The lack of any news worth mentioning today is giving me some spare time to day dream. I know I’ve seen documentaries before showcasing how a car gets designed, from the first drawing to mass production; I’ve also seen a similar film made about a passenger jet. No one has done anything like this for…
I’d like to meet the design team for the Nokia N91
To be able to sit down with the men who gave rise to such an awful looking device and have them justify their reasoning would make for a hell of a video. I don’t want to confront them, just let them explain why they made such a weird looking product. I have a short list…
Nokia, along Matsushita and Samsung, are being sued over Bluetooth patents
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Samsung Electronics Co. and Nokia Oyj, are accused of using patented wireless-communication technology without permission in a lawsuit brought by the Washington Research Foundation. Matsushita, the world’s biggest consumer-electronics maker, its Panasonic unit, as well as Samsung and Nokia are infringing four patents for technology sold under the "Bluetooth” name, the…
Idea: Dynamic icons and lists can increase productivity
If a music player can know what songs I like by the number of times I play a certain song … why can’t a smartphone know what I like to do with my it by tracking my work flow? My hand already knows: hit the menu key, down 2, over 3, hit enter on the…
The Nokia S60 interface is a mess according to The Register
Nokia’s S60 user interface is a sprawling mess: even Nokia can’t seem to remember where it’s put the configuation options. You’ll find Bluetooth over here, Profile settings over there, and something like SIP buried four menus down. Themes is nowhere near Display. Source: The Register Tommi Vilkamo’s reply: Touché. The situation used to be that…
Om Malik prefers Truphone to the Gizmo project
I would have to agree with him too. I’m all for a service that works on multiple devices and not just select models. Two devices don’t make a Nokia Mobile VoIP revolution. Moreover, there are nearly half a dozen Nokia phones with WiFi and VoIP capabilities, but they don’t do Gizmo VoIP. I wonder why…
M-Trends checks out entire Nokia N series
I had the pleasure to test some of the Nokia Nseries phones: the N80i (Internet Edition), the N73, the N91 and the N93. This post as a resume of my experiences the last weeks using the phones on various occasions, trying out different functionalities on all of them. Source: M-Trends Definitely not as detailed as…
Who is going to be the first to wow me with a mobile phone UI?
I just came home (04:06) from a New Year’s Day Party which was quite revealing. We had a Nintendo Wii with one controller being shared amongst 4 players, in between turns people of course would play with their mobile phones. Entire conversations were being started when everyone was showing off pictures they took or newly…
2006 Blog Statistics
Considering I started on November 19th I don’t think this is too bad, check it out: Here’s what I found interesting, 5 countries are responsible for 50% (yes I know it’s 50.3%, I rounded down) of my traffic: I need to find some way to get that Finland percentage up, I mean after all my…
Off the wall idea: Count the number of hops to determine locality
My rant pertaining to my lust for the death of the PC suite presented itself with a small problem. I want to be able to access and modify any of the data stored on my phone over a web browser. What would basically happen is you take your phone, run an application, let’s call it…