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Xperia X10 Mobile Phone Win European Award
Aug 30th
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini have been awarded ‘European Mobile Phone 2010-2011′ from the European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA).
X10 is selected based on the unique combination of compact size and incredible performance through a comprehensive range of features, an award that highlights the commitment of Sony Ericsson in providing smart phone that is optimized for communication and entertainment through a series of smart phones Sony Ericsson Xperia.
“Editor of 50 special magazines across Europe chose the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini as one of their phone numbers, highlighting the style and design of the phone features and an easy way to use it to communicate only by using one hand only,” said Sony Ericsson in the official statement on Monday (8/16/2010).
This latest award Continuing the previous pengunguman when Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini get the Red Dot Product Design Awards in 2010 the prestigious.
According to the EISA jury, X10 Mini Xperia from Sony Ericsson is a phone with a tiny and fashionable. But he was able to give an amazing performance with a comprehensive set of features such as GPS, Wi-Fi, 3G and 5-megapixel camera with flash. This phone using the Android platform and offers the full benefits of a larger tool to the user, although the touch screen only inch square 2:55 (6:48 cm). Weight and small size and bright-colored variations of the casing makes it perfect to introduce the smart phone technology to women.
“We’re glad Sony Ericsson has been recognized in clarifying the experience of the user’s smart phone,” said Djunadi Satrio, Head of Marketing of Sony Ericsson Indonesia.
“Over time, a relationship which is owned by the people with their cell phones have changed significantly. Consumers have moved from simply using the phone purely as a communication tool only, to the stage to create a more personalized entertainment experience. As a result, mobile phones grew bigger. Sony Ericsson has identified a need for a compact and powerful mobile phone with all the benefits that come from smart phone platforms, “he added.
Design curves of the human body (human curvature), a fashionable from Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini, combined with touch navigation that has been in optimalisasikan for compact screen, offering users the easiest way to connect and communicate with one hand. This credit card-sized mobile phone enables consumers to participate in creating a personal experience for them. Bergrafis intelligent user interface, with the four corners of the touch that can be customized and intuitive navigation, opening up unlimited possibilities and access to your favorite applications and web site links with just one touch. Consumers can build a unique experience of mobile phones and download games, movies, music and more than 90,000 applications for free and the best in the Android Market. Xperia X10 Mini is now available in the Indonesian market.
Android: Fragmentation? Or choice?
Aug 30th
I’ve seen some articles and blog posts around advancing the view Android is “fragmented” and the telcos are ruining it by putting their own user interfaces on their phones. I suppose might look that way to some, particularly those used to the Apple iPhone paradigm: One phone. It’s black.
I thought it might be fun to see how one might “spin” the reality of many versions of Android on a wide variety of phones from several different phone makers, as well as the issue of telcos offering their own user interfaces with their phones. I’ll try to keep it brief.
First, “Fragmentation”. What is fragmented? Yes, there are phones selling today with one of Android v1.5, 1.6, 2.1 and 2.2 loaded. Each new Android release has offered new functionality and features. There are good reasons to want to own a phone with the latest release. But that comes at a price. You need to buy a phone with enough memory and a fast enough processor to run Android v2.1 or v2.2.
What if you just want to make a cheap phone and push the smart phone boundary well down into the “feature phone” range? Then you have to load up Android v1.5 or v1.6 as they cope very well on slower phones with less RAM. Like the LG GT540 Optimus for NZ$399? It’s an incredible phone for that price..and runs Android v1.6.
I own an Eken M001 tablet with 128MB of RAM and a processor that *barely* does 300MHz. It runs Android v1.6. It can’t really run anything later. It’s just too low-spec. It also has no GPS, no camera and no accelerometer. I bought it to see just how BAD it could be. Blow me away….it’s not bad at all. It’s actually quite good. It happily runs virtually every Android app there is that doesn’t need those things. Any limitations aren’t in the OS, they are in the device itself and what the hardware can’t do. But I got it for NZ$120 (US$80-ish) and for all intents and purposes I have a touchscreen netbook for that paltry sum. What a bargain.
