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Opera 10.0a1 - Fast alternative web browser. (Free)

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Opera 10.0a1

Opera is an alternative internet web browser that is very fast, small, easy to use, and complies with all of the web browser standards.
WHAT'S NEW

Version 10.0a1: Opera 10.0 includes the Presto 2.2 rendering engine. Detailed changes since Presto 2.1.1 are listed below:

Rendering

Significant performance improvements
Added Web font support, allowing the download of fonts specified in font descriptors in @font-face at-rules; TrueType (TTF), OpenType (OTF), and SVG fonts are supported (demos)
Achieved 100/100 and pixel-perfect rendering on the Acid3 test
Pretty-printing of unstyled XML (using unstyledxml.css in the Styles sub-directory of Opera's installation directory)
Added support for CSS3 RGBA color values (demo)
Added support for CSS3 HSLA color values (demo)
Added support for the CSS3 color: transparent value
Added support for the viewport meta tag key
Improved HTML5 support, including end-tag and start-tag parsing, whitespace parsing, and DOCTYPE parsing
CSS files must be served with the correct MIME type ("text/css") in Strict mode or they will be ignored

JavaScript/DOM

New regular expression engine, which greatly improves performance on regular-expression-heavy pages such as the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark
Added support for the W3C Selectors API
Renamed the objects returned by getClientRects() and getBoundingClientRect() to ClientRectList and ClientRect instead of TextRectangle and TextRectangleList, respectively
XMLHttpRequests will now trigger start-loading/end-loading events
Removed the proprietary window.setDocument method
Added support for the SVGElement.currentFps and SVGElement.targetFps properties to read and control, respectively, SVG frames per second
The load event for scripts is now sent after the script is executed rather than before
The load event is now sent to frame/iframe/object elements before it is sent to the document
A highlight will no longer be added when HTMLElement.focus() is called unless keyboard navigation is already activated

Other

Removed UTF-32 encoding support
User JS files will now be executed in alphabetical order rather than file system order
HTML5 canvas elements can now export images to the JPEG format
HTML5 canvas transforms are applied when building a path, not when painting it (this change is made to work like Mozilla)
The first ID (instead of the last) is now used on pages with duplicate IDs when navigating to fragment IDs
Added support for the altGlyph element in SVGs
Added support for 32-bit alpha in BMP and RLE-encoded BMP images
Implemented HTML5's algorithms for detecting charsets in HTML
The http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40 namespace is no longer treated as an alias to http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml

User Interface

Auto-Update
Inline Spelling Checker

Mail/News

Rich Text Message Composition
Bold styling, italic styling, and underline styling can be toggled using ⌘B, ⌘I, and ⌘U, respectively.
Rich text message signatures are not yet supported.
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Facebook Connect vs. OpenID: Who Will Emerge Victorious?

