Nokia X6 32GB

Nokia X6-00 / 32GB / Comes With Music edition Touchscreen
SPECIFICATION:
Size
• Form: Classic with finger-operated touch screen user interface
• Dimensions: 111.0 x 51.0 x 13.8 mm
• Weight: 122 g

Display and 3D
• Capacitive touch screen
• Size: 3.2"
• Resolution: 640 x 360 pixels (nHD)
• Up to 16.7 million colours
• Automatic orientation sensor (Accelerometer) for display rotation
• 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio

Keys and input method
• Finger-operated touch screen for text input and user interface control (alphanumeric keypad and QWERTY that are automatically changed with display rotation)
• Dedicated Media Bar touch key for access to music, gallery, share online, Video Centre and web browser
• Physical keys for application launch (menu key), send and end, power, camera, lock, volume up and down
• Dedicated personal Contacts Bar for direct access to contacts, feeds and status updates
• Voice commands

Colours and covers
• Available in-box colours:
- White/Blue
- Black/Red

Connectors
• Micro USB connector for USB 2.0 High Speed to PC
• 3.5 mm Nokia AV connector for audio and TV-out
• Small DC jack

Memory
• 32 GB internal memory

Power
• BL-5J 1320 mAh Li-Ion standard battery
• Talk time (maximum):
- GSM 11 h 30 min
- WCDMA 6 h
• Standby time (maximum):
- GSM 420 h
- WCDMA 450 h
• Video playback time (maximum): H51nHD 25 fps up to 4 h 36 min
• Video recording time (maximum): 3 h 30 min
• Video call time (maximum): 3 h
• Music playback time (maximum): 35 h


Communication and navigation
Communication and navigation
Operating frequency
• WCDMA 900/1900/2100, GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
• GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 (Latin America and Brazil variant only)
• WCDMA 900/1900/2100, GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900, 2G QB (China variant)
• Automatic switching between GSM bands
• Flight mode

Data network
• CSD
• HSCSD
• GPRS/EDGE class A, multislot class 11, with similtaneous voice and packet data mode support
• GPRS/EDGE class B, multislot class 32
• WCDMA 2100/1900 with similtaneous voice and packet data mode support
• HSDPA cat 6, maximum speed 3.6 Mbps (DL)
• WLAN IEEE 802.11 b/g
• TCP/IP support

Local connectivity and synchronisation
• Bluetooth version 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate
• MTP (Mobile Transfer Protocol) support
• TV out (PAL)
• Support for PC synchronisation with Nokia Ovi Suite

Call features
• Integrated hands-free speakerphone
• Number screening for messaging and calls
• Automatic answer with headset or car kit
• Any key answer
• Call waiting, call hold, call divert
• Call timer
• Logging of dialled, received and missed calls
• Automatic redial
• Speed dialling
• Speaker-independent name dialling (SIND)
• Fixed dialling number support
• Vibrating alert (internal)
• Side volume keys
• Mute/unmute
• Contacts Bar for 20 contacts with images and comminication history (SMS, calls, instant messaging, email, web feeds)
• Talking ring tones
• Conference calling with up to 6 participants
• Video calling: up to 176 x 144 pixels, low up to 5 fps, normal up to 10 fps, smooth up to 15 fps

Messaging
• SMS with support for concatenated SMS for long messages
• Multiple SMS deletion
• MMS version 1.3, message size up to 600 kb
• Automatic resizing of images for MMS
• Nokia Xpress audio messaging
• Common inbox for SMS and MMS messages
• Number screening for messaging
• Distribution lists for messaging
• Instant messaging client
• Cell broadcast

E-mail
• Supported protocols: IMAP, POP, SMTP
• Support for email attachments
• OMA email notification support
• Nokia Email
• Mail for Exchange*
* Some services may be available only by downloading or upgrading. Only devices that offer compatible multimedia message or e-mail features can receive and display multimedia messages. Content appearance may vary. Some images and ring tones can not be forwarded.