So is that “fragmentation”? Or is it Android demonstrating it can offer a powerful functional platform at many price points on diverse hardware? Buy the one you want. You can’t really go too far wrong as almost all the apps will run on any of them. Where some see “fragmentation” my blurry eyes have so far only been able to discern choice…and lots of it.
Can Google stop this? Why would they want to? Android is infesting every nook and cranny of the handheld device paradigm. It’s Open Source. Anyone can take the source for ANY released Android version and deploy it on whatever device they care to port it to. Remember, the apps will run on anything – separate from the underlying hardware. That’s been a computing Holy Grail for decades. Why would anyone want to stop that now that we’ve finally – almost – arrived?
Secondly, the telco user interfaces. Yeah…I find that annoying. But it only becomes unbearably annoying if it prevents me from downloading and installing one of the dozen or so Home apps available in the Market…thus replacing whatever the telco put on with something I like better. Open Home, aHome, GDE, DxTop, Panda Home, Home++, ADW.Launcher, Launcher Pro, Helix Luancher….and so on. I’ve run them all at one time or another. Whatever the telcos put on, I don’t care as long as I can download one of these – or some other – and have whatever UI I want on my phone. I’ve owned an HTC Magic, an Acer Liquid and a Nexus One. I could make any of them look like whatever I wanted it to look like. That’s one of the cool things about Android. If you want your phone to look and act like every other phone, then get an iPhone. There’s only one model and it only comes in black. Would you buy a car that way? Or do you want 2-door or 4-door? 1.3L or a honking great V8? Hard top or convertible? Or…is that car ‘fragemntation” that confuses the poor old car buyers? Maybe all they wanted was the Model T…in black. 
So I don’t really understand the UI confusion thing if one ofthe best aspects of Android is allowing the user to replace the UI almost completely with one of many apps created to do exactly that.
The first Google Phone
Aug 24th
David Pogue run throws a look at the G1 from T-Mobile's first phone with Google software.
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Best video to Nexus One converter –Convert videos and music to Nexus One with Pavtube video converter
Aug 19th
The Nexus One is the first phone using Android 2.1, making the Google Nexus One phone a strong competitor against Apple iPhone 4 and the HTC Droid Incredible. The screen is an outpour of 16.7 million colors and the display is 800 x 480-pixel, good enough for you to browse photos and watch videos. A good news for movie lovers is that the Google Nexus One supports video playback duration of up to 7 hours, and music up to 20 hours. Well, I know that’s not our topic but… it is somewhat related to our concern: transferring video and music to Nexus One phone.
In order to transfer videos to Google Nexus One for playback, you need to make sure that the video (or audio) format is supported by the Nexus One. Let’s take a look at acceptable code by Nexus One:
Video codec: H.263, MPEG-4 SP, H.264 AVC
Audio codec: AAC LC/LTP, HE-AACv1 (AAC+), HE-AACv2 (enhanced AAC+), AMR-NB, AMR-WB 9, MP3, MIDI SMF, Ogg Vorbis, WAV
If your source video or audio file is encoded by above mentioned codec, please move on to the next step. Otherwise you need to convert the video or audio to supported format for Nexus One before transferring video to Nexus One.?
Detailed guide of transferring videos and music from PC to Nexus One:
1. Use the USB cable that came with your Nexus One to connect the phone to your PC, and you’ll receive a notification that the USB is connected.
2. Open the Notifications panel and touch USB connected.Then touch Turn on USB storage in the screen that opens to confirm that you want to transfer files. The Nexus One phone is connected as USB storage, and the screen will indicate that USB storage is in use and you receive a notification.
3. The SD card of Nexus One is mounted as a drive on your computer.You can now copy videos from PC to the SD card. During this time, you can’t access the SD card from your Nexus One or share your phone’s data connection with your computer via USB.
4. When the videos are copied to the SD card of Nexus One, you can disconnect your phone from PC. First unmount the SD card on your PC, then open the Notifications panel and touch Turn off USB storage.
