Sunday, December 16, 2012

Hyundai Tucson Flex

Clique para ver em alta resoluçãoSe os lançamentos dos últimos anos já lhe fizeram virar um fã da Hyundai, quaisquer novidades sobre os produtos da marca coreana certamente já lhe dão grandes expectativas, em especial quanto ao design. Mas ver a de agora pode motivar algumas perguntas: Onde estão os farois chamativos? A grade hexagonal? Os vincos marcantes? Nada se vê aqui porque o Tucson veio antes de tudo isso. Ele já demorou a ser produzido aqui, e somente dois anos depois vem a melhoria que na verdade já é regra no mercado brasileiro.

Uma forma de explicar a estratégia que a Hyundai-Caoa aplicou com seus crossovers no Brasil é compará-la com o que a Chevrolet fez anos atrás com o Astra. Assim como o hatch de raízes alemãs, o Tucson veio ainda em sintonia com o que se oferecia no exterior, no seu caso para o segmento dos crossovers médios. Como suas vendas resultaram satisfatórias, a posterior chegada do ix35 fez o fabricante tentar vender os dois por aqui, na já conhecida estratégia de deixar o modelo novo no segmento desejado e baratear o antecessor para vendê-lo agora na categoria inferior (o Astra passou por isso quando vieram Vectra e Vectra GT). E outra vez vieram números interessantes para ambos, porque o Tucson passava a rivalizar com Ford EcoSport e Mitsubishi Pajero TR4, entre outros. Isso foi o que motivou sua produção nacional a partir de 2010, através da Caoa – o HB20 é feito em outra fábrica, e pela própria Hyundai – e que se mantém até os dias de hoje. O problema está em que desde essa época o Tucson já havia entrado na sobrevida. Ou seja, ele já havia superado seu ciclo de vida original e a partir daí deveria apenas “preencher a lacuna”, mantendo-se o mais intacto possível para atrair pelo preço baixo até que sua retirada de produção se tornasse viável para a montadora.

Hyundai TucsonEntretanto, o que se vê aqui é a atitude oposta. O problema de investir em carros de atuação paliativa está em que se gastam quantias consideráveis num projeto que já está em baixa, e que portanto não vai demorar a chegar ao ponto de vender tão pouco que não é mais válido produzi-lo. Como se isso não fosse suficiente, este motor flexível chegou dois anos depois da produção nacional, o que para o Tucson deve representar cerca de metade da sobrevida. Por mais que isso indique no mínimo mais uns dois anos de oferta do modelo 0km, esta geração está por completar nove anos desde o lançamento mundial, o que se torna muito mais desestimulante em categorias de custo mais alto. Porém, os clientes que não se importarem com o risco de o carro sair de linha antes do fim dos cinco anos de sua garantia agora levarão um 2.0 16v com comando de válvulas variável e cabeçote e bloco em alumínio, que gera 142/146 cv (gasolina/álcool) e sempre usa câmbio automático de quatro marchas. A versão básica parte de R$ 67.500 trazendo de série airbag duplo, ar-condicionado, direção hidráulica, freios com ABS e EBD e trio elétrico. Já a versão de topo começa em R$ 75.000 e estará disponível a partir de janeiro: ela incorpora bancos de couro, sistema de som multimídia com DVD e GPS e o novo sistema de monitoramento da pressão dos pneus.

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Saturday, December 15, 2012

LG T375 Cookie Smart Phone

Here is the detail specification of LG T375 Cookie Smart dual SIM mobile phone. This dual SIM multi-touchscreen mobile could be found within INR4000-5000 range. Not bad for such a feature phone with dual sim capability.

Salient features…

  • Dual SIM
  • 3.2 inch Touch Screen Display
  • Wi-Fi
  • FM Radio



LG T375 Cookie Smart, LG Dual SIM Mobile, LG Touch Screen Mobile

Release Date: June 2012
SIM System: Dual SIM (GSM + GSM)

Network: Quad Band
2G: GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 Mhz
3G: NO, Oops!!