Read/WriteWeb

- 6 hours and 6 minutes ago

pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/facebook-logo.jpg"a href="http://developers.facebook.com/connect.php"Facebook Connect/a, the system the company has long discussed as "Facebook on sites all around the web," enters general availability today and we've got one big question - should website owners use Facebook or a href="http://openid.net"OpenID/a to authenticate and learn about their users? Will Facebook become a dominant identifier online? Will the OpenID community lose out to the company's proprietary system or will this challenge breathe new life into the movement for open source, standards based, federated user identity?/p pOpen Source vs. Proprietary technology isn't just about desktop software anymore - now it's about our identities and social connections, all around the web. We've published a mind map below displaying our understanding of the contrasts between these two identity systems. If you'd like to add our thoughts to that map, you can./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.openx.org/ck.php?n=12822amp;cb=12822' target='_blank'img src='http://d.openx.org/avw.php?zoneid=861amp;cb=12822amp;n=12822' border='0' alt='' align="right" //a/p pThis battle isn't about "single sign-on" - it's about the payload that comes with it (friend networks, personal data, maybe more), it's about the developer communities, usability and ownership. It's very important to the future of our user experience online and it's a fascinating study in contrasts. /p centerimg alt="FBOID2.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/FBOID2.jpg" width="610" height="297"/center pThe mind map above illustrates our understanding of the relative merits of these two leading identity solutions. We thought it was an effective way of discussing a complex situation succinctly. We created it collaboratively using a href="http://mindmeister.com" rel="nofollow"MindMeister/a. (disclosure: Mindmeister is a recent, but not current, RWW sponsor) /p pWe haven't drawn a conclusion yet about who we think will win. We like Facebook Connect, but we like OpenID better. We're cheering for both, but louder for the open source, open standard solution. We think Facebook's odds are better, but perhaps the OpenID community will rise to the challenge now that it has such a formidable competitor./p pDo you think we've missed anything really important? If so, feel free to edit the mind map on this page: a href="http://www.mindmeister.com/8784099"Identity: FB Connect vs. OpenID/a (You'll need a a href="https://www.mindmeister.com/users/signup"MindMeister account to do so/a.) Below you can see a click and drag embedded display of the latest state of this map that our readers have updated with their thoughts. You can a href="http://www.mindmeister.com/8784099"see it full screen here/a./p pFacebook Connect vs. OpenID is going to be a big decision that every website owner should consider. What do you think the relative strengths and weaknesses of the two systems are? /p piframe width="600" height="400" frameborder="0" src="http://www.mindmeister.com/maps/public_map_shell/8784099?width=600height=400zoom=1" scrolling="no" style="overflow:hidden"/iframe/p pThanks to the a href="http://vidoop.com"Vidoop/a crew for the conversation this morning that inspired this post./p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_connect_vs_open_id.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/V-7sJGZ2Iv_cxPA4F2Zil8xGPdM/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/V-7sJGZ2Iv_cxPA4F2Zil8xGPdM/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=Dv4tfz89"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=1035" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=YWTycQjK"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=ZDFYqTf5"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=ZDFYqTf5" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=3tWZ3br6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=3tWZ3br6" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=UiuE7FxM"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=UiuE7FxM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=ahox73Mh"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=cNGYwYyH"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=1034" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/DMgO20efmX8" height="1" width="1"/

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The Ultimate $250 Camera Shoot-Out [Battlemodo]

