Fuel Cells For Mobile Phones By 2009

STMicroelectrics hopes to be supplying fuel cell batteries for mobile phones by 2009. They are developing this new technology to power both mobile phones and laptop computers, and are aiming to have production underway by 2009.

We are developing micro fuel cells for mobile phones and then for the laptop market,”

Salvatore Coffa, from the R&D department of the industrial and multi-segment sector at ST told the meeting. “We hope to have this in production by 2009.”

The operation of a fuel cell involves the chemical interaction between hydrogen and oxygen to produce water, heat and electrical energy. Typically, a fuel cell consists of a pair of electrodes (the 'anode' and the 'cathode') separated by a membrane that allows protons (hydrogen ions) to pass through the membrane but does not allow an electric current to pass. In addition, catalysts such as platinum are used to increase the rate of the reaction and therefore the amount of electrical energy produced.

The main problem with applying fuel cell concepts to mobile phones is that the power source (battery or fuel cell) must be able to deliver around 300mA of current at 3.6V and it must not occupy a volume of more than around 12 cubic centimeters. However, the output current of a fuel cell is directly related to the common surface area between the electrodes and the membrane and to obtain 300mA of current using conventional fuel cell technologies would require a surface area of around 60 square centimeters, much larger than is available in a mobile phone.

Java Games and Applications Resizer For Free Download

This simple program, allows running java game developed and optimized for low resolution phones (176*208) like N70 on the high resolution phones (352*416) like N80 or N93 in full screen mode and its native resolution.

All you have to do is to select the select the original and desired screen resolution; select the JAR file from your computer and software will automatically make the necessary changes in the installation file.

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Your Mobile Says a Lot about You !

Have you ever noticed how some people and their dogs look alike? This has been the subject of some television clips, magazine articles, and talk show commentaries.

Now, according to a Nielsen Media Research study, the brand of cell phone you use may say a lot about your personality. At least if you're Indian.

the results of the study, which concluded that, if you're carrying a Motorola mobile phone the chances are you are under 24 and fashion conscious.

But if you've got a Nokia in your pocket (or briefcase), it's a fair bet you might be a family-minded, middle-aged manager.

Sony Ericsson handsets are favoured by ambitious young men trying to make their mark; LGs are tops with mums; while Samsungs are wielded by young women focused on their career, a study of mobile phone usage shows.

Nielsen Media Research associate director Mr Jody Loughlin said all makes of mobiles had a wide spread of customer types but some groups were more attracted to certain brands than others.

Anyway, I know that some of my friends change their phones and / or carriers more often than they do their hair styles so don’t take this study seriously, but, still, the statistics tended to bear out the generalizations.

Nokia
Family-minded
Middle aged managers
Balance seekers
Health conscious

Motorola

Fashion conscious
Under 24
Fun seekers
Individualistic

Sony Ericsson
Ambitious young men
Professionals
Success driven
Individualistic

Samsung
Young women
Career focused
Success drivers
Fun seekers

LG
Stay at home parents
Favourite of moms
Harmony seekers
Success driven .

ClassifEye Secure Biometric Solution Joins the Symbian Smartphone

ClassifEye, Ltd, a developer of fingerprint recognition and m-commerce
solutions, today announced that it has joined the Symbian Platinum Program to support the growing market for Symbian smartphones by extending ClassifEye?s solution to the Symbian ecosystem.
ClassifEye unique, software-only, technology leverages the on-board camera for secure authentication and non-repudiation necessary for mobile commerce and other customer verification challenges.
ClassifEye software eliminates the necessity for costly biometric hardware integration and is downloadable to existing camera smartphones.
Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS?, the market leading operatingsystem for smartphones. Symbian OS is licensed by the world?s leadingmobile phone manufacturers and to date, over 110 million Symbian smartphones have shipped worldwide to over 250 major network operators.
Smartphones represent the fastest growing segment within mobile, growing
at 46.6% compared to mobile at 21% year on year growth Q305 to Q306
reported analyst firm IDC. With IDC?s forecast of cumulative global shipments of smartphones due to pass the one billion mark by 2011,
Symbian OS represents one of the biggest commercial opportunities in mobile.


Fingerprint recognition plays an important role in enabling smartphones to be used in many different ways,? said Craig Heath, Senior Product Manager, Symbian. ?Making secure mobile payments, and accessing corporate networks or personal bank accounts from smartphones are becoming increasingly popular around the world, and ClassifEye?s innovative, biometric developments have contributed significantly to this. The addition of ClassifEye to the Symbian Platinum Program underscores our joint vision that strong authentication technology will help lead to the future success of smartphones.

How to Create Subfolders in Menu

s1-Open your phone's menu and highlight the folder you want to put inside another folder
2-Press Options-Move and press 1 to move the folder to the first position in menu
3-Open some file explorer, and go to !:\system\apps\, where ! is the drive you have some application installed: C for the phone or E for the card
4-highlight a folder, and rename it to anything else than its original name.
5-IMMEDIATELLY perform this sequence as fast as you can:

press Menu key, highlight any application or game (not a fold

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6-Don't do anything else, but wait until Menu is refreshed.After that, you'll see the cursor appears over the folder you want to move.
7-Select Move to folder, choose the destination folder and the folder will be where you moved it

Notes:

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-The application or game you must highlight at step 5 should be in the same folder than the folder you want to move
-Steps 3 and 4 explain a fast and simple action that causes Menu to be refreshed.If you like it better, both steps can be replaced with install a application that's already installed or remove some application using phone's App Manager.Anyway, remember the step 5 has to be done immediatelly after the previous action
-Before trying this trick, make sure that you have at least one item that's not a folder in your phone's menu.It may be a game or a application
-After renaming a application folder located at !:/system/apps/, don't forget to rename it back to its default name.Otherwise, it won't appear at phone's menu and you can't use it

Nokia E90 FCC Approved..!

The FCC approved the Nokia E90 phone,Just a few weeks after the introduction the latest Nokia Eseries wave at the 3GSM show in Barcelona, the most attractive Nokia bussiness phone, famous Nokai E90 is showing up on the FCC website.
The Nokia E90 Communicator sets the standard for an uncompromised "mobile office" experience. The latest technologies at the core of the device bring business necessities and personal amenities to the hands of people independent of time and place. Fast and inexpensive connections over WLAN and HSDPA-enhanced 3G accelerate the mobile use of data- and transmission-rich applications.
The interface to business and leisure applications and the Internet, the stunning Nokia S60 browser, with 16 million colors, is capable of displaying the full width of a web page at once.
Nokia E90 Communicator is equipped with an FM radio, a music player, a video player and two cameras -- a 3.2Mpix auto focus camera with flash and a second camera for videoconferencing.

Interview with Gregg Sauter and Peter Nielsen

The great hardware base on the latest N-series device and 3D hardware accelerated graphic on Nokia N93 and Nokia N95 as well as something interesting about Quake III on Nokia N93 and finally yeterday we posted tha Finnish customers will test the Nokia's next generation mobile gaming platform.


The last but not the less important we've also took the video of SystemRush game running on Nokia N95
Now, Stefan from the RingNokia pointed me to a quite intresting in-depth interview with Nokia's third party publishing boss Gregg Sauter and SDK product manager Peter Nielsen about Nokia's new N-Gage platform over the Develop Mag.