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At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Samsung has formally announced its new Omnia HD, a Symbian-based smartphone that can handle playing back and recording 720p high-definition video. And that video isn’t exactly crunched down to the size of a postage stamp: at 3.7 inches, the Omnia HD also brings the world’s largest touch-screen active matrix organic light emitting diode AMOLED display to a mobile phone.
Last year POSBRO showed the world’s first wireless gaming platform, the G100. Since then it’s been working on a mobile WIMAX gaming terminal, and hasalready signed an agreement to use the G100 to provide wireless online gaming in Korea. Now the company is set to launch a mobile WIMAX gaming business in the US, it announced at CES. The G100 will launch in the US late this early or early 2009. "We’re delighted to bring this revolutionary mobile WiMAX device to US market, and it willdramatically change the way people enjoy games and Internet while they’re on the move," explained Joonil Shin, CEO of POSBRO. POSBRO is currently working with developers on a variety ofonline game titles which are optimized for the G100 platform.
Advocates of the fledgling WiMAX wireless standard may be interested to know that the first gaming device to harness WiMAX connectivity has finally cropped up. Korea-based POSDATA announced its WiMAX-compatible G100 game platform on Thursday, although details on the new device were scarce.
The G100 will feature a four-inch touch-screen LCD, which slides away to reveal a game pad beneath. Besides support for WiMAX, it will also offer Bluetooth and conventional Wi-Fi connectivity. POSDATA’s press release made no mention of what kind of internal hardware the G100 would have, or what kind of games would be available for it.
Users of Samsung devices that include Philips NFC chips will be able to access content and services in an intuitive way. For example, a Samsung mobile phone equipped with NFC technology couldautomatically connect with an NFC-enabled PC or TV, simply by holding them next to each other, in order to transfer digital pictures or other data.
This industry collaboration is an example of the potential NFC brings to enable the use of touch-based interactions in the areas of consumer electronics equipment, mobile devices, PCs and for payment purposes. Consumers are seeking easier ways to interact with their immediate environment and want to experience easy communication between their electronic devices and gain fast access to services.
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