Wednesday 05 January 2011

LG Announcing Optimus Pad Tablet Tomorrow    [ 05-01-2011 20:43 ]

Author: Oleg Kononosov   Source: IntoMobile     Translation by: Paul Smith     

Hot on the heels of the Optimus Black, which was announced today, LG are set to announce their first Android tablet, the Optimus Pad, tomorrow at CES.

The Optimus Pad is expected to feature a display somewhere in the region of 8.9 inches and rumour has it that it will ship with a Tegra 2 dual-core. In terms of the operating system LG decided not to release a Fryo powered tablet alongside arch-rival Samsung's Galaxy Tab so the speculation is that the Optimus Tab will launch with Honeycomb, the next generation of Android after Gingerbread.

Waiting to release a Honeycomb tablet may very well pay off for LG, which has steadily been increasing its clout with Android fans with its Optimus series of handsets. At any rate there's only one more sleep until we find out.

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Google Upgrades Text Bug To 'Critical' Status    [ 05-01-2011 20:30 ]

Author: Oleg Kononosov   Source: TechRadar     Translation by: Paul Smith     

Google finally looks to be about ready to do something about the rather annoying text bug found in some Android devices that causes messages to be sent to the wrong recipient. The fault was first identified back in the summer of last year, but it is only now that Google has upgraded the status of the bug to 'Critical', a sign that a fix may be imminent.

The fault is particularly irksome since the user doesn't know anything is wrong unless someone tells them that they have received a message in error. The user's own phone will display that the message has been sent correctly.

It appears that the bug is mostly confined to American variants of Android handsets and that those handsets are running either Froyo or Gingerbread. Still it's a fairly major flaw so hopefully a fix really is just around the corner.

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LG Announces Optimus Black: 'World's Thinnest Smartphone'    [ 05-01-2011 19:45 ]

Author: Oleg Kononosov   Source: BGR     Translation by: Paul Smith     

LG have just announced what they are claiming to be the 'world's thinnest smartphone', the Optimus Black. Measuring a wafer thin 9.2mm thick it will ship with Froyo (Android 2.2), but LG are saying that it is 'Android 2.3 Gingerbread upgrade' ready.

The handset features a 4 inch NOVA display, which the press release says will 'radically reduce power consumption by 50 percent during general indoor use'.

The claim to be the world's thinnest smartphone may not stand for long though with Sony Ericsson expected to unveil the Xperia arc, which is said to be just 8.7mm at its thinnest point.

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Google Looking To Launch NFC Payment System?    [ 05-01-2011 19:38 ]

Author: Oleg Kononosov   Source: Business Week     Translation by: Paul Smith     

Using your mobile phone to pay for something is about as close to reality now as it was 10 years ago (except in Japan where it actually is reality). However, we might, and I do stress the word 'might', finally be getting close to the point where we in the rest of the world actually see this technology come to fruition.

Business Week has been tipped off by a couple of anonymous sources that Google are in the throws of developing a contactless payment solution bsed upon NFC (Near Field Communications) to allow users to make purchases using their handsets.

Google recently snapped up a Canadian company by the name of Zetawire whose 'Walleto' product is described in trademark filings as being concerned with 'banking services provided by mobile telephone connections". Zetawire is also the owner of a patent for a 'Secured Electronic Transaction System', which combines a 'payment system, an advertising system, and an identity management system'. That sounds suspiciously like a mobile e-wallet solution to us.

One of the key problems with getting this sort of technology up and running has been the lack of supporting hardware, but with Google latest branded handset, the Nexus S, featuring an NFC chip it looks like the Big G is trying to move things in that direction. That still leaves the question of how such a system would be implemented though. Will Google try to become a payment processor itself? Will it try to create a system that existing banking and credit organisations can latch onto?

There's still many questions to answer and it's by no means a done deal, but Google, with their reach and economic clout, stand as good a chance as anyone of making this happen.

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