Web browsing
• Supported mark-up languages: HTML, XHTML, WML
• Supported protocols: HTTP, WAP, JavaScript
• TCP/IP support
• OSS web browser
• Nokia Mobile Search

GPS and navigation
• Integrated A-GPS
• Ovi Maps 3.0

Image and sound
Image and sound
Photography
• 5.0 megapixel AF camera (2592 x 1944 pixels)
• Image formats: JPEG/EXIF
• Carl Zeiss optics
• 4x digital zoom
• Autofocus
• Dual LED flash
• Flash modes: On, off, automatic, red-eye reduction
• White balance modes: automatic, sunny, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent
• Centre weighted auto exposure; exposure compensation: +2 ~ -2EV at 0.5 step
• Capture modes: still, sequence, self-timer, video
• Scene modes: automatic, manual, portrait, landscape, night, night portrait
• Colour tone modes: normal, sepia, black & white, vivid, negative
• Dedicated camera key
• Landscape (horizontal) orientation
• Image editor on device
• Direct printing to compatible picture printers
• TV out (PAL)

Video
• Main camera
- Video recording at up to 640 x 480 pixels and up to 30 fps (TV quality), up to 640 x 352 pixels and up to 30 fps (widescreen quality), up to 320 x 240 pixels and up to 30 fps/15 fps (email high/normal quality), up to 176 x 144 and up to 15 fps (sharing quality)
- Up to 4x digital video zoom
• Front camera
- Video recording at up to 176 x 144 pixels, low up to 5 fps, normal up to 10 fps, smooth up to 15 fps
• Video recording file formats: MP4, 3GP
• Audio recording formats: WAV (normal), AMR (MMS), AAC/MP4 (high quality)
• Video white balance modes: automatic, sunny, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent
• Scene modes: automatic, night
• Colour tone modes: normal, sepia, black & white, vivid, negative
• Clip length (maximum): 1 h 30 min (high or normal quality). Depending on available memory
• RealPlayer
• Video playback file formats: MPEG4-SP playback 30 fps VGA, MPEG4-AVC playback 30 fps QVGA, WMV9 playback 30 fps QVGA, MPEG4-SP playback 30 fps nHD
• Video streaming: 3GPP, CIF
• Landscape mode video playback
• Video calling: up to 176 x 144 pixels, low up to 5 fps, normal up to 10 fps, smooth up to 15 fps
• TV out (PAL)
• Video editor on device
• Video Centre service supported: download and stream video content, WMV support, video feeds

Music and audio playback
• Nokia Nseries digital music player
- Playlists
- 8-band graphical equaliser
- Selection by artist, composers, album and genre
- Album graphics display
- Bass booster, stereo widening, loudness
• Music playback file formats: mp3, SPMidi, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA
• Dedicated volume keys and immediate access to the Music Player from the Media Bar
• Stereo FM radio
• 3.5 mm Nokia AV connector
• Nokia Ovi Player
• Nokia Music Store support
• Nokia Podcasting support
• Ring tones: 3D stereo ring tones, 64-tone polyphonic, mp3 & video ring tones (3 videos and 9 mp3 songs built-in)
• Integrated 3D sound effect stereo speakers (dedicated audio chip for crystal clear hi-fi sound quality)

Voice and audio recording
• Voice commands
• Speaker-independent name dialling (SIND)
• Voice recorder
• Audio recording formats: AMR, NB-AMR, FR, EFR
• Digital stereo microphone

Personalisation: profiles, themes, ring tones
• Customisable profiles
• Ring tones: 3D stereo ring tones, 64-tone polyphonic, mp3 & video ring tones

Nokia X2-01

Although mobile phone Nokia X2-01 will be released at the end of this year, but it seems specifications and prices on the latest Nokia mobile phones are now widely spread through cyberspace. The latest information in the can that the price of the Nokia X2-01 this will priced under $ 1 Million, but the main specification nokia X2-01 is Qwerty.


