OmniVision announced this week two new smartphone camera chips: OV16820 and OV16825, that support up to 16 megapixels and are able to do video capture at a 4k resolution. Also known as quad full HD, this capture is supported with 60 fps option on these sensors.The point and shoot abilities ...

We’ve seen transparent or partly transparent handsets before, but never one with a transparent color touchscreen, like the model shown below and demoed by NTT DoCoMo in Japan. A couple of years ago LG launched a transparent keyboard phone, then we had the Xperia Pureness and its transparent monochrome screen ...

AS you know, the nano SIM standard is in the process of actually becoming a real thing on real devices, but before that big phone makers must agree on the standard technology. Apple, Nokia, RIM and Motorola have their own vision of how this new slot should look and only ...

You’ve heard a lot of talk about the Samsung flexible OLED displays, but details were lacking till now… Well, it appears that the screens codenamed Youm have recently received a larger order. What we know about the flexible screens is that they will debut on devices in late 2012.I’m extremely ...

Research in Motion may not be coming up with any cool smartphone anytime soon, but at least they’re working on other fronts. Right now they’re developing fresh battery technologies, that involve a fuel cell for their electronics gear. They’ve actually applied for two new patents related to that matter.One of ...

There’s a test out there done by displaymate.com, that basically compares all types of displays from all famous mobile devices on the market and one surprise was the Nokia Lumia 900. It came out on top of many other models, as far as visibility and outdoor use is concerned.AMOLED displays ...

More than 100 international technology companies have interest in becoming residents of a floating city located in international waters outside of Silicon Valley. The project, called Blueseed, was co-founded by Max Marty and Dario Mutabdzija and lead by venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. The company is looking to either ...

China-based white box vendors will get an impressive impact on the smartphone market this year, since estimations say that they’ll ship 200 million smartphones this year. The info comes from industry sources in Taiwan and their advantage is the availability of cheap chip solutions.Taiwanese company MediaTek will offer the makers ...

A number of Google shareholders are asking for the Internet giant to follow in Apple’s footsteps and return part of its $44.6 billion in cash to investors, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. Google has more cash as a percentage of market value than five of its largest competitors, including Apple. The ...

A joint survey conducted by ABC News and The Washington Post found that Google beat out Apple, Facebook and Twitter to win the title of most popular tech brand. The poll revealed that a whopping 82% of Americans have a favorable opinion of Google, with 53% expressing a “strongly” favorable opinion ...

Samsung has been detailing its flexible display technology for a while now, but the idea has advanced enough to require some branding and trademarking to be done. We’ve seen concepts and prototypes like the one in the video below and now the flexible screens from Samsung will be known as ...

AT&T on Monday announced that it is relaunching its AT&T Aspire program designed to help students graduate from high school and prepare for college and careers. AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson announced the news during a keynote address at this year’s Building a Grad Nation Summit, where he revealed that ...