Incremental Improvements Define The 2012 Mobile World Congress |
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Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief
The usual players all showed up at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona with lots of improved devices, but no real game-changing breakthroughs... |
Software Collaboration Lets TI DSPs Run Basestations
TI and VirtualLogix Inc. have collaborated to create the first control- and management-plane solution for the DSPs...
Redline Picks picoChip Modem For WiMAX Basestations
The complete and robust reference designs from picoChip deliver true IO/MIMO with uplink collaborative spatial multiplexing (CSM), a critical feature of mobile WiMAX...
Qualcomm Chipset Runs First Android Phone
The first Android-powered mobile phone, the T-Mobile G1 manufactured by HTC Corp., will use a chipset from Qualcomm Inc., a founding member of the Open Handset Alliance (OHA)....
200 Million UMDs To Ship In 2013
Shipments of ultra-mobile devices (UMDs), like notebooks and mobile Internet devices (MIDs), will exceed 200 million in 2013, according to ABI Research...
Motorola Unveils WiMAX USB Adapter
Motorola’s USBw 100 WiMAX USB adapter comes in three versions to connect to WiMAX networks in each of the three bands approved for use around the world—2.3, 2.5, and 3.5 GHz...
Samsung, Alereon Team Up For Wireless Camera Connectivity
Samsung Techwin and Alereon Inc. have teamed up to take those knotty wires out of digital camera connectivity...
MEMS-Based Microphones Boast High SNR
A new family of analog- and digital-output microphones from Analog Devices Inc. employs microelectromechanical-systems (MEMS) technology to deliver a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 61 dB A-weighted....
VIDEO: Latest products using ultra low-power displays from Qualcomm
Mobile Dev & Design makes a video visit Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, Inc., at CTIA to talk with Cheryl Goodman Schwarzman, senior marketing manager. Schwarzman shows the latest designs using Qualcomm's mirasol displays, which are based on a reflective technology called interferometric modulation (IMOD), harnessing ambient light and requiring no backlighting, thereby consuming significantly less power—just one milliwatt, according to Goodman....
GSM Association Acts To Green Up Basestation Power
Hoping to save up to 2.5 billion liters of diesel fuel a year and cut annual carbon emissions by up to 6.3 million metric tonnes, the GSM Association (GSMA) has launched the Green Power for Mobile program...
Three-Axis Compass IC Improves Digital Map Systems
The HMC5843 three-axis compass IC from Honeywell adds expanded direction awareness in consumer electronics by providing compass pointing and location features to be overlaid on GPS-enabled maps...
Radio Combining CCDF EVM
VIDEO: Opening the gates at CTIA
Lou Frenzel, Editor of the new Mobile Dev & Design, gives his report from CTIA show in San Francisco...
$5 Billion At Your Fingertips
ABI Research projects that touch screen technology for mobile phones, MIDs, UMPCs, PNDs, and other handheld devices will pull in $5 billion globally in 2009. This figure comes after a 91% increase in shipments in 2007 of mobile devices with touch screen functionality....
MID Industry To Grow 167% By 2013
According to ABI Research, the mobile Internet devices (MIDs) market encompassing “always-on” Web browsing, photography and video, navigation, games, social networking, and voice communications, is forecast to grow 167% over the next five years....
Technology Partnership Optimizes GPS Performance
Mobile positioning performance that exceeds standard Assisted-GPS in unsynchronized GSM and W-CDMA networks...
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