Gizmodo

- 8 hours and 34 minutes ago

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/psshootout.jpg" width="807" height="415" style="display:block;float:none;" /There are a lot of $200-$300 point and shoots on the market right now, and there's no way the test display at Best Buy is going to tell you which to buy. How is elbowing other shoppers while analyzing your hasty snapshots on a 3-inch, low-rez screen going to help you make an informed buying decision?/p pInstead, I put six of the most popular point-and-shoots on the market through some major testing. Then I decided on the one that you should buy without the hedging BS./p pstrongMeet our competitors/strongbr emEach of these compact point and shoots features optical image stabilization and is priced around $250:/em/p pa href="http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/detail/detail.do?group=camerascamcorderstype=digitalcamerassubtype=tlseriesmodel_cd=EC-TL9ZZBBA/US"Samsung TL9 ($280)/abr 10MP, 5X zoom, 2.7-inch LCD/p pa href="http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoActfcategoryid=145modelid=16718#ModelDetailAct"Canon SD790 ($250)/abr 10MP, 3X zoom, 3-inch LCD/p pa href="http://www.nikonusa.com/Find-Your-Nikon/Product/Digital-Camera/26120/COOLPIX-S560.html"Nikon S560 ($250)/abr 10MP, 5X zoom, 2.7-inch LCD/p pa href="http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551storeId=10151langId=-1productId=8198552921665309170"Sony W170 ($250)/abr 10MP, 5x zoom, 2.7-inch LCD/p pa href="http://www2.panasonic.com/consumer-electronics/shop/Cameras-Camcorders/Digital-Cameras/Lumix-Digital-Cameras/model.DMC-FS20K_11002_7000000000000005702"Panasonic FS20 ($250)/abr 10MP, 4x zoom, 3-inch LCD/p pa href="http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=13044pq-locale=en_US_requestid=7962"Kodak M1093 ($200)/abr 10MP, 3x zoom, 3-inch LCD/p pstrongStudio Shoot/strongbr The shots inside were captured under diffused sunlight in full auto mode at max (10MP) resolution. I won't say that it wasn't an extreme disappointment that only one camera, the Kodak, was able to shoot with proper white balance in this situation and offer us colors as they really look (you'll have to trust me on this one). The other cameras compensated poorly, possibly metering the diffused light as tungsten light, and producing a fairly cold image because of it.br script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" galleryPost('camerabattlemodo', 6,''); /scriptbr Other than the color, you can't make out much from the wide shots. But if you blow the images up to their native resolution, there are huge differences. Even in the web-compressed images here, it's obvious that Canon captures the most detail:br img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/canoncookies2compressed.jpg" width="807" height="440" style="display:block;float:none;" //p pIt's basically a tie between Sony and Kodak for second place. Here's what Kodak looks like:br img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/kodakcookie2compressed.jpg" width="807" height="466" style="display:block;float:none;" //p pAnd then there's a pretty hard drop in quality. Panasonic comes in a solid last place here:br img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/panasoniccookie2compressed.jpg" width="807" height="384" style="display:block;float:none;" //p pYou can fix the color by manually choosing a smarter white balance (color temperature), or adjusting the balance in post. But you can't get the texture of those cookies back. Big win for Canon here./p pstrongMotion Photography/strongbr It's no secret that many point-and-shoots are horrible for capturing the spontaneity of a child or pet, in part due to focus lag and often an additional wait before the shot is actually taken. While DSLRs are the best solution, I wanted to see if any point-and-shoots could rise to the challenge of capturing some action./p pSo I put them to the test on a Chicago side street where cars get up to 15-20mph. After repeat testing on each model, once again, we had a clear winner. Trouble is, it's Panasonic, loser of the resolution match! Panasonic features more shooting settings than any of its competitors, so my guess is that they spent a lot of time on optimizing at least this particular preset optimization.br img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/panasonicmotion.jpg" width="807" height="518" style="display:block;float:none;" /br The remainder of the competition was fairly close, and I can't say that even the Panasonic model will capture any incredible sports action photography. But I will say that the Nikon and Samsung seemed to lag more than the others from button press to shot acquisition. They both tended to have the blurriest shots as well. Here's a typical result of the Nikon:br img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/nikonmotion2.jpg" width="807" height="556" style="display:block;float:none;" //p pstrongVideo/strongbr Like high-speed photography, point-and-shoots aren't fundamentally designed for video. But then again, since they all shoot video, people have begun using them more frequently than they ever used their bigger, more specialized camcorders, so a test was necessary./p pAfter playing some billiards, I found Canon's image, though not technically the highest resolution, to be the best. A point as well to its realistic sound capture of ball on ball action.br img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/canonvideo.jpg" width="807" height="476" style="display:block;float:none;" /br