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Episode 10 of the Emporia Telecom video series: Upcoming service features

By Ewan on March 29, 2012 in Sponsored

In episode 10 of the Emporia Telecom video series, we meet the company’s Director of Services & Innovation, Michael Rabenstein. Before we filmed this episode, I was talking to Michael about Emporia’s philosophy of handset services — navigation, for example. Michael explained that although there is certainly a use-case for navigation (e.g. Tom-Tom style sat-nav [...]

Episode 9 of the Emporia Telecom video series: The opportunity for mobile operators

By Ewan on March 23, 2012 in Sponsored

In episode 9 of the Emporia Telecom video series, we’re still with Ian Hosking, Senior Research Associate at the Engineering Design Centre, University of Cambridge. In this video I asked Ian to give us an overview of the opportunity for mobile operators with the audience that Emporia is serving. I strongly recommend watching this one [...]

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Episode 8 of the Emporia Telecom video series: Why the world needs accessible mobile devices

By Ewan on March 21, 2012 in Sponsored

In episode 8 of the Emporia Telecom video series, we get down to business with Ian Hosking, Senior Research Associate at the Engineering Design Centre, University of Cambridge. I asked Ian to outline the reasoning behind accessible devices. Why can’t we just given every old person and anyone with a slight impairment an Apple iPhone [...]

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Episode 7 of the Emporia Telecom video series: The handset’s emergency button

By Ewan on March 20, 2012 in Sponsored

In episode 7 of the Emporia Telecom video series, Ian Hosking, Senior Research Associate at the Engineering Design Centre, University of Cambridge, explains how the emergency button works on Emporia handsets. The key issue here is that it’s not just a serial dialler — that’s no use if your primary contact’s voicemail answers. You need [...]

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Episode 6 of the Emporia Telecom video series: An introduction to the Elegance handset

By Ewan on March 19, 2012 in Sponsored

It’s time for episode 6 of the Emporia Telecom video series. Ian Hosking, Senior Research Associate at the Engineering Design Centre, University of Cambridge, is back! In this episode, I asked Ian to give us an overview of Emporia’s Elegance handset from the point of view of accessibility. If you haven’t looked closely at Emporia’s [...]

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Episode 5 of the Emporia Telecom video series: Working with the University of Cambridge

By Ewan on March 19, 2012 in Sponsored

In episode 5 of the Emporia Telecom video series, we hear once again from Ian Hosking, Senior Research Associate at the Engineering Design Centre, University of Cambridge. Ian discusses his institution’s work with Emporia, explaining their research and evidence-gathering to demonstrate that the company’s handsets really do add value for their target demographics. Here’s the [...]

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Episode 4 of the Emporia Telecom video series: The problem with rapidly evolving user interfaces

By Ewan on March 15, 2012 in Sponsored

It’s time for episode 4 of our Emporia Telecom series. In this episode, we’re back talking with Ian Hosking, Senior Research Associate at the Engineering Design Centre, University of Cambridge. Ian works regularly with Emporia to help ensure their products and services adopt all the principles of Inclusive Design. I asked Ian to discuss the [...]

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Episode 3 of the Emporia Telecom video series: Inclusive Design

By Ewan on March 12, 2012 in Sponsored

In episode 3 of our Emporia Telecom series, we talk to Ian Hosking, Senior Research Associate at the Engineering Design Centre, University of Cambridge. Ian works regularly with Emporia to help ensure their products and services adopt all the principles of Inclusive Design. This is a design philosophy that, as Ian describes, many mobile manufacturers [...]

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Episode 1 of the Emporia Telecom video series

By Ewan on February 24, 2012 in Devices, Sponsored

Long time readers will know that one matter close to my heart is the issue of delivering connectivity for the older generations. Today’s Western society is so heavily based on ubiquitous connectivity on multiple levels. Whereas five years ago, voice and text were the key mediums, we’ve seen a huge explosion most notably in the [...]

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