The Bluetooth SIG announced the start of the second Bluetooth Innovation World Cup (IWC), calling on all interested parties to submit concepts for applications making use of Bluetooth wireless technology. This year’s focus is on applications in three categories: sports & fitness, health care, and home information and control markets. Anyone can participate — submissions…
Samsung says Super AMOLED is still better than iPhone 4 ‘Retina Display’
Let’s be honest here, the iPhone 4’s Retina Display is absolutely stunning, with a resolution (326 ppi / dpi) that absolutely demolishes all competition in the market today. The new Retina Display, surpasses the resolution at which the human eye can resolve individual pixels, which is simply astounding (although debatable in its implementation, more below).…
Sprint WiMax is Live In Los Angeles! Well, Sorta [Update]
When Sprint announced the EVO 4G with WiMax, we mobile nerds became all kinds of excited. The only problem was that it was live in cities like Lubbock, Texas and who-knows-where-else. Big metropolitan cities like New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco were missing from the picture, but we were promised that WiMax would be…
Sony Ericsson Prototypes Pressure-Sensitive Touchscreen with Haptic Feedback
Most touchscreens simply deal with the everyday X and Y axes of navigation, but Sony Ericsson is developing a new kind of display that allows interacting on the Z axis as well, effectively allowing you to reach elements “inside” the UI. In this particular demo, icons moved faster or slower depending on how hard the…
Jabra STONE White Now Available for Your Inner Tech Fashionista
It was nearly a year ago when I made a complete fool of myself checking out what I assumed to be the Jabra STONE. Turns out it ended up just being a piece of rock that was sent to media to hype up its upcoming launch. Today, Jabra is announcing the availability of a…
Infonetics Research: Half of operators planning to deploy LTE will first upgrade to HSPA+
Between today’s 3G networks and the next generation LTE and WiMAX networks that are going to start turning on over the next few years, there is a middle ground technology that provides users with the increased bandwidth users want, and at the same time is attractive to operators since in most cases it requires a…
Ford’s ‘Send To SYNC’ Beams Google Maps Directions to Ford SYNC Vehicles
We’ve been writing about Ford’s SYNC service for quite some time now, and who can blame us, their continual update to their service calls for some attention. Today is another one of those updates, but this by far has got to be one of the coolest updates yet. Ford announced today a new update to…
Camera-Based Gesture Control for Android Offered by eyeSight
Gesture recognition through a smartphone’s camera certainly isn’t something we’ve never seen before, but it’s a rare sight on Android. eyeSight, based out of Israel, has been working on Symbian for awhile now, and is making the jump to Android, allowing you to mute incoming calls, navigate GPS menus, documents, and web pages, control music,…
LTE Update: Swedes get LTE phones early next year, Chinese have LTE on trains, Japan goes LTE
Next generation networks are going live all around the world, promising increased bandwidth, increased capacity, and lower latency. Sweden and Norway were the first two countries to get LTE, courtesy of TeliaSonera. By the end of this month they’re going to be deploying USB modems that can also use the “old” 3G network, whereas right…
iPhone 4 and the New Retina Display: What’s the Big Deal?
Normally when Apple uses words like “magical” and “revolutionary”, I roll my eyes. So much of what they do has come before – they’re simply iterating in an especially stylish way. That’s good, don’t get me wrong. They’re moving technology beyond function and into fashion, thus popularizing what us niche geeks have been enjoying for…