Sony Ericsson has chosen Discretix‘ Multi-Scheme DRM Client to “protect distribution and consumption of multimedia content” for its PlayNow services. The Swedish-Japanese handset maker will use Discretix’ solution on its smartphones running Windows Mobile and Android operating systems. I’m not a DRM expert, hence here’s and expert from Discretix’ press release which takes about their…
Acer unveils 5 more smartphones and a dual-boot netbook
In addition to the Liquid e, Acer unveiled 5 new smartphones and a dual-boot netbook at the show. I’ll be as brief as possible to sum up each of the phone’s key features. But before we start with the list, you should know that neoTouch phones run Windows Mobile (version 6.5.3), whereas beTouch and Ferrari…
ST-Ericsson U8500: 45 nm, 1.2 GHz, dual core, ARM Cortex A9
Forget everything you know about how fast smartphones are right now, because once you buy something with the dual core ST-Ericsson U8500 inside, then you’re going to have your face blown off. You’re looking at a chip manufactured on a 45 nm process packing 2 ARM Cortex A9 processors, each humming along at 1.2 GHz.…
Ultrabrief: LiMo and Symbian join Adobe’s Open Screen Project
Adobe’s Open Screen Project, also known operation “we need to put flash on mobile phones before people start preferring to make mobile optimized websites”, just got two new members today: Symbian and LiMo. Consumers can look forward to “enjoying” the Flash enabled web on their mobile phone, namely videos and advertisements. Developers can look forward…
Quick Mobile World Congress 2010 Status Update
Dusan is on the left, Will is on the right.
Nuance unveils T9 Write handwriting technology for touchscreen devices
Nuance has unveiled T9 Write, a version of its T9 predictive text technology specially tailored for touchscreen devices. The new tech blends handwriting input with Nuance XT9 predictive text technology to “enhance the recognition of naturally shaped letters, numbers, symbols and punctuation.” In other words, the software will predict words as you write them. Here…
Nokia shares some interesting numbers on its services division
We may not see any new Nokia smartphone being announced during the MWC, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have any news. In addition to their MeeGo announcement, the Finnish giant used the event to share some cool numbers on their services. Here’s what we got: Ovi Maps: More than 3 million downloads to date…
Novatel Wireless announces apps for MiFi
Everyone’s about apps these days, so why would Novatel be any different. As a matter of fact they’ve unveiled the MiFi Intelligent Mobile Hotspot platform along with the first apps. The idea is to allow MiFi users to access apps while connecting to the Internet — MiFi’s internal web server connects to remote locations to…
Live Blog: Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Press Conference
Live Blog: Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Press Conference
Acer “Liquid e” comes with Android 2.1, Snapdragon CPU and WVGA touchscreen
Acer has used the Mobile World Congress to unveil the new member to its family – Liquid e. Powered by Android, the new smartphone keeps the all-touchscreen form factor, just like its predecessor – A1. Here’s the specs rundown: Android 2.1 (Éclair) Quad-band GSM/EDGE plus tri-band HSPA (up to 7.2 Mbps on downlink) 5-megapixel camera…