Pocket PCs

Cisco has announced a tablet Cius on OS Android.

Cius has a touch screen with WSVGA 7-inch, weighs 520 grammes – considerably less than the iPad. The device is aimed at business users: pre-installed business applications from Cisco, such as Cisco Quad, Cisco Show and Share, Cisco WebEx, Cisco Presence, Cisco TelePresence . With the help of a telephone docking station device can be integrated into the corporate communication system.

It is planned to release an SDK for developers of specialized applications.

Cius has two chambers: the front panel – the camera for video conferencing with quality HD (720p), and the camera on the rear panel with a resolution 5Mp to shoot VGA-quality video.

Integrated WLAN 802.11a/b/g/n, 3G module (standard not yet confirmed), Bluetooth 3.0, and in the future we plan to add support networks 4G.

Built-in battery should provide up to 8 hours operation.

Information about the price yet. Cisco plans to offer the test devices for corporate customers in the third quarter of this year and begin deliveries in the first quarter of next year.

Microsoft has announced the installation of battery technology, which allows you to not pay attention to polarity. The patented technology of the contacts is called InstaLoad and is now available to original equipment manufacturers.

Microsoft Solution contains no electronic components, only mechanical. And, thus, does not consume battery power and requires no additional investments in the manufacturing of electronic circuits. Today, Microsoft announced support for standards CR123, AA, AAA, C or D – as batteries and accumulators. But support for other standards can also be achieved without large investments.

Connector for battery technology InstaLoad contains on each side of both positive and negative contacts.

Connecting shown below. Light gray contact – yes, black – negative. If any battery installation tension comes to the device in the correct polarity.

Companies such as Duracell and AE Light already confirmed their participation in the production InstaLoad.

If the characteristics of HTC HD3, which appeared on a number of sites, correspond to reality, this device promises to be the “packed” communicator.
HTC HD3
HTC HD3

Characteristics:

* 4.5 “AMOLED multi-touch screen with a resolution of 1280 × 800
* 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor
* 1080p HD video playback via an HDMI output and 720p HD video recording
* 8-megapixel camera with dual LED flash
* Dimensions: 115 mm x 65 mm x 10 mm (thickness), weight 160 g.
* WiFi, Bluetooth, 3G, 4G
* 1 GB of RAM, 1 GB ROM
* Battery 1800 mAh

Company Brother Industries has developed a portable power generators working from vibration, which can replace the batteries AA and AAA.

The device is an induction generator of electric current and capacitor of 500 uF. The output can be obtained from 10 to 180 mW. That is enough, for example, for remote control equipment. That is, for his TV remote control you just need to shake things up, and replacement batteries can be forgotten forever.

Brother Industries plans to demonstrate new batteries – generators at the upcoming Techno-frontier 2010, which will be held in Tokyo on 21-23 July. Will showcase remote control TV, remote control lighting and LED flashlight.

The company Access has released an application of character recognition for the Palm OS Graffiti Android.

Graffiti for Android v1.02 free of charge available in the Android Market. The application allows you to enter characters with special flourishes as a pen and finger.

License system Graffity owned by Access after a trial in 2006. According to the court, Palm (which is part of the company Access c 2005) paid Xerox 22,5 million dollars for the use of patents Xerox, including a system of writing called Unistrokes. This system was patented by Xerox in 1997.

Devices in the new OS should appear in the first half of 2011, but already available for viewing the first real picture interface.

Previously only available interface concept of the new operating system, as well as video.

Presumably, smartphones based on Symbian ^ 4 will produce a Nokia, and other well-known brands such as Samsung and Sony Ericsson.

The interface is more suited for touch control.

It is noteworthy that in the first half of next year’s update interface also expects operating system Android.

American mobile operator AT & T today announced the immediate release of the phone Sharp FX in the side slider form factor. Made for Sharp by PCD poketofon features and touch screen and sliding QWERTY-keyboard. Sharp FX executed with the same design of the popular communicator Sidekick, also available under the brand name Sharp and aimed at the active exchange of text messages and work in social networks.

In general, simple FX devays:

* MP3 player
* Camera 2 megapixel
* Bluetooth 2.1
* Service AT & T: Address Book, Online Locker, Social Net, Navigator, Mobile TV.

Sharp FX goes on sale July 25 and costs $ 100 for two-year contract.

In addition, the company at a press conference in Japan announced its intention to release by the end of 2010, two e-books the size of the touch screen 5,5 and 10,8 inches. Unlike most e-book, the data will be used devaysa LCD-displays, but not e-ink panel. In the future, you can also play media files and use the Internet.

Both tablet using data format XMDF (ever-eXtending Mobile Document Format), whereby a single document can combine text, audio and video.

HP and MobileBeat report on their plans to release devices based on webOS and flexible displays.

