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CES 2010: Powerstrap, the bracelet that charges the iPhone

July 7th, 2011

CES 2010: Powerstrap, the bracelet that charges the iPhone

At CES were presented very many accessories for iPhone and iPod touch, but you’re going to have to show something special. This is a simple bracelet that hides a surprise. Powerstrap, the name, allows you to charge your iPhone or iPod touch so it is always loaded. The bracelet includes a battery of 1,500 mAh fact by which we can load our equipment in about 5 hours.

As you can see from Powerstrap is able to charge other types of devices, by other connectors. To charge your smartphone simply connect the appropriate cable to the cuff. Let’s say that everything is a little ‘uncomfortable as you will have to keep the iPhone in his hand while charging (Unless they be taken off the cuff at the wrist), but this however will give us another 3 hours of talk time and 8 hours of music listening .

Powerstrap is available in different colors: yellow, green, blue, red, black and white. You can buy it through Amazon’s site for around € 45 from Here

WebOS 1.3.5.2: Tethering via Bluetooth enabled on the Palm Pre

WebOS differs from the version 1.3.5.2 is not only an American version number of the symbol, indeed an important new feature was added: the sharing of your connection via Bluetooth!

To share the connection just go into the settings, activate the Bluetooth, making the device "discoverable", making the pairing between the PC and Pre setting a new Personal Network, and you’re done.

So, after the graphics acceleration, here is also the native tethering.

Motorola Milestrone / vs Droid. Nexus Video

In the last 4 months we have witnessed the exit of several terminals on the market Android. Hero After it arrived and Tattoo Liquid Acer, Galaxy Lite, Milestone and a few days in America, the Nexus. All very interesting terminals, each with its own unique characteristics and significant. Below we show a video that compares the Droid / Milestone and the new GPhone, two terminals of the most desirable at the time.

XDA Developers – have a new Market?

It seems that the new year is bringing big news in the community at XDA Developers. After the news of the opening to the terminals do not HTC, comes the image of what appears to be a new online store where you can find all the applications, tweaks and fixes for their own terminals. Certainly a very interesting resource which we hope will soon become reality.

Google I / O – Enrolment for the May 19/20

After the success of last year, registrations are open for the biggest event dedicated to the Google developers around the world: Google I / O. The event will take place between 19 and 20 May 2010 in San Francisco. Registrations are already open, however, and until April 16 you can get a reduced entrance.
Join us for two days of deep technical content featuring Android, Google Chrome, Google APIs, GWT, App Engine, open web technologies, and more.
Google I / O features 80 sessions, more than 3.000 developers, from developers and over 100 Demonstrations showcasing Their technologies. Talk shop with engineers building the next generation of Web, mobile and enterprise applications.
Early discounted registration is now open through April 16, 2010. Follow @ googleio for the latest updates on I / O. (Official hashtags: # io2010)

Join us for two days of deep technical content featuring Android, Google Chrome, Google APIs, GWT, App Engine, open web technologies, and more.

Google I / O features 80 sessions, more than 3.000 developers, from developers and over 100 Demonstrations showcasing Their technologies. Talk shop with engineers building the next generation of Web, mobile and enterprise applications.

Early discounted registration is now open through April 16, 2010. Follow @ googleio for the latest updates on I / O. (Official hashtags: # io2010)

More info on the official website.

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CES2010: Mikey, professional microphone for iPhone and iPod touch

July 5th, 2011

CES2010: Mikey, professional microphone for iPhone and iPod touch

The company Blue Microphones has announced the arrival of the professional microphone Mikey, compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. The accessory according to the Cupertino company, also will be sold at Apple stores. The microphone will interact with the free Blue Fire can record. Below we see the features of Mikey.

Here are the main functions of the microphone:

* Records high quality audio;
* 3.5 mm input for connecting external elements such as musical instruments;
* Headphone Extension;
* Bag microphone port;
* Seven positions can be over 230 degrees;
* USB output to synchronize with your PC.

Mikey will be presented at CES and sold this spring at a price of $ 99.99. In addition to the Apple stores will also be available in the Guitar Center and Amazon.com.

