Nokia and LG to effect phones with augmented actuality features

Both Nokia and LG are hunting at augmented actuality as a artefact to meliorate the individual participate on their smartphones.

Jo Harlow, Nokia’s Senior Vice President of smartphones, has fresh talked most the forthcoming of Symbian, locution that devices with Symbian^3 module feature multi-touch and enthusiastic graphics action – which we already knew.

More importantly is that Jo actress mentioned augmented actuality as digit of the things that could rattling compound the services Nokia offers (particularly the Ovi Maps experience), though she didn’t feature when we module impart to gaming Nokia handsets with augmented actuality features on the market.

Jo actress also hinted at the identify of smartphones Nokia module centre its efforts on: contact only, and contact + QWERTY (like the Nokia X10).

You crapper check an 8 instance recording with Jo actress beneath (via Nokia Conversations):

Unlike Nokia, LG is cosmos more limited most its augmented reality-related plans. The South Asiatic interact says that the LG LU2300 Android smartphone (unannounced until now) module feature a difference of built-in services, including an augmented actuality one.

The LG LU2300 should be launched in South peninsula in the ordinal lodge of 2010.

Augmented actuality is a profession that crapper exhibit real-time digital aggregation integrated with real-world contact finished a ambulatory phone’s camera.

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Microsoft’s possess Windows Phone 7 good haw be free in primeval 2011, prefabricated by Asus

A some chronicle instance at MWC 2010, when Microsoft undraped Windows Phone 7 Series, it demoed the infant OS on an Asus-made smartphone, locution that the amount won’t be commercially available.

However, it looks aforementioned a assorted (or maybe similar) Asus smartphone is in the making, and Microsoft plans to move it as “its possess phone”

The Street has it that, according to diminish Ashok Kumar (who was the prototypal to remuneration content most the Google Nexus One), Asus and Microsoft “have encountered some setbacks on the agency to manufacturing” the smartphone, which should be “the incoming Apple iPhone dolphin or Google Android annihilator.”

Reportedly, the Microsoft-Asus good capableness be launched in primeval 2011, apparently with Windows Phone 7 Series on board.

Microsoft-Windows-Phone-7-Series-Asus

But before Microsoft’s possess good comes discover (if ever), we’ll gaming individual another Windows Phone 7 Series handsets prefabricated by manufactures aforementioned HTC, Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson and Toshiba, which effect every declared their hold for the infant OS.

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iPhone OS-based Apple iPad (tablet) officially announced, prices move at $500 (video)

The long-awaited Apple Tablet has foregather been officially announced, and it’s not named the iTablet of iSlate: it’s the Apple iPad – a eventual and quite gratifying name.

Steve Jobs himself is presenting the Apple iPad as cosmos subverter and magical, locution that it’s meliorate than both a good and a laptop.

Based on iPhone 3.2 OS, the Apple iPad is rattling anorectic (an iPhone meets iMac difference of device) and has a caretaker on-screen realistic QWERTY keyboard. Any iPhone app crapper removed on it.

It crapper be used for scheme intake (“the best scheme participate you’ve ever had”), email, video, music, photos, games and ebooks.

The iPad features Google Maps, Safari browser, Youtube (in HD) and comes with the iTunes accumulation built-in.

Apparently, there’s no Flash hold at the instance (huh, that’s not cool).

The iPad comes with a infant app – iBook, featuring a realistic bookshelf. You crapper acquire and download ebooks direct on your iPad.

Interestingly: some iPad models module effect Wi-Fi only, patch others module effect Wi-Fi and 3G. In the US, Apple and AT&T module center digit accumulation plans to attain that 3G conjugation useful: a 250MB organisation at $14.99 per month, and an oceanic organisation at $29.99 per month.

All iPads module be “unlocked”. Deals with operators around the concern module be declared in June.

Apple iPad prices:

  • Apple iPad 16GB with Wi-Fi: $499
  • Apple iPad 32GB with Wi-Fi: $599
  • Apple iPad 64GB with Wi-Fi: $799
  • Apple iPad 16GB with Wi-Fi and 3G: $629
  • Apple iPad 32GB with Wi-Fi and 3G: $729
  • Apple iPad 64GB with Wi-Fi and 3G: $829

The Wi-Fi models module be acquirable in 60 chronicle (March), patch the Wi-Fi + 3G ones in 90 chronicle (April).

The iPad module effect accessories: a case, a cut and a keyboard.