Build:
*Processor: AGR+
*RAM: Not quite sure but, possibly it has 64MB RAM and 128MBROM as per Amazon
*In-Built Memory: 48 MB
*Expandable Memory: MicroSD card support up to 16 GB

Body:
*Dimension H x W x D: 103mm X 59mm X 10.7mm
*Weight: 97 gram
*Available Color: Black, White and maybe Red also available

Display:
*Size: 3.2 inch (8.1cm)
*Type: LCD Capacitive TFT Touch Screen
*Screen Resolution: 240 x 320 @125ppi
*Display Colors: 262K

Camera: 2.0 MP Single CMOS Rear Camera with up to 4X Zoom
*Image Resolution: 1600 x 1200 pixels
*Video Resolution: 176 x 144 pixels

Connectivity:
*Bluetooth: Yes V 2.1 with EDR
*WLan / Wi-Fi: Yes 802.11 b/g/n
*Can be used as modem via USB cable
*GPS: NO
*USB: Micro USB 2.0 HS

Media Player:
*Audio: MP3, AAC, AAC+, AAC-LC, AMR-NB, WMA
*Video: MPEG4, 3GP
FM Radio: Yes with recording and alarm feature. Need to connect headphone.

Messaging:SMS/EMS/MMS/IM/EMAIL (POP3, SMTP,IMAP)
OS: LG Proprietory
Web Browser: JAVA based
Software:NewsHunt, Nimbuzz, Document Viewer (doc, xls, ppt, txt), LG Entertainment Store, iBrowser, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Gmail, Windows Live Messanger, Panchang(Indian calendar), Picasa etc.

Ringtones: Polyphonic, MIDI, MP3
Battery:
*Type: Lithium-Ion
*Capacity: 950 mAh
*Stand-by Time: Up to 601 hours
*Talk Time: Up to 12.8 hours

SAR Value: No specific SAR data found on manufacturer’s website. GSMARENA stated 0.85 W/kg(head) and 0.93 W/kg (body). Not sure and authentic though.
** FCC and IC limits for SAR Value is 1.6 W/kg averaged over 1 gm of human tissue.
 



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Škoda Octavia 4

Click to see in high resolutionNow it’s no longer needed to wait until the Geneva event for this sedan. After lots of unofficial photos and a teaser, Škoda has released the first official pictures of the new-generation Octavia. If the exterior easily allows to deduce this car has some kind of relation with the Volkswagens, any quicker look at the technical specifications can finish blowing that cover. This article will use this sedan as an example of the good and the bad features that come with this strategy of designing cars so related with each other.

The original Octavia came after the Second World War, at first using the codename 440. The idea at that time was to create a resistant car without any other concerns but the lowest final price possible. However, this car came with a much more elegant design than what was seen at the other Soviet vehicles, which gave it a different status. This name was dropped in the 1970s with the end of that car’s production and came back to life only twenty-five years later. The automaker was already bought by Volkswagen, making Škoda their “pragmatic” division almost like what Renault does with Dacia. Describing this concept needs wider-meaning words than “low-cost” because they aren’t restricted to the cheaper categories – Octavia, for instance, is a mid-size sedan. Their public is much more rational, giving away design and performance extravagances in exchange of a reliable, non-expensive vehicle. Until the last decade this idea used to imply maintaining older projects or taking equipments away to reduce the price, but in nowadays these parameters have changed. Cost reduction is now considered since the car’s first sketches, which enables cleaner designs, simpler construction and specially sharing as many parts as possible with other cars, from the platform to visible items, in cases like Logan and Sandero’s new generation.

Škoda Octavia 4Even though this sedan does lead to think of some kind of Rapid’s bigger brother, this is just Škoda’s good designing. It still carries a very formal appearance, but this formality is now dissociated from being old-fashioned. Octavia now has an agressive interpretation of the brand’s typical design, characterized by two bigger ideas: the overall design is based mainly on straight lines, while each element has individually became a little irregularly-shaped. This means a proportion change, which still makes the car resemble the current Jetta or Exeo but with nice differences, such as the much more creative rear window cut. But if someone is already wondering where’s that mentioned parts' sharing, the answer isn’t hard to explain: MQB platform. Since its previous uses were at Seat León, VW Golf and Audi A3, this is the very first sedan to use Volkswagen’s modular platform. This allowed some dimension increases to Octavia, resulting at bigger cabin and trunk space. In fact, entering the car reveals an even bigger déjà vu if you have already driven any current VW car: there are simple lines which will certainly repeat the excellent construction quality, although Škoda seems to leave the other colors to the group’s other brands – even the touchscreen’s software seems to be restricted to black and gray. This car will offer four TDI engine options with diesel and four TSI with gasoline, these ones including a low-consumption 1.6 and a high-performance 1.8.

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