iPhone 3.0 vs. Palm Pre: which one would you want to get?

iPhone or Palm Pre?
Sprint, Palm Pre’s exclusive carrier announced that Palm Pre would be launched on June 6. Then this summer that’s the question many would-be-smart phone purchasers just might ask themselves. Both have their pros and cons. The iPhone has a huge profile and market presence, but the Pre has the old-school Palm faithful who have been waiting a long time for their Next Big Thing. The iPhone has massive channels and even Sprint admits they won’t be advertising the Palm Pre much due to low initial supply. But those most likely to want the Palm Pre already know it’s coming, where to get, and may well be reading this while already standing in line.
But what about the consumer on the edge? The consumer who has an older iPhone or Palm, or the one who’s about to move up from a feature phone for the first time. What about the dreaded “undecided”? This article is for them. Now let’s get it on.

Display

IPhone: beautiful, large (3.5 inch diagonal), high-resolution (480x320 screen) multi-touch display.
Palm Pre: Beautiful, large (3.1 inch diagonal), high-resolution (480x320 screen). The screen is not as large as the iPhone (0.4 inch smaller) but this is balanced against other hardware features such as the removable battery and sliding keyboard further below.
Advantage: Tie
Keyboard
Palm Pre has a physical, hardware-based QWERTY keyboard while the iPhone has a virtual, software-based keyboard that can be QWERTY (or anything else).
For those who need to feel those keys, the Palm Pre is the obvious choice. However, the Pre’s keyboard is reportedly somewhere between a Treo Pro and a Palm Centro: softer, more gummy keys with a narrow width overall. It might not be to everyone’s liking. That said, at least the Pre has one, and it’s a slider to boot, which means if you don’t need it, you can just tuck it away back under the screen where it came from.
The iPhone, can draw any kind of keyboard it wants. So if you need to type occasionally (or often) in Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, or most any language, you can easily switch between those exact keyboards. You can also automatically be presented with web-optimized, or video, audio — any task at all — specific keyboards.
The iPhone is an excellent touch screen phone, no doubt. But for heavy texters and e-mail addicts, the lack of a physical keyboard can be annoying. Now Palm Pre combined a touch screen and keyboard, pleasing both touch screen and keyboard fans. So Palm Pre wins.
Advantage: Palm Pre

Network
In the US — which is the only country with initial availability — Sprint has exclusive rights to the Palm Pre, much as AT&T has a lock on the iPhone. When you choose mobile phone, also make a choice between the carriers. There are two factors to consider:
1. AT&T is a GSM network, which means you can theoretically pop out your SIM card and put it in another mobile phone. It is great in emergencies, and if you travel and don’t want to deal with roaming charges. Sprint is CDMA, so any phone switches involves a call to your carrier at the very least.
2. Sprint doesn’t currently allow simultaneous voice and data. This means if you’re talking on the Palm Pre, you can’t use the web or email, and vice versa. If you’re using an iPhone on AT&T’s EDGE service, you’ll have the same problem, but if you’re on 3G, there are no worries at all. For the Palm Pre, you’d have to switch to Wi-Fi to do that.
Again, for me, using voice and data at the same time has become a must. Looking up information while out and about on a call is a frequent occurrence. If you’re not accustomed to it, you may not miss it, but once you are, it’s hard to go back.
Advantage: iPhone

Applications
Installing new applications on the iPhone is a complete joy. It’s ultra simple and quick – an absolutely superb experience than virtually nobody has matched today. With 15,000+ apps now available there is something here for everybody and although there is a lot of rubbish there are also many superb applications.
Palm has already confirmed that it will create a full App Catalog – one that will presumably have the same functionality and ease-of-use as Apple’s App Store. Though maybe there will not (initially at least) be as many apps available for the iPhone as for the Palm Pre.
Advantage: Tie

Multimedia
For Palm Pre, it offers a 3-megapixel camera. Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to snap any photos, but early reports say that the quality is pretty good. Disappointingly, the camera won't have video recording capabilities at this time, but those could be added in the future. In terms of music and movie, it is reported that the music sounds very beautiful, also the movie looks perfect with the 320*480 pixels screen. However Palm Pre can only play MPEG-4, H.263, H.264 videos and MP3, AAC, AAC+, AMR, QCELP, WAV audio files. What if you have large music or video collections you want to carry around with you on your mobile? I have got third part software to do this admire job: use Nidesoft DVD to Palm Converter to convert DVD collections into Palm Pre and Nidesoft Video Converter to convert video or music collections into Palm Pre.
As far as iPhone, there’s no doubt that iPhone is wonderful music mobile phone. Listening to music, viewing photos and watching movies/videos is just “something else” on the iPhone. IPhone can play MPEG-4 videos with resolution of 640 *480, up to 160 Kbps. Also it supports audio formats including AAC (16 to 320 kbps), MP3 (16 to 320 kbps), and WAV. With its beautiful 3.5-inch wide screen display and Multi-Touch controls, iPhone is an amazing iPod. Watch movies and TV shows in wide screen, iPhone brings you a video experience unlike any other portable device.
Advantage: Tie

Conclusion
So there you have it. Two companies that both pride themselves on their high-skill products. One who’s Newton spawned an industry that the other is Pilot defined and dominated, went on to converge with the Treo only to fall behind and get eclipsed by the iPhone, and is now poised to come back with the Pre. Apple is going on to the third version of their smart phone line while Palm is introducing the first version of their third act.
If it seems like the only real deciding factors are where you live and work, what you want to do, and how you prefer to do it, well — yeah. That’s it.
Bottom line, the competition between iPhone and Pre is good for Apple and Palm — it keeps them on their toes and on top of their games — and it’s better for us. We’re lucky to live in a time and place where we have such increasingly awesome mobile options to choose between.
Come this summer, we’ll have a few more choices as well. Which one will be yours?