Sunbrite 5510HD outdoor TV

At CES 2010 in Las Vegas during the company Sunbrite presented a TV from outside. Some people, especially business owners who need to bring a TV to ‘open and this creates some difficulties. First, the weather and also the brightness of the TV must be appropriate.

The new HDTV is called Sunbrite 5510HD is a 55-inch and resistant to ‘water, high temperatures in the cold. And ‘as a Full HD resolution with 120Hz refresh rate and 4000:1 contrast.

Among these are four HDMI connections, a component, one VGA, one S-Video and a 232. The price is about 5000 euros. On the official website find all the info.

Crayon Physics Deluxe Game tested on ‘HD2

Those of you who had one of the first Apple iPhone surely remember this game. Caused a sensation because of its simplicity and the use they made of physics. The goal is simple, to touch the ball with star shapes that we want to build with your fingers. Distributed under the ‘Omnia 2, we can download and try it on our device. Following a video test on HTC HD2.

The official of the social network Facebook is updated

The application is available in the App Store, Facebook, is updated to version 3.1 bringing interesting news. Already in our article, we bring you the official application of the popular social network would have received a major update. This update adds a new user you will appreciate very much: push notifications. We see all the changelog below.

The 3.1 update adds:

* Push Notifications useful for staying connected even when we exit the application.
* Added the function that lets you synchronize contact photos with Facebook and put them in the iPhone address book.

Facebook is available free of charge and weighs 1.5 MB. Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch, requires firmware 3.0 or later.

Nexus One video unboxing, and comparison with performance: Milestones, Magic, iPhone, N900, HD2

Video of the Nexus they are already an impressive number on YouTube, then groped unitule to do a roundup of video and endless talk only about this terminal! We will try to report only selected some videos that capture our attention for some reason.

Below we suggest two videos: the first shows a dimensional unboxing and comparisons with: Motorola Milestone, HD2, Nokia N900, iPhone and HTC Magic, another mute although clearly shows the execution speed of applications of the Nexus .

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CyanogenMod v4.2.11.1: multitouch arrives in the browser and in the gallery!

June 30th, 2011

CyanogenMod v4.2.11.1: multitouch arrives in the browser and in the gallery!

Cyanogen, the user is currently most famous in Android, has released a new version of its firmware CyanogenMod v4.2.11.1.
The v4.2.11.1 was released as stable and as well as fix some bugs in previous versions, add the multitouch and gallery in the browser natively. Detailed follow

Perhaps the multitouch is not yet smooth and precise as we would like, but even by dismissing in advance!

Remember that this firmware works natively on HTC and HTC Dream Magic PVT 32B (ie HTC Vodafone Magic).

These are the full specifications:

* UNIVERSAL! Runs on Both Dream and Magic 32B
* Based on Android 1.6, many bugfixes and enhancements from AOSP, XDA, and me
* Highly optimized kernel with many extra modules
* Enhanced ramdisk uses optimal Which mount options and smart startup
* Includes converting and checking for the e2fsprogs Ext filesystems
* Apps2SD is automatic! All you need is a second partition (ext).
* Launcher with 5 screens and self-orientation and compact layout drawer
* Clean filesystems at shutdown poweroff / reboot and fsck at boot (no FS corruption!)
* Includes Amazon MP3 store, and Work Email (MS Exchange support)
* Does not require "DangerSPL"
* Includes a massive list APN
* Maximum CPU frequency scaling Set To 528MHz with latency tweaks
* Various enhancements to the Settings app Including extra space partition
* Phone app enhancements by cytown
* MMS enhancements from rgv151
* FLAC audio support thanks to Kroot
* Bluetooth OBEX support from Erin Yueh
* Contacts app and enhancements by ChainsDD Wysie
* USB tethering support (kernel code ported by Zinx)
* Commandline extras: powertop, htop, nano, busybox, openvpn
* Ability to lock in home app Memory (Spare Parts control in the app)
* Eclair graphics, apps, and other guts
* Multitouch browser and gallery

In addition to the multitouch applications on SD also supports automatic (so remember to have your partitioned SD), support for Bluetooth OBEX natively and adds visual effects to Eclair (even if it is based on Donut).

