My buddy Ron over at picoprojector-info.com, tells me that Light Blue Optics are going to launch their first product, the “Light Touch” at CES (Jan 6th). LBO’s pico projector modules are Holographic Laser-based, and apparently allow the user to touch the projected image to provide user input! Their modules support WVGA-QVGA images at 10 lumens.…
Archives for December 2009
Orange UK To Launch Mobile HD Voice In 2010
Orange has revealed it will be launching HD Voice nationwide for customers on its mobile network in 2010. In case you are wondering what HD Voice is, it’s the use of WB-AMR (Wideband Adaptive Multi-Rate) as a codec. This provides excellent audio quality due to a wider speech bandwidth of 50–7000 Hz compared to the…
Two free airline tickets with every Palm Pre purchase from Carphone Warehouse in UK
The Guardian has reported that Carphone Warehouse is now offering two free airline tickets to people that buy a Palm Pre before the end of January. The suggestion therefore is that not many of the devices have been sold, compared to the volumes that were expected – which is a puzzler since every review I’ve…
DOOM Runs on Palm Pre with Hardware Acceleration
You might remember early signs of DOOM running on the Palm Pre back in the summer, but it wasn’t running optimally. Well, with webOS 1.3.5 brought with it some extra OpenGL ES functions, allowing for more robust 3D handling. That in and of itself is good news to developers who had been previously turned…
Update: more official info on the INQ Chat 3G
I wrote a piece on the release of the INQ Chat 3G , and my slight disappointment that there was a dearth of information on it when it was launched. Well have no fear, INQs PR company have been in contact and remedied that! Usually I wouldn’t bother popping this sort of info up for…
Drum Kits ‘hits’ the App Store
Apple has approved the iPhone/iPod app ‘Drum Kits’, by Makayama. Drum Kits is the first programmable drum machine with 160 mixable tracks and a completely new approach to rhythm composition. It allows you to compose beats and patterns by touching dots on the screen. It turns your iPhone or iPod into a drum sequencer and…
Nexus One walk-through video shows the Google Phone in action!
By now it’s obvious that Google will be announcing the Nexus One at their Jan. 5 Android press conference in Mountain View, CA. And, as expected, Nexus One leaks are coming fast and hard as we close in on that launch date. Following on rumors of the Nexus One’s pricing and T-Mobile rates plans, a…
SMS Saves Australian Surfers from Sharks
Western Australia are implementing a new SMS alert system for their lifesavers which would let them know by text message when a tagged shark comes within 500 m of a populated beach. 70 have been tagged so far, and they hope to get another 100 in the next two years. Although the tagging and tracking…
Update: how was your Christmas for mobile data access?
At the beginning of December, I wrote a piece about the different perspectives on Christmas that people may have, based on whether they are retailers, network operators, or customers. My view on the customer side of things was that if you are getting a nice new smartphone (for example) in your stocking this year, then…
Swype keyboard leaked for Motorola Droid – Typing without the tapping
It looks like the Samsung Omnia II isn’t the only Android phone to be blessed with Swype’s revolutionary swipe-based keyboard. DroidMuff.in (that’s one helluva domain name) managed to get their hands on a beta release of the Swype keyboard for Android, giving WVGA Android phones like the Motorola Droid an alternative to the traditional on-screen…