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Tag Archives: Research
There has always been the intention to make the Symbian smartphone OS truly open source. By the looks of things, Nokia's idea could soon become a reality.
Mobile phone design researcher Fabian Hemmert has decided to ask an interesting question: how can we move mobile phones out of the realm of digital and into the physical world? Now you might be thinking that your mobile phone is already a physical, tangible item. It is, technically. But, Hemmert points…
It’s sometimes difficult to believe that a service which initially failed to catch on could become so widely used. When SMS was introduced back in the mid-90s, very few messages were sent as the take-up of 2G GSM mobile phones was slow. In fact, I recall selling phones such as…
Technology is responsible for everything good that ever happened. Never mind the iPhone in your pocket, Michelangelo would never have had time to paint the Sistine Chapel if he’d had to hunt-and-gather his food every day, and without the advance of tools Mozart would have composed his concertos arranged for…
Nokia’s research scientists have released a video demonstrating their prototype mobile radar – a great way to claim “we did it first” credit without actually promising to deliver anything ever. A heavily-modified N95 handset shows the system responding to user gestures, and even (intermittently) measuring the speed of moving objects. There are obviously…
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