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OmniVision, makers of the camera sensors that find their way inside many of the smartphones and tablets out on the market, have just announced their latest creation, the OV5690. We know, terrible product name, but here’s what makes it special: It takes 5 megapixel photos using a second generation backside illumination architecture, so low light…
While Americans wait for Isis to launch sometime in 2012, and the Japanese have been enjoying near field enabled mobile payments since before the first iPhone came out, over in the UK Orange has announced that “Quick Tap” is launching today. Here’s how it works: First, you need to be an Orange customer. Simple enough.…
Fans of Palm’s webOS, all 14 of you, will be excited to hear news about two new devices that were discovered by a developer combing through his log files. One device is said to have a screen with a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels, the same as the 10 inch TouchPad due to launch…
There’s a term in the mobile industry called “hollow operator” that’s used to describe what happens when an operator agrees to let an infrastructure supplier build and manage their network. The operator still calls the shots in terms of dictating which markets get coverage and what sort of performance they should be offering to customers,…
During a visit to AT&T’s Foundry Space in Plano, Texas, Stacey Higginbotham, a writer for GigaOM, asked if she could get a demo of the soon to launch 4G LTE network and the engineers were more than happy to let her run some speed tests. The numbers she got: 28.87 Mbps down and 10.4 Mbps…
If you’re a handset maker and want to build a device running Windows Phone A) you’re insane and B) you need to follow a strict set of guidelines that Microsoft enforces. It isn’t a coincidence that every Windows Phone device on the market is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon, that’s how the the platform was meant…
When Apple launched the iPad and created a media frenzy around the tablet form factor, one industry who paid enormous amounts of attention to how consumers picked up and used the Apple’s newest toy were the publishing firms. Newspaper and magazine circulation is down as more and more people opt to consume content in front…
Unlike 3G networks in America, with each operator opting to build out a network running on a different frequency, and in the case of Verizon and Sprint a different technology all together, in Europe the entire continent is blanketed with 2100 MHz high speed mobile broadband goodness. With new LTE networks rolling out however, that’s…
Last year a new joint venture called Isis was created by AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile with the goal of setting up an operator owned near field communication (NFC) based mobile payment solution that would leverage the infrastructure built by Discover. Earlier this month however Isis announced that they’ve had a change of heart and that…
When Samsung announced their successor to the highly popular Galaxy S smartphone, simply dubbed the Galaxy S II, read our review here, one of the standout features was the inclusion of near field communication technology or NFC. Since the device start shipping however, there’s been a little misunderstanding that many in the media have glanced…