Development of Digital Brightness Sensor IC for Mobile phones by ROHM
With an increasing demand for higher functionality on mobile phones power saving on these little gadget is becoming a mundane task. One way to the over all power usage of the mobile phone is through minimizing it LCD backlight power usage. In order to achieve such power saving objectives manufacturers of mobile phones implement some sort of brightness control usually via a microcontroller and LED driver along with an ambient light sensor requiring a relatively fast bus speed. As result of this, in response to faster internal transmission speeds in mobile phones to keep up with an increasing pace in addition of new functionality on these devices, ROHM made an announcement on development of industry’s first digital ambient light sensor IC compatible with I2C bus Hs (High-speed) mode. Read more
Development of Mobile Order Management Terminal by Fujitsu
Fujitsu and Fujitsu Frontech today made an announcement on release of Web application enabled mobile terminal deigned for enhancing the worked productivity for use in convenient stores and other retail locations. The idea behind developing such a web-enabled mobile terminal for retailers was for allowing the inputted data to be quickly processed over the internet instead of loading them onto a corporate backend system which takes far more time to process resulting in enhanced work productivity. Read more
Development of New Coloring Technology by AIST
Increasing demand for consumer electronic devices,mobile phones as well as A/V devices as such forcing electronic manufacturers to revamp their manufacturing processes in order to accommodate the current mass production processing road-map. This is apparent in semiconductor manufacturing where the improved manufacturing processes have shorten the production time to days or even hours instead of months . But shorter manufacturing should also keep in mind the shorter and safer recycling life cycle given the ever increasing awareness for eliminating introduction of any hazardous materials during the recycling period. Read more
Sharp’s latest addition to its Mobile Internet product line ups
This looks like pretty much all in one internet tool that was unveiled by Sharp today. The new PC-Z1 falls some where between a Net-book and a mobile phone featuring an electronic dictionary as well as e-book capabilities. Furthermore, the new PC-Z1 comes with a 5-inch Wide-SVGA LED backlit touch-screen LCD. The quick lunch function in PC-Z1 is comparable to the mobile phone for easy e-mailing and other related net services. Read more
Introduction of WiMAX Gateway and USB card by OKI
Based on newly introduced WiMAX mobile broadband services by UQ Communications Inc. in Japan, OKI has introduced a newly developed WiMAX gateway with routing functionality. The newly developed gateway set will satisfy the UQ’s gateway based services allowing customers to use the UQ WiMAX services at the convenience of their home through WiFi by connecting to WiMAX network and at the same time use the WiMAX USB type UD01OK dongle for outside of home use. The WiMAX WiFi Gateway UG010K which OKI refers to it by WiWiGW has WiFi conversion functionality allowing PCs and other WiFi enabled devices such as mobile gaming devices to be connected to WiMAX network. The newly developed set will be sold through the newly WiMAX MVNO partners such as NEC’s Biglobe as of July 1st, 2009.
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Panasonic’s summer model mobile note PC “Let’s note”
Panasonic unveiled its new 2009 summer model mobile note PC “Let’s note”. They comprise of “F8 series CF-F8”, “W8 series CF-W8”, “T8 series CF-T8” and “R8 series CF-R8”. All models are equipped with Intel Core 2 Duo SU9400 (1.4GHz), 160GB HDD and 4GB main memory except for “CF-F8” which comes with 3GB main memory. As for the display, “CF-F8” has 14.1″ WXGA type (TFT) 1280 x 800 dots, “CF-W8” and “CF-T8” has 12.1″ WXGA type (TFT) 1024×768 dots, CF-R8” has 10.4″ WXGA type (TFT) 1024×768 dots. The “CF-F8” and “CF-W8” are the only models that come with built-in super multi-drive. In terms of operating time with battery pack, “CF-F8” operates about 10 hours, “CF-W8”, “CF-T8” operates about 11 hours and “CF-R8” capable of operating for about 8 hours. Read more
