MobileHandset DesignLine

Cypress introduces high-precision stylus support accurate to 1 mm for capacitive touchscreen mobile handset market

Wed, 3 Mar 2010 14:58:00 EST

Cypress Semiconductor has announced highly accurate passive stylus support for capacitive touchscreen technology.

Playing nice -- LBS and Hybrid location technologies

Tue, 8 Dec 2009 15:45:00 EST

The demand for Location-Based Services (LBS) has finally moved beyond the early-adopters with the rise in popularity of the iPhone. With consumer demand and the number of applications rising fast, there is a key prerequisite for their success: quick and accurate determination of a user's current location. Can it be done? Read and find out.

Adapting UI designs to multiple embedded/mobile device display needs

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 01:31:00 EST

The key elements and approaches needed to build user interfaces to meet the varying display requirements of mobile devices and any embedded system with a display and GUI.

Multihoming support for data communication over cellular networks

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 16:28:00 EST

A guide to interfacing an embedded system's application software with a second generation wireless communications protocol stack and how to configure and manage multi-homing support over GPRS modems using unreliable wireless channels.

Blackberry Storm has some good qualities, and some not so good

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST

The imaging and telephony functions were up to snuff. The UI left a little to be desired.

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Tue, 1 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST

Survey shows how users want more on mobiles

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:06:00 EST

Users of mobile computing and portable communications expect to access more multimedia content over time but are not prepared to pay much by way of a subscription for the right, according to a survey conducted by ABI Research on behalf of Mirics Semiconductor Ltd. (Fleet, Hampshire).

Renesas samples 45-nm ARM-based mobile processor

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:04:00 EST

Renesas Technology Europe has begun sampling the SH-Mobile APE4, a Cortex-A8 based processor targeted at mobile phone and mobile device implementations. The processor is implemented in a 45-nm process and can be operated at a clock frequency in excess of 1-GHz, Renesas said.

Presented By: NEC

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:04:00 EST

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Is CE going the Apple way? The case for Apple

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:03:00 EST

Apple is already a great consumer electronics company. But the big question is whether Apple has also secured its position as a leader of the consumer market in the future.

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Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:03:00 EST

iPhone heals, iPhone smells

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:44:00 EST

Apple's iPhone is being applied to more diverse applications that one could have imagined when it first came on the scene.

iPhone is 'Eye-phone' for surgeons in India

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:15:00 EST

Apple's iPhone has been found to be the best mobile handset when it comes to treating Retinopathy of Prematurity, an eye disease that can turn prematurely born babies irreversibly blind in days

Indian IT group offers mobile TV based on DVB-H on OMAP

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:43:00 EST

L&T Infotech has announced its DVB-H-based mobile TV solution based on the TI OMAP3530 reference platform.

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Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:43:00 EST

Seven predictions for handset OEMs

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:17:00 EST

Handset OEMs have recently launched a number of new phones.

Dell debuts Android phone in China, Brazil

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:34:00 EST

The ongoing mobile free-for-all took another interesting twist Friday as PC maker Dell announced a Google Android cellphone it will initially sell in China and Brazil, the same day smartphone chip maker Qualcomm showed an ARM-based netbook made by Lenovo.

HSPA mobile broadband growing fast, says GSMA

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:49:00 EST

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Intel debuts portable text-to-speech reader

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST

Intel's digital health group released the Intel Reader, a paperback-sized device that can take a picture of printed text with its 5 megapixel camera and convert it to speech for the dyslexic and visually impaired.

Presented By: NEC

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST

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How I survived a Zune HD, and even came to like it

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:35:00 EST

The Zune HD, Microsoft's latest answer to the popular Apple iPod, is a reasonable alternative to the iTouch player, but users need to be willing to climb what were for me some pretty steep and frustrating hurdles in setting up and figuring out how to use the Microsoft device.

VARTA Microbattery launches battery system integration for handheld electronic devices

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:28:00 EST

VARTA Microbattery GmbH has launched a new battery system integration service aimed at providing customized battery solutions for manufacturers of portable and handheld electronic devices for the industrial, medical and communications markets.

STMicroelectronics : MEMS gyroscopes fit tight spaces

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 05:14:00 EST

STMicroelectronics has added thirteen single- and two-axis gyroscopes to its motion-sensor portfolio.

Miniature solar panels come to mobile telephones

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 05:43:00 EST

Designer debuts OMAP boards for Android

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 03:00:00 EST

Contract design company Moto Development Group (San Francisco) has announced a family of three reference platforms for the Google Android operating system aimed at giving OEMs a leg up on hardware engineering based on Moto's enhancements to the Texas Instruments Beagle board.

Presented By: NEC

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 03:00:00 EST

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Qualcomm misses estimates, extends Samsung license

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 19:47:00 EST

Qualcomm reported quarterly sales and guidance that fell short of analyst expectations, but the company announced the extension of a license agreement with South Korea's Samsung Electronics reportedly worth more than $1.3 billion over 15 years.

Analysis: Reality check for Motorola

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 11:48:00 EST

Motorola Inc. co-CEO Sanjay Jha is counting almost singularly on smartphone sales to help the company recover in the mobile handset market but this is a risky strategy that could backfire and result in a nasty pricing war among equipment vendors.

Startup turns SD cards into game cartridges

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 11:00:00 EST

Startup FXI Technologies AS hopes to bring the Nintendo game cartridge into the cellphone era with a vengeance when it releases in early 2011 mobile games packaged with their own acceleration hardware on microSD cards.

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Tue, 3 Nov 2009 11:00:00 EST

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Semtech unveils low-power touchscreen controller with enhanced ESD protection

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 10:55:00 EST

Semtech Corp., has launched an ultra-low power 4-wire resistive touchscreen controller with enhanced ±15kV electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection.

Micron offers NAND-DRAM memory in multichip package

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 10:41:00 EST

Micron Technologies Inc. (Boise, Idaho) has introduced a multi-chip package (MCP) memory for smart phones, personal media players, and mobile Internet devices (MIDs) that includes a 4-Gbit NAND flash memory die and a 2-Gbit low-power DDR die.