The uploaded videos will retain the 3D property. It is not sure if you need proper supported equipment to vigil the 3D videos on YouTube. Of course, unless you have the LG Optimus 3D, you can enjoy the 3D content without 3D spectacles.

The LG Optimus 3D volition be available in Europe early Q2 this year.

Press release

Barcelona, Feb. 14, 2011 — LG Electronics (LG) and YouTube ar pickings a major measure forward today by announcing a partnership to provide a unique 3D mobile experience to users. LG’s upcoming Android-powered premium smartphones volition enable users not only to capture and view 3D videos without spectacles, but also to upload and contribution them instantly with others via YouTube.

“The Optimus 3D is LG’s newest flagship smartphone. It is our answer to two major painful sensation points of the current 3D experience – limited mobility and specialized glasses. Furthermore, our partnership with YouTube volition ensure that our customers tin easily generate and access ample 3D content,” said Dr. Jong-seok Park, President and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company.

The new partnership is part of a broader push into 3D amusement by LG and the world’s largest online video community. YouTube and LG collaborated to enable the obstetrical delivery and share-out of 3D video recording onto mobile devices in a means that makes it simpleton and easy for consumers.

“3D engineering has traditionally been reserved for the major Hollywood movie studios,” said Francsico Varela, Head of YouTube Platform Partnerships“With the new LG Optimus 3D anyone anywhere in the world can shoot 3D videos, upload them to YouTube and contribution them with their friends. We’re excited to see the creative videos our biotic community captures and shares with this new technology.”

Powered by a unique “Tri-Dual” Configuration — dual-heart and soul, simultaneous dual-channel and dual-computer storage, LG’s advanced Optimus 3D volition be unveiled at the 2011 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and will be the first mobile gimmick capable of providing the YouTube 3D experience. The Android-powered Optimus 3D will be available globally starting in Europe early in the second base quarter of 2011.

For more information, sojourn the LG stand at 8B178 in Hall 8 at Mobile World Congress in Fira de Barcelona from February 14 to 17 or go to the online newsroom at www.lgnewsroom.com/MWC2011.

Filed under “huge wastefulness of research and exploitation costs”, today we rich person a press release saying that NTT DOCOMO (NYSE: DCM), Renesas, Fujitsu (OTCPK: FJTSY), necrotizing enterocolitis, Panasonic (NYSE: PC) Mobile River Communications and Sharp Corporation ar departure to combine forces to create a mobile operating organization that volition be compatible with both Symbian, and Linux. It’s due to come out by March 2012, doesn’t have a name yet, will be offered to any mobile French telephone manufacturer who asks, and get this, the 6 companies are even considering making it compatible with Android. Why are they doing this?

“The new chopine volition crack improved processing speeds for high gear-quality video and enhanced 3D graphics processing for advanced mobile multimedia functions.”

Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.

Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) has opened an R&ere;D centre in Austrian capital, Austria, which volition be responsible for the designing and exploitation of augmented reality and related technologies. The new centre volition work in conjunction with Qualcomm’s existing center in San Diego and yield reward of intellect property recently acquired from Imagination Computer Services. In that mother wit, Imagination’s squad of researchers volition join the Qualcomm Austria Research Center.

Few actor’s line about Imagination (from the pressure release):

Headquartered in Austrian capital, Imagination was founded in 1998 by researchers from the Vienna University of Technology. The company’s technology has been featured in showcase augmented reality applications for a broad range of global consumer brands. Imagination’s researchers have also been at the forefront of the academician community, publishing numerous important inquiry document in augmented reality and related fields over the past tense 15 days.

Now we hope Qualcomm North Korean won’t ignition lock the augmented world market with its patents, but volition rather shuffle something usable…

Sprint (New York Stock Exchange: S) Nextel won’t be the only troupe to carry the Motorola i1 – SouthernLINC Wireless announced they are on board, too! The aircraft carrier said they’ll beginning selling Moto’s iDEN Android smartphone in the second quarter of the year.

