Posts Tagged ‘smartphone’

Nokia calls it the next breakthrough in photography: A smartphone with a 41 megapixel camera – three times the resolution of current mainstream digital cameras. However, it comes with huge drawbacks that are tough to swallow and create a problem that, without the 808, you simply don’t have. Here is some food for thought why this phone matters, and why it is a technology demonstration that will end up as a commercial flop.

Intel will try to prove its claims that it can be a powerful manufacturer of processors for smartphones and tablets when its Medfield platform emerges in commercial products in H2 this year. In the same time frame, ARM vendors will release their first notebooks that challenge, conceivably, Intel’s most important and profitable business today. Both Intel and ARM are staging aggressive launches and prepare for a fight that will be much more bloody than the historic processor battles between AMD and Intel. Does Intel have what it takes to dent ARM’s segmentation-driven application processor market? Can ARM deliver processors that are compelling enough to face Intel’s prestigious and performance-driven CPUs?

A patent filing by Google sheds light on the company’s speech recognition technology in Android and provides at least one clue why the engine works better on mobile than on desktop platforms and why it has a clear lead over the iPhone: Google uses a secret, predictive pre-recording approach which has an ingenious component to it, but may upset users for invasion of privacy.

This is an almost obvious invention and you have to wonder why no one else has had the idea yet. Researchers at the University of Michigan (UM) scale back the power that is necessary in idle listening and claim that they can extend smartphone battery life by more than half.

Intel apparently dropped its efforts to continue the development of the MeeGo platform without a proper burial. Instead, Intel flaunted its relationship with Google and Android during the opening day of IDF Fall. Future Ultrabooks may get 10 days of standby power on a single battery charge.

After half a year of being cut off the Internet, the population of Libya is making its way back to the Internet, according to a report released by browser developer Opera.

Your phone could use more memory or extra CPU horsepower? No problem, if it runs with Microsoft’s just patented internal wireless bus. Simply use the memory and the CPU in your PC. There is just one tiny problem.

Microsoft is gearing up to release its first major update for Windows Phone 7 – Mango. The company today rolled out Zune 4.8, which users are recommended to use when updating their Windows Phone.

Researchers from MIT suggested a new way to defend wireless connections against malicious man in the middle attacks: Bursts of radiation and silence. No passwords required.

49 days was all the Touchpad got to prove its viability. HP’s Conclusion: The software is great, the hardware is not. Sales were bad enough to convince the management that further investment would be be throwing good money after bad. Yet, HP still believes that the “tablet effect is real”. Just not for HP.

T-Mobile is currently advertising a $49.99 all-you-can-eat voice/data plan in commercials and on the web. If you read the fine print, however, you end up with little more than hot air and you wonder where marketing ends and deception begins.

Motorola Mobility has found a buyer: Google this morning announced that it will be purchasing Motorola Mobility in a deal valued at about $12.5 billion.