Something for the weekend…
This week’s MEX newsletters prompted several interesting discussions.
Andy Tiller, CTO at Cognima, pointed me to Shozu, the consumer-facing service the company is offering to showcase Cognima’s seamless replication technology. Shozu shares pho…
The 6 faces of the web
There is an interesting discussion between Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director of VC firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Bill Joy, former Chief Science Officer of Sun Microsystems and now a partner at Kleiner Perkins, Caufield & Byers, on the AlwaysO…
Speed, coverage and the user experience
There has been considerable press coverage of Samsung’s 3.6 Mbs HSDPA handset at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It is a significant milestone, representing the first handset from a major manufacturer to publicly demonstrate t…
Community convergence
Definitions are notoriously difficult to pin down in the mobile industry. Take ‘convergence’, for example: in various contexts this can refer to anything from the emergence of IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) networks to the ‘home zone’ pricing stra…
Surprising facts of mobile content consumption
Until recently Motorola’s software interface has been criticised by consumers and industry experts alike for its confusing layout, complex settings and the number of key presses required to perform simple tasks such as text messaging. A major Eur…
Understand and deliver: the next challenge
Looking back at the press coverage and debate resulting from our first PMN Mobile User Experience (MEX) conference, I am struck by how far the issue of customer-focused thinking has risen up the industry agenda.
We knew we faced a challenge to …
Symbian Smartphone Show News
The main theme of this year’s show was Symbian OS 9. Symbian OS 9 introduces improved platform security together with enhancements that will encourage the use of the Symbian OS in mass market mid-range phones. At the same time, the two main Symbia…
New Sony Ericsson P990
Today, Sony Ericsson unveiled the UIQ based P990 at the Smartphone show in London. The P990 is based on Symbian 9.1 and is the first UIQ 3.0 device. New features over the P910 include 3G, WiFi (simultaneously with 3G), a backlight QWERTY keyboard …