Mark Anderson's stated recently, "Except for gaming, it is GAME OVER for Microsoft in the consumer market. It's time to declare Microsoft a loser in phones." His words seem to be accurate, because if Microsoft doesn't score something huge soon, they would lose the consumer market forever. His argument is that the smartphone world is where all the action is for consumers, and that will extend to...
WiGig, which its alliance members hope is the next major wireless spec, finally completed its unified specification. The tech gets speeds up to 7Gbps (10 times faster than Wi-Fi) and manages to stay backwards-compatible with existing 802.11 specs.
It's getting harder and harder to pick a smartphone, with options like iPhone OS, WebOS, Android, and Windows Mobile making the choosing difficult. Life would be easier if you could pick two, and that's what virtualization giant VMware is working on, the ability to run dual OSes in one smartphone. The company already has Android/WinMo and other prototypes running, but phones featuring the tech now...
Yes. They do. Google now defines words with their very own Google Dictionary. Of course, their dictionary has been google-fied with a completely stripped layout that we love, the ability to star words, and a search feature for words in multiple languages.
Looks like Verizon has some explaining to do. If you don't already know this, Verizon has recently bumped their early termination fees to $350 on vaguely-defined "advanced devices" or the only phone you would ever want. The FCC's letter to Verizon's legal and external affairs department today is shown below.
The FCC has begun the process of establishing databases that will tell white space devices where existing television signals exist. White space devices are expected to deliver broadband services in the interference buffer zones between TV signals. They also seem to play a major part in the FCC's solution to the wireless spectrum crisis. Early in October, the FCC announced that there is a 'looming...
Induction chargers like Palm's Touchstone are great and all but they lack one significant feature long mastered by USB tethers: data transfer. That could soon change as Sony begins pushing out its first TransferJet LSI in hopes of obtaining broad industry adoption of this newest form of short-range wireless transmission technology. TransferJet, remember, allows for a theoretical 560Mbps...
Hey -- what's that? Oh right, it's the LG eXpo, the slider with a pico projector jammed inside. Among other things, the full QWERTY slider's packing a 1GHz CPU, a 3.2-inch touchscreen, a 5 megapixel camera, a microSD slot, and of course that removable Texas Instruments projector. The just-announced handset bears quite a strong resemblance to the Monaco we heard about way back in May...
