Geosync Spies

Geosync Spies

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 15th, 2009

A launch attempt of the Delta 4-Heavy rocket carrying an NRO reconnaissance satellite (NROL-26), with a rumored 300 foot mesh antenna will not occur this evening, reports SpaceFlight Now. The United Launch Alliance launch has been rescheduled for Jan. 17, 7:33 p.m. EST. Weather was the main reason the launch was rescheduled for Saturday.

The Heavy is the largest Air Force rocket in the family of Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicles. It is capable of throwing more than 14 tons into geosynchronous space or 50,000 lbs to LEO. The Heavy is making its third flight following a demonstration test launch conducted in December 2004 and the first operational mission in November 2007 that orbited a missile-warning satellite.

The combined cost of the NROL-26 spacecraft and booster is upwards of $2 billion, says Aviation Week’s Craig Covault.

Huge antennas are now being used by commercial satellites such as ICO G1 and Inmarsat 4.

ICO G1, the largest commercial satellite launched to date, successfully deployed its Harris 12-meter reflector in April, 2008. The Harris antenna (pdf) on the ICO satellite utilizes a gold-plated mesh reflective surface with a unique design that allows a very large antenna reflector to stow safely and easily on the Loral 1300 satellite platform. The reflector size enables the increased performance typically required for mobile interactive media services. ICO G1 will deliver mobile interactive media services, like mobile video, interactive navigation and emergency communications services to consumers.

Harris has also built a reflector for TerreStar Networks’s geostationary TerreStar-1 mobile communications satellite; and two reflectors for XM Satellite Radio’s XM-5 radio broadcast satellite.

Competitor Astro Aerospace, a subsidiary of Northrop Gruman, has also designed and deployed large 12.25 meters (40 feet) AstroMesh reflectors for Thuraya, Inmarsat 4 and Japan’s Mobile Broadcasting satellite program.

But these 12 meter (40 foot) mesh reflectors on commercial satellites would be puny compared to a 100 meter (300 foot) monster rumored on board the NROL-26 SIGINT bird.

The dean of aerospace journalists, Craig Covault now writes for SpaceFlightNow. Covault implies that the Delta IV Heavy may be packing heat inside its 5-m (16.6-ft) diameter fairing.

Covault says a fleet of small robot spies are now on-station and taking pictures of a variety of satellites along the geosynchronous arc.

In a top secret operation, the U.S. Defense Dept. is conducting the first deep space inspection of a crippled U.S. military spacecraft. To do this, it is using sensors on two covert inspection satellites that have been prowling geosynchronous orbit for nearly three years.

The failed satellite being examined is the $400 million U.S. Air Force/Northrop Grumman Defense Support Program DSP 23 missile warning satellite. It died in 2008 after being launched successfully from Cape Canaveral in November 2007 on the first operational Delta 4-Heavy booster.

The Orbital Sciences and Lockheed Martin “Mitex” inspection spacecraft involved are part of a classified Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) technology development program. When initially launched on a Delta 2 from Cape Canaveral in 2006, the project involved maneuvering around and inspecting each other at geosynchronous altitude.

The US currently accounts for roughly 95 percent of total global military space expenditures with approximately 130 operational military-related satellites – over half of all military satellites in orbit, says spacesecurity.org (pdf).

In July 2000 the Navy announced that USS Lake Erie (CG 70) had been designated the Navy’s test ship for the AEGIS Lightweight Exoatmospheric Projectile intercept flight-test series — the AEGIS LEAP.

The LEAP program pioneered the development of small, miniaturized kill vehicles atop the Standard SM-3 missile for better range and accuracy. It beat out a proposed A-Sat system, Brilliant Pebbles, that used a thousand small, highly intelligent orbiting satellites with kinetic warheads.

The Autonomous Nanosatellite Guardian for Evaluating Local Space (ANGELS) program, such as the XSS-11 is intended to provide the continuous monitoring of assets in GEO. Draper Labs worked on the XSS-11 for autonomous satellite inspection and TacSat-2 (pdf).

SpaceDev manufactured the Trailblazer satellite selected by the Operationally Responsive Space Office. After being launched Trailblazer would have collected image data and communicated with a ground station but was on-board the ill-fated Falcon 1.