Second place goes to Kodak. Even though you can make out a great deal of grain on the table's felt surface, it also captures a relatively sharp, pleasantly contrasty image when you examine each ball.br img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/kodakpicnewsss.jpg" width="807" height="445" style="display:block;float:none;" /br Last place? This title is, once again, reserved for Panasonic. For some reason, the camera interpreted the red table as some sort of blurry pastel. And the sound was a like a fast food drive-through speaker.br img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/panasonicvideo.jpg" width="807" height="454" style="display:block;float:none;" //p pstrongFlash/strongbr We've all been there. It's late. A friend is in town. Your cameraphone can't hope to capture a shot in your drunken stupor, especially as you're hanging out in a smokey bar. I'd loved to have recreated this scene precisely in its brilliance, but instead I opted to take pictures of my cat with the lights low.br img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/sonyflash.jpg" width="807" height="529" style="display:block;float:none;" /br It's an unfair challenge for a small-lensed, small-chipped camera to capture a decent picture in low light, even with flash as a crutch, but the Sony did as well as I could have hoped, illuminating my subject and her background alike, lacking the hotspots of most flash photography./p pThe other cameras were predictably mediocre, but the absolute worst at handling flash had to be the Nikon. Not only did it give my cat a washed-out glow, but it didn't even consider properly exposing that obnoxious pile of boxes behind her. The shame.br img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/nikonflash.jpg" width="807" height="540" style="display:block;float:none;" //p pstrongWeird Features and Gimmicks/strongbr img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/samsung-tl9.jpg" class="center" style="display:block;" /None of these items should probably determine your buying decision, but I wanted to mention a few of the more...interesting features of the cameras. The Samsung TL9 has a set of snazzy analog dials on top that display battery life and remaining memory like a car's dashmdash;plus it plays music and movies. The Panasonic has categorized an Intelligent Auto Mode that gives a lazy but informed user a nice way to tell the camera, "hey, you may need to boost the ISO," without messing with any other controls or gimmicky menus. The Nikon will warn you if a subject's eyes are closed. The Canon has ditched the standard up, down, left, right menu dial for a spinning ring...that's bold, if not always intuitive. And Sony will shoot in 16x9 or stretch images to that ratio for quick HDTV slideshows. Plus, smile/face detectors are everywhere. How did we ever take pictures before boxes enclosed a loved one's face?/p pstrongSo What Should You Buy?/strongbr After all my testing, I'd recommend the Canon SD790. Sure, it didn't win every category, but it won the one that counts mostmdash;detail. It came first in the video category. And it never ever fell flat on its face./p pMaybe this conclusion sounds a little too clinical to you. If so, let me say that there are less tangible elements I appreciate about the Canon SD790: It includes the best built battery charger and it is the only model tested to sync with a computer via mini USB (as opposed to some annoying proprietary cable or dock). On top of those, it always seems quick to capture a shot after I pressed for the shutter, though it's still not nearly as responsive as my prosumer DSLR. The one thing I'd ask for in this camera is a more powerful zoom lens./p pIf you know an extreme technophobe, you might tell them about the Kodak M1093. It offers the simplest shooting experience with one button to choose a photo mode, one button for flash toggling and one button to actually take a picture. Digital cameras don't get simpler than that, and I have to admit, as the cheapest model in this roundup ($200), with the least techie brand name, it performs better than I expectedmdash;though it does have a propensity to bump the ISO, producing some unwanted noise./p pBut as for the Sony W170, while it does feature the widest angle lens with 5x of zoom, it's clunky in the hand and rarely brilliant in quality. As for the Nikon S560, it takes mediocre shots. The Panasonic FS20 is inconsistentmdash;bordering on horrendous much of the timemdash;and features a small screen and a dated interface. Meanwhile, the Samsung TL9 just completely fails to impress me./p pSo go ahead, pick up the Canon. It seems the company's overwhelming market share is well deserved. Or don't. I won't lose sleep or anything. Just don't come crying to me when all your pictures look like crap./p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=c1a975b9131882296246399e780f880dp=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=c1a975b9131882296246399e780f880dp=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=c1a975b9131882296246399e780f880d" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=UD6vGN1K"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=Wtdzgbo9"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=prZIRpc4"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=prZIRpc4" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=z2R519Xk"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=z2R519Xk" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/CrXUNBcOjJ4" height="1" width="1"/

