MiPlug was presenting at the Mobile World Congress their new generation pocket mobile chargers.
Gregory Leiterer showed us some of their very useful mobile charges which can be used as a key ring and charge and synchronizes your phone through a USB connection.
The have been voted as one of the coolest gadgets at CIS, they are in Asia and spreading to other regions, checkout their website to get one.
Unkasoft works with mobile marketing agencies; they develop games and applications focused on advertising. This is a great platform for the launching of brands and for advertisers to be known in the new media.
Laura Jañez told us about the expectation of the company for 2010.
Perfecto Mobile is a leading provider of remote access and automated testing solutions for mobile devices. They have a service that holds many different devices around the world in which developers can test their own applications; this allows developers to test on the Verizon network in the US or on the Orange network in the UK before launching.
Dan Shoshani gave us a demonstration in the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona; watch our video interview with him to find out how their innovative service works.
Sony is bringing the stunning technology that revolutionized consumer displays to its line of professional monitors. The new PVM-740 is the first field display to use an Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) display panel with Sony’s unique Super Top Emission™ technology to efficiently deliver superb high contrast, high color images, even in ambient light.
The 7.4-inch high-resolution (960 x 540 pixels) portable monitor can fit a range of professional monitoring applications, including studio editing, ENG and EFT production, OB trucks, and even research and development. The versatile new monitor is also ideal for use in 3D camera rigs with its flip mode.
The display panel creates smooth gradation from the dark to the bright portions of scenes such as a sunrise or a sunset. The PVM-740 offers outstanding high-contrast images – for example, the deep black of a night scene can be accurately displayed and the black portion of an image is not raised even in a low-illumination edit suite. Its blur-free, quick response to fast motion is perfect for sports or camera monitoring during panning and text scrolling.
The monitor can flip a picture horizontally or vertically without frame delay. This feature is useful during 3D image acquisition using a 3D rig camera with a pair of 2D monitors. The monitor can be connected to the camera systems directly without need for an external signal converter, making system integration simpler.
Its picture contrast is greater than a CRT display, is less affected by ambient light, allowing clear images to be viewed even in strong sunlight. For further protection, the optional VF-510 ENG kit provides a viewing hood, carrying handle, and connector protector.
An AR coating provides protection from scratches and enables a high transmission rate of the internal light source to keep the picture as bright as possible, while keeping reflection from ambient light to a minimum. As a result, when used in bright lighting conditions, high contrast is still maintained even in dark areas of the picture.
Sony’s unique 10-bit panel driver and ChromaTRU™ technologies work effectively to emulate colors and gammas of CRT monitors, and to support broadcast standards (SMPTE-C, EBU, and ITU-R BT.709).
The new monitor also adds DC/AC operations, a convenient control panel with luminous and assignable buttons, a camera focus function, a wave form monitor, 8-channel audio level meter, a variety marker setting, and native scanning capabilities.
The PVM-740 monitor is also equipped with a Sony’s unique feed-back circuit system. This system works to monitor the emitted lights all the time, and feed the monitor-result back and adjust the white balance. It also ensures color and gamma stability.
The PVM-740 is 3.8U high and half-rack wide. Using the optional MB-531 mounting bracket with a 10-degree-forward and 10-degree-backward nonstop-tilt capability, two units can be installed side by side in a 19-inch EIA standard rack. With 3/8-inch and 1/4-inch screw holes on its base, the PVM-740 can be installed in a camera system on a pedestal, for example.
The PVM-740 can display a center marker and aspect markers, and the brightness of these markers can be selected from either gray or dark gray levels. Users can also select a gray matte to fill the outer area of the aspect markers.
A unique native scan function reproduces images without changing the input signal’s pixel count – mapping the pixel of the input signal on the panel pixel-to-pixel. For example, when an SD signal is input, the monitor reproduces the image at picture sizes of 646 x 487 pixels in 480i and 480p, and 768 x 540 pixels in 575i and 576p. When an HD signal is input, the PVM-740 displays a center portion of the HD image.
The PVM-740 is equipped with standard interface connectors: a composite video, a 3G/HD/SD-SDI, and an HDMI interface.
