News Round up from the Mobile World Congress
2009/03/02 11:41As expected, LG and Samsung were prominently featured in coverage from the Mobile World Congress:
At MWC 2009, one of the world’s largest exhibitions for the mobile industry, Samsung and LG, which are the world’s second- and third-largest handset manufacturers, hope to catch the attention of the media and buyers with three strategies: full-touch phones, smartphones and eco-friendly phones, plus fourth-generation mobile networks.
International Herald Times: Trends emerge at mobile phone convention
Instead of using a separate add-on device, Samsung integrated a projector into a new mobile phone:
But officials say the DLP Pico Projector is not the only feature of the models ― I7410 in Europe and W7900 in Korea ― as there will also be an OLED color touch-screen and five-megapixel camera.
In addition, the projector smart-phone can also use Powerpoint slides, allows the viewing of e-mail attachments and pictures and the possibility of using the projector as a flashlight.
The GSMA outlined plans for a new universal charger system for mobile phones by 2012:
Announced this week by the GSMA, which is coordinating the effort, the 17 participants will use Micro-USB as the common universal charging interface. The GSMA said the participants have agreed that all new available mobile phone models have support for a universal charging connector.
Korea introduced their own universal charger system in 2002 through the Telecommunications Technology Association, a Korean industry-lead IT standards body.
LG Electronics also announced plans to use Intel’s low-powered Moorestown chipset and Moblin operating system for a new Mobile Internet Device (MID).
