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Flash-Density Doubling Leads To More Handset Memory Mobile handsets are evolving rapidly. Much of this evolution is dependent upon memory advances. For example, look to Spansion (www.spansion.com), the Flash-memory subsidiary of AMD and Fujitsu Ltd. It expects Flash-memory requirements for mainstream phones to jump from about 150 Mb per phone in 2004 to over 500 Mb in 2007. High-end phones require even more Flash memory. They'll rise from about 750 Mb today to an estimated 5 Gb and beyond in 2007. In keeping with this outlook,... — Lisa Maliniak December 2004 [News] Bluetooth GPS Navigation System Directs Users Many high-end vehicles come with in-car navigation systems. For those vehicles that aren't equipped with navigation, some companies have come out with impressive aftermarket systems. Instead of buying these systems, however, many consumers would... — Nancy Friedrich December 2004 [News] Portable Media Players Top Many Wish Lists For tech-savvy people, electronic products have become "must-have" gifts during the holidays. The past few years have seen rising holiday sales of cell phones, MP3 players, digital cameras, and high-definition and plasma TVs. Now, handheld... — Nancy Friedrich September 2004 [New Products] Synthesizers Guarantee 12,000 Hours Of Operation Engineers are constantly seeking ways to improve their designs. They can now get help from Aeroflex, which has achieved major design improvements with the addition of the 2200 series to its line of fast-switching frequency synthesizers. This series... — Staff July/August 2004 [Design Application] Cell Phones Demand Better Battery Life Just a few short years ago, the expectations of cell-phone users centered around one capability: being able to reliably conduct voice calls while they were away from a wired telephone set. Since then, impressive technological advances have been... — Walter Croce July/August 2004 [New Products] Battery Charger Keeps Circuits From Overheating Recharging is a necessity for all portable wireless devices. When such devices are recharging, however, they have a tendency to overheat. Linear Technology Corp. wants to address this problem with the introduction of the LTC4059A. This device is a... — Staff June 2004 [News] Full-Internet Phones Reach Japan The keys to success for a "wireless Internet" have been inspiring debate for years. Although consumers used the limited version of the mobile Internet, they didn't adopt it in droves. Many concluded that the consumer population was "spoiled" by its... — Nancy Friedrich June 2004 [Product Features] Platform Eases Hands-Free Bluetooth Design What if you could truly have hands-free cell-phone operation while driving down the road? Better yet, imagine that this capability was inexpensive, yet provided high sound quality. Texas Instruments believes that most cell-phones users would welcome... — John Blyler June 2004 [New Products] Low-Power FPGAs Put SRAM Into Small Package To meet consumer requirements for feature-rich, small, and lightweight mobile wireless devices, chip vendors have had to increase the density of their packages. One example is the low-power, high-density programmable-logic devices that were recently... — John Blyler June 2004 [New Products] Phone Boasts Keyboard And VPN-Client Capabilities Everyone talks about the next wireless "killer application." But users seem more interested in usability issues than the latest and greatest application. For this reason and others, Sierra Wireless has embedded a VPN client into its VoqMail... — John Blyler May 2004 [Editor's Note] Functionality Meets Form On New Path I admit it. As a consumer, I have always been partial to Motorola cell-phone products. You must understand that I am generally EXTREMELY rough on my cell phone. That's why Motorola products have always worked well for me. As the old Timex slogan... — Cheryl Ajluni May 2004 [Column] See The World Through Cell-Phone Cameras The availability of low-cost, low-power CMOS imaging modules helped to fuel a mania for camera-enabled cell phones in Japan. That mania proved to be contagious for the rest of the world. Of course, the Japanese may credit teenage girls for starting... — Andrew Burt April 2004 [Product Features] Elliptic Cryptography Strengthens Security Most on-the-go, mobile wireless users need to transmit and receive their data with a reasonable level of security. Unfortunately, early wireless security methods like WEP required a great deal of processing power. As a result, users chose to disable... — John Blyler April 2004 [New Products] Single-Chip Processor Gives Cell Phones An EDGE To survive and hopefully succeed, cellular-phone designs must be able to take one platform and apply it to various networks. This dream seemed unattainable in today's pre-3G landscape. Now, however, an announcement from Intel Corporation is showing... — Nancy Friedrich April 2004 [New Products] Mouse Brings 360-Degree Cursor Navigation To Handhelds For the wireless Internet to succeed, it has to do more than overcome technology limitations. The interface must change so that users can more easily navigate the web. As a possible solution to this problem, Interlink Electronics has come out with... — Nancy Friedrich April 2004 [New Products] NICs Give Non-Laptop Devices WLAN Access Power consumption has always been one of the biggest obstacles to Wi-Fi-based product mobility. A lot of stress has fallen on the handheld devices that combine the high-speed-access capabilities of WLAN chip sets. They've been hard-pressed to meet... — John Blyler March 2004 [Design Application] Test Sets Refine Handset Entertainment Wireless entertainment may soon lead to an upswing in the telecommunications market. In large part, its commercial success will depend upon the quality and usability of new mobile terminals. To run increasingly sophisticated games and other... — Jan Schiefer February 2004 [Product Features] Wireless-Data Demands Force Memory's Rebirth With the number of features in next-generation handsets on the rise, the adoption rate of data-based capabilities is surging. In the handset itself, this trend poses a significant strain for both code execution and data storage. To take some of the... — Cheryl Ajluni February 2004 [Show Coverage] CMOS Image Sensors Deliver High Quality The pictures that are generated by digital still cameras are only as good as the resolution of their image sensors. The growing popularity of digital cameras and video recorders attests to these devices' ever-improving picture quality. One company... — John Blyler February 2004 [News] Football Fans Shell Out RFID Payments Radio-frequency-identification (RFID) technologies have altered the course of numerous industries, including automotive, retail, and manufacturing. Now, RFID is finding ways to improve consumers' lives as well. In Seattle, Wash., for example, an... — Nancy Friedrich  prev. page
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