Yamaha InfoSound prototype talks to your phone as you zone out during TV commercials
Of all the things that the ol' boob tube does well, directing viewers to advertiser's websites is not one of them.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: advertising, choose-between, Double, high-bandwidth, infosound, jiffy, khz, prototype, saturday, smartphone, television, tvs, yamaha-info
LG Optimus 2X: first dual-core smartphone launches with Android, 4-inch display, 1080p video recording
That's right, it's official. Needless to say, that LG Star we recently got our paws on is very real, though it won't go by that name at retail -- just as LG's own release materials had suggested , this monster has picked up the Optimus 2X name as it morphs from a prototype into brutally fast, overpowered reality. At the phone's heart beats a dual-core Tegra 2 processor running at 1GHz, the first such configuration to be officially announced by any smartphone manufacturer (though we're expecting others any day now).
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: breakingnews, core, europe, froyo, gingerbread, microsd, optimus, press, prototype, retail, star, starters, storage, Units
Snapstick shows off iPhone-controlled internet TV prototype
It's still not an actual product just yet, but upstart Snaptick has given Crave an early look at its eponymously-named internet TV system, which it says will challenge the likes of Google TV and Apple TV. The company's hook is that it simply delivers the "full web" to your TV, which can be controlled using either your phone or a laptop. In the case of the company's iPhone app, you can actually flick content from your iPhone to the TV, and even have multiple people control the same TV with their respective iPhones
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: actual-product, apple, blu, flick, laptop, phones-things, Player, prototype, snapstick, video, webtv
Exclusive: PlayStation Phone ‘Zeus Z1′ prototype benchmarked on video
We can't get enough of Sony Ericsson's PlayStation Phone (also known as Zeus Z1), and we're guessing neither can you. We were just sent a new video of the device in action, only now it's running Qualcomm's Neocore benchmark app. As you can see, the device managed 24.4 frames per second on average.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: benchmark, ericsson, horizon, known-as-zeus, mind, neocore, playstation, playstationphone, prototype, psp phone, qualcomm, result, video, zeus z2, zeusz1
Motorola Android tablet prototype makes a cameo at D: Dive Into Mobile running Honeycomb
Google's Andy Rubin brought more than just a Nexus S in his bag of goodies tonight. On stage at D: Dive Into Mobile, the man has brought with him a prototype Android tablet from Motorola.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: 10Inch, 7 inch, after-the-break, Bigger, breakingnews, cameo, engadget, entry, honey comb, launch, motorola, prototype, result, stingray
Qi charger prototype from Sanyo and NTT DoCoMo seeks out, ruthlessly charges stuff
Wireless charging gear compatible with the Qi standard should be hitting shelves any minute now, but NTT DoCoMo's charging base at CEATEC has a completely unnecessary (and completely awesome) trick up its sleeve to set itself apart from the crowd. The prototype -- developed in concert with Sanyo and bearing the Eneloop brand -- gives you some visual indication that a compatible gadget has been detected by displaying a ring of blue LEDs that converges around the device to be charged once you set it down. It's a neat effect...
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, effect, from-the-crowd, gadget, inductivecharging, japan, neat, ntt, prototype, shelves, these-products
NTT DoCoMo’s touchable 3D display prototype seamlessly integrates haptics, chameleons
Okay, that might not be a chameleon -- we're not the reptile experts we wish we were -- but NTT DoCoMo claims it is.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: direction, inductive coil, like-everything, mimic-the-size, nttdocomo, prototype, reptile-experts, stylus
NTT DoCoMo’s Taion Heart supports rarely-used soul-2-soul Bluetooth profile (video)
A Valediction: Technologically Assuaging Mourning As virtuous men travel mildly'away, And cling to their Taion Hearts, to goe, Whilst their Heart-equpped friends doe say, The pulse goes now, thanks, and some say, to NTT DoCoMo. So let us grip, and make no noise, No Skype calls, nor instant messages send, 'Twere illuminations of our joyes To pulsate the complementary device of our love rend. Gripping of t'heart sends light and color, Bluetooth sync reckons what it did and meant, But vibration of the other, Though greater farre, is innocent
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: bluetooth, donne, greater-farre, heart-equpped, hearts, john, john donne, Love, ntt, ntt-docomo, prototype, sync-reckons, virtuous, virtuous-men, wuv
NTT DoCoMo’s ion-generating phone is literally a breath of fresh air
Sharp has been working on miniaturizing its so-called Plasmacluster line of ion-generating products as of late, most recently with the pocketable IG-CM1 . Well, imagine if you took an IG-CM1 and duct-taped it to the back of a Japanese-style flip phone...
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: booths, ceatec, commercialization, down-the-road, functional, ntt, nttdocomo, prototype
Sharp shows off mobile prototype with 3D screen, 3D camera, and 3D output
We've seen enough home theater 3D already to be well and sick of it, but mobile 3D is still an upcoming sector, one which Sharp seems to be making a bid for.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nintendo Tags: camera, friendly, glasses, ifa 2010, nintendo, parallax-screen, prototype, sharp, shooting-grainy, tech, upcoming-sector