Pantech Swift (AT&T)

If you're looking for a messaging phone?on AT&T, chances are you're going to wind up with one from Pantech. Right now, for instance, there's the Pantech Link II?($9.99, 3 stars), the Pantech Pursuit II?($29.99, 3 stars), and the Pantech Ease?($49.99, 2.5 stars). Now add to that the Pantech Swift ($69.99 with a two-year contract), which, luckily, is the best of the bunch. Its keyboard is only decent and its processor is too slow, but it's still one of your top picks for a messaging phone on AT&T that isn't a smartphone.

Design and Call Quality
The Swift measures 4.3 by 2.2 by 0.6 inches (HWD) and weigh a hefty 6.3 ounces, though it didn't actually feel that heavy. The back is made from an ever so slightly rubberized black plastic, while a ring of purple plastic surrounds the sliding display. At 2.8-inches and 320-by-240-pixel resolution, the capacitive touch screen looks fine, though text is a little jagged. The screen itself seems responsive, though the processor makes most actions feel slow (more on that below).

When closed, there's just one button beneath the display that serves as a home key. The screen slides out into a slightly angled position, which makes it comfortable to see and access the Swift's four-row QWERTY keyboard. The keys are made of the same black plastic that lines the display, with purple accents and white lettering. They're a little flat, which makes it easy to press the wrong one, though I grew used to it over time. This certainly isn't the best keyboard I've tested, but you'll be able to send messages quickly and easily. And there's no good way to type without it, since the touch screen only gives you the option for a number pad-style keyboard.

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The Pantech Swift is a quad-band EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) and dual-band HSPA 7.2 (850/1900 MHz) device with no Wi-Fi. Voice quality is average. Voices sound thin and fuzzy in the phone's earpiece. Calls made with the phone feature very good noise cancellation, though voices have a slightly muted quality. Calls sounded good through a?Jawbone Era?Bluetooth headset ($129, 4.5 stars), but there is no voice dialing, Bluetooth or otherwise. The speakerphone sounds fine but is not loud enough to use outside. Battery life was good at 6 hours and 49 minutes of talk time.

User Interface, Processor, and Apps
The Swift has a nice, bright, touch-based user interface. There are three customizable home screens you can swipe between, and it's easy to add additional apps or shortcuts. A strip of shortcuts at the bottom of the screen gives you quick access to the phone dialer, contacts, messages, and applications. The app menu features three pages of large, colorfully animated app icons. And for a messaging phone, the Swift handles text messages with aplomb?the menu is attractive and messages are threaded, so they show up in a conversational view.

UI aside, Pantech must have been ironic in naming this phone, because at times the Swift can feel remarkably slow. The phone is powered by a 600MHz Qualcomm QSX6270 processor, which is clearly not strong enough to run the phone's software smoothly. It can take upwards of five to 10 seconds to open apps, and at times I thought the phone had froze, only for the app to open a moment later. Swiping between each of the three home screens is first met with a delay, then followed by a noticeably choppy animation. While I like the phone's interface, you're going to have to be patient if you want to use it.

The Swift has an email app with access to AIM, AOL, AT&T, Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo accounts. The Opera Mini 5.1 browser works well to deliver WAP and HTML pages. AT&T Navigator is preinstalled for voice-enabled GPS directions. But that costs $9.99 per month, and if you want to use the Web browser, a data plan costs $15 per month (or $10 per month when you also have unlimited messaging). For those prices, you're better off with even a low-end smartphone, so I'd only stick with the Swift (as well as feature phones on AT&T in general) if you're looking strictly to talk and text.

Multimedia, Camera, and Conclusions
For multimedia files, there's 185MB of free internal memory, along with an empty microSD card slot. My 32 and 64GB SanDisk cards worked fine. The phone is able to play AAC, MP3, WAV, and WMA music files, and sound quality was great through both wired earbuds and Altec Lansing BackBeat?Bluetooth headphones ($129.99, 3.5 stars). The music player is attractive, and displays album art spinning around like a record when it's available. Unfortunately, video support is not nearly as good. The Swift is only able to play H.264 and MPEG4 videos at resolutions up to 320 by 240.