Blackberry Storm VS iPhone

There is no doubt that the iPhone has changed the smartphone world and forced cellphone manufacturers to sit back and rethink how they create new devices and features and how they can compete. Nokia recently announced a very compelling entertainment-focused iPhone rival and Blackberry have launche an stronger competitor - BlackBerry Storm. so which of them is much better? Let's make a comparision.

Screen
The BlackBerry Storm features a high-resolution 360 x 480 touchscreen, which gives it a 4:3 aspect ratio akin to older TVs, versus the iPhone 3G's 320 x 480 touchscreen which is a 3:2 ratio. Not much to choose between the two, though.
Keyboard
The Storm offers several virtual keyboard options, including standard QWERTY in landscape mode and SureType in portrait mode
The iPhone offers several keypads (QWERTY, numeric, symbols) in both landscape and portrait modes.
Camera
The BlackBerry Storm features a modest 3.2 megapixel camera, still beating the iPhone's two megapixel affair. Additionally, it supports video recording out of the box.
Navigation
The Storm uses BlackBerry Maps and offers Touch Screen Navigation. The iPhone features Google Maps and navigation.
Communications
Both units handle 3G where available, have GPS and Bluetooth. The Storm's Bluetooth implementation is better than the iPhone's.
Web Browsing
Both units feature web browsers, though as far as I'm aware exact information about the Storm's software isn't yet public. Various forums have suggested it's based on "WebKit", which is what Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome (among others) are based on.
Operating System
The Storm appears to be running BlackBerry OS 4.7, whereas the iPhone runs OS X.
Storage
The Storm features 1GB of internal memory, 128MB of Flash memory, and support for microSD expansion cards up to 16GB. The storage of iPhone is 16 GB, but no expansion.
Multimedia
We all know that iPhone 3G is the best iPod Apple has ever created. iPhone 3G supports a wide range of audio formats including AAC, MP3, WAV and video format MPEG-4 , while the Storm pipping the iPhone with WMA and WMA ProPlus audio formats. And video formats, the Storm also able to handle WMA files. The music and video playback experience of iPhone is awesome. We can image that the experience of enjoy video and music with Strom is more wonderful.

Blackberry video conversion, how to make best settings and convert step by step

I have got a Blackberry Storm as my birthday present and I was deeply in love with the gorgeous screen. I can’t wait to fill the 8gb card with videos to show off to all my friends. Before that I have tried watching a movie on my blackberry that I had already ripped with iPhone/iPod touch settings, The video works but the file size is unnecessarily large and the audio didn't match up with the video well when playing on the Blackberry. I collect information here and there and at last get the problem solves. So below is the details shared here.

Output video format: mp4
Output audio format: mp3

Video:
Video Size/resolution: 480x320
Video Bitrate: 1200kbps

Audio:
Audio Bitrate: 64kbps
Channels: 2 channels

Now if you have no idea what to do with that, then here are some simple instructions for you.

First you need a third-part software. I use Nidesoft program, probably the best Blackberry converter available. I download from its official website: Nidesoft ©.
Note: the program you downloaded on nidesoft is free trial version, you are limited to creating video files that are a maximum of 2 minutes long.
In order to convert videos longer than that, you will need to purchase the software with 25 dollars, or download the full version somewhere on google.com

Then if you convert videos from DVD, you should use Nidesoft DVD to Blackberry Converter and follow the step-by-step ways.
Step 1: Launch the program; Insert the DVD disc into the DVD Drive. Click the “Open DVD” button, browse your computer, find the DVD folder of the movie, open it, select some titles and chapters you want or you may select the whole video to convert.

Step 2: make settings: click “profile” drop-down list to select “BlackBerry MPEG-4 Video (*.mp4)” format, click “Settings” to set video size and bitrate. If you want to combine two or several titles into one, you may select titles and click blank box before “Merge into one file” to merge them together.

Step 3: click “convert” button to convert videos. Then it will be completed in few minutes.

However, if you convert from other videos, you should use Nidesoft Blackberry video converter with the following ways.
Step 1: Launch the program and Click "Add" button to load source video files to be converted:

Step 2: make settings: click “format” drop list to select “Blackberry MPEG-4 Video (*.mp4)” as output video format. Set your video size and quality under the preview window.

Step 3: Click "Convert" button to start to convert video format.
After the file is converted, just transfer the file to the videos folder on your BlackBerry through the Desktop Manager and enjoy your newly created video. By the way, the file converted can not only used on Blackberry Storm, but also other Blackberry phones such as Blackberry Pearl, Bold, curve.

Ok, until now you have got the whole idea of how to do with it. But you may encounter some other problems when doing it. Below are my problems and solutions I have collected after long time practice, list here to share with you.


I think there's a virus in this Program!!??
There's no virus in Nidesoft. One person reported being infected by Backdoor.Graybird, but if you got it from the site I linked to in my post it did not come with the download. If you downloaded it from somewhere else on the web then I am not sure. Probably malware/spamers have uploaded it to phishing sites to snag people. Always make sure you download things from their original website, or from a trusted location like download.com, and always run antivirus and scan stuff you are installing.

The higher the resolution, the better the video quality?
Not necessarily at all. If you’re converting a video that is 640×480 and convert it to the same 640×480 resolution then all you’re leaving is more work for your phone. I understand the login behind it, the pixels get compressed and shop up more clear and sharper. But if you compress these pixels in the conversion process wouldn’t the same thing happen? So why not just convert straight to a 480×320 and save your Storm the trouble?

The higher the bitrate, the better the quality?
Yes, that is true. However, the higher the bitrate, the larger your video files. So it is not necessary to raise your bitrate very high when you feel your video quality is fine. I have spent hours working different settings and the best results have hovered around 1200 kbps.


Where do I find the files?
You may change the output directory by press "browse" button, or the destination will be set automatically at C:\temp, you may press “open” to find the files.


