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Last week extravaganza Technology Association Annual Wireless, CTIA in Las Vegas, home of the top manufacturers of gadgets shared their latest and best products in the mobility.

While the child has recently anointed poster for Open Mobile Devices, Google Android, was virtually nowhere to be found on the show, the event will feature wall exhibition of more than 1,200 companies wall. And here and there, you can find pockets of two devices, you run applications or open source or Linux open-vendor environments Souce courting developers. We might also consider some of the highlights:

Palm ago

Palm Pre-party software creates a lot of buzz and a lot of excitement with their legacy emulator. Some of the included software is not yet proven Fandango movie ticket and app, SprintTV and Google Maps. Pandora Internet Radio "is a blessing to every music lover. A fast launcher is located in each front of the screen to reveal the young players without interrupting the current task. Another, Nascar, took a strong season as a NASCAR videos, alloy wheels, profiles and rankings, and much more.

Perhaps the most interesting for owners of older Palm software running cost is webOS OS Garnet in emulation software. It runs as a separate application and allows drag and drop installation / usage. Palm provides a key for a simple upgrade to the latest pre snazzier.

The Pre Palm announced earlier this year at CES, the characteristics of a Linux-based webOS, 3.1-inch multi-touch screen of 320 × 480 pixel resolution and a QWERTY keyboard. It is equipped with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, 8 GB and a 3-megapixel camera.

Wistron Pursebook

Wistron presented their proof of concept Pursebook running the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. This cute little netbook is running a customized version of Linux with fat ThunderSoft software for office tasks, communication and web-indulgence.

Yes, this paragraph is not the words "Pursebook" Snapdragon "and" Thundersoft. "You're welcome.

Observer status of the keyboard is the first generation instead chiclet-style keyboard used in some models of the current netbook, but overall the unit was easy to use. Others said it has enough energy, enough graphics are very nice, and 8 hours battery life. Prices should start at 299 USD and should be available this year.

NVIDIA Tegra

NVIDIA on the hand, all show-in-one Tegra chip for mobile devices. Tegra, an ARM-based components that are 1080p video output and capable of showing up to 1680 x 1050th It will also be able to IDE drives.

NVIDIA has equipped an HP Mini 1000 cases with a computer-on-a-chip system, used to demonstrate the potential of the Tegra. Its prototype with Windows CE, but NVIDIA also has its own interface, which has been described as something between Android and Mac OS X appearance. Tegra can also support Windows Mobile and Android, and while there was no mention of Linux in particular, a spokeswoman said Tegra technology is very flexible and can easily be used with other platforms. NVIDIA hopes to bring the new chipset market sometime this year at a reasonable price to $ 99 machines.

Nokia E71x

Another small smartphone that has created some interest was the AT & T exclusive Nokia E71x. Like the Nokia E71 is the E71x a very light weight of just 4.5 grams and comes with a 320 x 240 QVGA display, full QWERTY keyboard, 8GB of storage and broadband 3G connectivity, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and a 3.2-megapixel camera. Mark Louison, President, Nokia Inc., said: "The Frugal E71x a multimedia computer for a lot of people are employed, the Internet-on-the-go capabilities in the palm of the hand like."

This thin Nokia comes with an upgrade to Symbian S60 Feature Pack 2 (which apps a "mobile flaunt option in all applications has) and some services from AT & T AT & T Music, AT & T Mail and AT & T Navigator . He even has support for Quickoffice. The best is probably the new reduced price of $ 100 after rebate. Should be AT & T Nokia E71x be available in the coming weeks.



Samsung Mondi

Samsung Telecommunications has to compete the first mobile Internet device, this year presented with the netbook form factor. The main features include WiMAX, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Its touch screen is 4.3 inches with a QWERTY keyboard and optical mouse. It comes with 4 GB of storage, a 3-megapixel camera, TV out and HDMI.

The Mondi with Opera 9.5 for Internet access. The device should have not been announced this summer are available, although the price ranges.

Speaking of opera, they were on site and the transfer of your current browser Opera Mobile 9.7. Opera comes with turbo, which uses a compression algorithm to surf faster, and enjoy support for Ajax and Flash sites such as Facebook and YouTube.com. Best of all, it passes the Acid 3 test.

Motorola Evoke QA6

One of the most anticipated most was the Motorola Evoke QA6 are fully exposed, it is as "a social unit disposed charged" because of its full HTML browser, messaging and IM-style. It has a touch screen 2.8-inch touch-screen QWERTY keyboard, 2-megapixel camera and AGPS.