The Swift's 2-megapixel camera lacks an LED flash and auto-focus. Shutter speeds are agonizingly slow, and photo quality is poor. Pictures taken with the Swift look either smudged, blurry, grainy, or sometimes a combination of all three at once. The video camera is just as bad. It records 320-by-240-pixel videos at a completely unusable seven frames per second indoors, and a still-poor 14 frames per second outside.

The Swift is the best of Pantech's feature phone offerings for AT&T, but it's merely an average phone by anyone's standards. The Samsung Evergreen?($69.99, 3 stars) has comparable features to the Swift, and is also worth a look if you're interested in a phone purely for messaging. The Samsung Flight II?($39.99, 2.5 stars) has a nicer keyboard, but poor call quality. Really, though, if you think you want more, you're better off with a comparably priced smartphone like the LG Nitro HD?($49.99, 4.5 stars). That will get you a large, beautiful display, fast 4G LTE internet speeds, access to hundreds of thousands of apps, and much greater multimedia capabilities.

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Android 4.1 Jelly Bean outed in Google Play Store listing, 'coming soon' to Galaxy Nexus

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Well well well, what do we have here. It seems that a possibly careless listing on the part of Google has just outed the next version of Android. It's outed as version 4.1, as Jell... -- we're going out on a limb here and saying Jelly Bean -- and more specifically, that the Samsung Galaxy Nexus will be the first phone to receive it. Wowzers. 

So, we've all been assuming for weeks upon weeks that we'd be hearing something about the next iteration of our favorite mobile platform. It isn't the biggest surprise in either name or version number, but it is a little surprising it has been outed in this way. 

So, are we going to see some sign of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean next week in San Francisco? As it stands, all signs would point to yes. Exciting times folks. 

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Facebook prepping location-specific advertising for mobiles

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Facebook is on the verge of creating an?advertising scheme for the social network that relies on real-time location data from mobile phones. Such hyper-local data is extremely valuable to advertisers, who like to be as relevant as possible in order to maximize click and purchase rates. But the move may not be popular among the social network's users.

Facebook's vice president of global marketing solutions, Carolyn Everson,?told Bloomberg in an interview Monday:

Phones can be location-specific so you can start to imagine what the product evolution might look like over time, particularly for retailers.

With smartphones overtaking traditional phones and landlines as the primary mode of communication for millions all over the world, it's to Facebook's advantage both for social and advertising reasons to utilize features like GPS. The site already allows users to check in to locations and advertise their whereabouts to friends, but that data has not yet been used extensively for ad targeting purposes.

But Facebook has been testing just that thing over the last few months, Everson said, and the company is already in the middle of a serious advertising expansion following a lackluster IPO and questions regarding?their viability as a business.

Users may feel they are already tracked too closely by the services they use, but Facebook can at least make the case that localized offers are often far more relevant to users than ones based broader demographics like age or gender. Checking into a Starbucks, for example, might cause a coupon for half off another drink to show up next to your friends' status updates, or perhaps a similar offer from an adjacent business.

Many companies already specialize in this type of advertising, but Facebook's reach would be larger and their data richer, making their ad platform potentially extremely valuable.

One problem is that users have to opt into location-based services like check-ins and local news, and many are wary of taking this step. Facebook will have to work to make those services more enticing ? or less optional.

Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for msnbc.com. His personal website is?coldewey.cc.

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Do You Use Speaking Success Strategies? | Professional Article ...

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By Burt Dubin

If you choose to conceive magnificent programs that wow your audiences then capture these strategies. And don?t just capture them. Use them. Why? Because they work:

Here?s an example:

A few years ago I am invited to speak for the Annual Convention of the Professional Speakers Association of Europe.

Since I am already known there, I resolve to develop brand new strategies to reveal in my program.

I conceive a title: ?What They Don?t Teach You at Speaking Business School.? So far-so good. Now where do I get this new material.

Please don?t laugh when I tell you: I ask the universe for it. That?s right. I ask the universe for it.

(C?mon, Burt, now you?re pulling my leg.)