The Russian Almaz program, launched by the Soviet Union under cover of the civilian Salyut program, included anti-satellite protection, says Nova’s Astrospies web site (left). The Russian Space Web has more info.

The International Scientific Optical Network, primarily a Russian venture, has discovered 152 ‘unknown’ objects, likely including classified US satellites, that have no public orbital information in the US catalogue. It also has also tracked 192 previously unknown faint space debris objects in geosynchronous orbit.

Besides the U.S. and Russia, China and Japan launch spy satellites. Israel has a spy satellite program, as does NATO, the United Kingdom, and France. Whether or not the Russians will now test an ASAT weapon may be an open question. The Missile Wars (FrontLine) may be heating up.

Politics aside, the unfurling of a 100 meter antenna on board a geosynchronous spacecraft would have to be viewed as a major milestone for telecommunications world-wide. The $2B secret reconnaissance satellite is a high-risk, high-stakes gamble.

Besides the MENTOR (Advanced Orion) geosynchronous ELINT birds, other NRO programs and NROL designations might include:

• Magnum: USA-8/48/67
• Trumpet: USA-103/112/136
• Mercury: USA-105/108/FTO
• Mentor: USA-110/139/171
• Prowler: USA-184/200/TBD

Geosynchronous ELINT satellites are like aircraft carriers. They may need a fleet of spacecraft for support and self-defense.

We all get to watch.

You can follow the action on SeeSat-L’s archives, the NASA Spaceflight Forum or United Launch Alliance’s own Live Webcast.

Meanwhile, Canada’s Radarsat 2 satellite was successfully launched more than a year ago while high resolution sat photos can be ordered from GeoEye, DigitalGlobe and Spot and are used on Google Maps and Microsoft Live.

source: dailywireless.org

New York Cancels Statewide Wireless Network

New York Cancels Statewide Wireless Network

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 15th, 2009

New York Gov. David A. Paterson’s administration has canceled the state of New York’s $2.1 billion contract to build a statewide wireless network for emergency workers after years of delays and numerous technological snags, reports the NY Times.

Melodie Mayberry-Stewart, the state’s chief technological officer, sent a letter by express mail postmarked last night to the president and lead legal counsel for M/A-COM, a subsidiary of Tyco Electronics that was chosen in 2005 to build the network meant to link first responders across the state.

The letter included a 10-page summary of the deficiencies that M/A-COM did not fix or remedy (pdf).

“We are extremely disappointed M/A-COM has failed to demonstrate the reliability of their OpenSky technology, especially its network and subscriber radios, which are the core of the system,” said Dr. Melodie Mayberry-Stewart, Chief Information Officer and Director of the New York State Office for Technology.

“Per the terms of the contract, we have given M/A-COM every opportunity to remediate existing deficiencies. However, the state’s testing concluded M/A-COM is unable to deliver a system that meets the needs of New York State’s first responders as stated in the contract.”

As part of the contract award, M/A-COM was required to furnish the State with an irrevocable SLOC in the amount of $50 million. Based upon M/A-COM’s failure to cure its default under the SWN Contract, the State has presented a demand notice to the financial institution for the payment to the State without delay.

Further, after any draw down, M/A-COM is required to replenish the account to its full value of $50 million and the State may continue these draw downs up to $100 million in total. Since notice of contract award to M/A-COM in April 2004, the State has incurred more than $54 million in project operating expenses.

The termination letter comes after months of growing tension between the state and M/A-COM, which had missed several deadlines to repair its network in two counties upstate, where trials were under way.

With the state facing a yawning fiscal gap, the governor last week was leaning toward shutting the network, which has already cost New York more than $50 million, The New York Times reported on Saturday.

In its letter, the state said it wants to recover the money it has already spent on the project. The state is considering a number of alternative technologies, though it unclear when one or more of them might be selected as a replacement.

The state’s decision to sever ties with M/A-COM is expected to prompt a legal battle. Last week, lawyers from Weil, Gotshal & Manges, the firm hired to represent the company, said in a letter to the state that it was “patently obvious” that the state was determined to cancel the contract because of political and financial pressure and was using technical issues as a pretext for the cancellation.

