Wireless
Antenova Expands Antenna Design and Test Services to include Pre-Compliance Over-The-Air (OTA) Antenna Performance Testing
Antenova Ltd, the integrated antenna and RF solutions company, announced the expansion of its industry leading antenna design services to include antenna integration, matching service and antenna test and measure services. Antenova further announced the launch of their Pre-Compliance Over-The-Air (OTA) Antenna Performance Testing service for handset manufacturers, module manufacturers and integrators and chipset suppliers.
Cypress Introduces High-Precision Stylus Support Accurate to 1 mm For Capacitive Touchscreen Mobile Handset Market
Cypress Semiconductor announced highly accurate passive stylus support for capacitive touchscreen technology. With a 1-mm accurate tip, Cypress’s TrueTouch touchscreen solution is poised to transform the stylus market for the next generation of capacitive touchscreen phones, allowing users additional levels of accuracy and control for text entry, keyboard, handwriting recognition and other productive functions for mobile applications. For exam...
Infineon Introduces Entry-Level Platform for Android Handsets to Drive Smartphones into the High Volume Segment
Infineon Technologies announced XMM6181, a new entry-level smartphone platform for Android handsets addressing the high volume consumer segment. XMM 6181 offers open OS support for Android through a highly integrated system solution that will help to bring mobile social networking to the mass market. With this extension to its smart devices portfolio, Infineon brings smartphone functionality for a new price segment with wholesale prices between ...
Infineon Claims World's Smallest HSPA+ Solution for 3G Smart Phones
Infineon Technologies announced the availability of XMM™6260, the latest platform in its 3G slim-modem family. The XMM 6260 platform is optimized as a slim-modem for smart phone architectures coupled with an application processor or as a standalone solution for PC modems and data cards. This advanced HSPA+ platform is based on two new highly integrated Infineon devices: the X-GOLD™626 baseband processor and the SMARTi™UE2 Radio Frequency (R...
Summit Programmable Driver Powers LensVector Solid- State Autofocus Device for Mobile Phone Cameras
Summit Microelectronics, the leader in programmable mixed-signal power management IC solutions, has introduced the SMB274 programmable driver for the LensVector™ solid-state AutoFocus device.
Freescale advances motion sensing for next-generation consumer devices
Freescale Semiconductor has introduced the latest in motion-sensing technology to enhance mobile consumer experiences. The MMA8450Q accelerometer is a highly accurate, power-efficient solution that extends battery life for smart mobile devices and captures precise movement via highly sensitive gesture and orientation detection capabilities.
World premiere at the Mobile World Congress: First solution for combined LTE/USIM handset testing paving the way for LTE
The leading test equipment expert COMPRION presented the first solution for LTE/USIM handset conformance testing according to 3GPP TS 31.121 USIM Rel-8. COMPRION SIMfony LTE was developed with support of Rohde & Schwarz, a leading global test & measurement specialist. It will be shown for the first time at the Mobile World Congress February 15-18, 2010 in Barcelona. COMPRION SIMfony LTE consists of the Rohde & Schwarz network simulator R&S®CMW50...
u-blox launches broadband UMTS/HSPA modem solution
u-blox expands its high-speed wireless connectivity reference design offerings to include full High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) capabilities: 7.2 Mb/s download and 5.8 Mb/s upload speeds. The N731 is a mature design combining a powerful baseband processor, RF transceiver, antenna multiplexer and power amplifier components to support eight bands of HSPA / UMTS / EDGE / GPRS / GSM functionality including data, voice, and SMS.
Connect One Delivers 3G/4G Personal Mobile Hotspot
Connect One™, the Device Networking Authority™, today unveiled Wi-REACH Classic, a compact, battery-operated, mobile, personal WiFi hotspot that delivers high-speed Internet connectivity for laptops and wireless devices such as cameras, PDAs, and multimedia players. Using 3G/4G mobile network technology, Wi-REACH Classic quickly and easily provides multi-connection Internet access wherever you are, whether at the beach, in the car, or on the ...
Wolfson introduces a mass-market noise cancelling stereo headset reference solution incorporating myZone ANC technology
Wolfson Microelectronics today introduces the myZone WM182, an industry-defining stereo ear-bud headset reference solution, delivering Wolfson’s unique feed-forward Ambient Noise Cancellation (ANC) technology in a mass-market headset. This product can be quickly and easily customised and branded by the world’s leading consumer electronics companies, including mobile phone manufacturers.