Cloud Telecomputers' Glass Android Desk Phone

clipped from gizmodo.com Cloud Telecomputers' Glass Platform Puts Android in a Desktop Phone This isn't the first Android desktop phone we have seen, but Cloud Telecomputers' 8-inch touchscreen Android Glass phone keeps the old corded handset intact and bakes in a load of communications functions. clipped from www.popsci.com Prototype Phone Platform Brings Google's Android to Your Desk This concept's 8-inch screen is among the largest around for viewing Android, meaning there's more real estate for app developers to play with. The platform itself can sync with Outlook to make calls right from your contact list, and has Bluetooth connectivity to hook up your cell and an HD speakerphone. Since Glass is only a platform and not a full-blown product right now, release dates and prices will have to wait for Cloud's partners to pipe up. In the meantime, though, the company estimates the end products will run anywhere from $600 to $800. clipped from www.cloudtelecomputers.com clipped from www.cloudtelecomputers.com Hardware Architecture clipped from www.youtube.com Glass User Interface clipped from www.youtube.com Glass Call Handling clipped from www.youtube.com Glass CRM Integration

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NIMble: Touch Revolution's Android Home Devices

clipped from www.forbes.com Google's Android To Invade Homes Manufacturers are putting the Web giant's Android software in home management devices and remote controls. In a sign that Google's Android mobile platform has a future far beyond cellphones, San Francisco-based start-up Touch Revolution says a string of well-known companies will introduce a range of Android-powered household gadgets before the end of the year. clipped from www.touchrev.com clipped from www.touchrev.com clipped from www.touchrev.com clipped from www.touchrev.com clipped from www.youtube.com clipped from www.pcworld.com Android's Next Stop: High-Tech Remotes For Your Home Touch Revolution tells Forbes the new Android devices will come in a variety of shapes -- some with bases for tabletop use, others with flat shapes built more for holding or wall-embedding. Touch Revolution is handling the touchscreen and Android side of the deal, while the other companies are creating the hardware and managing the branding. The gadgets, according to the Forbes interview, will be available in the United States, as well as in other unspecified countries.

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Hop-on Disposable Cell Phones

Disposable cell-phones with no LCD screen that can be thrown away or recycled after use.

clipped from www.tmcnet.com Hop-on Brings Back the Disposable Cell Phone With a 10,000 European Purchase Order IRVINE, Calif., April 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hop-on, Inc. (Pink Sheets: HPNN) announced today that its low end GSM cell phone with no LCD screen was a big success during CTIA meetings in Las Vegas, resulting in an initial test purchase order of 10,000 phones. Hop-on is bringing back the disposable phone. clipped from www.hop-on.com CDMA Cell Phones Disposable cell phones sold out in 15-20 Walgreens along the west in a mater of hours below is a picture of the display set up in the store. Features Size: 112 x 46 x 17 mm Phone Book: 100 entries Speed Dial: 90 locations Bands: Tri-mode 1900MHz CDMA Battery: Standard Li-Ion 720 mAh Battery Life: Digital talk time 3 hours and standby time 240 hours Ring Tones: 12 Antenna: Embedded Graphic No LCD AFLT: For compliance with FCC mandated E911 Call History: 20 missed, 20 incoming, and 10 outgoing TTY Compatible: For the hearing impaired Optional GPS Module: For location-based services Multi Languages

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Google Android prototypes shown at MWC

Unveiling an Android-based prototypes at the Mobile World Congress brought Google's Android platform back into the spotlight. Below a few clips of the news coverage and some screenshots.

clipped from ap.google.com Android Prototypes Debut in Barcelona A man demonstrates Google's Android software platform at the World Mobile Congress, in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2008. The congress is expected to bring together more than 50,000 industry executives from some 1,300 companies. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez) clipped from www.pcmag.com Google's Android Makes Its Public Debut BARCELONA — The Mobile World Congress became the coming-out party for Google's Android OS as four mobile processor vendors showed off pre-production devices running versions of Android. Google's Android is a Linux-based, open operating system for mobile phones that will sport Google applications. It will be free for manufacturers to adopt, though how free and open the actual phones end up being will be up to phone manufacturers and wireless carriers. Complete Mobile World Congress (MWC) Show Coverage Check out our photo blog! clipped from www.pcmag.com

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Nokia GPS Phones -- Real Time Traffic Information

Nokia has developed software that allows data to be received from GPS enabled phones, which is then compiled and interpreted into traffic flow patterns. The plans are currently at concept stage, with a demonstration recently taking place as a joint venture between Nokia, California Center for Innovative Transportation (CCIT), CalTrans, and Berkeley's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

textually.org: Nokia GPS Phones to Fight the Traffic Plague

"This is really the first time that you can take an urban system, like a big city, and try to see in real time how it lives, how people move and what's happening in the city," says Carlo Ratti from MIT.

"In the city for example you've got taxis with GPS, you've got buses with GPS, and also you've got mobile phones.

"If you take that information and you apply artificial intelligence and algorithms to it, then you can understand very interesting things about the urban system," he says.

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Motorola -- Rollable Phone

A recently published patent filing by Motorola describes a cellphone technology that could allow the display to fold or roll away. This will allow in future the design of smaller and still usable phones.

clipped from www.unwiredview.com Foldable/ rollable phone from Motorola The design of the mobile phones is always a fight between two opposite objectives - portability and usability. The more small and portable the device becomes, the less usable the user interface can be. Well. Motorola has an interesting idea what to do about that. In a patent application “User Interface System” it describes a concept of mobile phone with rollable display and/or keyboard. clipped from appft1.uspto.gov Abstract A user interface system (102) for a portable electronic device (100) is disclosed. The user interface system includes an interface (202) that is made of a flexible material and has an active position and an inactive position. The interface is coupled with a reservoir (204). The reservoir is used for storing electrorheological fluid (206). The user interface system also includes a source (208) that is coupled to the reservoir. The source is used for applying an electric field to the electrorheological fluid when the interface is in the active position.

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