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CTIA Wireless 2011 @ Orlando News
Going to huge tech conventions and conferences like CTIA 2011 is a rough life. You wake up very early every single day to hit meetings, keynotes to live-blog and hot hardware to track down. Then you’re walking a few miles every day as you trek the showroom floor in search of cool new gadgets, accessories…
The Sony Ericsson LiveView accessory has been out in the U.S. for about a month, so thought we should check it out after spending some more quality time with the Xperia Play. If you haven’t heard of it, the LiveView is a Bluetooth accessory wearable thanks to a clip on the back that connects to…
At CTIA, OtterBox was showing off their work-in-progress case for the Motorola Xoom tablet. As usual, it’ll have the three layers of protection (silicon skin, hard plastic frame, and splash-resistant screen protector no additional screen like on the handset Defend Series, unfortunately), and the extra outer hard case can act as a stand just like…
French startup Wysips has an awesome idea to bring solar energy to mobile phones. Instead of putting a large and ugly solar panel on the back of the device, they want to integrate it into a phone display in such a way that user wouldn’t even know there’s a solar panel on their phone. The…
Jabra used the CTIA to announce the FREEWAY, its new speakerphone that features three speaker system along with HD Voice Ready, ensuring “superior audio quality” on both ends of a phone call. The company said the FREEWAY is good both for using inside and outside the car, and for calls as well as listening to…
This week at CTIA 2011 in Orlando we saw something that we really haven’t seen in smartphones before: glasses-free 3D displays. We knew they were coming, but it’s certainly something else to hold it in your hands and to see for yourself. The two showstoppers were most certainly the HTC EVO 3D for Sprint, and…
One new app to launch at CTIA 2011 was Gogobeans, which at first blush looks an awful lot like Bump. Basically, you have a locker of content (called beans) stored in a cloud, and so long as you and your friend are running either the iPhone or upcoming Android app, you can share file access…
Anyone who was CTIA 2011 in Orlando, Florida this week would have noticed a huge, empty space where NTT DoCoMo should have been. Instead, there was a banner above the space and a single vase filled with cherry blossoms. Many Japanese manufacturers and companies were affected by the earthquake that struck the country on March…
We’ve been on the ground in Orlando for the last week at the CTIA 2011 show and this afforded us the opportunity to check out the latest Samsung products. You’ve already seen our coverage of the Galaxy Tab 8.9 but check out the video below for a nice walkthrough of the Samsung TouchWiz UZ for…
Bitstream unveiled BOLT SDK, a suite of technology and tools that enable mobile app developers to build feature rich Java ME applications for feature phones. BOLT‘s WebKit-based HTML5 engine will make sure pretty much any web content will work on basic feature phones, potentially opening a floodgate for new Java apps. Bitstream goes on suggesting…