Nokia and Acer survived the stiff smartphone competition in 2011.
Nokia, which has just installed sales executive Dharmaesh Goshalia as new general manager of its Philippine office, is in high spirits with Nokia\'s sealed partnership with Microsoft, which is banking on the once top selling cellular phone manufacturer to roll out the right mobile device it
needs to enter the smartphone market.
Acer, meanwhile, made tech headlines late that year with the introduction of the earliest line of ultrabooks after the Apple summer launch of the slimmer MacBook Air. The company is not giving up either on its smartphone bid. It wants people to realize that it could compete in the evolving smartphone technology market heavily dominated by Samsung and Apple\'s heated patent legal race.
Despite falling sales forecast since 2010, Nokia is poised to regain back with Microsoft what it has lost from Apple\'s domination. It retained the Symbian operating platform, which is not a bad deal as it is a house produced operating system comparable to Apple\'s iOS series. Acer is behind with its next generation touch smartphone, the Android running Liquid Mini E-310, which comes with brand\'s signature smart steel finish phone targeted for mobile business subscribers.
It comes with a wider range of functional apps running on the second generation Qualcom 7227 processor, which is not a bad upgrade to wing out a decent app download and still browse freely, even on a shared or public WiFi connection. Nokia introduced in the recent Computer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas a new line of smartphones (Lumia 800, Lumia 710, and Lumia 900) sporting the new Windows 7 smartphone platform, again promising other downloadable applications that may integrate with apps downloadable from either iTunes or the Android market. Nokia, which is still leaning on the established local market that still prefer texting and calling to browsing, introduced Nokia\'s new qwerty and dual sim Asha phone series (Asha 303, Asha 303 and the Asha 200).
Asha is Internet capable on post paid, but Nokia is polishing a cheaper mass consumer option that could charge bought apps to a user\'s pre-paid load instead of a credit card. Light and stylish in its fancy blue, red and black pastel design, this handset may pass for a typical fashionista cell phone that could double for a decent MP4 or FM radio digital boom box. Asha, unlike the Apple tablet\'s grainy yet darker digital photo output, can shoot crisp outdoor jpeg prints that is wonderful for quick social networking, basic publishing on-line. And despite Samsung\'s early introduction of its 4G powered Samsung Note smart tablet last Christmas, Nokia is in no hurry to launch its Windows 7 phones just yet, at the very least, before summer season in April, which is the period when Apple is expected to launch the Ipad 3. Globe is sticking out marketing its 3G services further, which means that for those who just bought a 3G upgraded smartphone device they can still enjoy the service with their units for the rest of 2012.
Scorsese’s tribute to silent movies
Martin Scorsese\'s first 3D film, Hugo, is not just about digital technology or a young boy\'s unusual misadventure with a mysterious robot. It is a seasoned filmmaker\'s subtle way of paying respects to the grand era of silent cinema, as visually seen through the lenses of visionary filmmaker Georges Melies. Set in 1931, Hugo features the story of a 12-year-old orphan named Hugo Cabret, who lives in the peripheries of the Paris train station. It is not a mistake how the boy ended up inside the belly of this dusty Paris train station. Hugo was born to a well off family of watchmakers who loved silent cinema. When his parents died, the boy landed in the care of a drunken uncle, a watchmaker like his father who taught him the job of maintaining train station\'s clocks he manages. This Uncle would mysteriously disappear in the story, leaving Hugo to fend for himself, the mystery of a robot called automaton that Hugo believes holds a secret message for him from his late father. Hugo befriends a young girl his age, who holds the missing link to the silent film mystery. Hugo stars Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Asa Butterfield as Hugo Cabret.
Mind of a killer
How do you rationalize the actions of a murderer? Anderson Cooper attempts to find out as he interviews confessed killer Joran van der Sloot. Joran became a celebrity after confessing to killing Peruvian Stephany Flores. He is the last person to see missing US teen Natalee Holloway alive. Sloot\'s interview concludes Anderson\'s heated discussions on a range of debatable social issues as teen sex, women paying alimonies, and dysfunctional parental interventions. Catch Anderson Cooper weekdays via Satellite, 8 to 9 p.m., on Sky Cable, Destiny and Cignal.
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