Phone cameras breeze into filmmaking
Thursday, January 31st, 2008PARIS — “Silence on the set,” ordered movie director Xavier Mussel as he grabbed his cell phone — not to make a call but to film another scene for his short film.
Cheap, easy and accessible, mobiles-as-movie cameras are breaking the motion picture mold, putting a touch of Hollywood into amateur filmmakers’ hands. How-to workshops have […]
Camera phone digital printing stations
Thursday, January 31st, 2008Similar to a one-time-use camera mobile phone cameras provide users with a spontaneous, convenient mode of picture taking. Kodak and Fuji are helping retailers bring those consumers into chain drug by offering them a place to print their cell phone photos via Fuji’s Aladdin Digital Photo Centers and Printpix kiosks and Kodak’s Picture Maker kiosks.
Currently, […]
The Ten Best Camera phones
Thursday, January 31st, 20081 Sony Ericsson K810i
This sleek phone has a 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus (instead of the fixed focus on some handsets). It’s good for taking pictures in low light and the BestPic feature means the phone will take lots of shots and save nine for you to choose the best one. It’s a neat shape […]
ABI reveals camera phones to take on camera market
Thursday, January 31st, 2008Analyst ABI Research has revealed that low-end camera phones are expected to gain a significant portion of the market currently held by low-end digital cameras within two years.
ABI claimed that anticipated improvements in mobile phone camera quality will have a serious effect on digital camera sales as people decide they do not need a low-end […]
Mobile and base station diversity simulation experiments in a mobile communications course
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008Abstract A simulation experiment is presented that can be proposed to students taking a graduate course on mobile communications so that they become familiar with concepts like correlation, diversity and combining. Instead of using a complex fully statistical approach, a simpler and more intuitive geometrical approach is followed.
1 INTRODUCTION. MOBILE CHANNEL MODELLING
In this paper, simulation […]
SMS still most popular for mobile communication
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008A study of mobile messaging by Portio Research, a UK research company, has revealed that SMS is still considered the cheapest, easiest and quickest form of peer-to-peer mobile communication.
According to the report from Portio, nearly 2.38tn SMS messages and revenues of USD50bn are expected, worldwide, by 2010. MMS has not attained the same usage levels […]
Beijing Mobile Communications Corporation selects Comptel solution
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008Finnish mediation software solutions company Comptel Corp, and Beijing Mobile Communications Corporation (BMCC), a subsidiary of China Mobile Group in China, have agreed on a delivery of Comptel InstantLink provisioning solution.
According to the company, Comptel’s provisioning solution will enable BMCC to manage and monitor the whole provisioning processing, and guarantee the data consistency between billing […]
Crystal Oscillator is suited for mobile communications
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008Manufactured in 2.5 x 2.0 x .45 mm ceramic package, lead-free, surface-mount CX-2520SB provides re-flow compatibility for mobile communications, Bluetooth, and wireless LAN applications. Product resonates at frequencies from 26,000-60,000 MHz and features motional series resistance of 100 ohm @ 26,000-34,999 MHz and 50 ohm @ 35,000-60,000 MHz with load capacitance of 8 pF. Frequency […]
NMS Communications Launches LiveWire Mobile
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008Today LiveWire Mobile’s Ringback service is deployed with over 30 operators around the world, touching more than 185 million subscribers. With nearly seven million active subscribers, LiveWire Mobile is well positioned for continued success and has plans to launch new services including additional ringback offerings and network-based message and subscriber-focused personalization services.
“The first wave of […]
Research and Markets: 2004 African Mobile Communications Market
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008This annual report offers a wealth of information on the Mobile market, covering:
- Trends, Analysis, Players, Revenues, Subscribers, Prepaid
- Spectrum Auctions, Developments, Govt. Policies
- Infrastructure, GSM, CDMA, 3G
- Mobile Data - Market Issue, Paging, Dedicated Services
- SIM, SMS, MMS, GPRS, EDGE, WAP, M-Commerce
- Telemetry, Location Services, Bluetooth, PMR, TMR
- Mobile Satellite Services
This report contains detailed […]