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Month: February 2011

Wholesale Applications Community (WAC)

Posted by Charbax – February 19, 2011

WAC is a consortium of carriers, manufacturers and software solutions providers trying to bring some alternative application marketplace and interoperability for apps on different embedded OS platforms. The apps are written using HTML, CSS and Javascript and once the apps are sent to WAC, they can be distributed wholesale on all the different carriers and gadget makers alternative marketplaces.

Carriers try outflanking app stores with WAC (reviews.cnet.com)
Mobile Operators Launch WAC, A Global Wholesale App Store (readwriteweb.com)
WAC 2.0 specification announced; 8 operators already connected to the platform (intomobile.com)
Telefonica, Orange pledge support for Wholesale Applications Community (intomobile.com)
Operator Application Push Goes Live (pcworld.com)
With Opera, WAC is right here, right now (opera.com)
10 new companies join Wholesale Applications Community, including HP, IBM, Adobe, SAP and Panasonic (intomobile.com)

Category: Exclusive videos, Mobile Phones, MWC, Other, Software
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FON WiFi backhaul used for 3G/4G carriers

Posted by Charbax – February 19, 2011

FON is the largest WiFi community in the world, with 3.5 million WiFi hotspots that are all sharing the same login system. 3G and 4G carriers are very interested to use FON as a bandwidth backhaul thus to hand people off to the FON WiFi network as often as users walk by any compatible hotspot at home and outside. In this interview, I ask FON what kind of plans they may have for doing this with other spectrum such as White Spaces, improving the automatic connection of devices to this network and adding more throttling and bandwidth management features and experiment with different ways for users to roam and pay for that bandwidth.

Fon Ended 2010 With 3.35 Million WiFi Hotspots, €28 Million In Revenues (techcrunch.com)
Skype Expands To Over 500,000 WiFi Hot Spots (slashgear.com)
Fon Raises $13.5 Million In New Round To Expand In The US (techcrunch.com)

Category: Exclusive videos, MWC, Other
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App: Endomondo sports tracking community

Posted by Charbax – February 19, 2011

http://endomondo.com is a sports tracking system, that works on all the major smartphone platforms, and includes an online community, to compare running routes, compare running performances, in any city, you can see an overview of all the people that are running right now, it can also include real-time speech synthesis to read up comments or comparing your running speed with someone else you want to beat in the community.

Category: Android, Exclusive videos, Mobile Phones, MWC, Other, Software
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HTC Desire S and HTC Incredible S

Posted by Charbax – February 19, 2011

HTC’s replacement for their best selling HTC Desire phone, which was released also under the names Nexus One and Droid Incredible. It features HTC Sense 2.0. The HTC Incredible S has a slightly larger 4″ Super LCD and slightly better cameras. Those are using the Qualcomm MSM8255 1Ghz single-core processor.

HTC Incredible S hands-on [Video] (slashgear.com)
Hands On With HTC’s New Smartphones & Tablet [PICS] (mashable.com)
HTC Incredible S Announced at MWC, Compatible With T-Mobile (pocketnow.com)
HTC Incredible S, Wildfire S, Desire S a’coming (reviews.cnet.com)
HTC unveils the Incredible S, 4-inch display with unibody aluminum design (intomobile.com)
HTC Incredible S, Desire S, and Wildfire S video hands-on (engadget.com)
HTC Incredible S official (slashgear.com)

Category: Android, Exclusive videos, Mobile Phones, MWC, Qualcomm
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HTC Flyer Android Tablet

Posted by Charbax – February 19, 2011

HTC’s first Tablet, it’s got a 7″ 1024×600 capacitive touch screen, it’s 420gr, 1GB RAM and runs a 1.5Ghz Qualcomm processor. HTC implemented some kind of special external stylus feature that allows for scribbling on top of a snapshot of the screen, so one can scribble on top of anywhere within Android, but the actual integration of that touch screen handwriting technology with the Android apps is still to be seen, and the stylus has to be slotted in an external leather case.

