Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia says it has shipped the 1.5 billionth phone running its S40 operating system.
The first S40 device Nokia 7110 was released in 1999. A 21-year old Brazilian woman made the historic purchase 1.5 Billionth purchase in São Paulo.
Nokia claims its development over the years means that it now blurs the line between feature phones and smartphones. Phones like the Asha 303 can do smartphone type things like play Angry Birds, browse the web, and use social networks.
Notion Ink partners with Texas Instruments
21 January 2012, Bangalore
Notion Ink has partnered with Texas Instruments (TI) Incorporated for its next generation Adam II Tablets. Adam II will be using OMAP44xx processor along with other TI components like Wi-Link 7.0 and Phoenix Audio Power Amplifiers. Adam II will also leverage the power optimizations achieved using mature combination of TI’s integrated power-management IC.
Designed specifically for best Power Performance and Multi-tasking Experience, Adam II will be based on Google’s IceCream Sandwich Operating System.
The OMAP44xx platform’s smart multicore architecture pairs its main CPUs with several differentiated features including programmable accelerators, hardware composition engines and a dedicated ISP. Imagination Technologies’ super-fast PowerVR SGX5xx GPU and enhanced memory architecture add still more functionality while an OMAP-specific distributed composition architecture enables advanced image and video layering for crisp, HD visuals. These elements and more are the force behind the OMAP44xx processor’s ability to enable fast and fluid multitasking while maintaining ultra-low power consumption.
Adam II will release the world’s first Modular Based Software Architecture which will further expand the scope of application development and use nearly every single hardware feature in a “user customizable” application. Drag and drop features will enable easy application modification and Open Source Module will further expand the use cases and tablet deployment. Node operations like in Blender, and “Application Authoring Tools” are primarily aimed at non-programmers for composing applications, games and use-case flows in a drag-and-drop fashion, utilizing visual editors and behavior-based logic system.
This System will help consumers, professionals and students become productive as they will be able to use the tablet as a logic analyzer, medical imaging device, signal acquisition and processing, 3D modeling and multi-media.
For more information about TI OMAP processors, visit www.ti.com and follow this blog for Adam II.
HTC has unveiled the HTC Titan II, the company’s first Windows Phone to run on a 4G LTE network.
The HTC Titan II comes equipped with a 4.7-inch super LCD capacitive touchscreen display, and offers quick and easy access to the latest movies and TV shows via HTC Watch and on-the-go gaming with Xbox LIVE, the vendor said.
The phone also has a 16 megapixel camera with a wide-angle lens, autofocus, dual LED flash, red eye reduction, image stabilization, a backside-illuminated sensor and a physical camera button. The smartphone also enables 720p HD video recording.
Powered by Qualcomm’s 1.5 GHz Snapdragon S2 processor, HTC Titan II will feature the latest version of Windows Phone OS and will pack 1,730mAh lithium ion battery.
The new phone will be released exclusively on AT&T in the US in the coming months.
Intel has announced new range of Atom processors for smart-phones and tablets. The first phone powered by the new Medfield chips will be launched by Lenovo later this year.
As of now Intel has announced only one version of Medfield chip: the Intel Atom Z2460. The Z2460 features a single Atom core with a 512KB L2 cache, a PowerVR SGX 540 GPU and a dual-channel LPDDR2 memory interface.
Medfield’s system-on-chip design packs an X86-architecture central processing unit (CPU), RAM memory, storage and an Imagination Technologies-designed graphics processing unit all onto the same chip using the firm’s established 32 nanometre manufacturing technology.
The chip is smaller than a fingertip and is designed to balance processing power against energy use in order to maximise battery life.
Intel said a prototype unit, which it built itself, could deliver eight hours of 3G voice calls, six hours of 1080p video decoding or five hours of 3G internet browsing.
The first Medfield chipe powered phone Lenovo K800 will have a 4.5-inch (11.43-centimeter) touch screen and will be able to stream video to TV sets equipped with Intel’s Wireless Display technology.
Motorola also in the list of manufacturers to use Intel Medfield processors. Intel-powered Motorola devices are expected to enter the validation phase this summer.
Samsung said its new ES8000 55-inch “Super OLED” 3D smart TV contained a dual core processor and was therefore capable of multitasking. Samsung would release TVs of this form as large as 75 inches. OLED or organic light-emitting diode is replacing LCD as it offers brighter and thinner screens than LCDs, and uses less power, yet is cheaper to manufacture.
TV’s built-in cameras use face recognition to automatically sign users into their personal profiles. Then, users can issue voice commands like “channel 34″ or “guide” to control the TV. They can also use gesture controls for Web browsing, adjusting the volume and more.
The company also unveiled a $199 device called the InTouch, which converts regular TVs into smart TVs.
Samsung Mobile said it is confident it will become the world’s largest cellphone maker in 2012, ending Nokia’s 14-year reign in the mobile handset market. Samsung became the world’s No 1 smartphone maker in the third quarter of 2011 and is quickly building on its supremacy with sleek designs and a rich product line-up.
As per Korea Economic Daily, Samsung expects to sell 374 million handsets worldwide.
“Samsung’s ascendancy to the leadership position is the direct result of its broad and deep product portfolio,” Ramon Llamas, senior research analyst with IDC’s Mobile Phone Technology and Trends team, said in a statement in November. “Ever since the first Galaxy device launched last year, the company has aggressively expanded and refreshed its selection to include the latest innovations and most popular features.”
Samsung’s “ascendancy” has occurred as Nokia has watched its business decline. In 2010, the company sold 450 million handsets worldwide. But after announcing a precipitous shipment decline last year, the company said that it would no longer provide device sales forecasts. The move was designed to preserve its ailing stock price.