MeeGo’s Debut in Smartphone
MeeGo based phones finally make its debut with the release of source code for Linux-based platform made by Intel and Nokia. Source code can be used by developers to test their performance and create applications that support.
“Source code for this phone is available for the developer community. This code was developed as a version 1.1 which is scheduled to be released next October,” writes a blog on behalf Valterri MeeGo Halla and Imad Sousou of MeeGo Technical Steering Group.
In the source code, includes API (application programming interface), the reference sample interface, and some basic applications and features such as locking the screen, application launcher, virtual keyboard, phone dialer, sending SMS, browser, contacts, and photo viewer.
In addition, the available MeeGo Core OS is also completed with the component so that it can be applied on Intel Atom-based handset and Nokia N900 to use ARM-based processor. On the MeeGo’s site, there are also the illustrations of the screen display when used in handsets and video showing how the applications work.
MeeGo is the result of a merger between Maemo Linux development projects from Nokia and Intel’s Moblin Linux as agreed in the World Mobile Congress 2010 in Barcelona, Spain a few months ago. Not just for mobile phones, MeeGo is also designed for a variety of portable devices such as netbooks and tablets. The first version of MeeGo source code made for netbook has been released last May.
After the N900, Nokia N920 Prepare
After Siemens completed provides smart phone using the Linux operating system besutan in N900 Maemo 5. Now, the vendor plans to make the N920. According to the outstanding issues, N920 is the successor of the N900 recently released to the consumer market is limited.
Other news also mentioned, N920 will use the Linux operating system currently under development, Maemo 6. In fact, Nokia has big expectations in the future to announce the phone.
Launched by Softpedia that still carry the N920 Qwerty keyboard in the 4:13-inch screen size, which uses touch screen technology. With a 4:13-inch screen size, of course, make larger N920 less than the first mobile phone, other specifications, processor N920 with the power to enter ARM Cortez A8, with space to reach 32GB memory, enough vacant for data storing large with a fairly fast speed. Problem connectivity, the device already supports GSM, EDGE, WCDMA, up to HSPA. Other features that can be enjoyed on the N920 is, supports Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, 3.5mm audio jack, and camera with a resolution of 5 megapixels, and additional microSD external memory. Not yet known when the N920 when it will circulate, but reportedly will be released most rapidly in the mid-2010.
Smartphone Android Can Be Space Satellite
Android phone probably will not only serve as a smartphone or smart phone. A satellite development company in the UK has a crazy plan because planning to use satellite phones android as the brain.
Experiments are currently being undertaken by Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) in Guildford, England, as part of the initiative using advances in technology to make the cost of the satellite be cheaper.
The idea of this project makes sense. As reported by the BBC, the SSTL assess modern smartphone is remarkable after 1 GHz processor equipped and has a large capacity memory, especially android phone that has an additional SD card slot.
In this case, a smartphone comparable to mini-computer with self-power supply, input-output interface, and radio communication-that is very similar to the main components of a satellite. The difference is, the satellite requires hardware that has been specially designed directly on the CPU level, electronic equipment that has sufficient resilience to be in space-systems and handheld devices that overall, the cost of the design and manufacture of satellite becomes very expensive. Read the rest of this entry »
LG 2x Optimus superphone, The New Smart-phone Of LG
What is the latest technology of hand phone that can we get now? It seems that LG 2x Optimus superphone is a smart phone which is installed with a with a dual core 2 Tegra “superphone”, and LG is the first Korean company in the globe that is planted with the processor above, but some say that LG has not found certain operators in America to sell this phone. For a while, LG Optimus 2x can only be gotten in some European countries and Korean.
Let’s Hope that LG will find the right operators in many countries, because it is said that this 2x Optimus has a fast acceleration for android smart-phone, moreover the gadget has advanced and high-tech facilities in order to connect to an external screen.
The maximum improvements have happened toward this LG 2x Optimus superphone, we will feel a high quality of smart-phone when held in hand, covered with a perfect material, the glass looks very solid. Optimus 2X is a fast gadget. Read the rest of this entry »
Smartphones, Hackers’ Main Target
Software security expert warned that currently, hacker attacks for Smartphones are being launched. “Smartphones are private goods in which all believers to store data in it. This is a potential target for hackers,” said Founder and CEO of Lookout Mobile Security John Hering, as quoted by the Straits Times, Saturday (31/07/2010).
According to Hering, other than trust the smartphone as critical data storage, users will also no longer have to download the suspicion of foreign applications into it. It is increasingly easier hacker to infiltrate.
“The device used is not just smartphones but mobile PC that is used to access such an important account of mobile banking or online trading service. These data are interesting for ‘transported’ by a hacker,” said Hering. Read the rest of this entry »
Interested in Mr.Linux Nexus One
Not only the founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak, who also like with Nexus One, but Mr.Linux (Linus Torvalds), the creator of open source-based platform that also was very interested in the Google-made mobile phones.
Torvalds said that he was very down to heart and he finally bought Nexus some time ago. However, Torvalds if not enamored at first sight. He said the reason when ordering via the Internet, because it is only interested in maps and navigation services that are needed for car GPS devices.
Torvalds really hate the phone so far. According to him, the phone is the stuff that does little good and even disturbing, because, according to Torvalds confession, Read the rest of this entry »