Samsung Announces 8Gb OneNAND Memory Chips
Samsung has announced that they’ve come up with a 30nm-based 8Gb (gigabit) OneNAND chip that can be used in smartphones. Thanks to the single-level-cell (SLC) NAND flash design that is being used here, phone manufacturers are able to handle more info at one go. The 30nm 8Gb OneNAND is 40 percent more efficient than the [...]
Nuance T9 Trace Looks Similar To Swype
If you took a quick glance at a screenshot of the Nuance T9 Trace in action, you’d be forgiven for thinking that it’s Swype, after all, they both look incredibly similar. Regardless of whether they’re similar or not, it’s certainly useful to have another player in the text entry market, and Nuance Communications has officially [...]
Mobile Payments With microSD Based Contactless Technology
Want to manufacture a payment using your mobile phone and NFC (near field communications) but don’t have the feature built into your mobile phone? Well, the partnership among First notes and Tyfone might be able to offer you something. Using Tyfone’s SideTap card, they are able to come up with a microSD card that doubles [...]
Wafer-thin Plastic To Be Battery Technology Of The Future?
Battery design, such as thickness and lifespan, is always an issue that folks are trying to tackle and improve. Now it seems that the folks by at Imperial College London have come up with a rather useful development. The latest is a wafer-thin piece of plastic that can store electricity. According to the brains behind [...]
Acer To Increase Focus On Android
In a recent interview, head of Acer’s mobile division, Aymar de Lencquesaing, said that the company plans to shift its attention more towards Google’s Android and reduce its Windows Mobile effort. that of course shouldn’t be a surprise to too many society, particularly since it’s quite obvious that Android is gaining quite a bit of [...]