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CSR Combines Bluetooth, GPS and FM Radio on a Single Chip
Engineers have created a way to integrate Bluetooth wireless, eGPS and FM radio technologies on a single chip, reducing power consumption and improving voice quality for the growing in-car handsfree market. Developed by CSR, BlueCore7 integrates Bluetooth v2.1+EDR, Bluetooth low energy, eGPS (enhanced Global Positioning System), and FM transmit and receive technologies on a single chip. It reduces the power, size, cost and complexity of adding multiple radios into a mobile phone. Bluetooth is the most successful short-range wireless technology in use today, with attach rates in handsets expected to reach 55 to 60 percent in 2008. BlueCore7 offers Enhanced Bluetooth v2.1 + EDR radio to deliver better overall range and audio quality. It also includes AuriStream voice…
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SEGA's Sonic Mobile game passes 8mn downloads!
SEGA Mobile has announced that their Sonic the Hedgehog Mobile game has passed over 8mn downloads in North America and Europe, since launch in early 2006. The Sonic franchise has apparently now spread to 40 games over 19 video game platforms - of which Mobile is racking up some sales for! Remember back in the day, when Sonic appeared on the Megadrive for the first time? I bought the game, as did a lot of other people (!), and were amazed by the super-fast graphics and multitude of eye-mashing colours. How things have come on - the same game is now doing the rounds on a lot of Mobile devices! SEGA Mobile plans to build on the success of the Sonic brand with the introduction of three new titles this year, including Sonic at the Olympic Games, Sonic Spinball and Sonic the…
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Vollee’s Streaming Game Service Launches on Second Life
Linden Lab’s 3D virtual world, Second Life, can now be accessed with mobile devices. Vollee’s new 3G streaming service allows Residents to explore the entire virtual world from 3G or Wi-Fi enabled handsets. Currently, 40 devices can utilize Vollee’s technology. Support is soon planned for additional 3G and Wi-Fi enabled handsets, including the iPhone.
“Vollee offers the perfect Second Life mobile service that brings our virtual world to handsets in a way that is ideal for connecting our Residents,” said Christopher Mahoney, Business Development Manager, Linden Lab. “We look forward to the new and exciting ways people will be able to extend their Second Life experience through this new service.”
“We are very proud to debut the Vollee service with Second…
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E-Ten debuts trio of Glofiish at Computex
Cellphone maker E-Ten has debuted a trio of new Glofiish phones at the Taiwanese Computex expo. Leading these according to MobileBurn is the X900, a touchscreen device running the professional version of Windows Mobile 6.1. Although the device also has HSDPA broadband, its primary feature may be the style of touch control, which is said to resemble the TouchFLO interface used on HTC's Touch handsets. A difference is that the X900 uses 3D effects and large icons better suited to fingers. The X610 shares this interface in common, but adds a GPS module, in exchange for dropping HSDPA. Instead users must rely on a quad-band GSM/EDGE connection for data. The DX900 appears to be related to the X900, but concentrates on its dual-SIM support, which lets users keep two different…
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Marketing: Christie's Sends Art Auction Alerts
Art auctioneers Christie's is using SMS to inform customers about soon to be released auction items of interest-such as masterpieces by Picasso and Van Gogh-and pricing updates prior to and during auctions. Clients can track specific lots that they are interested in, and receive email or text alerts before those items come up for auction, so that they can bid Founded by James Christie in 1766, Christie's is the world's first fine art auctioneer with global auction sales in 2007 that totaled $6.3 billion. It has 85 offices in 43 countries and 14 salerooms around the world including London, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Geneva, Milan, Amsterdam, Tel Aviv, Dubai and Hong Kong. "By providing text alerts, we are giving our customers instant access to auction and price…
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Usher to become Sony Ericsson Spokesman...
What do you do if your new album is slated to only sell 400,000 copies its first week when your last one sold 1.1 million its first week? Oh, and you have to compete with a hoard of songs by American Idol finalists on the singles chart? You soak ‘em, drown ‘em in your music. You check out what nutcase Mariah Carey did to promote her sales, and you find a way to go crazier. At least if you’re Usher, that’s what you do. Billboard.com announced yesterday Usher has inked a deal with Sony Ericsson to became the spokesman for the company’s new Walkman music phone to be released later this year. Translation: Usher will Sony Ericsson’s puppet in exchange for publicity. AT&T customers will have “access to exclusive content, contests to meet Usher on a video shoot and the chance…
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Feminised gadgets: An eye for the ladylike
According to The Telegraph, women spend more on gadgets than they do on shoes - on average, ?391 ($771) a year. That's a total of ?17 billion ($33.5 billion). Not only that, they're also driving the uptake of online video and web TV. "The Japanese have long grasped the female approach to gadgets, and made a tidy profit from it. When Asian telecoms firm DoCoMo commissioned a woman to design a mobile internet service, she asked women what they wanted from their phones. It proceeded to launch the most successful mobile phone service ever - i-mode - and a range of slick "clamshell" handsets that set world standards. The (usually male) designers in the West scoffed - "too small", they said; "too feminine". Who needs cameras on mobile…
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Gresso provide some white diamonds
A manufacturer of exclusive luxurious GSM handsets, Gresso once again managed to provide a feast for the eye with their latest Avantgarde White Diamonds collection. The ultra expensive cell phones are not for every pocket but they offer unsurpassed originality of design and materials. We have followed the announcement of the Gresso Luna and Sol mobiles last year, followed by the Black Diamonds collection and finally topped by the Luna and Sol Steel collection which was only recently unveiled in March 2008. The Russian-based maker Gresso has once again set the bar high with their latest exquisite Avantgarde White Diamonds Collection. The new collection includes two new mobiles called Gresso White Diamonds and Gresso Royal White Diamonds. The new White Diamonds Collection…
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Philips X800 and X-Connect are all-touch
Philips are obviously making a go at the high-end market, something they've been keeping away for quite some time. Today they've officially stepped up with two new handsets - the Philips X800 and the Philips Xenium X-Connect. The Philips X800 is a full touch-screen device with a large display, while the Philips Xenium X-Connect is a Windows Mobile-based device with an even bigger TFT display. Let's not waste any more time and delve into the specifics.
The Philips X800 is the first full-touch device by the China-based manufacturer. Images of the X800 already leaked a week ago but now it's the real deal - the device is officially announced. The Philips X800 is a tri-band GSM/GPRS handset and its highlight is the large 2.9-inch 262K color TFT display with touch-screen…
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Market Update:
Since there are several interesting phones coming out soon we decided to do a Market Update article just to let you know what to expect in the near future. There are some major releases that would turn many geeks wondering whether they should skip vacation this year and instead buy a new high-end phone. the Sony Ericsson G700 and Sony Ericsson G900. The two phones have identical dimensions and feature the same 2.4" 262K-color QVGA TFT touchscreen displays. Sony Ericsson G700 and G900 will be tri-band handsets with 3G capabilities. They will also sport stereo Bluetooth and 160MB of internal memory. The memory is further expandable through the built-in Memory Stick Micro card slot. Despite the Symbian UIQ, the user interface is very simplified, taking after the…
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