The Motorola OS is a customized version of Linux with the widget interface cumbersome. It comes with mobile widgets for MySpace, YouTube, Follow Me Quick Weather Picasa and Google, RSS Reader, Mobile, and USA Today. In addition, the QA4 the first phone that virtualization can run on multiple operating systems. This is done with the help of micro-hypervisor kernel Open Kernel Labs, is based on two integrated applications concurrently running operating systems. That means you can to a variant of Linux, if they so wish.

The Motorola Evoke QA4 should be available this year, but announced no pricing information.

Mozilla Fennec

Finally, Mozilla was on hand to demonstrate its new mobile browser, codenamed Fennec. The final version of Fennec, now simply as Firefox, numerous performance improvements like TraceMonkey JavaScript engine contains, in order to increase the speed of the rendering page. Plug-in support was also added to enable video playback on popular websites. Other features include download, password, and add-ons manager, Integrated web search and pop-up blocker.

The minimalist interface is designed to enter the height of the border, as we travel around the web through their imaginative use of technologies such as Smart Bookmarks Bar Integration and history, "tabbed browsing" is used, and miniatures. The second major objective of Firefox Mobile is on the interaction of the user tools to minimize the screen to devote the entire space of the display of Web content. User Tools to disappear on the page, but returning to the widescreen display. Firefox is now available for Maemo (the Nokia N810), Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. Other Maemo platforms, Windows Mobile and Symbian versions will follow shortly.

Antenna mobile and fixed applications

Antenex, a unit of Laird Technologies, introduced its Phantom Elite mobile antenna for fixed and mobile applications.

The indoor and outdoor antenna features patented True Field Diversity technology that provides both vertical and horizontal polarization in a low profile, sleek design. The devices are used in public safety, taxis and vehicles, as well as WiFi (Wireless Fidelity)applications. In addition, the patented circuit board design provides video and data transmission in urban canyons and rural drop-out areas where traditional antennas fail.

The Phantom Elite complements the famous Phantom products and customers have the same superior performance of the Phantom technology now packaged in a more dynamic, stealth housing.

Phantom antennas are specified by public safety, military, utility and transportation providers. As a vital part of the friend / foe identification system, Phantom antennas have been installed on Apache, Black Hawk and Chinook helicopters and Humvee and Bradley military vehicles around the world.

The product is currently available in volume production and is available in the VHF, UHF, 2.4GHz and dual-band cell / PCS versions. Most Phantom Elite mobile phone masts also allows users to 3 db-MEG gain. All models are produced with field proven ABS injection molded material. Combined with the low profile, aerodynamic housing, Phantom Elite antennas are less susceptible to damage and vandalism. The antennas can be mounted with a NMO or permanent N female mount.

Leak photos show rumors Casio Exilim phone

Allegations images of the rumor Casio Exilim NX-9250 phone have emerged, making the strengthening of the recent reports that the mobile device is on the way to North America. FCC filings show that the phone is support for CDMA 800/1900, EVDO Rev A radio and Bluetooth include Wireless. If it is authentic, the photos show that the 5.1-megapixel was chosen for capturing photos or video. The phone can use a WVGA screen May and also offers a 3x optical zoom.

The Casio Exilim NX-9250 reported will be offered exclusively by Verizon, but an official announcement has yet been made. The mobile operator currently offers rugged Casio G'zOne phones.

LG launches 3G HSDPA phone wrist

Korea-based LG has its newest mobile phone, the LG-GD910-wrist phone for both 3G and HSDPA. The user interface is part of a 1.43-inch color LCD touch screen, while a video camera was integrated into the side to watch the video or conferences. The device also offers text-to-speech (TTS) capabilities, Bluetooth, MP3 player and voice dialing with voice recognition. The company claims download speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps HSDPA use.

The LG-GD910 is scheduled for the first time at CES in January. European and Korean customers will have the first opportunity to purchase new phones wrist, although the price has not yet been published.

Peregrine - Breakthrough in highly sought-after solution to mobile antenna tuning

A breakthrough in the highly sought-after solution to mobile antenna tuning has been announced by Peregrine Semiconductor. The Company’s new DuNE Technology, a patent-pending design methodology made possible by Peregrine’s UltraCMOS process and HaRP design innovation, has enabled a single-die tunable capacitor circuit – referred to as a Digitally Tunable Capacitor (DTC) – which meets the high-performance demands for antenna tuning in leading-edge cellular and mobile applications, says the company.

These demands include superb power handling and linearity; low power consumption; and highly integrated in a small form factor. For more than 20 years, the RF researchers have attempted to address these challenges with a variety of micro-electromechanical systems and ferroelectric materials technologies, each having its own merit yet unable to integrate the features and functionality enabled by Peregrine’s DuNE Technology.