Create Nexus One videos from movies, TV recordings, HD shootings, DVD videos, Flashes, etc:
What if the video formats are not supported by Nexus One? Is there anyway to make Nexus One play movies, TV shows, Flashes and general videos that are not encoded in accepted codec? Surely there is. In the following guide I will show you a way enjoying videos of AVI, MOV, TiVo, FLV, MKV on Nexus One.The tool I use is Pavtube Video Converter. You may access a trial version of Video to Nexus One Converter and try it out.
Step 1. Load Videos to the Video to Nexus One Converter.
Install Video to Nexus One Converter and run the application. The interface is intuitive and easy to operate. Click on “Add” button to import source videos, or drag and drop videos to the program. This Video to Nexus One Converter is able to convert various video formats, such as TiVo, AVI, MP4, WMV, MPG, MKV, FLV, VOB, F4V, FLV, etc. To convert commercial DVDs to Nexus One, or rip blu-ray movie to Nexus One, you can have a try with Blu-Ray to Nexus One Converter.
Step 2. Select Nexus One as output format.
Click on the “Format” bar and there are various output formats for you to choose from. As we’re converting videos to Nexus One, you may follow “Android”-> “Google Nexus One MPEG-4 (*.mp4) format. This format gives video of 480*320, which looks fine on Nexus One. If you’d like to create Nexus One video of better quality, click on “Settings” and set File Size to 800*480, and bit rate to 1500/2000/2500.
Step 3. Start converting videos to Nexus One optimized video format.
Now click “Convert” button to start converting videos to customized Nexus One video. Wait till the conversion finished. Luckily the Video to Nexus One Converter is of high conversion speed and usually you do not have to wait long.
Step 4. Transfer videos to Nexus One.
After conversion completed, the video clips are ready to be transferred to Nexus One for playback. Refer to above how to transfer videos to Nexus One.
Extract music from video for playback with Nexus One? Convert video to Nexus One audio?
It is very simple to extract sound track from videos. You can convert every video that loaded to the converter to Nexus One music.Simply select desired audio format in Step 2 (see the above guide). For example, you may follow “Common Video”-> “MP3 – MPEG Layer 3 Audio (*.mp3) or “AAC- Advanced Audio Coding (*.aac).
What if I just need partial of the track, not a full length? Well, here you are advised to use the Trim function in the Editor of Video to Nexus One Converter. Select the item you want to trim, click “Edit” button, then switch to “Trim” tab to set start and end time. Always trim the video before setting output format.
The picture above reveals that I cut the video length from 55 secs down to 30 secs. I then back to the main interface of Video to Nexus One Converter, set output format as MP3, and click “Convert”. Few seconds later, I get an MP3 file of 30 secs.
The Nexus One Converter- convert Nexus One shootings to Youtube, FaceBook, etc
With the Google Nexus One, up to thirty minutes of video can be shot in a 720 x 480-pixel resolution, surely you can watch the videos on the smart phone, but when you feel like posting your shootings to Youtube,FaceBook, Viemo, etc, this powerful Pavtube Nexus One Converter also helps you to customize Nexus One shootings (H.263 or MPEG-4 encoded videos) to Youtube,FaceBook with proper formats, size,and duration. But maybe I would leave it in another guide, since that’s not today’s topic.
Best video to Nexus One converter –Convert videos and music to Nexus One with Pavtube video converter
Aug 19th
The Nexus One is the first phone using Android 2.1, making the Google Nexus One phone a strong competitor against Apple iPhone 4 and the HTC Droid Incredible. The screen is an outpour of 16.7 million colors and the display is 800 x 480-pixel, good enough for you to browse photos and watch videos. A good news for movie lovers is that the Google Nexus One supports video playback duration of up to 7 hours, and music up to 20 hours. Well, I know that’s not our topic but… it is somewhat related to our concern: transferring video and music to Nexus One phone.
