Finding a Standard for Mobile Barcodes

I’ve been handing out my new business cards over the past week or so. People are initially bemused by the mobile barcode on the back. Once I show them how it can be read with a camera phone and turned into an e-mail address, telephone number or Web address, they’re usually impressed. As I wrote [...]

Posted By Robert Caunt On August 19th, 2008

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The Subjective Nature of Image Quality on Camera Phones

As the performance and specification of camera phones improves I’m finding it increasingly difficult to judge image quality. Ultimately its in the eye of the beholder which is just so subjective.
As highlighted in an earlier post, more pixels do not automatically mean better quality. In some cases devices with less pixels can take better pictures [...]

Posted By Ben Wood On August 6th, 2008

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Nokia Squares Up to Software Rivals by Buying Symbian and Moving to Open Source

Earlier this morning, Nokia announced it would buy the 52.1 percent of Symbian shares it doesn’t already hold, merge the company with its own S60 organisation and create the Symbian Foundation. This new entity will introduce an open-source licence model for the Symbian operating system and the S60, UIQ and MOAP platforms. The move’s a [...]

Posted By Geoff Blaber On June 24th, 2008

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Nokia’s Numbering Doesn’t Add Up

Nokia launched another three phones this morning, and as soon as I saw the names I threw my hands up in despair. Once again it’s recycled numbers used for earlier phones. I think this will only confuse its customers and distributors.

The latest misstep’s the worst to date, in my opinion. Nokia has christened two of [...]

Posted By Ben Wood On April 28th, 2008

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Our predictions for Mobile World Congress 2008

I’ve just arrived in Barcelona with the CCS Insight team for the Mobile World Congress Event (formally 3GSM). This is one of my favourite work-weeks of the year – despite being the most demanding.

Posted By Ben Wood On February 10th, 2008

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