Voim: the concept of a smartphone for the Blind

Voim: the concept of a smartphone for the Blind

What a coincidence: with an interesting concept navigator for the blind, this week there was news about a similar smartphone clamshell for the same audience, that is, people with lost or severely impaired. That should not be detached from technological progress. In the end, any phone lets you listen to radio, music and chat with friends, voice.

Voim: the concept of a smartphone for the Blind

Conceived with the name Voim developed in South Korea, two designers and has a special screen that can create an image with changing the volume elements. As well as a miniature (with the mind - over the top, I think, the designers failed to comply with the proportions and the headset fits in the ear except that the child) Bluetooth-headset, which is hidden in the unit. And the camera, which is proposed to be used to read texts and identify the images. Snapshot recognized and translated into Braille, and advanced voice capabilities, I think, will read text aloud. And the authors suggest to wear the unit on a camera around his neck forward, which will be used for navigation and using voice messages to prompt the owner Voim where to go, where the roll and so on.

Voim: the concept of a smartphone for the Blind

Voim: the concept of a smartphone for the Blind

Source: Yanko Design

Posted on 12:36:00 PM / 0 comments / Read More

Acer beTouch E140: budget smartphone running Android 2.2 with a resistive screen

Acer_beTouchE140

With reference to the British Acer website of our colleagues from the site GSM Arena released information about the upcoming (date and price is not mentioned by the manufacturer) Android-smartphone Acer, which will run on Android 2.2, and judging by the specs, should be very modest money.
A key feature of the modern smartphone is the number of megapixels of its display. At Acer beTouch E140 resistive 2.8-inch display with a resolution of 320x240 pixels. It works in conjunction of the "trusted" processor Qualcomm MSM 7227 600 MHz and 512 MB of RAM (256 MB RAM). It weighs 95 grams and imprisoned in the body size 105h56h13 millimeters. Interest is perhaps that support HSDPA, also must be said about a 3-megapixel camera (without autofocus) and the battery is 1300 mAh.
Example of life:) said that for 1000 hryvnia this smartphone flies "with a bang", hence the price of the appearance (if ever it is we will have) can be expected at 1500-1700 hryvnia.
Source: GSM Arena citing www.acer.co.uk

Posted on 5:55:00 PM / 0 comments / Read More

Unannounced LG Star shows high performance with a chip Tegra 2 (video)

Engadget published a preliminary review of the Android-smartphone LG Star, also known as P990. From the review of LG Star, made in Israel is different measurements of performance, filmed on video. In the course went heavy artillery in the form of benchmarks Neocore, Linpack, Quadrant Standart, NenaMark1, Fps2D and BenchmarkPi. The results demonstrated a new chip Nvidia Tegra 2, to put it mildly, impressive. We are waiting for the official announcement of a smartphone at CES 2011 and similar surprises, Samsung and Nokia Sony Ericsson. Not to mention the HTC.

Posted on 5:47:00 PM / 0 comments / Read More

SWAP Rebel: phone-watch for £ 200

SWAP Rebel: phone-watch for £ 200

Perhaps the phone in a wristwatch, and now especially one not surprised - to be released and the industrious Chinese manufacturers and more impressive - the same Samsung and LG. But those hours of SWAP (Incidentally, the abbreviation, which in Russian means clever clocks and telephones) entitled Rebel (rebel) are not so expensive, have a good appearance, menus in Russian (yes), and 5 color options.

SWAP Rebel: phone-watch for £ 200

Features hours of more than modest, but such is the fate of gadgets such class: the place is extremely small, no display, no capacious battery put in them is simply nowhere. But users of these hours may well feel like a hero fiction novel. Anyway, in my childhood, communicators 21 centuries seemed just that - a clock, equipped with mobile phones, camera and voice recorder.

SWAP Rebel: phone-watch for £ 200

So, SWAP Rebel 1.5-inch touch screen with a resolution 176h132 point, built-in camera with VGA resolution and the possibility of a modest recording and built-in battery with 240 mAh for up to 2 hours of talk time (be recharged every night). Inside there is a 128 MB memory and microSD card capacity of 2 gigabytes (expandable to 8 GB). Weigh such watch 65 grams and can be easily connected to a PC via USB-contact, placed right at the end of the strap.

