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19 January 2007, 17:54

New Full Touch Screen Concept Phone Nokia Aeon.

New Full Touch Screen Concept Phone Aeon From Nokia

Quick search around the Nokia website reveals that their engineers are already working on something that, admittedly, looks cooler than the iPhone.

Developed by Nokia's research and development team, this Nokia Aeon concept phone is about the most futuristic cellphone I've seen lately. Of course there are no specs for the Aeon yet, except that it has a "full surface screen"...

Nokia's research and development team have kicked it up a gear with an attractive "aeon" concept phone showing up in the Research&Development section of the company's website.

The Nokia Aeon has a similar design to the Synaptics Onyx. The concept phone will feature a full surface touch screen display that replaces the traditional keypad. Its unique design gives this concept phone an extremely sleek and sexy look.

The most prominent design feature of aeon is a touchscreen that stretches over the full surface area of the phone. Similar to the Synaptics Onyx, the Nokia Aeon features a "full surface touchscreen" display that replaces the traditional keypad. No word yet on if this concept will go into production.

New Full Touch Screen Concept Phone Aeon From Nokia

No word yet on if this concept will go into production.Currently mobile technology isn’t quite up to realizing this fantasy, but we’ll sleep better tonight knowing that at least one of the cellphone industry’s biggest names shares the same dream as we do...

The concept phone, dubbed Aeon, combines two touch-sensitive panels mounted on a fuel-cell power pack.

Like the BenQ Black Box, this guy is all touchscreen, getting rid of the traditional keypad unless you need it. It also looks remarkably thin...

The handset's connectivity and electronics are built into the panels to allow them to be used independendently. When assembled, one panel would operate as the display, the other as the keypad.

Even if this does become a reality, it looks sweet enough to probably become a Korea-only model for a while before making its way over here, so don't hold your breath for it.

Since the buttons are entirely virtual, Aeon can flip instantly between a numeric pad for dialling, a text-entry pad for messaging, or a media-player controller.

New Full Touch Screen Concept Phone Aeon From Nokia

The designers, researchers and development team at Nokia have come into a world of their own when designing this amazing handset that will make you melt away, when we came across this phone on Nokia’s main website in the research & Development page we nearly fell off our seats because of the style, design and well bloody beauty of its concept.

It's a cute idea and one that ties in with Nokia's expectation that phones will become essentially "wearable" devices - if foresees users removing one of Aeon's display panels and mounting it on a watch-like strap or worn as a badge.

Not only are the looks mind blowing but what about the touch screen that covers the full surface of the Nokia mobile phone (yes we did say the WHOLE surface). Tele Communication has got that one step better.

More than a phone, Aeon might tap into local wireless networks to transmit data acquired from sensors such as devices that monitor the user's health signs - which is the kind of application the company has in mind for its Wibree personal-area network technology...

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Just guessing, but watch out Nokia, we might see some knock-off come out of China before that...

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Batteries that travel: USBCELL batteries recharge through your USB.

Moixa Energy's latest innovation is one of those slap- your-forehead, why-didn't- I-think-of-that ideas that simultaneously makes sense and makes us feel good to use: a traditional AA battery that recharges itself while plugged into a personal computer's USB port.

The humble USB port is becoming more and more useful. First came the memory card with built-in USB plug, now comes the USB-charged battery.

Moixa, a British company, began offering its USBCell in September and, while executives won't disclose how many they have sold, it is clear that the product is a winner, igniting a low-energy hum among the technorati.

Moixa Energy have developed the USBCELL as an environmentally-friendly alternative to normal AA batteries. The top of one side flips up to reveal a USB connector, and the battery simply plugs into an open port.

But before I recite the reasons why this is a brilliant idea, let me disclose two drawbacks: The batteries are pricier than both regular AAs and other rechargeables. And because some of the physical space of the battery is taken up with a USB connector, the energy volume it packs may be a little less than others before needing a recharge.

The first batteries available are AA sized, but Moixa plans to unveil a full range standard formats, as well as phone and camera batteries.

Nevertheless, like a previous breakthrough from Moixa — it licenses the technology behind the Stowaway foldable keyboard sold by Think Outside — it is a winner.

