SEMIACCURATE’S MOLES TOLD us the dirty little secret of Windows Phone 7, no one pays for it. Yes, to compete with Google’s price for Android, free, MS is charging the same price, just not directly.
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EARLIER TODAY WE had a chance encounter with a Norwegian company called CUPP Computing at the MWC in Barcelona and what they showed us and told us has the potential of changing how we use notebooks. The crazy thing is that it has taken them no less than six years to get to the point where they can openly talk about what they’ve developed and in many ways it’s so simple that we’re amazed that no-one else has thought about it already.
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IF YOU’VE EVER watched a piece of video, no matter the source or quality, on a handheld device, tablet or notebook, well heck, even on a desktop or TV in your home, you’ll have run into one problem that just about every LCD screen suffers from, poor contrast ratio. We bumped into a company at the MWC called Apical that might just be about to fix this problem for good, as they’ve worked out a very different way of improving the contrast ratio compared to current solutions.
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THE BIGGEST LOSER in the tie up between Microsoft and Nokia is none other than Intel. While they may try to put a brave face on the matter, the simple fact remains that their Atom line is now without a future.
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EARLIER TONIGHT LOCAL time we wasted about two hours of our life listening to Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop explain in some detail, although by no means in any specific terms, as to why Nokia decided to go down the Windows Phone 7 route. Pretty much every journalist at the Mobile World Congress has turned up, as everyone expected Nokia to at least show off its first Windows Phone 7 handset, but alas, it was not to be.
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IF NOKIA’S CURRENT stock price is anything to go by, its move to sign up for Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system doesn’t appear to have gone down well with its investors, as Nokia’s stock price has tanked almost 14 percent.
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RENESAS IS MOVING into a lot of market spaces and its mobile division has announced that it will be showing its new SH-Mobile APE5R ARM Cortex A9 SoC at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week. The SH-Mobile APE5R is the first Cortex A9 SoC to use Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR SGX MP multi-core graphics core and it’ll be interesting to see how powerful it is.
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YESTERDAY HP UNVIELED its first line-up of webOS devices after its purchase of Palm and it’s a pretty impressive range of products which consists of the TouchPad, the Pre3 and the Veer. The three devices might be based on the same OS and have some common features, but it’s clear that they all target quite different users and usage scenarios.
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OUT OF ALL OF ARM’s partners, Broadcom is the one that so far has been the least competitive in the smartphone market space in terms of its own SoC solutions, but this looks set to change with the introduction of the BCM28150 which is a dual core ARM Cortex A9 SoC with an integrated baseband chip as well as a HSPA+ modem. Another advantage of Broadcom’s solution is that the company has an entire reference platform based around its own components which means that partners can source almost an entire device from Broadcom.
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DELL HAS REFRESHED 24 computers in it’s Latitude, Precision, and Optiplex lines, adding Sandy Bridge CPUs, a bunch of new features, a new look, and a lot of subtleties. The only real question remaining is when they will ship, but that isn’t really in Dell’s hands now.
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MOBILE DATA IS a fast growing market space and despite many network providers being unable to keep up when it comes to deploying the latest technology on their networks, consumers and business users alike continue to crave faster connection speeds. As such, Renesas latest announcement should at least appease some of these users, as its new single chip triple-mode LTE modem platform offers fast download and upload speeds for both LTE and 3G connected devices.
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THERE’S NO SECRET that Nokia hasn’t been doing as well over the past couple of years as it has in the past and according to research by IDC the company has gone from 38.6 percent market share in Q4 2009 to a mere 28 percent in Q4 2010, that’s a 10.6 percent decline. At the same time Android has grown to become one of the most popular smartphone platforms alongside Apple’s iOS while Nokia’s Symbian platform has dwindled in popularity.
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TOSHIBA IS DOING something unusual with their laptops, branching out into far more niche-y product lines. They also showed off a bunch of glasses-free 3D TVs at CES as well, although these were far from impressive.
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SMARTPHONES COME IN all shapes and sizes, although Kyocera’s new Echo smartphone, that has just been announced as an exclusive device on Sprint offers a truly unique feature never before seen in the smartphone market, dual screens. The really neat trick here is that you can choose to use either one or two screens, something that could be very handy depending on how you use your smartphone.
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WE’RE STILL WAITING for the first retail devices to arrive powered by TI’s OMAP 4 series of SoC’s but that hasn’t stopped TI from unveiling details about its next generation OMAP 5 family of SoC’s which are set to be manufactured using a 28nm fabrication process and feature not only multi-core processors, but also multi-core graphics. The OMAP 5 series of SoC’s are based on ARMs Cortex A15 MPCore and the PowerVR SGX544-MPx graphics which should offer some very impressive overall performance in the mobile market space.
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