3D Phones

3D Success Still Coming Into Focus

As we move further past the one-year anniversary of the first 3D TV sets launched in the U.S., it’s clear 3D hasn’t leapt to the forefront of consumer technology market. But it hasn’t fallen completely into the background, either.

The recent announcement by Nintendo that it would dramatically cut the price of the Nintendo 3DS could be seen as another tough break for 3D products. In fact, Nintendo’s newest handheld gaming system overcame two of the most commonly cited objections for 3D–high prices for hardware and the need to wear glasses. Read more…

HTC EVO 3D (Sprint)

Awesome yet baffling, breathtaking but frustrating, the HTC EVO 3D ($199 with contract) is a super-cool, super-powerful phone that requires some patience. As the first glasses-free 3D phone in the United States, the EVO 3D was a conversation starter everywhere I went with it. I’m going to treasure the 3D photos I took of my daughter. but Internet connection problems, bits of missing hardware and software, and a very narrow 3D viewing angle makes this a phone for adventurous early adopters rather than the masses.

Physical Design
The HTC EVO 3D is a big phone, slightly bigger than even the original HTC EVO 4G ($149, 4 stars) at 5.0 by 2.5 by .45 inches (HWD) and 5.9 ounces. The textured back is comfortable in the hand. A bump on the back shows the dual 5-megapixel cameras for recording 3D images and video. The phone’s front is indistingushable from many other black slab phones, when it’s off; it’s a 4.3-inch screen with four silkscreened Android touch buttons below it. Read more…

Sprint Will Offer 3D Phone, Tablet from Booming HTC

Sprint Nextel is poised to release a new glasses-free 3D smartphone and a web tablet running Android manufactured by Taiwan-based HTC, the wireless carrier said Monday. Sprint’s announcement is merely the latest sign that HTC has become one of the world’s top performers in the smartphone market, analysts said.

HTC shipped 9.3 million mobile communications devices in the first quarter — up 175.7 percent from one year earlier, noted Roberta Cozza, a principal analyst at Gartner.

“They are becoming an important vendor for the carriers,” Cozza said in a telephone interview Monday. “HTC has managed more than anyone else to create offerings that really stand out (because of extra software) they put on top of Android.” Read more…

HTC Evo 3D, View 4G Available For Pre-Order At Sprint

Sprint customers holding out for the HTC Evo 3D can now inch slightly closer to that glasses-free display — without dropping by RadioShack. Read more…

3D Gaming Leaders Gather At OCE’s Discovery 11

Featuring top representation from Sony, AMD, Nvidia, Dynamic Digital Depth, Autodesk, Big Blue Bubble and more, The S-3D Gaming Alliance is pleased to announce the 3D gaming panel and presentations taking place at the upcoming Discovery 11 conference. Held at the Metro Toronto Convention Center on May 18th and 19th, OCE’s Discovery was named as Canada’s Best Trade Show and is the country’s leading innovation-to-commercialization conference. Hosted by Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE), Discovery 11 brings together key players from industry, academia, government, the investment community as well as entrepreneurs and students to pursue collaboration opportunities. Read more…

iPhone 3D Camera With Panorama4D: Face Detection

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The big technology of today is looking to be 3D, with numerous smartphone makers working on pushing out 3D enabled devices, something Apple hasn’t yet done with their iOS gear. But that doesn’t mean iOS users have to miss out on that 3D action.

The Panaorama4D iOS app can apparently turn your iPhone into a 3D camera and works with the iPhone 4, 3GS, iPod Touch 4G and the Apple iPad 2 and is the first iOS app that enables the user to shoot 3D photos.

The Panaroma4D iOS app offers such things as Gyroscope 4D mode that delivers a 4D effect, face detection, the ability to share in 3D on Twitter and Facebook, and an Anaglyph 3D mode whereby the user puts on anaglyphs glasses to view a 3 dimensional show. Read more…

New phone lets you watch 3D without glasses

A mobile phone that can show 3D films without the need for glasses has been unveiled.

The LG Optimus 3D is set to go on sale within weeks, and features a 4.3-inch screen and Google’s Android software.

It can be used to play 3D games as well as films, TV shows and sporting events.

It also has a twin-lens 3D camera, so users can take their own 3D pictures and movies and play them back on a 3D TV.

The Korean firm hopes it can steal a march on its rivals by adding 3D capabilities to a phone.

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IBM foresees 3D holographic mobile calls by 2015

The latest research from computing giant IBM claims that consumers should be able to buy mobile phones by 2015 that will project small 3D holographic images of the person they are calling.

The latest future forecasting comes straight out of International Business Machines’ Almaden Research Center campus in the Santa Teresa Hills of San Jose, California.

IBM also claims that, in addition to 3D holographic mobile calls, our mobile tablet PCs and laptops will be able to be powered by kinetic energy.

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Spice mobile launches the first Dual SIM 3D ‘Spice View D’ handset in India

3D technology is fast catching up; you now get a 3D TV, a 3D monitor and even 3D games but hold your breath now its turn for the 3D mobile. Spice mobile have revealed the new dual SIM Spice View D which can proudly claim to be the first mobile with 3D display launched in India.

Thankfully the Spice View D does not require any 3D glasses; well it wouldn’t make any sense if it did. The most impressive thing about the mobile phone apart from the 3D feature is the price tag of just Rs. 4,299.

With such a low price and with the 3D option the Spice View D handset is sure to make a hot selling item. In fact Spice mobile are expecting to sell about 25,000 to 30,000 handsets per month. 3D is not something new in India but, it is, when it comes to mobile. Many of the Indians cannot afford to buy electronic items that have 3D capabilities, but this phone can make their dream come true.

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Sharp shows glasses-free 3D

Toshiba showed us this week what 3D without glasses can look like on a laptop and a TV. But what about screens sized for mobile devices?

That’s where Sharp comes in, and with a fairly impressive demo. The Japanese consumer electronics maker has two glasses-free 3D displays here at Ceatec measuring 3.8-inches and 10.6. inches. Both are still prototypes–unlike Toshiba’s 12 and 20-inch TVs scheduled to hit stores in Japan by the end of the year–but work remarkably well.

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