![]() | Shiny at 3GSM: NVIDIA next-generation mobile phone interface At 3GSM this year, NVIDIA was showing off some demos of its GoForce 5500 processor. This video shows a demo mobile phone UI, using 3D, video and Flash 2D. It mighty purdy. |
![]() | Google Android 0.9 SDK Beta Released ( Mobile Phone OS) In-Depth Video Tour, A Great OS An In-Depth Video Tour of Google Android 0.9 SDK r1 Beta, an Great Mobile OS Download it: http://code.google.com/android/download_list.html Release Notes: http://code.google.com/android/RELEASENOTES.html Google released the Android 0.9 SDK r1 Beta, boasting of a pile of API updates and a visual refresh that moves it one solid step closer to actually, you know, showing up on a phone. A long changelog and a few screenshots are great, but we've fired up the SDK's emulator for a guided tour of Android's salient features. 0:02: Main menu is contained in a drawer that slides from the bottom of the screen 0:08: Multiple home screens can be flipped with touch gestures, a la the iPhone 0:20: Icons can be dragged from the main menu to build customized home screens. Dragging to the menu drawer trashes the home screen shortcut 0:38: Dialer screen, followed by the call behavior. Calls can continue in the background, and all functions that don't require data transfer can work concurrently (This is currently a software regulation, as 3g networks should theoretically allow for simultaneous voice and data usage). 0:53: Ongoing calls and other notifications can be accessed by dragging the taskbar down. 1:20: Browser displays Gizmodo. Rendering is quite good, page navigation is a fairly intuitive rehash of current touch-control schemes. It's not terrible good at guessing column widths during double-tap zooming, but seems very usable. Preview magnification feature is useful for smaller screens or text-heavy pages. 2:22: "Tabbed" browsing feature lays out a grid of pages, with previews 2:45: Google Maps app. As you can see, this is among the more polished apps, and will feel familiar to anyone who has used Google Maps on the desktop or mobile devices. 3:30: Google Maps Street View. 4:00: Home screen include widgets (Google Search, a clock and a picture frame are the only ones for now) that can be dragged around the home screen(s). 4:23: The music apps relies on a panel of icons (a recurring theme in Android) 4:30: Message composition is unremarkable, but there is no sign of an on-screen keyboard at the moment. This could be a customization catered the the first round of Android phones, at least one of which will have a slide-out keyboard. 5:12: The camera naturally doesn't work in the emulator, but there are currently very few options in its menus. 5:50: Wallpaper switching. This is one of the few areas where Android excels aesthetically. Wallpaper scrolls as home screens are switched, but at a slower rate that the icons. This creates a convincing illusion of depth. 6:11: The home screen can also be modified via the system menu, where you can choose to add applications, widgets and shortcuts, as well as change the wallpaper. It's hard to pass judgement on Android in the condition it's in. What's there is impressive, but there are so many glaring omissions, at least from a consumer standpoint. There is a fantastic system for managing ongoing calls and system messages (via the pull-down taskbar) but no apps to take advantage of it. Email and IM would suit such a configuration beautifully, but neither is included in this release. And seriously, where is the calendar? The organizer? A video app? Youtube support? Sure, these things could be left to the developer community, but Google already has messaging, email, video and calendar services, so it's reasonable to expect that they be included by default in Android. Before a public release, Android should at least posses a feature set comparable to your average candy bar phone, courtesy of Google, so that the eager open-source development community can devote their effort to creating new, innovative apps and modifications for the OS. Objections aside, the progress is promising. In terms of usability, Android is much easier to navigate and customize than virtually all other mobile solutions. With a few more apps, Android will be a clear choice over Windows Mobile, skinned or not. You can download the SDK and play with the emulator yourself, if you want. Just a word of warning, though — explaining to your family or significant other that you're testing an emulated prerelease of an upcoming mobile OS is about as hard as it sounds Source: http://gizmodo.com/5038586/an-in+depth-video-tour-of-android-09-an-almost-great-almost-os |
![]() | Cyril Takayama - Mobile Phone Cyril Takayama (born in 1973), a Japanese/French American illusionist and a member of Magic X Live or better known as T.H.E.M , performs his stunning illusion leaving his audiences speechless... |
![]() | Facebook, a mobile phone, and a polar bear Facebook and a polar bear may persuade people to pare down their energy use The average American consumes 12.5 times the energy of the average citizen of Africa or Asia. With approximately 300 million citizens, that adds up to 2 billion metric tons of CO2, or just over a 3rd of the total waste produced across all sectors of the U.S. economy. Of the other two thirds, much is produced as a by product of the process of meeting the needs of individuals. A reduction in energy use will require a combination of legislation, innovation, and changing lifestyles. The StepGreen team draws from social science research, ubicomp, decision sciences, and environmental engineering to explore the use of of social technologies in encouraging behavior change. This talk covers several projects which explore issues such user acceptance of different iconography (such as an animated polar bear or tree) and language (such as how environmental language differs across ethnic groups); the impact of showing information about user energy savings on their MySpace page on user behavior; and user experiences with a mobile phone that automates sensing of transportation behavior and reports back. |
![]() | Second Life streaming to your mobile phone by Vollee http://www.vollee.com The Vollee open Beta is now live. Go to Vollee.com now to download the free Client. |
![]() | LG KF750 Secret mobile phone www.mobilechoiceuk.com - Mobile Choice's exclusive video demo of the new LG KF750 Secret |
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![]() | Nokia's mobile phone of the future (2) Another concept animation of how Nokia phones could develop in the future, this time showing off a cool touchscreen user interface. Read more Nokia World coverage on www.techdigest.tv |
![]() | World Debut: The First Completely Open Mobile Phone OPEN MOKO / FIC The world¹s first integrated open source mobile communications platform- the FIC Neo1973 OpenMoko showed the mobile phone of the future- the FIC Neo1973, the first completely open, Linux-based mobile phone and discussed how it's open source mobile communications platform will revolutionize the mobile phone industry. |
![]() | Review of a Samsung SGH-U600 (Mobile Phone) Review of a SHG-U600 (Samsung's Mobile Phone), realized by Jean-Sébastien for bestofmicro.com (movie in french). |
![]() | SymSMB 2.00. Demo 2 - Accessing the mobile phone from PC. SymSMB 2.00 is the ONLY application available today for Hi-Speed Wireless (Wi-Fi, 3G and so on) file sharing between Series 60 3rd. Edition phones and computers with industry standard secure network communications. There are 3 programs in 1 application: - computer-to-phone wireless file share and access; - phone-to-computer wireless file share and access; - phone file manager (file explorer). In the Demo 2 is presented just one part of the application - the configuration and access for computer to phone connection. P.S. Some recommend Series 60 3rd Edition mobile phones are: Nokia E-Series: E51, E60, E61, E61i, E65, E70, E90. Nokia N-Series: N80, N81, N81 8GB, N82, N91, N91 8GB, N92, N93, N93i, N95, N95 8GB. Samsung: SGH-i450, SGH-i520, SGH-i550, SGH-i560, SGH-i570. LG: KS10 JoY. Free trial version download of the SymSMB 2.00 is available for test and review at www.telexy.com Yes, you can download direct to your mobile phone too! Pay attention to documentation on developer's web site or ask me to do more video. :) IMPORTANT: use the Full Computer Name in the application's Domain field if your computer is not part of the domain. |
![]() | Sumsing Turbo 3000 English Version Groen Brothers commercial spoof of a cellphone with many functions |