Replacing Complex Hardware With Mobile Phones

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Mobile Phones Replacing Cars In Our
Culture

Mobile Phones Replacing Cars In Our
Culture 04/29/2004 05:50 PM
The Economist has noticed that mobile phones are rapidly replacing automobiles in our culture. People used to be defined by their cars, but now young people today are focused on customizing, personalizing and displaying their mobile phones as a proxy for who they are. Phones represent independence and mobility for teenagers today the way cars did in past generations. Also, as the article points out - they're fashion items where people feel compelled to buy new ones sooner than is probably necessary. Both have advanced well beyond just being a better version of what they came out of. Cars aren't just horseless buggies any more, and mobile phones are a lot more than just a phone that's mobile. Industry wise, there are similarities as well. Handset makers build different phones off a few basic platforms and try to segment the market with their different offerings. And, in both cases established American and European handset makers are starting to experience competition from cheaper Asian firms.

Mobile Phones Used For The Most Complex
Roll Call Ever

Mobile Phones Used For The Most Complex
Roll Call Ever 04/13/2005 05:18 PM
There have been all these stories recently about how kids were using mobile phones to cheat in schools and how schools want to ban them. Of course, what people should be doing is looking for ways to use the phones to combat the cheating, or to be useful in other ways. Unfortunately, though, it's not entirely clear that this method, created by a lecturer at Aomori University in China really does the trick. As pointed out by textuall y.org, someone has created one of the mo re complex attendance taking systems around. The professor gives out a number at the beginning of class. All students are then expected to text that number to an administrative account. Of course, that alone is easy to get around -- so the system then randomly selects five to ten students to send a message back to, and those students have to stand up in class and state their name. This, obviously, gets around the loophole where a student just tells a friend who's skipping what the daily number is. Of course, this seems like a pretty complex system for what we used to call roll call. Also, since when did college professors really care about whether or not their students actually made it to class?

The use of mobile phones in Latin
America continues to rise with
approximately 123 million mobile phones
in Latin America compared with 89
million fixed line phones

The use of mobile phones in Latin
America continues to rise with
approximately 123 million mobile phones
in Latin America compared with 89
million fixed line phones 07/21/2004 02:32 AM
Research and Markets are delighted to announce the addition of 2004 Latin America - Mobile Communications Market to their offering [PRWEB Jul 21, 2004]

The Mobile communications field is
experiencing remarkable growth -
outstripping and in some ways replacing
traditional wireline telephones

The Mobile communications field is
experiencing remarkable growth -
outstripping and in some ways replacing
traditional wireline telephones 07/08/2004 03:39 AM
Research and Markets are delighted to announce the addition of 2004 Technology - Mobile and Wireless to their offering [PRWEB Jul 8, 2004]

Howdy Corporation - Cheaper Global Phone
Calls Using Howdy's Unique IP Telephony
Technologies For Your Mobile Phones And
Desktop Phones

Howdy Corporation - Cheaper Global Phone
Calls Using Howdy's Unique IP Telephony
Technologies For Your Mobile Phones And
Desktop Phones 08/05/2004 03:56 AM
[PRWEB Aug 5, 2004]

Sumea and T-Mobile partner to publish
official UEFA EURO 2004™ Java game for
mobile phones

Sumea and T-Mobile partner to publish
official UEFA EURO 2004™ Java game for
mobile phones 06/09/2004 02:37 AM
Sumea’s EURO 2004™ FOOTBALL Brings the Action From Portugal to T-Mobile Subscribers [PRWEB Jun 9, 2004]

NTT DoCoMo Turns Mobile Phones Into
Mobile Wallets

NTT DoCoMo Turns Mobile Phones Into
Mobile Wallets 06/17/2004 11:44 AM
MobileMag Jun 17 2004 3:34PM GMT

Howdy Corporation – Cheaper Global Phone
Calls Using Howdy’s Unique IP Telephony
Technologies For Your Mobile Phones And
Desktop Phones

Howdy Corporation – Cheaper Global Phone
Calls Using Howdy’s Unique IP Telephony
Technologies For Your Mobile Phones And
Desktop Phones 08/12/2004 02:07 AM
Howdy Corporation – Cheaper Global Phone Calls Using Howdy’s Unique IP Telephony Technologies For Your Mobile Phones And Desktop Phones [PRWEB Aug 12, 2004]

Smart phones: Gen next of mobile phones

Smart phones: Gen next of mobile phones 08/11/2004 02:57 AM
indiaexpress.com Aug 11 2004 6:56AM GMT

