Five Trends In Mobile Phones

March 16, 2009

I think that 2009 is going to be a very interesting year for mobile phones.
Actually there are five things that are gaining momentum in most mobile phone manufacturers programs:

Touch User Interfaces. It is no doubt that Apple with iPhone has set a trend. Every single vendor is going to offer a variety of touch mobile [...]

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The Smart Blocks

March 11, 2009

This is one of the most interesting things I have seen recently. The video says it all.

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Bookmarks for January 30th

February 6, 2009

These are my links for January 30th through February 6th:

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Toshiba TG01. A Quantum Leap In Mobile Design (Thanks To Qualcomm)

February 4, 2009

Yesterday Toshiba announced their TG01 product, a WindowsMobile 6.1 smartphone.
Let’s have a look at the basic specs:

4.1 inches WVGA touchscreen color display
GSM, HSDPA, WiFi, GPS
MicroSDHC slot up to 32Gb
720p HD Video Playback

Fine, you will say, why are you so excited about this?
Well, the answer is: I definitely think that something is going to change in [...]

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Mobile Applications Store. Apple, Google And The Rest Of The World

February 2, 2009

Since I had the Apple iPhone in my gadgets list I have to say that I have been very impressed by the AppStore.
It is definitely a quantum leap in application distribution.
In the past we had only a few means to distribute applications on a mobile device:

Pre install the application on the mobile device. This is [...]

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BlackBerry Storm. An Interesting Story

January 28, 2009

On November 21st, 2008 Research In Motion ltd launched their BlackBerry Storm flagship product.
According to what I can read RIM spent almost two years on this project in a tentative to build a strong iPhone competitor.
I have been working in the mobile phone ecosystem long enough to know that two years is not really a [...]

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Widenoise. Noise made social.

January 26, 2009

A few months ago I was intrigued by the concept of spime.
What is a spime?
In simple words a spime is an object that is aware of his position, is able to collect data from the physical world (e.g. CO2 level, noise, etc), has some sort of memory to store read data, and communication capabilities to [...]

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I Finally Got An iPhone

January 12, 2009

Yes, just before Christmas I was able to grab a 3G iPhone and since then I am using it as my primary mobile phone.
I think that pretty much eeverything has been written on the pros and cons of this device and I simply want to tell my own personal experience.
First of all it is worth [...]

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New Year Propositions

January 5, 2009

I have neglected this blog way too much in 2008 and I will put a lot more effort in 2009 to make it more effective and worth your time.
As you will have notice the template has changed. Yes, I know, yet another template change. The point is that I am never completely satisfied about what [...]

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I Was An Engineer

January 2, 2009

I definitely was born as an engineer.
If I look back at the early beginning of my career, I have to admit that I was definitely an engineer. My first assignement back in 1991 was to write software for a proprietary ERP package built on top of a Unix System V box and one of the [...]

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Bookmarks for November 3rd

December 4, 2008

These are the links for November 3rd through December 4th:

New Android Phone Debuts, Looks Like a Blackberry – If it was not supposed to ship on January this would have been my perfect Christmas gift
Lettura consigliata a tutti! – "Colui il quale isoli i propri contatti, o difenda strenuamente le proprie relazioni sociali a scapito [...]

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Tikitag. Bringing NFC To The Consumer Market.

September 9, 2008

NFC, Near Field Communication is not new technology since it has been around since early 2000.
Since today it has never been used in the consumer space apart from some niche applications.
Yesterday Alcatel-Lucent announced Tikitag. The main idea is to create a link between the on-line world with the off-line world with a simple and pragmatic [...]

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Bookmarks for September 4th

September 5, 2008

These are the links for September 4th from 13:11 to 15:31:

3G Adoption In The U.S. Exceeds Western Europe: Report -
A Sense of Urgency -
Why does everything suck?: One Of The Coolest Homepages I’ve Seen -

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An HTC Diamond Meets An iPhone…

September 3, 2008

This was posted on an Italian forum and I found it so funny that I had to repost it.
It was a rainy day when an HTC Diamond met by chance an iPhone…
I : Hello Diamond!
D : Hello iPhone! I found you a little bit fatter from the last time we met.
I : Well, you know, [...]

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