Mobile Nokia X2-01 is similar to its predecessor C3, which is the same as Qwerty. DanNokia X2-01 is the first mobile phone nokia qwerty valuable under 1 Million. As with C3, X2-01 also rely on messaging and social networking features. For example Facebook and Twitter updates directly from the main screen. Also chatting via Yahoo Messenger, Gtalk, OVI Chat, and Live Messenger. Includes email support up to 10 accounts at once.

However, with prices more inclined, there are a number of features that are less than C3. Among other things, is not equipped with a WiFi connection and does not support 3G. The camera is only VGA class can even record video, not like a 2-megapixel C3.

But make no mistake, this phone also has benefits. For example, a direct button to open the music application. This button can also be arranged so that when clicked on directly to the FM radio feature. External speakers too loud. In it also is mounted applications Life Tool. There are three colors that will go in Indonesia, black with red color, black with gray color, and white with silver color.


Here are the full specifications of Nokia X2-01:

Quad band GSM; Dimensions: 119.4 x 59.8 x 14.3 mm,
weight 107.5 g; 262,144 color TFT,
320 x 240 pixels, 2.4 inches;
VGA camera (640x480 pixels),
SMS, MMS, Email, GPRS, EDGE32, WAP 2.0 / xHTML, HTML,
55MB memory, microSD slot (up to 8GB);
java MIDP 2.1,
Polyphonic (WAV/MP3);
QWERTY keyboard,
player MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC +, MP4/H.263 player,
Organizer,
Voice memo,
Predictive text input,
FM radio, 3.5 mm audio jack,
Games,
Bluetooth v2.1 (A2DP),
microUSB 2.0 port;
battery Li-Ion 1020 mAh

Nokia N920

N920-Leak
Nokia N920, phone is equipped with an ARM processor with the power of Cortez A8, with a reach 32GB memory space, enough to store large data with a fairly fast speed.

For networking and connectivity, this device supports GSM, EDGE, WCDMA, up to HSPA.Fitur others that can be enjoyed on the N920 is, supports wi-fi, Bluetooth, GPS, 3.5mm audio jack, and camera with a resolution of 5 megapixels. As well as additional external memory MicroSD


Nokia N920 Specifications:
- Java
- Clear sound and more kenceng
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Touchscreen
- Qwerty
- No TV
- 2 GSM-GSM SIM
- Bluetooth
-
FM Radio
- Dual Camera, 1.3 MP Camera
- Internet GPRS
-
Using Micro SD Memory Card
- DLL

Equipment:
- Box
Nokia N920
- Battery 1 Pcs
- HandFree
- Charger + Data Cabel
Guidebook
- Leather Gloves
- FREE Memory Card 2 GB

LG KS660 – Perfect Dual Sim Mobile Phone

LG Electronics, a company who acquired good percentage of mobile market and known for developing top quality of phones, announced another technically richer handset, LG KS660. This shows their significant growth in cellphone business. They already made history after launching their most successful phone into the market last year known as LG Viewty and now they want to expand their reach with the help of their latest mobile phones.

LG KS660 is their first dual-sim mobile phone which they announced recently and shows how important this phone is for the user. Well, every mobile phone has some advantages & disadvantages, but KS660 phone of LG is made to prove that some phones are exceptions in term of disadvantages. Let us discuss some of its important features which might be exclusive & important for us.

Since, LG KS660 is a dual-sim phone therefore user can make calls with two different numbers. Now, it distinguish your private life with professional life, since you can keep two numbers one for your dear-ones and one for your business. This is one of the fantastic feature for which it is popular into the market. LG phones always give something extra to its users and this dual-sim technology is one of them.

