New Chips Aimed At Faster Mobile Phones
News This week Texas Instruments and Analog Devices will announce new chips with advanced capabilities aimed at phones for higher data rate 2.5G and 3G cellular networks. Cellular phones generally consist of three different subsystems: a radio frequency...
[February 19, 2001, 11:47]
Anvsoft 3GP Photo Slideshow
Downloads 3GP Photo Slideshow allows you to create entertaining 3GP MP4 format photo slideshows playable on 3GP compatible cellular phones. With 3GP Photo Slideshow, you can quickly and easily produce professional-looking photo slideshow and share the slide...
[February 10, 2006, 13:16]
AMD Unveils Low-power Flash Memory
News AMD is pitching a new low-power memory chip for cellular phones and personal digital assistants. Flash memory is used to store data in cellular phones, PDAs and networking equipment. The memory is especially suitable for phones and PDAs because it...
[August 7, 2002, 15:56]
Cell Phone Tracker Finds Big-name Investors
News Chip giant Intel and cellular equipment maker Ericsson have invested in an upstart that builds technology for tracking cellular phones. CPS software allows network operators to track the location of cellular phones to a 50-meter area, using a GSM...
[February 9, 2001, 16:24]
Airlines Ban Mobile Phones -- But Why?
News These in-flight telephones also operate on cellular technology -- using a single aeroplane antenna to which the onboard phones are typically wired. In prohibiting airborne use in 1991, the FCC was mainly concerned about cell phones' potential to...
[October 6, 1999, 9:18]
Intel's Latest Memory Chip Flashes By
News Intel on Wednesday introduced a new flash memory chip aimed at helping manufacturers pump up cellular phones for new uses such as capturing a photo or viewing a video. Flash is used widely in cellular phones and PDAs (personal digital assistants...
[April 17, 2002, 15:38]
The Ghost That Haunts Wi-Fi
Talkback It will be interesting to see how well the dual-mode cellular/WLAN phones promised (eg Motorola's) for 2004 work, although i don't expect "mainstream" ones until 2005. I can think of one possible killer app for VoWLAN though - the ability to use...
[October 16, 2003, 8:04]
A Year Ago: Airlines Ban Mobile Phones, But Why?
News In prohibiting airborne use in 1991, the FCC was mainly concerned about cell phones' potential to interfere with ground-to-ground cellular transmission. One likely reason that no problems were found: cellular phones don't operate on any of the...
[October 6, 2000, 7:02]
RF-Trends In Mobile Communication
White Papers Advanced Smart Cellular Phones are, already today, extended with Cordless, Navigation, Broadcasting and other services, e.g. This paper gives an overview on the trends and challenges for radio front ends in cellular and non cellular Systems-in...
[November 29, 2005, 0:00]
Blueeee
Downloads Most instant messaging programs on mobile phones use either the SMS or the Internet service provided by a cellular network to connect to the respective messaging services, and this costs money, because data and messages are routed through the...
[September 25, 2007, 12:46]
V-Phone
Downloads Additional features of v-Phone allow our customers calling regular and cellular phones worldwide at great rates, sending SMS messages to cellular phones, a built-in answering machine with Web access, and many other exciting features.v-Phone is...
[January 22, 2006, 20:46]
Intel And Analog Devices Ring In New DSP
News Those devices are, in simpler terms, cellular phones, said Hans Geyer, vice president and general manager of Intel's Cellular Communications Division. Called Micro Signal Architecture, the technology aims to deliver high-performance signal...
[December 6, 2000, 12:55]
IBM Gives Silicon Germanium Chips A Speed Boost
News Silicon germanium, or SiGe, technology can boost performance and reduce the power consumption of chips that go into cellular phones and other wireless devices. The new chips will enable longer battery life and increased functionality in cellular...
[August 5, 2005, 10:30]
CES: Motorola Cranks Out New Power Play
News A variety of models will be made available to fit most popular cellular phones. While Motorola brings its cellular phone expertise to the table, Freeplay offers a wide range of devices, including radios and flashlights that are powered using solar...
[January 8, 2002, 14:13]
Alcatel And Nokia Team Up On Business Mobility
News This function will soon be enhanced to support both cellular and Wi-Fi networks with dual-mode phones, according to Nokia. Intellisync Call Connect for Alcatel — which is part of Nokia's larger Intellisync Mobile Suite — uses the cellular network...
[September 21, 2006, 16:50]
Wireless War: Who's Gonna Win?
News Indeed, worldwide sales of cellular phones have dwarfed PC sales in recent years. However, some wireless software developers are skeptical that Qualcomm's push will supersede similar efforts by Sun to get its Java technology into cellular phones.
[February 5, 2001, 8:35]
BT Bundles Smartphone With Home Broadband
News Outside Wi-Fi zones, the phones have to run on a GPRS cellular network, rather than 3G, which means browsing will be much slower. While BT ToGo phones can make use of Wi-Fi at home or via BT hotspots for mobile VoIP, there is no ability for calls...
[May 9, 2008, 9:11]
Toshiba To Launch Bluetooth Card
News The introduction of the first PC Card Bluetooth radios is the first milestone in a journey SIG expects will result in widespread adoption of the technology in notebooks, handhelds, cellular phones and other devices.
[September 14, 2000, 9:23]
Mobile Wi-Fi Battery Issues 'solved'
News Tagg also suggested that, depending on how they are used, the latest Nokia phones can often offer "better life out of the Wi-Fi [radio] than the cellular", because Wi-Fi actually uses less power than cellular connectivity.
[March 12, 2007, 15:58]
Location-based Services Expected To Rocket
News CSR has developed a system that augments GPS to improve the availability of location data by using the cellular timing measurements phones take during normal operation. But adding cellular triangulation tech to a GPS-enabled phone could give it a...
[February 12, 2008, 10:29]
