motorola. 

“Motoblur will be very important to Motorola”, said Jha. It’s actually more than just software - Motorola also significantly hosting an online service that delivers the Facebook updates and RSS-feeds from individual telephones - but it symbolizes a transition to software and the Internet as the main features of modern mobile phones.

Unfortunately for Motorola, that the era began more than two years ago with the launch of iPhone, and the company is struggling ever since. In the pre-iPhone era, Motorola has become a hit with a sleek phones like the Razr, that turned my head, but after people started to realize that they can do this by using advanced software phone is constantly connected to the Internet, Razr has become an afterthought. Motorola has struggled with since seriously considering leaving the business phone in general.

Jha said a year ago that Motorola is going to focus on the two operating systems: Android and Windows Mobile. In Windows Mobile development, more and more of his rivals, he became the Android for Cliq, the first smartphone, he began at a time, which has a real chance to compete in today’s market.

In contrast to the G1 and Ion - perhaps the most famous Android phones at the moment - Cliq features Motorola designed home page that allows users to view the flow of notifications from things like social networking applications, news feeds, and standard voice calls, text messages e-mail. It offers a comparison WebOS palms and collaboration software, with users selecting different widgets from the home page to rotate in and out of Facebook, Google Maps, e-mail or voice mail.

Motorola developed almost all Motoblur, and she was in the works since 2007, according to Business Week. He struck up a partnership with Google Android, and because she did not understand, Google can do much better coordination of third-party software applications and sales than Motorola could do on its own, “said Jha.

It’s not just Motorola, which will play with Motoblur either: third-party developers can get their hands Motoblur with the possible release of API for software, Jha told InfoWorld. Potentially, this could complicate the situation and with Google Android, but Jha insists in this interview that Motorola will be very careful not to fragment with Android incompatibility.

Or not, people respond to social and Motorola’s network marketing strategy with the Cliq, Motoblur will be the basis for a series of phones, designed for different types of users, “said Jha. Motorola is betting the company - or at least the mobile division - on its own blend of software and online services spread across a series of phones, rather than trying to mimic the Apple approach in the production of one phone for all.

Will it work? Not knowing the key details such as price and performance in this early date, it is difficult to say whether Cliq will be successful enough to revive interest in Motorola. Jha declined to comment on pricing, saying that the decision is an exclusive partner of the U.S. T-Mobile. He did hint that the price of Cliq will be “creative”, giving the rest of that statement.

Another big question is whether Motorola is committed to the mobile business at the corporate level in the long term. Jha said that, although he warned that things can change in the future. At this point, it probably does not matter, as well as Motorola, probably can not find a buyer for its mobile business in its current condition and need a series of hits to make the property attractive to foreign investors again.

Motorola efforts on the software front over the past few years, which has lagged behind competitors. It could be argued that poor software Rokr - ITunes phone, which had prevailed in their own event dedicated to the creation in 2005 - triggered by Apple’s iPhone and rethinking what it means to be a smartphone.

Jha were confident that the company has turned a corner. “The experience issue much more as we go into the mobile Internet,” he said, compared with the screaming of equipment for which Motorola became known.

However, Motorola said virtually the same in 2006 and in 2007, and has nothing to show for it. Three years later, the world is different.

Reading the news about the University of Washington professor of experimental electronic contact lenses, I wondered if my dream of personal Ultimate Technology has finally moved from the horizon in mind. That’s what I want: to be able to walk into a crowded cocktail party, and know exactly who I am looking at - the name of each person, the last time we met, and other relevant information for lots of fun. I want information beamed into my field of view, the text floating above their heads, as health indicators for the bad guys from a computer game.

It will be some time, however. Contact lens only one Blinky light in it so far. But now you can get Augmented Reality applications for most modern mobile phones. New smart phones are not only the position of cameras and sensors (global positioning satellite receivers), but compasses and inclinometers, so they know what direction they indicate and how the device is in custody. With these sensors, they can run Cool Sci-Fi applications that show the data projected on top of his video cameras are increasing.

In other words, advanced services a reality show, as their basic image, video camera, it indicates that an excessive display of what you can already see with their eyes. Then, on top of that they Overlay - text or image - is telling you that the camera sees. While smartphones are smart enough to recognize people by their faces, I want to use a cocktail, this is not possible. Although it should be noted that Google and other companies have the function of face recognition in some of its services photo album, and the Swedish company “Surprisingly strong tribe has a product demo. There’s video here.

But what you can do right now with the AR-phone: 

Get on the Yelp iPhone 3GS (download). The mystery of the function (Shake the phone three times to activate it when Yelp is running) marks restaurant names and ratings of videos you watch. Thus, you can see, in theory, a review score hovering over the image of the restaurant are right outside.