Can I get ringtones into my Blackberry with the above idea?
Yes, you can. You may get ringtones in that way both from DVD and video. But you need to make a little different settings. As Blackberry audio support .mp3 format, you need to select “Blackberry MP3 Music (*.mp3)” as the output file format. Then drag the converted file into ringtones folder in your memory card.

I'm trying to convert a movie purchased from itunes but the Nidesoft software gives me an error. When I view the details of the error it tells me not enough space on my drive. I have plenty of space. Now when I tried it with a movie (same extension .m4v) that was ripped in the past, it works. Any suggestions??
Meet DRM.
Itunes store video files are encoded with fairplay digital rights management that means they will only play on Itunes, Ipod, or AppleTV. I have found another thread to solve this problem, go to: http://forums.crackberry.com/f135/howto-put-drm-protected-files-your-storm-pics-118585/

Why are there black bars on my video?
Even though it looks "widescreen" the storm is native 4:3 not 16:9. So unless you want to stretch everybody and make them tall and skinny you will still have the black bars.

Is there a way to make it fullscreen without the black bars?
Yes, you can crop the file when you do the transcode, but I haven't done it with Nidesoft Blackberry video converter yet. I'll post it when I figure it out.

Ok, that is my details and I would keep updating my thread when got more solutions.

How to enjoy DVD and videos on your Samsung device: Samsung phone, Samsung MP3/MP4

The Samsung Group is the world’s largest electronics company. It has produced a series of MP3/MP4 players and mobile phones. All of those products have attracted much more attention around the world for its beautiful design and full functions. In my personal view, the highlight of Samsung device is its entertainment function, especially music and videos.

Samsung Omnia support various music formats including MP3, AAC, WMA, OGG, AMR. With an enormous 24GB of memory it can hold a lot of MP3 songs, take your entire music library with you wherever you go. Windows Media Player is another alternative for storing and playing all of your multimedia content on the go. Benefit from the familiar layout and the ability to sync with your PC, you may easy access to your full music library. Also equipped with an FM radio the Samsung Omnia gives you access to entertainment, news and other information anytime, anywhere.
For videos, it is a best video recorder, movie maker and video player.
It record all those precious moments and create home made videos with professional looking quality directly onto your phone. After you’ve captured the excitement of movement and sound in VHS quality video, you may edit your favorite scenes using the advanced video editor. Access features such as audio dubbing, live dubbing, subtitles, trim and merge videos, and also capture priceless images from the video. A sound track editor lets you lay various songs in the background; you’ll have those tools to create professional looking videos.
On the other hands, videos in many formats allow you enjoy a true cinema experience in the palm of your hand. Benefit from the multi-format support including Divx, Xvid, H.263. WMV and MP4, you may watch your favorite videos in windscreen on a crisp 3.2 QVGA screen. With the massive 24GB of memory, you may carry up to 17 DVD quality movies around with you wherever you go to enjoy whilst traveling or when the kids are in the car.
Besides Samsung Omnia, you may also enjoy videos and music with other Samsung players.
Samsung Memoir phone support various audio formats including MP3, AAC, WAV, MIDI and video format including MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV. The best video resolution is 240*400.
Samsung Behold support 3GP, MPEG4, ASF, Real One and WMV video formats. The best video resolution is 240*400. For audio files, it supports MP3, AMR, and AAC formats.
Besides those smart phones, Samsung MP3 and MP4 player is music genius for you to enjoy music and movies. Samsung Q1, 8GB flash MP3 Player, enable you enjoy songs for 4 hours. It support MP3, WMA songs. Samsung S3 player can play audio, videos, text and even pictures. It also comes with 4GB of memory and DNSe sound engine for a superior surround sound experience. It supports MP3, Ogg , WMA and MPEG4 formats.

Enjoy movies with those Samsung device is a wonderful thing, but you may troubled when put movies into your Samsung device. Then I give you an easy way to solve this problem, Nidesoft DVD to Samsung Converter could help you to convert DVD movies into all Samsung portable devices with excellent quality. And Nidesoft video converter could help you to convert all format videos into your Samsung player. With those two software, you can get more videos and songs from DVD, Youtube, windows movie maker and all other videos.
First I will introduce you how to get movies and songs from DVD. As this program is easy to use, the whole process need only three steps, makes things easier.
Download and install the converter
Step 1: Insert the DVD disc into the DVD Drive. Click the Open DVD button, browse your computer, find the DVD folder of the movie, open it and select titles and chapters you want.

Step 2: click the “format” drop-down list and select format for your output files. If you want to get movies from DVD, here you may select “Samsung Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)” format for your Samsung device and if you want to get music you may select“MP3 – MPEG Layer-3 Audio (*.mp3)” format.
Step 3: click the “convert” button and start the conversion. The conversion will complete in few minutes.
Tips: Rip official DVD movie is illegal, so make sure you are authorized before you rip them.

Then I will introduce you how to get videos into Samsung player with Nidesoft video converter. Nidesoft video converter is powerful software with full functions. It supports all the popular video and audio formats, thus you may convert videos into all the portable players with it.
Download and install Nidesoft video converter
Step 1: Click “add” button to import your videos from your computer. Select the video files you want to convert. Also you may preview your video in the right window.

Step 2: click the “format” drop-down list and select the format for your Samsung player. You may choose video format for your Samsung player or audio format to get songs in your Samsung.
Step 3: click the “convert” button and start the conversion. The conversion will be completed in few minutes.
Ok, now you could just enjoy DVD movies and more videos with your Samsung player.

Palm Pre is coming soon, do you want to enjoy your DVD movie and music with it?