We don’t rich person anything else to add, except SouthernLINC Wireless CEO Bob Dawson’s actor’s line, who said: “As we continue to expand our product portfolio, the upcoming launching of the Android-powered Motorola (New York Stock Exchange: MOT) i1 marks a major milestone for SouthernLINC Wireless. We ar excited to offer our customers a modern font, touch screen phone that marries our premier Push To Talk two-means radio service with highly-desirable multimedia system features and thousands of available applications and widgets for personal and business manipulation.”

And they should be excited considering the fact they usually announce some first gear-remainder devices. The i1 is a true exception!

As you probably already know, the Motorola i1 is a rugged smartphone which solid dependability meets Military specifications for tribute against detritus, electric shock, vibration and blowing pelting. Features include a 5-megapixel camera, Push To Talk, wireless local area network, Android OS, microSD expansion one-armed bandit and so on.

Samsung is out with yet another South Korean Peninsula-only twist called Anycall Extreme (SPH-W9705). As you can guess from its name, it’s a sporty-lookin’ rugged twist made from reinforced plastic that helps deliverance it from accidental amends. Moreover, we’re talk about an IP54 junk and water certified phone that tin can work in extremely low and/or high gear temperatures.

In plus, this clamshell integrates electronic range, altimeter and SOS part. KT will sell the Samsung Anycall Extreme for 400,000 won, which is about $354.

Speaking of rugged handsets, it’s not usual that we see such phones being offered by Samsung. Is this a office of the troupe’s goal to extend its market and stretch customers who may’ve been looking at for something different? In that good sense, should we expect to see more similar Samsung products released in the near future tense? It’s hard to tell at this moment, but we know one affair – Samsung is I smarting company with ambitious plans. We’ll certainly hold observation for any news coming out from Korean peninsula…

[Via: SamsungHub]

Samsung keeps pumping all-touchscreen devices like all the meter. Latest model we spotted “in the wild” is S3370, and it honestly looks like a “yet another penis of the Corby family unit.” However, it North Korean won’t contribution the same blood occupation, but volition most likely be known by some other name.

Features include 3G connectivity, 2.8-inch QVGA (most likely) display, Bluetooth, some camera, whereas Samsung’s infamous TouchWIZ user interface will be in mission for all interactions with the gimmick.

Release date is unknown quantity at the consequence, and it is said the price volition be about 100 EUR for an unlocked gimmick. At that price, I bet Samsung volition relocation dozens of these, though you never know — they rich person quite a few similar phones in that price stove, devising consumers (and even reporters) turn their heads around to design out differences between all the models.

Anyway, as soon as the Korean company goes all functionary with the S3370, we’ll certainly be there to write about it. Stay tuned…

[Via: UnwiredView, CellularMania]

While trolling around the Game Developer’s Conference this week, I stumbled upon an interesting app from MindGames which lets you use your encephalon to play a game.

Tug of Mind volition be a $5 iPhone biz aimed at instruction people how to stay calmness under tense situations. You tin can upload a photograph of someone that tin can cause you stress (boss, significant other, Lady Gaga), and a 3D modeling of their face will appear on your iPhone or iPod Touch. The facing then says disparaging things to you, and if you remain calmness, the face will gradually get calmness too and layover insulting you.

You need a $200 NeuroSky headset to be attached to the iPhone in ordering to play the game and it measures electrical impulses in your drumhead as fountainhead as your nervus facialis muscle reactions to determine what body politic of mind you’re in. MindGames told me they’re hoping this game can actually assist citizenry overcome real number-life stressful situations. To be honest, I’m not smarting sufficiency to know the exact science of how it works but it seems like an interesting conception for how we may interact with devices in the future. While some ar worried about the long-term personal effects of brain-controlled games, I think it can be incredibly useful if done right field. Look for the game to hit later this class and NeuroSky is working on a cheaper, less dorky headset that could smasher the market in the next few months.

Korean publishing house Gamevil announced that it volition bring its highly popular RPG Zenonia to the Android chopine sometime during March.

The iPhone variant was released backrest in May 2009, and the continuation is planned to be released also in Mar.

In addition to the 2 most popular smartphone platforms, Zenonia also lives on Windows Mobile River, BREW and WIPI. This cross-platform handiness has certainly helped Gamevil move a 1000000 copies of the game.

Pricing is unknown quantity at the consequence, but it is believed that the Android variant volition sell $2.99, just like its iPhone similitude.