I use the powers you are about to discover. Universal intelligence delivers to me 10 new strategies, business-building strategies for aspiring speakers.

These strategies reach me intuitively while I?m doing other things during the next day or two. I write them down at once. (Ya gotta do this. Why? Because these ideas are like smoke rings. They disperse and are lost in the next few seconds.)

1.Now you wonder how you can do this too . . . as often as you like. To get more gigs. To enhance your life. So I?ll tell you.

(Be careful, Burt, I?ve got a fully functioning bullshit meter . . . )

Caveat: This only works if you believe it works. As Henry Ford said: ?Think you can; Think you can?t: Either way you?re right.?

2. You do not ?make? this work. It is effortless. You surrender into it. You allow it to work. Most people have no idea of the higher powers of the human mind. You tap your higher powers through your subconscious mind.

3. Your subconscious mind is a portal to universal intelligence. From universal intelligence you can retrieve anything you need/want to know. Here is all you have to do:

Step One:

For a start, pretend. Make it a game. Surrender disbelief for a few moments.

Sit in a straight-back chair. Sit quietly, your back straight and not rigid, your two feet flat on the floor, a pad and pen in your lap . . . and your eyes closed.

Breathe slowly. Relax deeply. Feel each part of your body doing the breathing; Sense your breath in your chest. Sense your breath in your abdomen. Notice your bodily sensations.

Sense your breath in your hips. Sense your breath in your thighs. Notice your bodily sensations. Sense your breath in your left foot. Etc., etc., etc. Any part of your body will do. Sense your breath anywhere you like. It is fascinating what attunement does to your bodily sensations.

(What?s going on here?)

You are slowing your brain waves, changing your consciousness to the alpha state. This is a way used for thousands of years by sages, shamans, savants, gurus, scholars, luminaries, masters, mandarins, adepts, etc. since pre-history.

I did not make this up. I discovered it.

Now, ask for what you want to know. Breathe into the parts of your body as I direct. Let your breath become slower, more relaxed.

Step Two:

Wait. Observe your breathing. Relax. Insights begin to pop up from your subconscious mind. Let your eyes stay half-open (Stay in the alpha state.) Write each insight as it comes to you. Like smoke rings these ideas disperse in seconds. And writing crystallizes your thoughts.

Close your eyes in-between your note-taking. This is a classic method to access wisdom from the universe. You magnetize wisdom, insights and information from the universe to you.

Do this as often as you desire fresh ideas. Do this to attract wisdom from universal intelligence. If you believe this works for you, it works for you. If you believe this does not work for you, then it does not work for you.

It is an allowing process. With patience and practice it works better and better for you.

Step Three:

Take relentless actions. Create the best program of your life up to now. Let nothing deter you until you actualize your intentions. I do this all the time. It is how this piece is being written right now.

_________________________________________________________________

Burt Dubin works with people who want to be speakers and with speakers who want to be masters. Apply for Burt?s personal mentoring here.

Get your hands on Burt?s acclaimed educational program, ?How to Create a Great Program Manual? here

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Microsoft's long and tortured history in tablets

FILE- In this March 9, 2006, file photo, Microsoft Corporate Vice President William Mitchell presents a new ultra compact computer by Samsung at the CeBIT computer fair in Hanover, northern Germany. For decades, the tablet computer was like a mirage in the technology industry: a great idea, seemingly reachable on the horizon, that disappointed as hopeful companies got closer." (AP Photo/Eckehard Schulz, File)

FILE- In this March 9, 2006, file photo, Microsoft Corporate Vice President William Mitchell presents a new ultra compact computer by Samsung at the CeBIT computer fair in Hanover, northern Germany. For decades, the tablet computer was like a mirage in the technology industry: a great idea, seemingly reachable on the horizon, that disappointed as hopeful companies got closer." (AP Photo/Eckehard Schulz, File)

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveils "Surface", a new tablet computer to compete with Apple's iPad at Hollywood's Milk Studios in Los Angeles Monday, June 18, 2012. The 9.3 millimeter thick tablet comes with a kickstand to hold it upright and keyboard that is part of the device's cover. It weighs under 1.5 pounds. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

