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"Why Mobile Phones are Annoying"

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

Why Mobile Phones are Annoying (Jakob
Nielsen's Alertbox)

Why Mobile Phones are Annoying (Jakob
Nielsen's Alertbox) 04/13/2004 04:55 AM
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"Why Mobile Phones are Annoying (Jakob
Nielsen's Alertbox)"

"Why Mobile Phones are Annoying (Jakob
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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]

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

Are Speakerphone Mobile Calls Less
Annoying Than Regular Calls?

Are Speakerphone Mobile Calls Less
Annoying Than Regular Calls? 04/21/2004 03:53 PM
Last week we noted a new study saying that people get annoyed with others talking on mobile phones because they only hear one half of the conversation. At the time, I wrote that this made sense as periods of silence followed by talking are a lot more jarring to the passive listener. However, this BBC report claims that the reason for the annoyance is that it shows that we're more curious about what the other party is saying. I'm not sure I buy that. It seems much more likely that it's the variability in noise, from silent to noisy rather than any form of curiosity. When the conversation is at a constant hum (even when loud), it's much easier to tune it out. Still, the findings do go against the opinion many people have expressed that things like "push-to-talk" where the phone usually acts as a speaker phone would be more annoying since we get to hear both sides of the conversation. In fact, the researchers behind the study are even suggesting that mobile phone makers may want to explore adding speaker phones to more phones to make them less annoying. Of course, the study only set up two conditions: a conversation on a mobile phone and a face-to-face conversation. They didn't test the speaker phone situation to see how annoying that was. It's possible that the annoyance factor comes from the inability to make use of body language to express concepts as well, leading to a different tone of voice.

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]

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

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.

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.

Mobile phones to the rescue

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

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

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.

LG launches 3G mobile phones

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

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

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)

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

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

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.

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

Mobile phones rot your balls

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

Parents Fear 3G Mobile Phones

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

Mobile phones are a pain in the neck

Mobile phones are a pain in the neck 05/17/2004 06:07 AM
It was five years ago today... 17 May 1999

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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New Vodafone 902SH 3G/GSM Mobile Phones

New Vodafone 902SH 3G/GSM Mobile Phones 01/02/2005 06:46 PM
3G Jan 2 2005 9:01PM GMT

Coming soon: Super 3G mobile phones

Coming soon: Super 3G mobile phones 12/31/2004 08:42 AM
Hindustan Times Dec 31 2004 11:34AM 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.

Samsung Mobile Phones 3rd Most Popular
in US

Samsung Mobile Phones 3rd Most Popular
in US 06/21/2004 09:15 AM
Hankooki Jun 21 2004 1:08PM GMT

Karnataka -: 3G technology for mobile
phones

Karnataka -: 3G technology for mobile
phones 03/28/2005 04:41 PM
The Hindu Mar 28 2005 7:51PM GMT

Wi-Fi Mobile Phones Could Be Next Trend
in Thrift

Wi-Fi Mobile Phones Could Be Next Trend
in Thrift 05/09/2004 03:44 PM
Mobile phone maker Motorola plans to introduce a device that would seamlessly switch calls from cellular networks to cheaper Wi-Fi networks wherever they're available. Discount carrier IDT is testing consumer Wi-Fi phone service in Newark, N.J.

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.

New mobile malware wipes phones

New mobile malware wipes phones 04/06/2005 01:50 PM
Personal Computer World Apr 6 2005 5:14PM GMT

Secure mobile phones will use
fingerprint ID

Secure mobile phones will use
fingerprint ID 09/01/2004 09:13 PM

Kids, cancer and mobile phones

Kids, cancer and mobile phones 06/28/2004 03:39 AM
It was five years ago today... 28 June 1999
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