New York’s statewide wireless emergency communications system would not include any construction in the protected wilderness areas of the Adirondacks and Catskills. Tyco International subsidiary, M/A-Com, bid roughly $1 billion for the 20-year contract. They planned to use as few as four towers in the Adirondacks and the Catskills, and none in protected areas.

That was sharply fewer than the bid from Motorola which proposed 400 towers for the project. Motorola’s bid was roughly $3 billion. New York officials said the different approach to building new towers was the major reason for the vast difference in the bids.

In the Tyco proposal, repeaters are an essential element in avoiding the construction of towers. Repeaters are used throughout the country as a standard way of giving greater amplification to the transmissions of hand-held radios.

While VHF radios (at 150 and 450 MHz) cover rugged, thickly forested terrain better, 700 and 800 MHz radios are better in densely populated areas. P-25 radios — with IP-based interoperability — could unite the force. Tyco Electronics’ M/A-COM business won the contract in 2005, the biggest New York technology contract ever awarded.

The statewide network was expected to be completed and fully operational by July 2010.

source : dailywireless.org

Arraycomm & NEC Team up

Arraycomm & NEC Team for Beam

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 16th, 2009

NEC Corporation and ArrayComm announced today a collaboration to develop new WiMAX products that include ArrayComm’s multi-antenna signal processing software.

ArrayComm’s Multi-Antenna Signal Processing software, A-MAS, provides a unique combination of MIMO and adaptive interference cancellation, with significant range, capacity, and throughput improvements. ArrayComm will contribute by jointly developing the PHY2 software with integrated A-MAS.

NEC’s PasoWings base station allows WiMAX users to connect seamlessly across wide area wireless networks,

The joint effort will deliver innovative WiMAX base station products beginning mid-2009.

source: dailywireless.org

iPhone Ustream App

Inauguration Live on iPhone Ustream App

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 16th, 2009

Ustream.tv, the live video streaming site, demonstrated to TechCrunch a live stream application running on the iPhone. Michael Arrington shot a brief video of the yet-to-be-released application (below), along with the more official video from Ustream.

The application will let users watch any Ustream channel, live, directly from their iPhone. And not only that, users will also see and be able to participate in the live chat around the video as well.

You will be able to watch the Obama Inauguration LIVE on Ustream with chat, says CEO John Ham. The application is expected to be available to the general public in a few days.

source : dailywireless.org

Meraki Teams with One Economy

Meraki Teams with One Economy

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 16th, 2009

Meraki announced Thursday that it’s working nonprofit OneEconomy to deliver affordable broadband to low-income housing. Using Meraki’s technology, OneEconomy plans to deliver affordable broadband via Wi-Fi to more than 100,000 families in the U.S. (pdf) over the next two years.

Meraki and OneEconomy will launch their partnership at San Francisco’s largest housing development, which has more than 2,200 residents, reports C/Net. AT&T is providing the DSL service.

David McConnell, senior vice president of access service for OneEconomy, said that Meraki’s technology is cheap and easy to use, reducing the cost of running new cabling by 50 percent.

Meraki’s hardware and management system cost less to buy and operate. In addition a hotspot can be shared by multiple apartments. That allows OneEconomy to charge less while making money; only $5 or $7 per month for internet access per client instead of $20 or $30.

One Economy has used Meraki’s Wi-Fi gear to bring free and low-cost broadband to more than 15,000 low-income people across the United States. For example, One Economy used Meraki devices to bring high-speed Internet access to the Park Boulevard housing development, a public-private partnership established with the Chicago Housing Authority. This effort connected 45 units of low-income housing that are part of a larger mixed income development covering two city blocks.

Since its founding in 2000, One Economy has worked to maximize the potential of technology to help low-income people improve their lives and enter the economic mainstream.

Meraki has built thousands of wireless networks in 125 countries. And it has built a test bed network in San Francisco, where the company is headquartered. About 80 percent of San Francisco’s major neighborhoods have a free Meraki network operating. The company plans to continue building the “Free the Net” network in 2009, deepening coverage in each neighborhood.

Meraki also announced a partnership with the city of San Francisco in September to add wireless coverage to 12 low-income housing projects in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco and other areas. Free Wi-Fi to senior centers throughout the city is also planned.

