Archive for the ‘Mobile Phone’ Category
LG Iron Man Mobile Phone in 18-Karat Gold
Lots of LG related news today! Here’s another one: LG Electronics unveiled its limited edition, 18-karat gold Iron Man slider mobile phone on April 2 during the CTIA Wireless conference in Las Vegas. Unfortunately, the Iron Man phone will not be sold in stores and will be used as part of Paramount Pictures’ promotion campaign for the Marvel Studios film Iron Man, which will be in theaters on May 2. I’m definitely going to watch Iron Man! You can, however, try to win yourself a LG Iron Man phone (just 100 will be made) that’s reportedly worth about $2000 by visiting www.insidethesuit.com. At the time of this writing, this site is under construction and simply says, “Coming Soon…”
Cal-Comp to Use Qualcomm’s mirasol Display for Mobile Phones
On April 1, 2008, during the CTIA Wireless conference that was held in Las Vegas, Qualcomm MEMS Technologies (QMT), a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm announced that Cal-Comp Electronics and Communications, a subsidiary of Taiwan’s Kinpo Electronics Group, has chosen Qualcomm’s mirasol displays for its latest mobile phones targeted for emerging markets.
NTT DoCoMo N702is: Physics and Electronics
This is old news, but still quite fascinating. Back in 2006 around August, NTT Docomo started selling its N702is mobile phone. The mobile phone has a motion sensor, or in Apple’s nomenclature, an accelerometer.
CTIA Wireless: OLED Bust
I had plans to attend CTIA Wireless 2008 but could not. For those of you who are not aware, CTIA Wireless is the wireless conference in the US where about 1000 companies and about 40,000 folks congregate. This year it was held at the Las Vegas Convention Center from April 1 to 3. A colleague graciously offered to look for anything of interest during the show so I asked him to look for OLED displays on mobile phones. There have been much interest in OLED displays, but I have my doubts as it is very expensive and very difficult to manufacture OLED displays and the benefits are not as big as everyone thinks. Many have touted that OLED displays consume less power than equivalently-sized LCDs with the same content, but I have not seen any technical papers revealing this to be true. On the contrary, I believe OLED displays consume much more power than LCDs.
Panasonic’s Secret Weapon: Thin, Lightweight, Low-voltage Compact Plasma Display
Update 2008.04.04
Engadget is reporting the press release by AbleComm regarding Panasonic’s compact plasma display was completely false, unfortunately. Copied here is PRNewswire’s retraction.
PRNewswire — April 3, 2008
We are advised by AbleComm, Inc. that journalists and other readers should disregard the news release, Panasonic To Put Plasma Video Displays in Cell Phones, issued earlier today over PR Newswire, as the entire news release is completely false.
Original Post Regarding the Fake Press Release
On April 3, 2008, Panasonic revealed an industry changing announcement about a 10-year secret development work on a thin, lightweight, low-voltage, compact plasma display. The plasma display can be integrated into mobile phones and other small devices that up until now have been almost exclusively served by LCD technology.
