SE files gesture-based controls patent


Sony Ericsson has filed a patent for its cellphones that require you to wave your hand at a phone to answer it, or perhaps to even increase/decrease the volume with a corresponding gesture. Imagine having to signal your gesture correctly, wait for the program to identify it, generating a control command and transmitting it, and voila! The device performs the desired action. And to think you can save yourself all that trouble by simply pressing a button. No thanks, I'll pass on this one. I wonder whether Sony Ericsson will actually use this patent sometime down the road.

Porsche phone

 

 

Porsche branded a Sagem phone...its made out of aluminium....feels kinda heavy...it has 3.2mpgx camera. the woman there said it's selling very well...I doubt it...but who knows...

Phone integrated in the Mercedes S600

Here is a phone integrated in the limousine Mercedes S600

Nokia Go Play TODAY

Check out this cool website http://www.nokia.com/A4486939 and stay tuned for some new cool models

Copy & paste with an S60 phone

Nokia 7500 Prism commercial

What a cool phone! I saw a red version is awesome!

Concept Phone with triple touch screen

The phone has been built by KDDI au, the second largest operator in Japan.

It seems like a very interesting technology

I want to be back in the external world!!!

I haven't been blogging externally because I have been taken by an internal blog (62 blog posts since July)...but I haven't forgotten!

Indeed now I want to be back in the external world!!!

N93i becomes an evil transformer

Here is my mobile becoming an evil transformer monster

iPhone megafreaks

Another typo in a Nokia article

Recently I have founds a few typos in Nokia's articles and even in an official publication.....

the latest one is in here http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/13062007/399/technophile-love-nightless-nights.html

it is www.widsets.com and NOT www.widset.com

I actually found the typo last week on Thursday while reading the Financial Times on plane on my way to Helsinki...I felt weird thinking about all those people who went to their browsers and typed in the wrong address

hopefully more people used google which provides the www.widsets.com address even if you type wiset



btw if you have an s60 symbian Nokia phone GO NOW TO www.widsets.com

Dell selling Nokias...unlocked

This is a great strategic move to break the monopoly power of US carriers, but also to empower US consumers with some of the best smartphones in the world that can really make life simpler.

I believe that in the long term consumers end up paying much more for mediocre cellphones and it is only an illusion that prices are lower.

Finally US consumers will have a choice when they will have to buy an first generation iPhone with only 2 megapixel camera and no 3G nor GPS versus a N95 with 5 megapixel, GPS, HSDPA and more....

Here is the preview...



if you don't believe me go to the Dell website and type Nokia in the search box

Issues with Nokia's calendar and time zone changes

Ok I'm really sick of this

I have a huge problem with my Nokia (I guess it happens with other phones though I couldn't care less)

which I solved in a way

basically I use the calendar application a lot

then I travel as well

so I change the time zone

why the hell the whole calendar changes????

If I am in Helsinki and I type on my phone an event for the day after at h.20 in Milano and I fly there the day after......then if I have the bright idea of changing the time zone the event will be moved (one hour earlier/later doesn't matter)
why the hell is that!!!!

one solution is that u never change the time zones but only the clock

another solution is that Nokia provides the opportunity to specify a time zone and location for a certain event.




Now I was just synchronizing my Mac with my Nokia and one event was moved of one hour for no reason.....drives me mad


did anyone out there experience the same type of issues?

Mobile code for my blog from http://mobilecodes.nokia.com/

Mobile code for my blog from http://mobilecodes.nokia.com/

Do you think they are useful?

How would you mobilize and motivate millions of people to use them?

N95 Commercial...great in English...wonder how it is going to work in Italian

I love this ad though now that I was just back in Italy I saw a N95 ad on a magazine which does not really that much sense to me, or at least not as much as in English.



Also I'm sorry but can "It's what computers have become" translate to "il computer multimediale"?
Wouldn't "E' ciò che i computers sono diventati" be better?

Is Nokia Finnish? Is Motorola American? Does it Matter? Probably not

Survey: 42% of college students think Motorola is a Japanese company

Young consumers tend to know little about the brands behind the products they use, including wireless brands, according to a study from market-research firm done in the US by Anderson Analytics.

