HP has made such a sensitive accelerometer that can detect a change in position equal to the thickness of a hair. The sensor is part of the CENS (Central Nervous System for the Earth), which aims to build a global network of sensors to measure everything into the environment.

The device is so sensitive that can detect even heartbeat. The source of this sensitivity is a 5 mm chip built on three layers of silicon. The middle layer is suspended between two other lines of silicon using highly flexible. Thus, the chip moves, the center suspended “left behind” due to inertia. By measuring approx movement is calculated speed, direction and distance.

While the project will CenNSE ecological implications, the first practical use of the accelerometer will be the petroleum industry. Shell will use the sensor to detect oil fields, which will streamline the extraction process.
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With a simple design and aesthetics, the LG GD880 Mini fails to capture public attention passionate about mobile phones. In a more in depth, we find that it is technically well equipped: a 3.2 inch touch screen has excellent resolution (854 x 480 pixels), HSDPA connections, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are present for duty, and integrated GPS is ready to guide the optimal path.

Enthusiasts will find photos as sufficient 5 MP camera with autofocus, and shall have melomanii microSD card support up to 16GB. Finally, if you want to know what activities are your friends, you can access through one press FaceBook, Twitter and other social networks.
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Rarely wear on you simultaneously: camera, video, MP3 player, GPS or computer with Internet access. Manufacturers have already demonstrated that a cell phone may be better than an MP3 player or a compact camera. It can successfully fulfill its role of GPS and better job on the Internet, especially on the social and information. In 2010, mobile phones will add another victim to the VC: video camera.

If only Nokia 2009 threatened (by Omnia HD) video cameras, pocket market, here, now two major companies have announced record HD phones: Sony Ericsson and Motorola models Vivaz respectively MOTOROI. And has not yet Mobile World Congress, the fair where all the phones out the ramp and cutting-edge technologies.

As tradition demands, as Samsung is the Samsung to come out with a phone pad High Definition. Nokia has left more soft lately with video cameras and mobile, but could occur anytime a surprise – not the other but have the power necessary to launch such devices. Finally, the fourth generation of iPhone will occur this year and yet we know nothing about the ‘magic’. Why not just record HD? Finally, Samsung is a major producer but has never put a price marked on the photo and video.
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Although to be announced only at the Mobile World Congress 2010 (15 to 18 February), we already have unofficial information about Nokia C5. This phone will be part of series C, a new series for Finnish portfolio.

Strange is that, although it will be part of a new series, Nokia C5 does not seem to differentiate too much from the current terminals of series E. The technical specifications for the C5 include:

- Symbian S60
- Screen 2.2 inch QVGA
- Support A-GPS
- Connectivity HSDPA
- Camera 3.2 MP
- Radio, 3.5 mm audio jack
- MicroSD slot, 50 MB internal memory

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The American group Google develop a program for first mobile phone able to instantly translate a foreign language during the call, and the system could be operational in the next few years, according to newspaper The Times.

Developing existing technologies of voice recognition and translation, Google could bring major changes communication between the over 6,000 languages spoken worldwide.

Google has created already an automatic translation of text for computer, which is constantly improved by scanning millions of websites and documents in different languages. PC program covers, at present, 52 languages, the latter Haitian Creole, added last week.

Also, the group also owns a voice recognition system that allows mobile users to search the Internet without using keys.

IT giant is working to combine the two technologies to obtain a software able to recognize the voice of a person and transform it into a synthetic play in a foreign language. As a human interpreter, the program will analyze longer sequences of speech, listening to understand the meaning of sentences and phrases before attempted a translation.

“We believe that voice translation will be possible and it will be acceptable in a few years. To go well, it takes a combination of translation and voice recunasterea, both with high accuracy, exactly what we are now developing“, said head of Translation by Google, Franz Och.

If the automatic translation of text is acceptable efficiency, development of voice recognition software presents several difficulties.

“Everyone has the voice, accent and tone different. But recognition should work on mobile phones, because they are personal. Cell phone owner should know the voice of voice search previously completed,” added Och.
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With the Apple iPad drawing flak from electronic and paper media, Dell is pitching in to fill the void with its tablet-smartphone crossbreed device Dell Mini 5. The Android-powered device sports a large 5″ screen and is powered by Qualcomm’s 1GHz Snapdragon processor. (DAVOS-KLOSTERS, SWITZERLAND)

Taking cue from competing Android manufacturers, Dell has added a customized UI to the Android core, making the Mini 5 an attractive device both on the hardware and software specifications sheet. Though the device looks intimidating with its 5″ touchscreen, especially when placed next to the market leader iPhone, the handset is a delight to use and doesn’t feel awkward, as seen by the leaked demo video showing Michael Dell briefing (unofficially) the media at the World Economic Forum 2010 annual meeting held in Switzerland.

While the full specifications of the device have been known for a while since the tear-down of the Dell Mini 5 by Vietnamese website Tinhte, first appeared on the web; there was no word on availability or pricing until this demo video from Michael Dell appeared on the web, a couple of days ago. The Dell founder and CEO, revealed that the Mini 5 will be launched in a “couple of months” and refused to divulge any details on the pricing.

With the Apple iPad going for US$499, Dell may be forced to price its Mini 5 around the same range to compete with the latest device from Apple.
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Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, one of the best known auditing and consulting companies made public a report on trends in telecommunications in 2010.

For smartphones, the prediction is simple and easy to suspect by those who have watched the evolution: smart phones will focus on navigation and Internet search. By 2011, sales of mobile phones have real chances to exceed those of computers (desktops and mobile) with a volume of 400 million units. By 2012, it could discuss sales of over 500 million units, a figure that mobile advertising could reach up to 7.2 billion dollars.

Everything you mobile communications will focus on the social networks. Mobile communication will intersect with the Internet and increasingly more users will turn to VoIP.
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