Archive for February 6th, 2008
Stop worrying, your phone won’t give you cancer
Written by Meraj Chhaya on February 6, 2008 – 2:55 pm
Some studies imply that mobile phones increase the risk of brain cancers, while some of them disprove them. I will use mobile phones until I eventually die, or get a brain tumour.
According to BBC:
Tokyo Women’s Medical University found no increased risk of the three main types of brain cancer among regular mobile phone users.
The study, comparing 322 brain cancer patients and 683 healthy people, appears in British Journal of Cancer.
The cancer patients had one of the three most common types of brain tumour - glioma, meningioma or pituitary adenoma.
The researchers rated each subject according to how many years they had been using a mobile phone, and how long they spent talking on it each day.
They studied the radiation emitted from various types of mobile phone, and placed them into one of four categories relating to radiation strength.
Picture: Askbobrankin
Source: BBC News via Textually
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N82 Black official…big deal
Written by Meraj Chhaya on February 6, 2008 – 2:36 pm
I was quite sure of a black release for a long time, but I was keen to see a Music Edition, unfortunately, it’s just a colour change, atleast that is what we know.
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Kodak’s mobile 5 megapixel sensor same as Z12?
Written by Meraj Chhaya on February 6, 2008 – 2:28 pm
I was just wondering this, is this newly announced sensor a secret engineering project present in the rumoured Motorola Z12 ZiNe?
There are two reasons this might not be true: One of the is because the sensor would supposedly be announced beforehand and not only now; The second reason is because we had reports that the Z12 won’t be a camera focused device, regardless of it’s great imaging capabilities.
"Camera phones and other small-pixel consumer imaging devices often suffer from poor performance, especially under low light conditions. To manufacture sensors that utilize these very small pixels we needed to challenge everything we knew about pixel and sensor design," said Chris McNiffe, General Manager of Kodak’s Image Sensor Solutions business. “By completely rethinking the design of the CMOS pixel and leveraging our work with high sensitivity color filter patterns and algorithms, Kodak was able to develop this remarkable new sensor that will enable a level of imaging performance previously unavailable from CMOS devices.”
Here are the specifications and details that Slashphone provided us with:
Light sensitivity in the new sensor is enhanced through the use of the recently announced KODAK TRUESENSE Color Filter Pattern, which adds panchromatic, or “clear,” pixels to the red, green and blue pixels already on the sensor. Since these pixels are sensitive to all wavelengths of visible light, they collect a significantly higher proportion of the light striking the sensor. This provides a 2x to 4x increase in sensitivity to light (from one to two photographic stops) compared to current sensor designs, improving performance in low light and reducing motion blur in action shots.
At 5 million pixels, the KAC-05020 provides the highest resolution available in the popular ¼” optical format, and enables imagery up to ISO 3200 and support for full 720p video at 30 fps. The sensor is also supported by the Texas Instruments’ OMAPTM and OMAP-DM solutions, enabling a host of KODAK Image Processing and Enhancement Features (such as digital image stabilization, rapid auto-focus, red-eye reduction, and facial recognition) that provide digital camera-like performance in a camera phone.
The KAC-05020 will be demonstrated by Kodak at the GSMA Mobile World Congress held Feb 11 - 14 in Barcelona, Spain. Samples of the KAC-05020 are scheduled to be available in Q2 2008.
Picture: Let’s Go Digital
Source: Slashphone
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Motorola Z12 ZiNE pictures leaked
Written by Meraj Chhaya on February 6, 2008 – 2:27 pmAn update to yesterday’s post, now the actual pictures of the long rumoured Motorola Z12 ZiNE a.k.a. Skarven have been leaked.
It looks exactly like its brothers Z8 and Z10, but it will have a more touch based interface, the keypad will be touched orientated and the display will obviously be a touchscreen.
According to Unwired View, the Z12 will feature Symbian UIQ, which I don’t doubt seeing that the Z10 has Symbian OS9.2 UIQ 3.2.
The features is the most important, we were expecting a 8 megapixel camera sensor, but we might see a 5 megapixel Kodak powered sensor, here is some information that GSM Help Desk Provided:
* Yesterdays teaser was indeed about Z12, which will have a 16M color VGA resolution 2.8″ display, the quality of which goes well beyond anything we are used to in mobile handsets.
* The phone will come with 5 megapixel camera and (maybe, but not likely) 3x optical zoom.
* Motorola Z12 is not positioned as a camera phone, touting multimedia smarphone features instead.
* There will be a stand alone camera phone presented as well. It’s a candybar with with 5 megapixel Kodak lenses, previously known under the codename X-Pixl.
Picture: Mobile-review forums
Sources: Unwired View, GSM Help Desk, Mobile.cz
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Apple Lost Up to $400 Million in Revenues from Unlocked Iphones
Written by Meraj Chhaya on February 6, 2008 – 1:53 pm
Quite an astounding number, but most importantly it’s the proof that you can’t keep customers locked down.
The official number of devices that aren’t registered with AT&T should be about 1.7 million, but we can’t forget that some of them are in use in UK and some will start selling in neighboring countries. Some analysts predict the number to round 300 000 to 400 000 unlocked devices, but I pretty much believe it is well above the 1 million mark.
I was unsure how the unlocked phones would bring damage to the company, when I found out the obvious reasoning: Apple earns from the network it signs the contract with.
The number doesn’t really make sense if you calculate that $300 million are lost for every 1 million iPhones unlocked. That would mean that the carrier pays $300 extra for the device, which sounds a bit unlikely.
Picture: Wired
Source: Cellular News via Textually
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