The new-ness is underway, and Palm just debuted its long awaited all-new handset, the Palm Pre. The Palm Pre has won three of CNET's Best of CES Awards 2009: Best in Show, Best in Category: Cell Phones & Smartphones and People's Voice. It is an internet-connected multimedia smartphone designed and marketed by Palm, Inc. with a multi-touch screen and a sliding keyboard. The phone is scheduled for release in the first half of 2009 and is the first phone to make use of the palm webOS — a Linux-based operating system developed by Palm. The Pre functions as a camera phone, a GPS system, Internet client (with text messaging, email, web browsing, and local Wi-Fi connectivity) and a portable player. People can’t wait for it’s coming. Relative programs have published before it is really released, such as Nidesoft DVD to Palm Converter which is the first and best DVD to Palm mobile phone converter tool. In this article I will introduce you the Palm device and its relative program.

Part 1: main features of Palm Pre
Breakthrough design
Slide out the keyboard for faster and easier texting. Close it up and rotate Pre for music, websites, photos, and videos in full widescreen glory. You get the best of both worlds in one beautifully designed phone.
Web-connected applications
An incredibly fast browser brings you full websites the way they were meant to be seen. Plus, the applications on the phone are connected to the web and constantly updated, so you get the latest information without having to work for it.
Email, Wi-Fi, and GPS
Check email from Outlook or personal accounts like Gmail, AOL, and Yahoo. Take advantage of Wi-Fi hotspots. And look up directions or nearby points of interest using GPS.
Multiple activities
Keep multiple applications open and move easily between mail, maps, photos, websites, whatever. Pre thinks of your applications as "activity cards," and lets you flip through them, move them around, or throw them off screen.
Multimedia
It is perfectly media player. It support MPEG-4, H.263, H.264 video formats and MP3, AAC, AAC+, AMR, QCELP, WAV audio format, there’s 3.5mm headphone jack for you to enjoy music. With its 3.1-inch 320 x 480 multitouch display, movies and TV shows have never looked so perfect on a portable device.

Part 2: Nidesoft DVD to Palm Converter
This program could rip DVD to Palm Pre phone in high quality at fast speed. In this way, people would easily enjoy movies and music with Palm Pre. Besides, this converter supports all other device of Palm family such as Palm PDA, Palm Treo, Palm Centro etc. you could also enjoy your DVD movies and music in other Palm mobile device with this converter. Just far away from the bustling and hustling life, have a cup of coffee in the spring sunshine, and enjoy the beautiful music from your Plam Phone. You can image what a marvellous thing it is!

Below is the step by step guide to how to enjoy DVD movies and music with it.
Download and install this program
Step 1: Insert the DVD disc into the DVD Drive. Click the Open DVD button, browse your computer, find the DVD folder of the movie, open it and select tiles and chapters you want.
Step 2: click the “format” drop-down list and select format for your output files. If you want to get movies from DVD, here you may select “Palm Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)” format for your Palm device and if you want to get music you may select“MP3 – MPEG Layer-3 Audio (*.mp3)” format.
Step 3: click the “convert” button and start the conversion. The conversion will complete in few minutes, then just enjoy it.
Tips: Rip official DVD movie is illegal, so make sure you are authorized before you rip them

Nidesoft DVD to Blackberry Converter

Nidesoft DVD to BlackBerry Converter is an excellent BlackBerry Video tool which could convert DVD to BlackBerry video and music: 3GP, MP4, MP3, etc. This powerful BlackBerry Converter supports all the BlackBerry family, including BlackBerry 8100 Pearl, BlackBerry 8300 Curve,BlackBerry 8800,8820,8830,BlackBerry 9000 Bold,and even the new released BlackBerry 9500 Storm,BlackBerry 9530 Storm!

This DVD to BlackBerry Converter provides rich options when rip DVD, such as video trimming, movie cropping and effecting. Apart from the default profiles, it enable advanced settings to customize your output video file, including video bitrate, audio bitrate, video resolution, audio volume, etc..
download and install it， you may get videos and music into your phone in this way:
Step 1: Insert the DVD disc into the DVD Drive. Click the Open DVD button, browse your computer, find the DVD folder of the movie, open it and selsect tiles and chapters you want.
Step 2: Click the “profile” button and select the BlackBerry format.
Step 3: Click the “convert” button to start the conversion.
In few minutes, the conversion will be completed and you may get the videos and music for your phone from DVD. Now, you may enjoy videos and music with your BlackBerry Storm.

Nidesoft Blackberry video converter

Nidesoft BlackBerry Video Converter is your best choice. It is powerful and wonderful Movie Converter for BlackBerry series mobile phone. It could convert video and audio files to your BlackBerry movie and music format. The source files formats that could be converted by this BlackBerry Video Converter include: MPEG, VOB, MP4, M4V, WMV, ASF, AVI, 3GP, FLV, YouTube, etc.. Additionally, you could use this BlackBerry Converter to convert MOD to BlackBerry video.
Morever, this BlackBerry Movie Converter could support all the BlackBerry family, such as BlackBerry 8100 Pearl, BlackBerry 8300 Curve,BlackBerry 8800,8820,8830,BlackBerry 9000 Bold, and even the new released BlackBerry 9500 Storm, BlackBerry 9530 Storm. Additionally, it also provide many profiles to support other devices including iPod, iPhone, Google G1 and so on.

below is simply guide to how to convert all videos into Blackberry with this excellent program.
download and install Nidesoft Blackberry video converter
Step 1: Click “add” button to import your videos from your computer.
Step 2: click the “format” drop-down list to select the BlackBerry format
Step 3: click the “convert” button and start the conversion.
Ok, after the conversion finished, you may get the movies and music for your BlackBerry.

Nidesoft Video Converter

Nidesoft Video Converter is a powerful video conversion software which could convert video and audio files between all popular formats such as convert AVI to MP4, MP3 to WAV, WMV to MPEG, MOV to AAC, etc.
It supports very comprehensive video formats, including DVD, VCD, AVI, MPEG, MP4, WMV, 3GP, Zune AVC, PSP MP4, iPod MOV, ASF, etc. Additional, the Video Converter provides an easist way to convert video or audio file to popular audio formats, like MP2, MP3, AC3, M4A, OGG, AAC etc.
Nidesoft Video Converter could support all of the popular multimedia devices. It works as: iPod Video Converter, Zune Video Converter, PSP Video Converter, Audio Converter,etc. All conversion processes, such as AVI to MPEG, WMV to MPEG, WMV to AVI, are very easy and fast with the best quality.

