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aab and Sony Ericsson will offer the ability to control some features
of the Saab 9-X Air from the Xperia phone, suggests some sources.
The 9-X BioHybrid concept car uses ultra-efficient power from a 200 hp (147
kW), 1.4-liter BioPower turbo engine backed by GM's next-generation
Hybrid system. It runs on E85 fuel (85% bioethanol/ 15% gasoline).Saab has worked with Sony Ericsson to provide seamless in-car connectivity for a range of nomadic devices with a wireless interface for streaming data, entertainment and satellite navigation functions for display and use. The interface also allows the simultaneous use of multiple devices when passengers are in the car.
Some expected features to be controlled:
- Ambient lighting
- Front and rear seat settings
- Locking of the car
- Open the rear compartment
- Switch on and off the lights (blinkers, main lights...)
It has been reported that car controls such as lights, seat adjustment and car locking functions are built into the Sony Xperia.
Comment from Wireless and Mobile News
Here's where it could get interesting in California and other states that don't allow texting while driving, could someone holding an Xperia and driving using the keyboard for some kind of SAAB Control be fined? In general, the keyboards on most phones really hard to use while driving cars and trains.
Recently in Japan, Nissan and Sharp are working on unlocking cars from a cell phone.
Nortel is introducing the industry’s first optical technology that can deliver both 40G and 100G network capacity, enabling four times the network throughput immediately while providing the foundation to simply and affordably increase capacity tenfold as required. This innovative capability equips carriers to keep pace with dramatically increasing demand from bandwidth-sapping applications like IPTV, Internet video, HD programming and mobile video phones.
Nortel’s 40G/100G Adaptive Optical Engine is a technology platform that enables both 40G and 100G transmission with the same ease and simplicity of today’s 10G networks. Nortel’s technology enhancements allow fiber-optic cables, thinner than a human hair, to carry vast amounts of information globally. The current state-of-the-art networking speed is 10G (Gigabits per second), which can support the bandwidth of 1000 HDTV channels simultaneously. By increasing that capacity to 40G, carriers can transmit four times the traffic over the same link and 10 times the traffic when evolving to 100G.
Two customers - TDC and Neos Networks - have selected the new Nortel solution and trials with other carriers are currently underway globally.
Alcatel-Lucent (announced the Alcatel-Lucent 9900 Wireless Network Guardian (WNG), the industry’s first mobile network management solution that addresses the need by carriers for enhanced visibility and research in third-generation (3G) and emerging 4G networks.
The WNG can show carriers that some types of traffic, like e-mail and instant messaging, consume up to 1,000 times as much air time as file downloads
In a interview with AP it is Michael Schabel, general manager at Alcatel-Lucent Ventures in Murray Hill, N.J. says,
“If I look at mobile e-mail, one megabyte takes two hours of air time,” he said, because the mobile network needs to repeatedly set up and tear down the connection. In contrast, a 1-megabyte file from a peer-to-peer file-sharing network takes about 30 seconds to download, he estimated.”
This is may change the way wireless carriers price their data plans which is usually by kilobyte.
K-NFB Reading Technology, Inc., a company combining the research and development efforts of the National Federation of the Blind and Kurzweil Technologies Inc., unveiled a product line that will revolutionize access to print for anyone who has difficulty seeing or reading print, including the blind and learning disabled. The company’s reading software has been especially designed for and paired with the Nokia N82 mobile phone to create the smallest text-to-speech reading device in history.
This truly pocketsized Reader enables users to take pictures of and read most printed materials at the push of a button. Blind users hear the contents of the document read in clear synthetic speech, while users who can see the screen and those with learning disabilities can enlarge, read, track, and highlight printed materials using the phone’s large and easy-to-read display. The combination of text-to-speech and tracking features makes interpreting text much easier for individuals with learning disabilities.
3M has a new super small mini projector that could be built into cell phones, or other small devices.About the size of a wireless earpiece and less than half an inch thick, the 3M mobile projects VGA resolution images at as large as 40 inches with no speckles or glitches.
It uses an advanced liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) electronic imager in conjunction with proprietary 3M optics technology.
Comment from Wireless and Mobile News: This device could mean more boring PowerPoint presentations, slide shows of other people’s travel and stupid YouTube videos at meetings.
