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A hi-tech cutting-edge interface:
Judging by the facts, TAT (Swedish operation) is highly successful at implementing UIs (user interface) which are not just superior looking for the sake of being hip, but are also well designed. TAT’s design attitude can be added up based on the principle those current cell phones UIs are very complicated. In a white paper, the company notes that according to a survey, 85% of consumers admitted to being too dumb to access or use mobile services, mainly because of increased device complexity.
Fascinatingly, TAT shows off that its software is platform-independent(can work on any hardware). This statement gives extra value to the idea that whatever the Google phone will be, it’ll be a ground-breaking new platform than is a mixture of today’s best-of-breed mobile technologies.
A GPS cell phone:
Global-positioning system (GPS) technology might be on the top priority for most of the global cellphone users. This is the stage where SiRF Technology Inc. comes into play. The Android partner based in San Jose, California, bills itself as a specialist in folding "location-awareness" features into mobile devices.
Predictions are made for the GPhone assessment; the most important fact to note is that SiRF is not a garden-variety GPS service or software provider. It is heavily into development of microchips which enable GPS to be hard-wired into the handset. These integrated circuits are also small enough that they won’t disturb the slim profile of the GPhone’s outer case. The SiRFstarIII GSD3t chip measures a negligible 3.12-mm by 3.17-mm, at a height of 0.68 mm.
Actually lite weight web browser:
As it’s known that, cellphone networks world-wide remain too slow for desktop-like Web speeds, the GPhone will be built-in with a browser which loads without the usual, lengthy mobile lag. This brings need for a really lightweight browser client and here comes into play, Opera, and also where an analysis of the Open Handset Alliance membership roles as a GPhone forecaster hits its first stumbling block. The mobile Opera Mini 4 browser has just been released. This seems to be just the right stuff the GPhone could use as its killer app, since Opera Mini 4 is optimized for quicker scrolling, navigation, and page rendering on mobile handsets. However, Opera is not an Open Handset Alliance member. Still, that’s not necessarily an obstruction to the GPhone’s acceptance of the browser.
Bottomless Multimedia Aptitude:
Google’s Gphone has a very tough competition from the Apple’s iPhone in this section. iPhone is very advanced in its multimedia experiences that is primarily dependent on the iPod. One might reasonably expect the Android partners to pull out all the multimedia stops.
At this stage we shall find the involvement of Texas Instruments, all the more because it’s difficult to distinguish precisely what the chip legend is going to be bringing to the GPhone party. Google itself is mostly silent on this topic. The link from the Open Handset Alliance’s Web site to TI takes one to a generic page listing cellphone industry resources.
Move up to the OMAPV1035 and you have got yourself a gold-plated "world phone." The 1035, which supports GSM, GPRS, and EDGE, is billed by TI as the first fully-integrated digital baseband, RF, and applications processor. Along with the phone stuff, it handles audio and video playback, allowing record and streaming at 30 frames per second. It is also got a built-in digital camera of up to 3 MP with shot-to-shot delay of less than a second and onboard 2D and 3D gaming graphics.
Real speech recognition apart from voice dialing:
Can you hear me now? That is what something you will not be screaming into your GPhone, if Android partner Nuance Communications Inc. has its way with the research.
Nuance’s VoCon Mobile speech-interface solution takes care of standard voice dialing, but goes beyond that to support menu navigation in answer to verbal commands. VoCon is currently used by Motorola, NEC, LG, and Samsung, among other handset manufacturers.
Apart from the speech recognition, Nuance also has its eye on making text messaging so easy any adult can do it. Nuance recently completed its acquisition of Tegic, which makes simplified text-input software for mobile handsets. Tegic’s main product is called T9, and it’s fitted with the XT9 Mobile Interface. The software supports soft keypads (think "iPhone") and does the fly error-correction required with Chiclets-key typing.
Gliding touch screen similar to iPhone:
If there’s one characteristic any GPhone is improbable to best, it’s the iPhone’s "slide" touch-screen interface. Not to worry. Open Handset Alliance member Synaptics , forger of intuitive interface solutions using its clear capacitive technology, is the company on the spot.
Synaptics’ self-characterization is just a fancy way of announcing that the company makes display, which responds to the tiny inductive changes induced when they’re fiddled with by sweaty fingers.
Interestingly, Synaptics also has the chops to allow the GPhone to contend with Apple on the latter’s home turf of playing music and video. That’s amply evident by looking at the modern, touch interfaces Synaptics has been called upon to design for Philips, LG, Samsung, and Transcend, for the respective firms’ MP3 players.
’Push’ Search, For VCAST-Like Music And Video:
When you first heard about the Google phone, you probably thought the search-engine giant’s interest in the platform was to open up mobile as a venue for more customers to type in billions more search terms. At its most basic level, that’s true but it’s almost too simplistic to be worth anything.
The "push" search angle comes into play because PacketVideo says that MediaFusion delivers promotions personalized to each user. (i.e., along with playing and selling multimedia content, the software can offer suggestions to users for additional purchases.) Presumably, Google, working with PacketVideo, could propel push features much further along.
Handheld-Gaming Quality Graphics:
The smart Gphone shall have a built-in Nvidia graphics card, to enhance the gaming experience. Nvidia chips are also in LG, Samsung, and Kyocera phones, as well as in the O2 Flame, an interesting PDA-like model marketed by European service provider O2 (this is likely an HTC-made device).
As an Alliance member itself, Nvidia can be predictable to add its chips to GPhones, which could double as handheld gaming systems.
It’s interesting to wonder that the GPhone might finally succeed in forging a convergence between mobile phones, multimedia gadgets and lastly handheld gaming devices.
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