Sharp has developed the first high-definition 3D camera for mobile phones, and says it plans to begin mass production by the end of the year.
The camera module can capture 720p 3D video images using a progressive scanning system, and incorporates functions to process the image data output from the left and right cameras.
These include Color [...]
Apple has disputed the accuracy of recent data published by the NPD Group which showed Android-based devices outselling the iPhone in the United States.
Indeed, as TG Daily previously reported, Google’s Android moved into second position at 28 percent behind RIM’s OS (36 percent) and ahead of Apple’s OS (21 percent).
Apple says Android doesn’t threaten the [...]
You can’t do this on the iPhone: a new app is available on the Android Market that allows users to sync up their Wii controller to play games on any device running Google’s mobile OS.
Android Wii Controller IME is available as a $3.99 download. After installing, users simply change their input from [...]
After a teenage girl was faced with charges of child pornography, for sending out nude pictures of herself, Ohio lawmakers are looking into a new law that specifically addresses the growing issue of “sexting.”
To avoid a potential life sentence and being required to register as a sex offender, merely for sending [...]
Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam has announced that his company is working with Google to design a tablet computer.
“Tablets are part of the next big wave of opportunities,” McAdam told the Wall Street Journal.
“We’re looking at all the things Google has in its archives that we could put on a tablet to [...]
Nokia’s executive vice president at the helm of the company’s Mobile Phones unit is resigning from the position, after only 6 months of holding the job.
Richard A. Simonson, who has been with Nokia for nearly 10 years and was previously the company’s CFO, announced today that he was stepping down to [...]
Motorola is reportedly preparing to launch an Android-powered smartphone with a “flip-around” display in June 2010.
According to Brighthand (via Gizmodo Brasil), the Flipout will boast a 2.8-inch touchscreen that rotates to expose a small QWETRY keyboard and D-Pad.
The device is also expected to run Android OS 2.1 on a 700 MHz [...]
Sprint today crashed any hopes of a CDMA version of the Nexus One in the US. Following the same decision as Verizon, Sprint will not be offering service to its own version of Google’s in-house-developed phone.
The Nexus One is supposed to be the ultimate phone that uses Google’s Android platform to [...]
A stealthware app that is reportedly capable of silently monitoring activity on jailbroken Apple iPads has been released into the wild.
The application – which was coded by Mobile Spy – allows users to clandestinely record a list of every website visited, every email sent and received, along with any contacts added [...]
Hewlett Packard (HP) is reportedly prepping a WebOS-powered tablet that could be released as early as the third quarter of 2010.
“We first speculated that since HP bought out Palm, they would come out with a webOS tablet,” wrote Daryl Deino of the Examiner.
“An insider at HP [now] tells us that a webOS [...]
US president Barack Obama has criticized the iPad and Xbox 360 for transforming relevant information into a “diversion” and putting “new pressures” on democracy.
“With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, – none of which I know how to work – information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, [...]
Is Apple’s slick and unstoppable iPad slowly killing off netbook sales? Well, Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty seems to think so.
Indeed, according to Huberty, netbook sales peaked in the summer of 2009 at a staggering 641% year-over-year growth rate.
“[But sales] fell off a cliff in January and shrank again in April [...]
Borders has entered the rather crowded eReader space with the launch of a $150 device dubbed “Kobo.”
Kobo, which is expected to compete against Amazon’s Kindle and B&N’s Nook, offers users access to over a million eBooks via USB or a wireless Bluetooth connection. However, it does not support WiFi.
The eReader also comes [...]
Archos has announced a $200 Android-powered tablet with a 7-inch (800×480) touch screen.
The device – which is capable of streaming video at 720p – also features integrated WiFi, 8GB of Flash memory (according to Gearlog), a USB port and battery that provides seven hours of video playback or 44 hours of [...]
Apple is catching up fast with Research In Motion in the smartphone market, according to IDC.
The company’s increased its market share from 10.9 percent a year ago to 16.1 percent for the first quarter of this year, while RIM’s share has slipped from 20.9 percent to 19.4 percent.
In general, the smartphone [...]
Gay New Yorkers who may have wanted a useful resource to finding the best spots in the city have just been shut down by Apple with its latest app rejection.
Anthony Grant, a contributor to Forbes and the New York Times, submitted the app “Gay New York: 101 Can’t-Miss Places” but received the [...]
LG has revealed additional details about its Android-powered smartphone known as Ally. The device – which is expected hit the streets on May 20 – will feature a sliding QWERTY keyboard, 3.2-inch touchscreen and run Android OS 2.1.
“LG Ally from Verizon with Google Android OSLG has yet to reveal the [smartphone's] [...]
