T-Mobile demonstrated the first Pay-As-You-Go Android phones go on sale in the UK.

“Pulse”, which is manufactured by Huawei, was announced Thursday. Huawei is well known in the UK for the production of keys for mobile broadband operators such as T-Mobile, and burn marks its entry into the British mobile phone market.

“T-Mobile Pulse represents yet another milestone on the Android T-Mobile”, said Nicola Shenton, who now heads the business phone operators in the UK, in a statement. “We introduced the first phone Android, T-Mobile G1, the back of the UK in October 2008 launched a second pipe, G2 Touch, earlier this year, and now we are opening Android-smartphone to a whole new type of mobile user from the first phone on Pay - As-You-Go “.

“We had warned in June that we were expecting one of the five T-Mobile mobile Internet users will be Android-powered devices by the end of the year and the launch of T-Mobile impulse represents an important step in making this reality,” she added.

Pay-As-You-Go T-Mobile Pulse will go on sale in the UK in October? 180. Contract prices are not announced.

If you need a device GPS, to get around, it becomes more likely that you will get a mobile phone with built-in satellite mapping, than buy a standalone personal navigation devices.

According to market research firm iSuppli, in 2011, almost all smart phones will sport a built-in functionality of the GPS, but by 2014 there may be no more than the market had gone to high blood pressure.

While this is a great statement, it is quite credible. Only a year or two ago, it was difficult to find a phone with a built-in GPS functionality, which actually works reliably. Now look at my iPhone 3GS. I have all three main areas of application of GPS in it, including TomTom, Navigon, and also laid the function, and everyone can turn your phone into a reliable navigator. In addition, I am now testing the fourth, CoPilot Live from ALK Technologies.

Although I may be unusual - mostly because no one needs more than one GPS-application on your phone - in fact, more and more phones offer the same functions and more people are using their phones as the primary GPS navigator while driving .

Palm Pres, for example, also offers a great GPS navigator, provided TelNav, and my colleagues believe Joseph Kaminiski made use of it. Before Joseph’s prior use Treo 800 for the same purpose.

Nevertheless, at present market hypertension is still going strong. According to iSuppli, high blood pressure will continue to navigate the market in 2009, about 114 million sets in use are forecasted by the end of the year, compared with 57.8 million navigation smart phones.

New models of smart phones becoming more suitable for use as navigators because of their large display, large internal memory, faster processors, and, most importantly, increase the number of developers creating applications for them. In fact, all the existing navigation solutions for smartphones applications developed by third parties.

iSuppli predicts that due to such factors, the number of people who use the iPhone alone as navigator, will increase from 2 million in 2009 alone to 20 million by 2013.

Personally, however, I still think it will be on the left the market of personal navigation devices. Although I have been able to make use of your phone to get me places, I remain as a stand-alone GPS device for my car, as sometimes while driving my iPhone be used as what it is intended for: the phone.

Solar technology in the field of mobile computing devices continue to hamper performance, and price issues and can not fully replace the batteries in the near future, according to analysts.

James Hines, Gartner research director for the semiconductor told ZDNet Asia via e-mail interview that the work is “the primary inhibitor for the practical application of integrated solar cells in today’s mobile devices.

Solar battery chargers for mobile phones and other devices that are already available on the market. Nevertheless, they are not only expensive, but their effectiveness as “poor,” he said in a recent research paper. 

according to Hines, consumer electronics manufacturers are considering the integration of solar, or photovoltaic (PV), technology to be more mobile devices.

In June, Samsung launched Crest Solar (also known as solar guru, depending on the region), in which the Korean mobile Maker is said to provide 5 to 10 minutes of talk time, charge one hour in the sun. Japanese supplier Sharp also unveiled its Solar phone SH002 in June, Nikkei Business publications have reported. But Sanyo has released its Eneloop Portable Solar panels for charging portable devices earlier this month.

