GPS tracking chip for mobile

• A new chip designed for portable wireless devices combines the coverage of two satellite-based navigation services to offer a location tracking time of less than one second.
• The u-blox 5 chip, which Switzerland's U-blox plans to unveil at the 3GSM World Congress event in Barcelona next month.
• The technology has a tracking sensitivity of -160 dBm, which enables indoor coverage.
• With a power consumption of less than 50 mW, the u-blox 5 chip allows GPS-enabled mobile phones and other wireless devices to operate in difficult indoor environments, such as shopping malls and train stations.
• In addition to its satellite-based navigation chip, U-blox will use the 3GSM event to show several other new products, including AssistNow Offline, which stores data in the GPS receiver for up to two weeks.
  
• The technology allows the receiver to compute a position instantly without having to connect to a mobile network at startup to download the data, as is the case with typical GPS services

Source : http://news.yahoo.com

Motorola going to use 3G chips of Texas Instruments

• Motorola said it would develop advanced mobile phones using chips from Texas Instruments Inc. .
• Motorola said it would use customized chips from TI for upcoming third-generation (3G) high-speed wireless handsets that would be available as early as 2008.
• Motorola said TI would also supply chips for handsets based on WiMax, an emerging high-speed wireless technology, and these handsets would also be available in 2008.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com

Broadcom Unveils advanced Bluetooth Headsets

• Broadcom on Monday unveiled two Bluetooth chipsets and software that the company says can improve the sound and reduce the size of wireless headsets, while consuming less battery power.
• The BCM2047 and BCM2044 chips can better resist interference from other devices, and blocking by the human body that results in degraded radio performance.
• The BCM2047 includes an ARM AudioDE data engine, which is a high-performance digital signal processor optimized for Broadcom's new SmartAudio software.
• The BCM2044 delivers the same range and power management capabilities for low-cost headsets.
• SmartAudio is a sound and voice enhancement technology that improves audio quality in noisy environments by reducing background noise by 95%

Source:http://news.yahoo.com

Playing MP3 with Motorola ROKR E6

ROKR E6 provides a very good balance of entertainment and business needs. This phone is very good for music. I guess after getting this mobile in your hand, you never feel to carry one extra device only to listen music.

• This phone supports all popular format of sound file such as AAC, AAC+, DRM, MIDI, MP3, RA, WAV, WMA etc. You can also set any of these sound files as ringtones.
• This is available with built-in FM- radio. You can save your favorite stations, but radio programs cannot be recorded.
• The MOTOROKR E6 has an internal memory of 8MB and supports SD cards up to 2GB. This mobile also support the most inexpensive flash media, after CompactFlash. Keep in mind that all your microSD and miniSD cards will still work on the E6 with an adaptor. So, You can save fairly large collection of musics.
• The E6 houses a larger than average 1000mAh battery.
• You can enjoy the music through any headset - even wireless Bluetooth stereo headphones.
• You have option to connect to www.motomusic.com.cn, where you can discover, buy, download, enjoy, and share the very latest in music.

Updates available for Palm mobile

• Smartphone maker palm improved two Treo devices that run the Palm operating system by adding business-friendly features such as push e-mail for Microsoft Exchange users.
• Palm's adding the kind of features business users want to the Palm OS-based Treo 680 and 700p. They'll now provide automatic wireless delivery of e-mail, calendar, and contact information directly from Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SP2 or Exchange 2007.
• Palm in the past provided the "push" service, the main attribute of Research In Motion's BlackBerry, only through third-party providers, and it required middleware.

Source : http://news.yahoo.com

World's Densest Memory Chip

• In a breakthrough that suggests the continuing validity of Moore's Law, researchers have developed a memory chip as small as a human blood cell that sets a record for integration density in a man-made object. The memory circuit is a "milestone in manufacturing," the scientists
• Researchers say they've created the world's densest memory circuit, about 100 times denser than today's standard memory unit and as small as a human white blood cell.
• Although mass production could still be a decade away and the chip contains only a modest capacity of 160,000 bits of information, the achievement points to the possible exponential growth of computing power.
• The memory circuit is a "milestone in manufacturing," said the team led by chemistry professor James Heath of the California Institute of Technology and J. Fraser Stoddart, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, in announcing their achievement in the journal Nature.
• "It's the sort of device that Intel would contemplate making in the year 2020," said Heath, who is the Gilloon Professor at Caltech. "But at the moment it furthers our goal of learning how to manufacture functional electronic circuitry at molecular dimensions."

Source : http://www.technewsworld.com

Sumsung released 1.8-inch Drives with 60 GB capacity

• Samsung announced its first 1.8-inch drive with a 60GB capacity on Thursday as a part of the company's new line of N-series of HDDs.
• Measuring 5-millimeters tall and with a super-slim form factor, Samsung's N-series will come in 20-, 30-, 40-, and 60 GB capacities and are available in both internal and external HDD types.
• According to Samsung the new N-series drives will be ideal for use in small portable media centers and mobile devices.

Source : http://www.extremetech.com

Voice Controlled Mobile Directory Search from Tellme

• TellMe has launched a useful new application for American mobile phone users that allows you to retrieve information on businesses using just your voice.
• TellMe is a beta Java application that can be installed on handsets, allowing users to find full details of businesses anywhere in the US.
• When using the TellMe application, users simply hold a button on their handset and say the desired city and state followed by a business name or category.
• Once a business has been located, users are presented with options to call the business's number, get a map of its location, or get directions to the location by either giving your current location as a starting point or starting from the address of one of your previous searches.

Source : http://www.mobileburn.com

Cell phone transmitters pose no danger for health

• A four-year long study of cellular telephone base stations has found their transmissions pose no risk to human health, the carriers funding the study said Wednesday.
• The test involved generating signals identical to those output by WCDMA (wideband code division multiple access) base stations. WCDMA is the most common 3G cell phone technology and is already in use in Japan and many other countries.
• The signals were up to 10 times more powerful than the maximum limit allowed in Japan and even so they had no harmful effects on cell samples put in their way, the companies reported on Wednesday.

Source : http://news.yahoo.com

Email with BlackBerry 8703e

• The most notable feture in BlackBerry 8703e is its user friendly e-mail features.
• The RIM BlackBerry 8703e is EV-DO capable and supports up to 10 e-mail accounts with real-time delivery.
• It works with your personal e-mail, your business account (via a BlackBerry Enterprise Server), or a custom BlackBerry e-mail address.
• While editing it keeps your content in fairly compact form.
• Only problem is the 35 individual keys are bit slick and feel plasticky.

But this is the best choice if e-mail is one of your mail priorities.