One of the most impressive sights at the Mobile World Congress was for sure the insanely awesome Huawei Horse, made of hundreds, maybe thousands of real Huawei smartphones (my guess, probably just some bad yields thus recycled for art). The statement I think is that Huawei is now ready to take over the market. They mean business. They are serious about it. They claim to have the fastest Smartphone and Tablet on the market, and they also cover all ranges all the way down to the cheapest lowest end most affordable Smartphone. My take is we all need to pay attention to Huawei. In any ways, this Huawei Horse is awesome. It was an awesome sight during the nights of the MWC, imagine an awesome DJ up high in front of the columns, the castle at the top of the mountain, awesome house music, acrobats, and cool lights lighting up this Huawei Horse, mobile industry insiders networking in front of that. This is awesome.
Category: Tradeshows
Awesome Huawei Horse sculpture at Mobile World Congress 2012, made of phones
Jig.jp Augmented Reality Glasses at Mobile World Congress 2012
The guys of http://jig.jp are showing off their vision of augmented reality, overlaying video screens using prisms on sunglasses, the heads-up display is made by Epson. Jig.jp works on smartphone web browsers, they are suggesting to create software and user interfaces for augmented reality.
Telstar shows $119 3.5″ Retina Display on MSM7227A ARM Cortex-A5
Telstar is showing a 3.5″ Retina Display and 4.3″ WVGA to be sold for $119 with a minimum order quantity of 1000 units, using the Qualcomm MSM7227A ARM Cortex-A5 (the 4.3″ may have the MSM7227 ARM11, to be confirmed).
ST-Ericsson HSPA+/LTE demonstrated for remote controlled airplanes
Here’s a demo to show off what HSPA+/LTE can potentially do, to include on-board video and do remote controlling wherever there is HSPA+/LTE coverage.
ST-Ericsson U8500, no in a range of Smartphones on the market
ST-Ericsson demonstrates the range of some of the devices announced that use the ST-Ericsson NovaThor U8500 that includes ST-Ericsson HSPA+ connectivity. They also announced the U8520 and U9540 LTE platforms.
ST-Ericsson shows Sensor Fusion
Motion Core presents the usage of Sensor Fusion on the ST-Ericsson U8500 powered Sony Xperia P. It takes the information from all the sensors inside of the phone and renders it as a Wii-like remote control even without the use of infrared.
Dolby presents the JPEG-HDR format
JPEG-HDR is a new image format to store HDR information with JPEG images.
NXP NFC for Payments at Mobile World Congress 2012
NXP shows and talks about how NFC is being implemented throughout the smartphones industry to provide for identification and their other chip for authentication technology.
Chips&Media CODA9A0 presents 4K2K video decode for ARM Cortex-A15
Chips and Media provides hardwired video codec IP for ARM chip makers, that accelerates and smoothly plays back now up to 2160p video at 30fps for ARM Cortex-A15 processors to be taped out mid-year and possibly released in devices by the end of the year!
Celluon Prodigy, infrared keyboard and kick-stand as iPhone case
Celluon is showing a prototype of their red lazer infrared keyboard integrated in an iPhone case that also comes with a kick-stand. They are also working to reduce the size of their keyboard projection/detection module to try to work with tablet and smartphone makers to include this system directly into tablets and smartphones. You can watch my video of the Celluon Magic Cube filmed at CES 2011 here.