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Nokia Home Control Center
Flesh? Circuits? Whatever. The announcement of Nokia’s Home Control Center last week was a little barren without some visuals to go along with it, so here’s the hub that will handle everything from opening your garage door to monitoring your home’s energy usage. Wi-Fi enabled S60 phones should be able to hook in seamlessly and allow you to remotely control home functions from your device. I’m curious to see what comes out of Nokia World for the Home Control Center – maybe demos of some cool apps in beta? The biggest thing at this point is getting third parties interested and using the APIs so we can see other manufacturers supporting the platform, at which point we could really see something like this take off. N-flavoured Wi-Fi, USB, ethernet and SD card slots will all be a part of the hub, and should be available to Europeans in late 2009.
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
