13 posts tagged “mobile”

Reiter's Camera Phone Report has some great interview video coverage from the US CTIA. Reiter used a Nokia N82 to record an interesting conversation about WiMAX and LTE, and another conversation that he captured on video was Rafe from All About Symbian asking questions about Share on Ovi. Check out the videos below.

Lenovo's U8 IdeaPad is an interesting concept device that combines: touchscreen internet tablet, phone, office productivity, entertainment, imaging, messaging, etc. But the keypad layout seems a bit awkward to me.
Watch the promotional video to see how it looks.

Photos by Chris Jordan of discarded mobile waste and other electronic waste, the byproduct of mass consumption societies. His work is exhibited widely in the US and Europe, and has been featured in print media, blogs, documentary films, on radio, and tv programs worldwide. Watch the video for Chris'  talk on the subject.

Nvidia demoed their new mobile graphics processor, named the Nvidia APX 2500, in a prototype device at MWC in Spain. It looks cool and demonstrates what is possible when graphics chips are embedded in mobile devices. Too bad it seems to only work with windoze mobile currently.

Check out the demo of the Nvidia APX 2500 below

Great blog post describing the difficulties for users accessing mobile websites and some suggestions to help developers make a better mobile site!

This is Mobility - Total Mobile Access - Excellent Example of Difficulties

http://www.thisis...

I went to the Pizza Hut site to see if the new store just around the corner from my house opened up and was greeted with a little flash animation informing me of “Total Mobile Access!!” for pizzahut.com. “How cool is that!!” I say to myself (I often speak to myself when using the web). I simply m...

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A company called Pleyo has released a browser called Origyn that is based on Webkit. Origyn sourcecode is available for afew different mobile platforms, including Maemo, the platform that N800 runs.

Pleyo Releases Origyn

http://www.sand-labs.org/owb

Origyn is a web browser designed for CE devices such as mobile phones, portable media players, Set Top Boxes and TV decoders, and any other consumer electronic product (GPS, home-gateways, Web-radios, PVR, DVD recorders, wireless devices etc.)

MTube might be the world's smallest PC, but with a touch screen as small as that I don't see it as being very usable except for maybe watching videos and showing photos to friends. 

Mobile Gazette's 2007 Year in Review. What was the best of 2007? What was the ugliest? Checkout the List to find out.

2007 in Review: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Mobile Gazette

http://www.mobilegazette.com/2007-rev...

Just to show that the big names don't have it all their own way, the Swedish-designed O2 Cocoon impressed us with looks and features. We like the cheap and stylish Sagem my150X and the Motorola FONE proved to be both clever and cost effective. The Nokia 7500's mad design may not appeal to all, but you have to admit that it looks like nothing else.. apart from the Nokia 7900. Another mad looking phone is the Samsung Serenata, a handset that looks like it has dropped out of the future via a wormhole. Two Korean 5 megapixel camera phones fighting it out are the LG Viewty and the Samsung G800 - both seem to be excellent devices that will scare the competition. Another Nokia, the Nokia E90 brought the Communicator series bang up-to-date, but it didn't really capture the public imagination.

I just listened to TWiT 123 and heard the news of a man in the UK that was fired for taking sick leave via SMS. The man brought his former company to court for inappropriate firing and won the amount of salary he lost due to the firing. This is very interesting to me since in my company most of the time people use SMS or E-mail to call in sick.

The policy for my job is you can send an SMS to the team leader and/or manager to let them know you're going to be out and they reply to the message to acknowledge they received it and it's ok. If you send an SMS but you don't receive a reply then you can either call them or send another SMS to a different team leader or manager and wait for their reply. Basically just have to confirm that they received your message and that they don't have any important questions about your daily responsibilities that can't wait a day while you're out. So I found it very strange when I heard the news of that man in the UK being fired for this. Then again I work for Nokia, that of course makes mobile devices so that might be one of the reasons that the policy is allowed. To me it's easier to send an SMS to take sick leave than to call and speak to somebody on the phone when I'm not feeling well.

Now this has caught my interest, do you think SMS is a way of communication that should be permitted to take the day off as long as you ensure the message was received? Do any other companies completely frown upon the use of SMS or E-mail to call in sick or is it the other way around that most companies accept the use of SMS or E-mail to take sick leave?

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