When you try to demo a mobile application to a large audience, this can really end up as a nightmare. When I started working in the Mobile Industry in 2004, the only good option back in the days was to use a camera hooked on top of your mobile along with an adequate lighting set to be able to capture a good view of the mobile and of you hitting the keys. The solutions was a bit bulky to transport though and far from being satisfactory.
Since I’m having those kind of issues again I tried to find solutions especially for Nokia S60 devices and while at that time the software solutions were totally non-satisfactory, apparently things have changed.
I bought for 25€ a license of “Remote Professional” from mobileways and the application runs unexpectedly well ! I know can demo the software right from the comfort of my laptop by just connecting it to a live S60 devices and share this on a big screen, thus avoiding the hassle of ono-to-one demos which are a pain when you have a large audience.

Nokia is a key player on the mobile industry, and yet when I look at its latest phones I still feel I’m holding a 2003 Nokia 6600. Even the icons on the menu look like they have been designed by a pixel artist with 16 colors. Let’s face it Symbian aged badly and while it has become an efficient factory to give a powerful OS at a very low cost, it’s no match for the new generation of Android or iPhone or even Blackberry OSes.
Thus Maemo ! Nokia recently bought Trolltech the company behind QT (mobile linux-based UIs) and is now preparing Maemo for its new upcoming phones, the upcoming N900 being the first one one the list. Below you can find a video of the UI in action and while I think it could still be polished a lot it’s already a nice upgrade from Symbian times.

Just saw this web page on Nokia’s own N-Gage site which gave ma good 5 minutes laugh. As you can say even Nokia has trouble supporting his own devices …
And the fact that an end-user is going to check his firmware version to see if he can use N-Gage is just a lot of fun to consider.
By the way I’ve tried using N-Gage for years and never got my mobile to let me create a username and connect to the service…