Some Apple iPad specs:

  • 0.5 inches thin
  • 9.7 advancement multi-touch capacitive designate with 1024 x 768 element resolution
  • 1GHz Apple A4 chip
  • Accelerometer, compass
  • Bluetooth 2.1
  • Wi-Fi
  • Assisted GPS (only for the Wi-Fi + 3G model)
  • SIM bill tray (only for the Wi-Fi + 3G model)
  • 3.5-mm biaural headphone jack
  • 16GB, 32GB, 64GB interior memory
  • Standby: over 1 month

Video – Steve Jobs presenting the iPad – via ITN news:

If you’re wondering what’s the element / methodicalness difference between the Apple iPad with Wi-Fi and the Apple iPad with Wi-Fi and 3G, here’s the Wi-Fi exclusive version:

Apple iPad Wi-Fi

And the Wi-Fi + 3G version:

Apple iPad Wi-Fi 3G

Live photos from the move event, via Engadget:

Apple iPad

Apple iPad 2

Apple iPad 3

Apple iPad 4

Apple iPad 4 Steve Jobs

The iPad is today featured on Apple’s authorised website – where you crapper also download the iPhone 3.2 SDK for it.

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Samsung files for “Vita OS” stylemark – added ambulatory OS?

Samsung is still to exhibit us what its newly-announced Bada OS is every about. Until we gaming some Bada phones, though, we effect to conceive that Samsung could be activity added ambulatory OS named Vita OS – or maybe that’s foregather an determining conceive for Bada, we can’t participate for sure.

What we do participate is that Samsung filed for a “Samsung Vita OS” stylemark on Oct 22, 2009, with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) – digit mark after it filed for the Bada OS trademark.

Like the Bada OS trademark, the Vita OS digit is attendant to “mobile phones; ambulatory good functioning grouping code installed in ambulatory phones”, so it’s manifest that Samsung desired or ease wants to ingest this conceive for its ambulatory platform.

On Dec 23 tangency year, Samsung has also qualified samsungvita.com, though there’s invalid to gaming there at the moment.

Samsung Vita OS

Samsung Vita website

Launching digit assorted ambulatory OSes wouldn’t rattling attain sense, so the Vita conceive (vita effectuation chronicle in Italian, by the way) haw be foregather a counterbalance in scheme the Bada denotive would someways fail. How could it fail? Well, someone posted a gaming at SamsungHub, locution that this haw effect “something to do with a stylemark difficulty that could add the dweller stylemark of bada. There is a interact in FRG that could belongings the European and EU entrance of Samsung’s bada stylemark ‘cause it’s using an nearly aforementioned hunting stylemark in the aforementioned category.”

Said company’s website is this digit – but I can’t gaming some Bada references there.

We’ll alter more content most Samsung’s Vita OS as presently as infant germane content shows up.

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Windows Mobile 7 capableness be undraped at MWC 2010

Not daylong after LG addicted that Windows Mobile 7 is achievement this year, we’re today chance that Microsoft is actually primed to show its infant ambulatory OS as presently as Feb – at MWC 2010.

According to ZDNET, Robbie composer (President of Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division) has fresh mentioned WM7, locution that “things module be talked most at MWC.” And patch this doesn’t needs mean that a flooded composition is cod for this year’s edition of MWC (15 – 18 February), we should trusty move essential content to be undraped there.

Robbie composer went boost by locution that he saw Windows Mobile 7 and “played with it”, though he didn’t remuneration some content most the element used. He’s confident that the infant OS crapper “set the oppose nervy not in (just) an evolutionary way” and that it module entertainer not foregather business-focused users.

Reportedly, Microsoft intends to be “more engaged” with the OEMs that attain Windows phones from today on.

Windows-Mobile-7-MWC 2010

We don’t participate if we’ll impart to gaming some WM7 devices in February, but, either way, Microsoft should running up with its infant platform, because the rivalry module be stiff.

Via WMpoweruser

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Minitopz Desktop PC (This Is A PC)

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By Evan Ackerman

This is a PC. There’s no beatific conceive ground it’s a PC, but it’s a PC. Or if there IS a beatific conceive ground it’s a PC, there’s no beatific conceive ground it looks aforementioned this. From Artopz (”Technology In Design,” which is as exact a locution as I’ve ever seen) comes this program of trinity designer weird-ass concealment computers, apiece digit of which is also a lamp.

A lamp!

As far as I crapper avow (and I can’t rattling tell), every of the PC bits are stuffed into the metal base, with the designer weird-ass lamp on top. The lamp is someways adjoining to the PC in that it changes activity depending on what the methodicalness is doing, though it crapper also be bowed independently. The PC itself is definitely add midrange, with an Atom processor, 4 gigs of RAM, a DVD burner, and over 600 gigs of SSD storage. It comes with Windows 7 and no monitor, and you crapper acquire digit (after a heptad hebdomad wait) play at most $2500.

[ Artopz ] VIA [ Gizmag ]

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Nokia files infant status against Apple, says most of its devices break patents

The Nokia vs. Apple papers struggle rages on, and its ordinal chapter has foregather begun, thanks to Nokia.

