3GSM Barcelona shows industry’s emerging mobile technology

San Francisco-based OQO reckons its expanding into Europe and Asia on the back of its award-winning Model 02 computer, first seen at CES, which now sports integrated HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) 3G high-speed wireless data capability. It’s the world’s smallest Windows Vista PC, with the power of a notebook in a pocket size handheld measuring just 142 x 84x 25mm and weighing 450gm. It also has ‘ouchscrollers’, docking station and support for dual external displays through digital (HDMI/DVI) and analogue (VGA) video interfaces and OQO’s DisplaySense technology. You also get up to 1.5GHz CPU, 1Gb of DDR2 SDRAM, shock-mounted 60Gb HDD with active drop detection, and compatibility with standard PC applications. As Tim Bajarin, principal analyst at Creative Strategies, says: “OQO has done some incredible work in designing a product that is a pleasure to hold and to use. With built-in wireless broadband and Windows Vista, mobile professionals will achieve a new level of productivity.” Meanwhile, Fujitsu’s WiMAX and WiMAX SoC – the highly integrated, ultra-low power one-chip MAC and PHY mixed-signal baseband SoC for mobile devices – have a lot of potential. In Barcelona, the company showed how it’s possible to get all the functionality of broadband via streamed mobile multi-media applications. Then ALK’s star – full-featured, voice-guided GPS navigation with integrated fleet management and tracking for the latest BlackBerry Smartphones – has everything on it. The company says: “CoPilot Live transforms a BlackBerry into a powerful satellite navigation system, complete with clear voice guidance, detailed street mapping and powerful route calculation. Maps are downloaded automatically to the phone during a journey via the mobile Internet and door to door trips are calculated in seconds.” It also incorporates location-specific live services, including automatic traffic information, again via mobile Internet, real-time location tracking with secure website connectivity, and fleet management. What about Motorola? Design, music, media, high-speed performance, wireless broadband and connecting the unconnected, as the company puts it. Too much to cover, but worth checking out its mobile TV: Motorola further defined its ‘no compromise’ quality high-speed performance with a series of new HSDPA-enabled handsets allowing quick downloads of streamed media. Also the mobile office kit – with Motorola’s expanded award-winning MOTOQ platform and the new MOTO Q q9 and MOTO Q gsm so-called ‘experience-optimised’ Qwertys for HSDPA and GSM/EDGE networks. MOTO Q q9 rounds out Motorola’s HSDPA portfolio and sets a new bar for smartphones, delivering power, more messaging and multi-media experiences on the new Windows Mobile 6 platform with Motorola’s Good Mobile Messaging technology. What about connectivity? With the GSM Association (GSMA) and MTC Namibia, Motorola announced the first trial for wind and solar power systems to support the African operator’s remote GSM cell sites. The systems will provide an alternative to the main grid electricity supply or diesel driven generators in remote areas.