Motorola has officially announced its first mobile phone with Google Android. It will be known as Motorola Cliq. Co-CEO of Motorola, Mr. Sanjay Jha announced this new mobile in San Francisco at Mobilize 09 conference. Motorola Cliq will be available with T-Mobile by the end of next month. Initially it will be launched by T-Mobiles in titanium and winter white colors. Motorola planned to sell it throughout the world from 2010 as “The Motorola Dext”.
Price:
The price of Motorola Cliq has not been revealed till now, but it is rumored that it will be a budget phone. Motorola is also going to announce its second Android Phone soon as said by officials.
Specifications:
Measurements of Cliq mobile by Motorola are 4.49 inches tall, 2.28 inches wide and 0.62 inches thick. It weighs 5.6 ounces that is around 158 grams. It features a 3.1 inch HVGA touch screen with 320×480 pixel resolution. It has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and a soft keyboard as well. It also has a 3.5 mm headphone jack.
Operating System and Features:
Motorola Cliq will run Android 1.5 cupcake and you can access to various services by Google which includes Google Maps with street view, voice search by Google, Picasa and Google Talk. This mobile phone supports various e-mail clients such as Windows Live, Yahoo and many other POP3 and IMAP services. You can also use Quick Office suite to view documents.
Cliq is a 3-G phone which offers full HTML Google browser, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS facilities. With its 5-megapizxel camera you can capture images or can record videos. It is also equipped with built-in music and video player.
It will come preloaded with Amazon MP3 store, You Tube App, Shazam, Last.fm and Immem. Talk time is 6 hours while standby time is upto 13.5 days.
Motoblur User Interface:
Motorola Cliq will be equipped with Motoblur user interface which will differentiate it from other smartphones available these days. Motoblur interface will sync information from sources such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Gmail accounts. This will save your time in opening and closing these applications.
Finally iPhone will be equipped by MMS facility from this September. It will be a start of new era for iPhones and several iPhone lovers who were eagerly waiting for a long time to get multimedia messaging application in their iphones.
This facility will be available on iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G only and you will need only a software update to be able to send your first MMS message.
A long wait:
iPhone lovers have waited a long for this moment. AT & T gives reasonable excuse for this long delay that took place to get a simple basic feature in iPhones. According to them:
“To get MMS service on iPhone, it required us to work on our network MMS architecture to carry the expected record volumes of MMS traffic and ensure an excellent experience.”
Some users have seen MMS commands on their iPhones after they updated their software last month, but facility of MMS was not available that time.
Anyway finally it is great news for all iPhone lovers and now iPhone can join cell phone family after this update.
India’s first ambitious lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 lost its contact with ISRO on Saturday August 29, 2009 after ten months of its launch. According to ISRO officials this mission is over now, and it has completed 90-95% of the technical work, it was intended to do.
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Chandrayaan 1: Launch and Achievements
Chandrayaan 1 was launched on October 22, 2008 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota by PSLV-C11. It completed 312 days in orbit and making 3400 orbits around the moon. It was equipped with sophisticated sensors such as terrain mapping camera, hyper-spectral imager and moon mineralogy mapper, meeting most of the scientific objectives of the mission.
Chandrayaan 1 sent nearly 70,000 amazing images of surface of moon which includes mountains and craters especially at moon’s polar region. It also collected critical information about chemical and mineral content of moon.
Madhavan Nair, the ISRO chief admitted that Mission Chandrayaan has come to an end, although it is a difficult situation.
He says:
“At the moment, we have suspended the mission. Calling it off would depend on what has failed. We are trying to analyze what has gone wrong and we will take a look at it tomorrow.”
Problems with Chandrayaan 1:
Scientists are still analyzing the reasons of this unexpected problem that came with Chandrayaan, but it may be caused due to the malfunctioning of star sensor that determines the orientation of spacecraft. This sensor started created problems four month back before this mission ended. Also one of the bus management units failed. There was also an overheating problem necessitating the deactivation of some of the 11 payloads.
Black Holes have always fascinated scientist due to their mysterious properties, but there is much to be learned about them. These strange regions once thought to be absent of light before research found that actually these are the regions with such an extreme gravitational force that nothing, not even light can escape from their surface.