It is also easy to use, only three steps you could complete the conversion.
download and install it
Step 1: Click “add” button to import your videos from your computer. Select the video files you want to convert. Also you may preview your video in the right window.
Step 2: click the “format” drop-down list and select the format you want.
Step 3:click the “convert” button and start the conversion. The conversion will be completed in few minutes
Plus: under the preview window, you may set your videos by few clicks. Here you may set your video size, crop mode, video quality and audio quality to make your best video.

Nidesoft DVD Ripper

Nidesoft DVD Ripper is a powerful and professional DVD rip software, which could helps you convert DVD to all popular video or audio formats easily. It works as DVD to MP4,DVD to AVI, DVD to WMV, DVD to DIVX, etc..
It could rip DVD to support almost all popular PMPs. With this DVD Ripper software, you can easily copy DVD to iPod, DVD to iPhone, DVD to MP3, DVD to PSP, etc. with high speed and best quality. So you could watch your favorite DVD movie everywhere, no need to take DVD disc any more.

It is also easy to use. Only three steps were need to convert your DVD files to your portable players.
download and install Nidesoft DVD Ripper
Step 1: Insert the DVD disc into the DVD Drive. Click the Open DVD button, browse your computer, find the DVD folder of the movie, open it and select titles and chapters you want to convert. Also you may preview it in the right window.
Step 2: Click the “profile” button and select the format you want.
Step 3: click the convert button, Then the conversion will be completed in a short time.
Now just enjoy your DVD movies and music anytime you want.

How to Rip DVD to iPhone 3G, iPod , AVI and other Portable Players..

With the release of the new iPhone 3G, many fans of Apple will have the interest to have a new experience. Also, most users would like to watch video on iPhone. And with the 3G wide band network, it is possible to share the video with your friends now. Also, many people now have their iPods. But they often get difficulties when they want to convert DVD movie into video files and play on iPod.

This article will show you a professional software - Nidesoft DVD Ripper,
which converts all kinds of DVDs to iPhone 3G, iPhone,iPod and many other Portable Players with high speed and perfect quality.

Step 1: Download the new version of Nidesoft DVD Ripper for free from the website below:
Nidesoft DVD Ripper
and install it on your PC. The software could support Windows XP or Vista.

Step2: Place the DVD into your DVD drive and run the software.
Click the “Open DVD” button and select the DVD drive, then you could see
DVD movie structure have been displayed in the tree window(Step 3).

Step 3: Now you could click the Titles and Chapters to preview the move sections as you like. If you want to convert some of them, you could check it:


Step 4: Now you could EDIT the video with the function button:
Crop, Effect and Trim.
(1) Crop: this function enable you to “Cut” the video as you like and stretch it
To your favorite ratio, such as 16:9, 4:3 and so on.


(2) Effect: If you want to get special effect movie, please click this button.
You could tune the Brightness, Contras, Saturation and Volume, in addition, you can
Select gray effect or Negative effect.


(3) Trim: this function is to get a part from one title or chapter. You could set the “Start time” and “End time”, just so easy. And this is often used to get some music sections from an entire move.


Step 5: Now you need to select the profile. The profile is the format you want.
Nidesoft DVD Ripper provides so many profiles, such PSP, Creative Zen, Xbox, AVI …and you could try them as you need.


Step 6: OK, it is the last step, you only need to click the “Convert” button and the software will do all the conversion work for you!
Also, this software still have may other functions not included in the guide, if you have problems, you could open Nidesoft Studio website to find more. Wish you to enjoy it!


support email:support@nidesoft.com


tips: Rip official DVD movie is illegal, so make sure you are authorized before you rip them

What is MKV and how to convert MKV to MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV, MPG, 3GP, iPod, Zune, PSP etc?

Lately, a new format MKV emerged. More and more people start to use MKV. However, lots of people don’t know what the MKV is. As seldom players can read it, people may face the problem that they can’t use the MKV video. This thread here is to remedy that. I will show you what the MKV is on earth, and how to convert MKV to other popular video format so that your video can be widely used.

What is MKV?
MKV, also known as Matroska, is a multimedia container format. It is not a video or audio compression format. It is an envelope for which there can be many audio, video and subtitles streams, allowing the user to store a complete movie or CD in a single file. Matrosla has incorporates features that you would expect from a modern container format like fast seeking in the file, high error recovery, chapter entries, selectable subtitle streams, selectable audio streams, modularly extendable, streamable over internet (HTTP and RTP audio & video streams), Menus (like DVD’s have). MKV is similar to AVI – it is another container format. But MKV is much newer, and can contain all kinds of stuff that doesn’t fit into AVI. It also has numerous features that AVI lacks. There’s also the difference that windows knows how to open the AVI “box” by itself, since the format was developed by Microsoft in the first place. MKV, however, was not developed by Microsoft and windows do not handle MKV by itself.

How to convert MKV to MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV, MPG, 3GP, iPod, Zune, PSP, .etc?
As seldom players support this format, we’d better convert it to popular video format such as mp4, wmv, 3gp or others when we use it. We may use Nidesoft MKV Converter to convert it to all the popular video and audio format you want, as this converter support very comprehensive video formats. After download and install this program, you only need three steps to do it:
Step 1: click add button to add your mkv video from your computer. This converter support batch conversion, so you may add several video files at one time.

Step 2: click the format list to choose your profile. Here you may choose the output format you want.
Step 3: click the convert button to start conversion. The conversion will be completed in a short time.
You could also set the video size, crop mode, video quality and audio quality for your output videos by yourself.
Ok, now you have convert your MKV files to other format files and you may use it more convenient.