If you remember, Nokia filed a meet against Apple at the add of October, claiming that the iPhone infringes 10 of its patents. Not daylong after that (on Dec 11), Apple fired backwards with a countersuit, locution that the municipality good concern infringes 13 of its patents.

And today Nokia is backwards with a infant status filed with the US International Trade Commission (ITC). The Suomi colossus claims that another 7 patents are infringed by Apple, “in virtually every of its ambulatory phones, portable penalization players, and computers.” Wow. So, if this is true, it effectuation that nearly every Apple creation (iPod, iMac etc) is using some Nokia know-how, right?

The patents that Nokia says Apple infringes are attendant to the individual interface, camera, sense and noesis direction technologies.

Nokia-Apple-ITC papers infringement

“Nokia has been the directive developer of some key technologies in diminutive electronic devices. This land is most protecting the results of much pioneering development. While our transactions in Algonquin is most Apple’s essay to free-ride on the backwards of Nokia assets in wireless standards, the ITC scheme filed today is most Apple’s upbringing of antiquity its activity on Nokia’s copyrighted innovation,” declares Apostle Melin, General Manager, Patent Licensing at Nokia.

Via Press release

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Nokia and Samsung equip jillions in Swype’s touchscreen typewriting technology

Swype, a Seattle-based interact that develops a infant artefact of typewriting on touchscreen displays, has secured a $5.6 meg inventiveness from Nokia and Samsung (via the companies’ subsidiaries Nokia Growth Partners and Samsung Ventures, respectively).

Reportedly, Swype allows users to indite “over 40 text per instance on touchscreen devices” by intelligently guessing the text you poverty to type, and the infant inventiveness module boost hold it meliorate its technology.

For the moment, exclusive digit good features Swype’s profession (Verizon’s Omnia II), but Swype plans to center it to individual another WM and Android smartphones incoming assemblage – and maybe to Nokia’s touchscreen handsets, too.

Swype Nokia Samsung

What’s engrossing is that Samsung has fresh declared a partnership with Nuance, added bourgeois of foreshadowing book communication software, locution that its phones (touchscreen ones included) module be shipped with the T9 and XT9 products.

Via MoCoNews

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How not to ingest a ambulatory phone: don’t Tweet “I do” before kissing the bride

I’m not trusty if this is endanger or kinda depressing (or both?), but code developer Dana Hanna used his ambulatory good during his wedding, foregather after locution “I do” to his forthcoming spouse and before kissing her, to update his relation position on Facebook, as substantially as to Tweet most him effort married.

So what next, marriages ended exclusive on Facebook?

Anyway, Dana impelled every this by locution it’s some difference of a jape and adding:

“I effect a aggregation of kinsfolk spasmodic around the belongings and we every ingest Facebook a aggregation to primed in touch. So when histrion and I were engaged, most of my kinsfolk create discover via Facebook because we updated our statuses. I astonied not exclusive my guests, but also histrion by actuation discover my good and bill on Facebook and Twitter from the plateau during discover wedding.”

Mobile Twitter wedding

There’s a recording with Dana bill on Twitter and Facebook and it crapper be watched below:

Via TechCrunch

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Speculations most who capableness acquire Nokia’s good manufacturing division

Shortly after we told you that Nokia’s Anssi Vanjoki doesn’t eliminate the existence of Nokia commerce its good division, today speculations most who capableness acquire it are play to appear.

Chinese creation Economic Daily News says that, in scheme Nokia does indeed poverty to delude its good making business, Foxconn Electronics (“the highest concern of electronics and methodicalness components worldwide” according to Wikipedia) haw be digit of the companies to acquire it.

Other possibleness buyers are Compal, Lite-On Technology, Elcoteq and Jabil.

foxconn logo

Speculations aside, it looks aforementioned Nokia is today retracting the text of Mr. Vanjoki by locution that:

“Our logistics and manufacturing meshwork is a rattling essential combative nonnegative for us, and a ordered conception of our business.”

and

“We effect no plans to add our activity model.”

Well, that sounds exclusive natural, presented that the example Anssi Vanjoki excerpt talks exclusive most some theoretic circumstance in some member future. And Nokia’s supplying and manufacturing  does remuneration them a handicap up against rivals in some cases, especially on the baritone to mid end, broad intensity handsets.

But I also wonder, ground would a Nokia exec advise much an aim at all. And it also category of reminds me of the full artefact summary hints most Nokia inbound the netbook market, started inform in the advise a assemblage ago.

So, as Nokia’s success starts to depend on code and services more and more, I also module not conception discover it effort discover of baritone edge manufacturing biz, a assemblage or digit downbound the road.

Via DigiTimes

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