Unlike other Wi-Fi mesh companies like Fon and Whisher, Meraki is not aiming to build a global free Wi-Fi network. Rather, it’s simply a Wi-Fi hardware company. If you run a mall and want to provide Wi-Fi access to everyone, Meraki’s hotspots and repeaters can do it simply and easily.

In related news, the Wall Street Journal reports that by now most libraries have put in free computer and Wi-Fi service and are now reporting a jump in attendance of as much as 65% over the past year, as newly unemployed people flock to branches to fill out résumés and scan ads for job listings. Even the Multnomah County Library in Portland has installed free WiFi.

Other recession-weary patrons are turning to libraries for cheap entertainment — killing time with the free computers, video rentals and, of course, books. Librarians are turning into job counselors — and even social workers — as they have to deal with a sometimes-desperate new class of patrons.

“Many times a day there is a line of people waiting to get on one of our three computers,” says Mary Wright, director of the Marks-Quitman County Library in Marks, Mississippi. For now, patrons have to line up at a kiosk to make a reservation to use one of the 11 existing terminals.

source: dailywireless.org

Telematics Bling

Automotive Telematics Bling

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 16th, 2009

Yes, CES is history. Yes, Engadget and Gizmodo have been there. Done that. But did you see the automotive telematics?

Here’s some bling from Telematics Update:

Telematics related

• New Ford SYNC services with turn-by-turn navigation by DeCarta and TeleNav with a TellMe interface.
• Microsoft Mobile 3.0 as a viable alternative to QNX and the “Open Infotainment” platform from the WindRiver, Intel and BMW.
• Toyota Telematics will battle mano a mano with GM’s OnStar using its G-Book Alpha system that lets you request directions to the nearest shopping mall.
• New traffic services are expected from the newly formed North American Traffic Working Group under the sponsorship of the ITS-America, with the mission to make traffic advisories better.

Infotainment Related

• Visteon (with 3M) showcased many new automotive interior design concepts.
• Mobile TV with the new ICO Mobile TV offering. AT&T AutoCruise with 25 channels and Audiovox Flo received much media attention.
• Internet radio was showcased by Blaupunkt and MiRoamer, with a Bluetooth-paired mobile phone with data connection.
• Gracenote CarStars, an avatar in your car helps you choose music (below).

Scientists Named to President's Science Council

Scientists Named to President’s Science Council

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 22nd, 2008

“The truth is that promoting science isn’t just about providing resources—it’s about protecting free and open inquiry,” said President-elect Obama in his weekly video chat.

President-elect Obama announced his appointment of Dr. John Holdren as Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).

He also announced Dr. Harold Varmus (Rose Interview) and Dr. Eric Lander (Rose Interview) as the other co-chairs of PCAST, which the President-elect said he hopes will be “a vigorous external advisory council that will shape my thinking on the scientific aspects of my policy priorities.”

Addtionally, he named Dr. Jane Lubchenco as his choice to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Obama’s transition team is planning to scrap NASA’s Ares program, the successor to the Space Shuttle, say NASA advisors. The transition team is investigating whether EELVs such as the Delta IV and Atlas V could be used in place of Ares. NASA [contractors] want a permanent moon base by 2020, followed by a manned mission to Mars; which the agency says require the Ares rocket.

The United States Space program is known for legendary waste, cost overruns and criminality:

• The Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) High program, originally estimated to cost about $4 billion, is at least 400% over its original budget and significantly behind schedule.
• The Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite program (AEHF) went from $6.1 billion to $8.7 billion.
• The NPOESS weather satellites went from from $6.8 billion to $13.8 billion
• The Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program, initially a $17B heavy lifter program, has ballooned $14 Billion over budget and counting (GAO Report).
• Boeing’s $5 billion Future Imagery Architecture was killed in September 2005, when cost estimates ran as high as $18 billion. That’s bigger than NASA’s annual $17 billion budget.

The first flight by the United Launch Alliance, which combined the redundant and wildly over budget EELV programs by Boeing and Lockheed, was in December 2006. The classified NROL-21 payload instantly transformed into a multi-billion dollar brick.

source: dailywireless.org

SMS Price Gouging Investigated

SMS Price Gouging Investigated

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 29th, 2008

The NY Times says carriers are ripping off people with text messaging fees. The cost of delivering text messaging is virtually nothing. Text messages are tiny free riders, tucked into what’s called a “control channel“, space reserved for operation of the wireless network. It’s pure profit for cellular carriers because it doesn’t require a phone channel.

