Category: Mobile Phones

Sony-Ericsson Liveview

Posted by Charbax – February 20, 2011

The concept is pretty awesome, this small touch screen bluetooth screen that can be worn as a watch can interact with any of your Bluetooth enabled Android devices, it’s got an SDK for app developers to add Bluetooth remote functionality for their apps. I’m hoping someone make remote controlling for VOIP apps, calling contacts, and other useful Android apps on your smartphone or tablet.

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Sub-$100 Android Smartphones shipping right now powered by ST Ericsson U6715

Posted by Charbax – February 19, 2011

The 468Mhz ST Ericsson U6715 ARM9 processor includes current support for Android 2.1, to be upgradable to Android 2.2 in around a month, they use tricks like a Virtualization layers on top of Android to speed some things up for the user experience on this low end hardware. Yet, the experience is very impressive considering the potential $100 unlocked retail price for these Android smartphone devices such as the K-Touch W606, Acer beTouch E130, Coolpad W711 and the GHT Maestro, they can all include 3G support and good battery runtime.

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3D capture and playback on the ST Ericsson U8500 platform

Posted by Charbax – February 19, 2011

ST Ericsson U8500 can capture 720p 3D at 30fps and 1080p 2D at 30fps. Here’s a demo of the 3D effect captured using 2 cameras and displayed on a 3D HDTV.

Augmented Reality on the ST Ericsson U8500 platform

Posted by Charbax – February 19, 2011

ST Ericsson are showcasing their performance for augmented reality, tracking at 30fps and rendering at 60fps. There are more and more applications for augmented reality and the new ARM Cortex-A9 processors such as the ST Ericsson U8500 that includes Mali-400 graphics make this even more usable.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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