INTEL ATOM BEING THE NEXT BIG THING IN THE SMARTPHONE MARKET:

Everyone knows that the Intel Atom dominates the netbook market, but what about smartphones? As it turns out, Intel has some pretty major plans in the smartphones market. The Moorestown system will be on a chip and the Moblin OS will be available in the early 2010. This will give them a good starting point for their march towards market domination.
The Moorestown platform is a SoC with 45nm Atom CPU, graphics and video encoder/decoder. It will support all the major mobile phone technologies such as 3G, WiMAX, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth and even mobile TV. The Moblin and Maemo are both Linux variants. The Moblin is developed by Intel and tailored specifically for Atom CPUs while the Maemo is developed by Nokia for ARM processor. These two companies collaborated to develop the oFono which is an open source telephony software solution.
Intel is also working with LG on a MID that is powered by Moorestown and runs the Moblin. The MID will feature a voice functionality which will make it seems like a candidate to be the mythical “Intel Phone”. LG is also working with Ericsson to bring 3G capabilities to the MID. Intel did a short demo of the new Moblin UI, which is designed for multitasking. It organizes things into “zones”, which group a programs windows but also allow you to drag a window from one zone to another.
Here are two videos on the demonstration of the Moblin OS by Intel:

Google Wave

Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps and more. It was announced by Google at the Google I/O conference on May 27, 2009. It is a web-based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wiki, and social networking. It has a strong collaborative and real-time focus supported by extensions that can provide, for example, robust spelling/grammar checking, automated translation between 40 languages, and numerous other extensions.
Google Wave is designed as the next generation of Internet communication. It is written in Java using OpenJDK and its web interface uses the Google Web Toolkit. Google plans to release most of the source code as open source, allowing the public to develop it features through extensions.

HTC Hero Review

In the beginning there was G1: the frontline trooper, the mean machine, the expendable GI. Elsewhere, in the HTC discourse, it was hope and vision. Well, it seems the dreamer's Dream is coming true and someone there is really proud with what they've done. HTC Hero is perhaps the most advanced Android to date. And the OS is probably the closest the competition has ever come to the iPhone's touchscreen revelation. The bold lines of the HTC Hero are just a hint at its superior hardware and when it comes to homescreen kit and widgets, it definitely has an edge even over the iPhone.
HTC and their Hero are finally bringing the fledgling new Andorid OS up to speed and up to par. Not that a Hero is badly needed to save the day for either HTC or the Android OS, but inspiration is always welcome. Having made their name in Windows Mobile, HTC probably most appreciate the creative break from the Microsoft mobile OS that's become a habit (and a curse) for them. It would be too much to call it a plan B, but after all business is propelled by competition - even if it's household.
Designwise, the HTC Hero brings even more style to the Android family. Breaking with the full QWERTY heritage but keeping the trademark angled chin, the Hero continues the tradition of slim full-touch phones much along the lines of HTC Magic that we also recently reviewed.
But today's story is a Hero's tale, and you can bet we've got one here to inspect. Let's kick it off with a rundown of the key specs and the main letdowns that we've found so far.
Key features
• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
• 3G with HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA 2Mbps
• Heavily customized (in both graphics and performance) Android OS v1.5 (Sense UI)
• 3.2" capacitive touchscreen of HVGA resolution
• Qualcomm MSM 7201A 528 MHz CPU, 288 MB RAM
• 5 megapixel autofocus camera with video recording
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g and GPS receiver
• Trackball navigation
• Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate and turn-to-mute
• Digital compass for automatic navigation of maps
• Multi-touch zooming in gallery and web browser
• Standard miniUSB port for charging and data
• Stereo Bluetooth (A2DP)
• microSD card slot with support for up to 8GB cards (2GB one included)
• Standard 3.5mm audio jack
• Direct access to the official Android repository
• Web browser comes with full Flash support
• Smart dialing
• Tethering support right out-of-the-box

Mobile Technology

The mobile phone industry is one of the fastest developing industries in the IT world. It can be dated back to the early 1980s, when analog cellular telephone systems were experiencing rapid growth in Europe. Particularly in Scandinavia and the United Kingdom, also in France and Germany. Each of these countries develops its own systems which are incompatible with the others in equipment and operation. Due to these problems faced by the European countries, which was realized early on in 1982, the Conference of European Posts and Telegraphs (CEPT) formed a study group called the Groups Special Mobile (GSM) to study and develop a pan-European public land mobile system. The proposed system has to meet these criteria:

·         Good subjective speech quality.