More commonly, LG KS660 is a touchscreen phone that offers best browsing experience to its user. 3 inches of mind blowing WQVGA display screen is well incorporated in KS660 phone of LG, so that you can get large viewing area. Apart from its touch-screen capability, the phone has included with top class 5 megapixels camera with auto-focus which definitely helps you to fulfill your still photography as well as video developing experience. LG KS660 offers tri-band connectivity so that you can always connected with your service provider.

LG mobile phones proved that they know the need & expectations of users and the result is KS660 phone. Data sharing technologies are also included in this mobile phone, so that you can share you files wirelessly. One important thing about this mobile is that it is very handy phone comes with lots of great specifications. A latest & advanced digital multimedia player is incorporated in this LG mobile, so that user can play latest file formats on their handset. LG KS660 is also loaded with some business applications & services like emailing, document viewer etc.

Finally, LG KS660 is best buy mobile phone of LG mobiles that offers more in lesser price. It is available on contract deals very soon and at very competitive price line rental. Most of the online phone shops of UK offer you to compare pay monthly deals on LG KS660 phone. Stay tuned with mobile shops and knows more about this latest mobile phone of LG.

MOTOROLA BACKFLIP with MOTOBLUR

SPECIFICATION:

3G
ANDROID™ PLATFORM

Android 1.5 (upgradable to Android 2.1)

MULTIPLE NETWORKS
WCDMA 850/1900/2100, GSM 850/900/1800/1900, HSDPA 7.2 Mbps (category 7/8), EDGE Class 12, GPRS Class 12, aGPS, v2.0

TOUCH QWERTY
Backflip with Touch and QWERTY

CAMERA
• CAMERA
• MEGAPIXELS
5 MP
• DIGITAL ZOOM
4x
• FLASH
LED
• FOCUS
Automatic
• IMAGE EDITING TOOLS
Cropping, rotating, GeoTagging, and advanced editing (add borders, enhance image, frames, text comments, clip art)

MOTOBLUR
• CALLER ID
On main display, Picture ID, Ringer ID, social network status
• PHONEBOOK
Synchs personal and work contacts, and connected social networks via MOTOBLUR
• PHOTO SHARING
MySpace, Photobucket, Picasa™, Facebook™
• CUSTOMIZABLE HOME SCREEN
MOTOBLUR's Happenings, Status and Messaging widgets deliver status posts and more. Customizable RSS news widgets keep you up to date.
• MESSAGING
Facebook™, MySpace and Twitter Direct Messaging
• MOTOBLUR ENABLED
MUSIC & VIDEO
• MUSIC ENABLED1
• MUSIC PLAYER
Yes
• VIDEO CAPABLE
• VIDEO CAPTURE
• PLAYABLE FORMATS
AAC, H.263, H.264, MP3, MPEG-4, WAV, MIDI, AAC+
• STREAMING MEDIA
Video
• VIDEO CAPTURE RATE
24 fps

POWER
up to 350 min. / 6 hrs.
USAGE TIME (CONTINUOUS)2
• BATTERY TYPE
1400 mAh Li Ion
• STANDBY TIME3
up to 315 hrs. / 13.5 days

MESSAGING
• TEXT MESSAGING (SMS)4
Yes
• EMAIL4
Corporate (Exchange), Gmail™, IMAP, POP3, attachment and browser document viewer (Microsoft Office® and pdf), HTML email composer
• MULTIMEDIA MESSAGING (MMS)4
• INSTANT MESSAGING (IM)4
AOL Instant Messenger®, Windows® Messenger and Yahoo!® Messenger, Google Talk™
• VOICE MAIL4
Yes

CONNECTIVITY
• BLUETOOTH® TECHNOLOGY5
Bluetooth ® Specification Version 2.0 +EDR supporting the following profiles: Hands Free Profile (HFP), Headset Profile (HSP), Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) and Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP). Listen to music with stereo Bluetooth® headsets.
• WEB BROWSER
Full HTML browser, Android Webkit
• WIFI
802.11 b,g
• DATA ACCESS6
USB 2.0 (High Speed)
• CONNECTOR TYPE
Micro USB
• GPS AND LOCATION SERVICES1
aGPS with Google Maps™, Google Latitude™, Google Maps Street View, eCompass, AT&T Navigator, AT&T Maps

