Mobile

Opera unveils turbo browsing at Mobile World Congress 2009

Posted on Feb 13 2009 by iGerry Comments: Comments Off Filed under: mobile, Opera, Stuff about Mobile

Opera has announced a “turbo” version of its Opera Desktop, Opera Mobile and Opera Devices SDK. Turbo Opera is geared towards business customers which allow for savings in bandwidth consumption. According to Opera, up to 80% decreased in bandwidth consumption can be attained using Opera Turbo.

Qualcomm helps bring “mobile guest” applications to reality

Posted on Feb 10 2009 by iGerry Comments: Comments Off Filed under: mobile, mobile guest, near field communication, Qualcomm, short-range communication, Stuff about Mobile

Imagine this, “You come into a coffee shop as a “mobile guest“, you order something. You check if you have enough electronic cash on your mobile phone. Pay for it with your cell phone using secure short range wireless communications meant for transactions.”

Android SDK 1.1 release 1 now available

Posted on Feb 10 2009 by iGerry Comments: Comments Off Filed under: android, development, mobile, open mobile platform, updates, Stuff about Mobile

android robot The Android development team has just made available version 1.1 release 1 of the Android SDK. This is inline with the recent updates to Android devices providing new features and functionality. API changes are quite minor. Several items have been fixed, some new features for the Map and dialer have been added, plus several API changes. You can check out the release notes.

Download Android SDK 1.1 release 1.

Qualcomm positioning for mobile multimedia leadership

Posted on Jan 21 2009 by iGerry Comments: Comments Off Filed under: AMD, graphics, mobile, multimedia, Qualcomm, Stuff about Mobile

It looks like Qualcomm is positioning itself to become a leader in the growing mobile graphics market with it’s current acquisition of AMD’s handheld business that includes several graphics and multimedia technology assets.

Skype for mobile phones released

Posted on Sep 7 2008 by iGerry Comments: Comments Off Filed under: instant messaging, J2ME, mobile, skype, VOIP, Java Apps

skype in pocket white Skype, a VOIP and instant messaging application, has just released J2ME versions of their software application for several mobile phones. Skype for your mobile is currently under beta and available for several Nokia, Samsung, Motorola and Sony Ericsson mobile phones. I’ve downloaded and tried it on my Nokia phone.