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If you want to build a mobile phone and use something other than the Qualcomm Snapdragon platform then you’re going to need to buy separate pieces of silicon to handle all your WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, and FM radio functions. That changes today thanks to Broadcom who introduced the BCM4330. It does dual band WiFi 802.11n,…
Some quick Android news for the Canadian in the crowd. Our friends at MobileSyrup have it on good authority that the Android 2.2 Froyo-packing Acer Liquid mt will be available tomorrow (Feb. 15th) from Rogers Wireless. The Rogers Acer Liquid mt features a ‘mocha copper’ color, and truth be told, the thing looks darn sharp.…
Gemalto is a firm you probably never heard of, but they’re important since they make those tiny pieces of plastic that make your mobile phone actually work. Yes, I’m talking about SIM cards. Without one you’re carrying around what’s essentially a glorified camera and MP3 player. Today they’re announcing Facebook for SIM which will enable…
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…
Several years ago there was a lot of hype around barcodes, specifically QR codes that were tailor made for mobile phone users to capture and then navigate to a webpage where they would get more information about a product, film, whatever. Even Microsoft tried to get in the game by inventing their own version of…
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…
Samsung unveiled a new member of its Bada family of devices – Wave 578. At first glance, it looks like the Wave 2 (Wave 528), but there’s more about it under the hood. We’re talking about the first NFC-enabled Bada product that should allow contactless payments and related services like door lock/unlock. Specs wise, the…
Mobile software developer SPB Software is teaming-up with Spatial View, a pioneer in stereo 3D auto-stereoscopic technologies, to showcase the first glasses-free stereoscopic 3D mobile UI for Android. The new software apparently comes with “full navigation capabilities,” featuring an all-encompassing home screen with animated 3D widgets, 3D folders and customizable panels in stereoscopic 3D. I…
Opera Mini’s arch-rival Bitstream announced a new version (2.5) of its BOLT mobile web browser. This latest release comes with few new features and enhancements, including: Geolocation support – allowing GPS-enabled phones to pass latitude and longitude information to location-enabled websites through the browser. Facebook Video support – which comes in addition to other popular…