The Motorola XOOM 2 tablets will include passengers’ profiles, travel histories, seating and on-board menu preferences, and any inconveniences they had on previous trips.
Alitalia will be among the first airlines in the world to provide their crew with a tablet, Motorola Mobility said, and the tablet will also enable the flight attendants to access the aircraft’s internal manuals.
Motorola XOOM 2 tablets will also be introduced as Alitalia’s in-flight entertainment services (IFE) for Business and Magnifica Class passengers on mid- as well as long-distance flights to Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Tel Aviv, Beyruth, Riyadh and Teheran that are now without an IFE service.
Preloaded content on the tablets will provide passengers with free access to movies, music, video games, and online magazines.
In addition, passengers will also be able to use the Motorola XOOM 2 before they even step on an Alitalia flight, when the tablet will be placed in 10 Alitalia lounges, Freccia Alata.
“Today we have made another further step ahead in our customer relationship management strategy” says Marco Sansavini, director of sales, Distribution and Customer Care in Alitalia. “It is a priority project for the new Alitalia, which involves the training of 9,000 people.
“Alitalia wants to make the onboard flight an extraordinary experience and the tablets will enable the crew to always stay online and in touch with the needs and preferences of its passengers.”
Maurizio Angelone, vice president and general manager, Mobile Devices, EMEA, Motorola Mobility, said tablets have increasingly become a must-have device for staying connected, whether at home or on the go.
“We anticipate the transportation industry will make tablets an integral part of their consumer offering in the years to come,” Angelone added.
An example of Alitalia passenger information for a flight attendant on the Motorola XOOM 2 tablet computer
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Nokia's 41-Megapixel Camera Phone Coming To U.S. - Twice
By Joseph Palenchar -- TWICE, 6/19/2012
New York - Nokia's 41-megapixel cameraphone, the Symbian-based Nokia 808 PureView, is coming to the U.S. but as an unlocked phone retailing for $699.The phone, introduced at the Mobile World Congress earlier this year, is available for presale at $695, plus $4.99 shipping, through Amazon's web site by a third-party reseller called Cellgsmphones.com, a division of New Generation Products, a Seattle-area retailer of iPads, laptops, and cellphones.
The seller says the phone will be available for shipping in one to three weeks.
For its part, Amazon itself will make the phone available as an unlocked model at $699, a Nokia spokesperson told TWICE. Amazon will make its pre-order page available later this week, the spokesperson said. An availability date wasn't available.
The phone features 4G HSPA+ 42Mbps technology and can be activated for HSPA+ use on the AT&T and T-Mobile networks here in the U.S. because the phone operates in HSPA+ mode in AT&T's 850/1900MHz bands and in HSPA+ mode in T-Mobile's 1700/2100MHz AWS band. It also operates in HSPA+ 42Mbps mode in foreign 900/2100MHz bands.
The phone's proprietary PureView imaging technologies combine 41-megapixel sensor, Carl Zeiss f/2.4 lens, pixel-oversampling, and Nokia-developed algorithms to enhance camera performance. The 41-megapixel sensor makes it possible to zoom without a loss of clarity to create high-quality standard-resolution pictures, the company said. The sensor delivers 3x lossless zoom for still pictures, 4x lossless zoom for 1080p video capture, 6x lossless zoom for 720p video capture, and 12x zoom for taking 640x380 videos.
Other key 808 features include 4-inch 16:9 640x360 AMOLED touchscreen, 16GB embedded memory, 32GB MicroSD card slot, DLNA, HDMI port, near-field communication (NFC), Wi-Fi, and FM tuner.
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T-Mobile UK Reveal Cheaper EU Mobile Broadband Roaming Prices - ISPReview UK
Mobile operator T-Mobile UK (Everything Everywhere) has today introduced its new internet and broadband Travel Boosters, which are designed to make it cheaper to use your Mobile Broadband connection while roaming around within Europe and other countries outside of the EU.
The new upgrades, which reflect Europe’s strict new roaming regulation (details), are split into Internet Travel Boosters (for Smartphones) and Broadband Travel Boosters (for all Mobile Broadband [USB Dongle etc.] devices).
Prices start from £1, which would give you 3MB (MegaBytes) of data usage for both boosters when roaming within Europe. But the cost for 3MB of usage goes up to £5 if you’re in the USA, Turkey or India / £10 for Canada, Jamaica / £20 for Chile, Hong Kong and £25 for Qatar, Cuba, Brazil. Bigger bundles are available at a lower cost per MB (e.g. £10 gets you 50MB when within the EU).
