Aside from showcasing its OMAP4 solution and Blaze platform, Texas Instruments also came to Barcelona and Mobile World Congress 2010 with a fresh demo of its new gesture recognition technology. Future smartphones may be controlled by single or multiple finger gestures, or so claim TI’s officials. The demo that gets presented in the video below...
Who would have thought that a full-fledged desktop OS would run on a smartphone these days? And we’re not even talking about the Windows XP phone we’ve seen a while back, but rather of a Nokia N900 unit running Mac OS X 10.3. The performance was achieved by Toni Nikkanen from Finland, the first to run OS X on a phone. This bit of hackintosh...
The latest firmware for Samsung I8910 (Omnia HD) handsets arrived days ago and if you’re curious to see it in action, here’s a video showing what the software is all about, aside from kinetic scrolling. What you see here is an unreleased build of the firmware, put through a 10 minute walkthrough. Said update will also implement a faster...
Fresh out of the Nokia Research and Development facility comes a brand new invention called “Mobile Radar”. Shown yesterday at the “Demo House 2010″, taking place at Aalto University in Finland, the Mobile Radar allows users to measure an object’s speed, distance and direction: In order to do the measurement, you just...
If you’re frustrated by the fact that HTC didn’t make available a Windows Mobile 6.5 upgrade for HTC Touch HD, there’s another solution waiting for you: Android OS 2.0.1. See the platform running on the HTC smartphone in the video below: The usual bugs are present and connectivity issues will also appear (lack of WiFi or Bluetooth),...
Motorola’s latest Android 2.0 device, the MOTOROI might be meant for the Asian market right now, but if we’re lucky enough, it’ll also reach the US and European shores, at some point. Right now, it gets a bunch of pretty cool new ads, the first of them showing the overview of the smartphone’s features: This 3.7 inch touchscreen...
There’s a brand new Windows Mobile app out there for movie freaks to have fun with and this time it’s an IMDb piece of software based on the iPhone IMDb API. Thus, instead of parsing the site’s pages for info, the software will use the previously mentioned API to get info from IMDb. Here’s the app in action: Keep in mind that...
If you’re frustrated by the accelerometer-based control system on the iPhone games or the horrible titles with the on-screen controls, here’s a brand new solution for you: the iPhone steering wheel, demoed in the video below: The steering wheel mechanism looks as if it were made out of LEGO pieces, which is a pretty neat touch actually....
CES 2010 might have ended, but we’re still dissecting pictured and videos from the show and checking out some very cool technologies, like Intel’s Moorestown CPU. Pankaj Kedia, Intel Global Ecosystem Programs Director has shown the journalists the first next gen Atom-powered phones, including LG GW990. GW990 uses a next gen LG UI, packed...
Believe it or not, this is Sony Ericsson’s first Android phone, in all this craziness regarding the popularity of this OS. We’re talking about the XPERIA X10, that was recently demoed at CES 2010, in Las Vegas. The device sports the largest capacitive touchscreen display on any Android phone out there, but it takes full advantage of it. While...