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Aussies to Get the Next Android Handset in the Form of the Kogan Agora Pro [Android]

Gizmodo

- 1 days ago

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/atte1ab1.jpg" width="558" height="284" /The Kogan Agora Pro has popped up in Australia as the latest a href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/android"Android/a handset and is available for international pre-order. The phone has a 2.5-inch resistive touchscreen, QWERTY keyboard, 3G and GPS for $399. /p pKogan claims they spent a lot of time listening to direct feedback from consumers on what features they wanted most, and what price point they were looking to buy at, then Kogan filtered it down to the Agora. The phone sells without a contract or carrier obligation and also features a 624 MHz processor, 128 MB RAM, wi-fi, 2 MP camera and 400 minutes of talk time. A lesser equipped Kogan Agora is also available, lacking the camera, wi-fi and GPS for $299. The phones will start shipping on January 29. [a href="http://www.kogan.com.au/"Kogan/a]/p blockquotepKOGAN UNVEILS â€˜AGORA’br / FIRST AUSSIE PHONE POWERED BY ANDROIDâ„¢/p pMELBOURNE, Thursday 4th December 2008 â€“ Kogan Technologies today unveiled the Kogan Agora, the first Australian mobile phone powered by the Androidâ„¢ operating system./p pKogan Technologies will sell the Agora for AU$299 and the Agora Pro for AU$399. Both models are available for sale today on www.kogan.com.au. The phones are sold outright â€“ with no contract â€“ and will work on any network./p pThe Kogan Agora (AU$299) features a full QWERTY keyboard, central navigation key, 2.5” touchscreen, microSD slot, and 3G connectivity./p pThe Kogan Agora Pro (AU$399) adds a 2 MP camera, Wi-Fi, and GPS to the Agora’s impressive specifications./p pBoth models will ship to customers â€“ in Australia and internationally â€“ on January 29th 2009./p pKogan Technologies founder, Ruslan Kogan, said the Agora is proof that his company is achieving its goal of offering the latest technology at the best value prices./p p“The Kogan team have been working very hard to bring out the exciting new phones powered by Google’s Android operating system at the right mix of price and specifications,” Kogan said./p p“We’ve been listening to customers through our blog, and crammed in all the features we possibly could. The end result is the best value, fully-featured phone in the Australian market./p p“We worked closely with manufacturers and vendors to develop drivers, software, and tweaks to make the Agora an intuitive and exciting experience for everyone./p p“The design and features of the Kogan Agora makes the phone appeal to both consumers and business users./p p“The Android operating system means the handset can capture and play music, photos and video, surf the web, play games, navigate, and organise your life with extremely powerful applications."/p pKogan has been a long time supporter of open source and Androidâ„¢ provides a real alternative to Apple’s proprietary operating system for the iPhone./p p“Google is a key player in developing efficient and innovative online solutions for customers around the world. The open source nature of Android means the operating system will continually improve over time,” Kogan said./p pSome of the applications pre-loaded on the Kogan Agora are:/p pÂ· Gmailâ„¢br / Â· Google Searchâ„¢br / Â· Google Calenderâ„¢br / Â· Google Mapsâ„¢br / Â· Google Talkâ„¢br / Â· YouTubeâ„¢/p pHIGHLIGHTS:br / Â· 2.5-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screenbr / Â· Integrated QWERTY keyboardbr / Â· High-speed 3G network connectionbr / Â· One-Touch Google Search â„¢br / Â· Easy