
Fun spread
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My friend got whimsical. The lighthouse actually was flashing. 🙂

Fun spread
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My friend got whimsical. The lighthouse actually was flashing. 🙂

Football – girls on a sunny day
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Busy until further notice
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Bumble bee
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This is exciting. Seven, yes 7!, new phones for the emerging markets (you know I love emerging market stuff). And these don’t look like cheap phones, but feature-full phones and phones that fit the way folks in those regions need these phones.
Nokia knows this is big – they created a specific site to highlight all the stuff related to this launch (here).
Link to another article: Nokia chooses India for latest mobile phone launch | InfoWorld | News | 2007-05-03 | By John Ribeiro, IDG News Service
Nokia chose Delhi, India, for Thursday’s launch of seven mobile phones for emerging markets, including two intended for shared use by families or entire villages.
Christian posted yesterday a nice essay about mobile and multi-modal interfaces (link below).
He had given me a preview of it when I saw him last week and I’ve been begging to have him post it so that I could point out the key tenets of his mobile device philosophy (see below).*
To me, ‘one-handed, in-out of pocket, mobile use’ is the key to the success of mobile devices AND apps. It’s core to the Mobile Lifestyle I’ve been harping about for a very long time.
Read the article for some thoughts on how Software Transformers can make mobile devices even more useful. I think it’s a great thought.
Link: ChristianLindholm.com: My speech at MEX, The SW Transformer A Vision for a mobile OS:
The N95 is what phones have become.
Phones and computer are inherently different.
1. A phone is used with one hand
2. A phone must fit into the pocket
3. It should be possible to use the phone while moving.
*Of course, I learned it from him, having known him for many years.