According to technical director Phil McKinney, the new technology of flexible displays, such as screens with electronic ink, ideal for the manufacture of devices on the OS from Palm.

Date of issuance of new devices is not yet known.

Apparently, the first device will Wristwatches for equipping the U.S. Army. The device, code-named Dick Tracy will display a map and other necessary military information. The use of durable flexible display and flexible materials that are resistant to external influences, will greatly improve reliability. Low energy consumption should allow the device to feed from the solar panels located on the surface.

HP promises to provide a prototype of the device during the year.

Perhaps in the not too distant future we will be able to see the resurrection webOS from Palm’s devices from HP. After purchasing this spring, Palm, HP has publicly declared the imminent release of the Tablet PCs and printers using webOS.

More than a third of those surveyed mobile users (39%) confirmed that use geolocation means. A study by Webroot, found that more than half of them (55%) are concerned about possible threats to their security and dissemination of personal information.

Nearly half (45%) suggest that the thieves can get information about when they leave their homes.

The popularity of applications that use the binding to the location, growing, and cyber criminals can gain access to personal data of users via WEB, says Jeff Horne, general manager, Webroot, a conducting this study. Customers are attracted through new opportunities for social networking and forget about the fact that information about their location can be extremely important.

Here are some details:

27% of young people (18 to 29 years) daily exchange of information with friends about their location.

Women are more concerned about the safety of their housing-related geolokatsionnymi services than men: 49% to 32%.

Adult users (over 40) are much more concerned about these risks than younger (18-39 years).

Laboratory Leksand (brand LEXAND), a leading developer of satellite navigators, introduced two new ultra-car navigator series Touch – Lexand Si-512 Pro with a screen 4.3 “and Lexand Si-515 Pro with a screen 5″ (resolution in both cases is 272h480 points). Both new products are based on the latest GPS-platform SiRF Atlas IV. Another key feature of the new products is the availability of slots for the SIM-card that makes it possible to connect to the GSM-network without using a mobile phone.

Thus, the navigator can download over mobile channels (GPRS) information about the difficulties of road (traffic jams). Also, using navigators series Si-51h Pro can make and receive voice calls (using them as a cell phone) to work with SMS-messaging and using mobile Internet.

Lexand Si-512 Pro and Si-515 Pro – the first models of the brand, equipped with a slot for SIM-cards and supporting work in networks GSM / GPRS. Navigators can load from the Internet information about traffic jams on the roads (in the case, if this function is implemented in accordance with established navigation package). Also Lexand Si-512 Pro and Si-515 Pro is fully ready for use as a mobile phone: they can be used to make and receive voice calls, and work with SMS-messaging.

Both new items Lexand supplied microphone, speaker and jack for wired headsets, ie, navigators can be used for calls as regular mobile phones. Also with the navigators can surfing the web via the browser Internet Explorer.

Lexand Si-512 Pro and Si-515 Pro is one of the few in the Russian market Autonavigators with SIM-card (connected PND), based on the new hardware platform SiRF Atlas IV, which includes a central processor with 500 MHz (microarchitecture ARM11) and 64-channel GPS-receiver SiRF GRF3i +. Supported Technology SiRF Instant Fix II, which allows, in addition to caching data found satellites to predict their location for up to three days in advance. Thus, new Autonavigators may start in the “warm” mode during the three days since the last inclusion. For comparison: the earlier “warm start” could produce no later than six hours.

The thickness of the shell Lexand Si-512 Pro and Si-515 Pro – only 13 mm. At present, both models are among the most thin and compact (in their form factors) GPS-navigators with the ability to install SIM-card. Back of the device finished plastic soft-touch, which does not slip in his hands and almost no scratches, and front panels are framed by traditional navigators Lexand framework “under the metal.

Software Platform WinCE 6.0 supplemented with proprietary interface with comfortable large icons and virtual controls. They are easy to use even while driving, not being distracted from the road. Interface adapted for managing your fingers, though the supplied Lexand Si-512 Pro and the Si-515 Pro also includes a plastic stylus. Each of the new devices can be supplied with one of three navigation package: “Navitel Navigator”, “SitiGID.

Like all navigators Lexand Si-512 Pro and Si-515 Pro can man up any number of navigation software (compatible with WinCE), and then switch between them from the system menu. New items may also act as a media player: they support the work with the formats MP3, AVI, WMV, MPEG, JPEG, BMP, etc. In addition, navigators are able to play flash-videos and display text documents. For storage of content provided 128 MB of internal memory and slot for flash cards microSD / microSDHC capacity to 16 GB. Lithium-Ion battery capacity 1450 mAh provides LEXAND Si-512 Pro and Si-515 Pro to four hours of battery life with a minimum level of illumination and up to four hours – at a maximum.

Sales Lexand Si-512 Pro and Lexand Si-515 Pro will begin in late July of this year. The suggested retail price models of 8990 and 9,990 rubles, respectively.