Bose enters single-ear Bluetooth headset market with expected swagger and price tag
"It's not every day you see a company release a Bluetooth headset " is something we'd like to say, but alas, it was not meant to be. Bose is the latest, launching what it claims is its first single-ear Bluetooth headset
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, aural-implant, Blue Tooth, Bose, bt head set, earpiece, price, proprietary, release, technology
The iPhone gets third party apps for third party hardware, but the proprietary SDKs make the future sad
Leave it to Apple to make the process of building software to work with new third party iPhone hardware sound like some Kafkaesque nightmare. Here's the basic gist of it: Apple, just like always, has to approve any third party hardware that plugs into one of its iOS devices over the 30-pin dock connector. What's new is that before only the first party manufacturer could build software that works with that hardware, but now Apple is allowing that manufacturer to act as a gatekeeper for third party apps that would interoperate with its hardware.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: akai, app-developers, apps, device, entry, kafkaesque, line 6, make-the-future, means-exciting, MIDI, proprietary, thirdpartydevelopers
Motorola sues Huawei and several former employees for stealing wireless trade secrets
Man, if you thought the lawsuit action in the mobile space was crazy before, well, you ain't seen nothing yet -- Motorola just sued Huawei and over a dozen former employees for conspiring to steal its wireless trade secrets and other proprietary technology over a period of years starting in 2001.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: airport, china, huaweiu8220, lawsuitsettlement, motorola, phones, proprietary, Relationship, secrets, tradesecrets, wireless, wireless-trade
Bluetooth 4.0 devices to make the scene later this year
We were glad to see Bluetooth low energy actually added to the Bluetooth 4.0 spec, but of course the question remained: when are we going to get our hands on it? By Q4 this year, apparently -- at least according to the Bluetooth SIG.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: battery, bluetooth, bluetooth low energy, bluetooth sig, gadgets, lowenergy, orchestra, proprietary, russian, smaller-devices, spec-introduces, technology, trans, year
Garmin-Asus taking wraps off first Android gear, M10 WinMo phone at MWC
It might be happening a little later than they'd originally hoped , but Garmin -- through its partnership in Garmin-Asus -- should finally be unveiling some Android-based phones pretty shortly in an effort to kickstart the firm's weak showing thus far in the dog-eat-dog handset world. The VP of the mobile device business over at ASUS is talking up the joint venture's 2010 plans this week, saying that it'll show its first Android product at MWC next month with the hope of striking a pretty even balance between Android and WinMo shipments in the long term (no mention of the G60's proprietary platform, interestingly). What's more, they want to push a solid million units this year, and they'll be looking to reach that goal by building somewhere between 4 and 5 models -- at least one of which is likely destined for T-Mobile USA , as far as we can tell
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: asus, balance, device, device-business, entry, m10, mwc, proprietary, showing-the-m10, windows mobile 6.5.3, windows-mobile, windowsmobile, windowsmobile6.5.3, wraps
Open Android Alliance Aims To Resurrect Modding | Android Phone Fans
Unless you've been hiding under a rock you've heard about Google's formal complaint of the Android modding scene. The problem is that mod creators - with.