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“This is a perfect solution,” Sanchez says. “Because it’s low cost, we can put in the hands of doctors in remote locations and instantly save thousands of lives. But, I know there will also be other areas in critical care and in emergency rooms around developed and developing worlds where people’s lives will be saved because of what we built. For me, that’s motivating.”

In contrast to Honeywell’s Dolphin 70e and 75e that were conceived as more durable, more rugged versions of consumer smartphones, the CT40 places more emphasis on the handheld computer side. This is both a productivity tool as well as an industrial-grade scanner.

Microsoft bowed to the reality that enterprises won’t purge Windows 7 by its January 2020 retirement, and has announced it will sell extended support for three years past that deadline.

Agreed about that. Kyocera is pretty good for people on a budget. The Samsung Active series is not quite affordable for the average person.

For comparison, Microsoft’s Surface Pro 6 starts at £879, with models similarly priced to the X1 Tablet.

The best aspect of this design is that for a rugged phone it isn’t overly large or heavy, but as we get into the specifications, you might conclude that those positive notes are outweighed by other less desirable features.

Moving into a digital network world The end of the Cold War six years ago signaled the end of defense as a driver of technology creation. Engineers have since sought ways to apply defense designs to commercial services. “There’s a lot of novelty going on around wireless base stations,” said Dr. Oliver Hilsenrath, former vice president of technology for Geotek Communications Inc. “We’ve seen a lot of innovations in the last 10 years, but radio is really as antiquated as it was 30 to 50 years ago,” Hilsenrath said. As the Cold War ended, Hilsenrath was chief engineer of the communications division of Rafael, the military research arm of Israel. Rafael also is a Geotek partner. Hilsenrath entered the ground floor of Geotek in New Jersey after leaving Rafael in the early 1990s. At the time, Geotek was small and challenged with building abstract concepts into a commercial business. Now that Geotek has evolved from a developing company to a system operator with hundreds of employees, Hilsenrath has moved on again, back to the development end of things. He has created a private technology company, U.S. Wireless Corp. in San Ramon, Calif. The company is designing products that take advantage of core technologies developed by the defense industry. U.S. Wireless’ first product is the FlyBeam, an infrastructure device that interfaces with existing base station hardware. The company says the FlyBeam adds functionality to cellular base stations and increases capacity beyond current saturation levels. “Electromagnetic energy is analog, but we manage it digitally. [The FlyBeam] is a digital front-end to an analog world,” Hilsenrath said. … Read more

The Google search Amazon driver urinates summons a cavalcade of caught-in-the-act videos depicting poor saps, since fired, who simply couldn’t hold it any longer. While their decision to pee in the side yard—or on the front porch!—of a customer is not excusable, it is, to those of us in the Order of the Arrow (my made-up name for Amazon delivery associates), understandable.

Benchmarks do not always fairly represent any given piece of hardware though and that is certainly the case here. Although the display size is such that it really makes almost no sense to download anything with lots of on-screen controls, we were able to run through a dozen or so races on Asphalt 9: Legends with no signs of lag in sight. The main driving method in that game is fairly hands-off, making for a great experience — setting aside the very low screen resolution and the need for the smartphone to be held as near the face as comfortably possible. Other apps such as Helix Jump were not quite so much fun due to the need to swipe across the screen, blocking almost the entire view and making accurate play impossible. To the contrary, using intensive photo editing apps like Prisma or Pixlr was equally smooth and similarly only hampered by the scale of the viewing real estate. So using this smartphone just like any other isn’t completely out of the question under the majority of circumstances for those who won’t be bothered by the tiny display.

“To be working with Sprint is really exciting for us,” Peter Cunningham, vice president of product portfolio at Bullitt Group, told Digital Trends. “We think Sprint are a perfect partner for us to help us grow our business in the U.S.”

Audio with the Atom is very poor. That’s not to say it isn’t loud but, aside from eyesight related problems users might have with this smartphone, it is not high-quality in any sense of the word. Bass is nearly non-existent and high-tones are tinny. This is not an Android device for audiophiles. Audio quality over headphones or Bluetooth is as good as can be expected but there’s no specialty hardware there either. So the Atom shouldn’t be expected to produce the high-fidelity noise of modern flagships or even some mid-range devices.

Sure, it’s a niche device. But it’s great! Dual-window multitasking is a blast on the Gemini, and that command line is going to thrill coders and geeks. But … I can’t shake the idea that this is almost too good to be true. The Gemini is currently rolling out from Indiegogo, where it costs $399 for the next two weeks; it’ll be $599 at retail after that, and it arrives in March. We’ll see if that happens, and if the device works when it does.