(V4.2.11.1 – stable version):
Download update-cm-4.2.11.1-signed.zip
Mirror 1: update-cm-4.2.11.1-signed.zip
MD5Sum: 9407a34f0a6429b5a44430b17379d433

Once you download the firmware, copy the zip file into your SD and flashatela through recovery.

Wikitude and Google Goggles sull’X10 video!

After Google Navigation, come two new preview video of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10.

These two videos show sull’X10 function, respectively, the two applications Wikitude and Google Goggles. Video to follow ..

Wikitude, augmented reality on Android:

Google Goggles, the research on the web via a simple picture:

HD2 utilities and changes with a click through to BSB, upgrade to version 1.6

It ‘s always with great pleasure that we publish an update to BSB, HD2 software utility that allows you with a simple touch of your finger to make changes and improvements to our HD2 without touching the registry editor. Not only that, also allows you to make screenshots, to decide which applications and which do not have to turn etc.

Another feature that might be useful to many especially now that the release came out for the HD2, you can install 3-4 cooked roms but they are only in English is to be able to change the language on the fly manila, htc interface in Italian (non-wm). But we see in detail what’s new in this version.

This author reported the changelog:

* Added option to change left softkey manila Easily
* Fixed problem That wouldnt rotated apps to save if softreset was made just after adding it
* Changed some names and descriptions
* Fixed Screenshots not working in some ROM Languages
* Added tweak to enable wifi in standby (not working in all versions … Roma will see if i find a workarround)
* Added tweak to change behavior album X
* Added tweak to enable adobe reflow
* Added tweak to change sms up to 50 recipients
* Added tweak to Improve video recording to mpeg4
* Added tweak to enable hidden video recording formats
* Other Minor Fixes

Apart from several bugs and issues resolved since the previous version can now quickly enable the wifi even when the handheld is idle, to enable as the maximum number of text messages per user to 50, improve the video recording and enable new recording formats. In practice we can now make the changes we described in an article here with a simple click.

Remember that you must have a rom with the. NETCF 3.5 installed otherwise you can always download and install it from post # 1.

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Motorola XT701 (aka Sholes), MT710 and XT800 mercato cinese per il Android

June 27th, 2011

Motorola XT701 (aka Sholes), MT710 and XT800 mercato cinese per il Android

In recent weeks we have talked about some Motorola terminals arriving with Android system. From a few hours have been formalized and will be three: XT701, XT800 and MT710 . All systems with Google and intended only for the Chinese market. The following features (translated with Google Translator):

Motorola XT701 (aka Sholes):

* WCDMA / HSDPA 10.2M / HSUPA 5.76M
* 3.7-inch-wide touch-screen , 854X480 resolution
* 5 million pixel auto-focus camera, Xenon flash , high-quality image capture
* Strong CortexTM-A8 processor, multi-tasking at the same time smooth collaboration, high-speed operation
* Built-in gravity sensor, infrared proximity sensors, ambient light sensor
* GPS / aGPS navigation
* WLAN: 802.11 b / g, WAPI / WIFI
* Video capture / playback / streaming media
* Maximum support 32GB Micro-SD (HC) expansion cards
* FM Stereo FM radio
* OMTP standard 3.5 mm headphone jack, while supporting the traditional 3.5 mm headphone
* Support MP3/AAC/AACv1/AACv2/AMR-NB/AMR-WB/MIDI/MIDI/WAV/Ogg Vorbis /
* PCM music formats, etc.
* Supported video formats MPEG4/H.263/H.264
* Support SMS, MMS, e-mail (POP3/IMAP4) and enterprise-class e-mail
* USB 2.0 high-speed data transfer
* Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR High-speed transmission / Wireless Bluetooth Stereo

Motorola XT800 specifications:
Android 2.0 with full suite of Google applications
CDMA EVDO / GSM dual-network
3G network support, WIFI / WAPI free switching
3.7-inch high-definition resolution of 854×480
HDMI high-definition (720p) output
5 million pixel digital camera, auto focus, dual LED flash
Cortex TM – A8 multi-core processor
MOTO-specific Nicam -professional intelligent noise reduction
GPS
32GB Micro-SD
Electronic Compass & Support for gravity sensing
Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
FM Stereo FM radio
Standard 3.5 mm headphone jack

