Will The iPhone 5 Have NFC Technology?

Rumour has it that the next generation iPhone will come with NFC technology. The news comes from Cult of Mac, who are claiming that Apple are seriously considering bringing the short range wireless technology to the handset.NFC, which stands for Near Field Communication, enables users to communicate and transfer data to different devices. It’s a popular technology in countries like Japan and South Korea and the new iPhone could be the handset to show off NFC in other parts of the world.An NFC ready...

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Sharp 3D Handsets Arriving in Japan

Sharp has unveiled two 3D handsets which they plan to release in Japan over the coming winter months. The Sharp Galapagos 003SH and 005SH will be available on the country’s Softbank network and users won’t need to wear 3D glasses in order to enjoy the effects.Both handsets have a 3.8 inch autostereoscopic display with a resolution of 800 x 480, run on Froyo, Android 2.2 and are powered by a 1GHz Snapdragon processor. The handsets may seem identical based on the specs we’ve seen so far, but both...

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Nokia E7 Coming in Time for Christmas?

The Nokia E7 was one of the phones revealed during Nokia World back in September and although the  Nokia N8 has stolen all the headlines since then, this exciting business device has never been far from our minds. The latest rumours suggest the E7 will be hitting stores from the 10th December, so we can all hope for one to appear in our Christmas stocking! This news doesn’t come from one of those elusive ‘anonymous sources’ either, as it was a tweet from a Nokia account that spilled the...

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OS Overhaul for BlackBerry Storm 3?

This is a rumour on top of a rumour, so bear with us! If RIM does go ahead and release a third version of the BlackBerry Storm model, it may introduce a new operating system at the same time, but this time it could be a QNX-based OS7.If you’re trying to place where you heard the name QNX recently, it’s in relation to that other highly anticipated BlackBerry device, the PlayBook tablet. Well, RIM and QNX could be planning a complete overhaul of the smartphone OS too, with the Storm 3 being...

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LG Optimus 7Q Lands on British Soil

The LG Optimus 7Q (or Quantum to our American friends) has landed in the UK, over a month after it was originally due to arrive. Despite the delay, LG’s second Windows Phone 7 handset is likely to receive a warm welcome from fans as it’s shaping up to be the first QWERTY slider to hit shelves this side of the Atlantic.The guys over at Pocket-Lint have managed to get hold of the 7Q and they’ve yet to say a bad word about it. The handset is a little smaller than the other Windows Phone 7 devices we’ve...

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Acer’s ‘Soul of a Tablet’ Smartphone Unveiled

If you didn’t say ‘wow!’ when you first set eyes on Acer’s freshly unveiled smartphone, you need to question your dedication to the mobile cause; as it’s one good-looking device. It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, as although their Liquid models aren’t commonplace, they’ve got plenty of style.Acer showed off the new smartphone at a press conference in New York yesterday and proclaimed the device to have ‘the soul of a tablet’, which sounds excellent, but we would have preferred they came...

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New Mobile Mountain Rescue Service – Just in Time for the Snow

The service allows hill walkers and mountaineers, who come into trouble in Scotland, to text 999 for help, handy for when there’s not enough signal to make a phone call but sufficient coverage to send a text. The Mountaineering Council of Scotland (MCofS) says that this service could save lives.The MCofS, which represents 10,500 climbers, mountaineers and hill walker’s is calling for anyone who is thinking of venturing into the Scottish mountains to register with the new text system. You can only...

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More Tegra 2 Excitement: LG Star Benchmarked and Motorola Olympus Out Soon?

Two snippets of Tegra 2 news have recently hit the wires and although neither pieces reveal a new device for us to get excited about, they do bring us updates on the two Tegra phones we know about; namely the LG Star and the Motorola Olympus. Appearing on an Android forum, the LG Star has apparently made it our into the world, as one member showed some pictures of the device and its OS before putting it through a benchmarking test. Aside from the 8 megapixel camera and LED Flash on the rear...

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LG Star Makes its Hollywood Debut…in Israel

The LG Star has appeared in front of the camera in Israel. The lucky folk over at GSM Israel managed to get their hands on the world’s first Tegra 2 handset and gave it a good showing off for the world to see, making us ever so slightly jealous in the process!The Star is really making itself known at the moment, as we last encountered a spy shot of it yesterday. This is the first time we get to see the 4 inch dual core beauty in action though, and it certainly looks like speed demons will be in...

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Acer Windows Phone 7 Handset On The Way

Acer boss, Gianfranco Lanci has confirmed that the company is working on a Windows Phone 7 mobile. He shared the news with All Things D, explaining that although they’ve been focusing on Android lately, a handset running on Microsoft’s revised operating system will be joining their smartphone line up soon.During the interview Lanci revealed “we saw a lot of limitations on Windows Mobile a few years ago and moved to Android because of the user experience. If we look at Windows Phone 7 today, I think...

