Chinese giant Huawei, today announced that the Huawei MediaPad now comes pre-loaded with Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). First launched in June 2011 , the original MediaPad was the world’s first 7-inch Android 3.2 tablet. Existing MediaPad owners will receive an OTA Android 4.0 upgrade to their tablets by the first quarter of 2012. Huawei [...]
The 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (Twitter, Facebook and YouTube) kicks off Monday in Las Vegas. The premier showcase for the $186 billion U.S. consumer electronics industry, it is expected to draw some 140,000 attendees from 140 countries. CES features 500 speakers, dozens of Keynotes, and hundreds of Tracks, including Sessions, SuperSessions, venues like the CES [...]
Broadcom says the forthcoming 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard will replace the current 802.11n standard in its consumer electronics hardware lines by the end of 2012. The 802.11ac draft, also known as 802.11 VHT (Very High Throughput), uses extra wide 80 MHz or 160 MHz channels for 1 Gbps speeds. It uses the existing 5 GHz band. [...]
DASH7, an open source wireless sensor networking standard, operating at in the 433 MHz unlicensed ISM band, provides multi-year battery life, with range of up to 2 km, and data transfer of up to 200 kbit/s. The technology, promoted by the non-profit DASH7 Alliance is said to be the lowest power, longest range wireless networking [...]
Ford has lowered the price for SYNC by $100, making their hands-free, voice-activated connectivity system more affordable. Ford SYNC is a factory-installed, fully integrated in-vehicle communications and entertainment system that allows users to make hands-free telephone calls and control music and other functions using voice commands. Ford says their new pricing strategy makes SYNC the [...]
Two months after Apple joined the board of the Bluetooth special interest group, the company launched the first truly mainstream Bluetooth 4.0 devices yesterday, with the new Macbook Air & Mac Mini. Apple may have fast-tracked Bluetooth 4.0′s adoption so that the forthcoming iPhone 5 can use this technology with at least one Apple product, [...]
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