LTE is really starting to stretch its legs as the high-speed mobile broadband standard that we knew it could always be. NTT DoCoMo reportedly just achieved “a downlink transmission rate of 250Mbps over a high-speed wireless network in an outdoor test of an experimental Super 3G system.” Super 3G, also known as LTE (Long Term…
Motorola joins LTE/System Architecture Evolution trial Initiative
Motorola announced that it has joined the LTE/System Architecture Evolution (SAE) Trial Initiative (LSTI), the industry group which is “driving the acceleration of commercial and interoperable next-generation LTE mobile broadband systems through the collaborative efforts of leading telecommunications companies worldwide.” The American handset maker will reuse its WiMAX research and development expertise, along with its…
Samsung teases with Anycall Haptic phone video; Cry if you’re not in Korea
What we have here is Samsung’s short teaser video made only for one purpose – to annoy us. Well guys you succeeded, you’re showing us a cool device which we still can’t have. That’s at least those of us not living in South Korea. Apparently, the device filmed on a video bellow wears the SCH-W420/W4200…
Sprint planning to switch to IP-based network in push to become data-centric provider
Sprint’s only hope to retain, or at least partially regain, their formerly successful days as a Top 3 US wireless carrier is to concentrate on becoming the premier wireless broadband provider. That means Sprint will have to focus on the data side of their operations – as I mentioned a while back. So, in a…
Samsung’s new 8 megapixel CMOS image sensor is 8.5mm thick
Sure, there are handsets out there that boasts 8.5mm thickness, but you sure aren’t going to find an image sensor inside that’s capable of capturing more than a few megapixels. But, when you’re talking about an 8 megapixel CMOS image sensor with anti-shake, low-light compensation, ISO 1600, smile recognition (what’s with this smile recognition recently?),…
Half a billion Flash Lite equipped mobile phones have shipped
500 million Flash Lite equipped mobile devices have shipped, to which I ask all of you Into Mobile readers: Are there any Flash Lite applications you use? I’m stumped, I can only name one. [Via: Adobe PR]
Pick and choose: WiMAX or satellites, you can’t have both
During some WiMAX field trials it was discovered that significant degradation to satellite signals was occurring. Will this impact roll out in nations like the United States where there are a large number of consumers who get their television from a satellite provider? What about other satellite based services like GPS? [Via: Broadcast Engineering]
Varioptic and Seiko partner up to make liquid lenses for cameraphones
It looks like liquid lenses are about to make a big splash in the cameraphone world. Varioptics and Seiko have partnered up to manufacture 500,000 continuously variable liquid-filled lenses for the mobile market, starting in Q3 of this year. Liquid lenses offer the advantages of being able to continuously adjust focus with barely any power…
AUDEO: Talk on your mobile phone without talking; thought-controlled conversations due later this year
Like a gadget straight out of some Sci-Fi flick, Ambient (using technology from Texas Instruments) has busted up the mobile phone industry with their new thought-controlled communications technology. AUDEO, as it’s called, picks up the neurological signals produced by the mere thought of speech and translates the nerve-impulses into audible words. “The Audeo can enable…
Ericsson’s Chief Marketing Officer Johan Bergendahl proclaims downfall of WiFi
Does anyone even use public telephones anymore? I don’t even use fixed landlines anymore. With the pace of development in the wireless landscape, it makes sense that wireless broadband solutions could sound the death knoll for WiFi hotspots. And, to make that notion all the more plausible, Ericsson’s Chief Marketing Officer Johan Bergendahl proclaimed during…