Marvell, Qualcomm, Freescale, they’re all battling it out to create the fastest ARMv7 compatible processor. You all know the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, inside devices such as the Google/HTC Nexus One and the HTC HD2, well Marvell wants a piece of the action and yesterday they announced the ARMADA 610. It has a 1 GHz powered…
T-Mobile Announces Completed 7.2 Mbps Upgrade, HSPA+ Next
One little tidbit coming out of the Nexus One announcement worth highlighting is that T-Mobile’s 7.2 Mbps network lengthy upgrade is complete as promised, and now they’re moving towards HSPA+ (21 Mbps). T-Mobile is still a far cry from competing with Verizon’s service and Sprint still has the 4G advantage with WiMAX, but it’s great…
SoundID 400 Bluetooth Headset To Arrive at Best Buy Canada This Month
Canadian lawmakers are getting tougher and tougher on talking/texting while driving. New laws are popping up around the country banning folks from talking and texting while they drive, and with good reason. With that in mind, it seems that more and more Bluetooth and handsfree setups are making their way into play these days. Just…
Apple Magic Mouse spotted controlling jailbroken iPhone!
The iPhone might not officially be able to pair with a wireless Bluetooth keyboard or a wireless Bluetooth mouse, but the jailbroken iPhone community isn’t going to let that stop them. Thanks to the open source Bluetooth stack project BTstack, we now have video of an Apple Magic Mouse controlling an iPhone over Bluetooth. Seeing…
Next generation iPhone 4G to get 802.11n WiFi?
It’s a bit early in the year to start with next generation iPhone rumors, but we’re not complaining. New rumblings along the iPhone grapevine suggest that Apple is working to add support for the faster 802.11n WiFi standard in its next iPhone – we’re calling it the iPhone 4G for the time being. The rumor…
Sierra Portable WiMAX Hotspot Coming to Sprint
Yet another goodie to potentially look forward to at CES next week is this portable Wi-Fi hotspot that shares a 4G WiMAX connection over 100 feet. If you’re worried about limited WiMAX coverage, the Sprint Overdrive is dual-mode EV-DO, so you can roll like a standard MiFi if you’re out of town. For those who…
SMS Saves Australian Surfers from Sharks
Western Australia are implementing a new SMS alert system for their lifesavers which would let them know by text message when a tagged shark comes within 500 m of a populated beach. 70 have been tagged so far, and they hope to get another 100 in the next two years. Although the tagging and tracking…
N900 Rigged As PlayStation 3 Controller
An alpha application for Nokia’s N900 allows the handset to operate as a mouse, keyboard, gamepad, media remote, or PlayStation 3 controller via Bluetooth. As you can see, after a relatively painless pairing process, BlueMaemo enables the N900 to operate as a directional pad. While I’m not sure how comfortable playing a proper game on…
Pressure-sensitive capacitive touchscreens with multi-touch coming in 2010!
The holy grail of touchscreen technology, a display that allows both capacitive and resistive touch inputs, may soon be a reality. Startup company Touchco has developed their own touchscreen technology that’s not only cheaper than current capacitive touchscreens but also supports pressure-based inputs. Touchco today unveiled their Interpolating Force-Sensitive Resistance (IFSR) technology that melds the…
Video: Tiki’Notes is faster than Swype!
Remember Swype? That cool system/technology made for fast typing on virtual keyboards? The company behind it got the money from Nokia and Samsung to keep working on it, but now we spotted something that seems can work even faster. A French startup called Tiki’Labs is behind the project and they already released a first app…