LG Mobile Phones and Verizon Wireless
Introduce the Next Advancement in
Wireless Phones - the VX7000 Camera Ph

LG Mobile Phones and Verizon Wireless
Introduce the Next Advancement in
Wireless Phones - the VX7000 Camera Ph 07/01/2004 10:28 AM
Linux Electrons Jul 1 2004 1:45PM GMT

Indiagames to Bring “World Cyber Games
Mobile Competition”, the World’s Largest
Computer & Video Game Festival, to
Mobile Phones

Indiagames to Bring “World Cyber Games
Mobile Competition”, the World’s Largest
Computer & Video Game Festival, to
Mobile Phones 03/14/2005 05:26 PM
Indiagames secures global rights to bring the WCG Mobile Game Competition. [PRWEB Mar 7, 2005]

Mobile Phones Shouldn't Be TVs

Mobile Phones Shouldn't Be TVs 11/17/2003 05:45 AM
In the past few months three major mobile phone makers (Sony, Samsung and Nokia) have announced plans to add TV tuners to their mobile phones and one major carrier (Sprint PCS) has launched a painfully slow (2 frames per second!) streaming TV option for some of their subscribers. The whole thing reminds me of the hype around portable TVs that were popular for a week or two in the eighties as the second coming of the walkman system. The idea was that if you liked carrying around your radio, wouldn't you like to carry around your TV as well? The answer turned out to be a big fat no, and most of the people who bought the TVs realized they never actually needed to watch TVs when they were out and about - because they were out and about doing something. So, why is the industry making the same mistake? Douglas Rushkoff thinks it's even worse, because having the mobile phone industry focusing on silly things like adding television to phones means they're spending less attention on improving the real reason people buy mobile phones: to have good voice calls. All the money and effort being spent on adding TVs no one wants could be better spent improving the mobile phone networks. He also has an interesting categorization of screen device "scales": inch, foot, yard. Inch devices (PDAs, phones) are for personal content or small bits of content - not for massive data retrieval. Foot devices (TVs, monitors) work as well for data input and data retrieval - and can be shared by just a few people at the same time. Yard devices (movie screens, big screen TVs, whiteboards) are better designed for one-to-many broadcast communication. He points out that realizing the basic size of the screen suggests the type of applications it's good for - and focusing too much on applications out of the sensible realm doesn't make sense.

Let Them Eat Mobile Phones

Let Them Eat Mobile Phones 09/22/2004 09:15 PM
Reuters is reporting that African leaders want to buy a bunch of mobile phones because "there are more telephones in Manhattan than in all Africa." Apparently, if you just add mobile phones to a bunch of poor countries, all else will be solved. I've taken a deeper look at this story over at TheFeature, where I compare the situation to the famous "cargo cults" of the South Pacific in World War II, where a confusion over the big picture (and cause and effect) led groups of people to think they could solve all their problems by mimicking the basic actions of others, but not getting to the root causes of the situation. I do think that technology can be a huge help to developing nations, but ad hoc solutions to "just add technology X" are never going to help unless the real issues are addressed first.

Q&A: 3G mobile phones

Q&A: 3G mobile phones 08/20/2004 01:02 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Thu Aug 19, 10:43 am GMT

Mobile phones to the rescue

Mobile phones to the rescue 01/05/2005 10:01 PM
ZDNet Australia Jan 6 2005 1:47AM GMT

"Why Mobile Phones are Annoying"

"Why Mobile Phones are Annoying" 04/18/2004 03:21 AM

Mobile phones rot your balls

Mobile phones rot your balls 06/28/2004 06:54 AM
Hello Moto. Goodbye Mojo

411 coming to mobile phones

411 coming to mobile phones 03/19/2003 10:45 PM
Cellular companies are preparing to open their customer-databases to 411 service next year (on an opt-out basis) so that directory assistance will include wireless numbers. Link Discuss (via Gizmodo)

Mobile Phones With Manners

Mobile Phones With Manners 02/13/2004 02:20 AM
I'm humbled and honored that I was asked to join Mark, Doug Rushkoff, Howard Rheingold, Justin Hall, and the rest of the big thinkers contributing to TheFeature. My first article is about MIT researchers who are technologically instilling mobile phones with some manners. I hope you enjoy it! Link

Have Your Say Do we rely too much on our
mobile phones?