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Power Your Phone By Talking To It

One of the biggest challenges in the mobile phone business is battery power. We need phones with longer lasting batteries but we want to keep things as green as possible. One solution that is being explored by Texas A&M University researchers is technology that would convert sound waves into energy. In other words, merely talking into the mobile would generate power to keep it running. What a cool idea!The science behind this relies on a material known as piezoelectrics. The name sounds complicated...

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HTC Aiming for First 3D Android Phone

HTC is working to bring the first Android smartphone featuring a full 3D screen by the end of 2011. The speculation comes after the Taiwanese firm recently put out a job advert for a display and camera design engineer who has “familiarity with 3D displays and imaging technologies.”The new handset wouldn’t be the first 3D effort we’ve seen from HTC, as they showed off 3D devices at Mobile World Congress in February. While the company was demonstrating the capabilities of their smartphone chips rather...

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Introduction of Free Mobile Phone Applications for Children with Special Needs by Fujitsu

Fujitsu has developed a new application that provides educational and social support for children with special needs, including the ones with learning disabilities and autism, and their parents. The new application comes with TIMER function helping with understanding time through visual graphics, PICTURE CARD, in helping with communication as well as scheduling, as well as HANDWRITING to show the correct order in which to write characters in Japanese through animation. Furthermore, the new software...

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Launch of EVERLEDS Lithium-ion Street Light by Panasonic Electric Works

Panasonic Electric Works and Sanyo Electric announced the launch of “EVERLEDS Lithium-ion Solar Street Light. The new light is a solar light combining solar cells and lithium-ion batteries. The new light comes with Sanyo’s HIT solar cell, a single crystal hybrid type of solar cells with the highest class conversion efficiency in the industry. In addition to this it has a thin “integrated solar cells and storage unit using Sanyo’s lithium-ion batteries. In the new product, electricity is produced...

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Release of Industrial Videoscope with World’s First Laser Light Source by Olympus

Olympus has announced the release of IPLEX YS industrial videoscope featuring air articulation and industry first laser light source. The new IPLEX YS features an extra long 30m insertion tube. Further to this, the new IPLEX YS industrial videoscope comes with high-tech optimization for long-tube operation, including gravity sensors to indicate orientation. The new IPLEX YS is a new addition to IPLEX Series industrial videoscopes for non-destructive inspection in a wide range of maintenance situations,...

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Introduction of New LIFEBOOK Tablet PC featuring 3-Way Input and 4-Point Multi-Touch technology by FUJITSU

Fujitsu PC Asia has announced the release of LIFEBOOK T580/TH550, a comprehensive tablet PC with sophisticated 3-way input of Touch, Write and Type, plus 4-point multi-touch technology along with powerful dual digitizer for enhanced writing offering users with flexibility of writing via bi-directional auto-rotating touch screen. The new table PC is powered by Intel® Core™ i3-380UM/i5-560UM/Pentium U5400 processor as well as the Intel® HM55 express chipset. The new LIFEBOOK T580/TH550 comes with...

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Introduction of New IPS LCD Modules for Medical Applications by HITACHI Displays

Hitachi Displays has developed a 21.3-inch high resolution 5 Mega pixels monochrome LCD modules and a 29.9-inch WQXGA color LCD module based on IPS-Pro technology, featuring an improved brightness, contrast and viewing angle. The monochrome LCD module uses high-transmission IPS, featuring a high resolution, resulting in a maximum brightness of 1200cd/m2 and a contrast ration of 1200:1. In addition to this, the use of 10-bit display drivers on the module plus 3 sub-pixels allows presentation of details...

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Release of New Vehicle Navigation System by Sanyo

With an aim to take over the global competition in car navigation system, Sanyo in cooperation with TomTom of Netherlands has introduced a new built-in car navigation system which will be installed on new Mazda5 form the beginning of 2011 in Europe. The new car navigation system comes with an integrated 5.8-inch touch screen plus Sanyo’s audio video solution and communication module. The new navigation system features TomTom’s navigation technology and its LIVE Services which includes HD Traffic™,...

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Development of a New 9-inch Quarter High Definition Color TFT LCD Module by Mitsubishi Electric

Mitsubishi Electric has announced the launch of a new 9-inch color TFT LCD module in quarter high definition (QHD) (960 x 540) format, horizontally and vertically. The QHD format provides an easy conversion from Full HD, making it ideal for such application as video monitoring for broadcasting. The new module is due for launch on December 1st, 2010. The new module features high response speed, super-wide viewing angles of 170-degree as well as high contrast of 1000: 1, requirement by broadcaster...

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Development of Cybernetic Human by AIST

It measure 151 cm and it weighs 39 kg, this latest version of HRP working humanoid robots by AIST, the HRP-4 has been developed based on high-density implementation technology, giving the new humanoid a total of 34 degrees of freedom, including 7 degrees of freedom for each arm to facilitate object handling. The new HRP-4 control system operates based on software platform OpenRTM-aist and Linux kernel with the RT-Preempt patch. One of many advantages of the platform is that many domestic and international...

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