HTC Design Chief Talks About Its First Tablet, the Flyer (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
HTC’s Flyer Android Tablet Spotted At $730 On Amazon (businessinsider.com)
HTC Flyer Android Tablet Comes With a Pen. That’s a Problem. (gigaom.com)
HTC announces Flyer tablet, Facebook phones, revamped Android lineup (venturebeat.com)
HTC Announces Their First Android Tablet: The HTC Flyer (mobilecrunch.com)
“HTC Flyer Tablet Debuts with Android 2.4 Gingerbread, Not Honeycomb” and related posts (gottabemobile.com)
A closer look at the HTC Flyer’s screen, stylus, and Scribe (engadget.com)
“HTC Flyer Tablet and HTC Incredible S Smartphone Headed to T-Mobile USA?” and related posts (gottabemobile.com)

Category: Android, Exclusive videos, MWC, Qualcomm, Tablets
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HTC Wildfire S

Posted by Charbax – February 19, 2011

HTC’s new lower cost, more compact Android Smartphone, the Wildfire S includes a Qualcomm MSM7227 ARM11 600Mhz processor, 512MB RAM.

HTC Wildfire S hands-on (slashgear.com)
HTC Wildfire S Hands-On (Video) (pocketnow.com)
HTC Wildfire S hands-on [MWC] (androidcentral.com)
Hands-on: HTC Wildfire S – Small and stylish and packs a punch (intomobile.com)
HTC’s Android Favourites Upgraded: Introducing The Desire S, Wildfire S and Incredible S (thenextweb.com)

Category: Android, Exclusive videos, Mobile Phones, MWC, Qualcomm
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ST-Ericsson U4500 to power sub-$100 ARM Cortex-A9 smartphones!

Posted by Charbax – February 19, 2011

The idea is to provide better than Nexus One like performance early 2012 in low cost Android smartphones that could be sold by then for as little as below $200 even at below the $100 price point. ST-Ericsson U4500 is a single core ARM Cortex-A9 processor, that could be clocked at around 600mhz to achieve a similar performance to the 1Ghz Nexus One that was released early 2010. The idea is to bring that level of performance to potentially hundreds of millions of more people. Also check out my video on the ST-Ericsson A9500 development board to be released around May this year.

MWC: ST-Ericsson launches new smartphone/tablet platforms (v3.co.uk)
Mobile World Congress: The new front in the processor battle (zdnet.com)

Category: Android, Exclusive videos, Mobile Phones, MWC, ST-Ericsson
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Nvidia shows project Kal-el Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9

Posted by Charbax – February 19, 2011

Nvidia Kal-el is now sampling, demonstrated here at Mobile World Congress 2011, to be in commercial products already in August this year. Nvidia goes on showing the first Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 sample, getting those samples to their partners and planning for commercial launch by August this year already. This is impressive stuff, web browsing speed is doubled.

Nvidia pledges to get quad-core mobile chip out fastest (venturebeat.com)
NVIDIA Reveals Project “Kal-El” Quad Core Super Chip – A Future of Astronomical Speed (androidcommunity.com)
Nvidia confirms quad-core Tegra 3 chip in tablets by August (geek.com)
Nvidia Demos ‘Kal-El’ Quad-Core Tegra Mobile CPU (hardware.slashdot.org)
NVIDIA announces quad-core Kal-El SOC, promises it in tablets by August (engadget.com)
NVIDIA Unveils Project Kal-El Quad Core Super Chip (slashgear.com)

Category: Android, Exclusive videos, Laptops, Mobile Phones, MWC, Nvidia, Tablets
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ZTE Skate 4.3″ Android Smartphone

Posted by Charbax – February 19, 2011

Comes with a nice 4.3″ capacitive touch screen, and is designed to potentially reach a sub-$200 price point when sold unlocked and/or on a pre-paid plan.