Cellphones topped the list of products for which students misidentified the manufacturers' country of origin, said the company.

More than half of college students surveyed by the company believed Nokia is a Japanese company, with only 4.4% correctly identifying the company as Finnish. Forty-two percent of students believed Motorola Inc. is Japanese. Motorola is based in Schaumburg, Ill.

"We found for cellphones, country of origin didn't seem to affect students' perception of the brand, since Motorola was ranked equally well whether students thought it was from America or Japan," said Tom H. C. Anderson, managing partner of Anderson Analytics. "This has allowed Korean brands, like LG and Samsung, to compete on a par with companies like Nokia and Motorola."

http://www.rcrnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070525/FREE/70525003/1008

Survey shows how EU prefers Nokia over iPhone, but...

I'm not surprised by a survey conducted by Canalys has shown that the European mobile phone buyers are indeed interested in checking out the upcoming Apple iPhone mobile phone, but people in Europe still prefer Nokia over other brands.

The survey was conducted in April among more than 2,000 employed, adult mobile phone users in the big 5 (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and UK).

Some key findings:
■ 51% of those surveyed expressed some interest in mobile TV, but a diverse range of content is required

■ Consumers are more open to advertising-supported services around location and communication than TV
■ 62% want GPS into their mobile phone
■ Almost half the iPod lovers said iPhone likely to be considered for their next mobile phone
■ 84% of the surveyed people said that they had like to upgrade to another Nokia phone from their current one.

Sony Ericsson was the second most popular brand followed by Samsung and Motorola. Apple is yet to come out with their first mobile phone but they were still ahead of well-known smart mobile device vendors like RIM, HP and Palm....obviously their marketing is nothing compared to Apple


Like iPod? Love Mac
but also
Like iPod? Love iPhone

Pete Cunningham from Canalys added: “Apple’s rating improves dramatically when you talk to existing iPod owners. Almost half the respondents who owned an iPod rated Apple as more likely than not be considered for their next phone, compared to just 20% for those who didn’t have an iPod, and they were five times as likely to give Apple the highest rating. There is a lot of loyalty there that Apple can tap into.”

As I heard saying even from a Nokia executive....Apple's customers are not just customers...they are fans!!! that's so true and I am one of them...though being a Nokia fan just as much (if not more) I'm not so sure about the iPhone....not sure about:
- NO 3G
- No GPS
- Big scratchable display
- Need to try UI and if I could ever use it with one hand
- Quality (for which you need some time)

My comment on "Mobile Internet is Dead"

I was attracted by a post on Ari Jaaksi's Blog (http://jaaksi.blogspot.com/) on mobile Internet is dead (quite a catchy title)...he's the Nokia Head of Open Source software operations (so Internet tablets and maemo.org)

this is my comment to his post

I think mobile web is not dead....I simply think it never existed!!! I actually never saw it that way...."mobile web"...I just always thought there is just one internet....and mobile phones would able to access it....
WAP was just a wannabe a Internet...that's why it failed
...in a way mobile widgets are a perfect representation of a successful way of going on the Internet in a mobile way. But stil....going on the ONE and ONLY internet


what do you think?
Maybe I'm looking it from the eyes of a digital native or simply a newcomer in TLC or an idiot...who knows...

Another attempt by Nokia to implement sort of Web 2.0 concepts on its website

Web 2.0 is rather poor on Nokia websites....unfortunately. I have seen a few attempts for instance the Nseries website (http://www.nseries.com/index.html) that integrates RSS, Digg, Delicious, Link to this page, send to a friend functionalities...


though today I came across another one...inspired by Second Life in a way, but lacking web 2.0 (social networking, bookmarking, tagging, interaction, etc)...it's a sort of virtual store for the US (http://www.nokiausa.com/experience)


I found out that tablets are just accessories...and that you cant even click on them....wondering what the hell tablets are...look at the bottom right corner in the following picture

10 Things a Blogger Learned at Mobile 2.0

http://www.blueflavor.com/blog/mobile/10_things_i_learned_at_mobile_20.php

Interesting link