SWAP Rebel: phone-watch for £ 200

Producer talks about the address book for 500 numbers, calendar, calculator, file manager, radio and even the program for reading electronic books (his eyes would not break). Clocks can be ordered on the UK Amazon - there they are worth 200 pounds.

SWAP Rebel: phone-watch for £ 200

SWAP Rebel: phone-watch for £ 200

Posted on 4:55:00 PM / 0 comments / Read More

"Mouthwatering" concept. Phone-sandwich (Sandwich Phone) from designer Yongvu Kim (Yeongwoo Kim)

Multi-functional and multi-layered Sandwich Phone

When a person is hungry, but he can not decide exactly what he wants, and time for cooking, it has little, the answer comes by itself: a multilayer sandwich, where to put the sausage and bread and cheese, and vegetables, and herbs. Quick, tasty and nutritious. Is that not too useful, but now it's not about that. Multi-layer sandwich gives him a lot of advantages over other food, so it is not surprising that designers wanting to fit in a lot of gadgets, a variety of functions, gradually come to a multi-gadget sandwiches. Such as the Sandwich Phone from designer Yongvu Kim (Yeongwoo Kim).

This unusual phone called the "sandwich", but it also looked like and a small notebook, since all the layers of the device, whatever their number was turned over the pages in a notebook or book. So, on separate "pages" designer brought as the phone itself, as well as the most popular applications, such as mp3-player and fotovideokamera. And in the "spine" mobile phone built-in speaker, rechargeable battery and a 3.5 mm headphone jack. The screen on the phone-sandwich, of course, the touch.

Multi-functional and multi-layered Sandwich Phone

Multi-functional and multi-layered Sandwich Phone

Multi-functional and multi-layered Sandwich Phone

How useful would such a device for multipurpose gadget lovers and those who take it upon myself to realize the concept - the question is, of course, interesting and very complex. However, the designer believes that such a Sandwich Phone will help to bring order to the phone, and so save time to users. And while we know money.

Posted on 5:14:00 PM / 0 comments / Read More

BlackBerry Empathy design concept feels bad that you're stuck using a BlackBerry

Rest easy, folks: we know it's pointy at the bottom, but we've been assured this isn't the BlackBerry 7100's true successor. Instead, the so-called Empathy is the bizarre outcome of of a RIM-sponsored design project at the Art Center College of Design that touts its ability to detect the emotions of its user and his or her contacts. It's not exactly clear how it'd do that, but one crucial element is the biometric feedback ring that communicates your frustration at the phone's inability to properly sync IMAP accounts in real time. All of this anger and joy is displayed on a social map -- colored rings indicate your contacts' previous and current emotional states -- which is presented on a full touchscreen that can become transparent when the phone's not in use. Prefer the Bold to the Storm, do you? Turn the phone around, and boom, you've got one of the scariest looking portrait QWERTY keyboards the world has ever seen. We don't really anticipate seeing this chiseled slab of bleeding-heart technology in RIM's lineup any time soon... but we can definitely see the benefit to knowing when your BBM contacts are ready to put a fist through a wall. Follow the break for video. 

Posted on 12:00:00 PM / 0 comments / Read More

Blackberry Empathy: a phone that will teach sympathize

Blackberry Empathy: a phone that will teach sympathize
Social networks have made people around the world to be closer to each other. You can always know what new has happened in the lives of hundreds of your friends and acquaintances, learn their thinking, and using the phone Blackberry Empathy, and even feelings. After all, this futuristic mobile phone has an optional device - empathic ring.