USBCELL batteries recharge through your USB.

The feel-good part of the USBCell is this: Besides the advantage of all rechargeables — you aren't adding toxins to landfills by tossing the batteries in the trash after use — you are also taking advantage of an existing energy supply, your plugged-in personal computer, and are not wasting power.

It takes five hours to charge one of the cells if it was fully discharged; each battery has a capacity of 1300mAH.

Simon Daniel, chief executive of Moixa (axiom spelled backwards), said that the company intended to pursue other consumer-oriented energy solutions that take us "off the grid" by weaning consumers away from central power utilities.

No, they're not the latest USB Flash drives in a fancy casing - Moixa's USB Cell products are real batteries, charged using a spare USB port. Which, if you think about it, is genius: no cables, no special adaptor just plug 'em into your computer every so often.

"Most of the products consumers are buying today are low-power devices. In order to charge them, we connect them into the AC circuit using an AC-DC converter," he explained.

USBCELL batteries recharge through your USB.

Moxia wants £13 inc. P&P for a pair of AA batteries, which isn't cheap, but works out better value than disposable alkaline batteries in the long run. Moxia also has a 9V block battery in the works, along with a set designed to match the power packs of popular mobile phones - again, all recharged using a USB port.

"That's an inefficient, last-millennium technology which loses about a third of its power in taking a 110-volt circuit and bringing it down to the 1.5 volts required to recharge" a mobile gadget.

USB Cell has released to give more and more power, Moixa has release such a cell. What’s really exciting though are Moixa’s mobile designs. They’ll fit in your phone, with a handy USB connector so you can charge up whenever there’s a PC, PS3, Wii or Xbox around.

In fact, he argues, "The whole power supply designed to be sent remotely to the home to power things like washing machines is not actually the power supply we need in this century, which needs to be much better at low-power and can use local sources like solar panels."

USBCELL batteries recharge through your USB.

Until now, rechargeable batteries have never been all that portable because they have to travel with a charger. "Our solution is to build the charging ability into the battery," Daniel said.

Moixa says it’s working with mobile manufacturers so the final designs will be co-branded and optimised for specific phones.

The USBCell battery is for sale online at sites, like Amazon.com, where you can get two AAs for about $20 — about 30 percent to 50 percent more than regular rechargeable batteries. USBCells are also in a few retail stores in the United States and Europe (and soon, Asia).

It means you can kiss goodbye to travel chargers, and don’t have to worry about your phone’s MP3 or video player sucking away at talk-time.

USBCell versions of AAA and 9- volt batteries are due out soon. But Daniel is more excited about bringing the technology to batteries used in mobile phones, digital cameras and MP3 players. He said the company is in partnership talks with handset manufacturers and expects to announce deals later this year.

Never run out of power when you need to upload your photos. Continue typing on that Blackberry. Or just keep on playing portable game devices.

He sees a lot of potential there. "Phones, especially those with very good cameras or very good MP3 players, do not usually have very good batteries to support the extra features," he said. "The gadget makers are forced to design and make their own batteries, and they're not battery companies."

Simply remove the back cover of your phone and charge from USB. No need to remember or carry a phone charger or adaptor.

Daniel said that a few small devices like the Apple iPod Shuffle had been taking advantage of USB's ability to transfer power. But the technology to reduce the charging apparatus to the size needed to fit it into a AA battery was too expensive to mass market even a year ago, he said.

Moixa, a private company, has a few other innovations up its sleeve that Daniel won't disclose. "We tend to think about things fundamentally differently about how to solve usability problems," he said. "Sometimes it is a matter of rethinking how something is done and coming up with a slight change that in some sense in hindsight is obvious."

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Samsung aims to put digital TV in cars.

Samsung is coming to the rescue of an endangered species: the portable TV.

The South Korean electronics giant revealed a technology on Sunday at the Consumer Electronics Show here that will let local TV stations broadcast digital programs to phones or car TVs.