For these applications will be possible, however, should not be a “significant breakthrough in photovoltaic technology,” to not only improve the efficiency of energy conversion, as well as reduce costs, said Hynes.

Photovoltaic cells, he explained, are currently in the low-energy conversion, while mobile devices increasingly consume more energy in the active mode. To meet the “substantial part” because of the requirement of full functions of modern mobile devices, solar panels should be more than a device that makes it more difficult portability.

For this reason, products such as solar mobile phone will likely see limited uptake in the near future, “said Hynes.

Annette Zimmermann, senior analyst at Gartner, says the document, released last month that “in practice”, it takes about a sunny day mobile recharge fully. “This will certainly limit the functionality of, given the fact that few users have the opportunity to expose them to the device in the open sun for so long.”

The main point of sales of these devices, she added, apparently, be “theoretical convenience for those who do not always have access to electricity, such as in new markets. Nevertheless, the new technology will likely have a higher price than a low-cost devices that do not meet the expectations of the price of its target market - low-budget users.

Hynes added that the solar charger for various mobile devices remains the most practical application in the near future. ”

These chargers can even be integrated into the backpack, laptop cases or clothing. Nevertheless, it is a “supplementary” means the charge - where the grid connection is not possible or convenient.

Because of the limitations of their power, integrated solar cells can not replace batteries in mobile electronic devices, “said Hynes.” Instead, they will be used in combination with energy storage devices such as batteries to extend their time. “

Virtualization company VMware says that its new platform for virtualization will enable organizations to smartphones and mobile devices will appear in phones next year.

Mobile phone is now as important for business desktop computers, but also serves as a mobile computer, in many cases, said Stephen Herrod, VMware CTO, speaking at industry conferences Interop in Las Vegas on Tuesday.

Although Herrod said that the project is still in its early stages, researchers are working on the VMware virtualization VMware mobile platform that will create a virtual machine for mobile devices, allowing users to move their phone for different phones.

VMware is currently negotiating with manufacturers of devices and technologies should be incorporated into the new phone at a certain stage in 2010, said Fredrik Sjostedt, VMware EMEA director of marketing products. “The technology exists, and is up and running, but it should be something that is on the phone when they have acquired”, Sjostedt told ZDNet UK on Wednesday.

Virtualization of mobile phones means users of the phones will be portable files that can be moved from one phone to another. This means that users who lose or damage the phones can download data more easily, and corporate IT departments will have less headache support, said Sjostedt. Potentially, companies can also run multiple virtual phone on one phone.

“Email settings, provide access to the Web and corporate applications on the phone is a nightmare, especially where users went and bought a new phone. This means you have a layer of abstraction between the application and the phone operating system, so you can put one and the same image on a Nokia or Motorola mobile phone, very easy “, Sjostedt said. “Companies will be able to say - just bring your phone to us, and we’ll create a style that can sit beside the personal identity. You can have your own files and photos without compromising corporate security or data at risk.”

Mobile virtualization will mean manufacturers of phones will be able to introduce new features and applications faster, Sjostedt added. Currently, phone companies may spend 18 or 24 months of testing new features on different platforms and models - but it can be eliminated by using the virtual phone. VMware is currently in advanced negotiations with all major phone manufacturers, Sjostedt said.

Mobile virtualization, perhaps another idea ahead of its time, according to Clive Longbottom, research director with Quocirca. “At the moment there is an element of” What is the point? “But it is certainly interesting in a year or two,” said Longbottom.

Longbottom believes the most valuable use of mobile virtualization will be in corporate settings, where it can be difficult to get full functionality of enterprise applications on mobile devices.

“I can see that the field engineer may be useful for working hours using the application, it is possible to switch on your laptop and see a picture of boiler plans and instructions, when the need arises. Being able to share the mobile in different systems, potentially can be very powerful, “he said. “However, at this point, I do not think that devices like iPhone, are complex and powerful enough to deal with this type of technology.”