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DxO Labs has made available the first embedded Image Processing Solution (ISP) for camera phones with built-in Enhanced Depth of Field (EDOF) and Optical Fault Correction. This is an innovation consisting of the new generation DxO programmable and configurable SIMD RTL core optimized for on-the-fly image processing.



The three embedded image processing solutions come as silicon IP licensed to silicon vendors.
It is an innovation meant to allow phone designers to overcome the limitations of ever shrinking pixels used in high resolution, small form factor camera modules, and consists of merging the best digital optics technology called enhanced depth of field or EDoF, with the most advanced image processing technology based on anti-aliasing demos icing, sensor and pixel level noise compensation and
DSC-class auto exposure and auto white balance.

DxO IPE, DxO ISP and DxO DOP are the three solutions coming from SxO Labs.

The first one is a mixture between the latest digital optics technology with support for low light lens designs, enhanced depth-of-field designs and low profile lens designs with DSC-class image signal processing for the best overall low light imaging performance available.

DxO ISP offers DSC-class image processing without the digital optics implementation, while DxO DOP comes with the digital optics processing without the image processing functions.

The three solutions work on the SIMD processor core and with a flexible architecture these three come in different configurations for supporting resolutions from 1.3MP to 12MP.
CMOS imaging sensor chips will have these solutions embedded on companion chips inside camera
modules, or on baseband or application processor chips.

Together with a royalty contract and a license, DxO Labs will provide a system level, bit-accurate C model for the RTL and microcode; a hardware integration guide including external interfaces (hardware I/F, timing, registers & memories);configured RTL (obfuscated structural Verilog) with 100% coverage; verification coverage and guidelines; recommended chip test methodology; a software integration guide including Microcontroller firmware and library description; microcontroller firmware and library; one lens design which when mated to the system hardware meets the optical system specifications (for DxO DOP and DxO IPE families only); support for chip specification, RTL integration and verification, firmware integration and verification, chip backend, system level verification, lens sample manufacturing and verification, chip verification and image quality tuning; and a lens and sensor system calibration.

You know very well that the Internet has many price comparison websites that are very helpful when you want to find for example the cheapest video camera.
Barcle.com, created by Huron PM, a company focused o designing, engineering and installing symbology driven, middleware-based integration control systems for industrial and project applications, brings access to such services on your mobile phone too.

The website helps you save lots of money when searching to buy specific products and it understands your queries even if you misspell them on the phone’s small keyboard.
To find the right prices, Barcle.com bases its searching on the item’s unique barcodes. To access this service you have to type on your mobile "mobile.barcle.com" and you’re in.



If you are in a store you can simply search the items you are interested in by typing the bar code and Barcle will find it fast for you at the lowest prices.



Among the Barcle’s partners are the well known Target,Bestbuy.com, Buy.com,Kohl's, Kmart.com, eBay.com, TigerDirect.com, Macy's, Circuit City, Sony, Microsoft, Apple, Panasonic, Drugstore.com, KB Toys, Office Max, Overstock.com, Barnes and Noble and many others.



After the launch in the US, the rest of the continents will follow soon.

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MOMO DESIGN, a company from Italy specialized in cars design, together with 3, the Italian leader in UMTS telecommunications, launched a new mobile phone with a special design called MD-2.

The MOMO DESIGN MD-2 is a videophone equipped with the latest mobile technologies.

It impresses with the 2.0-inch main QCIF TFT LCD display with 262.000 colors and 176X220 pixels resolution, ergonomic keys, an MP3 player, triband connectivity on UMTS 2100MHz, GSM /GPRS (900/1800/1900 MHz) networks, an 1.3MP CMOS camera with recorder/playback/streaming/call capability and digital zoom function, Bluetooth and USB support, and the video call function of its external video camera from the 96X64 pixels OLED LCD display.



It also has xHTML browsing support and supports the following audio and video file formats: MP3, MP4, MPEG4, 3GP, AAC/AAC+, WAV, WMA and AMR.
Its internal memory is of 45 MB and is extendable with a microSD card up to 2GB.

The phone weights 100grams and measures just 18.9 mm thick, and its battery lasts up to 5 hours in talk time.

This is the Levi's branded mobile phone launched in Hong Kong, Levi's LS01 model, equipped with a 2MP camera, music player, FM radio, 64MB extendable memory, and a microSD card slot.



It really impressed me with its look and it fits perfectly with jeans.




The phone supports video recording and Bluetooth and shows a 1.8-inch LCD 260k color display, on which you can see the Levi’ themed wallpaper and interface.



It is a thin device measuring just 95 x 55 x 11 mm with a normal weight of 98g that is available for pre-orders at a price of $563, with the option to add a Levis branded Bluetooth handsfree.

Bubble Motion, the global leader of voice SMS headquartered in California, which offers the award-winning BubbleTALK communications platform for intentional voice messaging, has just announced the launching of the first platform that enables Voice SMS interoperability between any operator globally.



The InterCONNECT platform allows now multiple operators who have enabled BubbleTalk for all their users, to connect, offering many benefits to operators with multiple deployment instances.

Among the mobile operators that benefit from the partnership with Bubble Motion are Digi from Malaysia, Indosat from Indonesia, and Bharti Airtel-India’s biggest mobile operator.

Thomas Clayton, CEO & President of Bubble Motion declared:
"For Voice SMS to grow exponentially like text SMS, we must have true interoperability - not only between our own operator partners, but for all operators with Voice SMS deployments. Users should be able to send Bubble messages to any of their friends, regardless of which operator service their friend might be using."

Bubble Motion has managed to include also the operators who have deployed alternative Voice SMS solutions, and the interoperability will function through the full support of the GSMA Voice SMS standard in development, but also by opening the BubbleTALK APIs for direct connectivity.

Clayton said that "Bubble Motion is fully committed to the GSM Association standards, and we have been part of the standards body working group from the outset,” and “Our launch today confirms that as the market leader, we are committed to openness and interoperability to drive the whole market forward."

Another large mobile operator that has deployed its own Voice SMS solution is Globe Telecom from Philippines, and now it is connected with BubbleTALK.

According to Tom Clayton, the Voice SMS service will grow explosively in the near future, while the “BubbleTALK network has grown to well over one hundred million subscribers and message traffic continues to grow even more significantly with every new partner."