Samsung A-VSB

Mobility, that’s the big news this year. All of the manufactures are hawking devices and technologies to allow consumers to access whatever they want wherever they want it. And one of the most talked about technologies was announced by at an event by Samsung yesterday. It was so packed that people were turned away. Samsung introduced what is called as A-VSB, which one executive said would obliterate the couch potato. And what it is a combination of a chip in various devices and an extra signal that can be sent out by television stations. And it will allow viewers to watch television on a laptop, maybe on their cell phone, and even in a moving car or train. It is completely new. It is not connected to cell technology or the Internet. It is what Samsung hopes will be the new standard for broadcast digital TV

A-VSB, which stands for advanced vestigal side band, essentially insulates digital broadcasting streams from interference from buildings, people on the sidewalk and other obstructions.

To me, mobility is the next step in the natural progression of technological developments. You see signs of it everywhere: 219.4 million people in the US own mobile phones (this includes my non-tech friendly father), Google offers users spreadsheet and document applications over the internet (anytime, anyplace, any computer), and seeing someone watching Desperate Housewives on their iPod is not too uncommon on the train in the morning.

A-VSB broadcasts are delivered on the same frequencies as regular digital broadcasting in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, said John Godfrey, vice president of government affairs at Samsung.

Currently, car passengers can receive analog TV broadcasts on a portable TV. In the United States, however, analog TV broadcasting will end in 2009. A-VSB thus will allow couch potatoes to continue to watch shows on the go after digital broadcasting kicks in. Otherwise, it would be puppet shows for them.

Samsung A-VSB

Lets face it, people are on the go more; We just don’t have time to sit in one place and do one thing at a time, so of course our technology will reflect that.

The key to A-VSB is that the signal uses the same frequency as regular digital broadcasts, which means it should be relatively cheap to adopt, according to Samsung.

Here, a Samsung representative holds a mobile device playing A-VSB enhanced digital television. The other, larger screens show what he sees.

A-VSB essentially allows broadcasters to send digital signals to mobile TVs. There are still some tweaks to be worked out, but Samsung said products that use the standard could hit the market in 2008.

Broadcasters will have to buy some new equipment and "turbocode" the mobile signal so that it can better lock onto moving objects.

A-VSB uses extra space in the spectrum to enhance current digital TV signals, keeping it more stable and preventing interference by moving objects near the set.

Broadcasters will also have to tweak the digital signal for mobile and add items like encryption, but they will be able to leverage the infrastructure they have already installed. In a sense, the A-VSB signal is a hardened, but largely duplicative, signal of the existing digital broadcast.

"Broadcasters can use their current equipment and spectrum," Godfrey said.

In South Korea, digital broadcasters send their mobile programming out on a different signal, said Godfrey. There, watching TV on a phone has become more popular after a slow start.

It also can be used to broadcast digital TV to portable gadgets such as laptops and cell phones.

In some ways, A-VSB will be a limited market. You can't get ESPN through A-VSB, noted Godfrey. It is for local broadcasts. And some people who took a tour on a bus here rigged with A-VSB said that the TV picture occasionally hung. Still, something had to be done. Otherwise civilization will lose the limo TV.

Samsung will submit the technology to a standards body in the first half of this year and hopes for products to come out in 2008.

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Samsung Advanced Vestigial Sideband Debut at CES: TV on your car navigation system, cellphones.

It's not a cellular technology; rather it's a way of getting TV broadcasting picked up on mobile devices. Make sense? No? Just watch the damn video.

Samsung Electronics has developed a way to broadcast digital television signals to car screens as well as to devices like DVDs, video games, and music players. The technology was demonstrated for the first time at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, this month.

Don't look for this any time soon, as TV stations need to start actually broadcasting A-VSB signals and then products that can pick 'em up need to be released, which won't happen 'til 2008 at the earliest. Kind of far off, but a cool thing to look forward to.

Samsung said that the new technology, known as Advanced Vestigial Sideband, can also potentially work on cell phones.

The company began trying to make the technology standard in December 2005 and hopes to try again in the first half of 2007. Our take? We hope there are ways to "shield" car screens from the technology. We can just imagine navigating to a party and suddenly one's 5 year old decides to put the latest Barney over a tricky turnoff.

New Full Touch Screen Concept Phone Nokia Aeon.

Batteries that travel: USBCELL batteries recharge through your USB.

Samsung aims to put digital TV in cars.

Samsung is coming to the rescue of an endangered species: the portable TV.

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