November 30th, 2009
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The Taiwanese manufacturer HTC has previously promised to provide an update to its flagship Hero-androids to version 2.0. Now the company is obviously a step further and seems to bring a version for Android 2.1 out want to. Android 2.1 is not such a leap as from 1.5 to 1.6, but only fixes several minor bugs that were discovered in the Eclair that version 2.0.
Apparently HTC has managed to adapt its user interface completely Sense of Android 2.1, because the screenshots show that the differences of the Hero to version 1.5 are only marginally known. When the new version will be available is not fixed yet, even through the changes, there is no precise information.
HTC Hero
The HTC Hero is mainly served by the 3.2-inch HVGA touchscreen (320×480 pixels). It’s equipped with HSDPA and HSUPA, WiFi, Bluetooth, a GPS receiver, a digital compass and a 5-megapixel camera. There is a 3.5-millimeter jack for standard headphones and a slot for microSD cards. With the new interface HTC Sense seven startup screens of shortcuts can be individualized to the frequently used functions or widgets that can be downloaded through the Android Market.
Concept presented: high-tech car with mobile internet LTE
Toyota Prius hybrid model with fast internet
LTE Car
An interesting pilot project launched by Alcatel-Lucent, together with other business enterprises. Under the “NG Connect Program” has been fitted a Toyota Prius with LTE technology for fast mobile Internet. The fast Internet connection for the car to demonstrate the potential of LTE technology may also have off-the classic mobile communications.
Entertainment Options
The possible range of Internet applications in the car is diverse. In addition to offerings from the entertainment field such as online videos to Direktabruf, online games and audio streams as a radio replacement could help the new technology according to experts and safety in the car.
Navigation providers fear Google’s market dominance
Google world
Provider of navigation solutions are afraid, according to the U.S. financial magazine Forbes for their existence. The reason: There are increasing rumors that the search engine giant Google has thrown, which now offers far more than just a search engine, an eye on the navigation market. Accordingly, Google is planning a mobile phone application for mobile navigation. Like many other Google services, this app will also be free and be funded through advertising.
‘Significant investment’
Google spokesperson Carolyn Penner wanted to comment on future products, although not, but confirmed that consumers would ask for a regular navigation option for Google Maps. Steve Andler, manager of the navigation software maker sees Networks in Motion, but Google as a competitor. He points out that Google has made significant investments in maps.
Sony Ericsson will introduce the Xperia X3 Rachael officially on November 3rd. Reason to believe delivers the “What’s next?” Website of the mobile phone manufacturer. Here it is announced that visitors to the site on said date themselves can get an idea of whether Sony Ericsson has done it with his latest coup, “the thin line between unusual and magical to cross.”
HTML code reveals secret
That it is in the latest coup for the Xperia X3, which is also known under the code name “Rachael” that is to make at Se-blog.com published HTML code for the “What’s next” clear website. Here are the bloggers twice found the word “Rachael”. To make the confusion perfect for the name of the Android phones, according to the Internet now, does not come under the name of X3, but as the Xperia X10 on the market.
Scandinavian TeliaSonera pioneer in 4G Mobile
LTE: The new generation of mobile communications may
The network equipment maker Ericsson reported yesterday, a milestone on the road to 4G mobile broadband. According to Ericsson, the world’s first commercial LTE modem from the house of Samsung is satisfied when tested in Stockholm. “This is the first time that a commercial, standards-LTE device has demonstrated full interoperability to a real network,” said Johan Wibergh, Ericsson Manager.
LTE pioneer
The first order of an operator for the USB modem is at Samsung have already been received. The Scandinavian TeliaSonera is that next year, not only in the Swedish capital, but also in Oslo, Norway to launch new mobile broadband era, and thus probably secure the LTE lead.
To stand out from the mass of the mobile phone supply, the producers have come up with something with which they can put their models in the foreground. While the Canadian manufacturer Mobiado has published a new phone, whose battery was made from the rock shell of a meteorite, is Sony Ericsson for new uses and has one of its newest models equipped as a remote for the PS3.
In addition, a computer manufacturer has announced to expand its position in the mobile market and this presented a number of new smartphones for the German market. But manufacturers like Research in Motion News have to offer. The Canadian company has introduced the new BlackBerry Bold, the first BlackBerry model that was designed almost completely developed in Bochum and.
Environmental and social problems in the supply chain
Cell Production
The European project makeITfair has called on the mobile industry to pay more attention to fairness in its mobile phone manufacturing supply chain. Therefore it is not only the manufacturers responsible. “Network operators are responsible for degrading conditions in the mobile phone sector,” says Cornelia Heydenreich, makeITfair Coordinator and Corporate Responsibility Officer at German Watch.
Problems in the supply chain
Consumer electronics and mobile phones were increasingly being produced in developing or emerging countries. Every other phone come from China. In view of serious environmental and social problems in the supply of mobile phones is a need for greater assumption of responsibility there – not only from the manufacturers of mobile phones but also on those who sell mobile phones.