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Delivr your links to the mobile web in style

May 4, 2009

A common problem with the mobile web is that pages are not optimized for the mobile browser. Browsers are getting better but sidebar widgets and other social networking cruft often get in the way of viewing sites efficiently on a small screen over a wireless connection.
Enter Delivr.
Combining both a URL shortening service and a service [...]

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Mobile Social Networking “up for grabs” in the United States

April 22, 2009

Jason Calcanis has a great post on 10 things the new MySpace CEO should do. All of them are good (buy a search engine, add casual games, virtual currency) but I particularly liked his comment about the wide open space for a successful mobile social network here in the US. Japan is leading the way, [...]

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Leapfrog making a toy Blackberry

January 30, 2009

I am not sure what to make of this. I’m all for making toys realistic and all but working at Nokia, we’re all about trying to make mobile mobile devices more playful and fun. So it’s weird to see a Leapfrog making a toy phone more, um, business-like.

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Is this the new Obama phone?

January 23, 2009

CNN wonders if the Barak Obama’s new phone is the Sectéra® Edge™
(love the multiple super-scripts in the product name!) by General Dynamics. Features include a “classified key” that you flip when you want to jump on the Top Sekret network for calls, email, or browsing.
Click on the image above and check out the one-line [...]

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Finger Piano, a social mobile app

January 12, 2009

Featured at last week’s Japanese iPhone Developer’s reception hosted by Six Apart I saw Finger Piano, a cool little app that allowed you to play the piano on your phone. As the bars move down towards the keys, you press them to carry the tune.
The thing I like about this video? The fact that it [...]

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Do You Watchphone?

January 4, 2009

According to the Register, LG Electronics is gearing up to offer a wristwatch phone at CES next week.
There are two ways to look at this announcement and I’d be really interested to hear what people think.
1. This is the first announcement of a new form factor for phones. What looks clunky today will eventually be [...]

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Japan’s Super Phones

December 15, 2008

I had a chance to visit the KDDI Design Center in Harajuku right at the base of Takeshita-dori (well worth a visit if you get a chance) as well as a few electronics stores to see what’s on offer from the major operators. Here’s some of the highlights of what I saw.
The obligatory 8.1 [...]

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Software for your Nokia E71

December 11, 2008

UPDATE: I’ve now created a dedicated page for mobile software that I recommend. Go to Software for your Nokia to see the latest.
Following up on yesterday’s post about more unique uses for GPS, here’s some stuff I’m running on my Nokia E71 which I’m finding really useful.
Traffic Pilot - download the client to your phone [...]

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Transfer Funds by Simply Dialing

December 9, 2008

I’m still in the Gee Whiz phase of my learning about the mobile phone industry. The ease at which someone uses SMS to text a cab reservation in Helsinki taught me to look at SMS as a command line for the real world and today I’m learning about mobile SMS banking.
My colleague Jan Chipchase (his [...]

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DoCoMo Branding

November 24, 2008

DoCoMo’s new branding campaign is underway and it’s a full court press on people here in Tokyo on segmenting the market into four major archetypes.

Take a guess - which box goes with the individual featured in the photo above. Stumped? Bath yourself in the full flash experience of a very slick marketing site.

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