HTC has filed a patent for a stylus that works with capacitive — usually known as finger-friendly — touchscreens. The trick is in using some sort of magnetically charged tip which would allow hard-core stylus fans to use it the way they did on regular resistive screens. And while you may think this is kinda…
Verizon Wireless lights up 4G LTE test network!
The future of mobile broadband lies in next-generation data network technologies like the 4G LTE wireless standard. Earlier this year, we didn’t expect any commercially viable LTE networks popping up until halfway through the 2010 calendar year. At the time, wireless carriers like Verizon Wireless and MetroPCS were in the running to launch the first…
RIM Working on Bluetooth Watch?
RIM VP of Accessories, Antoine Boucher, apparently let slip that in between working on a new Bluetooth headset code-named Alpha 1, they’re also developing a watch accessory that will show e-mail, BlackBerry Messenger, Facebook, and SMS text alerts as well as push music from your smartphone to the car stereo by FM transmission. I’m a…
VF Germany and Huawei sign MoU on LTE
… or in slightly easier-to-understand terms, Vodafone in Germany and Huawei have agreed on LTE testing (in Germany, you won’t be surprised to hear!). Vodafone Germany and Huawei today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to conduct a joint test gauging the performance of LTE (Long Term Evolution) in the Digital Dividend…
Malaysian Government to WiMAX operators: Improve coverage or we’ll revoke your spectrum
Dr. Rais Yatim, Information, Communication and Culture Minister for Malaysia, said that if the nation’s three WiMAX operators don’t step up their game and improve coverage by the end of this year, their spectrum licenses will be revoked. YTL e-Solutions, Asiaspace Dotcom and REDtone International all agreed to to offer coverage to 25% of the…
Monotype Imaging FlipFont now supports N97, 5800, and Omnia HD
Monotype Imaging Holdings has enhanced its FlipFont™ mobile font download solution to support the Nokia 5800 and N97, and also the Samsung Omnia HD i8910. The three touchscreen phones, in addition to the Nokia E52, E63 and E65-NG models, bring the total number of FlipFont supported handset brands to 52. Additionally, 10 mobile-optimized fonts have…
MiFi 2352 – what a fab bit of kit!
Sometimes, you just have to be impressed with a bit of mobile tech when it is put in front of you. You think, hmmm, that’s actually a really neat idea, and actually it looks like the manufacturer/vendor has delivered on the solution really well. That’s what I thought about the MiFi 2352. The MiFi 2352…
Brief: Nokia to launch TD-SCDMA Symbian smartphone in China this year
Colin Giles, Nokia Senior Vice President for Greater China, Japan and Korea, told Reuters yesterday that they’re going to launch a mid-to-high end Symbian powered smartphone by the end of this year that will utilize China Mobile’s 3G network based on TD-SCDMA technology.
RIM Files Patent for Merged Capacitive and Resistive Touchscreen
RIM has filed for a particularly imaginative patent that merges the responsiveness of a capacitive screen and the precision resistive touchscreens. The hybrid system, dubbed appropriately (and cryptically) “electronic device and touch screen display” is described as: A touch screen display includes a display device, a resistive touch-sensitive overlay disposed on the display device and…
Mobile WiMAX projected to be $15 billion industry by 2014
In a bit of good news for the likes of Clearwire and its controlling parent-company Sprint, Juniper Research has released a new study that projects annual mobile WiMAX revenues of $15 billion by 2014. The revenue would ride in on the back of some 50 million expected mobile WiMAX subscribers by 2014. Mobile WiMAX is…