Reuters - Bangladesh’s mobile telephone operators
must deactivate more than one million unregistered SIM cards
from Sunday as deadline for registration ended last night,
telecoms watchdog officials said.
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TechWeb - InformationWeek - New technologies and pricing due by the end of 2008 have the potential to eliminate the problems of embedded wireless 3G notebook purchases, Gartner now suggests.
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Investor’s Business Daily - Marvell Technology shares jumped 23.3% Friday to a six-month high after the company late Thursday reported better-than-expected results, buoyed by strong sales of Wi-Fi chips and of 3G chips to a smart phone maker that appears to be Apple.
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USATODAY.com - The wireless industry added 23% fewer subscribers in the first quarter this year than it did last year. The overall growth rate - how fast the total is growing - dropped to 7.9% from 11.5%.
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Korean electronics giant Samsung today announced the launch of Soulb, a candy-bar version of its Soul (or Spirit of Ultra) handset. Covered in an elegant metallic body, softly brushed with a hairline pattern, the Soulb’s minimalistic design measures a mere 9.9mm thin.
The Soulb is equipped with features such as an embedded 3.0-megapixel camera with Power LED, office document viewer and editor, full-speed Internet browser and Bluetooth 2.0. Entertainment features such as a music player, video editor and recorder and FM radio with RDS are also integrated within Soulb. And 1GB of internal memory and microSD slot offers sufficient space for users to store music and pictures.
“Soulb is an important stepping stone for Samsung.” said Geesung Choi, President of Samsung’s Telecom Business. “Soulb proves the world that Samsung is not only a predominant leader in selective form factors, but that it continuously seeks after becoming the leader in all variety of form factors, including slider, clamshell and bar.”
The Soulb will be available in five colors: Soul Grey, Platinum Silver, Metallic Black, Soul Pink and Amethyst Violet and will first become available in Germany early June, with other countries and regions shortly after including Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia (China), Southwest Asia, Southeast Asia, and South America.
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NewsFactor - Six cable-TV operators that serve more than 82 percent of U.S. cable households have inked an agreement with Sony Electronics that will soon make it possible for cable subscribers to forego the use of stand-alone set-top boxes. The enabling Tru2way technology, based on Sun Microsystems’ Java runtime environment, enables interactive capabilities in TV sets, gaming consoles, portable media players, and even mobile phones.
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T-Mobile today announced the availability of the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic phone, offering an enhanced music experience with external music controls, stereo Bluetooth connectivity, wired stereo headsets, a USB cable for side-loading music and a memory card.
The Nokia 5310 XpressMusic offers up to 18 hours of music playback, with memory for up to 3,000 songs on an optional 4 GB microSD card. The handheld also comes preloaded with two exclusive new hits - one from rock sensation Panic! At The Disco and one from Phantom Planet. As an added bonus, the 5310 is loaded with Panic! At The Disco’s latest video, “That Green Gentleman,” plus an exclusive making-of video with a greeting from the band.
“Interest in music phones continues to grow as people look for devices that bring together everything they need to stay connected,” said Sajal Sahay, Director of Product Marketing, T-Mobile USA. “The new Nokia XpressMusic phone will appeal to many of our customers thanks to an easy user experience, sleek design and affordable price.”
Additional features of the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic include:
- T-Mobile myFaves-enabled
- Music player with dedicated external music controls
- MP3 and video ringtones
- Stereo Bluetooth connectivity
- 2.0-megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom
- Video capture and playback
- FM radio
- 1 GB microSD card included in box (support for up to 4 GB)
- Digital music player (supports AAC, eAAC+, MP3 and Windows Media Audio formats)
- 2-inch QVGA 240 x 320 px display with up to 16 million colors
- Stereo wired headset
- 3.5 mm headphone jack, compatible for use with most music player earphones
- Handsfree speaker
- Voice dialing, voice commands and voice recorder
- Tri-band 850 / 1800 / 1900 MHz GSM, GPRS, EDGE
- Dimensions: 1.76 x 4.09 x 0.39 inches, 3.0 ounces
Customers can enter a code from an in-box flyer at www.nokiausa.com/xpressmusic for a chance to win items including a music-themed download to use for their 5310 XpressMusic or to give to a friend, or a grand prize of a $100 Ticketmaster Gift Card to be used toward the purchase of two tickets to a concert of the winner’s choice.
The Nokia 5310 XpressMusic is available in three color combinations: black/red, black/purple and black/orange, and is available at select T-Mobile retail stores and online for $49.99 with a two-year contract.
- Nokia 5310 XpressMusic Specs
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Solar-powered Apple devices may be on the horizon, according to patent filings by the Cupertino-based company. The patent suggests that Apple may contemplate integrating a layer of solar cells underneath a device’s liquid crystal display, possibly used in iPhones, iPods or MacBooks.
Apple products, such as the iPhone, have screens that are exceptionally large for portable devices. According to the patent, the solar panel would be stacked behind the LCD display, absorbing light rays that pass through the display.
It won’t be the first time a company tried to integrate solar capabilities into a phone. Motorola received a patent, filed in 2001, for LCDs that allow more light to pass through than previous designs. Other approaches, said the Motorola patent, had resulted in small amounts of power being generated that only added incremental boosts to power-hungry cell phones.
Motorola said technical problems were noted by the limited area for solar-panel surfaces, the durability of the panels, and other issues. Traditionally, only six percent of light rays passed through due to the reflective nature of LCDs. Its new ways increased the pass-through to 75 percent.
Some small devices such as wristwatches or calculators are solar-powered, noted Michael Gartenberg, JupiterResearch analyst. The potential has only recently emerged for larger portable devices to be energized by the sun. One possibility, he suggested, was that solar power, at least in the short term, could be employed for short-term recharging or in other supplementary ways, rather than as the exclusive power source.
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Google today showed off its Android mobile phone software system, appearing to mimic Apple’s iPhone. But Google officials downplayed the notion that they will face off against the iPhone in the handset market.
The demonstration in San Francisco represented the most extensive public look so far at Android - an open-source platform under development by Google and a number of partners in the Open Handset Alliance.
The features included a way to unlock phones by drawing a specific shape on the touch screen instead of entering a password; bookmarks for favorite websites on the device’s home page; a “compass” tool that automatically roams with the phone while a user looks at photographic images of a city map; a magnifying tool to zoom in on Web content; and a mobile version of the video game “Pac Man.”
With Android, the company seeks to extend the browser to handheld devices, a capability currently limited to systems such as iPhone, said Vic Gundotra, Google engineering vice president. “We believe over time, the browser on mobile devices will be the entry point for many, many applications.”
Android doesn’t represent Google’s countermove against the iPhone, Gundotra argued. “I wouldn’t say that at all. I think the iPhone is just a world-class device with a great Web browser that delivers in many respects on one of Google’s key goals: To bring the Web to the mobile device,” Gundotra said. “We wish every mobile phone was as good as the iPhone.”
Google also hopes that programmers will create products that will run on Android. It expects to generate revenues via Android by extending the reach of the Internet to handheld phones. Google sells Internet-based ads, applications, appliances and license fees.
Several handset makers, including Samsung, HTC and LG, are among the 34 partners that Google has recruited to help launch Android. The project was first announced nearly seven months ago and is due to hit the market some time during the final six months of this year.
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AP - Google Inc. showed off its nearly completed mobile software system to about 3,000 computer programmers Wednesday, hoping to cultivate more services and advertising for people on the go.
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