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Two-piece Mobile Phone Cuts Radiation
News The Greenphone e688 splits the conventional mobile phone into two but maintains connectivity wirelessly via Bluetooth. A Hong Kong-based company is planning to release a mobile phone that could put radio frequency farther from the user.
[May 16, 2002, 9:41]
ARM Aims To Put Dual-core Chips In Mobiles
News More and more we are seeing the symmetric multiprocessing approach," said John Rayfield, vice president of technical marketing at ARM last April, when the idea of putting two processors into a mobile phone was emerging.
[October 21, 2003, 10:50]
Platinum Luxury Phones Have 'no Competition'
News If you take an ordinary mobile phone, once you get beyond half a million keypresses, you will start to find some problems," he said. One is from the mobile phone industry. The worst thing to do would be for the mobile phone manufacturer to sit down...
[March 22, 2002, 12:09]
Palm Reinvents The PDA
News It will be the first Palm to have Bluetooth built in, making it possible to connect to the Internet through a Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone. We're hoping this will be especially useful in Europe," said Bradley, "where people seem to like the idea...
[September 19, 2002, 16:01]
3G: What's The Payoff?
News That really is an opportunity for mobile phone operators because they then get a piece of the retail action instead of just providing the channel," says analyst Opie. Despite the huge money-making opportunities presented by third-generation (3G...
[August 23, 2000, 14:56]
Ballmer Bets Big On Microsoft's Mobile Future
News Do you see the need for Microsoft to have a more purely consumer-oriented phone? Ballmer sees Microsoft's unique role as bridging the consumer and business markets to provide a more compelling "experience" for phone buyers.
[November 1, 2007, 11:08]
Wireless Alliance Touts 'magic Touch' RFID Technology
News Alternatively, it could help a user to use their mobile phone as an e-wallet. People, they say, could use it to establish a link between two handheld devices in order to swap music -- or they could just wave their NFC phone at a smart film poster...
[March 18, 2004, 12:05]
'World's Smallest' RFID Reader Supports A Magic Touch
News Alternatively, it could help a user to use their mobile phone as an e-wallet. They say that people could use NFC to establish a link between two handheld devices in order to swap music -- or they could just wave their NFC phone at a smart film...
[May 26, 2004, 14:45]
Intel's Concept PC Apes Apple
News Also at the developer event on Wednesday, Intel executive vice-president Sean Maloney touted a number of the company's mobile computer and mobile phone chip efforts. Intel also talked about its plans for Hermon -- its latest effort to crack the...
[March 3, 2005, 10:40]
Is The Age Of The Password Over?
News There's plenty of technology that could augment or replace the password, from smart cards to password-generating tokens to mobile phone-based systems. Another system sends one-time passwords via text message to a customer's registered mobile phone.
[February 23, 2005, 15:10]
Police Use Text Messages To Tackle Crime
News The Birmingham force will be asking for two mobile phone numbers from security or management staff in each company, so that instant warnings can be sent out from the control room about shoplifters in the area or credit card fraudsters.
[September 11, 2001, 17:19]
Hands-free Mobiles 'increase Normal Radiation'
News magazine, suggests that using a hands-free mobile phone set could be more harmful than holding a phone directly next to the ear, contrary to popular belief. to test mobile phone "shields" also aimed at reducing radiation.
[April 4, 2000, 16:02]
Lord Of The Ring-Tones
Blog A visible trend driving growth of Smart Phone applications is the emergence of ubiquitous and modernised access. Principally, that the main reason Smart Phones need to support a wide choice of development environments is that consumers require...
[August 4, 2007, 20:15]
3G Concept Devices: Breathtaking But Two Years Off
News This included a gaming phone, which would allow a user to compete wirelessly against a friend, and an in-car navigation system with a full colour map. Panasonic was also demonstrating how a 3G phone would be able to display a full Internet page on...
[March 23, 2001, 16:23]
Cisco Outlines Next Web Revolution
News In Bangladesh the [Grameen Bank] lent as little as $5 to women to buy a mobile phone. They would rent out the time on the phone, which was enough to live, pay the mortgage and was a vital piece of technology in the village.
[September 19, 2007, 9:41]
Cable And Wire-less
Blog I had been on the phone earlier to a Very Large Chip Company, talking to the CTO about a big raft of announcements that'll be out of non-disclosure shortly - tasty stuff across the board that'll keep me busy for a while - when my mobile rang.
[January 31, 2008, 10:15]
Tiny Chip Turns Phones Into Cameras
News According to Strum, the TC5600 operates on an electrical power of 35mW, one-third of what a traditional camera chip consumes in a mobile phone. Each unit would cost handset makers between $10 (£6.70) and $15 to incorporate into a mobile phone, he...
[June 20, 2002, 11:57]
Nuggets: Motorola Mobile Good But Not Best
News So having a mobile phone that doubles up as a radio and a Web browser may be a bit distracting.right? Motorola, a fine brand of gadgets for sure, seems to have gotten a tad confused with the V.2288 which, by the company's own admission, is a "fun...
[July 11, 2000, 14:49]
Soundbug Turns Flat Surfaces Into Speakers
News Olympia also demonstrated a mobile phone version of Soundbug, that will be aimed at business workers. A high-end conference phone version is also being developed that would mean everyone seated around a table would be able to hear the phone...
[March 14, 2002, 12:25]
Mobile Industry Looks Ahead To 4G
News The mobile phone (or whichever device is being used) could be programmed to automatically and seamlessly switch to whichever network was the most appropriate, saving the bill payer a lot of money. It will have even bigger problems on the smaller...
[May 13, 2003, 15:56]