Web Browsingbr / Â· Easy-to-use email with attachment support for images, videos, music and documentsbr / Â· Customisable Home Screen with instant Email, text message and IM notificationsbr / Â· Instant access to mobile Internet services (Gmail â„¢, YouTube â„¢, Google Talk â„¢, Google Calendar â„¢, Google Maps â„¢)br / Â· Music Playerbr / Â· microSDâ„¢ expansion slot for all your storage needsbr / Â· Wi-Fi network access (included with Kogan Agora Pro)br / Â· GPS navigation capability (included with Kogan Agora Pro)br / Â· 2.0 megapixel camera (included with Kogan Agora Pro)/p pSPECIFICATIONS:/p pOperating Systembr / Androidâ„¢br / Google Mobile Functionsbr / Google Searchâ„¢, Gmailâ„¢, YouTubeâ„¢, Google Mapsâ„¢, Google Talkâ„¢, Google Calendarâ„¢.br / Displaybr / 2.5-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with 262K QVGA (320 X 240 pixel) resolutionbr / Device Controlbr / Central Navigation Keybr / Keyboardbr / QWERTY keyboardbr / Keyboard backlightingbr / GPSbr / GPS navigation capability (included with Kogan Agora Pro)br / Connectivitybr / BluetoothÂ® 2.0 with Enhanced Data Ratebr / Wi-FiÂ®: IEEE 802.11b/g (included with Kogan Agora Pro)br / Camerabr / 2.0 megapixel colour camera (included with Kogan Agora Pro)br / Audiobr / Built-in microphone and speakerbr / Headphone jackbr / Ring tone formats:br / Â· MIDI, MP3, WMA, AAC, WAV, PCMbr / Videobr / Video formats supported:br / Â· MPEG2 H263, H264, MPEG4, AVIbr / Mail attachment support/p pViewable document types:br / Â· JPEG, GIF, WBMP, MIDI, AMR, MP3, WAVbr / Dimensions (HxWxD)br / 108 mm x 64 mm x 14.8 mmbr / Weightbr / 130gbr / Batterybr / Rechargeable Lithium-ion batterybr / Capacity: 1300 mAhbr / Talk Timebr / Up to approximately 400 minutesbr / Standby Timebr / Up to approximately 300 hoursbr / Processor MHzbr / 624 MHzbr / Memorybr / ROM:br / 256 MBbr / RAM:br / 128 MB/p pmicroSDâ„¢ card expansion slotbr / Network/p pUMTS/HSDPA (850, 1900, 2100 MHz)br / GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)/p pOther than as described in this release, Kogan and its products, are not affiliated with Google Inc or its products. Googleâ„¢, Androidâ„¢, Google Searchâ„¢, Gmailâ„¢, YouTubeâ„¢, Google Mapsâ„¢, Google Talkâ„¢, Google Calendarâ„¢ are trademarks of Google Inc. Use of these trademarks is subject to Google Permissions./p pAbout Kogan Technologiesbr / Kogan Technologies is a wholly-owned Australian company established in 2006 by entrepreneur Ruslan Kogan. Kogan sells a wide range of consumer electronics in Australia, New Zealand, and around the world. The Kogan promise is based on a unique business model that passes the savings of dealing direct with the manufacturers onto Australian consumers. Bypassing middlemen, Kogan is able to offer the latest technology at the most affordable prices. Kogan’s unique blend of quality technology and value for money offers price-conscious Australian technology consumers a real choice./p/blockquote br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=2ccda3c64c70060d567ec392a555443cp=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=2ccda3c64c70060d567ec392a555443cp=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=2ccda3c64c70060d567ec392a555443c" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=wdX8W6px"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=abtVBGgr"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=IxLzi89c"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=IxLzi89c" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=IxV1Qrko"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=IxV1Qrko" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/o_sCggcbvuI" height="1" width="1"/

