Archive for the ‘Mobile’ Category
Zumobi goes beta
Zumobi is a spin-off form Microsoft that aims at changing the user experience with managing your favorite online contents. You get a tile view of your services which you can zoom back and forth, access, share… The UI is pretty cool and especially on the iPhone. Beta for windows mobile + developper tools to develop new tiles are available now.
Google android presentation - phone OS
iPhone opened to third parties apps … at last!
Major switch from Apple… iPhone and iPod Touch are finally getting an official SDK, here is an excerpt from the press release :
We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new applications for our users. With our revolutionary multi-touch interface, powerful hardware and advanced software architecture, we believe we have created the best mobile platform ever for developers.
We think a few months of patience now will be rewarded by many years of great third party applications running on safe and reliable iPhones.
S\|\|33T !
Nokia upgrades its S60 UI
It’s been announced yesterday at the Symbian S60 Show
This includes multi-touch support (like iPhone UI), Accelerometers, Flash 3 (supporting YouTUBE Videos).
Adobe Flash Lite 3
Adobe has released an updated version of its Flash player aimed at mobile devices. As you may know, Flash is already available out of the box within most of the i-Modes Japanese phones for years and in every high end Nokia phone for at least one year. It’s also available as installable package on OpenOS mobiles. Adobe claims that “With over 300 Million Flash enabled mobile devices and handsets shipped so far, Adobe expects more than one billion Flash enabled devices to be available by 2010″.
The primary upgrade coming with Flash 3 is the support for flv, the flash video used on video sharing websites.
It’s also rumored that this version of Flash Lite might be available for the iPhone.
Technorati Tags: flash+lite, adobe, iPhone
BT enters Second Life
Cnet reports that BT has launched 3 new services is his island “Area 21″ as demonstration service for their FTTH network. Basically it’s made of 2 machines, one to pass phone calls to real phones, another one to send SMSes and a teleconferencing service letting people inworld hold conferences with colleagues that would be on the road.
If you have used the voice system in SL, you know it’s still crap but still it’s a smart move!
Technorati Tags: BT, SecondLife
Nokia live webcast, tomorrow
Tomorrow there’s a live webcast at 11pm GMT where Nokia should re-launch (for the third time) his N-Gage platform initiative. Check it out at http://www.nokia.com/press/goplay. The New York Times has a sneak peek of the event :
In the new N-Gage service, customers will be able to sample games free before buying them. The selection will lean toward the casual side of gaming, with soccer and fishing titles and the popular puzzle game Bejeweled, among others.
Nokia will formally reintroduce N-Gage this week with new game developers and new phones for mobile gaming. The company says it has sold more than 125 million of its Series 60 smartphones worldwide. The N-Gage games will make their debut this fall on only a few of those models, but the company will extend the service to the rest of the Series 60 line over the next year.
iPhone unlocking
Took me a couple of hours to try the various unlocking methods… and finally TurboSIM worked for me ! So I’m now a happy iPhone lover/user that can do more that WiFi browsing 
I wrote a few guidelines here for those interested.
Windows Live @ Nokia
Nokia has announced today a partnership with Microsoft Live Services (MSN Messenger, Hotmail…):
“The availability of Windows Live services for Nokia’s devices demonstrates our commitment to delivering great mobile experiences and extending people’s online lives — taking them from the PC to the device,” said Steve Berkowitz, senior vice president of the Online Services Business at Microsoft. “The alliance will enable a much broader group of consumers to experience the benefits Windows Live has to offer, easily connecting them to the information and people that matter most from virtually anywhere.”
Service will be lauched initially in 11 countries including; Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, U.K., Sweden, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
Next possible step : abandon Symbian and switch to Windows mobile ? Nah… they still have shares in Symbian
Technorati Tags: nokia
Orange, T-Mobile and Voda splitting revenue with Apple
There have been tough negociations to decide who will be allowed to sell the iPhone in France, Germany and UK. Happy winners are Voda, T-Mobile and Orange. What is pretty awesome is that it’s rumored that operators wil share with apple 10% of the revenue coming from voice and text-messages ! This is a first and I’m not sure how operators can adjust their business model to that. Although sharing data revenue is something they’ve been doing before, sharing core voice revenue with a terminal manufacturer opens up a pretty nice breach.
