Dell’s first smartphone didn’t exactly knock our socks off but Engadget got a hold of its upcoming Windows Phone 7 handset and the thing looks pretty dope. The Lightning’s form factor stands out because it will be a portrait slider and it looks pretty thin and sleek. It will reportedly rock a 1 GHz Snapdragon…
Pantech to use DTS’ audio technology in its smartphones
So far we usually covered SRS’ and Dolby’s mobile efforts. The two companies have successfully partnered with leading mobile phone makers which are now selling multimedia devices with enhanced audio quality. Today we have a story involving DTS that signed a deal with Pantech which will embed DTS’ digital surround audio decoding technology into its…
Samsung confirms new OLED plant – will go online January 2011
The iPad 2 – that’s what this post is mostly about – or at least the screen anyway. Currently there’s a nice LCD screen doing the business in the iPad, but everyone knows that the holy grail of pretty colours and non-thrashed batteries is OLED. So would it be unreasonable if the next iPad had…
Bluetooth 4.0 coming by the end of Q2; high speed mode, low power mode, “classic” mode all there
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has just announced that Bluetooth 4.0 is “ready to roll” (odd considering they say the standard will not be finalized until the end of Q2) and that devices using the new specification will be on the market by the end of this year. What’s new in Bluetooth 4.0? It’s basically…
Samsung’s 20nm NAND Flash memory promises up to 50% higher speeds
Samsung has unveiled the industry’s first 20nm-based NAND flash chips that will be used in SD memory cards and embedded memory solutions. According to the Korean company, using the new technology, these chips give 50% higher productivity than 30nm MLC NAND with a read speed of 20MB/s and write speed at around 10MB/s. I’ll stop…
Infonetics Research: LTE infrastructure market to top $11 billion by 2014
According to Infonetics Research, the LTE infrastructure market is expected to reach $11.4 billion by 2014, fueled by macrocell eNodeB deployments. Asia Pacific and North America are set to drive the first major wave of LTE rollouts in the 2010-2012 period, whereas the second wave, which kicks off in 2012-2013, will include the Chinese and…
Germany rolls out LTE spectrum auctions
Germany has started auctioning a new mobile spectrum and all four of the country’s main operators — T-Mobile, Vodafone, KPN (E-Plus) and Telefonica’s O2 — are expected to compete for new bandwidth suitable for LTE. The auction is the first of its kind in Europe and will likely set a benchmark for similar auctions throughout…
Google confirms Android 2.1 downgrades image quality
You’re not going crazy if you noticed something a bit off with your pictures on the Droid after the long-awaited Android 2.1 update because Google admits there’s a lower image quality than in the previous Gallery application. “The Gallery app in Android 2.0.1 is different from the Gallery app in Android 2.1,” Google said in…
NextGen Tracks Body Weight with BlackBerry and Wi-Fi Scale
Fitness software developer Gym Technik has just struck up a partnership with Withings (who make a Wi-Fi-enabled weight scale) to allow you to track your weight progress on a BlackBerry application. What happens is, once you step onto the scale, you get an e-mail with the results, and then you can launch the BlackBerry app from…
Earloomz looks to solve the Bluetool problem
A Bluetooth handset is an extremely useful device but you always look kind of lame sporting it, especially if you’re the type of person who keeps it in all the time. Earloomz is trying to solve the Bluetool problem by offering headsets with artwork and themes on it. The company is offering headsets with designs…