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Google Buys Motorola Mobility for US$12.5 Billion

Monday, August 15, 2011 at 11:29 PM Article by Unknown 1 Comment


Google has entered into an agreement to acquire the mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility for about US$12.5 billion, the company said on Monday.
Google has offered about $40 per share in cash, a premium of 63 percent over the closing price of Motorola Mobility shares on Friday.

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Motorola Mobility exclusively ships phones and its Xoom tablet with Google's Android operating system. The deal will mean that Google now has a hardware manufacturer to work with closely to develop Android, said Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner.
Google will also have control of Motorola's impressive patent portfolio, Milanesi said. Motorola Mobility said earlier this year that it owns about 24,500 patents.

Conflict with Partners?

But the deal may also create tension with other mobile phone manufacturers such as HTC and Samsung, which also ship Android devices, she said. Since creating Android, Google has rotated manufacturers with which to release new Android code, releasing the code to others about six months later.

Google may risk alienating those other manufacturers, but Milanesi said "all these vendors have invested so much in the platform, they won't quickly walk away from it."

Google may also want to speed up the development of its Android operating system on tablet computers, where it has been slower to catch on than on mobile phones, Milanesi said. The next release for Android, code-named "Ice Cream Sandwich," will be an operating system designed for tablets and mobile devices.

The acquisition of Motorola Mobility will enable Google to "supercharge the Android ecosystem and enhance competition in mobile computing," according to a news release. Google said the deal will not affect how Android is developed, and the operating system will remain open, Google said.

The company will run Motorola Mobility, which has about 20,000 employees, as a separate business, Google said. The transaction is expected to close at the end of this year or early next year.

Motorola Mobility, which was spun off from its parent company in early January, is composed of two groups: Mobile Devices, which makes phones, and Home, which makes set-top boxes and other IPTV equipment.


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Top 8 Most Expensive Cell Phones In The World!

Sunday, April 24, 2011 at 8:31 PM Article by Unknown 3 Comments


The reason cell phones are so expensive is not only purely because of the technology that the cell phones offer, but also because of the accessories that are manufactured to accompany these most expensive cell phones. In contrast to this, many exclusive offers deals on contract mobile phones make even the most expensive mobilecell phone affordable to the average consumer. So, let’s take a look at the Top 8 most expensive cell phones ever made in the world.

8. Nokia 8800 Arte with pink diamonds

Designed by Peter Aloisson, this solid 18k white gold mobile phones have more than 680 phone features in pink and white brilliant colour with diamonds cut totaling over 21.5 carats. Some features of this cell mobile phone is 3.15 MP camera with autofocus and video, music player, Bluetooth and voice memo.

Price:

about $134,000

7. Peter Aloisson’s iPhone Princess Plus

The Princess Plus gets its name from the Princess cut diamonds used on 138 of the 318 diamonds on its surface. 180 other diamonds of the phone are brilliant cut. In total, 17.75 carats diamond phone is set in 18k white gold around the lips. IPhone Princess Plus is worth $ 176,400, while the cheaper “Brilliants only” version sold $ 66,150.

Price:

about $176,400

6. Sony Ericsson Black Diamond

The price of this phone comes from the actual state of the art technology and not just because of polished group of stone-but, but that does not mean it does not have the visual appeal. Polycarbonate OLED technology under the skin that covers the entire face give 4 megapixel phone with the screen display limits. A Mirror gives the phone a sleek, futuristic look.

Price:

about $300,000


5. Vertu Signature Cobra


This striking phone so exclusive that only eight ever be made. Jewelry designed by the FrenchBoucheron, the Signature Cobra is made with two diamonds, two emeralds and 439 rubies. For buyers who not that rich, twenty six of the less flashy (read: no rubies) signature Python phones will be available also for only $ 115,000. Both phones have snake on them as a symbol of exclusivity. Awesome.

Price:

about $310,000

4. The Diamond Crypto Smartphone


Created by luxury accessories producer Peter Aloisson based from Moscow JSC Ancort. This luxurious smartphone platinum price comes from the body cover that adorned with 50 diamonds, including eight of the rare blue diamonds. In addition, Ancort logo and navigation buttons are made of 18k rose gold. Built on Windows CE, this expensive cell phone also features a high resolution color TFT display and 256-bit cryptographic algorithm. This expensive mobile phone features SMS, MMS, E-mail and Internet capability, WAP, JAVA support and even media player.

Price:

about $1.3 million


3. GoldVish ‘Le Million’ Piece Unique


The GoldVish “Le Million”, the solid gold, diamond-studded “Piece Unique” is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as both “The world’s most expensive cellular phone” and “The world’s most exclusive cellular phone” at one million Euros (approx. US$1.3 million) per phone and a guaranteed limited production of three pieces. Produced by GoldVish Luxury Communications, The Geneva-based luxury communication company, this expensive phone was designed by Emmanuel Gueit in addition to the Illusion Collection. The phone is made from 18k white gold and set with 20 carats of VVS1 (only microscopic defects) diamond. The phone also features Bluetooth, 2 GB of storage, FM radio, digital cameras and MP3 playback. This expensive mobile phone is available only by special order.

Price:

about $1.3 million

2. Peter Aloisson’s Kings Button iPhone


The Kings Button iPhone is, an amazing jewel decorated iPhone. This time Aloisson has iPhone 3G to play with and apparently a little larger budget. One hundred and thirty eight brilliant cut diamonds line in the side of the phone, but the real prize is the home button from the rare 6.6 carats white diamond.

