INTEL ATOM BEING THE NEXT BIG THING IN THE SMARTPHONE MARKET:

Everyone knows that the Intel Atom dominates the netbook market, but what about smartphones? As it turns out, Intel has some pretty major plans in the smartphones market. The Moorestown system will be on a chip and the Moblin OS will be available in the early 2010. This will give them a good starting point for their march towards market domination.
The Moorestown platform is a SoC with 45nm Atom CPU, graphics and video encoder/decoder. It will support all the major mobile phone technologies such as 3G, WiMAX, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth and even mobile TV. The Moblin and Maemo are both Linux variants. The Moblin is developed by Intel and tailored specifically for Atom CPUs while the Maemo is developed by Nokia for ARM processor. These two companies collaborated to develop the oFono which is an open source telephony software solution.
Intel is also working with LG on a MID that is powered by Moorestown and runs the Moblin. The MID will feature a voice functionality which will make it seems like a candidate to be the mythical “Intel Phone”. LG is also working with Ericsson to bring 3G capabilities to the MID. Intel did a short demo of the new Moblin UI, which is designed for multitasking. It organizes things into “zones”, which group a programs windows but also allow you to drag a window from one zone to another.
Here are two videos on the demonstration of the Moblin OS by Intel:

Google Wave

Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps and more. It was announced by Google at the Google I/O conference on May 27, 2009. It is a web-based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wiki, and social networking. It has a strong collaborative and real-time focus supported by extensions that can provide, for example, robust spelling/grammar checking, automated translation between 40 languages, and numerous other extensions.
Google Wave is designed as the next generation of Internet communication. It is written in Java using OpenJDK and its web interface uses the Google Web Toolkit. Google plans to release most of the source code as open source, allowing the public to develop it features through extensions.

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10.

The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 is one of the hottest names in the mobile industry. This smartphone is not yet released but it is rumoured to be released in the first quarter of this year, 2010. This smartphone is Sony Ericsson’s first with a Snapdragon processor clocked at 1GHz and also the first which runs on an Android mobile operating system. The XPERIA X10 has some basic features as follows:

• General: GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz, UMTS 900/1900/2100MHz, HSDPA, HSUPA.
• Form Factor: Touchscreen bar phone.
• Dimensions: 119x63x13mm, 135g.
• Display: 4”, 65k-color TFT Capacitive Touchscreen, 854x480px.
• Platform: Qualcomm QSD8250 Snapdragon 1GHz processor.
• OS: Android 1.6(Donut).
• Memory: 1GB internal storage, 384MB ROM, Micro-SD card slot (up to 16GB).
• Camera: 8 megapixels autofocus camera with LED flash and face detection, touch focus, WVGA (800x480pixels), video recording at 30fps.
• Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, standard microUSB prot, GPS receiver with A-GPS, 3.5mm audio jack.
• Misc: Sony Ericsson Timescape and Mediascape UI, Built-in accelerometer.

The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 certainly looks pretty powerful among its Android peers. But again, the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 looks well prepared to handle any challenge.

The new Kingston 256GB DataTraveler 310 USB flash drive.

The DataTraveler 310 is a standard USB flash drive, except it has 256GB of storage. Now you can stop trying to cram that external hard disk into your pocket. Kinston have just solved your portable storage woes with the DataTraveler 310. It will be plug and play on Windows, Mac, and Linux. The price of the DataTraveler 310 is going to be around $1,108 at lunch, but you might be able to find a deal. The DataTraveler 310 could hold 54 uncompressed DVDs or more mp3s than you can shake a stick at. The DataTraveler 310is said to sport data transfer rates of 25MB/sec (read) and 12MB/sec (write).

The DataTraveler 310 features Password Traveler Software, which allows the user to create and access a password-protected privacy zone. The drive is available only in 256GB and is backed by a five-year warranty with 24/7 technology support.

For more information, visit www.kingston.com.

Apple iPad announced, is iPod touch on steroids.

Finally the Apple iPad is here after no less than a few years of speculations. This must amazing device fills the gap between smartphones and laptops. Weighing only 680grams, the Apple iPad comes with a 9.7” capacitive multi-touchscreen display with a resolution of 1024×768 pixels. It is powered by an Apple home-brewed A4 CPU, clocking at 1GHz. The iPad comes with Wi-Fi 802.11n support in addition to the standard 802.11b and 802.11g.

The Apple iPad will come with 16, 32, or 64 GB of internal storage with some 3G enabled and will measure only 12.7mm in thickness. It comes with a battery that should be able to last for 10hours of usage or 1 month of standby. The iPad has features same as that of iPod touch, with some extra features such as the iBooks. The iPad is also compatible with all iPhone applications. The pricing of the Apple iPad ranges from $500-$830.