Have Your Say Do we rely too much on our
mobile phones? 07/22/2004 06:09 AM
BBC Jul 22 2004 10:32AM GMT

Doctors Want Their Mobile Phones

Doctors Want Their Mobile Phones 07/01/2004 03:41 PM
There have been some questions lately on why exactly hospitals ban mobile phones. The common reasoning, of course, is that the phones may interfere with medical equipment -- but most medical equipment is pretty well shielded, and there are lots of other items, such as emergency service radios that would seem likely to cause a lot more interference, but don't. So, now, many doctors in the UK are standing up and saying the ban on mobile phones should be dropped. They point out that risks are minimal, and it would make their lives much easier. They also point out (probably quite accurately) that they're positive plenty of people are wandering around hospitals all the time with mobile phones turned on in their pockets, and they don't see why they should be banned. Of course, there are other reasons for keeping mobile phones away from doctors -- such as the fact that they can pick up germs. Good thing there's now a sterilizing phone charger.

Libya gets new mobile phones

Libya gets new mobile phones 09/08/2004 03:20 AM
A new mobile phone network is launched in Libya, bringing competition to the sector for the first time.

Why Mobile Phones Are Annoying

Why Mobile Phones Are Annoying 04/13/2004 07:20 AM

mobile phones are seeing more threats

mobile phones are seeing more threats 12/29/2004 08:44 PM
TechSpot Dec 30 2004 12:49AM GMT

New NEC 3G Chip for Mobile Phones

New NEC 3G Chip for Mobile Phones 07/19/2004 06:03 AM
3G Jul 19 2004 9:39AM GMT

LG launches 3G mobile phones

LG launches 3G mobile phones 02/01/2005 09:37 PM
The Tribune Feb 1 2005 10:53PM GMT

One third of US mobile phones to have
Bluetooth in '04

One third of US mobile phones to have
Bluetooth in '04 12/05/2003 05:36 AM
The Register Dec 5 2003 4:23AM ET

Mobile phones 'safe for brains'

Mobile phones 'safe for brains' 04/11/2005 07:55 PM
Using a mobile phone does not increase the risk of developing a brain tumour, the latest research suggests.

Touching new interfaces for mobile
phones

Touching new interfaces for mobile
phones 03/24/2005 02:22 PM
David Pescovitz: My latest article for TheFeature is an interview with Nokia's "oracle" of concept development, Matt Jones, about tangible interfaces and embodied interactions.

TheFeature: Can you give a concrete example (of a tangible interface)?

Jones: We're looking at how touch can be used to execute a number of tasks or interactions so you don't have to switch contexts from the real world to the world inside the screen. For instance, one person could touch his device to someone else's and give them a "digital gift," to borrow a phrase from our old boss Marko Ahtisaari. That digital gift might be something as simple as a URL or a photo that I've taken of a moment we just shared.

TheFeature: Awww. That's sweet.

Jones: Well, I don't want to get too Hallmark about it. All joking aside though, the touch technology provides measurable quantitative differences in the efficiency by which people can complete that kind of task. In terms of the measurements that people wearing white coats take inside usability labs, touch technology could reduce the number of interactions required by an order of magnitude. To set up a swap over Bluetooth might take twenty or thirty clicks. This completes the interaction with one touch. Although, for security purposes, we also have a confirm button. There's something very human about giving someone a gift while looking them in the eye and touching the devices together instead of both people squirreling away in the interfaces trying to do the data exchange.

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Blackberry grows on mobile phones

Blackberry grows on mobile phones 09/07/2004 12:01 PM
Computer Shopper Sep 7 2004 4:01PM GMT

Parents Fear 3G Mobile Phones

Parents Fear 3G Mobile Phones 05/05/2004 04:19 AM
Sky News May 5 2004 7:53AM GMT

Since When Did Hollywood Get To Control
Our Mobile Phones?

