Legally Track Smartphones users with ESP8266
https://www.electronics-lab.com/legally-track-smartphones-users-with-esp8266/
With a vast majority of the world population owning a smartphone, being able to track someone through their phone is not such a bad idea after all, especially if it is done within legal limits. This is the end result of a recent project developed by engineering student Amine Mehdi Mansouri, whose initial efforts on […]
5.84″ inch e-Paper Android Smartphone Promises up to 10-day Battery Life
https://www.electronics-lab.com/5-84-inch-e-paper-android-smartphone-promises-10-day-battery-life/
A number of smartphone manufacturers have, for a while, been experimenting with E-paper displays with phones like the Hisense A2 and Yota’s Yotaphone 1 and 2 implementing an e-paper based display as a secondary screen. While the use of e-paper displays brought advantages like extended battery life, and reduced pressure on the eyes in bright lights, […]
Samsung reveals 108Mp Image Sensor for Smartphones
https://www.electronics-lab.com/samsung-reveals-108mp-image-sensor-smartphones/
Samsung Electronics introduced the 108 megapixel (Mp) Samsung ISOCELL Bright HMX, the first mobile image sensor in the industry to go beyond 100 million pixels. With the latest addition, Samsung will expand its 0.8μm image sensor offerings from its recently announced ultra-high 64Mp to 108Mp, a resolution equivalent to that of a high-end DSLR camera. […]
Purism Librem 5 SmartPhone Now Shipping Its Development Kit
https://www.electronics-lab.com/purism-librem-5-smartphone-now-shipping-development-kit/
Purism Librem 5 Smartphone is a mobile phone that promises full control by it’s user. Privacy has always been a thing of concern for many users and with the supposed “Free Country” we live in, we never really have freedom. There are always eyes and ears monitoring us in all forms, for analytics or security as some […]
Laser Beam Wireless Smartphone Chargers: The Next Big Thing
https://www.electronics-lab.com/laser-beam-wireless-smartphone-chargers-next-big-thing/
Cellphone chargers have been in existence for years and have grown from one stage to another. It started with the mobile phone traditional charger which had a USB interface, a DC converter, and a charging plug and now has expanded to a close-range inductive wireless charging. The commonly used inductive wireless charging is nice but […]
3D Printed Clip-On Turns Any Smartphone To A Household Microscope.
https://www.electronics-lab.com/3d-printed-clip-turns-smartphone-household-microscope/
Smartphone microscope as the name implies is basically a microscope which is compatible with a user’s smartphone. They mostly made up of a soft pliable lens and uses the smartphone’s camera. Smartphone microscopes have been in existence before, they are based on the use of external LEDs and usually get powered from an external source, these attachments […]
Face Recognition Chip revolutionizing Smartphone Security
https://www.electronics-lab.com/face-recognition-chip-revolutionizing-smartphone-security/
Back in 2007 Apple released the first generation of iPhone which is considered as the first smartphone as those we use today. Before that, PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) dominated the market and some even included network connectivity, the ability to send and receive calls, and password unlocking. The iPhone inherited the ability to be unlocked […]
Micro-spectrometer Sensor Will Let You Check Air Quality Or Blood Sugar – Using Smartphone
https://www.electronics-lab.com/micro-spectrometer-sensor/
Now you can use your smartphone to check how clean the air is, measure the freshness of food or even the level of your blood sugar. This has never been so easy. All credit goes to the new spectrometer sensor which is developed at the Eindhoven University of Technology and can be easily attached to a […]
MediaTek Sensio, is a 6-in-1 biosensor module for smartphones
https://www.electronics-lab.com/mediatek-sensio-6-1-biosensor-module-smartphones/
Smartphones in recent times have contributed to the growth of the medical sensing industries with a major success in the usage of a smartphone camera and flash to detect heart rate. Specialized Apps installed on the phone can use the phone inbuilt camera and flash to read an individual heart rate with high accuracy but […]
ZeroPhone, A Raspberry Pi-Based Open Source Smartphone
https://www.electronics-lab.com/zerophone-a-raspberry-pi-based-open-source-smartphone/
Raspberry Pi is one of the most helpful innovations in the hardware industry. It has helped beginners and children learn programming and allowed the makers to develop powerful and cheap DIY projects. “ZeroPhone” is a new DIY smartphone that is built based on Raspberry Pi and cost about only $50. ZeroPhone is an open source, Linux-powered smartphone, […]