·         Low terminal and service cost.

·         Support for international roaming.

·         Ability to support handheld terminals.

·         Support for range of new services and facilities.

·         Special efficiency.

·         ISDN compatibility.

In 1989, the European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI) took over the study. The Phase I of the GSM specifications was published in 1990 and in the mid-1991, the commercial service was started. By 1993, there were 36GSM networks in 22 European countries and over 200GSM networks in 110 countries around the world. The acronym GSM now aptly stands for Global System for Mobile communications. Before the GSM, there was the AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone System) which is the analog mobile phone standard developed by Bell Labs. It was officially introduced in the Americas in 1984. The AMPS is a first-generation (1G) cellular technology.

The Interin Standard 95 (IS-95) is the first CDMA-based digital cellular standard pioneered by Qualcomm. cdmaOne is the brand name for this standard. The IS-95 is also known as TIA-EIA-95. It is a second-generation (2G) mobile telecommunication standard that uses Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) which is a multiple access scheme for digital radio, to send voice, data and signaling data (such as a dialed telephone number) between mobile telephone and cell sites. The next generation of mobile technology is the “2.5G” i.e. a technology between the second (2G) and third (3G) generation which started in the late 1990s. It includes the GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) and the HSCSD (High-Speed Circuit-Switched Data). The GPRS technology was first integrated into GSM standards releases in 1997, starting with Release 97 and onwards. The HSCSD is an enhancement to Circuit-Switched Data (CSD) (the original data transmission mechanism of the GSM mobile phone system). As with CSD, the channel allocation is done in circuit-switched mode. HSCSD has increased data throughput by the ability to use different coding methods and/or multiple time slots.

EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution) is a digital mobile phone technology which acts as a bolt-on enhancement to 2G and 2.5G networks. This technology works in GSM networks and it’s also known as EGPRS which is a superset of GPRS and can function on any network with GPRS deployed on it, provided the carrier implements the necessary upgrades. The EDGE technology was introduced into GSM networks around the world in 2003. The CDMA2000 Evolution is a family of third-generation (3G) mobile telecommunication standards that use CDMA. It is the second generation of the CDMA digital cellular. The different types of CDMA2000 are: CDMA2000 1x, CDMA2000 3x, CDMA2000 1x EV-DO, and CDMA2000 1x EV-DV.

The W-CDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) is a type of 3G cellular network which is the technology behind the 3G UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System) standard and is allied with the 2G GSM standard with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System) is one of the third-generation (3G) mobile phone technologies which use the W-CDMA as the underlying standard and it is standardized by the 3GPP.

The High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) is a new mobile telephony protocol and is sometimes referred to as a 3.5G (or “3½G”) technology. In this respect it extends W-CDMA in the same way that EV-DO extends CDMA2000. HSDPA provides a smooth evolutionary path for Universal Mobile Telecommunications Systems (UMTS) networks allowing for higher data capacity (up to 14.4Mbit/s in the downlink). It is an evolution of the W-CDMA standard, designed to increase the available data rate by a favor of 5 or more. HSDPA defines a new W-CDMA channel, the High-Speed Downlink Shared Channel (HS-DSCH) that operates in a different way form the existing W-CDMA channels, but is only used for downlink communication to the mobile.

The High-Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) is a data access protocol for mobile phone networks with extremely high upload speeds up to 5.76Mbit/s. It is considered as a 3.75G mobile technology unlike the HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) which is 3.5G.