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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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The Ultimate Smartphone

November 17, 2008

What do you call a mobile phone that comes with a built-in address book, browser, camera, GPS, music & video player, projector, voice translator, razor, coffee brewer, and harmonica?
A hoax!
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You need a foundation before you take out the walls

November 14, 2008

I’m a web guy. I have been working on web products and web sites for many years and have grown used to the tools and platforms available to web developers. The mobile web is different. There are so many layers of technology which are still evolving. The layers of abstraction which make web development easy [...]

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Bathed in WiFi

November 13, 2008

Via Todd Sampson’s Delicious stream comes Walt Mossberg’s review of the Autonet WiFi router which lets you get an internet connection via it’s domestic US EV-DO cell network and bath your car and everyone within 100 feet of your car in up to 800k download speeds.
Hmm, what could you do with a mobile fast internet [...]

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Spin the Bottle 2.0

November 10, 2008

Jan Chipchase is a research anthropologist at Nokia who travels the world and studies how people interact with technology. His blog (future perfect) is a fascinating stream of one off thoughts and observations which twist your mine to look at the everyday world around us with a new sense of wonder.
In the photo above he [...]

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Track Me Panel at Web 2.0 Summit

November 9, 2008

Sharing location has become much easier but it brings up a lot of new questions. Who owns the data, what can you do with this data? Brady Forrest of O’Reilly Media has been exploring these issues with the Where 2.0 conference and brought together four people at this year’s Web 2.0 Summit to discuss [...]

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