Thread: Mobile News

NEC has introduced new audio chip µPD9971, which will ensure 128-tones polyphony in cell handsets.


The new chip ensures a pseudo 3D sound positioning (if the phone has a stereophonic system), 128-tones polyphony (PCM), audio effect such as “echo”, “reverberation” and so on (7 effects in all) and also support applications in SMF (Standard MIDI) and Mobile-XMF (Extensible Music Format, recent development by MIDI Manufacturers Association).

The trial lots of the new chips have been already shipped to NEC clients, the wholesale price makes up some $7.6 per unit. The mass production of the µPD9971 starts in August 2005.

In the Internet you can come across fresh rumors on the plans of palmOne to release a product powered by Palm OS and equipped with HDD.


There is a rumor that the new device called as though the Life Drive will be equipped with a 4GB HDD, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth interfaces and a better screen. It’s also rumored, the device will be thicker compared with the current models by palmOne.

In all, rumors around upcoming products driven by Palm OS have been widely spread. Even if all of them are groundless, palmOne should think about releasing similar products. Just not to disappoint its fans. ;-)

Samsung has launched to the market of South Korea its recently announced MP3 player YP-C1. The new player is available in 3 color solutions, weighs 26 g, measures 26x71x26 mm and is fed by a single AA battery.

The YP-C1 supports MP3, WMA and OGG formats. It also features an FM-tuner, SRS, WOW and a voice recorder.

Samsung Electronics has officially announced new models the SPH-G1000 and the SCH-G100, which represent 3D game phones with vibration function. The company also informed that the new handsets would be commercially available in Korea next week.

The SPH-G1000 and the SCH-G100 work under CDMA 2000 1X network and feature 113x55x24 mm, a 2.2” 240x320x262K color TFT screen and RS-MMC slot. Besides the slider G1000 is equipped with a 1.3-megapixel camera, which is activated by opening the lens cover.


The phones reproduce real sound and image at the same time rendering vibration to user’s hands to provide “live” sensation during gaming. For example, if you play a car racing game, the phone vibrates, as if you drive along a gravel road or other uneven surface, that makes the virtual world more real.

There is a built-in graphical accelerator, which can process 1 million polygons per second. The 3D accelerator can “mix” graphics, i.e. 2D and 3D images can be displayed simultaneously making interesting visual effects. The function allows displaying the game background in 2D and people and other elements in 3D. Two built-in speakers ensure realistic stereo sound during gaming.

In Europe Alcatel ОТ-С552 will come out approximately in June 2005. The company intends to replace Alcatel OneTouch 556/557 with it, considering its functionality the OT-C552 represents a full analog of the OT-C551.

We’ll provide more details on the new phone as soon as we get it, and now have a look at the photos below:

PNY Technologies, the company lately popular with its products, has extended its flash cards line with a 1 GB Secure Digital High Speed card.


From [many] other 1GB SD cards the new card by PNY stands out for a significant data exchange speed – up to 66X, i.e. to 10 Mbps (write) and up to 8 Mbps (read).

LG Electronics seems to make the design of LG M4300 introduced at CeBIT 2005 (read our report) a base for the whole line of handsets. Well, at CeBIT 2005 in addition to its GSM/EDGE the company introduced a simplified version C4300; yesterday it announced preparations to produce 410 Series phones meant mainly at sport car fans.


The LG 410 Series line will slightly differ from LG M4300 (see the photo below). Phones from the 410 Series will be introduced by South Korean operators – SKT (SD410), KTF (KP4100) and LGT (LP4100) in the first half of 2005, and later on the US and European markets.


New clamshell phones of the LG 410 Series initially made in a “car” style will be equipped with a 1.3-megapixel camera, TFT LCD 262K color screen, and support video recording, mobile bank, MMS and MP3 playback. Especially for the car fans there will be possible to set the sound of a starting car as a ring tone or the sound while opening/closing the phone. Besides there will be available various photos with sport cars for screensavers.

The Taiwanese company Spectec Computer has announced the release of its wireless Wi-Fi module SDW-820 in SD form-factor. The device is meant for mobile devices supporting SDIO functionality and IEEE802.11b standard.



Short specs of the SDW-820 wireless card:

Interface: SD I/O
Standard: IEEE802.11b
Power supply: 3.0 – 3.6 v, TRX: 2.7 v
Current drain: 185 mA (average), 60 mA (receiving), 116 mA / 15 db m (transfer), 5 mcA (asleep)
Working channels: 11, 13 and 14
Distance: 400 m/100 m (outdoors/ indoors)
Data exchange speed: 1/2/5,5/11 Mbps
Supported operating systems: Windows Mobile 2003 (Windows CE v4.X), Linux
Dimensions: 38.5x24x2.1 mm
Weight: about 5 g.

Today Sony has introduced new MP3 player with 20 GB hard drive – the NW-HD5. The sales traditionally start in Japan in late April.



Sony NW-HD5 is an update of the NW-HD3. It is equipped with a 7-line 128x128 LCD backlit screen and 20 GB hard drive. The model differs from its predecessor in the G Sensor that ensures more stable work and improved user’s interface.

Sony NW-HD5 supports ATRAC3/ATRAC3plus, MP3 (32 – 320 kbps). The player displays info of the track on the screen and runs search sorting by Artist, Album, Track, Genre or Playlist. There is a 6-band equalizer and USB 2.0 interface for PC connection and battery charging. The battery is capacious of 880 mAh and provides 40 hours of music playback (ATRAC3 plus, 48 kbps).

The device measures 59.9x88.7x14.2 mm and weighs 135 g. It will be released in silver, black and red shell color solutions. In Japan Sony NW-HD5 packed with headphones will cost about $330.

The Taiwanese mobile phone maker xcute Mobile, which is not that popular, has announced the start of sales of its 3-magapixel handset DV1. In Taiwan the handset will be sold by Synnex Technology, and in Europe the DV1 will come out under a world popular trademark. Besides xcute Mobile plans to promote the device in China together with Chinese Electronics Corporation Telecom (CECT).


The DV1 is a tri-band GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz phone equipped with a 24-bit color screen, an integrated MP3 player, video recording function, 20 MB of internal memory and a slot for miniSD cards. In addition there is a TV-out.

In the Taiwanese retail the camera phone will be offered for some $600, however as for Europe, they haven’t announced either the name or the price of the model.