CONNECTIVITY
• HEADSET JACK
3.5 mm
INTERNET AND GAMES
• WEB ACCESS
• ANDROID MARKET™

ACCESSORY COMPATIBILITY
• HEARING AID COMPATIBLE
Yes

CALLING
• SPEAKERPHONE
• ADVANCED SPEECH RECOGNITION
• NOISE REDUCTION
Dual microphone with noise cancellation

GOOGLE MOBILE SERVICES
• YOUTUBE™
• GMAIL™
• GOOGLE MAPS™
• GOOGLE TALK™

INTERFACE
• TOUCH SCREEN
• OPERATING SYSTEM
Android 1.5 (upgradable to Android 2.1)
• BACKLIGHT
Keyboard
• CUSTOM NAVIGATION
BACKTRACK™ navigation pad behind screen
• DEDICATED KEYS
Volume control, Camera, Back, Home, Lock
• KEYPAD LOCK
• QWERTY KEYBOARD
• VOICE COMMANDS

PERSONALIZATION
• RINGTONES4
Preloaded and downloadable
• SCREENSAVERS7
Preloaded and downloadable
• WALLPAPERS4
Preloaded and downloadable

PHYSICAL
• DISPLAY TYPE
256k TFT
• COLORS
Platinum Silver
• DISPLAY SIZE
3.1-in.; HVGA (320 x 480 pixels)
• WEIGHT
4.7 oz.; 133 grams
• SIZE (H X W X D)
53.0 x 108.0 x 15.3 mm
• ANTENNA TYPE
Internal
• FORM FACTOR
Touch QWERTY Backflip with Touch and QWERTY
• MATERIALS AND FINISH
Reverse flip design enables table top media mode
PRODUCTIVITY AND SOFTWARE
• CALCULATOR
• CALENDAR
MOTOBLUR™ widget calendar - sync corporate calendar, email, and contact list.
• CLOCK
Alarm clock


TECHNOLOGY
• MEMORY8
2 GB microSD pre-installed
• ACCELEROMETER
Yes
• NETWORKS4
WCDMA 850/1900/2100, GSM 850/900/1800/1900, HSDPA 7.2 Mbps (category 7/8), EDGE Class 12, GPRS Class 12, aGPS, v2.0
• REMOVABLE MEMORY9
supports up to 32 GB microSD

How To Fully Optimize Your Website For High Search Engine Ranking

One of the easiest way to get free traffic to your website, blog or other online content is through search engine optimization {SEO techniques}.

Search engine optimization technique is a rewarding strategy to harness in pulling lots of traffic to your website and thereby multiply your income especially if you are using your website for business.

SEO technique works in such a way that it makes your website and other online content more visible to search engines which gives you the a good chance of having

your website included in search results each time the keywords that are relevant to your sites content are searched on search engines like Google.

In brief, search engine optimization is simply the strategic use of keywords in your web copy so as to make your site more visible to search engines.

If you do search on search engines, you will remember that each time you make a search, you do type-in certain keywords or phrases into the search box and after a while after clicking the search button you are supplied, usually with thousands of websites which contain information relevant to your search.

In this case, those words/phrases which you typed into the search box are called keywords. These are the keywords that search engines use in getting their results from the internet.

In other word, those websites that you find in your search result contain keywords which matches your search.

At this junction, you need to know that your keywords are very important in determining the visibility of your website to search engines and how your website will be ranked

on search results. In light of this, i will like to say that keyword optimization is an important factor that you must consider in order to improve your search engine placement and get free search engine traffic.