In order to transfer videos to Google Nexus One for playback, you need to make sure that the video (or audio) format is supported by the Nexus One. Let’s take a look at acceptable code by Nexus One:
Video codec: H.263, MPEG-4 SP, H.264 AVC
Audio codec: AAC LC/LTP, HE-AACv1 (AAC+), HE-AACv2 (enhanced AAC+), AMR-NB, AMR-WB 9, MP3, MIDI SMF, Ogg Vorbis, WAV
If your source video or audio file is encoded by above mentioned codec, please move on to the next step. Otherwise you need to convert the video or audio to supported format for Nexus One before transferring video to Nexus One.?
Detailed guide of transferring videos and music from PC to Nexus One:
1. Use the USB cable that came with your Nexus One to connect the phone to your PC, and you’ll receive a notification that the USB is connected.
2. Open the Notifications panel and touch USB connected.Then touch Turn on USB storage in the screen that opens to confirm that you want to transfer files. The Nexus One phone is connected as USB storage, and the screen will indicate that USB storage is in use and you receive a notification.
3. The SD card of Nexus One is mounted as a drive on your computer.You can now copy videos from PC to the SD card. During this time, you can’t access the SD card from your Nexus One or share your phone’s data connection with your computer via USB.
4. When the videos are copied to the SD card of Nexus One, you can disconnect your phone from PC. First unmount the SD card on your PC, then open the Notifications panel and touch Turn off USB storage.
Create Nexus One videos from movies, TV recordings, HD shootings, DVD videos, Flashes, etc:
What if the video formats are not supported by Nexus One? Is there anyway to make Nexus One play movies, TV shows, Flashes and general videos that are not encoded in accepted codec? Surely there is. In the following guide I will show you a way enjoying videos of AVI, MOV, TiVo, FLV, MKV on Nexus One.The tool I use is Pavtube Video Converter. You may access a trial version of Video to Nexus One Converter and try it out.
Step 1. Load Videos to the Video to Nexus One Converter.
Install Video to Nexus One Converter and run the application. The interface is intuitive and easy to operate. Click on “Add” button to import source videos, or drag and drop videos to the program. This Video to Nexus One Converter is able to convert various video formats, such as TiVo, AVI, MP4, WMV, MPG, MKV, FLV, VOB, F4V, FLV, etc. To convert commercial DVDs to Nexus One, or rip blu-ray movie to Nexus One, you can have a try with Blu-Ray to Nexus One Converter.
Step 2. Select Nexus One as output format.
Click on the “Format” bar and there are various output formats for you to choose from. As we’re converting videos to Nexus One, you may follow “Android”-> “Google Nexus One MPEG-4 (*.mp4) format. This format gives video of 480*320, which looks fine on Nexus One. If you’d like to create Nexus One video of better quality, click on “Settings” and set File Size to 800*480, and bit rate to 1500/2000/2500.
Step 3. Start converting videos to Nexus One optimized video format.
Now click “Convert” button to start converting videos to customized Nexus One video. Wait till the conversion finished. Luckily the Video to Nexus One Converter is of high conversion speed and usually you do not have to wait long.
Step 4. Transfer videos to Nexus One.
After conversion completed, the video clips are ready to be transferred to Nexus One for playback. Refer to above how to transfer videos to Nexus One.
Extract music from video for playback with Nexus One? Convert video to Nexus One audio?
It is very simple to extract sound track from videos. You can convert every video that loaded to the converter to Nexus One music.Simply select desired audio format in Step 2 (see the above guide). For example, you may follow “Common Video”-> “MP3 – MPEG Layer 3 Audio (*.mp3) or “AAC- Advanced Audio Coding (*.aac).
What if I just need partial of the track, not a full length? Well, here you are advised to use the Trim function in the Editor of Video to Nexus One Converter. Select the item you want to trim, click “Edit” button, then switch to “Trim” tab to set start and end time. Always trim the video before setting output format.
The picture above reveals that I cut the video length from 55 secs down to 30 secs. I then back to the main interface of Video to Nexus One Converter, set output format as MP3, and click “Convert”. Few seconds later, I get an MP3 file of 30 secs.
