Friday, May 14, 2010
The Pocket PC is 10 Years Old! Happy Birthday!
We should say “happy late birthday”, because apparently we missed April 19th, the date when Microsoft introduced the Pocket PC in 2000. This huge announcement was made during a small gathering in Grand Central Station, New York City. This move was made to counter Palm’s products, at the time leading the PDA market.
On that important day, Microsoft launched a bunch of devices, together with its partners: the Casio EM500, the HP Jornada 545 & 548, the Symbol Technologies PPT2700, and the Compaq iPAQ. The last of them was possibly the most important Pocket PC and the hottest, with its slim design and support for Compact Flash or PCMCIA cards.
Inside the product you could find a “fast” ARM CPU and a very good display at the front. The device was pretty rare, so its price even reached $1,000 on eBay. The release of the Pocket PC was amazing, if you consider that the portable gadget was able to play games, show maps, it supported books, location services and relied on a great platform.
The iPAQ was considered the starting point for future devices and even future platforms, like Windows Mobile. Pocket PC redefined the idea of a mobile Office, with email and much needed business apps, plus games and media features. Well, the ancestor of smartphones is 10… what will we celebrate in 10 years?
[via Engadget]
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
Smallest USB finger vein reader
Finger veins are the new means of protecting your system from unauthorized access. It’s a step ahead of finger print scanning, and goes under the skin to detect vein patterns so as to match it with the pre-entered pattern and grant/deny you access accordingly.
The Sony FVA-UI USB finger vein scanner weighs just 33 grams and has dimensions of 70 x 14.5 x 58 mm.
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Monday, March 8, 2010
Rii Mini Wireless Keyboard
The wireless works with 2.4GHz wireless USB receiver and keeping it wirelessly 30 meters in range. It is powered by a built-in lithium-ion battery that gives you up to 700 hours of standby time. The Rii Mini Wireless keyboard is available at $92.
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Friday, February 12, 2010
New technology of Samsung’s 64GB Chip to be Used on 4G iPhone?
Samsung has recently announced a brand new memory chip, the 64GB moviNAND, that could make it to the next generation of iPhones. The chip measures 1.4mm in height and incorporates 16 30nm class 32GB MLC NAND chips and a controller.
The component was developed using 30 micron thick chips and advanced package technology. Through this new solution, Samsung’s proprietary embedded memory, moviNAND is available in 64GB, 32GB, 16GB, 8GB and 4GB versions.
We all know that Apple has doubled the storage space on the
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
Smallest Chip in the world 65nm Chip Has Impressive Feats: GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, WiFi and FM Radio
Texas Instruments has just announced its brand new WiLink 7.0 chipset today, just a couple of days ahead of the Mobile World Congress 2010 debut. This chip is very impressive, thanks to the many features it enables. This is the very first unit to receive FM radio and also transmit it, support WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n and Bluetooth 3.0.
The 65nm piece of technology supports WiFi Direct, or it will when this becomes a standard, although it’s unlikely, since Bluetooth 3.0 does the same thing. TI announced that this chip is 50% smaller than the rivals’ products and that it costs 30% less thanks to its build.
The image above shows the WiLink 7.0 chip and you can find out more info about it here. Expect the first devices using it to go live before the year end.
[via intomobile]
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