Since When Did Hollywood Get To Control
Our Mobile Phones? 03/28/2005 06:00 AM
Someone over at Verizon Wireless seems very confused about who the company's customers are. Of course, it's unfair to pick on just them, since almost all of the mobile carriers are thinking the same way, but it was the VP at Verizon Wireless who made a series of bizarre, short-sighted and flat-out wrong comments to the Associated Press that should have him looking for a new line of work. The AP piece starts out as a rehash of last week's story saying that the carriers have forced Motorola to shelve the iTunes phone for the time being. Then it shifts the story over to Verizon Wireless' decision to cripple Bluetooth on its phones to stop people from transferring content directly from their phones to PCs (or other phones) and require them to use their cellular connection (which, oh yeah, costs money). Verizon Wireless tries to defend the practice by claiming the entertainment industry made them do it. The quote comes from Jim Straight, vice president for wireless data and Internet services at Verizon Wireless, saying: "When it comes to the cell phone I have to abide by the rules of the content houses." No, actually, he doesn't. The content houses don't own the carriers. There's simply no reason why the makers of a communications platform should be crippling their devices to protect an obsolete broadcast business model. People are not buying mobile phones to get the latest Disney movie or hit song. They're buying them to communicate. If the big content companies don't want to play, it's their loss. People will continue to buy up mobile phones and communicate with them. No one's dying to have access to broadcast content on their phones. The content industry shouldn't be setting the rules here, and there's no reason why the carriers should be deferring to them.

Sending Money Via Mobile Phones

Sending Money Via Mobile Phones 08/16/2004 02:27 PM
While there's been a lot of talk lately about various mobile payment systems like DoCoMo's FeLiCa (which is similar to Moneta in Korea, Dexit in Canada, and Speedpass in the US among others) it looks like the Korea Financial Telecommunications & Clearings Institute is trying a slightly different approach, where users will be able to send money to anyone just by knowing their mobile phone number. This isn't just for mobile-to-mobile payments, but for any payment, so that someone doesn't have to reveal their bank account info. In many ways it's similar to PayPal, but instead of using an email address, you can pay to a mobile phone number. Of course, if I remember correctly, this was actually PayPal's original plan... to let people easily transfer cash between PDAs.

Va. mobile phones can be added to
registry

Va. mobile phones can be added to
registry 05/03/2004 01:54 PM
Boston Globe May 3 2004 6:29PM GMT

Virus for mobile phones emerged

Virus for mobile phones emerged 06/15/2004 10:41 PM

Va. Mobile Phones Can Be Added to
Registry (AP)

Va. Mobile Phones Can Be Added to
Registry (AP) 05/03/2004 12:23 PM
AP - In the world of telemarketing, mobile phones have been fair game.

Do Mobile Phones Attract Lightning?

Do Mobile Phones Attract Lightning? 07/26/2004 05:31 AM
China is warning people not to use mobile phones during thunderstorms after a report that fifteen people were injured when a mobile phone acted as a lightening rod. The story certainly has all the elements of an urban legend, so it seemed worthwhile to dig a bit deeper on this one. According to a hoax-busting site, this story has been making the rounds over email for quite some time, with no facts to support it. In fact, many sites recommend you use a mobile phone rather than a fixed line phone in a thunderstorm, since they're much safer. While the news article quotes a professor claiming that "the electromagnetic waves emitted by mobile phones are quite good conductors of electricity," the hoax busting site quotes someone from Motorola saying: "No, lightning won't 'follow the radio waves' back to your phone.... I really doubt that 600 mW of omnidirectional RF can ionize anything, let alone make a more conductive path between the clouds and ground. It does make a nice urban legend, though." From the sound of all this, it sounds like the injuries in question from the article may simply be because the people struck by lightning were the tallest items around (they were standing on the Great Wall) and not because of the mobile phone someone was using.

Radio service comes to mobile phones

Radio service comes to mobile phones 04/04/2005 04:22 PM
Add streaming of radio entertainment and news programs to the growing list of services available to owners of new Internet-enabled mobile phones.

Grundig Mobile Announces First Phones

Grundig Mobile Announces First Phones 03/14/2005 06:02 PM

Grundig, probably best known for their radios, has started up a new brand called 'Grundig Mobile,' with the obvious end of creating cellular phones. Six new phones have been announced, including two new models designed to work on DoCoMo's i-Mode systems. None of the phones are going to blow you away, so we won't get into the dirty details of each model, but it's an interesting move all the same. I've had limited experience with Grundig products, but have always been impressed with their attention to detail. Perhaps they'll be launching a high-end phone, too, with a built-in shortwave radio. (I know, but how great would that be?)

The A110 and M130 are simple VGA candybars with MP3 playering, FM radio, and Bluetooth. The M240 is a slider with a 1.3-megapixel camera. The G34i [pictured, I think] and G40i are the i-Mode phones, a candybar and a slider, respectively. Finally, the C310 is a CDMA clamshell.

Debutta al Cebit Grundig Mobile [KatawebIT]
Machine Translation [Google]

Great clarification of these phones (look like rebrands, sadly) by Jose after the jump:

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