Mobile industry embraces touch-screen; some bet on 'projector glasses'
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Mobintech, a Denmark-based group, believes it has found the solution to the mobile phone industry's problem of trying to offer television and video services on a tiny screen.
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Firm brings tech already used in phones and laptops to desktops. Screen creates different pixel images for each eye.
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Mobile phones could be used as concert tickets, money and car keys using new wireless technologies.
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Europeans' interest in watching mobile  television is as tiny as cellphone screens, a new study showed  on Monday, even though the industry has been buzzing about  offering TV on handsets for years.
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New display technologies are emerging for laptops and other mobile devices that are thinner, lighter and use less energy than LCDs.
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Researchers in the United Kingdom have developed software that loads camera phones with mouse capabilities, allowing users to swivel a camera phone to scroll or move items on a PC screen.While the software is in its infancy, the technology could enable people to use camera phones to scroll public displays to get further information on products or to&#160;purchase items&#160;such as&#160;plane tickets.Communicating with a PC via Bluetooth wireless technology, users can either move the cell phone or use a stylus on the cell phone&#39;s screen to also scroll through a computer screen, said Patrick Olivier, an associate professor at Newcastle University. Olivier is working on developing the technology with researchers Nick Pears of York University and Dan Jackson of Newcastle University.One of the original goals was to interact with larger public displays to, for example, buy movie and train tickets and interact with advertising displays, although the applications of this technology are limitless, the researchers said.For example, users will be able to scroll through large display screens in a real-estate agency, even though there could be glass window in between, Pears said.After communicating a cell phone&#39;s field of view through a live camera feed to a computer via Bluetooth, the PC establishes the coordinates of its monitor, which&#160;are then&#160;sent to a camera phone. Once the camera phone registers the image on the cell phone and recognizes the display coordinates set by the PC through image processing technology, the computer knows exactly what the phone can see, which sets the stage to scroll a PC.Users can then move the phone or use a stylus on a touch screen to scroll a PC or move items. The PC and camera phone work together to continuously reposition a PC monitor&#39;s coordinates as the phone moves, allowing the cell phone to scroll a PC from any position in a room.The researchers have developed the software for the Symbian and Windows Mobile OSes for PDAs and camera phones, the researchers said.While the technology holds promise, it is still under development and multiple issues are being addressed, Pears said.&quot;The image capture and image processing rate on the cell phone is quite slow, and so you can not move the cell phone as quickly as you would like to. This is what we would like to address in our next prototype,&quot; Pears said.
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When the sun shines, mobile phone users frequently seek out shade to see their display. Samsung Electronics Co. wants to help solve that problem.
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Consumers are giving PDAs the hand as they move toward smart phones.
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Newest cell phones sports a 3.1-inch widescreen display plus digital TV reception.
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A new device offers a pixel layout that saves battery life and presents a sharper picture.
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Mobile phones will turn into shopping advisors with a color-matching prototype technology HP demonstrated on Wednesday.
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Music, ringtones, cameras, browsers and other 'extras' have become the norm among mobile devices.
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In an ad-saturated world, the cellphone screen is a nearly pristine canvas. But a number of area companies are helping to transform the device that 220 million people are loath to leave at home into a personal, pocket-sized billboard, hawking everything from the latest ringtone to Fabio-favored "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!"
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While the mobile phone industry scrambles to adopt faster graphics platforms for rendering video, a startup may have bypassed everyone with an approach so simple, you wonder why nobody tried it already.
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With the Nokia NFC (Near Field Communication) shell on their phone, consumers will be able to access a variety of services and exchange information with a simple touch gesture.
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Reaping the benefits as buyers turn to smart phones
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A Microsoft-Yahoo! combo might become a bigger player in the mobile world than either would alone.