Black Holes
According to a latest invention Black Holes (imitation of Black Hole actually) can be reproduce in laboratory now!
Black Holes: What are they?
Let’s understand it through the example of our own earth:
The mass of earth creates the gravity the pulls the things towards it. With enough power we can escape the earth’s gravitational force. This is how space vehicles leave the earth’s atmosphere.
Now if we squeeze the size of earth to that of a marble. This will increase the mass and gravitational force of earth to such extent that it would be impossible to bypass that force. Black holes are also regions with such a large mass and gravitational force that not even light can escape from them. Due to this it is not possible to view Black holes, but their presence can be realized only by the nearby activities.
Till now scientist have done extensive research about these strange regions in the universe. We know how they born, where they occur, and why they exists in different sizes, but there is much to know about them.
How to Know More about Black Holes?:
Dartmouth researchers have now proposed a new way to explore Black Holes. They plan to reproduce the black hole at a smaller scale in laboratory. A paper has been published in this regard in Physical Review Letters, August 20 issue.
This method of creating tiny black holes of quantum size will help scientist to understand the insights of Black holes. Stephen Hawking, eminent space scientist had proposed that, Black Holes are not totally void of activity and they emit radiations in the form of photon. This radiation is known as Hawking Radiation or Bekenstein-Hawking radiation.
According to Paul Nation, a co-author of paper and Dartmouth graduate student,
“Hawking famously showed that black holes radiate energy according to a thermal spectrum. His calculations relied on assumptions about the physics of ultra-high energies and quantum gravity. Because we can’t yet take measurements from real black holes, we need a way to recreate this phenomenon in the lab in order to study it, to validate it.”
Scientist has shown that how a magnetic field-pulse microwave transmission line containing an array of superconducting quantum interference devices can reproduce physics analogous to a radiating black hole. This system can be controlled in laboratory and quantum mechanics properties. They can also manipulate the strength of applied magnetic field.
Past Attempts in this Field:
Creation of Black Holes in Laboratory has been proposed before by scientists. It has been proposed using supersonic fluid flows, ultracold bose-einstein condensates and nonlinear fiber optic cables. But the main problem in these schemes was weak Hawking radiation or masked radiation due to overheating of device. This latest scheme is much more efficient than previous proposed models.
Authors of Paper:
This paper has been written by Paul Nation, Alexander Rimberg, Eyal Buks and Miles Blencowe.
Scientist has reported that glaciers at Antarctica a melting at an alarming rates. It has been observed that “Pine Island”, a gigantic glacier in West Antarctica is melting at four times higher rate that it was 10 years ago. This glacier is around twice the size of Scotland.
Glaciers at Antarctica Region
According to a recent research, published in “Geophysical Research Letters” journal, it has been estimated that at this rate the main section of glaciers will disappear in 100 years. This is six time sooner than it was estimated previously.
This research was led by Professor Duncan Wingham at University College London, and was funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council.
Pine Island:
Pine Island is one of the main glacier that is located the most inaccessible region of Antarctic. It is nearly 1000 km from the research base. This island was unnoticed for many years, but now scientists have tracked the development of glacier in past 15 years using satellite measurements.
According to Professor Andrew Shepherd of School of Earth and Environment at Leeds University, this accelerated thinning of Pine Island shows the increasing imbalance in Cyrosphere. It may remain unobserved in absence of satellite instruments. He is a co-author of research paper.
Scientist has collected a record of past 15 years, which helped them to identify the subtle and dramatic change that was hidden previously.
Role of Global Warming:
Scientist says that the retreat of glaciers in this region of Antarctica is caused by warming of surrounding oceans, but it’s too early to relate this to global warming. Some experts say that warming of Antarctic sea is a major reason to this.
Impact on Environment:
The area of Pine Island is around 5,400 km square is big enough to increase the rate at which sea level is rising around the world.
Professor Shepherd says:
“Because the Pine Island Glacier contains enough ice to almost double the IPCC’s best estimate of 21st century sea level rise, the manner in which the glacier will respond to the accelerated thinning is a matter of great concern.”
