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THIS WEEK IN TECH

NB: Apologies for no images for this post, I understand that it is unappealing but blogger was refusing to insert images so it was not possible, i will try to edit the post later and insert the images at a later date. Dan.

>> Android Devices News
HTC is being sued by ChaCha search (http://www.chacha.com/) over the name of one of their newest devices released at Mobile World Congress, namely known as the HTC Chacha. The phone features a full physical QWERTY keyboard, and a social facebook button.

NEC are set to release the world’s thinnest android smartphone at only 7.7mm thick, the NEC MEDIAS N-04C features a 4” display, a TV tuner and NFC technology. Running Android 2.2 (Froyo) out of the box, the NEC MEDIAS N-04C beats the current slim champion, the Samsung Galaxy S II which measures 8.49mm.

Google have released a great info graphic video showing the world in chronological order of Android activations to tease how much Android is growing. Although it will probably never mean anything, it still makes a great watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqFpq9WXbJo

>> Windows Phone 7 Devices News
A mixed bag of good and bad has been released from Microsoft this week in relation to their mobile operating system and phones. Starting off with the bad, this would be the windows phone 7 operating system update which was released on the Monday 21st February 2011 and pulled off Microsoft’s update servers on the 23rd after a major report and angry feedback from WP7 users who say that the update bricked their phone. The update seems to have affected mostly or only Samsung phones such as the Samsung Omnia 7 but others users have reported crashing and other issues with the update. That being said, Microsoft insists that the faulty update only affected a small number of phones despite the amount of spark it triggered on online forums, blogs and social media. Microsoft will look at the issue, and when resolved will redistribute the update.

On the other hand, Microsoft have released quite a few good promotional adverts and teaser adverts to promote their phone operating system, Windows Phone 7. And to be honest, they are pretty good, and impressive. Here’s their teaser advert which lets you compare your phone’s performance against a Windows Phone 7 device, and believe me, it’s fast: http://vimeo.com/20225897 And here’s their promotional advert which too, came out this week http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrhpXQqS3Is In addition to that, Microsoft have also announced what their future interface may look like for windows phones in the future, it looks amazing and worth a look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqUaxnhp7rc

>> Other News
Samsung have announced new 1 gigabit DRAM for smartphones chip, which is used in the LG Optimus 3D, bringing more speed to new smartphones, without wasting battery with their new low-power specs. The new memory chips can transfer data at 12GB/s  which is 8 times faster than current DDR DRAM used in smartphones today with a speed of 1.6GB/s. And with this incredible boost to the speed of your device, you worry if your battery will even survive a few minutes with such high speeds, and it will not have much of an impact at all as Samsung have cut down power consumption by an amazing 87%.

Sony has announced that they are developing and preparing the next generation of CMOS camera sensors which might be used in future smartphones. The sensors have the ability to process information at an amazing rate of 34.8GB/s by simultaneously converting multiple pixels into signals increasing transfer speeds by 75%. The sensors have the ability to shoot 17.7MP at an amazing 120fps (frames per second), no word on stills resolution or megapixels as of yet but this looks like something amazing and worth waiting for in future smartphones. Will smartphones replace our digital cameras completely one day?

Over and Out,
Daniel Sophianos

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