How to Convert DVD to Video or Audio Files: AVI, WMV, MP4, FLV, MPEG, MP3,etc

With the development of technology, we were gradually liberated from chains of watching movies on a portable DVD player with lots of DVD discs bringing out. Now we have more options to enjoy our favorite movies. However we need to convert DVD movies to different video or audio format when we enjoy it in a different way. Now I will introduce you good ways to convert DVD movies to all the popular video and audio formats in high quality at fast speed, then you can enjoy your movies more convenient.
Part1: how to use DVD Ripper to convert and edit your video?
Part2: how to convert DVD movies to iPod, iPhone, Zune, mobile phone and other portable players?
Part 3: how to put DVD movies into Windows Movie Maker?
Part 4: how to copy DVD movies to your pc?

Part 1: how to use DVD Ripper to convert and edit your video?
To convert and edit your video, you need a useful software. For me, I prefer to use Nidesoft DVD Ripper to do it.
Step 1: you may download the Nidesoft DVD Ripper and load DVD movies first.
a. Download and install the Nidesoft DVD Ripper by the link:
download dvd ripper
and you can get more information about it here:
Nidesoft DVD Ripper
b. Insert the DVD disc into the DVD Drive
c. Click the Open DVD button, browse your computer, find the DVD folder of the movie and open it. (This DVD Ripper can rip copyright protected DVD movies, but you should remember that it’s illegal to rip DVD for any business purposes).


After add your movie, you can click any title or chapter to preview it in the preview window on the right. Then you can choose any titles or chapters you want to convert by click the check boxes before them. In this way, you can choose to convert DVD with the entire movie or just convert one or several chapters.

Step 2: you may customize the output video with its full functions.
Audio Track: Select an audio track from the available audio tracks of your DVD movie.
Subtitle: Common DVD movies have several subtitles such as English, Chinese, French, etc. You can choose one language you prefer or select “None” to delete subtitle.
Profile: Click the button and show the list of profiles, you can select the profiles you want. For example, if you want to convert your DVD movies to YouTube, just select “YouTube video (*.flv)”

Settings: If you want to customize the output video’s quality, you can click the settings button to open the settings window and set video resolution, video bitrate, audio channels, audio bitrate.
Destination: Click the browse button and select a location on your computer for the output video files.
Step 3: you could edit your file to make your perfect video:
Merge: A regular DVD movie has several chapters; you can convert several chapters into one by click the blank box before “merge into one file”. Click the check box before any chapter you want and merge them into one file.
Crop: you can cut off the black edges of the DVD movie to watch in full screen by click the crop button. A window will be opened and you can customize the size of screen by your will.

Effect: Click the Effect button you can set special effect including gray effect and negative effect. You can also set the brightness, contrast, saturation and volume.

Trim: as you have selected the clips to convert, you can trim any segment of the clips by clicking the trim button. You can move the slide below the screen or set the start time and end time to trim any segment and the blue line will be the captured parts.


Step 4: now you can start your conversion.
After the settings finished, you can just click the convert button to start your conversion. You can view the conversion speed at the bottom. The conversion will be completed in few minutes.

Part2: how to convert DVD movies to iPod, iPhone, Zune, mobile phone and other portable players?
You can convert your DVD movies to your portable players with Nidesoft DVD Ripper then you can enjoy your videos and songs anytime and anywhere.
You may use the way listed above to rip your favorite movies to your players.
Note: when ripping DVDs you may confused about the output format. Different format can be used in different way. You could choose your profile according to your portable player. Now I will list some for you as reference.
IPod and iPhone support MP4 format.
Zune support WMV and MP4 formats.
PSP supports MP4 format.
Mobile phone support 3GP and 3G2 formats.
IRiver supports AVI and WMV formats.
Walkman support MP4 format.
Creative Zen Player support AVI format.
Archos Player support AVI format.
Xbox support WMV format.
Dell Player support WMV format.
HP iPAQ support WMV format.
YouTube website supports flv format.

Part 3: How to put DVD movies into Windows Movie Maker
You may want to edit your video with Windows Movie Maker before use it. To put a DVD movie into Windows Movie Maker, you have to rip your DVD to WMV or AVI video first, and then you can load it into Windows Movie Maker.
Step 1: use the way in part 1 to rip your DVD movies to WMV or AVI format.

Step 2: edit video with Windows Movie Maker
Run Windows Movie Maker, in the “Movie Task” bar, click “Add Video” to browse your computer and located the converted files, and then you can start to make personal movies.

Note: Many users may confused how they can convert Windows Movie Maker file (*.MSWMM) to other video format. Actually, A MSWMM file is not a video file. It is a project file of Movie Maker that you may edit your video with it next time. It can’t be used as a video file. To convert MSWMM file to WMV file, you have to open this file in Windows Movie Maker and save the movie to your computer: Go to Movie Tasks bar > Finish Movie > Save to my computer. After that you will have a WMV file that can be used.

Part 4: how to copy DVD movies to your pc?
Most DVD movies are protected and you can’t directly copy it to your computer. But you could choose to use Nidesoft DVD Ripper to do it.
Use the way in part 1, but pay attention to the profile. You should click “Lossless DVD copy (*.vob)” when select the profile.

Ok, now if you still have problems of ripping DVDs, please sent email to: support@nidesoft.com
It is my pleasure to help you solve your problem. Hope you enjoy your life everyday.

Eye-catching:Sony XPERIA X1 with its powerful video functions

The world of our consumers and customers is changing. To meet the growing need for mobile Web communication and multimedia entertainment, Sony Ericsson introduces Xperia X1. The Xperia X1 is the first product under Sony Ericsson’s new premium sub-brand Xperia With a striking arc-slider design, supported by a powerful multimedia ecosystem, the Xperia X1 is convergence of Multimedia entertainment and Mobile Web Communication.