Motorola XT800:

* CDMA EVDO / GSM dual-network by two pairs of steps to reach a truly global roaming seamless
* # Support for 3G Wi-Fi network / switching WAPI free, dual-channel full-screen internet, perfect Internet experience
* A 3.7-inch high-definition resolution of 854 x 480 touch-largest
* Video recording and playback, support for HDMI with high definition (720p) output to high definition television equipment
* A new generation of Google (Google) Android open 2.0 intelligent systems, massive intelligence applications, mobile phones customization Xpress
* A4 text to support the film scanning and text recognition, multilingual Google (Google) On-line translator
* Other features:
* MOTO book refers to a new generation of smart, affordable high-speed input and precise
* 5 million pixel digital camera, autofocus, dual LED flash for easy low light
* Forte TM Cortex – A8 multi-core processors, with hardware video acceleration graphics processor (GPU), and dedicated camera digital , processors, and so on, to create a new experience for high-speed multimedia brilliant
* Independent satellite positioning GPS navigation with maps of the country in support of Google (Google) Maps Global Positioning Research
* Word / Excel / Powerpoint / PDF / files zip browsing and editing a variety of formats
* MOTO-specific features Nicam, professional, intelligent noise reduction
* Supports up to 32GB Micro-SD memory expansion
* Accuracy report smart dialing, the mighty Google (Google) search function
* 3G services in support of China Telecom
* Support video capture and a variety of video formats here, H.263/H.264 / MPEG4, WMA 9, etc.
* Supports AAC, AAC +, MP3, CMX, AMR NB, AMR WB, MIDI, WAV, WMA 9 and many other audio formats
* Electronic Compass
* Support for gravity sensing
* SMS, MMS, e-mail and corporate mail and other information they receive ^
* USB 2.0 high speed data transmission, and supports synchronization with your computer
* Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR Bluetooth stereo high-speed and wireless transmission
* FM Stereo Radio FM
* Standard da 3,5 mm per cuffie jack OMTP generale

Motorola MT710 :

* The new Internet experience comparable to PC
* 3G/WiFi/WAPI high-speed Internet access, 3.7-inch display screen horizontally
* 3.7-inch color touch screen, 854 * 480 high-definition resolution, and rendering of realistic images
* Sliding complete navigation screen, the screen horizontal, vertical screen adaptation Car
* Fast CMMB mobile TV experience for more than
* CMMB mobile TV, seeing convenience
* A key to start
* Single desktop stent design, the display screen horizontally, the liberation of his hands
* A single real-time playback, it is true that any exciting moments
* 4G with the large user memory, you can record up to 8 hours of TV
* Vertical and horizontal screen automatically switches
* Video phone / video conferencing, easy to communicate face to face
* 3G videotelefono / videoconferenza
* Wi-Fi wireless camera mode to connect a computer to expand the horizons without a tie down
* New China Mobile oPhone OS piattaforma per smartphone
* GPS Navigation: Built-in GPS chip to support AGPS / GPS navigation accuracy
* Mobile securities (financial stocks)
* News (notizie, fatti)
* 139 E-mail
* Fetion
* Walkman 2,0 Music
* Mobile Store application (MM)
* MOTO latest technology of writing intelligent,
* Full support-input screen, in the English language, punctuation, input mix, without complicated switching
* 5 million pixel digital camera
* LED fill light, the first deputy of the 30-megapixel camera
* EBook
* Built-in e-book applications, to restore the true reading experience
* Other features:
* Video: support video capture / playback / streaming online media, supporting H.263, H.264, MPEG4 video format
* Audio: Supporto per jack per cuffie 3,5 mm, radio FM, supporto per AAC, AAC +, AAC + Enhanced, AMR NB, AMR WB, MIDI, MP3, WAV formato audio
* Memory: 4GB of memory of the body, the maximum support 32 GB MicroSD card expansion
* USB 2.0 Interfaccia
* Bluetooth
* Informazioni Funzione: Support SMS, MMS, e-mail (POP3/IMAP, Push Email), WAP 2.0.
* Book: Maximum Support Group 1000
* SMS Empower: 1000

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Game Need For Speed Shift, a new video and other images

June 23rd, 2011

Game Need For Speed Shift, a new video and other images

Here are more pictures and a new video before the expected release of the game Need For Speed Shift of Electronic Arts. Will be released before the end of the year and will be a great driving simulator. It will be possible, Improving His career and acquiring in-game virtual money, additional purchase up to 20 cars racing official. In Addition, we modify our cars by changing some of the ITS Aspects, Including the tires, spoilers and paint color etc..

