Why You Need to Look at Apple Watch ... and Wear It!

The evidence about how important the Apple Watch is comes from many other recent announcements, including some made at the MWC 2015 in Barcelona. Security, IoT interoperability, wearables, computer vision, communications infrastructure, and ultra-low power connectivity were some of the trends at MWC 2015. It's not by chance that, all those things are effectively combined on the Apple Watch and Apple's current roadmap.

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (March 2-5, 2015), Cambridge Consultants demonstrated its Pizzicato all-digital radio transmitter. The technology innovation firm says this is the world’s first radio transmitter built purely from computing power - a turning point in radio design and a real enabler for the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) and 5G technology.

DTS announced that selected models from Huawei, vivo, nubia and letv, which represent more than 20% Of chinese mobile phone market, will integrate its Headphone:X technology, offering immersive sound experiences with any set of headphones. Cadence Design Systems also announced that DTS Headphone:X has been optimized for its Tensilica HiFi Audio/Voice digital signal processor (DSP) family.

The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is typically when all the Asian companies spend a big chunk of their marketing budget to introduce their latest mobile gadgets - and no idea is too crazy when it comes to setting the stage for differentiation. This year, Lenovo announced its A7000 smartphone and TAB 2 A8 and A10-70 tablets with Dolby Atmos sound!

Never worry about tangled up earbud wires again, says NXP Semiconductors at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (March 2-5). The Dutch semiconductor giant is demonstrating Near Field Magnetic Induction (NFMI) technology in a truly wireless earbud including wireless audio streaming from ear to ear, using its new NxH2280 NFMI based radio transceiver.