A couple of years ago, the Nokia Morph concept was pretty much the best thing you could imagine for Nokia… Now this project is close to reality, as shown by the Finnish handset maker during Nokia World 2011, where they demoed the Nokia Kinetic prototype phone. We’re dealing with a phone that uses a flexible display and supports flexing...
Qualcomm has just announced a new generation of the Snapdragon CPU series, one that prides on lower power consumption and high performance. Known as the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4, the new SoC solution involves a 28nm manufacturing technology and the already famous Qualcomm Krait CPU. There’s also a new GPU, the Adreno 225, that we’ll detail...
If you want pseudo 3D graphics on your Windows Phone unit, there’s a glasses free 3D app made for the iPad 2 awhile ago that now has been ported to the WP7 platform. The developers have also added fun features to the app, creating an interactive experience, not just a demo of visual power. We are still waiting for a WP7 device with 3D display...
Hitachi just announced its latest innovation: a 3D 720p screen with a 4.5 inch diagonal, that might even tempt Apple in the future. This is a super bright display, that might make it to the specifications list of many future smartphones. Right now qHD screens are trendy, but they have their limitations. However, with Hitachi’s evolved technology,...
It’s true that the US Army has some pretty cool gadgets, but nothing beats using regular smartphones with some nifty military apps. Right now the Army is performing a 6 week trial using no less than 300 Android, Windows Phone and iPhone units for military purposes. Program director Michael McCarthy is claiming that the results have been good...
Microsoft’s got a new patent out there, dedicated to a pretty unique dual screen phone. They must’ve noticed how popular such devices have been getting lately, with the Kyocera Echo as an example and the Sony S2 clamshell tablet as another. Now, MS has patented a device with two screens with separate functions. One of the displays acts...
Apple, are you seeing this? Toshiba has just announced a new camera sensor, that could be appealing for handset manufacturers looking to implement fresh photo technology on their devices. Well, we can’t help but remember the days of the Nokia N95, that was introduced in 2007 and for the first time made phones look like decent replacements for...
It’s not the first time that Qualcomm leaks its 2011/2012 roadmap for CPUs, but this time we’re dealing with a more detailed view on their products. The update internal document focuses on LTE chipsets, but there’s also novelty through the Krait chipset, a dual core SoC based on 28nm technology. Krait is shipping in a bit under 6...
Can you believe it’s been 20 years since the GSM standard was first used (July 1st 1991)? Of course, its origins are from Finland and the first GSM conversation is shown in the video below. That was history in the making and the folks you see in the vid are prime minister Harri Holkeri and vicemayor of the Finnish town Tampere Kaarina Suonio. Even...
It appears that Apple is the brand new owner of the patent for multitouch technology and the iPhone. We’re talking about a document called the US patent number 7,966,578, that’s so strong as to give Apple to total ownership of capacitive multitouch technology. Where does this leave the other companies using it? We’re talking of a...
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