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Monthly Archives: December 2011
The ZTE way of capitalizing on the LTE opportunity
Recommeded prelimary reading: – Mobile Internet (Aug’11) [Aug 26, 2011] with a lot of additions to the original July 19, 2010 content on the following subjects: – LTE and LTE Advanced — HSPA Evolved (parallel to LTE and LTE Advanced) … Continue reading
Posted in Geopolitics, Mobile Internet
Tagged 3.9G, 4G, Base Band Unit, BBU, Cell C, China, China Mobile, CSL, Distributed BBU+RRU, E-Plus, E-Plus Group, FDD LTE, Hi3G, HSPA+, Huawei, Hutchison, Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., Investor AB, KPN, LTE, Ncell, Radio Access Network, RAN, Remote Radio Unit, RRU, SDR, Software Defined Radio, TD-LTE, TDD LTE, Uni-RAN, ZTE
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The leading ClearBlack display technology from Nokia
For better brightness, contrast and outdoor visibility In-Plane Switching (IPS) type LCD and AMOLED display panels are typically used. Nokia made a significant enhancement of both. First in September 14, 2010 with the announcement of its ClearBlack technology “for improved … Continue reading
Posted in Reflectivity/Sunlight readability
Tagged Windows Phone 7, Apple, iPad, Nokia, Symbian, Samsung, MeeGo, sunlight readable screens, IPS, In-Plane Switching, N9, Nokia 700, Nokia 701, Apple iPhone 4, Samsung Galaxy S II, brightness, nits, Super AMOLED, Lumia, Lumia 800, AMOLED, ClearBlack, Super AMOLED Plus, Nokia C6-01, Nokia E7, Nokia N9, Lumia 710, Nokia 603, iPhone 4, HTC Mozart, Super LCD, HTC Titan, HTC Radar, CBD, ClearBlack Display, Peter Nisula, Osku Sahlsten, luminance, ALS, Ambient Light Sensor, polarizer, outdoor visibility, contrast
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Best practice industrial and user experience design – Nokia and Microsoft
Major updates: Marko Ahtisaari: smartphone evolution is only just beginning [The Guardian, Jan 31, 2012] … “There’s a point of view about design that all innovation in the interaction with the phone has been done,” Ahtisaari says. “Nothing could be … Continue reading
Posted in design, smartphones, tablets
Tagged Albert Shum, Axel Meyer, cloud client, design, IDEA, IDSA, Industrial Designers Society of America, International Design Excellence Awards, Kinect, live tiles, Lumia, Lumia 800, Marko Ahtisaari, MeeGo, Metro, Metro design language, Metro UI, Microsoft, N9, Nokia, Oscar, Steve Kaneko, UI, User Experience, user interface, UX, UX design pattern, Windows 8, Windows Live, Windows Phone, Windows Phone 7, Xbox
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New Mobile and Communications Group (MCG) at Intel
Finally a single organizational structure to push the next year 32nm and 22nm SoC products, like the 32nm Medfield (see also an up to date collection about Medfield inside). Updates: Intel to adopt TI, Broadcom wireless chips for Medfield, Clover … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud client SW platforms, Cloud Computing strategy, Mobile Internet, smartphones, SoC, tablets
Tagged 14 nanometers, 14nm, 22nm, 32nm, Android, Android 3.2, Hermann Eul, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich, ICS, Intel, Intel MCG, Intel Mobile and Communications Group, Maloney, MCG, Medfield, Michael Bell, Mobile and Communications Group (MCG), Paul Otellini, Sean Maloney
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World’s lowest cost, US$40-50 Android smartphones — sub-$100 retail — are enabled by Spreadtrum
Updates: Spreadtrum selects CSR connectivity and Location for Smartphone reference designs [CSR press release, Feb 27, 2012] CSR plc (LSE: CSR; NASDAQ: CSRE) today announced that Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRD), a Chinese fabless semiconductor company, has chosen CSR plc … Continue reading
Posted in smartphones, SoC
Tagged 2.5G, 3G, 40nm, Android, China Mobile, cloud client, CMMB, Exynos, Exynos 4210, feature phones, HSDPA, HSPA+, HSUPA, Huawei, Lenovo, LTE, Marvell, MobilePeak, Samsung, smartphones, SoC, Spreadtrum, TD-HSDPA, TD-HSPA, TD-HSUPA, TD-LTE, TD-SCDMA, Telegent Systems, WCDMA, ZTE
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Kindle Fire with its $200 price pushing everybody up, down or out of the Android tablet market
Suggested preliminary reading: $199 Kindle Fire: Android 2.3 with specific UI layer and cloud services [Sept 29 – Nov 13, 2011] Update (when neither up or down the market is an option for the company): Acer Likely to Withdraw From … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud client SW platforms, tablets
Tagged Acer, Amazon, AMD, AMOLED, Android, Android 4.0, Apple, ARM (architecture), Asus, Asustek, cloud client, Dell, Flexible AMOLED, flexible display, Hewlett-Packard, HP, Ice Cream Sandwich, ICS, Intel, iPad, Kindle Fire, Lenovo, MacBook Air, media tablets, Microsoft, NVIDIA, NVIDIA Tegra, Quanta, Samsung, Samsung Mobile Display, tablet market, tablet PC, Tablets, Tegra, Tegra 2, Tegra 3, white-box vendors, Windows 8, Wistron, x86
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One terabit of data in a fingertip-size NAND flash memory package from Intel and Micron joint venture
Flash Memory: The New Technology Driver [Sept 3, 2010] Excerpts from a presentation by Ed Doller–Micron’s Chief Architect for Memory Systems–at the 2010 Flash Memory Summit. In it, he explains why Flash memory is the new technology driver in consumer … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 128Gb, 20nm, 25nm, 3D NAND, 64Gb, flash memory, IM Flash Singapore, IM Flash Technologies, Intel, Lexar, Micron, Micron Technology, NAND flash, NAND flash memory, one terabit, ONFI 3.0
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The killing power of bloated web communications
Case #1: Will Windows 8 be a complete failure? 1. IDC Predictions 2012: System Infrastructure Software, Dec 15, 2011 2. A recruing twitter [Dec 2, 2011] for that event by an IDC person: #IDC SIS 2012 Prediction 10: Windows 8 … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Deutsche Bank Securities, HTML5, IDC, Lumia, Mary Jo Foley, Nokia, Pacific Crest, Silverlight, Windows 8, WPF
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