Feb 29
Pocketgamer has been busy, working out which handsets on the market have the best 3D performance - of course, this is a somewhat subjective measure, because as anyone familiar with benchmarking knows, if you give a processor a task it excels at compared with others, it is bound to win! Anyhoo, the test in question here is "OpenGL ES 1.0 processing" - which is one of the industry graphics standards.
The results come from Hungarian company Kishonti, which specialises in measuring the performance of mobile devices. It uses it's GLBenchmark to run the graphics on the handset, and generate a rating. And to re-iterate, this is a specific 3D test - so it doesn't follow these are the best devices for 3D gaming, or other tasks - nonetheless, the results are interesting!
The full list is below, but in short, Nokia's NSeries is all over the results - withe the N93 coming out surprisingly as the winner (!). Also in there are some Dell PDAs (a bit unfair methinks since they are quite a bit larger, and not phones!), but also the Motorola Z8. Actually I am not surprised the Z8 is there, given the hardware they managed to stuff in to it - it really dpes deserve the moniker given to it of "Media Monster"
1. Nokia N93 (442 frames)
2. Nokia N93i (433 frames)
3. Nokia N95 (413 frames)
4. Dell Axim X51v (412 frames)
5. Nokia N95 8GB (395 frames)
6. Nokia N82 (392 frames)
7. Dell Axim X50v (390 frames)
8. Motorola RIZR Z8 (389 frames)
9. Nokia E90 (386 frames)
=10. SonyEricsson W950i (171 frames)
=10. SonyEricsson M600i (171 frames)
=10. SonyEricsson P990i (171 frames)
=10. SonyEricsson P1i (171 frames)
How does this all relate to gaming? Does it all? Well kinda, but as we know from the days of Nintendo and the SNES, well-written games that take advantage of specialist hardware (with albeit very slow CPUs) will still be excellent. Wow, the SNES, now there's a blast from the past!!
[Via: Pocketgamer.co.uk]
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Feb 29
Motorola is claiming that RIM is violating some of their patents with the 8800 class of devices and the BlackBerry Enterprise Server Software, RIM is claiming that Motorola charges way too much to license their patents and that they have infringed on some of their patents as well. Legal battles are never fun and I didn't think Motorola, with their bleeding handset division, would be dumb enough to risk whatever money they have left on something like this.
[Via: Bloomberg]
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Feb 29
It's hard to argue against activist investor Carl Icahn, who owns a 5% of Motorola and who says breaking up the company could unlock more value for shareholders, but the fact stays that the American handset maker is pretty much the dominant player in the U.S. handset market. So personally I don't believe they should just dump it or sell it to someone else (Dell?).
"Motorola is fully committed to the mobile devices business and I am fully committed to mobile devices," Chief Executive Greg Brown said at a reception at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. So why Moto have you showed us a trio of crappy devices only? Why have you pulled the Z12 teaser video from YouTube? What's wrong?
Again, we do want to see Moto re-emerging as a top player. You folks now co-own UIQ, get busy and show us some cool multimedia devices like ASAP. Will please help? 
[Via: Reuters]
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Feb 29
I guess it's the "Canadian thing" to call Samsung's BlackJack II simply "JACK". Following Rogers Wireless, Fido (which is consequently owned by Rogers) is now launching the JACK along side Motorola Q9h. The two Windows Mobile smartphones are made for (mostly) business people who demand full QWERTY keyboard, 3G, as well as Microsoft Exchange support. Not to mentioned Microsoft Office Mobile and third-party apps…
Anyway, Fido is selling the Samsung JACK for $225 CAD, while the Moto Q9h is available for $50 CAD more on a three-year agreement. Those who can afford and at the same time don't like binding agreements, can also grab the smartphones sans any contracts for $425 CAD and $525 CAD respectively.
[Via: MobileInCanada]
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Feb 29
We've yet to see the pico-projector (that is, projectors embedded within mobile phones) even break into mobile phone reality, and Sony Ericsson is already thinking about a future filled with mobile phone projectors. By the time mobile phone projectors hit the mainstream (perhaps by 2010), Sony Ericsson plans to have the patents to back a self-adjusting pico-projector.
The USPTO patent application from Sony Ericsson outlines a method by which the projected image from a mobile phone's pico-projector would be analyzed by the handset's camera. Based on the image-analysis, the projected image could be adjusted for color, brightness, and focus - ensuring that your mobile phone's projector will always be beaming an optimal picture.
So, once mobile phone projectors hit the market for reals, we can expect Sony Ericsson to roll-out handsets with the sharpest projected picture. Think "CyberShot projector" - now that would be cool.
For now, we'll just settle for any pico-projector to hit production.
[Via: Cellpassion]
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