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Jaguar’s all new BlackBerry-enabled driving console

Momchil — Mon, 16 May 2011 11:30:19 +0000

The BlackBerry World Showcase area was heaving every day of the event — and one of the segments getting a lot of attention was the Jaguar area. You could hardly miss the huge good-looking Jaguar sitting proudly in the corner of the exhibition. It was there to demonstrate the all new BlackBerry-enabled driving console/computer that will shortly be coming to a vehicle near you. Peter Virk of Jaguar Land Rover gave me a tour around the new functionality. I have to say, I was pretty impressed. This is the kind of complete integration that will most definitely influence my choice of car purchase. (However as a big Range Rover fan, I’m hopeful that something like this might make it’s way to those soon… Peter couldn’t confirm that but did highlight the name of the company he worked for: Jaguar Land Rover! I won’t hold my breath but you never know. Perhaps the new Evoque might get something like this. Check it out and see what you think.

The Future of Screen Technology – The Astonishing Tribe

Ewan — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 10:05:51 +0000

A rather stimulating video from The Astonishing Tribe. I picked it up from this equally stimulating VentureBeat interview with TAT co-founder, Hampus Jakobsson.

The video shows how screen technology might someday be implemented in our daily lives. I particularly like the bit where the girl is checking her calendar on the mirror in the bathroom whilst doing her teeth.

Have a watch:

Video: Qualcomm’s Mirasol screen display technology

Ewan — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:58:50 +0000

During a walkabout of the Uplinq Soutions Showcase floor, I bumped into Cheryl Goodman, Director of Marketing for Qualcomm’s Mirasol screen display technology. I asked if she’d be keen to show us a demonstration on camera and she readily agreed.

The technology is phenomenal. It has super-low power requirements and looks utterly amazing. Although it’s already in-market in many devices on a small scale, we should expect to see it integrated into some larger (and rather well known) consumer devices toward the end of the year. Mirasol technology is based on what’s known as ‘biomimicry’ — that is, it mimics features found in nature to display the colours you see.

Ok, over to Cheryl for more information…

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NokiaWorldWatch: custom screen on the N97

Ewan — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:03:51 +0000

Here’s just an image of the customisable home screen on the N97, just showing off it’s widgets. Or how it’s been widgetized – as the VP of the N series handsets put it over dinner last night.

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Text to screen in Churches; Roaming to heaven expensive or free to all believers?

Ewan — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:19:31 +0000

Earlier in the decade, I spent the best part of a couple of years really getting wound up by my shoes sticking to the floor in nightclubs all across the UK with our text-to-screen service.

Perhaps I was missing my calling.

I picked up this note from the Atlanta Journal about how text is being used to help connect church-goers and their minister/priest (and each other). Have a read:

High above the 700-seat sanctuary, Amie Haskins, 27, the director of worship, sat in the church’s control booth receiving their text messages on the church’s cell phone. She screened out some (most were about whether pets would be in heaven Ã¢â‚¬â€ a point she knew Schreiner would be addressing later in the sermon), and typed others into a computer that was connected to Schreiner’s laptop next to him. During Schreiner’s 30-minute sermon, Haskins received 35 questions.

Trust American Churches to have a ‘Director of Worship’. That, I find slightly amusing.

Anyway I really like the use of the medium.

Proof Apple iPhone users can’t get enough mobile content

Julia — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:31:14 +0000

A new survey has confirmed what most people have already been talking about anecdotally: that iPhone users are massive consumers of mobile web content. According to the latest bit of research from M:Metrics, 85 percent of iPhone users accessed news and information on their device during January, compared to the average of 58 percent for other smartphone users and 13.1 percent for the rest of mobile owners.

The data consumption spike also carried across to other services, with 30.9 percent of iPhone owners watching mobile TV or video, compared to 4.6 percent of the market average or 14.2 percent of smartphones; while 49.7 percent of iPhone owners accessed a social networking site in January, compared to 19.4 precent of smartphone owners and 4.2 percent of average mobile users.

So what’s driving the trend: it’s not the speedy network access, after all, so it’s either the huge screen or the slick interface. Either way, I suspect once carriers and content providers get wind of this, they’ll be pressurising other handset manufacturers to start moving in the same direction while keeping their fingers crossed for a spike in data consumption as a result.