TechFaith, an original developed product (ODP) provider in China, which mainly focuses on research and development of cell phone solutions and aigo, a leading brand manufacturer of consumer digital products in China, have jointly announced the release of no less than nine new 3G mobile phones for that market. These nine cell phones, which are from three different product lines, include dual mode GSM phones, modem card phones and DVDO phones.

Among the five dual mode GSM phones, three are WCDMA/GSM phones especially designed for the New China Unicom subscribers. Two other CDMA/GSM phones are designed for China Telecom subscribers. Out of the two modem card phones, one uses a HSDPA modem card and the other, an EVDO modem card. The last two cell phone models are equipped with GPS and CDMA1X and EVDO.

The Palm webOS platform and the Palm Pre mobile phone have been greeted with much enthusiasm at the 2009 MWC. Now there is even more good news from these quarters. O’Reilly Media and Palm, Inc. have today announced that they will be collaborating in order to create the very first official resource for programming the very new webOS platform. “Palm webOS: Developing Applications in JavaScript Using the Palm Mojo(TM) Framework”, written by Palm Vice President and Software Chief Technology Officer Mitch Allen, this is being edited and distributed by O’Reilly Media.

The very first chapter of the Rough Cuts Version of this book is now available online for free download from the Palm Developer Network at http://developer.palm.com. It is also expected to be available on the O’Reilly website on Monday by 10:30am ES. Programmers who want to learn to develop applications on webOS can now download the Rough Cuts version as a PDF. They can also participate in an ongoing live discussion about the book and the technology. The final book will be published following the release of Mojo, Palm’s webOS SDK (Software Development Kit).

Palm webOS

The 2009 Mobile World Congress going on at Barcelona, Spain, has thrown up a lot of interesting events. LG Electronics and Intel Corporation have today announced a joint collaboration to create mobile Internet devices (MIDs), based on Intel’s next-gen MID hardware and Linux-based Moblin v2.0 software platforms. This has been named “Moorestown” and the LG device, it is expected, will be one of the very first of such devices to enter the market.

The common goal of LG Electronics and Intel Corp is to give users the ultimate Internet experience reaching across a huge range of mobile devices, while also providing good functionality to the current smartphones available in the market. Intel’s “Moorestown”-based MIDs will hopefully reduce much idle power consumption, in relation to the current Intel Atom processor-based MIDs. Further, the new Moblin v2.0, based on the Linux OS, is expected to deliver a PC-like performance, along with high-end cell phone capabilities.

LG Electronics And Intel Corporation Collaborate To Create MIDs

Sony Ericsson, at the 2009 MWC yesterday, established itself as a communication entertainment brand by launching Entertainment Unlimited, delivering consumers virtually unlimited opportunities to share their experiences. The company has been working ever since 2001 to achieve this true fusion of communication and entertainment. It brings together rich content, fantastic applications and class entertainment experiences for the customer.

This is does by offering facilities like the Walkman, Cyber-shot imaging, Java gaming and messaging services, integrated with applications, all from one single platform. Further, Entertainment Unlimited allows the customer to seamlessly integrate his mobile phone with other devices including TV, PC and HiFi systems. Through a host of Web applications, Sony Ericsson’s Entertainment Unlimited also permits users to share their experiences online.

Sony Ericsson has now unveiled the W995 Walkman, which is the most complete communication-entertainment integrated product to date. The company has also showcased the mobile phone under the concept name, ‘Idou’, indicating that it will be launching several such products this year. Idou should be available in Q2 2009.

Sony Ericsson Idou

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