1. PAGE TITLE OPTIMIZATION: when putting up a title for your webpage, you must make sure that the title contains important keywords relevant to your page content as the the title bar of a page carries greater search engine weight than the page content itself. So page title is one of the important places that search engine always check out when searching for keywords.

2. CONTENT OPTIMIZATION: To get the best out of your SEO techniques, you must really ensure that your web copy is rich in certain keywords which are relevant to its message.

So make use of these keywords as often as possible. However, you must carefully avoid overuse of your keywords by using them strategically only where they can come-in while still keeping the your copy sounding natural and not boring. Keep in mind that when your keywords are over-used, this will not only keep your web copy boring and awkward, but it can also lead to search engines banning your website.

3. META TAG OPTIMIZATION: to a certain extent, you can also optimise the meta tags of your HTML document and influence how search engines see the content of your website. To have this done, you just need to use any of 'keyword' or 'discription' META tag, or both between the head tags of your HTML document.

When your META tag is coded with keywords and the description of your website, this helps you to control how search engines will match your website with certain keywords for search results.

4. DOMAIN NAME OPTIMIZATION: a domain name is the internet address of a website. Usually domain names are selected to reflect the information contained on a website or your business name. When picking a domain name for your website, using a domain name that reflects much about your website can be helpful and this is another way of optimizing your site.

The point is this, among the many factors that search engines uses in placing websites on search results, one of the minor factor is a domain name which you can also use to your advantage.

For instance, if i want to search for toys and type 'toy' into the Google search box, based on its name, the website 'toy.com' is likely to rank higher on my search result than another toy website say 'wogole.com' based on domain name because the domain name - toy.com matches my search for toy better than the latter.

So the best way to optimize your domain name is to use a name that speaks about your website. And using important keywords in your domain name will be really helpful

I trust this tips on how to fully optimize your website for high search engine ranking will really be usefully for you. I wish you the best.

Samsung S3650 Review

The Most Stylish Communicator



Samsung S3650 aka Corby is a tech-savvy entry level, touch screen mobile phone which curbs the users’ appetite for a stylish, feature rich gadget available within the budget. Socialization is now the slogan for teenagers and young mobile phone users and Samsung S3650 rightly gives the user what he wants. The distinct shape and bold colors of the mobile phone is definitely a selling point among youngsters, though it is not for adults. The size of the phone is 103 x 56.5 x 12mm and it weighs 90g.

This inexpensive mobile phone surely has high end features available with other Samsung mobile phones. The finger zoom feature makes it more interesting to use the capacitive touch screen. The Smart unlock and based TouchWiz interfaces are all the indispensable features in the Samsung S3650.The plastic design doesn’t degrade the level of this phone with glossy finish.

The central attraction of the phone is the 2.8 inches capacitive touch screen with a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. The image quality is satisfactory, but other Samsung mobile phones offer much better quality. The screen is highly responsive though sunlight legibility is poor. Right below the screen, there are three simple keys for menu control.

The TouchWiz interface in Samsung S3650 is fun to use. You can add as many widgets as you wish and customize the mini apps according to your needs. The accelerometer based auto align widgets option helps you align widgers when you shake the phone. Aside from the home screen and modern icons, rest of the interface looks just like any other Samsung touch mobile phone. Multitasking is available with this mobile phone and you can run java applications in the background. But the lack of dedicated key for switching between opened applications limit the functionality of multitasking. The interface allows users to assign gestures for letters A to Z to open desired applications.

The Samsung S3650 features the common phonebook. You can add a video to a contact as a contact image. Dialing numbers and calling is an absolute pleasure with the touch screen phone. A smart dialing feature could have made the phone much better. The call quality and reception of the Samsung S3650 are all satisfatory. SMS and MMS share a common editor. But there is a dedicated editor for sending emails. The great drawback of this phone is that it has no landscape QWERTY keypad which is always present in other expensive touch screen mobile phones.