Ben Fritsch, Head of Propositions at TMobile UK, said:
“This year, 90% of all our new3 pay monthly customers have opted for a smartphone, which proves the ever increasing demand from consumers to be connected while on the go. We are really proud to be the first UK operator to ensure our customers can continue to be connected, anywhere in the world – and have the peace of mind they’ll never come back to an unexpected bill.”
The data allowance itself will last for 30 days or until the data has been used, while the cost of the bundle will either be added to the customer’s monthly bill or deducted from their pay as you go credit.
By comparison Vodafone’s EuroTraveller service gives Pay Monthly customers, including business travellers on standard price plans, visiting their Europe Zone the ability to spend more time talking, texting and surfing the web for £3 Per Day.
Elsewhere O2′s new O2Travel package offers £1.99 for 25MB Per Day, while Three UK charges £5 Per Day (or £1.28 per MB if you’re a pay-as-you-go customer) for largely unrestricted Mobile Broadband roaming.
Nokia’s 41MP 808 PureView coming to U.S. for $699, meant for rich eccentrics - Venturebeat.com
Nokia’s killer new camera phone is finally coming to America, but unless you’ve got $700 to burn, we recommend holding off.
Nokia announced today that the 808 PureView, which is now infamous for its 41-megapixel camera, will soon be available for $699 on Amazon for U.S. customers. You’re paying a pretty penny, since you’re buying the phone off-contract, and you’ll have to provide your own AT&T or T-Mobile SIM card (it’s 2G-only on T-Mobile).
We’ve covered extensively why the 808 PureView’s camera is so remarkable. It packs an astounding number of pixels into a tiny sensor, allowing you to zoom into photos in extreme ways. But the phone also runs Nokia’s aging Symbian Belle OS, which is nowhere near a worthy competitor to the iPhone and Android.
Is it really worth suffering through a clunky OS and app ecosystem just to get your hands on a cool cellphone camera? I would say no — unless you just love being the only person in the room with a quirky gadget (breaking: the 808 PureView is now the perfect hipster phone). For everyone else, you’re better off nabbing one of the latest Android phones (the HTC One series, or Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S III), the iPhone 4S, or just holding out for Apple’s upcoming iPhone.
Nokia has previously mentioned that the PureView camera technology will eventually make its way to the company’s Windows Phones. Wait a year or so, and you’ll be able to get this crazy camera tech on a platform that won’t make your hate yourself.
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T-Mobile cuts roaming rates for Europe - zdnet.co.uk
The new bolt-ons, called 'Internet Travel Boosters' and 'Broadband Travel Boosters' will allow a customer to add them to their package on arrival at their destination. The user is simply redirected to a page where they can buy the add-ons when they first connect to a mobile network, T-Mobile said.
"Once the purchase is complete, they can immediately continue to browse the internet, update Facebook, email or download apps and documents without the worry of paying more than they expect when they return from their travels," T-Mobile said in a statement.
The internet booster allows smartphone-only usage while the Broadband booster can be used with "all mobile broadband devices", such as dongles and tablets.
Pricing for the boosters starts from £1, T-Mobile said. The amount of data allocated for each booster depends on the country being visited. For example, within Europe a £1 internet or booster plan would provide 3MB of data usage. To get the same amount of data use while on holiday in the US would require a £5 booster.
However, visiting places further afield, such as Hong Kong, still attracts significant commitments, with 3MB of data costing £20. Currently, and without the bolt-on, T-Mobile customers visiting Hong Kong are charged £7.50 per MB for data. Increasing the amount of the bolt-on does provide some economy of scale, but 20MB of data, even with the bolt-on, will still cost £75.
The decision to reduce costs, albeit primarily within Europe, makes T-Mobile the fourth of the five major UK operators to announce reduced roaming rates before the new EU roaming regulations come into effect on 1 July. Only Orange is yet to announce new rates.– Ernest Doku, uSwitch.com
It's still down to consumers to protect themselves and make bill shock a thing of the past.
Earlier in June, Vodafone also announced it was cutting its prices for roaming within the EU. The EuroTraveller add-on costs £3 per day and allows contract customers to use their normal monthly call time and data allowance. Out of bundle charges are then charged at UK rates.
Despite the clampdown from regulators on roaming rates within the EU, Ernest Doku, telecoms expert at price-comparison site uSwitch.com, doesn't think some of the new measures go far enough.
"We have now seen four of the five major providers take steps to protect their customers. However, with Orange still to show its cards and some of the packages not going quite far enough, it's still down to consumers to protect themselves and make bill shock a thing of the past," Doku said in a statement.
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