Sure, the Touch HD that you can potentially win on pocketnow.com has the "HD" moniker, but it's not really "high definition" as we know it in the digital television world. A company by the name of Renesas is looking to change that with a processor that will allow smartphones to display 1080p on that little, gorgeous screen. According to Engadget Mobile, availability and pricing is unknown sti...

Believe it or not, this is far from the first we've heard of bringing high-def video to cellphones, and it's not even the first application to dabble in mobile 1080p. Still, we'll take all the innovation we can get in this space, and when the real Touch HD ever arrives, we'll be ready and waiting with Full HD capabilities. Announced at ISSCC 2009 in San Francisco, Renesas Techn...

The initial board members of the Symbian Foundation welcomed the latest supporters of the initiative at the interim Steering Group meeting in Tokyo this week. This announcement [pdf] includes support for the Symbian Foundation plans from 7 more companies; Borqs, Comarch, HiQ, Kanrikougaku Kenkyusho Ltd. (K3), L&T Infotech, Renesas Technology Corp. and SoftBank Mobile Corp. who add their endor...

Found under: symbian, software, Seven companies have joined Nokias Symbian alliance which aims to further develop and popularize mobile platform in the face of growing competition from rival operating systems. The Symbian Foundation announced over the weekend that Borqs Comarch HiQ Kanrikougaku Kenkyusho Ltd. K3 LT Infotech Renesas Technology Corp. and SoftBank Mobile Corp. have joined its ranks p...

Symbian Foundation has managed to make a big impact on the mobile phone industry and all its players and continues to grow at an unstoppable rate! Japan's third-largest wireless carrier Softbank, Renesas Technology and five others said on Thursday they planned to join the Symbian Foundation to get access to its upcoming, open source and royalty free (for members) mobile phone platform. Back i...

Traditionally, Symbian Smartphones came in three varieties: S60, UIQ and FOMA. While S60 and UIQ are covered and used all over the world, Foma phones (also known as Raku-Raku, whatever that means) are limited to selected Asian markets. The recent Symbian Smartphone Show had a Renesas booth showcasing a few devices…an opportunity we used to

DoCoMo, Renesas, Fujitsu and Sharp announced that they plan to jointly develop the SH-Mobile G4 single-chip LSI device, and a platform incorporating it, to support the HSUPA1/HSDPA2/W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS/EDGE (2G) mobile telephony standards. DoCoMo and Renesas began joint development work in 2004 on the SH-Mobile G series of single-chip LSI devices, which integrate a baseband processor that supports...

Japan's NTT DoCoMo has partnered with Fujitsu, Sharp and semiconductor company Renesas Technology to co-develop an HSUPA platform. DoCoMo said the SH-Mobile G4 single chip LSI device, will support HSUPA1/HSDPA2/WCDMA and GSM/GPRS/EDGE and will be completed in early 2010. Article

The four major players in the mobile phone industry, NTT DoCoMo, Renesas, Fujitsu and Sharp, have announced that they are working on the development of SH-Mobile G4 single-chip LSI device, together with on a platform that will incorporate it, and that will support HSUPA 1, HSDPA2, W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS/EDGE (2G) mobile telephony standards. The joint project is schedu...

Renesas Technology Corp., Fujitsu Limited, and Sharp Corporation today announced that they plan to jointly develop the SH-Mobile G4 single-chip LSI device, and a platform incorporating it, to support the HSUPA1/HSDPA2/W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS/EDGE (2G) mobile telephony standards. Development of the platform is targeted for completion by the forth quarter of fiscal 2009 (January–March 2010).The ne...