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Bluetooth 3.0 Set to Launch On April 21

April 10th, 2009 · Michael Struwig · Featured, Industry No comments - Tags: , , , , ,

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The Bluetooth Special Interest Group is planning an official launch of the latest Bluetooth (3.0) specification on April 21.

The new Bluetooth 3.0 specification will bring with it dramatically increased transfer speeds by switching over to the 802.11 protocol. This should allow users to send much larger files, quicker. Naturally, backwards compatibility exists, and plays a clever role in reducing battery consumption.

When two bluetooth 3.0 devices communicate with each other they switch to the 3.0 specification when a transfer beings, and once the transfer is completed the modules return to the old (and slower) specification to save on battery, whilst  insuring backwards compatibility with all non-3.0 bluetooth devices.

The announcement hasn’t officially been made yet, but it is expected to be made a few days from now.

Nokia to Cut 1,700 Jobs

March 17th, 2009 · Michael Struwig · Featured, Hardware No comments - Tags: , , , ,

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Today, one of the world’s largest phone makers, Nokia, announced that worldwide, over 1700  jobs will be cut (around 700 of them being in Finland), thanks to demand falling for mobile phones. This is part of a plan announced by Nokia early in January to save over 700 million Euros.

This is no surprise, as experts are predicting the mobile handset market to recess by over 10% this year alone. Nokia further announced that it plans to save money by making cuts in its global support, marketing and corporate function sections.

Mobile News: HTC to Launch 3+ More Google Phones

March 17th, 2009 · Michael Struwig · Featured, Hardware One comment - Tags: , , , ,

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According to HTC CEOs (the company that formed part of Google Android’s OS-running phone, the G1), HTC will release the HTC Magic (or G2) in Europe, via Vodaphone, and then are planning to release two more unannounced phones later in 2009. All the phones will be running Google’s mobile OS – Android.