FILE- In an Oct. 21, 2003 file photo, a Dell Axim personal digital assistant, based on Microsoft's Pocket PC operating system, is shown in New York. For decades, the tablet computer was like a mirage in the technology industry: a great idea, seemingly reachable on the horizon, that disappointed as hopeful companies got closer." (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

FILE- In an April 25, 2005, file photo provided by Microsoft, then Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates shares a prototype of an "ultra-mobile" Tablet PC during a keynote speech for attendees at the Microsoft Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Seattle. For decades, the tablet computer was like a mirage in the technology industry: a great idea, seemingly reachable on the horizon, that disappointed as hopeful companies got closer." (AP Photo/Microsoft, Robert Sorbo, File)

NEW YORK (AP) ? For decades, the tablet computer was like a mirage in the technology industry: a great idea, seemingly reachable on the horizon, that disappointed as hopeful companies got closer. Microsoft has experienced this cycle of hope and disappointment many times.

The device unveiled by the Redmond Wash.-based software giant on Monday ?the Surface? isn't the first tablet it envisioned. Indeed, the company's engineers have been trying to reshape personal computing for as long as there's been a PC.

The first PCs had keyboards, borrowed from the typewriter. But people quickly started wondering whether pens, which are more comfortable writing tools, wouldn't be a better basis for personal computing.

Several companies worked pen-based computing in the late 1980s, and Microsoft jumped on the trend. By 1991, it released "Windows for Pen Computing," an add-on to Windows 3.1 that let the operating system accept input from an active "pen" (really a stylus). Several devices used Microsoft's software, and are recognizable as the ancestors of today's tablets: They were square, portable slabs with a screen on one side. They weren't designed to respond to finger-touches, however: the reigning paradigm was that of the notepad and pen.

The pen-computing fad subsided in the 90s. While PenWindows tablets got a lot of attention, mainstream computing remained stubbornly keyboard-based.

In 2002, Microsoft founder Bill Gates said these early tablet ventures were "almost painful to recall," but not to worry. He had something much better, a device that would fulfill "a dream that I and others have had for years and years," he said. It was Windows for XP Tablet PC Edition. This time, hardware makers like Hewlett-Packard Co., Samsung Electronics, Toshiba Corp. and Acer Group played along, producing tablet PCs.

Like the earlier generation, some of these looked like today's tablets, but inside, they were really PCs. Compared to an iPad, they were expensive ? at around $1,500 ? heavy, and didn't last long on battery power. Buyers paid a lot for the ability to enter things on the screen with a pen.

Another problem was that the pen-based adaptations were skin-deep. Windows remained a thoroughly keyboard-and-mouse-based operating system, and many functions were simply hard to get to with a pen. Third-party applications weren't converted for pen use at all. As a backup, many of these tablets had keyboards, just like laptops.

The tablet PCs found homes in a few business settings, where a PC that could be used while standing, at least for short periods, was welcome. But they remained a niche product, and the number of manufacturers who made tablet PCs steadily shrank.

In parallel with the Tablet PC push, Microsoft prompted partners such as Fujitsu and ViewSonic to create Smart Displays. These were big tablets intended for home use, and each one was linked to a PC through Wi-Fi, making it something of an expensive monitor with short-range portability. This was supposed to be a cheaper alternative to a full-blown tablet, but the devices reached shelves at $1,000 and more in 2003. While a Smart Display was in use, the associated PC could not be used. Very few were sold, and Microsoft cancelled the project the same year.

Microsoft gave tablets another try in 2006, launching "Project Origami" with some of its partners. The idea was to make really small PCs with screens sensitive not just to pens, but to fingers. This time, fewer companies followed along. One of them was Samsung, which had high hopes for its "Q1".

But Microsoft hadn't learned much from its Tablet PC adventure. Windows was still hard to use with anything other than a keyboard. The "Ultra-Mobile PCs" were still expensive and suffered from very short battery life ? the Q1 could surf the Web for about 2 hours. One thing they did get right was weight ? the Q1 weighed 1.7 pounds, just a bit more than a first-generation iPad.

