Some say simplicity, some say hidden behind the simplicity is a real power user device, whichever way you look at it, Windows Phone still motivates designers.
While this is another concept device, and is impossibly thin, there is one feature hat really boggles the mind. A holographic screen that is somehow air powered, the phone is also able to reflect a users mood via colour accents in the theme and its case. See if the video tickles your… tech fancy
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The annual edition of Mobile World Congress is set to kick off next week in Barcelona. Along with a host of different keynotes, hype has been building about a number of different device reveals taking place as well. A quick rundown of expectations and rumors involving the 2012 edition of MWC in Barcelona is the perfect way to prepare for the giant mobile communications gathering.
Apple will not be attending, as it has in past years, more inclined to do their own thing when it comes to keynotes and product reveals. MWC 2012 is certainly hype building for a number of different Apple products right now, yet the focus will be completely off the tech giant in Barcelona.
There are a number of different devices with rumoured or confirmed reveals in the plans next week. Even though the technology market has encompassed a spotlight for tablets in the past year or so, the main reveals at MWC are expected to be mostly phones, ranging from all different brands and models and Os’s.
Some of the most prominent rumors have involved windows phones. Nokia is expected to have a possible update reveal of their Windows Phone handsets.The company was just highlighted as the top manufacturer for Windows Phones and is sure to want to build off that success. Rumours though would suggest, a budget phone, Lumia 610, broadening Nokia’s reach into Asia / China, well any developing market. The other a world, international model of the Lumia 900.
Their also remains a possibility for Sony in releasing the first version of their own Windows Phone model. Rumors have grown rampant in the past week as leaked pictures of a possible Sony Windows Phone leaked. While a landscape QWERTY device may seem unusual for Windows Phone, Sony has to do something different to stand out from the crowd, and their own Android phones.
The other quiet achiever that we might see, will come from ZTE, rumoured to bring eight phones to MWC, mainly android, but one Windows Phone dubbed the “Mimosa”.
The new devices from ZTE will demonstrate how ZTE is without doubt among an elite group of handset providers as next generation telecommunications networks roll out globally.
Regionally ZTE’s market share is growing, and they seem to be on the way to being a recognisable OEM, like HTC. Nokia will be the first to present at the conference, followed closely by ZTE. Day one seems to have a Windows Phone flavour, showing how seriously OEM’s are taking the OS.
Certainly there remain plenty of other possibilities for reveals next week as well. LG is expected to possibly reveal some of their own LTE devices, while HTC is also expected to provide an inside view of their own updates. AT&T, as a carrier, has made news on its own because of plans to show off Digital life, it’s new home phone control system, which will allow mobile automation. There isn’t expected to be as heavy a reception for tablets, but Samsung is expected to show off their Galaxy Tab 2 device.
In the keynote department, probably, chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt will get the most attention as an industry leader, in a general sense. Of course, there are plenty of other speakers expected to take the podium next week, as well as a number of other devices that are going to be on display. What wins in the hype war will be interesting to see.
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Starting today, the Mobile World Conference starts in Barcelona, but there are already lot’s of tit bits filtering out. This though is a mind blower, this is pre announcement news, but it seems that Qualcomm are set to announce a 2.5 GHz mobile chipset. for mobile phones. So to put that into perspective, the latest top range netbooks are coming out with an Intel dual core N550 chipset running at 1.5 GHz. These probably wont hit the market till 2012,
Just 3 weeks ago, NVIDIA announced the Tegra 3, a 1.5 GHz, Quad-Core chipset for smart phones and tablets. Madness, right? Texas Instruments responded with their own quad-core chipset — except theirs clocked in at 2 Ghz.
Now it’s Qualcomm’s turn. Their rebuttal? 4 cores, each running at a theoretical maximum of 2.5 GHz
This sort of tech innovation really points to a better mobile experience in the near future, but in a way it still feels like overkill. What does it mean really, a slew of new handhelds, in a variety of sizes, Tablets galore, I’ll bet.
via MobileCrunch
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Yesterday, News Corporation released its first foray into tablet-exclusive news content, The Daily, which is available only on the iPad for a weekly subscription fee of US$0.99 per week, or US$39.99 per year.
What’s interesting about this announcement is that News Corporation has finally decided to embrace the future without reservation and without trying to protect its ageing legacy print media operations. The Daily will be publishing original content daily which will be updated live, just like a website, but all from within the app.
As I wrote last November on my personal blog, this is exactly the strategy that publishing companies should be adopting:
The success of centralised app-stores, pioneered by Apple with iOS, shows that consumers are willing to pay for applications and subscriptions. However, it seems clear to me that the publishers must do more than simply provide an abridged version of the free website – content on the iPad (and its emerging competitors, such as Samsung’s Galaxy Tab) must be dynamic, and most importantly, as full-featured as the print versions. These digital versions must not be designed with the mindset of protecting the print versions – publishers must be more amenable to how most people are consuming content these days. By treating digital consumers as first class citizens, the value proposition of digital subscriptions becomes an easy sell because subscribers will know they won’t be missing out on content by virtue of their choice of medium.
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The whole idea of destroying tech objects still remains a source of viral marketing. Will It Blend, have destroyed everything from a iPhone to the dreaded VuVuZela, and it has become a formula for creating Buzz about a product. EZ Grill have done something along the same lines, it’s not pretty!
Mindless destruction seems to be universally satisfying, seems you don’t have to break the budget to grill things!
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One of the major phone manufacturers who has been noticeably silent in the race for new and improved smart phones, has been Korean electronics giant LG Corp. The company that created such “dumb” phone hits as the Chocolate, EnV, EnV2, and Voyager, has only ever produced one true smart phone in the US: Verizon’s LG Ally, which featured Android 2.1. Now, it appears LG would like to expand in the smart phone market, as they have announced this week that they plan to release smart phones with dual core processors as early as the 4th quarter of 2010. These phones will be a part of the company’s “Optimus” line of devices.
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According to Telstra Australia, in a press release today, social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, are affecting the way kids are applying themselves to their studies, detrimentally.
More than half of Australian parents with children using online social networking services like Facebook and Twitter say the services are distracting them from their studies* according to the latest Cyber-safety Research Report commissioned by Telstra.
The survey of parents with children aged 10 to 17 years was conducted by Newspoll and shows the problem is more pronounced with teenagers aged between 14 and 17 years, with 65 per cent of parents reporting social networking is frequently or occasionally distracting their children from their homework
So it’s distracting, but if you follow though and read the whole release, you find a lot more alarming information, that relates to your kids safety online,
This may be inflammatory, but is Telstra taking a pro internet filter stance? Yes there’s all sorts of stuff out there, and you should try to be aware of what your kids are doing online, unless though, you become incredibly tech savvy, you really cannot monitor all interactions through your ISP. There are a whole heap of videos tacked onto the press release, that seem to be scare mongering.
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I’ve been playing with a few things the last couple of days, that may seem a bit futile to lot’s of people. Users over at XDA Developers have successfully ported Windows 95 to the HTC HD2, it has wow and WTF value at the same time. It’s a little bit of fun, but bears testament to the fact that the latest breed of mobile devices, even if through an emulator, are capable of much more than just being a phone.
This is much more than running remote desktop on the HD2…
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