Going into the game we can Increase the speed of our car, the acceleration and the NOS, in Addition to changing the tires and suspension.

The acceleration and braking will be handled automatically by the game, limiting Perhaps a little ‘the simulation looks for del’aspetto arcade.

AVATAR Available in the App Store, the adventure game by Gameloft

And ‘finally available for the highly Anticipated action adventure Gameloft on’ App Store. The game is Avatar, and is inspired two films out in theaters Anticipated in January. Avatar has a really good 3D graphics and Demonstrates the commitment of Gameloft in Exploiting the best features of the platform.

Go on a journey of discovery, danger and in a fantasy world avvenuture. The aim is for survival cambattere Against carnivorous plants and wild animals. When The Battle Reaches ITS climax, flies in the skies of Pandora to the turn of the Banshee in epic shooter sequences.

There are 15 levels to discover, from mining to military forts to the beautiful waterfalls. During the fighting techniques training Learns to Increase your accuracy with a bow.

Arcade style game really recommended for fans of action games with good graphics and smooth.

Avatar has a cost of 7.99 euros and Weighs 189 MB. Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch firmware 2.2.1 or later required.

CamCorder allows you to record videos with iPhone 3G and 2G iPhone – App Store

Yesterday we Showed That the application iVideocamera allowed you to record video, althoug in low resolution and quality, with the iPhone 3G and 2G (EDGE) without the jailbreak. Here today to get another application in the App Store, similar to iVideocamera, His Name Is camcorder.

Unlike iVideocamera, where the recording time was limited to 1 in detail, in CamCorder There Is No time limit. The video is, for Both applications, recorded at 3 frames per second with a resolution of 160 x 213. A result is to present more recording in the native iPhone 3G.

CamCorder has a cost of 0.79 euros and Weighs 200Kb. Compatible with iPhone and Requires 3.1 firmware or later.

New shots for the Nexus – really thin!

After the initial rumors, Confirmations, FCC approvals, backgrounds, and the initial booting of the system dump, as two new photos of the Nexus. The device, as you will see the next photo is very thin!

When will we see in Italy? It is hoped the wait That is not like the HTC Dream!

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JVC announced the Everio GZ-HD620 video camera with HDD’s smallest and lightest in the world

June 20th, 2011

JVC announced the Everio GZ-HD620 video camera with HDD’s smallest and lightest in the world

JVC Japan has announced the new Everio GZ-HD620 .Interesting model that proposes how the camera with hard disk drive (HDD) smallest and lightest in the world.

The weight is in fact only 270 grams.This 2.7-inch LCD display and 120GB hard disk drive to record your shots.The videos will be captured in MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 standard and if you can expand the memory via Micro SD / SD card.

The video recording is done in Full HD 1920 x 1080.Also interesting is the zoom optical lens with a 30x Konica Minolta HD and Dolby Digital audio recording on 2 channels.Have an HDMI output and also component.Available later this month in different colors and will also brief the American and European market.

Windows Phone: Your Life, Your Way!

Windows Phone coming from the channel following the publicity, the BlackBerry, but this time it only goes to enhance the Microsoft product without mentioning any competition.

The programs mentioned in the video are: Outlook, as Web browsing on a PC, Office, Multimedia and fun.

Mobile application 3TV Video Review

It ‘a short time available on’ App Store application of 3, offering users the use of the TV operator. 3TV Mobile after the launch did not guarantee high reliability due to server overload fault unexpected of 30,000 downloads in 48 hours.The application is made up of free channels and channels Payable, available through packages.Below we show the review in Italian by Andrea Galeazzi. The application can be downloaded free of charge and is compatible with iPhone.Requires firmware 3.0 or later.