In 2008, reports emerged of yet another tablet computer, or rather a "booklet computer," being developed by Microsoft. Code-named "Courier," it had two screens joined by a hinge, and facing each other. It was designed for pen and finger input. Microsoft cancelled the project in 2010, saying it was just one of many projects it tests to "foster productivity and creativity."

One touch-based computer that did see the light of day in 2008 was Microsoft Surface. It was more of a table than a tablet: the computer was a big box that sat on a floor, with a big, horizontal screen on top. It was intended not for home use but for store displays and similar applications. Unusually, Microsoft didn't rely on hardware partners for this product, but made and sold it on its own. Intended as a niche product, it has remained one.

Microsoft has had one notable success in the tablet space ? if you apply a broad definition to the term. Its "Pocket PC" operating system, which is distinct from Windows, ran on phone-sized hand-held "personal digital assistants" starting around 2000. The devices were powerful compared to Palm's PDAs, the market leaders of their time. The Pocket PCs supported color screens, and could recognize casual handwriting. Compaq made good use of Microsoft's Pocket PC software in its popular iPAQ line. But PDAs were a small market, and when Pocket PC moved over to smartphones and was renamed Windows Mobile, it soon found tough competition in the shape of BlackBerrys and then iPhones.

The company that finally cracked the tablet code in 2010 was Apple, not Microsoft. Apple made the iPad a success by scaling up a phone rather than scaling down a PC, which is what Microsoft had been trying to do with the Tablet PC and Origami. Phone chips are cheap and last much longer on batteries, which meant that the iPad was both light, inexpensive and had good battery life. In addition, the iPhone software it used was designed from the ground up for touch input.

Microsoft's new strategy is similar. For Windows 8, it's borrowing design features from Windows Phone, its new smartphone system. Most importantly, one version of the software is designed to run on phone-style chips, rather than the PC-style chips that have been the mainstay of Windows since it was created in the 1980s. It remains to be seen whether Microsoft can make its tablet vision a reality, or if it will stay a mirage.

Associated Press

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Nokia?s PureView 808 To Make Its U.S. Debut On Amazon, Complete With $699 Price Tag

8086Nokia US chief Chris Weber recently reaffirmed that Lumia smartphones will eventually get a helping of Nokia's impressive PureView imaging technology, but a new post on the Nokia Conversations blog points to another option for mobile photographers itching for a PureView fix. The company has recently announced that the charmingly chunky Pureview 808 will soon make its U.S. debut on Amazon.com, with pre-orders for the Symbian-powered device set to kick off later this week.

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Sony's Google TV-enabled NSZ-GS7 Network Media Player up for pre-order at J&R

Sony's Google TVenabled NSZGS7 Network Media Player up for preorder

We knew Sony's next batch of Google TV-enabled hardware was coming this summer, and now at least one device is up for pre-order at J&R. Folks who've been wanting the Android-based service without shelling out for a full TV set from the company will now only need to part with $200 for its NSZ-GS7 Network Media Player. The unit comes complete with an updated remote featuring a QWERTY keyboard, motion control, a microphone (for "voice commands") and a touchpad, and it's said to work with most of Sony's 2012 TV lineup. There still seems to be no word on this streaming box's exact specs, a ship date or when you'll be able to snag its Blu-Ray touting sibling, but you can hit the source link to secure one for yourself in the meantime. Here's to watching whether it'll muster up more gusto for the platform than Logitech's Revue, once it's planted consumers' AV racks.

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Lebanon Residents 'Suspected Of Homosexuality' Face Brutal Police Examination

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BEIRUT - In the austere police station, after they are asked to undress, they are told to lean forward or crouch, submitting to a medical examination to determine their sexual orientation. Who are they? People suspected of homosexuality, a punishable offense in Lebanon, a country considered far more tolerant than other Arab countries.

This humiliating practice - well-known in homosexual circles - has recently been denounced by Lebanese associations. "We broke the silence," Nizar Saghieh says. He is a lawyer, activist and founder of the "Al-Moufakkira al-kanouniya" ("Legal Agenda") NGO, that organized a conference last month where these "examinations of shame" were denounced.

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