Hi, Tom Maxwell here for Tech Conclave. Earlier this week, Samsung launched their new Smartphone called the Samsung S8000 Jet. But, is it an iPhone beater?

The phone boasts a fast 800 MHz processor leaving all other smart phones for dust as the average high end smart phone, until now was 600 MHz.

The phone boasts many new features including, Microsoft’s ActiveSync push email for business users, one finger zoom, which is the ability to zoom in and out using only one finger and one hand, 3.1 inch ultra bright display, with a resolution of four times higher than the WQVGA standard. It has a 5 megapixel camera with auto focus and an LED flash, auto focus, face detection and geo tagging. It can record video at 30 frames per second at MPEG4 and of course a music player that can just about play any format.

The memory on the Jet is either 2GB or 8GB integrated. You have the option of expanding this up to 16GB via a micro SD card. The Battery life expectancy is about 300 minutes of talk time for 3G and for 2G your going to get around 419 and the standby time is around 400 hours. The phone also comes with a new web browser called "dolphin" which promises to make mobile browsing easier with new features like, multi window browsing, advanced bookmaking and a sophisticated add blocker.

But, is the Samsung Jet an iPhone Beater? Well, in my opinion, despite the advanced specifications, sadly no, because of the Apple App Store allowing iPhone users to make the most of their iPhone.

But as with most things, only time will tell.

SAFARI 4 HYPE DWARFED BY FIREFOX 3 DOWNLOADS
Reported by Gerardo Velasco

Apple’s Safari 4 Web Browser just hit the download area, creating much hype and talk online after it was recently released from its beta version. Safari’s new capabilities include a wide rage of user interactivity in style, with its new cover flow, support for native look and feel for Windows Vista and XP, and its HTML web page load speed four times faster than Firefox according to apple. While many of its looks and speed have increased, its security features have stayed the same, a downside to Apple’s Safari 4.

Safari 4 has in fact, already topped 11 million downloads in its first three days of its release. A download mark very impressive considering that more than 6 million of its downloads were from Windows-based users. Although this is a very high number, it didn’t get anywhere near Firefox’s number of downloads for 3.0.11, pulling 150 million downloads in 24 hours, as Mozilla’s Asa Dotzler reported. With more than 300 million active users of Firefox, Mozilla is still miles ahead of Safari and Internet Explorer in terms of its users and community.

With so much competition between these major browsers, there is still a decision to make in choosing one, while Microsoft resorts to charitable donations to make its Internet Explorer browser downloads increase, and Apple claims misleading Safari download numbers, Firefox wins because it’s simply better. .

WORDCAMP DALLAS AT 2009  UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
Reported by John Raul Joven II

A WordCamp is going to be held on June 27 and 28 at University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas.

Entry to the said conference will cost only $30 and lets you meet prominent Internet bloggers, marketers, and geeks such as Tony Cecala, Cali Lewis, Liz Strauss, Lorelle VanFossen, the founder of WordPress himself, Matt Mullenweg and may more.

WordCamp is an informal, community-organized conference that focuses on everything WordPress.
Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and socialize in the said event.

WordCamp Dallas 2009 website: http://dallas.wordcamp.org

MAX PAYNE 3 COMING IN WINTER 2009
Reported by Jordan Haleakala

Rockstar Games’ is bringing back its fallen hero from their third-person shooter franchise Max Payne.  Max Payne 3 is to be released Winter of 2009.  Max Payne has returned many years later after the murder of his family to bring justice and "pain" to those who made his life a nightmare. 

Moving away from the familiar Noir York City scene, Max travels to a foreign place in South America to finish off what he started.  Remedy Games no longer working on Max Payne 3, Rockstar games has taken over the franchise from this point.  Rockstar games is trying to build to the new game but also keep it familiar and favorable features so new comers and old fans to the franchise will enjoy this game.  Max Payne 3 looks to be a game pleasing to all gamers.

TECH CONCLAVE NOW ON ITUNES
Reported by Jonatan Escobar

Good news to avid Tech Conclave viewers, geeks and computer enthusiasts: Tech Conclave, the Global Geek News Patrol, is now on iTunes.

GEEK OF THE WEEK: STEPHEN HEYWOOD
Reported by Beau Sinclair

Beau: Our geek of the week is Stephen Heywood. Who is Stephen Heywood in the Geekosphere?
Stephen: I’m a tech show host. I’m also a youth pastor and media specialist at my church. I got into technology in college despite working on people’s computers and read a lot of books, did a lot of different things that a helped me gain knowledge and experience in technology. And currently I own TheTechBuzz.net and run a live show there at uStream.tv and I have a great community of people and geeks out there in the Geekosphere.

Beau: What are your other fields of interests beside computers?
Stephen: It’s gotta be the church and my youth group. Like I said, I’m a youth pastor there. And, I have a great time working with the kids and working with the teens and helping them grow and mature and did a lot of things – teach them a lot of things. I like to involve technology in that. It’s good be a geek.

If you have questions, suggestions or comments about this episode, email me at techconclave (at) gmail (dot) com.or you can visit our website at  www.techconclave.com.

I want to thank Brad again for this wonderful microphone that he sponsored. He is my co-host at TechWebcast.info and I can’t overstate how much it improved Tech Conclave’s audio quality.

Always remember, it’s good to be a geek.

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