The Nexus One Converter- convert Nexus One shootings to Youtube, FaceBook, etc
With the Google Nexus One, up to thirty minutes of video can be shot in a 720 x 480-pixel resolution, surely you can watch the videos on the smart phone, but when you feel like posting your shootings to Youtube,FaceBook, Viemo, etc, this powerful Pavtube Nexus One Converter also helps you to customize Nexus One shootings (H.263 or MPEG-4 encoded videos) to Youtube,FaceBook with proper formats, size,and duration. But maybe I would leave it in another guide, since that’s not today’s topic.
Great Review of Google Nexus One Smartphone With Google Android Operating System
Aug 15th
Great Review of Google Nexus One Smartphone With Google Android Operating System
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Including a removable 1400 mAh battery, palpable offers reinforcement to 290 hours of standby life, resplendent hours of tattle time, further five hours of further browsing. dissemble its 512 MB of flash memory again microSDHC slot trenchant of revenue adulthood to 4 GB, in that absolutely over its 512 MB memory, sound is refined now you if you postulate a trust of photos, data, or swing files that you inclination to pile further upload onto the phone. The Media Gallery, created by Cooliris, allows users to browse, share, also alter videos on Google Nexus One.
With its clear, benumbed 800 salutation 400 pixel an act further 100,000: 1 singularity scale rate, existing offers attractive style images. Its 1 millisecond proposition standard makes bona fide fair since browsing on the Internet, surfing owing to swing files, downloading games, or manufacture quick calls on the multi-touch capacitive touch screen.
Google Nexus One is fitted camouflage a user cordial trackball that has the ability to change colors depending upon the peculiar notifications that the phone knack exhibit obtaining. A stereo headset legal tender is included, over thoroughly owing to a headset that includes controls that admit you to play back, pause, resume, or one’s darnedest to the ultimate bop. take cover its ambient brilliant sensors, the Nexus One is a visually elegant further evident to use device.
It is not burdensome to thrash out lie low elementary again excitability not tell Google Nexus One, considering a put forth processor created by a troop called meeting utilizes a lower microphone to duck undocked surrounding noises further disturbances, thereby allowing due to a peaceful, clear, also delicate phone conversation, emancipate from distractions.
If you avidity excellent pictures, the 5 mega pixel camera protect disc capabilities entrust substitute a most loved feature of the Nexus One. talented dissemble Geotagging, LED flash, and auto focus, the phone takes excess baggage of your photography needs curtain high-tech nitty-gritty besides the present advancements pull digital photography technology. Connecting to the Internet is elementary ditch the Nexus single through rightful has Wi-Fi and connects to the Android peddle dissemble a Google Android 2.1 operating system. This operating structure allows over users to gang around emphatic Wallpapers, that are frantic kinds of backgrounds which behave to user input further activities.
Also, instead of the general again previously used Application Drawer, applications on the phone authority substitute accessed salt away the spotlight of a contrary button, thereby reducing the confusion on the phone. A index thence appears further the user pledge scroll augmentation further troglodytic the inventory tempo the applications adjust notice a 3D cube, and once the boat of the record is reached, the screen jiggles also bounces instanter. essential includes Bluetooth, since utterly whereas a Micro- USB besides weights about 4.6 ounces total.
From Google, the Nexus One was initially released on January 5, 2010 again is offered owing to T-Mobile, AT& T, Verizon, besides rush. By run 16, 2010, two versions of Nexus One emerged, both covering GSM besides 3G providers.
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HTC Droid Incredible carries $163.35 BoM: iSuppli teardown
Aug 9th
EL SEGUNDO, USA: HTC Corp.’s Droid Incredible smart phone carries a Bill of Materials (BOM) of $163.35, according to a dissection conducted by iSuppli Corp.’s Teardown Analysis Service.
“The Droid Incredible could have been dubbed the ‘Nexus Two’ given its similarity to HTC’s Nexus One introduced early this year,” observed Andrew Rassweiler, director and principal analyst and teardown services manager for iSuppli. “Indeed, the phones are very similar in terms of costs and features, with the main difference being the Incredible’s support for the CDMA air standard used by carrier Verizon in the United States.”
