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Today at Mobile World Congress, we got some time to lay eyes upon the LG Optimus 3D. The specs are more or less what you’d expect for a top-tier Android handset – 4.3-inch screen, TI OMAP 4 dual-core processor, DLNA support – but the standout feature is that it is the world’s first smartphone with…
Verizon Wireless and Alcatel-Lucent are showing off multi-player gaming over 4G LTE, which is now live in parts of the United States. The appeal is that the games are being played globally, so users can play with or against each other in real time all over the world. Verizon and Alcatel-Lucent were showing off games…
Marvell announced what looks as a super-promising product – PXA978 single-chip solution that features 3G UMTS and China’s TD SCDMA standards with HSPA support. It is said this is the industry’s first such product which in addition to being able to provide fast mobile data in China and the rest of the world, also includes…
Microsoft filled in some gaps in its upcoming plans for Windows Phone 7. The Redmond company confirmed that the mobile version of Internet Explorer 9 will debut on the platform in the second half of 2011. IE9 Mobile will support the same standards (HTML5, etc.) and include the same hardware accelerated graphics as the PC…
Texas Instruments is making it a little easier to develop software for Android with what it’s claiming to be the first development platform for Android. TI is trying to make it easier for manufacturers to develop software with the ZigBee and ZigBee RF4CE protocol stacks, which will allow software that enables smartphones to act as…
Texas Instruments, or TI, announced in Barcelona today its new Me-D experiences, which are interactions and gestures that TI boasts as capable of freeing users from the limitations of the physical mobile space. With TI’s new OMAP 4 platform, which we should be seeing in use later this year, the Me-D experience ought to be…
RIM introduced, BlackBerry Travel, a new native travel application for its BlackBerry handsets. The BlackBerry Travel application will compete with other travel applications like WorldMate which has a similar feature set, but is not integrated into BlackBerry OS 6. The native Travel application from RIM has a full set of features for mobile jet-setters including:…
We’ve hinted before that the ViewPad 4 will get the Gingerbread update in April and now we have it officially confirmed. Moreover, I assume ViewSonic won’t be the only handset maker to release an Android update for its product — other companies will most likely follow at that time or even before. That said I’m…
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…
Viewdle is an app that was being shown off at Mobile World Congress 2011 that really caught my eye. Using an augmented reality interface, where you point your camera to the world and your phone screen superimposes data on top of the image, these guys have developed a way for the phone to not only…