You may haven’t heard of Umeox Mobile before and I don’t blame you. It is a Shenzhen, China-based ODM (Original Design Manufacturer) which rarely sells its products in the Western hemisphere. The company has teamed up with Dutch company Intivation to launch a solar-powered Android smartphone called Umeox Apollo. As you can imagine — and…
Samsung Wave 578 is the first Bada phone with NFC
Samsung unveiled a new member of its Bada family of devices – Wave 578. At first glance, it looks like the Wave 2 (Wave 528), but there’s more about it under the hood. We’re talking about the first NFC-enabled Bada product that should allow contactless payments and related services like door lock/unlock. Specs wise, the…
SPB Software, Spatial View team-up on glasses-free stereoscopic 3D mobile UI
Mobile software developer SPB Software is teaming-up with Spatial View, a pioneer in stereo 3D auto-stereoscopic technologies, to showcase the first glasses-free stereoscopic 3D mobile UI for Android. The new software apparently comes with “full navigation capabilities,” featuring an all-encompassing home screen with animated 3D widgets, 3D folders and customizable panels in stereoscopic 3D. I…
BOLT Mobile Browser 2.5 adds Facebook video, geolocation and HTML5 support
Opera Mini’s arch-rival Bitstream announced a new version (2.5) of its BOLT mobile web browser. This latest release comes with few new features and enhancements, including: Geolocation support – allowing GPS-enabled phones to pass latitude and longitude information to location-enabled websites through the browser. Facebook Video support – which comes in addition to other popular…
Motorola PRO is the DROID PRO for Europe
Motorola is bringing the DROID PRO to Europe. Called Motorola PRO, it’s basically same as Verizon Wireless’ baby with the only difference between the two being in the mobile radio used. Instead of singing along CDMA networks, European version is made to work with GSM-based ones, supporting the fast HSPA data. Rest of the specs…
Flash Player 10.2 with Stage Video confirmed for Honeycomb tablets, BlackBerry PlayBook
In its “Strong mobile adoption of Flash Player” press release, Adobe said that the new release of Flash Player with performance advancements will be available for computers and also for Android Honeycomb tablets and BlackBerry Tablet OS (PlayBook). The main new thing of version 10.2 is called Stage Video, which delivers much improved video performance…
LG Revolution handles voice over LTE (VoLTE) and video call over LTE
We told ya’ LG Revolution will be the first Verizon Wireless phone to support voice and super-fast LTE data simultaneously. LG is demoing the device at the Mobile World Congress, showing it handling both Voice over LTE (VoLTE) and Video call over LTE. In other words, if you’re a Revolution-ownin’ Verizon customer, you will be…
Orange France, Scanbuy team-up on Flashcode mobile barcode service
Mobile barcode solutions provider Scanbuy has partnered with Orange France to power Flashcode, a mobile barcode service that will allow marketers in France to create, edit, manage and generate a rich set of analytics about their mobile barcodes. Scanbuy will provide its carrier grade self-managed platform, along with mobile apps for all major platforms that…
appMobi’s MobiUs web browser blurs the line between native and web apps
appMobi unveiled MobiUs, which is said to be the first-of-its-kind mobile web browser technology that allows developers to create Web applications that meet and even exceed the functionality possible with native apps. That’s right, using nothing but an HTML5, CSS and JavaScript, developers will be able to access phone functions such as accelerometer, camera, contacts,…
Marvell’s Kinoma is an open software platform made to unify apps
Marvell announced Kinoma, a software platform that’s touted to “dramatically transform the way consumers interact with the devices that fuel their digital lives.” Through its recent acquisition of mobile media software company Kinoma, Marvell now offers an experience and solution that is fully integrated from silicon to applications, creating new opportunities for OEMs and manufacturers…