Now all four of the major carriers have increased the pay-per-use price for messages from 10 cents to 20 cents. With young people often sending 100 text messages a day, the added fees can be astronomical.

Legislators in Washington DC are now looking into price gouging complaints. Senator Herb Kohl, Democrat of Wisconsin and the chairman of the Senate antitrust subcommittee, wanted to look behind the curtain. He was curious about the doubling of prices for text messages charged by the major American carriers from 2005 to 2008, during a time when the industry consolidated from six major companies to four. Gartner expects 3.3 trillion messages to be sent in 2009, up from 2.5 trillion sent messages, up 32 percent from 2007.

Short Message Service (SMS) is the communications protocol allowing text exchange between mobile phones. SMS text messaging is the most widely used data application on the planet, with 2.4 billion active users, or 74% of all mobile phone subscribers sending and receiving text messages on their phones, according to wikipedia.

Control channels insure that only one mobile uses a voice channel at a time. The sliver of spectrum devoted to a control channel (pdf) is used to set up a phone call. That’s why the length of the message is limited; it’s used for internal communication between tower and handset to set up a call. It was mostly unused until NTT DocoMo discovered it could adopted for text messaging. The channel uses space whether or not a text message is inserted.

A text message initially travels wirelessly from a handset to the closest base-station tower and is then transferred through wired links to the telephone network. Cellular Intercept Systems can capture Forward and Reverse cellular channels of a cell phone call using the control channel.

Professor Srinivasan Keshav, at the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, said: “Messages are small. Even though a trillion seems like a lot to carry, it isn’t.” Keshav said that once a carrier invests in the centralized storage equipment — storing a terabyte now costs only $100 and is dropping — and the staff to maintain it, its costs are basically covered. “Operating costs are relatively insensitive to volume,” he said. “It doesn’t cost the carrier much more to transmit a hundred million messages than a million.”

Professor Keshav, whose academic research received financial support from one of the four major American carriers, discovered just how secretive the carriers are when it comes to this business. Two years ago, when he requested information from his sponsor about its network operations in the past so that his students could study a real-world text-messaging network, he was turned down. He said the company liaison told him, “Even our own researchers are not permitted to see that data.”

Trans-late-it (transl8it), is a simple, free SMS translator. Just type in your SMS or TXT lingo and let transL8it! convert it to plain english OR type in a phrase in english and convert it to TXT. English teachers might find it useful. The Daily Telegraph ran a story a couple years ago on a teacher that could not decipher what a 13 year old student had written.

“I could not believe what I was seeing. The page was riddled with hieroglyphics, many of which I simply could not translate,” the teacher told the newspaper.

The teenager’s essay which caused the problem began:

“My smmr hols wr CWOT. B4, we used 2go2 NY 2C my bro, his GF & thr 3 :- kids FTF. ILNY, it’s a gr8 plc.”

Translation:

“My summer holidays were a complete waste of time. Before, we used to go to New York to see my brother, his girlfriend and their three screaming kids face to face. I love New York. It’s a great place.”

And now, ladies and gentlemen, direct from London, for your astonishment and pleasure…the world’s smallest web site!

source: dailywireless.org

Nokia : Worlds Largest Computer Maker

Nokia: World’s Largest Computer Maker

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 29th, 2008

Nokia has become the world’s largest computer maker, says Tomi T Ahonen, author of Communities Dominate Brand. And not by its sales of all phones, only by counting smartphones.

“If you accept the premise that smartphones are computers, (as Nokia calls the N-Series or as Apple calls the iPhone), then the numbers are clear, says analyist Ahonen. For 2008, for the first time, the world’s largest computer maker is Nokia, not HP or Dell or Lenovo, etc. Apple jumps up to number 4 if we add the iPhone, and RIM clocks in at number 7, ahead of Toshiba who invented the laptop.”

