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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Toshiba announced the smartphone’s successor MWC TG01. The new device, Toshiba TG02, has a little more compact design and is 10 grams more easily. Mention the adoption of a capacitive rather than resistive screen, whose size and resolution are all the 4.1 inch 480 x 800 pixels. Unfortunately, both confined news they bring this phone.

Technical facilities are absolutely identical to those present on the TG01: Snapdragon processor at 1 GHz, 256 MB RAM, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, 3.15 MP camera and operating system Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional. If the chapter were not processing power necessary changes, however, Toshiba could improve it on the photo or even make him a more powerful battery (1000 mAh is very little for this “smartphone titanium”).

Toshiba K01 is a fresh smartphone announced at the Mobile World Congress. Although there was some intense media coverage, we can easily describe, without a wealth of details, to understand where it fits: Toshiba TG01 imagine a QWERTY keyboard. Automatically, this implementation makes the Toshiba K01 have another type of construction (slider) and is thicker (12.9 mm to 9.9 mm).

Technical facilities are similar, except the screen is capacitive (TG01 has a resistive touchscreen). Recall: Snapdragon 1 GHz processor, 256 MB RAM, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, 3.15 MP camera, Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional OS and 1000 mAh battery. Company representatives have not yet disclosed the date on which Toshiba K01 will become available or the price.

Sports equipment manufacturer Adidas expands. Now you have the sports shoes and a telephone company of the same brand to match it. Phone and Terminal is called Puma is using the product from Sagem.

Puma Phone boasts a phone that is organic. In this respect it is equipped with solar panels which is not very clear effectively. It is also made of organic materials. In addition, includes a number of applications in the same ecological concept.

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MWC 2010 HTC has used to announce a number of phones in November. These and HTC Legend, factual and legal successor of HTC’s Hero.

With minor differences, HTC Legend takes his predecessor design. One distinction is the optical trackpad which took place at the HTC Hero existing wheel. Another difference is that HTC Legend is built from a single piece of aluminum. This is shown by the manufacturer and in the video below.

Beyond the technical facilities construction and not very spectacular, HTC Legend is leading a high quality AMOLED screen. In the smartphone operating system behind Google’s Android 2.1 Obviously, the main graphical interface is HTC Sense.

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Overall size of a phone operating system might scare some users. Major producers seem to have noticed this and began to launch mini versions of dedicated terminals. That appeared HTC HD mini, with a thickness of 11.7 mm and weighing 110 g Screen 3.2 ‘is not quite as “HD” with resolution of 320×480 pixels, but probably fits better on the dimensions of 103×58 mm. 6.5.3 Windows Mobile operating system runs on a Qualcomm processor 7227 to 600 MHz, using 384 MB RAM and 512 MB of ROM memory. The reader supports microSD cards with capacity of up to 16 GB.

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Although Nexus One is a good phone, his name is more about Google than the Samsung. Thus, the Taiwanese manufacturer has decided to launch version “simple” phone, as the HTC Desire. Obviously there are some external differences, the most obvious being physical buttons, which replace those of his touch and Nexus One’s trackpad, which is now optical. Otherwise, we have the same AMOLED screen of 3.7 “with resolution of 480×800, the same processor at 1 GHz Snapdragon same operating system Android. The latter has reached version 2.1, called Eclair and provide support for HTML 5, and speed optimizations a better virtual keyboard.

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Sony Ericsson has announced not just one, but three new phones to boost their current line-up. First off, we have two new iterations of the Xperia X10 – the X10 mini and X10 mini Pro.

They both come with a 2.55-inch QVGA touchscreen display, 5-megapixel autofocus camera with flash, 600MHz processor, WiFi Bluetooth, 3.5mm jack, UMTS HSPA connectivity, A-GPS and Google Maps, and Android 1.6 as its OS running in tandem with Timescape. The obvious difference between the two is the slide-out QWERTY keypad found on the X10 mini pro which should delight messaging aficionados out there.

The other new phone they introduced is the Vivaz Pro. Just like the X10 mini pro, this baby is a slightly modified version of its namesake, the Sony Ericsson Vivaz, and also boasts of a QWERTY keypad tucked underneath its touchscreen display. With the exception of its less powerful yet still very capable 5.1-megapixel camera, its specs are almost identical with the Vivaz. It’ll ship with an 8GB microSD card, and will be available in black and white colored variations. The press release of the Vivaz Pro can be found here.

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