The most exciting feature of the Samsung S3650 is its social networking. Now you can integrate Facebook, Myspace and Twitter with your phone. There are three separate widgets that allow you to post messages and images to your social networking accounts directly. You will also receive pop up notifications for responses to your account. You can also link to websites like Picasa and Flickr and upload your files in a jiffy. However, there is no phonebook integration, which is pretty disappointing.

On the multimedia side, music player and FM radio are extremely useful and they are touch optimized. The Video player is quite satisfactory. The 2MP camera shoots images at a resolution of 1600 x 1200 pixels with smile shot feature, but there is no auto focus. The video recording is basic, but it is touch optimized too. Bluetooth and A2DP support provides connectivity. The web browser is perfect and comes with full flash support. There are quite a few office apps that are good additions to the package.

The battery life promised by the Li- lon 960 mAh is 9 hours of talk time and 730 hours of standby time, which is pretty good. The lack of 3G support is surely a disadvantage because high speed internet can make using social networks more fun.

Foreign exchange market

Source:wikipedia.org

The foreign exchange market (forex, FX, or currency market) is a worldwide decentralized over-the-counter financial market for the trading of currencies. Financial centers around the world function as anchors of trading between a wide range of different types of buyers and sellers around the clock, with the exception of weekends. The foreign exchange market determines the relative values of different currencies.

The primary purpose of the foreign exchange is to assist international trade and investment, by allowing businesses to convert one currency to another currency. For example, it permits a US business to import British goods and pay Pound Sterling, even though the business's income is in US dollars. It also supports speculation, and facilitates the carry trade, in which investors borrow low-yielding currencies and lend (invest in) high-yielding currencies, and which (it has been claimed) may lead to loss of competitiveness in some countries.[2]
In a typical foreign exchange transaction, a party purchases a quantity of one currency by paying a quantity of another currency. The modern foreign exchange market began forming during the 1970s when countries gradually switched to floating exchange rates from the previous exchange rate regime, which remained fixed as per the Bretton Woods system.
The foreign exchange market is unique because of
its huge trading volume, leading to high liquidity;
its geographical dispersion;
its continuous operation: 24 hours a day except weekends, i.e. trading from 20:15 GMT on Sunday until 22:00 GMT Friday;
the variety of factors that affect exchange rates;
the low margins of relative profit compared with other markets of fixed income; and
the use of leverage to enhance profit margins with respect to account size.
As such, it has been referred to as the market closest to the ideal of perfect competition, notwithstanding currency intervention by central banks. According to the Bank for International Settlements,[3] as of April 2010, average daily turnover in global foreign exchange markets is estimated at $3.98 trillion, a growth of approximately 20% over the $3.21 trillion daily volume as of April 2007.
The $3.98 trillion break-down is as follows:
$1.490 trillion in spot transactions
$475 billion in outright forwards
$1.765 trillion in foreign exchange swaps
$43 billion currency swaps
$207 billion in options and other products

Market size and liquidity
The foreign exchange market is the largest and most liquid financial market in the world. Traders include large banks, central banks, institutional investors, currency speculators, corporations, governments, other financial institutions, and retail investors. The average daily turnover in the global foreign exchange and related markets is continuously growing. According to the 2010 Triennial Central Bank Survey, coordinated by the Bank for International Settlements, average daily turnover was US$3.98 trillion in April 2010 (vs $1.7 trillion in 1998). Of this $3.98 trillion, $1.5 trillion was spot foreign exchange transactions and $2.5 trillion was traded in outright forwards, FX swaps and other currency derivatives.
Trading in London accounted for 36.7% of the total, making London by far the most important global center for foreign exchange trading. In second and third places respectively, trading in New York City accounted for 17.9%, and Tokyo accounted for 6.2%.
Turnover of exchange-traded foreign exchange futures and options have grown rapidly in recent years, reaching $166 billion in April 2010 (double the turnover recorded in April 2007). Exchange-traded currency derivatives represent 4% of OTC foreign exchange turnover. FX futures contracts were introduced in 1972 at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and are actively traded relative to most other futures contracts.
Most developed countries permit the trading of FX derivative products (like currency futures and options on currency futures) on their exchanges. All these developed countries already have fully convertible capital accounts. A number of emerging countries do not permit FX derivative products on their exchanges in view of controls on the capital accounts. The use of foreign exchange derivatives is growing in many emerging economies. Countries such as Korea, South Africa, and India have established currency futures exchanges, despite having some controls on the capital account