With the Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system, the XPERIA X1 supports Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager, which provides single-point access to line of business and corporate data such as applications, files and other information located on the corporate network. It also provides push email for immediate send and receive on Corporate Microsoft Exchange servers as well as editing of Microsoft Office documents. Additionally, it can handle personal email from POP3, IMAP4, and SMTP accounts.

The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 has a 3.0 inches TFT touchscreen with shades of 65K internal screen colours and gives a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels. This let the users to play games and watch video clips on its wide screen easily. The video resolution support 640x480 pixels and video format support MPEG-4. The music format support: MP3, AAC, AAC+, eACC+, WMA (including protected WMA). With its 400 MB of internal storage, users may store abundant videos and music in the phone. Multimedia entertainment with this phone become more convenient.

At the same time another equally important software launched. Nidesoft Sony XPeria Video Converter is excellent Movie Converter tool for the new released XPERIA X1. It is designed to convert video files to be played on the wonderful X1 mobile phone. The source files could be converted include almost all the video formats: MPEG, VOB, MP4, MOV, ASF, AVI, 3GP, WMV, RM, FLV, YouTube, WAV, AAC, etc..
You may free download it here to have a try:
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This video converter is easy to use. Only three steps are needed when you convert videos into your Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1.
Step 1: Install and run Nidesoft Sony Xperia Video Converter. Click “add” button to import your video from your computer. Nidesoft Sony Xperia Video Converter supports batch conversion, so you can import multiple files at one time.
Step 2: click the “Format” drop-down list to select the format you prefer. Here you just need to select the format “Sony Xperis X1 Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)”.
Step 3: click the “convert” button and start the conversion. The conversion will be finished in a short time and then you may enjoy videos with your Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1.
Notes: you can customize the output video according to your will by a few clicks on the right. You can set the video size, choose the crop mode to cut off the black edges, set the video and audio quality.

The launch of Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 shocked the mobile phone world, especially for its Web communicate and multimedia entertainment function. On the other hand, in the software world the Nidesoft Sony XPeria Video Converter which enable you fully enjoy multimedia entertainment of Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 attract most attention. Their publishment will bring more convenience for the people all over the world.

Enjoy your DVD and Video with the new Sony Devices: PSP3000, XPeria X1 and Walkman!

Sony is one of the leading manufacturers of electronics, video, communications, video game consoles, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. Its name Sony is derived from Sonus, the Greek goddess of sound. Indeed, Sony has contributed too much to beautiful sound - music. More and more technology were applied to Sony products and enjoy music with it becomes more convenient and fashionable.

On August 20, 2008, a revised PSP design, model 3000, was announced at a press conference in Leipzig. Based on the Slim & Lite (PSP-2000) design, the PSP-3000 features an improved LCD screen, a built-in microphone, and expanded video-out. Offering the highest-level contrast ratio, response time, and wider color gamut possible on a portable LCD screen, the new PSP is capable of displaying movies and photos in more natural and vibrant colors on its high 480x272 resolution 4.3 inch wide screen. The new LCD screen adopts an anti-reflection technology, which enables users to see the screen more clearly in well-lit places, even when used outdoors. So you may enjoy videos everywhere. The PSP3000 video support MPEG-4 Simple Profile (AAC LC) and H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Main Profile (AAC LC).

The newly released Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 is convergence of Multimedia entertainment and Mobile Web Communication. It has a 3.0 inches TFT touchscreen with shades of 65K internal screen colours and gives a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels. This let the users to play games and watch video clips on its wide screen easily. The video resolution support 640x480 pixels and video format support MPEG-4. The music format support: MP3, AAC, AAC+, eACC+, WMA (including protected WMA). With its 400 MB of internal storage, users may store abundant videos and music in the phone. Multimedia entertainment with this phone become more convenient.

Eighteen months after Apple raised the bar in the music-player market with its video iPod, Sony has unveiled its first digital video Walkman. The new Walkman video players offer great video resolution and brightness, along with high-quality sound and an extended battery life. They come with Sony’s EX series in-ear-buds with 13.5 mm drivers that passively block out ambient noise and help create a better listener experience. Sony’s clear audio technologies are also included and significantly improve sound quality when playing back digital music files. The devices have a standard user interface that makes it easy to enjoy songs, videos or pictures. It support MP4, M4V video formats and MP3, WMA, AAC-LC audio formats.

To enjoy videos and music on these players, another useful software is essential.
Nidesoft is outstanding and professional software producer for multimedia conversion between all popular video and audio files, between DVD and all popular portable players.
Now it has launched a series of new software for enjoying videos and music with Sony products. The Nidesoft DVD to Sony Xperia Converter is excellent DVD tool which could help you to convert DVD to the PSP3000, the new released Sony SmartPhone XPERIA X1 and Sony Walkman. It supports the profiles of all Sony products, even the latest profile of PSP3000.
free download it here:
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It is easy to use, after download it, only the follow three steps were needed.
Step 1: Insert the DVD disc into the DVD Drive. Click the Open DVD button, browse your computer, find the DVD folder of the movie, open it and selsect tiles and chapters you want.
Step 2: Click the “profile” button and select the format. Here you may easily find the profile of Sony product on the top.
Step 3: Click the “convert” button to start the conversion.
In few minutes, the conversion will be completed and you may get the videos and music for your Sony players from DVD. Now, you may enjoy videos and music with your Sony player.

