Dear Pdasnews.com visitors,
I am in the pleasant position to announce that we are the first site to get an interview from the lead programmer & chairman of CrazySoft, Mr. George Sarris & for those who may say that this is not the 1^st interview he gives, I have to tell them that this is the very first one he gives in PERSON.

Now, I know that this is not new, but recently I was at the Sony Ericsson service point where I live & was discussing for the “thing” Vodafone has done with the mp3’s that cannot be set as ring tones at the Vodafone stores (eg. V800 that I have). They told me that unfortunately there was nothing to be done with it, but guess what!!! SE had a different idea about that (until recently anyway). I found at their site the DRM packager.

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Hellas announced that from 01/06/2005 will provide 24 months guarantee for all the mobile phones sold within the European Community & are sent for repair at the Sony Service Centers in Greece & Cyprus. The rest of the guarantee terms remain as is.

Oslo, Norway - June 29, 2005

Opera Software, global leader in Web browser technologies, and T-Mobile today introduced the new Nokia 6680 with the Opera browser as part of T-Mobile's "Internet in your pocket" offering available in July 2005. Powered by the fast and popular Opera browser, the Nokia 6680 couples mobile telephony with full Web access, and is the first 3G phone available in T-Mobile's "Internet in your pocket" line.

"More and more operators are requesting the Opera browser on their handsets," says Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. "With Opera's Web browser, T-Mobile can offer their subscribers the full Internet on their mobile phones, as well as quickly roll out new and advanced mobile services that dramatically increase the phone's usability and average revenue per user (ARPU)."

The idea behind the "Web'n'Walk" offering is to give people unrestricted access to the full Internet and Web-based services when on-the-go, and is part of T-Mobile's initiative to grow data services into a mass market.

Web'n'Walk takes full advantage of Opera's Web browser to give people the same access to their favorite Web sites, e-mail and instant messaging on their mobile phone as on their regular PCs. With its unique Small-Screen Rendering technology and remarkable speed, the Opera browser on the Nokia 6680 provides a compelling full Web experience on a mobile device.

In addition to Opera's mobile Web browser, the Nokia 6680 comes with a complete set of features including calendar, address book, MP3 player, 1.3 megapixel camera, photo/video editing software and e-mailing capabilities.

Availability

The Nokia 6680 through T-Mobile's "Internet in your pocket" offering is first available in Germany and Austria in July 2005.

About Opera Software ASA

Opera Software ASA is an industry leader in the development of Web browser technology, targeting the desktop, smartphone, PDA, home media and vertical markets. Partners include companies such as EM>IBM, Nokia, Sony, Motorola, Adobe, Macromedia, Symbian, Canal+ Technologies, Sony Ericsson, Kyocera, Sharp, Motorola Metroworks, MontaVista Software, BenQ, Sendo and AMD. The Opera browser has received international recognition from users, industry experts and media for being faster, smaller and more standards-compliant than other browsers.

Opera Software ASA is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, with development centers in Linkoping and Gothenburg, Sweden. The company is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol OPERA. Learn more about Opera at www.opera.com.

The experiment took place in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture on May 9, 2005.This is the latest achievement in DoCoMo's ongoing development of key radio access technology for 4G mobile communications.

The 1Gbps real-time packet transmission was realized through Variable Spreading Factor-Spread Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (VSF-Spread OFDM) radio access and 4-by-4 Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) multiplexing using "adaptive selection of surviving symbol replica candidate" (ASESS) based on Maximum Likelihood Detection with QR decomposition and the M-algorithm (QRM-MLD), which was developed by DoCoMo. By using the new algorithm, DoCoMo was able to reduce the large computational complexity of the original MLD method while maintaining almost the same achievable throughput performance. Frequency spectrum efficiency, which is expressed as information bits per second per Hertz, is 10 bits per second per Hertz, about 20 times that of 3G radio networks' spectrum efficiency.

During an earlier trial in July 2003, DoCoMo achieved 100Mbps and 20Mbps data rate transmission in the downlink and uplink, respectively, in outdoor environments using the same 100MHz bandwidth.

DoCoMo will continue to conduct field trials as part of its program to develop a 4G global standard in cooperation with the International Telecommunication Union Radiocommunication Sector. The telecommunications council of Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications aims to see 4G services commercialized in the country by 2010.  www.nttdocomo.com

From esato.com

Motorola will ship another Linux/Java phone in Q4 2005. The E895 is a tri-band GSM cameraphone with a 1.3 megapixel camera, large TFT/LCD display, Bluetooth, and rich Internet, multimedia, and web capabilities.

Announced today at the 2005 JavaOne Conference, the compact Motorola E895 combines a rich, intuitive feature set with Motorola's signature clam-shell design to deliver the ultimate in multimedia - making it even easier to create, manage and share the experiences that matter most.

Availability
The Motorola E895 is expected to be available in Q4 2005.