NTT Docomo has launched a new service for movie creation, ‘Keitaide Dougawo Tsukurou’, which allows its users to compose and edit their own media content with the ability to create themes, tell stories and share with their friends by Ubitus Cloud Computing platform.

Ubitus media effects solution is an on-the-fly media cloud processing and delivery platform that automatically produces orchestrated videos using captured photos, video clips and music.

With Ubitus platform, current users can access the service portal, upload the photos or video from his and her handset, decide on a theme (for instance, Christmas, Birthday and so on), add video effects and subtitles of these pieces, and send a message to share with friends. This service presently supports effects such as comic effect, transition effect, and purikura effects.

Qualcomm, a developer of wireless technologies, products and services, is sampling a new smartphone chipset family.

The MSM7x30 family lays emphasis on multimedia performance, supporting high-definition video recording and playback, improved graphics with dedicated 2D and 3D cores, and an overall chip design optimised for a responsive Web experience.

The company claims that its MSM7x30 family, which includes the MSM7230 solution for HSPA+ networks and MSM7630 solution with multi-mode HSPA+/EV-DO Rev. B and SV-DO support, is designed around “optimal data throughput and powerful multimedia functionality”.

The 7×30 has the same Scorpion CPU as previously commercialised in the Snapdragon QSD8x50 chipset. The 7×30 uses an 800 MHz to 1 GHz custom superscalar CPU based on the ARM v7 instruction set, delivering high-end processing at low power to support features that include:

- 720p high-definition video encode/decode at 30 frames per second
-Integrated 2D and 3D graphics GPUs with support for OpenGL ES 2.0, and OpenVG 1.1 industry standard APIs
- Dedicated low-power audio subsystem supporting 5.1 surround
- 12-megapixel camera support
- Integrated GPS for location-based services

The first devices based on the flagship MSM7x30 family of chipsets are expected to launch commercially before the end of 2010.

The new family of chipsets is supported by the PM8058 power management integrated circuit and the QTR8600 RF subsystem with integrated Bluetooth and FM radio. MSM7x30 chipsets will directly interface with Qualcomm’s WCN1312 WLAN solution for 802.11 b/g/n, the company informed.

Inrix, a provider of traffic services, has announced an agreement with Intrinsyc Software International, a provider of software solutions for mobile and embedded devices to provide real-time traffic flow and incident information for the company’s upcoming iPhone Destinator 9 GPS Navigation app.

Through crowdsourced real-time traffic network and its data fusion engine, Inrix helps Destinator 9 GPS Navigation iPhone customers choose the best route based on real-time traffic information available.

Inrix informed that it uniquely blends billions of real-time data points from more than 1.3 million GPS-enabled commercial and consumer devices with information from a variety of other public and private sources to help drivers stop wasting time and money stuck in traffic.

Palm has introduced the Palm Pixi phone – the second handset in its webOS range – for ‘intuitive and personal communication’. It is scheduled to be available exclusively from Sprint before Christmas.

In addition to linking information from Google, Facebook and Exchange ActiveSync, Palm Pixi adds Yahoo and LinkedIn integration to Palm Synergy and assembles it all in a single view.

Complementing the phone’s Facebook integration with the contacts, phone, calendar and photo applications, a new Facebook application will be available with Palm Pixi so users can see and comment on all the latest news, as well as update their status. When launched, the phone will be offered with limited edition ‘Artist Series’ backs.

Rubberduck Media Lab, a provider of mobile TV and video services, has now launched a mobile TV and video service for Telefonica O2 Ireland.

Under the terms of the agreement, Rubberduck Media Lab is providing a completely outsourced mobile TV service to Telefonica O2 Ireland including content acquisition and provision as well as technical support and management.

The service called O2 TV has now been launched in Ireland and is available for all O2 customers using a video enabled handset such as most Sony Ericson, Samsung and Nokia mobile phones.

O2 TV is available across the EDGE, 3G and HSDPA networks. Users can subscribe to two packages, one with Sky channels (sports and news) and an O2 Lifestyle-pack of channels such as RTE, BBC, CNN, Cartoon Network and Travel Channel.

Microsoft has announced that Windows phones will be widely available at retail stores worldwide on 6 October 2009.

The company said the new phones will be the first to feature Windows Mobile 6.5, the latest version of Microsoft’s mobile phone software, and will seek to deliver new customer experiences through an improved user interface and browsing capabilities and access to services, including Windows Marketplace for Mobile and Microsoft My Phone.

The company also informed that a variety of approved and certified applications will be available for direct download to Windows phones from Windows Marketplace for Mobile.

Windows Mobile 6.5 provides access to third-party applications such as Facebook, Netflix and Zagat. With the new version, users can change the look and feel of their phones with designer themes or a personal background and customise their home screen with widgets so the information they need is always easy to find, the company added.

Research In Motion (RIM) recently announced that BlackBerry App World is now available to BlackBerry smartphone users in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Venezuela, with more Latin American country launches to follow.

The new on-device application is available for BlackBerry smartphones that include a trackball, touch-sensitive trackpad or touch-screen running BlackBerry device software version 4.2 or higher. Users require an active BlackBerry data service plan to access the store. Data charges may apply for customers who have limited data plans.

The store brings together a mix of free personal and business applications.

Users in the Latin American countries can download the application to their BlackBerry smartphone by visiting the BlackBerry website from their handsets.

Orange and Research In Motion (RIM) recently announced the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone, a new addition to the BlackBerry Curve series of smartphones.

The smartphone provides mobile access to e-mail, messaging (IM, SMS, MMS) and popular social networking sites (including Facebook and MySpace) and features a tactile full-QWERTY keyboard for comfortable typing. It also features multimedia capabilities and access to music, games and other mobile apps for entertainment on the go.

The BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone will be available from Orange Spain in frost.

Research In Motion (RIM) has announced the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone for customers in France.

The smartphone provides mobile access to e-mail, messaging (IM, SMS, MMS) and social networking sites (including Facebook® and MySpace) and features a tactile full-Azerty keyboard for comfortable typing. It also features multimedia capabilities and access to music, games and other mobile apps for entertainment on the go.

The BlackBerry Curve 8520 is a quad band phone, and is also Wi-fi-enabled.

Cable&Wireless Worldwide and Research In Motion (RIM) have announced the availability of the BlackBerry solution to Cable&Wireless customers in the UK.

The BlackBerry solution brings together smartphones, software and services to allow Cable&Wireless customers in the UK wireless access to e-mail, phone, messaging, social networking, calendar, web, multimedia and other business and lifestyle applications.

RIM informed that customers can take advantage of Cable&Wireless’ FMC proposition when using a BlackBerry smartphone. This allows mobile services to be delivered over a fixed IP network – converging fixed and mobile services onto a single wireless device.

At launch Cable&Wireless will offer the BlackBerry Bold 9000, the BlackBerry Curve 8900 and the BlackBerry Pearl 8110 smartphones.

As part of the FMC offering, Cable&Wireless customers will need to deploy the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, which integrates with IBM Lotus Domino, Microsoft Exchange and Novell GroupWise and provides encryption and IT policy controls.