Interesting stuff from the latest QMag
My company (Qualcomm) publishes a magazine called QMag (link to online edition, or you can subscribe for free).
There were a couple of interesting things in the latest edition.
One of our divisions works on a display technology call Mirasol. As we all know, battery life is one of the most important issues with mobile phones, and the display usually eats a lot of that. Just like on your laptop, if you dim you screen, your batt life goes up. In talking about display technology, there was this interesting bit of info:
| Screen Sizes and Battery Life | |||
| Handset | Display | Standby (hr) | Talk (mins) |
| iPhone 3G | 480×320 at 162 ppi | 300 | 300 |
| iPhone 3GS** | 480×320 at 162 ppi | 300 | 300 |
| T-Mobile G1 | 480×320 (HVGA) | 402 | 350 |
| Palm Pre** | 480×320 | 300 | 300 |
| BB Storm | 480×360 | 360 | 330 |
| Samsung Omnia | 400×240 | 450 | 390 |
| HTC Touch HD | 800×480 (WVGA) | 680 | 420 |
** Not in original QMag article
Interesting that the HTC has the best resolution (by far) and also the best battery life.
And then there is a small blurb about some researchers at Washington University that came up with USB ultrasound probes that work with WinMo. So apparently in developing countries, doctors could use mobile phone technology to take an ultrasound. Pretty cool.