Currently, the smartphone market is dominated by iOS and Android platforms. Other platforms such as Windows Phone and Symbian exist, but their aggregate market share is minimal. Jolla, a Finnish startup, aims to change this by offering its Sailfish OS which, it cites, can be used by different companies to run on their own hardware.
Motorola Solutions has announced a secure Android phone — AME 2000 — designed for government and enterprise users. The AME 2000 use a COTS (commercial-off-the-shelf) device to provide end-to-end data and voice encryption service. Although the handset has been launched officially, it’s not open for individual purchase.
When Apple recently dished out its new Lightning Digital AV Adapter, may decried the $50 price tag that it carried. However, it now seems that the adapter is somewhat of a mini-computer in itself, packing an ARM system-on-chip along with 256 MB memory module.
On Friday, March 1, commercial spaceflight company SpaceX launched unmanned spacecraft Dragon Capsule to ISS. But unfortunately, the spacecraft experienced some sort of malfunction after separating from its rocket, Falcon 9.
In the recent past, Huawei has ventured into the mainstream smartphone market, trying to establish a solid user base by launching high-end smartphones. Whether or not these handsets will be a success, only time can tell. For now, Evleaks has spotted a rather mid-end Huawei Ascend G710 smartphone supporting a 5-inch display.
EyeVerify has unveiled a new technology at MWC 2013 called Eyeprint that’s designed to scan a users eye veins and grant them access to a phone or application without entering any password. Details inside.
Ever since the Mozilla team unveiled its Firefox OS for mobile devices, a number of vendors have expressed interest in it, and many are planning to create hardware for it. But Geeksphone has beaten all of them by unveiling Keon, which will go on sale within a few weeks and will become the first commercially available Firefox OS smartphone.
South Korean tech giant Samsung has announced Samsung Knox, an end-to-end security solution at the MWC 2013 that provides security hardening from the hardware to the application layer. The best thing of Knox is it offers a container solution that separates business and personal use of a mobile device.