Gameloft Real Football 2010, a new update soon

In September Gameloft went out with a very interesting title: Real Football 2010 .The game, reviewed all Here , it’s really well done, with good gameplay and a fairly realistic graphics.Excellent opportunity to play it online with people all over the world via Bluetooth or with our friends.In short, to the delight of many, will receive a new update, we see the details.

The new update will include several graphical enhancements and bug fixes.Innovations will be made as regards the shadows and weather conditions and will be updated as the database, most likely with the winter market.

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Cydia: Theme Lockscreen Clock with Weather and style HTC (Installation Guide)

June 13th, 2011

Cydia: Theme Lockscreen Clock with Weather and style HTC (Installation Guide)

After having proposed Katra’s Weather , which customize the lockscreen with a beautiful icon of the weather in your town, here is another theme, MobileMe LockStyle , very nice place it in your lock screen a HTC style clock and weather of your city . Following the installation guide.

INSTALLATION GUIDE

1. First download the following applications from Cydia :

* Lockscreen Clock Hide
* MobileMe LockStyle

2. The application Lockscreen Hide Clock , you will not see the iPhone’s default clock, so as to make room for what you install. Let’s go Impostastioni> Hide clock and configure the settings as the image.

3. At this point plug in via SSH and enter the path "/ Library / Themes / MobileMe LockStyle.themes / Private /" and open the file "configureMe.js" with any text editor.

4. Now edit two strings on the weather, changing as the picture below. Where do you find scritto’Bologna ‘entered the city in which you want to bring up the weather. Change the variable "isCelsius" putting "true" instead of "false"

5. Now go into WinterBoard and select the theme LockStyle MobileMe.

For any problem please write in comments.

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HtcAddicts clean Ram

June 8th, 2011

HtcAddicts clean Ram

HtcAddicts cleanRAM , useful and free application which we have often talked about, you upgrade to version 1.3.0.

This utility allows you to make "clean" in your device and thus free up precious RAM easily and safely without necessarily being forced to make a softreset.

This is the changelog for version 1.3.0:

* Added & Fixed problems with cleanRAM working with GPS applications on backgound issue fixed
* Fixed several minor bugs
* Fixed Level 2 crashed issue
* Multilanguage supported

In addition to several minor issues resolved and added other languages, has been solved a major problem of incompatibility was present when the GPS function

Here you will find more information about htcAddicts cleanRAM and the ability to download the application.

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Pope relies on electric cars

May 20th, 2011

Pope relies on electric cars

The fleet of the Vatican is currently only of normal cars with internal combustion engine. Pope Benedict XVI now considering the vehicle fleet to expand an electric car. Currently, he still drives a Mercedes G-500, which is armored and has an especially high fuel consumption. The small state of Vatican City has fewer than 1,000 residents and relies on solar energy. Pope Benedict XVI is open and has alternative energy in the electric cars are a great choice.

It could, for a Ampera Opel, Citroen C-Zero, Tesla Roadster and Nissan Leaf decide. The solar company Solar World is according to media reports already have with the Catholic Church on set of a car with electric drive in combination. According to a company spokesman, the Vatican, but some safety concerns because of the slower acceleration in electric cars.

Since October 2008 Solar World operates on the roof of the audience hall, a solar system of over 2,000 solar modules. The running costs for an electric car would certainly lower than a normal car and thus the Vatican could well save good money.

Retail – Long waiting time for electric cars

According to a report of Ampnet must retail the electric car-buying patience and expect a long wait for delivery. The reason is the priority for operators of large fleets such as car Sixt, DB Car sharing and other providers. There are the electric cars for advertising and brand ambassadors are used. The car manufacturers are mostly first time on the electric car leasing. The first electric car models are the Nissan Leaf, Mitsubishi i-MiEV, Peugeot and Citroen C-Zero iON already available. The monthly lease cost for the Peugeot iOn amount to around euros 583 for four-year contract period.

According to the French car manufacturer in 2011 to approximately 800 units of the electric car model are sold. The Japanese Mitsubishi i-MiEV will cost about 35,000 euros and can be just like the Peugeot iON are already pre-ordered. The Nissan Leaf will be available in Europe in early 2011 while it can be purchased on the Japanese market today. It will take one to two years for the automaker, the corresponding number of electric cars to deliver in time to produce.

