Ponsel TV analog

Ponsel TV analog belakangan ini cukup digandrungi di Tanah Air, dengan slogan ”nonton TV tanpa pulsa” membuat banyak orang kesemsem menggunakan TV analog di layar ponsel. Tapi kesuksesan ponsel TV analog tak bisa dilepaskan dari sosok Telegent System Inc, sebab perusahaan inilah yang memproduksi chip TV analog untuk sebagian besar ponsel dengan merek nasional asal Cina.

Telegent System adalah perusahaan asal Amerika Serikat yang bermarkas di Sunnyvale, California. Telegent System memproduksi semikonduktor CMOS tanpa fasilitas pabrikasi sendiri yang menyediakan solusi chip tunggal berkinerja tinggi yang memungkinkan penyediaan siaran TV, baik gratis maupun berlangganan pada pereangkat ponsel, lapotop dan notebook.

”Saat ini kami menguasai hampir 99 persen pasar ponsel TV analog dengan jumlah total ponsel yang diluncurkan lebih dari 20 juta unit,” ujar Joseph M. LaValle, Vice President Sales Telegent System saat ditemui dalam event peluncuran HT Mobile kemarin (2/3/2009) di Jakarta. LaValle menyebutkan kualitas gambar TV analog dari Telegent System merupakan hasil terbaik dengan level diatas 10 dBm.

Chip TV analog Telegent juga tergolong hemat energi dengan kemampuan melakukan pemutaran siaran selama enam jam terus menerus. Selama dalam konsep LoS (Line of Sight), TV analog bisa diterima dengan cukup baik walau sedang berkendara dengan kecepatan diatas 430 kilometer per jam. Untuk mengembangkan bisnisnya, di wilayah Asia Telegent System kini memiliki kantor perwakilan di Cina, Taiwan dan Korea Selatan.

Source : selular

Mio launches the Explora K70: beauty, 3G, and GPS abound

Mio's rumored Explora K70 is sitting pretty at CeBIT, and while we wait for the full hands-on treatment, we thought an introduction to what appears to be a stunningly loaded GPS phone was in order. Network connectivity is a blow out in the K70 with quad-band GSM, triple-band HSDPA / HSUPA, Bluetooth, WiFi, and GPS which is handled by Qualcomm's gpsOne chip. The 3.5-inch touchscreen display is a 400x240 WQVGA number, a 3 megapixel camera hides around back, a jog dial's included for quick scrolling, and it is all powered by Windows Mobile 6. Looking at the spec sheets it seems there will be two different SKUs, a handset-only package and a "Full SKU" that includes in-car charger, device mount, and so forth. We're suitably impressed, expect more news including dates and pricing as soon as we can get them.

[Via GSMArena]

Black Berry Bold Is Overheating

NTT DoCoMo began selling the Bold in Japan last week. And so far it has sold about 4,000 devices. Of those devices, NTT DoCoMo says it has received complaints from about 30 users that the phone's keyboard area had heated up, Reuters reported. The company said it doesn't know of anyone getting burned from the overheating nor has it received any reports of the phone catching on fire.

RIM said that it is looking into the matter even though the company believes the temperatures appear to have "remained within the safety range of regulatory standards." Still, RIM and DoCoMo decided to suspend sales anyway until they can figure out what is causing the overheating.

AT&T sells the Bold in the United States, but RIM said in a statement that the overheating issue isn't a problem outside of Japan.

"This issue appears to be specifically limited to the BlackBerry Bold devices sold in Japan since last week," the company said. "And sales of BlackBerry Bold devices in other countries are unaffected by this matter."

RIM noted that it doesn't believe the problem is caused by the battery. But it's still investigating the root cause.

This article was first published as a blog post on CNET News.