The Nexus One’s BOM amounted to $174.15, based on iSuppli’s January pricing estimate, very close to the current materials cost for the Incredible. The centerpiece of both phones is an advanced Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (AMOLED) display.
Both phones also share a common electronic design based on Qualcomm Inc.’s 1GHz Snapdragon baseband processor. Finally, the Incredible and Nexus One both integrate a class-leading density, at 4Gbit, of Mobile Double Data Rate (DDR) DRAM to support the processor.
Beyond the use of CDMA in the Incredible, only a few other differences distinguish the phone from the Nexus One. The Incredible, for one, uses an optical track pad, as opposed to the trackball on the Nexus One.
Furthermore, the Incredible employs HTC’s Sense User Interface (UI) overlay, whereas the Nexus uses the generic Android UI.
When the $8.90 manufacturing cost is added in, the combined BOM and production expense for the Incredible amounts to $172.25.
The table presents iSuppli’s preliminary BOM estimate for the Incredible, broken down by major functional sections of the device. Please note that iSuppli’s teardown assessment accounts only for hardware and manufacturing costs, and does not take into consideration other expenses such as software, licensing, and royalties.
Source: iSuppli, USA.
Qualcomm, Samsung and Hynix lead the BOM parade
The most expensive section of the Incredible is the baseband/applications processor, at a cost of $31.40, and accounting for 19.2 percent of the smart phone’s total BOM. This section is dominated by Qualcomm Inc.’s baseband Integrated Circuit (IC), which includes the Snapdragon processor.
Coming in at a close second in terms of expense is the display and touch screen section at a cost of $31.20, or 19.1 percent of the BOM. The AMOLED display portion of this subsystem is supplied by Samsung Mobile Display Co. Ltd.
Next in the ranking is the memory section, at a cost of $29.80 and accounting for 18.2 percent of the BOM. In the individual Incredible phone unit torn down by iSuppli, this section consists of NAND flash memory and mobile Double Data Rate (DDR) DRAM from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and more NAND from Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
However, iSuppli believes that HTC is likely using additional sources of supply for these commodity memory parts.
Broadcom, Texas Instruments and Atmel get Incredible wins
Other major functional sections and suppliers include:
* The Bluetooth/WLAN section, at a cost of $8.45 or 5.2 percent of the BOM, featuring a Broadcom Corp. chip that combines Bluetooth, FM and WLAN support.
* The power management section, with an expense of $7.25 and amounting to 4.4 percent of the BOM, including semiconductors from Qualcomm and Texas Instruments Inc.
* The user interface functions, costing $5.55 and accounting for 3.4 percent of the BOM, featuring an Atmel touch screen controller, an Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corp. (AKM) electronic compass and a Bosch Sensortec GMBH accelerometer.
* The Radio Frequency (RF) transceiver section, with a cost of $5 and representing 3.1 percent of the BOM, centered on a single-chip RF device from Qualcomm.
* The power amplifier section, at a cost of $2.60 and BOM share of 1.6 percent, featuring two transmit modules from Avago Technologies Ltd and TriQuint Semiconductor Inc.
Source: iSuppli, USA.
HTC Droid Incredible carries $163.35 BoM: iSuppli teardown
Aug 9th
EL SEGUNDO, USA: HTC Corp.’s Droid Incredible smart phone carries a Bill of Materials (BOM) of $163.35, according to a dissection conducted by iSuppli Corp.’s Teardown Analysis Service.
“The Droid Incredible could have been dubbed the ‘Nexus Two’ given its similarity to HTC’s Nexus One introduced early this year,” observed Andrew Rassweiler, director and principal analyst and teardown services manager for iSuppli. “Indeed, the phones are very similar in terms of costs and features, with the main difference being the Incredible’s support for the CDMA air standard used by carrier Verizon in the United States.”
The Nexus One’s BOM amounted to $174.15, based on iSuppli’s January pricing estimate, very close to the current materials cost for the Incredible. The centerpiece of both phones is an advanced Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (AMOLED) display.