Foreign exchange trading increased by 20% between April 2007 and April 2010 and has more than doubled since 2004. The increase in turnover is due to a number of factors: the growing importance of foreign exchange as an asset class, the increased trading activity of high-frequency traders, and the emergence of retail investors as an important market segment. The growth of electronic execution methods and the diverse selection of execution venues have lowered transaction costs, increased market liquidity, and attracted greater participation from many customer types. In particular, electronic trading via online portals has made it easier for retail traders to trade in the foreign exchange market. By 2010, retail trading is estimated to account for up to 10% of spot FX turnover, or $150 billion per day (see retail trading platforms).
Because foreign exchange is an OTC market where brokers/dealers negotiate directly with one another, there is no central exchange or clearing house. The biggest geographic trading centre is the UK, primarily London, which according to TheCityUK estimates has increased its share of global turnover in traditional transactions from 34.6% in April 2007 to 36.7% in April 2010. Due to London's dominance in the market, a particular currency's quoted price is usually the London market price. For instance, when the IMF calculates the value of its SDRs every day, they use the London market prices at noon that day.

IPAD 3G Specification

All iPad models come with built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi. If you want to extend your network coverage further, choose iPad with Wi-Fi + 3G and sign up for access to 3G data service.*

Size and weight
Height:
9.56 inches (242.8 mm)
Width:
7.47 inches (189.7 mm)
Depth:
0.5 inch (13.4 mm)
Weight:
1.5 pounds (0.68 kg) Wi-Fi model;
1.6 pounds (0.73 kg) Wi-Fi + 3G model

Display
9.7-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology
1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi)
Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating
Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously

Wireless and cellular
Wi-Fi model
Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n)
Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR technology
Wi-Fi + 3G model
UMTS/HSDPA (850, 1900, 2100 MHz)
GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
Data only2
Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n)
Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR technology

Processor
1GHz Apple A4 custom-designed, high-performance, low-power system-on-a-chip

Audio playback
Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
Audio formats supported: HE-AAC (V1), AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV
User-configurable maximum volume limit

TV and video
Support for 1024 by 768 pixels with Dock Connector to VGA Adapter; 576p and 480p with Apple Component AV Cable; 576i and 480i with Apple Composite AV Cable
H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format

Mail attachment support
Viewable document types: .jpg, .tiff, .gif (images); .doc and .docx (Microsoft Word); .htm and .html (web pages); .key (Keynote); .numbers (Numbers); .pages (Pages); .pdf (Preview and Adobe Acrobat); .ppt and .pptx (Microsoft PowerPoint); .txt (text); .rtf (rich text format); .vcf (contact information); .xls and .xlsx (Microsoft Excel)

Battery and power
Built-in 25-watt-hour rechargeable lithium-polymer battery
Up to 10 hours of surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching video, or listening to music
Up to 9 hours of surfing the web using 3G data network
Charging via power adapter or USB to computer system

Input and output
Dock connector port
3.5-mm stereo headphone jack
Built-in speaker
Microphone
Micro-SIM card tray (Wi-Fi + 3G model only)

Windows system requirements
PC with USB 2.0 port
Windows 7; Windows Vista; or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 3 or later
iTunes 10.1 or later (free download from www.itunes.com/download)
iTunes Store account
Internet access

Accessibility
Support for playback of closed-captioned content
VoiceOver screen reader
Full-screen zoom magnification
White on black display
Mono audio