Showing posts with label GPS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GPS. Show all posts

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Sports Tracker on the Android arrives

Owners of smartphones with sporting the Android OS will be happy to know that the application of S ports Tracker is now available on Google's Market. Already on the Market and downloadable on Ovi 'App Store, the program has long been considered a must have for all those who love physical activity outdoors. The app leverages GPS and WiFi to track the movements made during physical exercises, walking or cycling. Full integration with major social networks Facebook and Twitter you can share with friends from the recorded data: the storage of routes, analysis, calories burned and heart rate monitors are really just a click.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

MTS has launched a satellite monitoring service "MTS-tracker '

The mobile operator MTS has released a compact device of personal GPS-monitoring of "MTS-tracker," which opens access to subscribers to navigation services of MTS. "MTS-tracker" is a compact (7,9 x4, 2x1, 8 cm), which receives signals from GPS-satellite GPS, calculates the coordinates, speed, and transmits this data in real time over the cellular network. Track the location and route of the object, you can through your computer or smartphone to specialized Internet portals navigation MTS "NIKA" (for individuals) or "M-Search" (for legal entities).

Thursday, July 07, 2011

Released very smart GPS-navigator

The Korean company Ritmix released in Russia a new navigator RGP-475, which is an updated version of the car GPS-navigator RGP-470 processor Atlas V. Novelty trendy new design software and the latest generation of Navitel 5.0. Its new engine allows you to recalculate routes in just 2-3 seconds instead of 2 minutes. Included with the device comes Map All Russia + Belarus. Provided for creating and editing your own maps. Ritmix RGP-475 now available for unannounced price.

Monday, July 04, 2011

Sony showed a pocket game console of the second generation

At E3, Sony showed a pocket game console next-generation PlayStation Vita, formerly known as the Next Generation Portable (NGP). The device is equipped with quad-core processor architecture ARM Cortex-A9 and quad graphic video accelerator PowerVR SGX543MP4 +. Console equipped with a 5-inch touch screen with a resolution of 960 × 544 points, two cameras, modules, GPS, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n and 3G. In the arsenal of three-axis gyroscope and accelerometer, and touch pad technology to support "multi-touch" on the rear panel. The front panel is placed two joystick. Online PlayStation Vita appears closer to New Year holidays at a price of $ 250 per junior model with Wi-Fi module and $ 300 for a model with 3G.

Smartphone crossed 1.5 GHz milestone

Korean mobile operator KT Telecom introduced a Smartphone TAKE Janus KM-S200 with a 4.3-inch display on the platform Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread). Novelty is based on a "system on a chip» Qualcomm MSM8260 with two processing cores Scorpion with 1.5GHz and the graphics controller Adreno 220. The smartphone is designed to work in networks of HSUPA and GSM, is equipped with 1 GB of RAM, a flash drive to 16GB, slot for MicroSD-card to 32 GB, display with a resolution of 540 × 960 pixels, 1.3 - and 8-megapixel camera , module Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, TV tuner port MicroUSB, 3,5-mm jack for headphones, orientation sensors, lighting and proximity, as well as an electronic compass. To simultaneously display different content allows the possibility of dividing the working space in half display. Size of the device are 128,5 × 65 × 9,8 mm, weight - 131, the South Koreans will be able to buy a gadget for an estimated price of 740 USD.

Monday, June 13, 2011

Mobile phones will become transparent

TDK Co. Company announced the industrial production of transparent displays based on organic diodes. Developers, seems to have finally managed to bring to mind its long standing development and run it in the series. True the parameters of the new items, which received the name UEL476, yet humble enough. Its diagonal is 2.4 inches (36.0x47.9 mm), 240x320 pixels and the brightness is 150 cd/m2. But and they say, Down and out the trouble started! Already, the display provides a bright image at different viewing angles, and its light transmission is 40%. Such a translucent screen as newfangled things can be equipped with mobile phones, iPods and similar devices. And with increasing the diagonal, these displays may be able to find himself and practical application. Let us imagine, for example, the windshield of the car, on which at a controlled degree of transparency will be possible to display a map obtained from the GPS navigator. And the emergence of flexible displays promise even greater opportunities and jackets with sewn into them multifunction displays do not seem fantastic.