Both phones also share a common electronic design based on Qualcomm Inc.’s 1GHz Snapdragon baseband processor. Finally, the Incredible and Nexus One both integrate a class-leading density, at 4Gbit, of Mobile Double Data Rate (DDR) DRAM to support the processor.
Beyond the use of CDMA in the Incredible, only a few other differences distinguish the phone from the Nexus One. The Incredible, for one, uses an optical track pad, as opposed to the trackball on the Nexus One.
Furthermore, the Incredible employs HTC’s Sense User Interface (UI) overlay, whereas the Nexus uses the generic Android UI.
When the $8.90 manufacturing cost is added in, the combined BOM and production expense for the Incredible amounts to $172.25.
The table presents iSuppli’s preliminary BOM estimate for the Incredible, broken down by major functional sections of the device. Please note that iSuppli’s teardown assessment accounts only for hardware and manufacturing costs, and does not take into consideration other expenses such as software, licensing, and royalties.Source: iSuppli, USA.
Qualcomm, Samsung and Hynix lead the BOM parade
The most expensive section of the Incredible is the baseband/applications processor, at a cost of $31.40, and accounting for 19.2 percent of the smart phone’s total BOM. This section is dominated by Qualcomm Inc.’s baseband Integrated Circuit (IC), which includes the Snapdragon processor.
Coming in at a close second in terms of expense is the display and touch screen section at a cost of $31.20, or 19.1 percent of the BOM. The AMOLED display portion of this subsystem is supplied by Samsung Mobile Display Co. Ltd.
Next in the ranking is the memory section, at a cost of $29.80 and accounting for 18.2 percent of the BOM. In the individual Incredible phone unit torn down by iSuppli, this section consists of NAND flash memory and mobile Double Data Rate (DDR) DRAM from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and more NAND from Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
However, iSuppli believes that HTC is likely using additional sources of supply for these commodity memory parts.
Broadcom, Texas Instruments and Atmel get Incredible wins
Other major functional sections and suppliers include:
* The Bluetooth/WLAN section, at a cost of $8.45 or 5.2 percent of the BOM, featuring a Broadcom Corp. chip that combines Bluetooth, FM and WLAN support.
* The power management section, with an expense of $7.25 and amounting to 4.4 percent of the BOM, including semiconductors from Qualcomm and Texas Instruments Inc.
* The user interface functions, costing $5.55 and accounting for 3.4 percent of the BOM, featuring an Atmel touch screen controller, an Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corp. (AKM) electronic compass and a Bosch Sensortec GMBH accelerometer.
* The Radio Frequency (RF) transceiver section, with a cost of $5 and representing 3.1 percent of the BOM, centered on a single-chip RF device from Qualcomm.
* The power amplifier section, at a cost of $2.60 and BOM share of 1.6 percent, featuring two transmit modules from Avago Technologies Ltd and TriQuint Semiconductor Inc.
Source: iSuppli, USA.
New Phone (Android)
Aug 6th
Ever since the first Android phones came out back in October 2008, I’ve been keeping an eye on their progress. I didn’t care for the original HTC Hero, but the newest phones based on Android 2.1/2.2 look very impressive. Now that my iPhone 3G contract is up, I decided I’d get one. Since I’m on AT&T and wanted to stay with that provider, I went with the Samsung Captivate
One of the reasons I decided to get an Android phone is that the Mono team is working on MonoDroid, a port of Mono to Android phones. While I’m not on the team working on the port, I am interested as a potential Android developer in using MonoDroid to write some of my own applications for Android phones.
10 years ago, when I first started working for Helix Code on the GNOME desktop for Linux to help make Linux usable for average Joes, I never expected that I’d ever have a phone that ran Linux! Especially a Linux-based phone that is taking the smart-phone market by storm! These are very exciting times for me, and I’m sure for the Google folks working on the Android project!
After I get my feet wet for a week or so with using my new Captivate phone, I’ll try to write up a review of what I think, so stay tuned!
how mobile applications against Apple and Google alliance
Jul 28th
Recently, committed to creating open application platform, telecommunications companies Union Wholesale Applications Community (WAC),