Note: visit the nidesoft official website, you may found another software Nidesoft DVD to PSP Converter, which has the same function of converting DVD files to Sony PSP, Sony Phone and Walkman while cheaper than Nidesoft DVD to Sony XPeria Converter. you may get it here: http://www.nidesoft.com/dvd-to-psp-converter.html

On the other hand, if you want to get video and music from other video files not DVD, you may need this softeware. Nidesoft Sony XPeria Video Converter is excellent movie converter tool for Sony product, especially the new released XPERIA X1. The source files could be converted include almost all the video formats: MPEG, VOB, MP4, MOV, ASF, AVI, 3GP, WMV, RM, FLV, YouTube, WAV, AAC, etc.. Thus, you may convert all other videos into your Sony player with this powerful software.
free download it here: http://www.nidesoft.com/downloads/sony-xperia-video-converter.exe
and get more information about it here:
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download it, you also need only three steps to finish the conversion.
Step 1: Install and run Nidesoft Sony Xperia Video Converter. Click “add” button to import your video from your computer. Nidesoft Sony Xperia Video Converter supports batch conversion, so you can import multiple files at one time.
Step 2: click the “Format” drop-down list to select the right format for your Sony player.
Step 3: click the “convert” button and start the conversion. The conversion will be finished in a short time and then you may enjoy videos.
Notes: you can customize the output video according to your will by a few clicks on the right. You can set the video size, choose the crop mode to cut off the black edges, set the video and audio quality.

With the development of technology, these hardware and software developed quickly. This has greatly improved our life. Enjoy music anytime and anywhere makes our life more colorful and wonderful. Let’s just enjoy our lives, enjoy our days!

Enjoy DVD and Video with new BlackBerry Storm, Curve, Pearl, Bold, etc.

BlackBerry company has released a series of mobile phone such as BlackBerry pearl, BlackBerry Bold, BlackBerry Curve. The Blackberry Storm is among the latest additions to the BlackBerry mobile phone family. Since its release, it has storm the markets with its impeccable features. why is it so popular and what's the features of BlackBerry Storm?
The Blackberry Storm has probably the greatest touch-screen of all the phones made so far, because when you touch it, you really push the display, like a normal button. The technology is called Click-Through and currently is exclusive for the Blackberry Storm.
Also, it has something special for all the text lovers. When writing text messages, you can actually hold the phone in landscape mode and use the QWERTY keyboard. Fortunately, the phone will figure by itself if you hold it in portrait or landscape mode and switch keyboards, also the keys will glow when pushed.
The Blackberry Storm will run Blackberry's OS 4.7, the latest version, which is cool, because it comes with supports for lots of email accounts, Blackberry Enterprise, Lotus notes, IMAP4, POP3, Microsoft Exchange and much more.
Until now, Blackberry has been known for its business devices, however this one tries to attract all kinds of users, from businessman to music fans. Its functions has ranged from business to entertainment, it features a Media Sync software, that supports a plentitude of file formats, like MP3, WMA, AAC, MPEG4, WMV and H.264. Also the Media Sync can synchronize with iTunes. On the other hand, It features 128MB of flash memory and 1GB of integrated memory, which can be expanded via the microSD / SDHC memory card slot to up to 16GB, large numbers of videos and songs can be instored.

Beside BlackBerry Storm, other BlackBerry phones such as BlackBerry Pearl, curve and bold also support media functions. Here are some information of BlackBerry video and audio file formats and parameters. These references may help you to get perfect video and music files into your Blackberry phone.
BlackBerry Storm 9500:
support MP4, M4A, 3GP, 3GP2, AVI, ASF, WMV, WMA and MP3 formats.
Recommended video format: MP4, 480*360 pixels, up to 2 Mbps, 30 frames per second.
BlackBerry Curve 8900
support MP4, M4A, MOV, 3GP, AVI, ASF, WMV, WMA, MP3 formats.
Recommended video format: MP4, 480*360 pixels, up to 1500 kbps, 24 frames per second.
BlackBerry Bold 9000
support MP4, M4A, MOV, 3GP, AVI, ASF, WMV, WMA, MP3 formats.
Recommended video format: MP4, 480x320 pixels, up to 1500 kbps, 24 frames per second.
BlackBerry Pearl 8100, 8110, 8120, 8220 smartphones
Support MP4, M4A, MOV, 3GP, AVI, ASF, WMV, WMA, MP3 formats.
Recommended video format: MP4, 240x320 pixels, up to 768 kbps, 24 frames per second.

Then I wil give you two powerful software to experience BlackBerry entertainment: Nidesoft BlackBerry Video Converter and Nidesoft DVD to BlackBerry Converter.
Nidesoft BlackBerry Video Converter is powerful and wonderful Movie Converter for BlackBerry mobile phone. It could convert video and audio files to all BlackBerry movie and music format. The source files formats that could be converted by this BlackBerry Video Converter include: MPEG, VOB, MP4, M4V, WMV, ASF, AVI, 3GP, FLV, YouTube, etc.. Additionally, you could use this BlackBerry Converter to convert MOD to BlackBerry video.
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After download and install this software, you may get video into your BlackBerry this way:
Step 1: Click “add” button to import your videos from your computer.
Step 2: click the “format” drop-down list to select the BlackBerry format
Step 3: click the “convert” button and start the conversion.
Ok, after the conversion finished, you may get the movies and music for your BlackBerry.
Nidesoft DVD to BlackBerry Converter is an excellent BlackBerry Video tool which could convert DVD to BlackBerry video and music: 3GP, MP4, MP3, etc. This powerful BlackBerry Converter supports all the BlackBerry family, including BlackBerry 8800, BlackBerry 8830, BlackBerry 8820, BlackBerry Pearl 8800, BlackBerry Curve 8300, and even the new released Storm! You may free download it here and have a try:

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After download and install it, you may get videos and music into your phone in this way:
Step 1: Insert the DVD disc into the DVD Drive. Click the Open DVD button, browse your computer, find the DVD folder of the movie, open it and selsect tiles and chapters you want.
Step 2: Click the “profile” button and select the BlackBerry format.
Step 3: Click the “convert” button to start the conversion.
In few minutes, the conversion will be completed and you may get the videos and music for your phone from DVD. Now, you may enjoy videos and music with the BlackBerry Storm.
BlackBerry storm is not only a convenient business phone but also a great media phone. With Nidesoft you may enjoy your Blackberry comfortable and easily.