Get Layar for Android Phone. R. Layar is a building block platform that can use data from many other vendors. There’s Yelp, for example (although purely iPhone App Yelp slightly better). Layar can also show you Twitter messages from users, nearby, an article in Wikipedia, based on the fact that your camera is pointing at, homes for sale on Trulia, and other information. This is incredibly cool.

Lost in a strange city? If New York or London, try AcrossAir’s underground locators that will say where the station you’re looking for there.

Unfortunately, for municipal services, I have already said, sometimes the orientation sensors are not as precise as you want, and the data that you see placed incorrectly. I think that it is difficult to obtain reliable compass readings in contemporary urban environments. In addition, RV Service can not say, but if what the camera sees is related to what they want to show. Yelp App often pop up on the review of the building which is between you and building IT-based tools to display the information it Over.

The most interesting and useful App Augmented Reality, I tried so far (but keep in mind, I Geek) is a Google Sky card for the phone Android. When you are in a field at night, away from light and magnetic interference - and if you still do the data connection - Android your phone can tell you what star or planet you are considering. Better yet, ask him where a body such as Mars, and tell you how to specify the phone while you are not looking at her. App I would like to have more data to find things like the International Space Station, but still amazing product. It makes me look like a genius to my son, and that is worth the price of entrance ticket. (This is a free application, so it is an easy calculation.)

If you want to phone capable of running AR Apps, today the choice will 3GS iPhone (but not adults 3G, this is not a compass) or Android phone as MyTouch 3G.

And here is an opinion: While we are all created with implants cocktail, if you meet me at a party, do yourself a favor and submit the old way.

BERLIN - Those of you familiar with Android devices will appreciate the sweet, delicious irony in the photo above. Yes, there are indeed heroes, and they have done HTC. But they have some competition, since Samsung has Android-Powered Phones now, and it is called the Galaxy i7500. We played with one here at IFA.

With an all-glass capacitive touch screen interface, and lush, sweeping me the Galaxy was like no, we have experienced a Samsung phone before. Its 3.2-inch AMOLED screen color is rich, its menu efficient and wrapped in a 12mm thick body, he feels one of the best phones Android today.

Samsung i7500 smartphone Galaxy Android - photos
     This is impressive, both inside: 5-megapixel camera with autofocus; GPS navigation; 7.2Mbps HSDPA Internet connectivity, Wi-Fi, stereo Bluetooth, support for DivX, H.264 and MPEG-4 video and MP3, WMA, AAC plus ITunes and music files, 8 GB of internal memory, expandable with MicroSD cards, but the real 3,5 mm jack for headphones.

Plus he runs Google’s Android OS means that the system is open to the world the application downloads from Android Market. One of the few things that we can criticize at this point is an LED flash, which could have been xenon. But in fact it is little things when it comes to smartphones.

Google’s Android Market is being repaired.

Android App Store will soon launch several new updates in its forthcoming version 1.6, according to the Android Developers Blog, Eric Chu of Google on Thursday.

Developers will be able to provide screenshots, icons and descriptions to better promote and highlight their applications.

Four new subcategories App - sports, health, themes and comics - are now added, Chu said. Developers can use any of these sub-categories for new and existing applications.

For reasons not explained Chu, developers Android App in Italy are getting some special attention. Italian designers will be able to call the publisher’s site to download their applications and specify any country where paid services are currently available for customers.

In a video accompanying the blog Chu, updated interface - as rumors - also opens up new buttons for Paid Top, top free, and only in, and click “search” in upper right corner of the screen.

Google introduced Android Market years ago as the equivalent of Android Apple ITunes Store. Since its debut, Google is trying to attract developers to publish their applications in the store. Initially, only the free services were available. But in January, Google has opened a market for paid software in order to attract more developers.

Google offered another carrot for attracting developers, such as the annual Android Developer Challenge, which offers prizes for programmers with the best applications.

However, a recent survey by AdMob found that less than half the owners have acquired Android phone application, citing the lack of hot applications and limited payment options.

T-Mobile demonstrated the first Pay-As-You-Go Android phones go on sale in the UK.

“Pulse”, which is manufactured by Huawei, was announced Thursday. Huawei is well known in the UK for the production of keys for mobile broadband operators such as T-Mobile, and burn marks its entry into the British mobile phone market.

“T-Mobile Pulse represents yet another milestone on the Android T-Mobile”, said Nicola Shenton, who now heads the business phone operators in the UK, in a statement. “We introduced the first phone Android, T-Mobile G1, the back of the UK in October 2008 launched a second pipe, G2 Touch, earlier this year, and now we are opening Android-smartphone to a whole new type of mobile user from the first phone on Pay - As-You-Go “.

“We had warned in June that we were expecting one of the five T-Mobile mobile Internet users will be Android-powered devices by the end of the year and the launch of T-Mobile impulse represents an important step in making this reality,” she added.

Pay-As-You-Go T-Mobile Pulse will go on sale in the UK in October? 180. Contract prices are not announced.