The PUMA phone was on display at MWC this year in Barcelona and seems to tackle a few things differently to other mobile phones. First off, it’s back battery cover is covered in a solar panel that allows the phone to be charged by sun light. This allows you to leave the AC adapter at home and always have a chargeable device in your pocket. Secondly, the phone is small and aimed at those who enjoy sports.
The phone it’s self looks quite good. It’s quite a small device that houses a 2.8 inch touchscreen. The phone weighs 115g and measures 102mm x 56mm x 13mm. The small sized phone is specifically made that way too as the phone is aimed at being a “sports” phone that allows you to time, track and keep tabs on your sports activities. [Read more…]
Mitsubishi have demonstrated a new technology that they are creating that is capable of up-scaling HD content to 4K2K resolutions, or Ultra High-Def as it’s sometimes referred to as.
Google [GOOG] seem to be doing very well at the moment with the Android operating system and the phones it ships on. Figures revealed recently by the Google CEO, Eric Schmidt show that about 60,000 phones running Android are shipping every single day.
Mechanical Engineering students at Yale have managed to create a Spokeless Bicycle. The bike uses a wheel that has teeth around the inner side of the rim that mesh with gears attached to the bicycle. By offering a spokeless set of wheels the space can be used for other functions such as a generator to be attached to the bike.
The graph above represents three mobile phone OS’s in competition with each other. Back in December 2006, Microsoft [MSFT] appeared to be the king of U.S. smartphone market share with just short of 35% of the market which rose slightly after that but then started to fall down on a steel slope till in December 2009 it hit a low of 17% share with RIM taking the top spot and Apple [AAPL] being somewhere in between.
Leaked information on the Lenovo Thinkpad X201 series has been spotted recently that shows the new range of laptops are getting some upgrades to their looks as well as upgraded internals.
When charging gadgets such as phones, an AC adapter still continues to consume some power when the gadget finishes it’s charging cycle.
XPAL have created a new solar charger that is capable of reaching full charge in just four hours. What makes the XPAL solar charger more impressive is that the four hour charge can be achieved in indirect sunlight where as other chargers rely on direct sunlight to charge.
Wired have demonstrated what their tablet based reader will run like. The Wired Reader app aims to immerse the user in real magazine content that hasn’t been altered by HTML. The content is designed on the Adobe InDesign software and allows users to seamlessly scroll around a magazine on a dual-navigation system that lets you scroll both horizontally and vertically.
Sprint have announced on Twitter that the HTC Hero and Samsung Moment will both qualify for an Android 2.1 update.
Windows 7 users who are still using the RC version launched early last year should now be preparing to get the full version of Windows 7 on their system. Microsoft [MSFT] has recently started emailing Windows 7 RC users reminding them that starting March 1st 2010 their PC’s will start shutting down every two hours and also they point out that no work will be saved during shutdown.