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Kogan Agora Pro is the Next Android Handset [Android]

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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/atte1ab1.jpg" width="558" height="284" style="display:block;" /The Kogan Agora Pro has popped up in Australia as the latest a href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/android"Android/a handset and is available for international pre-order. The phone has a 2.5-inch resistive touchscreen, QWERTY keyboard, 3G and GPS for $399./p pKogan claims they spent a lot of time listening to direct feedback from consumers on what features they wanted most, and what price point they were looking to buy at, then Kogan filtered it down to the Agora. The phone sells without a contract or carrier obligation and also features a 624 MHz processor, 128 MB RAM, wi-fi, 2 MP camera and 400 minutes of talk time. A lesser equipped Kogan Agora is also available, lacking the camera, wi-fi and GPS for 299 Australian dollars. As mentioned earlier, pre-orders are available not only to Australian markets, but the rest of the world as well. And the Agora will start shipping on January 29. [a href="http://www.kogan.com.au/"Kogan/a]/p blockquote pKOGAN UNVEILS â€˜AGORA’br FIRST AUSSIE PHONE POWERED BY ANDROIDâ„¢/p pMELBOURNE, Thursday 4th December 2008 â€“ Kogan Technologies today unveiled the Kogan Agora, the first Australian mobile phone powered by the Androidâ„¢ operating system./p pKogan Technologies will sell the Agora for AU$299 and the Agora Pro for AU$399. Both models are available for sale today on www.kogan.com.au. The phones are sold outright â€“ with no contract â€“ and will work on any network./p pThe Kogan Agora (AU$299) features a full QWERTY keyboard, central navigation key, 2.5” touchscreen, microSD slot, and 3G connectivity./p pThe Kogan Agora Pro (AU$399) adds a 2 MP camera, Wi-Fi, and GPS to the Agora’s impressive specifications./p pBoth models will ship to customers â€“ in Australia and internationally â€“ on January 29th 2009./p pKogan Technologies founder, Ruslan Kogan, said the Agora is proof that his company is achieving its goal of offering the latest technology at the best value prices./p p“The Kogan team have been working very hard to bring out the exciting new phones powered by Google’s Android operating system at the right mix of price and specifications,” Kogan said./p p“We’ve been listening to customers through our blog, and crammed in all the features we possibly could. The end result is the best value, fully-featured phone in the Australian market./p p“We worked closely with manufacturers and vendors to develop drivers, software, and tweaks to make the Agora an intuitive and exciting experience for everyone./p p“The design and features of the Kogan Agora makes the phone appeal to both consumers and business users./p p“The Android operating system means the handset can capture and play music, photos and video, surf the web, play games, navigate, and organise your life with extremely powerful applications."/p pKogan has been a long time supporter of open source and Androidâ„¢ provides a real alternative to Apple’s proprietary operating system for the iPhone./p p“Google is a key player in developing efficient and innovative online solutions for customers around the world. The open source nature of Android means the operating system will continually improve over time,” Kogan said./p pSome of the applications pre-loaded on the Kogan Agora are:/p pÂ· Gmailâ„¢br Â· Google Searchâ„¢br Â· Google Calenderâ„¢br Â· Google Mapsâ„¢br Â· Google Talkâ„¢br Â· YouTubeâ„¢/p pHIGHLIGHTS:br Â· 2.5-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screenbr Â· Integrated QWERTY keyboardbr Â· High-speed 3G network connectionbr Â· One-Touch Google Search â„¢br Â· Easy Web Browsingbr Â· Easy-to-use email with attachment support for images, videos, music and documentsbr Â· Customisable Home Screen with instant Email, text message and IM notificationsbr Â· Instant access to mobile Internet services (Gmail â„¢, YouTube â„¢, Google Talk â„¢, Google Calendar â„¢, Google Maps â„¢)br Â· Music Playerbr Â· microSDâ„¢ expansion slot for all your storage needsbr Â· Wi-Fi network access (included with Kogan Agora Pro)br Â· GPS navigation capability (included with Kogan Agora Pro)br Â· 2.0 megapixel camera (included with Kogan Agora Pro)/p pSPECIFICATIONS:/p pOperating Systembr Androidâ„¢br Google Mobile Functionsbr Google Searchâ„¢, Gmailâ„¢, YouTubeâ„¢, Google Mapsâ„¢, Google Talkâ„¢, Google Calendarâ„¢.br Displaybr 2.5-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with 262K QVGA (320 X 240 pixel) resolutionbr Device Controlbr Central Navigation Keybr Keyboardbr QWERTY keyboardbr Keyboard backlightingbr GPSbr GPS navigation capability (included with Kogan Agora Pro)br Connectivitybr BluetoothÂ® 2.0 with Enhanced Data Ratebr Wi-FiÂ®: IEEE 802.11b/g (included with Kogan Agora Pro)br Camerabr 2.0 megapixel colour camera (included with Kogan Agora Pro)br Audiobr Built-in microphone and speakerbr Headphone jackbr Ring tone formats:br Â· MIDI, MP3, WMA, AAC, WAV, PCMbr Videobr Video formats supported:br Â· MPEG2 H263, H264, MPEG4, AVIbr Mail attachment support/p pViewable document types:br Â· JPEG, GIF, WBMP, MIDI, AMR, MP3, WAVbr Dimensions (HxWxD)br 108 mm x 64 mm x 14.8 mmbr Weightbr 130gbr Batterybr Rechargeable Lithium-ion batterybr Capacity: 1300 mAhbr Talk Timebr Up to approximately 400 minutesbr Standby Timebr Up to approximately 300 hoursbr Processor MHzbr 624 MHzbr Memorybr ROM:br 256 MBbr RAM:br 128 MB/p pmicroSDâ„¢ card expansion slotbr Network/p pUMTS/HSDPA (850, 1900, 2100 MHz)br GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)/p pOther than as described in this release, Kogan and its products, are not affiliated with Google Inc or its products. Googleâ„¢, Androidâ„¢, Google Searchâ„¢, Gmailâ„¢, YouTubeâ„¢, Google Mapsâ„¢, Google Talkâ„¢, Google Calendarâ„¢ are trademarks of Google Inc. Use of these trademarks is subject to Google Permissions./p pAbout Kogan Technologiesbr Kogan Technologies is a wholly-owned Australian company established in 2006 by entrepreneur Ruslan Kogan. Kogan sells a wide range of consumer electronics in Australia, New Zealand, and around the world. The Kogan promise is based on a unique business model that passes the savings of dealing direct with the manufacturers onto Australian consumers. Bypassing middlemen, Kogan is able to offer the latest technology at the most affordable prices. 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