HTC is another company quick off the mark with its new smartphone announcement ahead of Samsung’s highly flagged unveiling of its S6 smartphone this evening. But it was the company’s plan to launch a virtual reality headset later this year which is perhaps most interesting. Dubbed the Vive, the headset will be firmly aimed at the gaming market. It will ...
Chinese mobile giant Huawei has launched a smart watch on the eve of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The company has fittest bands – called the B1 – but this launch today is its first full spec smart watch. Huawei has also increased the specification of its Talkband fittness band range with the B2, which has a new display and ...
Blu Wireless Technology, which has developed baseband system IP for millimetre wave communications, has implemented its Hydra gigabit modem on a 40nm CMOS process. The modem, with associated firmware for the PHY and MAC functions, is aimed at millimetre wave communication applications including ‘WiGig’ 802.11ad and wireless Back Haul for LTE mobile networks. Henry Nurser, Blu Wireless Technology CEO said: “The successful ...
Nordic Semiconductor will have World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen on its stand at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month to challenge ten chess players in games of ‘blitz’ chess. World Chess Champion, Magnus Carlsen, was the youngest player to be ranked number one in world chess is the highest-ranking points holder in the history of the game. Blitz chess ...
A French firm believes it is possible to build mobile phone and TV broadcast networks which have less of an impact on the environment. Arelis will present its present its eco-friendly networks project, called Zenitthys at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week. The aim is to reduce the environmental impact of networks by creating combined telecoms and TV networks ...
A 5G development platform for millimeter wave (mmWave) modems will be demonstrated at Mobile World Congress, writes Richard Wilson. It is the result of a joint development between Xilinx and communications hardware specialist BEEcube. “5G will increase cellular network capacity by a factor of 1,000 and the use of mmWave frequencies is critical to address the growing need,” said Dr. ...
Rohde & Schwarz has simulated an LTE network with simultaneous time division duplex (TDD) and frequency division duplex (FDD) combining various frequency bands in mixed-mode TDD and FDD mixed carrier aggregation. The data was successfully transferred to the DUT on multiple aggregated carriers in different duplex modes. The simulation involved the CMW500 test platform which supports RF and protocol tests for carrier ...
Ericsson has worked with operator Unitel to demonstration of the end-to-end LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) Carrier Aggregation (CA) in a wireless network capable of supporting data speeds up to 450Mbit/s. According to Ericsson, this is one of the first demonstrations of 450Mbit/s data rate on a commercial LTE network. The demonstration link operated in 60MHz of spectrum, with three 20MHz LTE carriers ...
China wants to see a global standard for 5G, the next generation mobile phone standard which is expected to be introduced by 2020, writes Richard Wilson. China is the world’s largest mobile phone market and its adoption of a global 5G standard will be crucial. The head of the Chinese Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) which has worked on ...
French firm DelfMEMS has micromachined a 12-way RF switch, and will be showing prototypes at Mobile World Congress. “Until now, companies have tended towards the capacitive switch solution route. We chose contact or Ohmic switching because of the superior performance,” said CEO Cybele Rolland. “This is a key milestone for the company and we have already signed several contracts, with ...