It accepts most SD or HD video formats. For extra mobility, it incorporates various video interfaces as standard, including composite, SDI interface for SD-SDI, HD-SDI, 3G-SDI, and HDMI interface.
With the 3G-SDI interface, it accepts 1080/50p and 1080/60p formats, which is compliant with the SMPTE 425 standard, transmitting up to 4:2:2/10-bit 1080/60p and 1080/50p video data using one SDI cable. As sports and live production move toward a 1080p system, this single-link 3G-SDI system can be an ideal solution.
HDMI connectivity further expands the monitor’s potential applications. For example, the PVM-740 monitor can connect with professional video systems such as Sony’s XDCAM HD®, XDCAM EX™, NXCAM™, and HDV™ series. Consumer video products such as Blu-ray Disc™ and digital cameras can also be connected, ideal for Blu-ray video authoring or digital photo image previews.
The new monitor is planned to be available in April, at a suggested list price of $3,850.
FastPay! is a company that develops, design and commercializes mobile solutions for parking, public transport, ticketing and other solutions for the public and private sectors. It makes paying easy and hassle free.
See their website for a graphical demonstration of how their system works or better even watch our video interview at the Mobile World Congress with the CEO of the company Antoni Mondragon.
Miraveo develops ad-hoc, peer to peer networking technology to create and deploy robust and resilient Spontaneous Area Networks (SPANs), enabling location-based networking among users over conventional mobile devices.
Their software empowers people to connect with those closest to them. Using the freedom of WiFi the software allows people to connect via their phones without relying on a phone network.
They will launch their first application next summer, watch out for them!
The Channer is a Barcelona based start-up that brings all available TV content on the web to your mobile phone. The app also allows you to connect to your social networks and comment on the content you are watching.
David Galceran gave us a live demonstration at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
EyeOS is a web desktop; you can access all your applications through any browser.
Marc Cercos gave us a demonstration of the system at the Mobile World Congress, through this system you have all the applications which you need to work with available from any computer or mobile.
Since it is open source you can also develop your own applications.
VEEDIA is a unique platform that extends real-time bi-directional 3G mobile video and multimedia services to any 3G handset through a 3G video call. The system works independent of the platform used.
Adolfo Martin at the Mobile World Congress gave us a live demonstration of how their system works.
There is no need for installations; it is a very simple and powerful idea which will be of great use at offices and at homes around the world.
Microsoft finally announced KIN, a new Windows Phone designed specifically for people who are actively navigating their social lives. The phone is brought to life through partnerships with Verizon Wireless, Vodafone and Sharp.
KIN supports Microsoft’s new cloud computing service with an optimized GUI. The hardware design was developed in partnership with Sharp. There are two models called KIN ONE and KIN TWO. Both phones feature a touch screen, slide-out keyboard and very simple interface.
ONE is small and compact; TWO has a larger screen and keyboard, in addition to more memory, a higher resolution camera, and the ability to record high-definition video. The 5 and 8 megapixel cameras in ONE and TWO, respectively, have image stabilization and a bright LumiLED flash.
KIN automatically brings together feeds from Microsoft and third-party services such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. The home screen of the phone is called the KIN Loop, which is always up to date and always on, showing all the things happening in someone’s social world.
Another new feature, the KIN Spot is a new way for people to share what’s going on in their world. It lets them focus first on the people and stuff they want to share rather than the specific application they want to use. Videos, photos, text messages, Web pages, location and status updates are shared by simply dragging them to a single place on the phone called the Spot. Once all the people and content are in the Spot to share, the consumer can choose how to share, and start broadcasting.
KIN Studio is a phone online. Almost everything created on the phone is available in the cloud from any Web browser. Photos and videos are freed from the confines of the phone and presented in an online visual timeline.
The KIN Studio automatically backs up texts, call history, photos, videos and contacts, and populates a personalized digital journal.
It also gives customers tons of storage to keep all those photos, videos, contacts and texts.
KIN will be the first Windows Phone to feature a Zune experience — including music, video, FM radio and podcast playback. With a Zune Pass subscription, users using Zune software on their PC can listen to millions of songs from Zune Marketplace on their KIN while on the go.
KIN will be exclusively available from Verizon Wireless in the U.S. beginning in May and from Vodafone this autumn in Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom.