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LG showing off 5 inch flexible screen for smartphones.
LG will be showing off their latest flexible and unbreakable 5 inch OLED display at this weeks SID display week in Vancouver.
The plastic display will be shown off alongside other 5 inch and 7 inch HD Oxide TFT panels which have a bezel that’s only 1mm wide, allowing for smartphones and small tablets with virtually no frame or border.
Samsung hopes for 2020 launch of 5G.
Despite 4G technology still only just reaching many consumers, Samsung have been working on the next generation of mobile data transmission, claiming speeds of up to 1.056 Gbps. By comparison, real world tests on speeds of 4G networks in the US hardly got above 10 Mbps, or 0.01 Gbps.
Samsung said it plans to accelerate the research and development of 5G technologies, including adaptive array transceiver at the millimeter-wave bands, to commercialize those technologies by 2020.
Google I/O day one highlights.
Google’s I/O developer conference got underway Wednesday without anything like the headline grabbing demonstration of Glass at last years Day One keynote, but there were still a few interesting points:
- New-look Google Maps
- Google Play Music All Access
- Google Play Game Services
- Google Now voice search coming to desktop PC’s
- Three-columned new look for Google+
- You can now send money via Gmail
Also announced were some statistics: 900 million Android activations worldwide to date, and 48 billion apps downloaded from Google Play. That compares to 50 billion app downloads on iOS, which was reached earlier this week.
Mobile phone ownership could average one per person this year.
According to data from the International Telecommunication Union the world has almost 1 mobile-cellular subscription for every person on the planet.
An estimated 6.8 billion subscriptions are already active, with an estimated world population of 7.1 billion.
It’s worth noting that data from 2012-2013 is estimated only, and there is no data to indicate how many people have multiple subscriptions.
Photos: Samsung Galaxy S4 Teardown.
Check out the full gallery here.
New battery technology stores 2,000 times more energy than normal batteries
- Recharges 1,000 times faster than competing technology.
A new paper in the journal Nature describes lithium ion ‘microbatteries’ which make use of 3D electrodes to store power at densities 2,000 times higher than current technologies, and which can be recharged 1,000 times faster.
The team behind it says the technology can be easily scaled up for mass production.
In principle our technology is scalable all the way up to electronics and vehicles.
“You could replace your car battery with one of our batteries and it would be 10 times smaller, or 10 times more powerful. With that in mind you could jumpstart a car with the battery in your cell phone.”
Google Glass specs confirmed, App released.
Google have released the Android App for their upcoming Glass device, and confirmed the specs on their website. As rumored, the device won’t have a traditional speaker for audio playback, instead using a bone conduction transducer. Battery life is said to last ‘one full day of typical use’.
The full specs:
‘Tethercell’ lets you control battery powered devices remotely.
Tethercell’s makers describe it as a ‘revolutionary battery controller that enables you to connect to and control AA battery-operated devices from your iOS or Android device’.
A smaller AAA battery is inserted into the AA battery-sized Tethercell, which can then be controlled via low energy Bluetooth 4.0 from a smartphone, allowing any AA battery operated device to be remotely switched on or off. An app also gives alerts when battery power is low; for devices to be run on timers; and even offers a locating function to find your Tethercell’s. Only one Tethercell is required in each battery operated device.
Tethercell has successfully reached its funding target on Indiegogo, with over US$77,000 of a $59,000 goal raised. The campaign still has 18 days left - check it out here.
Thermal Imager for iPhone/Android gets crowdfunded.
The Mu Thermal Camera can be attached to an iPhone or Android device, and allows users to see in the infrared spectrum anything between -86 to 192 degrees Fahrenheit (-66 to 90 Celcius).
The device was recently successfully funded on Indiegogo, with the makers now hoping to use the money to get the device into mainstream electronics stores for a shelf price of around US$325.2
Photo: The proliferation of mobile devices since 2005.
As the Today Show points out, this comparison of the announcement of Pope Benedict in 2005 and Pope Francis in 2013 shows just how much times have changed with regards to how events are enjoyed, captured, and shared - over only an eight year period.
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