16 posts tagged “mobile phones”
"Convergence" is a word I've heard plenty of times in the last 10 years, when mobile phones still had monochromatic screens and Minidisc players were all the rage. Now, with Google and Apple entering the mobile market, it's definitely getting interesting. The IHT has a run on the situation here, and a couple of posts from Mobile Opportunity giving a digest of the most recent moves here and here.
Disclaimer: Yes, I work for one of these companies, but even if it weren't related to my job I find this interesting.
I have been too busy to tell you guys about this application, now available in Beta labs. Basically, the support for posting to Vox and Flickr just got much better, with better tagging and the possibility to follow the photostreams of others straight from your mobile device. Darla Mack has a good review of the app.
Please give us your feedback (here or, faster, at Tommi's blog).
Here comes the iPoor.
Hasn't seen this video
According to Microsoft, there is about 240 million users of MSN messenger in the world. I believe that a few of them might be interested in knowing that there is now a version of Windows live (including Messenger, Hotmail, Live Spaces and Search) available for use in Nokia devices.
For more information go to www.nokia.com/windowslive, but it is currently available for owners of Nokia N73, N76, N80 internet edition, N93i and N95 in Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, UAE and UK, with more to follow.
Needless to say, we would love to hear your comments about the service.
I went skating yesterday. Not any kind of skating, but one special modality called nordic blading, which is done with poles as if you were skiing. I am now the proud owner of an N95 and was using the Sports Tracker application, which is able to calculate the kind of route I took, how many kilometres I did and my speed and altitude. You can even export your workouts to Google Earth! Quite a nice thing, I should say.
P.S. For those interested, I skated 15.4 km at an average speed of 10 km/h and a maximum speed of 49 km/h.
In Prague, while enjoying the they at a restaurant in the middle of the city, I couldn't help but eavesdrop in another table's conversation. The reason for my behaviour was a 15 year old kid that, after seeing my N95, started to talk about the state of the mobile industry in his country. I was amazed not only by his level of interest, but also by his expertise on the subject. In fact, he knew much more about the situation in his local market and was visibly a Nokia fan.
After seeing his enthusiasm I just had to ask him what his age was. After he did so, I commented that if he would like to work in our industry he should probably study a couple of subjects. It was nice meeting a fan of what you do for a living.
Today I really felt back at work. Even though July is high holiday season in Finland and some parts of Europe, there is enough interesting people and interesting projects to work on. Starting was a little slow, but now we're doing what we're supposed to: helping bring interesting services and devices to consumer's hands.
You may have heard that we're working with Flickr and have teamed up with Vox. What you probably didn't know was that if you're living in Europe you can order prints of your photos (not only in quality paper, but as calendars, posters and teddy bears too).
If you're interested, would you try these out and give me your thoughts?
The iPhone, which I have previewed before, is going on sale today. Would be very interesting to hear what are the first impressions of consumers buying it.
Have you? What do you think of it?
