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Novatel Wireless 4510 LTE Mifi

Posted by Charbax – February 22, 2011
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, MWC

Notavel Wireless is one of the leading makers of Mifi devices for 3G and they are now making LTE based Mifis to be supporting upwards 2-5mbitps upload and 5-12mbitps download speeds or more. The new Mifi has an eink display to show status and comes with more of the built-in applications on the Mifi OS that Novatel Wireless provides an SDK for.

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Secusmart encrypts voice/sms/data in 2000€ MicroSD

Posted by Charbax – February 22, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Other, Exclusive videos, MWC

Secusmart encrypts mobile devices. They encrypt voice calls, sms, email, contacts, the calendar and more by using a special 2000€ MicroSD card with encryption capability on that card and a phone with a modified firmware. They plan to get the price down once they can build cheaper MicroSD cards with built-in NXP cryptocontroller and a hardware accelerator inside.

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ST-Ericsson LTE solutions

Posted by Charbax – February 20, 2011
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, ST-Ericsson, MWC

Featuring ST-Ericsson existing and upcoming range of LTE solutions including ThorM7400, the industry’s first two chip LTE/HSPA+ modem.

ST-Ericsson HSPA+ solutions

Posted by Charbax – February 20, 2011
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, ST-Ericsson, MWC

This video features ST-Ericsson’s second generation 21mbitps HSPA+ solution, used in the Samsung Galaxy 4G smartphone on T-Mobile. This kind of bandwidth can be used for high quality video streaming, and many other applications. ST-Ericsson is also launching the new 84mbitps Thor HSPA+ modem.

Freescale wireless chargers

Posted by Charbax – February 20, 2011
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, Freescale, MWC

Freescale is providing the MCUs for the powermat systems made by Energizer and other companies.

Freescale Watt Saver, USB charger

Posted by Charbax – February 20, 2011
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, Freescale, MWC

This is a smart USB charger that automatically switches off all power consumption when the phone is charged. It’s sold by AT&T for $12 right now.

Freescale powered sub-$50 home energy gateway

Posted by Charbax – February 20, 2011
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, Freescale, MWC

The idea is to connect your smart meter, home appliances, smart electric plugs to a home energy gateway, which then hosts a power management console on the web to let you manage your home power consumption from a tablet, from a mobile phone, laptop or any other device to access the web.

Moimstone MIP2000 and MIP3000 VOIP Phone with Android Tablet

Posted by Charbax – February 20, 2011
Category: Tablets, Other, Exclusive videos, MWC, Android

Moimstone is one of the leaders in VOIP phones for home or office use, they are now showing one that can dock an Android Tablet, for large screen overview of contacts and video conferencing.

Sony-Ericsson Liveview

Posted by Charbax – February 20, 2011
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Displays, Wearables, Smartwatch, Other, Exclusive videos, MWC, Android

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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Marvell Kinoma, virtual platform for developing applications

Posted by Charbax – February 20, 2011
Category: Software, Other, Exclusive videos, Marvell, MWC, Android

Kinoma play is showcased on Android devices, it’s running all the apps on pure ARM processor with no need for graphics acceleration, it can come with more than 50 applications built in.

3D capture and playback on the ST-Ericsson U8500 platform

Posted by Charbax – February 19, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Displays, Cameras, Other, Exclusive videos, ST-Ericsson, MWC, Android

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.

Wholesale Applications Community (WAC)

Posted by Charbax – February 19, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Software, Other, Exclusive videos, MWC

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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FON WiFi backhaul used for 3G/4G carriers

Posted by Charbax – February 19, 2011
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, MWC

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.

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App: Endomondo sports tracking community

Posted by Charbax – February 19, 2011
Category: Smartphones, Software, Other, Exclusive videos, MWC, Android

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.

Dialog Semiconductor real-time 2D to 3D conversion

Posted by Charbax – February 16, 2011
Category: Displays, Other, Exclusive videos, Dialog Semiconductor, MWC

This is the first real-time 2D to 3D video conversion in silicon presented by Dialog Semiconductor at Mobile World Congress 2011, it may be useful for the upcoming glasses free 3D screen devices that are coming out. I am not sure though how they analyse the video to “guess” the 3D features in the images, do they analyse each static image or do they process frames before and after to determine 3D space based on the motion?

Mobile High-Definition Link (MHL)

Posted by Charbax – February 15, 2011
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, PMPs, Other, Exclusive videos, Samsung, MWC, Android

New standard first used in the Samsung Galaxy S2 to output HD and charge at the same time through the Micro-USB connector, it also allows for some data to be sent back from HDTVs such as using the TVs standard remote control to also remote control the device. The MHL 1.0 spec for now does not transmit Gigabit Ethernet or USB 3.0 Host functionality.

Post Tenebras Lab hacker space at Lift11 Geneva

Posted by Charbax – February 12, 2011
Category: Sensors, Other, Exclusive videos, Lift

Post Tenebras Lab use microcontrollers, screens, sensors, motors, leds, special materials and open source software to hack stuff together.

Instrument using accelerometers and gyro by nodesignlabs ircam at Lift11 Geneva

Posted by Charbax – February 9, 2011
Category: Sensors, Other, Exclusive videos, Lift

This team from the Research Institute for Acoustic Coordination and Music at Centre Pompidou is working on real-time musical instruments demonstrating the use of accelerometers and gyros to trigger sound and new ways to create music. This could be used by a DJ or musician in live show or concert. It could potentially be triggered directly with the accelerometer, gyro and other sensors inside of a smartphone. Find more information at nodesign.net and http://www.ircam.fr

Steven Schuler of Ball State University at Lift11 Geneva

Posted by Charbax – February 8, 2011
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, Lift

Steven Schuler is the Sr. Assoc. Dir. Emerging Technologies at the Ball State University, Indiana. He tells us about the methods used with the students of that university to create Android and iOS applications and doing other projects in the real world. It’s the philosophy of learning by doing, the students are actually hired by real companies to have some real world IT experience before they graduate.

Latest news from CERN LHC at Lift11 Geneva

Posted by Charbax – February 8, 2011
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, Lift

Tara Shears of CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research) gives us an update on the Large Hadron Collider, one of the biggest science experiments in history. They are ramping up the power of the accelerator in 2011 and 2012 to find the Higgs Boson, they are creating and capturing antimatter and she explains how the 3000 particle physicists at CERN can collaborate on research.

You can watch Tara Shears keynote presentation at Lift11 here:

You can watch my 4 CERN LHC Atlas videos as well, those are still relevant even though I filmed those in 2007:
CERN LHC ATLAS Tour
CERN LHC ATLAS GRID
Interviews with Engineers at the CERN LHC Atlas
CERN LHC ATLAS Control Room