Mobility

UIQ Technology has released its new version of UIQ, version 3.1: For the latest version of the Symbian OS, version 9.2 Improved graphics API with SVG Tiny, Scalable Vector Graphic API Enhanced softkey configurations and management Enhanced task list for enhanced user navigation For more information see: UIQ 3.1 Product datasheet (PDF) UIQ 3.1 Product … Read more

Tom Landspurg, CTO of In-Fusio has recently moved to Mobease as their CTO. This is good news as I can tell you that Tom gets it when it comes to mobile in general, and when it comes to mobile widgets. 2007 will be a good year for mobile widgets, and Tom concentrating 100% on this … Read more

When I read about mobileFaker – Tips & tools to fake your way to the top by Moderati, the first thing that came to mind was… "What a terrible concept!" You have to be kidding me. These guys must have nothing else to showcase. Mobile Faker is designed to help consumers navigate the competitive social … Read more

Three words: It's picking up …or is that four words? ;-) I'm definitely seeing an increase in activity related to mobile, and in different verticals across mobile as well. Things are converging… job openings, and new startups, and other. Very neat… 2007 baby! Let's keep it up… ceo

TellMe Networks has released their mobile speech-enabled Java application for searching etc. — in beta. Great app. Multimodal is the next step for user interfaces – I firmly believe that. I wonder for how long the application will be for free. Running voice recognition is a very, very expensive feature to offer, from infrastructure to … Read more

During CES 2007, Nokia and VISA put together a demo of NFC in action, using the Nokia 6131 NFC handset. This NFC event is one of the most important announcements in CES 2007, I kid you not; Mobile Payments and NFC/contact-less are part of my 2007 mobility predictions… NFC/contact-less communication, and mobile payments will be … Read more

Handsets are first and most about voice, about communications. The ITU has published Voice Revenues in the Telecommunications which is worth checking out: “In 2004, as in 1991, voice constituted more than 90% of telecom revenue surpassing, by far, income from any other source. In the coming years, voice is expected to stay strong driven … Read more

A good piece by Christian Lindholm where he writes: Will iPhone create a new dominant design in mobile user interfaces? One of Christian's points is: “In my view a phone is a one hand operated device which can be used while moving. While moving users seldom have both hands free.” I agree with Christian, but … Read more

Steve Jobs introduces the magically proprietary Apple phone: Apple advances user-restricting technology five years: Click to enlarge

I landed on Doug T's blog, a Mozilla Minimo developer, while working on the 2007 Mobile Monday Austin calendar planning. At Doug's blog I read his entry The new “walled garden”, and I liked his following quote: “The new walled garden is not the content you can view on your phone, but rather the applications … Read more