If you say smartphones are computers then the biggest computer makers in the world in 2008 are:

1. Nokia — 64.1 Million units — 13.8% market share
2. HP — 55.2 Million units — 11.9% market share
3. Dell — 43.8 Million units — 9.4% market share
4. Apple — 35.0 Million units — 7.5% market share
5. Acer — 30.8 Million units — 6.6% market share
6. Lenovo — 22.1 Million units — 4.7% market share
7. RIM — 19.8 Million units — 4.2% market share
8. Toshiba — 12.9 Million units — 2.8% market share
9. Others — 181.9 Million units — 39.1% market share

   Total — 465.5 Million units — 100.0%

His numbers are based on public figures reported by Gartner, IDC, Analsys etc. Ahonen says Nokia claimed three years ago that the N-Series were multimedia computers and Steve Jobs said earlier this year that the iPhone was Apple’s Netbook, so Ahonen does not claim his take is unique or completely original. He just gathered the data.

Worldwide smartphone sales totaled 32.2 million units in the second quarter of 2008, a 15.7 per cent increase from the second quarter of 2007, according to market researcher Gartner. Smartphones are currently about 15 percent of the entire mobile phone market, but are predicted to grow to 40 to 50 percent within the next five years. Informa forecasts subscriptions to UMTS/HSPA will number nearly half a billion worldwide by the end of 2009, and will pass the one billion mark in 2012.

Mobile Data Traffic by Application is expected to shift to video and internet access.

Tomi Ahonen has a follow-up blog story which compares five eras in computer evolution, and shows how the smartphone fits (or doesn’t fit) the pattern. According to Ahonen, a widely quoted expert, at the end of 2008 there were:

• 3.9 Billion mobile subscriptions globally
• 3.4 Billion actual phones in use
• 3.0 Billion unique mobile phone owners
• 3.0 Billion active users of SMS, 1.9 B cameraphones in use, and 1.3 B active users of MMS.
• 1.0 Billion mobile subscribers use the mobile internet (including WAP in the definition)

To put those numbers in context, he says there are 800 million cable/satellite TV subscriptions and 850 million cars. There are 950 million personal computers, about 1.2 people use email, and 1.3 billion total internet users. There are about 1.2 billion fixed landline phones, all television sets on the planet number 1.4 billion, and there are about 1.5 billion unique credit card holders.

But mobile phone subscriptions will reach 4 billion just after the New Year.

Ahonen’s newest book, Mobile as 7th of the Mass Media, is now also available at Amazon and major booksellers.

source: dailywireless.org

Free Internet Prospects Dim

Martin: Free Internet Prospects Dim

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 29th, 2008

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin does not see much chance of getting his free broadband proposal out the door before he exits in mid-January, says Broadcast and Cable Magazine.

Martin talked about that and more with B&C Washington Bureau Chief John Eggerton in the January 5, 2009, issue of Broadcasting & Cable.

What is the status of your free broadband proposal?

It is still on circulation, and I would only hope the other commissioners could end up voting it. We are in court right now because the party has claimed that we have a statutory deadline that we missed. We disagree with that.

But at the request of the other commissioners, we put in the order that we would have to act on this by August 2008. That deadline has come and gone, and the commissioners are unwilling to move forward. I put out a memo that had three different options, including “do nothing.” They didn’t even want to pick the “do nothing” if that is what they wanted.

It is still on circulation and I can only hope the commissioners would actually be willing to do something about providing an opportunity for lower-income Americans to have access to broadband.

Doesn’t sound like there’s much chance of doing that while you are still chairman?

I don’t disagree that the prospects are dim. But listen, if they don’t get it done by Jan. 20, I hope they do it right away after.

The cancelled hearing has not slowed down M2Z Networks, reports RCR Wireless News

John Muleta, CEO of M2Z, insists that the FCC’s recent cancellation of a hearing to discuss auction plans for the AWS-3 spectrum has not weakened the company’s spirits. Muleta still believes that the free broadband initiative M2Z has planned is a sound business model and will continue to push for the spectrum needed to run the service.

source : dailywireless.org

LG Wrist Phone

LG Wrist Phone

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 29th, 2008

LG’s LG-GD910 packs a touchscreen LCD, 3G data, and a built-in camera for videoconferencing on a wrist, says Engadget.

The wrist-phone features support for both 3G and HSDPA with a 1.43-inch color LCD. LG is expected to show this off at CES next month and plans to release it in Japan and Europe. Pricing has not yet been announced.

source : dailywireless.org