Price:

about $2.4 million

1. Goldstriker iPhone 3GS Supreme


Stuart Hughes of Goldstriker International is famous for giving expensive devices such as mobile phones and video game console a luxutious touch by covered them with gold and diamonds, and for this iPhone is no exception. The iPhone has a great feature 3GS casing is made of 271 grams of solid 22k gold and scenes decorated with fifty three 1 carat diamond. The navigation button on the Goldstriker iPhone 3GS Supreme is a rare 7.1 carat diamond. It took 10 months to make this incredible mobile phone, and it was packaged in a 7 kg granite box lined in nubuck leather.

Price:

about $3.2 million



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Cisco Mobile Traffic Analysis

Sunday, March 20, 2011 at 2:22 PM Article by Unknown 0 Comments


Cisco has released a new report, titled Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, 2010–2015 (PDF), that explains what happened in mobile traffic during 2010 and tries to predict what will happen in 2015. Cisco is the largest provider of computer networking gear, so the company has an ongoing initiative to track and forecast the impact of visual networking applications on global networks.
Global mobile data traffic grew 2.6-fold in 2010, nearly tripling for the third year in a row. Last year’s forecast projected that the growth rate would be 149 percent, while this year’s estimate is that global mobile data traffic grew 159 percent in 2010.

2010′s mobile data traffic (237 petabytes per month) was three times the size of the entire global Internet in 2000 (75 petabytes per month). Mobile video traffic was at 49.8 percent of total mobile data traffic at the end of 2010. The average mobile network downstream speed more than doubled, from 101 kilobits per second (kbps) in 2009 to 215kbps in 2010. The average mobile network connection speed for smartphones increased from 625kbps in 2009 to 1040kbps in 2010.
The average amount of traffic per smartphone more than doubled from 35MB per month in 2009 to 79MB per month in 2010. Smartphones represent only 13 percent of total global handsets in use today, but they represent over 78 percent of total global handset traffic. In 2010, the typical smartphone generated 24 times more mobile data traffic (79MB per month) than the typical basic-feature cell phone (3.3MB per month).

In 2010, 3 million tablets were connected to the mobile network, and each tablet generated five times more traffic than the average smartphone (405MB per month). 94 million laptops were on the mobile network in 2010, and each laptop generated 22 times more traffic than the average smartphone (1.7GB per month).


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Quad Core Processors For Mobiles Soon!

Thursday, December 02, 2010 at 11:16 PM Article by Unknown 0 Comments





5 years ago, the PC industry embraced the dual-core processors to address the growing demands of computing and to tackle the power consumption surge on the single core CPUs. Multi-core processors helps to complete a task faster and that too with lower power requirements. To realize how, we need to understand how processors work and how they consumer power.

 One of the most basic way of improving the processor performance is the to increase the operating frequency - Think about frequency as the number of instructions that can be executed per second. When you increase the operating frequency, you get more instructions executed in the same timeframe. But there is a basic problem. To increase the frequency, you need to supply more voltage. This increased power consumption has two drastic effects. First, it dissipates more heat. Second, it strains the power budget by consuming more power (in-case of batteries, it drains faster). To dissipate the additional heat generated, you need larger cooling solutions. The whole thing is leading to inefficiency. To tackle this the processor industry came up with the multi-core architecture where you have two or more CPUs working together to perform a task. Basically, the workload is shared and spread among more processors.
But you may ask, "If there are more than one processor, wouldn't the power consumption be higher than before?". In reality, the dual core processors consumer lower power than the single-core processor.

Let's take an example. If you have a single-core CPU operating at 1GHz and 1.1V and is 100% utilized and lets call the power consumption as P. When you deploy a dual-core processors (each operating at 550 MHz and 0.8V) to complete the same task, you have two cores that are 50% utilized. So, the overall power consumption works out to 0.6P. [Power consumption is proportionate to operating frequency and to the voltage square]. In effect, the dual-core processor completes the task at 40% lower power requirement! The figure below illustrates the concept well.

 

Mobile phones are following the same trajectory as that of PCs. Users are expecting more from their mobile devices. Mobile devices are used like PCs! These days you can play full-HD video, video and audio streaming (video calls), full-fledged internet browsing with complete support for javascript and flash, 3D Gaming, super-cool interfaces, video editing and multi-tasking..All these are placing a strain on the single-core CPUs and on the battery life of the mobile phones. To tackle this performance and power consumption problem, mobile phone industry NEEDS to go the route of multi-core processors!

We already have answers..NVidia Tegra2 is the world's first dual-core processor for mobile phones.This SoC is based on ARM Cortex A9 MPCore architecture. This multi-core architecture employs symmetric multiprocessing, out of order execution and superior branch prediction to delivery fast performance. All this enables a smooth browsing experience on mobile phone and super-smooth user interaction interfaces.
Tegra2 delivers five major benefits:
  • Faster Web page load times
  • Lower power consumption and higher performance per watt
  • Higher quality game play experience for advanced console
  • Highly responsive and smoother User Interfaces
  • Faster multitasking
NVidia has published a white paper on the benefits of multi-core processors for mobile phones. This is one of the easiest and insightful whitepapers. I would suggest to go through the whitepaper to understand how things work...! Worth your time..

And by the way, NVidia is already working on a quad-core processor for mobile phones :)

To quote Jen-sun Hang, CEO of Nvidia "Dual-core processors will be the standard in 2011, and quad-core is coming in the near future!" Hail Super phones :)



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