Use SON To Unlock LTE Success
Ever since the industry’s early days when an army of switchboard operators manually cross-connected calls...
Ever since the industry’s early days when an army of switchboard operators manually cross-connected calls...
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Tiny Crystals Match Portable Frequency NeedsPractically every electronic device has some kind of crystal resonator that sets the frequency of operation. |
Practically every electronic device has some kind of crystal resonator that sets the frequency of operation. Thanks to some amazing technological and packaging developments, crystals from AVX Corp., Micro Crystal, and Statek Corp. are shrinking along with the circuits they trigger....
The LTC4425 is the latest in Linear Technology’s family of two-cell supercapacitor chargers for high peak power, data backup, and “dying gasp” needs in portable and data storage applications....
With a tip that boasts 1-mm accuracy, Cypress Semiconductor’s TrueTouch solution may transform the stylus market for the next generation of capacitive touchscreen phones. It provides additional levels of accuracy and control for text entry, keyboard applications, handwriting recognition, and other functions...
As the industry moves to 4G technologies, self-optimizing networks (SONs) will cut operating expenses while improving call quality and service....
For a look at the latest cell-phone technologies, check out some of the trends at last month’s Mobile World Congress and this month’s International CTIA Wireless 2010, such as new operating systems and solutions for the backhaul bottleneck....
As consumer demand for communications convergence and multimedia content consumption on ever-shrinking CE devices continues unabated, a new technology approach will be needed to meet functionality and cost goals. The software modem is a very real solution...
The worldwide market for touchscreen mobile devices will top 362.7 million units in 2010, which is a 96.8% increase over 2009’s total of 184.3 million units, according to Gartner Inc....
Trimble’s versatile and rugged Yuma tablet computer runs Microsoft Windows 7 Professional to bring full office capabilities to the field....
Shipments of consumer devices that can be powered or charged wirelessly will grow from 1.5 million in 2009 to almost 1 billion in 2019, as activity in the wireless power industry has increased significantly over the last two years and the market is poised for explosive growth. ...
The Symbian Foundation has unveiled the Symbian^3 platform, which is its first entirely open-source release following its transition to an open-source license earlier this month. The organization expects Symbian^3 to be feature complete by the end of the first quarter of 2010...
The Symbian Foundation has completed the open-source release of its source code for the Symbian platform, which the organization calls the world’s most widely used smart-phone platform....
DeviceVM’s Splashtop 2.0 provides instant access to a customizable launch dock that incorporates Web-based and local applications for netbooks. It allows consumers to rapidly access the Web and key software applications without booting their computer’s main operating system....
Navteq and dSpace are working together to create an integrated development platform for digital map-enhanced driver assistance systems, which have a growing influence on the reduction of carbon-dioxide emissions and increased driving safety....
The VirtualLogix VLX MH4.0 virtualization software adds increased functionality for mobile silicon vendors and OEMs to more quickly and easily design smart-phone functionality into lower-cost, single-core, ARM-based consumer phones....
Version 6.8 of Wind River’s VxWorks RTOS delivers improvements in multicore support and fundamental OS features, decreasing time-to-market while lowering costs and improving quality for device manufacturers, according to the company. ...
The triple-mode E398 modem from Huawei is compatible with LTE, UMTS, and GSM. Based on Qualcomm’s MDM9200 chipset, it enables users to surf with high speed provided by LTE technology while seamlessly switching to UMTS or GSM...
The licensing of the 2.6-GHz band, which the ITU calls the “3G extension band,” will be critical to unlocking the benefits of global-scale economies in the mobile broadband market, according to a report by Global View Partners in partnership with GSMA....
The Global Certification Forum is on schedule to release an LTE device certification scheme by the end of 2010. According to the group, that should be in time for a wave of commercial network launches also expected toward the end of the year....
T-Mobile USA has joined the Veriplace Cloud Location Platform Initiative, providing access to location infrastructure to more than 1000 third-party developers using the Veriplace Location platform from WaveMarket. ...
The FeedHenry Hosted Development Environment lets users build and run the same application across iPhone, Android, Symbian, and BlackBerry smart phones as well as across Web and social media sites such as Facebook and MySpace....
Since its January 21 launch, the new version of Nokia’s Ovi Maps with free walk and drive navigation has been downloaded more than 1.4 million times. It is a key part of Nokia’s strategy for the mobile maps, navigation, and location-based services markets....
A recent option allows the MT8221B BTS Master handheld basestation analyzer from Anritsu Co. to accurately and easily measure all defined LTE bandwidths and frequencies. According to the company, it’s the first handheld instrument to cover LTE end to end...
ASTRI has successfully verified its TD-LTE femto basestations using equipment provided by Rohde & Schwarz. ASTRI and R&S tested the HARQ and timing-advance functionality of the basestations under real-time conditions for the first time....
Engineers can use the National Instruments Measurement Suite for Mobile WiMAX software suite with modular RF instrumentation for the automated testing of Mobile WiMAX devices....
Smart operators can use femtocells to address their indoor coverage issues, but not before they can guarantee the security of their operation....
The SentryFlow 9150 Applied Services Processor (ASP) from Hifn is a single-chip solution for adding full security to any communications or networking application, such as wireless backhaul aggregation...
AirMagnet says its Enterprise 8.0 is the only Wi-Fi security package that protects against a recently discovered vulnerability in Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)...
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