QuickLogic today announced that the good folks at Pantech are the first OEM to bring VEE and DPO to a smartphone in their ‘Tablet Phone’ (AKA Vega 5) product. As you might expect, we have had access to the phone during the development process, and I have to commend Pantech on the end product. Although […]
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What Does Android 3.0 Support Do for QuickLogic?
As always, thanks for visiting us at QuickLogic HotSpots. The steadily growing traffic we see is very encouraging, and we hope you find this useful. Now onto business… Following up today’s press release on Android 3.0 support… The jump from Android 2.3 (or 2.2, as my phone stubbornly refuses to relinquish–here’s looking at you, AT&T!) […]
Smartphone Battery Life: A Consumer POV
Some interesting statistics on smartphone battery life: JD Power’s survey says only 8% of smartphone users are satisfied with their battery life: https://rohansood.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/iphone-takes-top-spot-in-us-smartphone-satisfaction-stats/ Only 6.6% of Japanese smartphone users are completely satisfied with their phone battery life, with more than 65% dissatisfied: http://whatjapanthinks.com/2011/02/15/battery-dissatisfaction-high-amongst-smartphone-users/ 80% of Nokia customers in China dissatisfied with battery life of their […]
A New QuickLogic-Authored Article
From Communications Components Magazine’s (Taiwan) special June issue on mobile phone components, I bring you “QuickLogic’s Visual Enhancement and Display Power Savings CSSP Chips Integrated into a Mobile Device”. A link to the original simplified-Chinese text is up at http://shop.quicklogic.com/in-the-news/, or you can access the file directly at http://shop.quicklogic.com/assets/press/CCM-Article.pdf While this article is perhaps more […]
How to Mute CNBC and Play a Movie at the Same Time…
Brian, one of our frequent readers and commentors here on QuickLogic’s HotSpots inquired on my last blog with the question below: The RGB-split accepts one incoming signal and splits the signal between to two displays (i.e. one image spread over two displays). Down the road do you envision an RGB-split capability (or a market need) […]
The RGB-split Competitive Landscape
Building on today’s “RGB-split for Foldable Tablets and Smartphones” press release, I wanted to spend a bit of time talking about current competitive approaches to splitting display signals. First, a bit more on RGB-split. What is does: it accepts a single incoming MDDI or RGB display signal (from the applications processor/CPU) and splits it to […]
QuickLogic’s Presentation from Digitimes Technical Forum
You can view QuickLogic’s presentation from the Digitimes Technical Forum at the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sgbgqh3rBYo […]
Adding Silicon to Reduce Power?
During Uplinq last week, visitors to our booth were, among other things, given demonstrations of VEE and DPO. One of the curious things that kept occurring was people trying to understand how we can reduce power with silicon. I suppose for most techies, “adding silicon to reduce power” is in the vein of “jumbo shrimp” […]
Ask the CEO, Summer 2011 Edition
I would like to thank everyone who submitted their questions and for reading about us here at QuickLogic HotSpots. On to the questions… Q: Was QuickLogic late to get into the mobile picture? A: I think the answer depends on how you define ‘mobile picture’. Certainly, our introduction in 2007 of the CSSP model and […]
Uplinq 2011
For those headed to UPLINQ 2011 this week, we hope you’ll stop by our booth during the Mobile Innovations Showcase at Qualcomm’s annual conference. We’ll be showing VEE and VEE-related solutions all day Wednesday and Thursday. Details on UPLINQ can be found at http://www.qualcomm.com […]
