Sharp screen "3D" for mobile phone

The Japanese Sharp announces the next generation of LCD screen can reproduce a stereoscopic image without the need to wear a pair of glasses adapted. Initially, the technology developed will remain confined to the mobile phone market.

Sharp says he managed to overcome this constraint. Its screen would have a physical layer that can redirect light along two different angles, so as to send two separate images to the man who holds in his hand. The device that the manufacturer does not elaborate further, is called "parallax barrier", referring to the term which refers to variations on the observation of an object on the user's position.

The allusion is not trivial, since the screen does not restore Sharp's 3D terrain and users correctly placed in the center of the slab, if it is placed approximately 30 cm from their eyes. If necessary, they will see a blurred image.

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RIM sold 10.5 million BlackBerry

The Canadian Research in Motion has presented its financial results for its fiscal year ended last February 27. The past twelve months RIM has experienced a 35% growth with revenues of nearly $ 15 billion.

With 41 million subscribers, the user base was up 65% over the previous fiscal year. These last three months 4.9 million new subscribers have been registered.


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Google: towards a simplified update of Android?

The problem today lies in the process of updating. Indeed, the latter must be deployed by the phone manufacturer. Insofar as many of them wish to propose a system customization, deployment is slow user side. So yesterday we learned that Motorola had made available its Android 2.1 Milestone originally marketed with Android 2.0. To recall, the version 2.1 is released mid-January.

The American blog Engadget reported that Google would accelerate this process. This initiative would be carried out by disconnecting the system applications to offer them one by one to download something that is already included with the mapping software Google Maps. Google will also provide updates to the Android system itself directly from the Android Market.

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RIM: BlackBerry sold 10.5 million this quarter

The Canadian Research in Motion has presented its financial results for its fiscal year ended last February 27. The past twelve months RIM has experienced a 35% growth with revenues of nearly $ 15 billion.

With 41 million subscribers, the user base was up 65% over the previous fiscal year. These last three months 4.9 million new subscribers have been registered. And because the Blackberry is selling very well, it was also the most popular smartphone in the U.S. at the end of last year. In one year, the firm has seen a sales growth of 41%. In this fiscal year 37 million terminals that have been sold 10.5 million in Q4 against 10.2 on the previous three months.

Net revenues amounted to RIM $ 2.46 billion, this represents a growth of 29.8% over the previous fiscal cycle. In the last quarter the company posted 710.1 million Canadian dollars against 628.4 million net fiscal quarter of $ 518.3 million and previous dollars a year earlier. For its first quarter 2011, RIM expects revenue of between 4.25 and 4.45 billion dollars.

Nokia Bots: smartphone even smarter

The "smart phones", you've all heard, but when Finland's Nokia is more interested in opportunities, the thing becomes even more interesting. Indeed, the Department engineers working on Nokia Beta Labs Nokia mechanisms baptized Bots and able to understand the habits of users to automate certain tasks.

To date, these efforts focus on four features: an alarm clock, shortcuts software, battery and user profile. Assuming that an individual program waking every day at the same time by configuring the phone to silent mode, the terminal will be able to offer these default settings. Suffice it to accept directly from the home screen. Always with a view to make life a little simpler, the smartphone would be able to automatically switch to silent mode during your meeting daily 10 hours. For its part, the application Shortcut Bot identifies the most-used form of the proposed cuts. The start menu is also dynamic and will follow the course of your habits.

Digital Recorders ICD-SX750 and ICD-SX850

Digital Recorders ICD-SX750 and ICD-SX850 different thin design and overlong record time. Thus, four gigabytes of memory SX850 enough to record 1505 hours, and more than two months of continuous playing voice or music. One battery is enough for the recorder, 19 hours of continuous recording time and 22 hours of playback with headphones.

Dictaphone ICD-BX800 and ICD-PX820 equipped with two gigabytes of memory and are designed for 500 hours of recording. They are easy to operate thanks to function keys and a large LCD display with backlight.