Gamevil’s marketing director Jin Woo had this to say: “We’re extremely happy to bring unity of our fastest growing franchises, Zenonia, to unity of the most fastest growing mobile chopine in the worldly concern. Through our achiever of Baseball Superstars on the Android Market, we’ve decided to bring more of our games to Android to satisfy our fans and further extend our multi-chopine scheme.”

[Via: PocketGamer.co.uk]

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has successfully been awarded a patent of invention on location-based advertising they had filed Captain Hicks year ago, firmly planting their foot once more in a determined pace towards world mastery. While all mobile platforms volition likely be able to yield reward of the engineering through Google’s mobile advertising first step, odds are good that Android will be a focal distributor point of Google’s efforts on this burgeoning market. It also agency that if anyone wants to add GPS-based relevence to their mobile ads, it volition likely rich person to be through Google.

The patent, application figure 10/823,508, is described thusly.

The utility, and consequently the performance, of advertisements are improved by allowing businesses to bettor target their ads to a responsive audience. Location selective information is determined (or simply accepted) and used. For exercise, location selective information may be used in a relevancy determination of an ad. As another exercise, localization information whitethorn be used in an property (e.g., billet) arbitrament. Such location selective information may be associated with price selective information, such as a maximum price bid. Such localization selective information whitethorn be associated with ad performance information. Ad execution selective information whitethorn be tracked on the cornerstone of location selective information. The content of an ad creative, and/or of a landing varlet whitethorn be selected and/or modified using location information. Finally, tools, such as drug user interfaces, whitethorn be provided to allow a business to enter and/or modify location selective information, such as location selective information used for targeting and localization-dependent price information. The localization information used to butt and/or score ads whitethorn be, include, or define an area. The expanse whitethorn be defined by at least unity geographic consultation distributor point (e.g., defined by line of latitude and longitude coordinates) and perhaps additional information. Thus, the expanse whitethorn be a circle defined by a geographic consultation distributor point and a spoke, an ellipse defined by two geographic consultation points and a distance total, or a polygon defined by three or more geographic reference points, for exercise.

Google’s presence in the online advertising worldly concern is what would be topper described as omniscient – they own AdSense, a matchmaking service us bloggers manipulation to dedicate ad quad to Google, who figures out what you’re looking for, and fills the quad with contextually-significant ads. As far as mobile is concerned, Google picked up AdMob late shoemaker’s last year, the pre-eminent king of mobile publicizing, and habitue publishing house of useful stats (although that trade was so big that it raised some flags with the FTC regarding anti-trust laws).

Location-based advertising makes great mother wit for an end-drug user, since the more relevant the ads ar, the less intrusive they tactile property. However, the stage business modelling is distillery in its babyhood and unproven – it volition yield some maturing before Google can truly reap the fruits of this patent of invention winnings.

[via VentureBeat]

By now it’s open that Nokia (New York Stock Exchange: NOK) needs to really up their game when it comes to creating a touchscreen user experience that can compete with every one of the big smartphone chopine out there (iPhone, Android, webOS, Windows Phone 7). Their solution? Why, Symbian^4, of course of action. What you see here ar a duo “first glimpse” preview videos of the still-in-development Symbian^4 substance abuser interface that Nokia is hoping will compete with the iPhone. If this were a few days ago, we’d be all for Nokia’s upcoming Symbian oblation. But, it’s not, so we aren’t.

The Finnish earpiece maker is distillery without rival in the mobile space, what with their 45%+ share of the global cellular telephone marketplace, but they’re losing marketplace share on a quarterly foundation. Part of the trouble is Nokia’s lack of a smartphone OS capable of slugging it out with finger-friendly offerings from iPhone, Android and webOS. Symbian4 is supposed to variety all that.

While Symbian^3 is on the way to marketplace in the near terminal figure, Symbian4 will succeed the chopines as a complete UI rebuild. It’s the future tense of Nokia, and it’s going away to spearhead the next-generation of Nokia touchscreen phones, so it’s really important that it’s up to snuff.

So, the dubiousness is – doses Symbian^4 have what it takes to shuffling a difference of opinion? Take a look at the videos and let us know what you think.

[Via: FierceWireless]