Antenna Tuning - Because of the increase in new features, functionality and industrial design requirements, the space available for the mobile system antenna is shrinking at a rapid rate. As antennas are wrapped and repathed, they lose efficiency. Some of this lost performance can be recovered with antenna tuning, in which the system uses dynamic impedance tuning techniques to optimize the antenna performance for both the frequency of operation and the environmental conditions.

"One of the most significant challenges facing the mobile handset designers is the poor antenna performance for multi-band multi-mode handsets. Dynamically tuning the antenna to compensate for the increasing bandwidth requirements and environmental effects will significantly improve the antenna performance," stated Tero Ranta, Manager for Advanced Technology at Peregrine. "Further, as the market demands new wideband services in the handset, such DVB-H and ISDB-T for mobile TV, the use of antenna tuning becomes a necessity. Until now, no tunable element met the needs of the mobile products industry in power handling, reliability, high volume production and integration. Peregrine’s DuNE Technology is the key to unlocking the future of digital tunability in mobile RF systems."

The first devices in the DuNE DTC portfolio are designed to meet the stringent broadband requirements for DVB-H and ISDB-T mobile TV; multi-mode, multi-band GSM/WCDMA cellular handsets; and the power handling requirements for interoperability between the two applications.

DuNE Technology for Cellular Applications - In addition to traditional cellular frequencies, today’s mobile phones may need to support frequencies from 0.7GHz up to 2.7GHz, for cellular bands as well as non-cellular services such as mobile TV, Bluetooth, WLAN and GPS. The RF transceiver of the mobile phone is designed for 50ohm impedance. Ideally, the antenna would match that impedance across the entire frequency band. However, small handsets have inherently narrow antenna bandwidth, poor antenna matching and low radiation efficiency, and, without antenna tuning, ultimately are prone to antenna mismatch.

To date, several first-generation open-loop antenna tuning systems are being used in handsets, and development teams are beginning to design adaptive closed-loop antenna tuning systems. Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) and ferroelectric materials technologies (such as BST) have been used to implement tunable antennas and filters, however they are not yet proven for high-volume production and both typically require a high bias voltage (up to 30V or higher) to tune, requiring a separate CMOS charge pump and controller chip. Because UltraCMOS technology enables monolithic integration of RF, analog and digital circuitry, Peregrine’s single-die DuNE DTCs integrate high-Q tunable capacitors (Q=40 to 80 at 1-2GHz) with a built-in low-voltage serial interface, in a chip-scale package offering a footprint that is 5 times smaller than competing technologies. Typical capacitance values range from 0.5pF to 10pF, with typical tuning ratios ranging from 3:1 to 6:1 with 5 bits or 32 states of resolution. In addition to >+38dBm of power handling in 50ohm, DuNE DTCs feature high linearity (IP3 > +65dBm) and switching speed of better than 5µs.

DuNE Technology for Mobile TV - Mobile TV applications such as DVB-H and ISDB-T also require very broadband reception and delivering good coverage to an already complex system, all in a small space. Achieving broadband reception is directly related to the physical size of the antenna and the handset; any antenna mismatch degrades range and reception quality. To date, designers have typically had only two antenna choices: a passive internal antenna with poor performance, or the external whip antenna. The embedded, internal antenna is demanded by the market, yet poor performance is not accepted. As a result, interest in 'tunable' internal antennas – those which cover a narrow section of the bandwidth and can be “retuned” as the receive channel changes – is increasing.

When the DVB-H antenna is embedded in the GSM handset, the tunable element for DVB-H antenna tuning needs to be able to handle high levels of coupled GSM power without shift in capacitance or causing nonlinearities. Typically better than +26dBm of linear power handling is required to meet GSM/DVB-H interoperability requirements. The existing design options for mobile TV antenna tuning (such as varactor diodes or bulk-CMOS switched capacitor banks) do not meet these power handling requirements. Using a high-linearity switch (e.g. SP4T) to implement switchable tuning network can meet interoperability requirements, but results in very rough tuning.

Peregrine’s new DuNE DTCs have been designed for 5 bits of resolution or 32 tuning states, which provides the level of fine resolution that is required to tune the antenna across the entire mobile TV band. As well, DuNE Technology enables a Q = 40–70 at 470 to 862MHz for a 1.36 to 6.3pF (4.6:1) tunable capacitor. The current consumption is only 11µA at +2.75V, while meeting the stringent power handling requirements of better than +28dBm and IIP3 > +62dBm.

Individual DTC devices are planned for release during 2009, beginning with the DTCs for mobile TV which will be offered in the tiny 2mm x 2mm 8-pin DFN package, says the company.

Tags: Peregrine, DTC, Mobile, Tune Capacitor