Berlin – launched Project e-city logistics

In the capital Berlin, the project has started e-city logistics, courier services and freight forwarding companies where the use of electric vehicles tested in everyday life. The project is funded by the Federal Environment Ministry with 1.3 million euros. The German postal company DHL, the Fraunhofer Society and the forwarding Meyer & Meyer are the partners of the project. Classical transport vehicles with internal combustion engines with its many short stops for a higher environmental impact in the city. The project should be considered the advantages and benefits of environmentally friendly commercial vehicles with electric drive in logistics have. It can be started two field experiments and the results decide whether electric vehicles are used makes sense in the supply market.

Nationwide there are eight model regions for the electrical mobility, which are supported by some 130 million euros from the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs (Germany). The money comes from the Economic Stimulus Package II with an amount of 12.5 million euros, the model region Berlin / Potsdam promoted and the total budget amounts with the project partners to around 27 million euros. In Stuttgart, Allgau, Hamburg, Rhine-Ruhr, Munich, Bremen / Oldenburg and Saxony there are also model regions.

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Consumer theft of the car insurance

May 17th, 2011

Consumer theft of the car insurance

Berlin / Mainz (dpa) – Do not leave valuables in your car! This rule, each child learns at least on the first holiday travel. But even in the event that cell phone or GPS to be forgotten in the car, there are ways to insure a theft.

Mobile phones, laptops, navigation systems: portable electronic devices have become constant companions – even on trips by car. This creates opportunities for thieves, especially when popular gadgets such as smart phones are in the center console reveals a sucker or stay on the window: It could be a Navi in the glove compartment. The question of who will pay for theft of the car is not easy to answer. Therefore, customers should look for an insurance policy very carefully.

Those who follow the following principle, protects itself even without dipping deep into the insurance matter, "should not generally be valuables left in the car," says Christian Lubke by the General Association of Insurers (GDV) in Berlin. But even for those who forget the laptop in the passenger seat, there is a loss for solutions. With the refund of the price, the insured can expect, however little.

About a car partially comprehensive electrical appliances and things like CDs, sunglasses or child seats are not insured. "The hull is a pure insurance automobile parts," Michael Berg said word from the Consumer Central Rhineland-Palatinate. Although the entire car will for loss by theft usually replaced – including at the factory installed navigation systems and multimedia solutions. For everything else, however, had an extra protective ago.

The offer – if only limited – household insurance. "The few people know," says spokesman GDV Lubke. Rule of thumb: Let the household items lost, can the insured also expect compensation if they are not in the house or apartment. This applies, for example, for bicycles and also for items in a locked car when this is in a building – such as in an underground garage with a sealed gate. Then move the thing in the external insurance as a component of the household, "says Luebke. If the vehicle is parked in a public park, the protection expire in part: The customer will then "assumed the blame."

Should someone so in a freely accessible parking the car window and can go with valuables from the car, will not be reimbursed the full retail price. "I have recently experienced a case in which the insurance, the benefit shall be reduced by 70 percent," says the ADAC insurance expert Paul Kuhn. The reason given to the Company, the insured constitutes gross negligence, if he leaves valuables in your car.

According to word of mountain, there is still a hurdle for the insured, "If burglary, pays the household effects in principle." But the customer must prove that his car was actually cracked.

Who pays for the policies, however, on it or the provider compares attention may extend the insurance coverage. Thus, some contents insurance to protect objects in the car, even if the car is parked at the curb. However, it is required, for example, to store valuables in the locked boot – thus invisible to thieves. "Some insurers also include mobile navigation systems with one, to distinguish themselves from the competition," White Lubke.

According to the GDV, there are also several property insurance for laptops or smart phones, and special letters of protection. But it must be balanced: If the device is valuable enough to allow the payment of any excess is worth? The ADAC also specifies baggage insurance as an alternative. "Again: A look at the fine print must be – only because of gross negligence," advises Cohen. As such, the insurance companies could design including the storage of luggage in the car overnight.

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