Great Powermat wireless charger demoed at MWC
PDA.pl has posted a cool video from the Mobile World Congress, showing a wireless charger called Powermat.
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Vodafone out with world’s cheapest handset
The Vodafone 150, shown at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, is priced at “below $15″ (£10) and is aimed at the third world. It is planned to be initially launched in India, Turkey and several other African countries including Lesotho, Kenya and Ghana. UN has predicted that mobile ownership will reach 5bn in 2010, with most growth in the developing world. So if you are looking to buy a mobile on the budget of a Pizza, Voda 150 is your answer. Head here on BBC to know more.. or head Here for the vid.
Samsung Wave announced – Super AMOLED, Bada, Bluetooth 3.0
Samsung just announced the first Bada phone at Mobile World Congress. The Wave, S8500, comes with an amazing 3.3″ Super AMOLED screen at a resolution of 800 x 480. But, the screen doesn’t support multitouch(!)? On top of Bada, runs a TouchWiz 3.0 UI. Other interesting features include Wifi 802.11n, Bluetooth 3.0, 1GHz processor, 5 megapixel camera, a-GPS, accelerometer, 2GB or 8GB internal storage with a possibility for a microSD card. The phone supports DivX, XviD, MP3 and WMV plus a virtual 5.1 surround sound and 720p recording and decoding.
The phone will be world wide available in April, but Samsung didn’t give us a price just yet. Check out the full specs and a hands-on video after the break.
Square payment dongle for iPhone demoed
Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, gives us a demo of his new startup called Square. Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder, is the man behind this company, so the startup doesn’t lack of tech superstars. Square is a credit card dongle that can be attached to an iPhone, and it will be able to charge money from your credit card. Check out the video after the break.
Chargerless mobile phone charging
An interesting idea by design(dot)fr, a phone battery that you can charge by twirling it around your finger. This will not of course give you a full charge, but enough to sen a text message, or make a quick call. To have enough juice to power a 2 minute call, would need about 130 turns around your finger.
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Transparent AMOLED display shown at CES
A very cool see through AMOLED display was today demoed at the CES in Las Vegas. This could be very cool in some new design mobile phones, or maybe the iSlate?
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How to improve mobile broadband reception for free
This is how we improve the reception in Finland ;) The guy is using a DNA(carrier here in Finland) branded Huawei mobile modem.
New input method demoed by a Japanese University
Tokyo University has developed a new input method that they call “vision-based Input Interface”. Seem’s quite cool, but don’t know if this will work for the public.. :)
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Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to all the readers of e’s PhoneBlog!
This is our first Christmas, and I can promise you that there will be many more to come :)
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Yann Tiersen on 6 iPhones
Minor technical problems in the beginning, but when it gets started it’s cool :)
Zii Trinity is Creative’s new mobile platform
Creative today announced their new mobile platform, called Zii Trinity. This is basically a ready made phone, running on Google’s Android, but which will be OEM customizable. This is much like the way their Zii Egg platform works. The operating system is customized with their own Plaszma UI.
The phone will have support for quad-band GSM, tri-band WCDMA, GPRS-, EDGE- and HSDPA-data networks. The screen will be a 3.1″ AMOLED capacitive touch screen with support for multi-touch. A 5MP autofocus camera, VGA-camera in the front for video calls, A-GPS, WLAN, Bluetooth and a microSD slot. Besides all of this, it will have a HDMI Mini video-out connection capable of 1080p, support for OpenGL ES graphics and support for Creative’s Fidelity X-Fi audio technologies.
Read more from the Zii Labs site here.
Nissans’s Scratch Shield Paint coming to phones
Nissan is about to license their Scratch Shield paint to the Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo. The Scratch Shield doesn’t scratch as easily as a normal paint would, and it is even able to heal minor scratches on its own. This is due to the paint itself being a little flexible, just like paint that isn’t dry after applying it. According to Nissans’s press release, this thing can heal 80% of minor scratches.
No word yet on what phones will get this, or if it will be licensed to other manufacturers.
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