Blackberry Empathy: a phone that will teach sympathize
So far, the "sharpening" mobile devices for social networks is only available pre-defined shortcuts with reference to the most popular sites on the desktops of these gadgets. Oh, and "mobile" versions of these same sites can still remember.But soon own mobile phones will become an integral part of the world of social networking. After all, they will be responsible for the emotional state of users. That phone Blackberry Empathy, a concept which was developed by a designer named Daniel Yoon, - this is the first sign of this process.
Blackberry Empathy: a phone that will teach sympathize
The fact that the Blackberry Empathy, on the idea of the author, has an additional, special device - a ring which, when worn on the finger of the owner of the phone will constantly monitor his emotional and physical condition.The data obtained are empathic ring will be sent to your cell phone, and so it converts the information and display it in the appropriate sections of social networking.So your friend, go to your site Vkontakte or on Facebook, then he should know about your fatigue, sadness, anger, fear and other physical and emotional components of your life.Blackberry Empathy: a phone that will teach sympathize
If you're sad, he can sympathize with you, to comfort. And if you're annoyed, angry or just tired, he'll understand that it is better to move the conversation with you tomorrow.Of course, the look of the phone Blackberry Empathy and empathic rings, developed by the designer, has just cause confusion. But this is just a concept!In any case, empathetic social network is much better than social networking site in the cemetery, consisting of gravestones-Account E-Tomb, proposed by designers Huang Jianbo, Zhao Ting, Wang Yushan, Ran Xiangfei and Mo Ran.

Posted on 5:16:00 PM / 0 comments / Read More

LG P520: touchscreen mobile phone

LG is already preparing for New Year's Eve assault on Ukrainian customers shopping in December and plans to begin shipping a new phone with a touchscreen and support for two simultaneous (two incoming calls can be connected in a conference call) SIM-cards.

Specs are consistent with a price just above $ 200: 2.8-inch resistive LCD with a resolution of 320x240 pixels, 1500 mAh battery and a 2-megapixel camera with auto focus fixed. Claimed battery talk time of 5 hours. The thickness of the unit - a modest 13 millimeters, weight 120 grams. Of the features include support for memory cards up to 2 gigabytes (surprise, eh?) Preinstalled browser Opera mini 5.0, and applications to work with Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, «Classmates and Vkontakte, and a package of links to the services of Yandex.

Welcome to Soft-Gadgets! Is this a good message? You are happy and want to share via the button below. Revere or visit our site and follow with facebook @ the most popular gadgets and technology

Posted on 5:29:00 AM / 3 comments / Read More

MeeGo 1.1 available to developers netbooks, smartphones and navigators

Editorial gg continues to monitor the development of the operating system MeeGo, Nokia and Intel announced during the exhibition MWC 2010. Nokia itself puts great hopes on it, but until the process is slow and somewhat resembles the situation with Windows Phone 7. That is, information noise, like, there's a sense (at least not yet) no. Release version 2.1 is now available for developers with a beta version of SDK.

Screenshots for netbooks do not differ from those that we saw back in the summer, so bring them here does not make sense. Innovations have touched smartphones - the developers say the new elements for the calls, send SMS, web browser, connectivity management, music and video playback, and viewing photos.

MeeGo version 1.1 contains the kernel of Linux 2.6.35, X.org server version 1.9.0, Web Runtime, Qt 4.7 and Qt Mobility 1.0.2. New screenshots have appeared for navigators, or In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) - title can be translated as automotive devices to access information and entertainment resources. In fact this is exactly navigators with the ability to connect to the Internet, play music and videos, view pictures (possibly video).

The 1.1 Core OS provides a complete set of enabling technologies for mobile computing. The MeeGo stack contains Linux Kernel,, Web Runtime, Qt 4.7 and Qt Mobility 1.0.2 supporting the contacts, location, messaging, multimedia, sensor and service frameworks. It also includes a number of leading edge components such as the oFono telephony stack, the ConnMan connection manager, the Tracker data indexer, the Telepathy real-time communications framework, the Buteo sync framework and many more.

The next version 2.2 should appear in April 2011 and include a complete (hopefully) a set of applications for phones. Maybe by this time should expect announcements (unlikely sales) of the first devices to MeeGo.

Posted on 5:12:00 AM / 0 comments / Read More

Second Life: one clear concept phone with two types of screens

Looks like this idea a little too fantastic even for the concept. The authors offer a simple reminder about charging the phone - switch the "ordinary» AMOLED-display in monochrome mode screen technology with E-Ink.
This is a monochrome mode is used for power saving mode of the phone. We can only guess when it's the interesting times in which the electronic filling system, including the battery, can be done either transparent or so small that they can hide the navigation button to the device. But it looks like the device in the picture is certainly beautiful....

Source: Yanko Design

Welcome to Soft-Gadgets! Is this a good message? You are happy and want to share via the button below. Revere or visit our site and follow with facebook @ the most popular gadgets and technology

Posted on 4:41:00 AM / 0 comments / Read More