Nokia + Windows mobile

Have you ever imagined a Nokia Windows Phone..

Nokia shocked the mobile world by announcing a commitment to Microsoft's Windows Phone OS.

We weren't sure of the shape, since Nokia runs the design gamut from slates to slide-out QWERTY phones, but we were certain of two things: it would have a great camera and well-considered hardware.

We now have a pretty good idea of the design destined to house the first Nokia Windows Phone. Microsoft CEO Stephen Elop revealed what is likely the first handset, code-named Sea Ray, to a closed room last week. The forbidden video sneaked out by an audience member shows an all-black candy-bar phone with sharp corners and a matte plastic border around a glossy face. In fact, it highly resembles the Nokia N9 announced last week at CommunicAsia, which will run MeeGo.

 The current crop of Windows Phones has a 1GHz processor, but Nokia can get ahead of its rivals by offering the first dual-core Windows Phone. Making its handsets 4G-capable is also inevitable, at least if Nokia wants to sell phones to the world's most affluent demographic as well as to the budget-minded.

After all, Nokia is facing the end of the road with its MeeGo platform and Symbian. Despite CEO Elop's promise to support Symbian through 2016, Nokia's smartphone software is for all intents and purposes dead. Its future is Microsoft.

Read more: http://www.cnet.com/8301-17918_1-20074781-85/imagining-a-nokia-windows-phone/#ixzz1QZInY6Pj

Six Things That Block Your Wi-Fi

1. Your Neighbors' Wi-Fi Networks

2. Household Electronics  ( microwave ovens, cordless phones )

3. Bluetooth Devices

4. Humans

You might recall from science class that the human body is mostly water, anywhere from 45 percent to 75 percent depending on your age and fitness level. Water can hamper Wi-Fi speeds, too.
"For example, say your room is very crowded and you're having a party. That can actually dampen your Wi-Fi signal--but that's an extreme case".

5. Security Settings of router

6. Old Firmware of router

 

 

       

 

Samsung designs AMOLED display that can be folded 100,000 times

Samsung researchers in South Korea have designed and built a prototype of a seamless foldable Active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) display. The display's mechanical and optical robustness were tested by performing 100,000 folding-unfolding cycles. The relative brightness at the junction decreased by just 6 percent, which is hardly recognizable by the human eye and so the deterioration can be considered negligible. The findings have been published in a recent issue of Applied Physics Letters.
The display consists of two AMOLED panels, silicone rubber (a hyperelastic material), a module case, and a protective glass cover (which not only prevents scratches but can also serve as a touch screen). The display has a very small folding radius of just 1 mm, so that one panel lies almost completely on top of the other when the display is folded at a 180° angle. "All the materials in a foldable window unit (glasses and silicone rubber) must have almost the same optical properties and attach to each other strongly without any optical property change," coauthor HongShik Shim of the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology told PhysOrg.

In their study, the researchers explain that most flexible displays, which are becoming increasingly more viable and interesting to mobile companies, are bendable or rollable to avoid the creases that occur from folding a material completely in half. The researchers have overcome this problem by creating an AMOLED display with no visible crease: the key to pulling this off is to control the optical properties of the materials.
Some believe that foldable displays could be the future of mobile devices as they solve the problem of minimizing the size of the device while simultaneously maximizing the size of the display. A display that can fold completely in half is the best way to achieve this goal, but so far it has been a challenge to eliminate the visible crease between panels. Now that obstacle has been surmounted, at least in the prototype phase.


reference:
http://www.techspot.com/news/43802-samsung-designs-amoled-display-that-can-be-folded-100000-times.html

HP Releases a Mobile Mouse that Connects Via Wi-Fi and Link-5

The evolution of the mouse in the computing industry has been an interesting one over the years. First of all, we have the PS/2 port mouse that while functional, clearly lacked the sensitivity that is found in newer USB powered models. Well, technology has advanced over the years that even USB mice have ended up wireless. Of course, those who lean more towards the gaming segment will know that having a wired mouse will still fare better in an intense firefight or under high pressure gaming environments compared to a wireless model. As for wireless mice, those will need a USB receiver plugged into the computer so that it can communicate with your computer. Well, HP turns the form book upside down with the introduction of their latest Wi-Fi mouse. Sure, it is wireless, but there is one glaring difference in this model – it does not require you to plug in a USB dongle of sorts, helping you save on a USB port on your machine.

Touted to be the first of its kind in the world, the new HP Wi-Fi Mobile Mouse will boast of a reliable, first-time pairing that will hook up the mouse to the PC, letting you work with ease and confidence. In other times, the mouse will instantly reconnect during each use, operating without any interference from other wireless devices.
As with other wireless mice, the HP Wi-Fi Mobile Mouse, too, will require a battery to keep it going. In order to prove its superiority over the rest of its counterparts in the market, this model can work up to 9 months on a single battery, which is over double that of comparable Bluetooth models. Not only that, it comes with five customizable buttons which enables you to create shortcuts for common actions such as cut, paste, undo and redo.

The HP Wi-Fi Mobile Mouse is expected to be available in the United States in June at a starting price of $49.99. 




reference: http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20110514/hp-wifi-mouse-usb-dongle/
                http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/110512xb.html