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novembre 8th, 2012

Nokia Lumia920

Processeur: Qualcomm snapdragon 4S
Ram: 1Go
Flash Rom 32Go(26 Go disponible pour l’utilisateur) pas de microSD
Ecran: ClearBlack HD de 4.5 pouces(1280×768)
Batterie: 2000mAh charge sans fil
OS: Windows phone 8

novembre 6th, 2012

Market share of top 5 tablettes

novembre 2nd, 2012

Market share of top six smartphone mobile OS

octobre 29th, 2012

Motorola RAZR HD specifications

[Source: Motorola France]

Processeur: QualComm Snapdragon MSM 8960 1.5GHz double coeur
Memoire: 1 Go de Ram et 16 Go de ROM
Ecran: 4.7 pouces HD super Amoled(720X1280)
Poids: 146 g
OS: Android v4.0.4
OS kernel: Linux 3.0.8
Batterie :  Li-Lon polymère 2530 mAh, Autonomie en veille pour 4G jusqu’à 11 jours environ; 3G 12jrs et 2G 9jrs
GPS: AGPS + GLONASS

octobre 24th, 2012

Building footprints in Google maps

[Source: Google Lat Longs]

Google building footprints, complete with height detail, are algorithmically created by taking aerial imagery and using computer vision techniques to render the building shapes. User can also draw or modify the building footprints with Google Map Maker and assign his favorite local business to an existing building.


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mars 18th, 2012

Galaxy SII integrated GPS: SiRFStarIV GSD4t

[Source: CSR]

Description

SiRFstarIV GSD4t is the first generation of the SiRFstarIV architecture. Optimised for size-constrained applications, it uses a host CPU to run the navigation libraries. Product manufacturers benefit from significant power consumption improvements, small package size, ease of integration and low-cost implementation.

A GSD4t solution comprises a GSD4t hardware implementation with SiRFHost™ software running on a host CPU. GSD4t includes an internal satellite signal tracking engine to provide highly accurate GPS measurements. Data buffering and queuing eliminates the need for a high-rate GPS interrupt, allowing the GSD4t Host Interface to run at low clock speeds with a very small host memory footprint.

Key features

  • High-performance solution
  • Low power
  • Low-risk, high-flexibility software
  • Tiny solution size
  • Simple to use
  • Fast, responsive location experience
  • High speed location engine
  • 48 channels available for acquisition
  • More than double the memory and more than double the clock speed of SiRFstarIII™
  • Active transmit blanking

Benefits

Breakthrough Power Consumption

  • Adaptive micropower controller
  • SiRFaware™ maintains hot-start readiness with only 150 to 500μA current for capture/update
  • Eliminates the need to turn off GPS receiver
  • 8 milliwatts TricklePower consumption

Reliable Choice For Difficult Environments

  • Active jammer remover
  • Tracks up to 8 CW jammers
  • Removes in-band jammers up to 80dB-Hz
  • 6 to 8dB of 3GPP design margin

Enhanced Navigation

  • Smart sensor interface
  • Multi-master I²C bus for smart sensors interrupt

GSD4t Hardware Description

The GSD4t product is designed for wireless handset applications. By minimising the external BOM to a single SAW and 4 to 9 passives, and the chip package to a 42-ball WLCSP, impact to end product size is minimal. Further enhancements to the silicon support simple design-in and low engineering risks:

  • Active Jamming Removal: The GSD4t device can track and remove energy from up to 8 separate CW jammers. Since this feature is integrated into the device, no prior knowledge of the jamming signal is required. This feature can be used in the design stage, in production to overcome last-minute issues with unexpected jamming, and during operation to eliminate « in the field » jamming.
  • High Performance Measurement Engine: The GSD4t core measurement engine contains more than double the memory of SiRFstarIII and operates at more than double the clock speed. It also supports shared VC-TCXO operation and self contained active transmit blanking.
  • Adaptive Micropower Controller: The heart of the device’s ability to retain hot start conditions with minimal background power burn. In this mode, the receiver maintains fine time accuracy from the RTC with periodic satellite calibration, and will decode ephemeris as required. This controller also contains a temperature sensor and can receive interrupts from motion sensors.
  • Smart Sensor Interface: The GSD4t contains a second master-only I²C port for external MEMS sensors, and also supports interrupts from smart sensors for motion detection. This capability augments basic heading and navigation enhancements from simple magnetic compasses to long-term inertial navigation system sources.

GSD4t SiRFHost Software

  • Tracker software resides on the GSD4t chip and generates pseudorange measurements into the SiRFHost navigation engine to compute PVT.
  • SiRFHost and SiRFInstantFix are software packages that reside on the host processor. They provide the navigation solution and ephemeris extension aiding, respectively.
  • SiRFLSM is SiRF premium host software that provides A-GPS support for both user-plane (SUPL) and control-plane (CP) interfaces.

Product details

High-performance Solution

  • High-sensitivity tracking engine to -163dBm
  • Acquisition engine to -160dBm
  • High-performance on-chip LNA, 1.6dB NF
  • SBAS (WAAS or EGNOS)

Low Power

  • 8mW (typical) TricklePower™ at 1Hz update rate
  • Integrated 1.8V to 1.2V switch-mode regulator

Low-risk, High-flexibility Software

  • Boot loadable SRAM: Tracker image downloadable via host port or serial flash
  • SiRFaware technology, including Adaptive Micropower Controller. Retains hot start conditions with only 150μA to 500μA for capture/update
  • Full-sensitivity performance for better coverage
  • Managed auto-refresh for quicker fix times

Tiny Solution Size

  • Single-die 65nm, 42-ball WLCSP, 0.4 mm pitch
  • 3.42 x 2.68 x 0.6mm
  • Single SAW, minimal BOM of 5 to 6 passives

Simple to Use

  • Single 1.8V supply operation
  • Fail-safe I/O, including RTC and TCXO inputs
  • 3.3V compliant integrated TCXO power switch
  • Host I²C, SPI and UART supported
novembre 12th, 2011

Setting up Automatic NDK builds in Eclipse

[Source: Mobile Pearls]

When editing native JNI code in an Android project using the Android NDK you may configure Eclipse to automatically rebuild your project when editing native code, just as it does for java. The below steps shows how to perform the necessary configuration (note that this requires revision 4 or later of the NDK – previous revisions does not contain the necessary ndk-build binary): see here

octobre 22nd, 2011

How to derive from the Android Application class

It is a very efficient way to derive a subclass from Android Application class to manage system event such as low memory, configuration changes, or to exchange complicated object between different activities.  Here is how to do it:

Java code:

public class MyApplication extends Application {
}

AndroidManifest.xml:

android:label=’@string/app_name’
android:name=’MyApplication’
android:description=’@string/app_desc’

novembre 15th, 2010
septembre 16th, 2010

Best Practices for Creating and Deploying HTTP Live Streaming Media for the iPhone and iPad

Technical Note TN2224 (go)
This Technote discusses some best practices for creating and deploying HTTP Live Streaming Media for the iPhone and iPad.