Orange has announced the launch of the world’s first 3G unlicensed mobile access (UMA) platform, opening up a new world of multimedia services to its Unik customers. Launching first with two exclusive Orange handsets from Samsung and Sony Ericsson, UMA and 3G network technology will be combined in one device for the very first time.…
ZTE opens handset assembly plant in Ethiopia
China’s infrastructure and handset maker, ZTE, is going to start assembling devices in Ethiopia, after signing a $5.2mn with the “Organization for Rehabilitation and Development of Amhara (TIRET)” This new plant will apparently be able to produce 3000-4500 mobile devices per day – or around 1.5m units per year, for those of you who prefer…
MOTOjewel to have WMP 11 on-board?
As Dusan posted up the other day, Moto is busy launching it’s MOTOjewel handset, which you could suggest is one more for the ladies (and probably some lads that I know too!)…. …but quite apart from the design-centric hardware ID, it would appear this bad-boy er .. girl is equipped with some audio goodness…. First…
Samsung to purchase SanDisk?
A South Korean businss paper has reported that Samsung is persuing SanDisk, for acquisition purposes. Both companies would not confirm or deny the report, which to me sounds like it’s on baby! Samsung currently supplies NAND flash memory chips to SanDisk … which is the world’s largest supplier of flash storage card products. Samsung is…
Gesture-sensing TV does away with remote
The Telegraph.co.uk has an interesting story about a TV developed to sense hand gestures as a means of control, rather than using the traditional remote. Following on from all the hype regarding the combined gesture/hardware remote of the Nintendo Wii, Toshiba’s TV trumps that by doing away with the hardware altogether. The system uses a…
3 does 1m mobile broadband customers, announces new dongle
3 has announced sales of over 1m USB mobile broadband dongles to customers across the UK, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and Austria. This has been due, in no small part, to the very attractive cost vs data propositions they have come up with: Also, a new dongle is now available – the Huawei E160G is…
UK: £1m of Mobile speakers sold per… month!!
Market Research specialist GfK has said that in sales for June 2008, £1m of Mobile speakers have been sold – compared with just £146,000 in May 2007! In a related stat, handsets with MP3 players and/or FM Radios now account for 65% of the market, which has increased from 44% last year. This research dovetails…
Sony and Samsung connect up with Wireless HD
Sony and Samsung have become members of an HD consortium that is working to send HD video signals wirelessly from a single Set-top box (STB) wirelessly to screens placed aroundthe home. The new consortium will consist of Sony, Samsung, Motorola, Sharp, and Hitatchi – and will develop a standard around tech from a company…
Updated: F906i with “TrueNav” Fingerprint Sensor – pics
As a very quick follow up to the story I wrote on Authentec’s advanced fingerprint reader/navigation sensor, I have now had some nice images through from their PR division – which show the sensor in place, and the device in which it is deployed (the DoCoMo F906i): Authentec’s product is the AES1710, which: “….is based…
Neat wireless gadget: Dane-Elec Zpen
I happened to be watching UK Terrestrial channel ‘Channel 5‘ the other day, and came across this neat wireless gadget, which provides a neat way to get your scribbles digitised! It’s name is the Dane-Elec Zpen, and consists of a receiver (the elipse-shaped item in the pic), and the transmitter – which is, surprisingly enough,…