Mobile devices are starting to rely more and more on embedded NAND flash memory. The iPhone just got a bump in NAND flash capacity, the MacBook Air comes with an optional SSD (Solid state disk) flash drive, the Nokia N95 8GB uses, uh, 8GB of flash memory, and so on. So, as more data gets…
WiMAX projected to hit 100 million customers by 2014
Sprint and Clearwire could have a significant subscriber-base in the coming years. According to research firm Maraved, WiMAX subscriptions should hit 100 million by 2014. “WiMAX chipsets will start to be embedded in laptops in the second half of 2008, into handheld devices in 2009, and into consumer electronics by early 2010,” said Adlane Fellah,…
Texas Instruments and MIT develop new super-efficient chipset
As mobile phones gets smaller and smaller (well, thinner, really), power consumption and battery life start to become a serious issue. Smaller form factors limit the practical size of the battery, especially when it’s competing for space with the rest of the cellphone’s components. While some researchers are concentrating on improving Li-Ion battery technology, others…
Juniper Research: Financial transactions conducted via mobile phone to generate over $587 billion by 2011
The new Juniper Research’s report titled “Mobile Financial Services: Banking & payment markets 2007-2011” suggests that the “rush by banks and mobile operators” to deliver financial services to the mobile phone will result in just over 612 million mobile phone users generating over $587 billion worth of financial transactions by 2011. According to the research…
Smartphones the most returned holiday gift – how did this happen?
Who wouldn’t be ecstatic to receive a brand-spankin’-new smartphone as a holiday gift? We know we’d love to find an HTC Kaiser waiting for us in the living room, wrapped up all nice and pretty. Turns out, there are a lot of you out there that didn’t exactly jump for joy when they unwrapped their…
Accenture demos a supercomputer that fits into your pocket
Instead of shoving a really fast, battery hungry processor, inside a mobile phone Accenture choose to offload the computing to a nearby laptop that did all the maths and then transferred the results back to the low powered LG feature phone shown above. It sounds great in theory, but will it scale? Will latency ruin…
Juniper Research: North American mobile games revenues to reach $3 billion by 2012
According to the new report from Juniper Research titled “Mobile Games: Subscription & Download 2007-2012 (Fourth Edition)”, the North American market for mobile games is expected to rise from less than $800 million in 2007 to more than $3 billion by 2012. At present, around 18 million Americans download or rent mobile games at least…
Informa: Active users of EV-DO up 80% year-on-year
According to Informa’s World Cellular Data Metrics, the number of subscriptions worldwide actively using data services via CDMA2000 1xEV-DO increased more than 80% year-on-year. The figure surpassed 56 million at the end of 3Q07, up from 30.8 million a year earlier, to represent 15.3% of the world’s overall CDMA base. The increase was driven by…
Most Brits use their mobile for just txt n voice…
According to new research by SNAPIN software, over 60% of us in the UK are using our mobiles for just the core functions – text and voice. Apparently 30% of the respondents explained their reticence to do more by being saying their were concerned about extra charges. And 18% said they couldn’t be bothered with…
Mobiles linked to disturbed sleep
Apparently, and this could spell bad news for a lot of us out there, using a mobile before you go to sleep could stop you having a decent night’s sleep! The study that generated these results also suggests that the radiation from them can cause headaches, insomnia, and confusion (yes, I know what you are…