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White paper: Improving the Mobile User Interface through Touch

haptics mobile user interface

haptics mobile user interface

Just found this White paper about Improving the Mobile User Interface through Touch, a very intresting to read. An Independent research suggesting how haptics can be used to improve the user experience, and how operators can use haptics to increase differentiation and customer satisfaction, enhance brand, and drive additional revenue using high-value, haptic content and services.

The Word * Haptics, come from the Greek “hapesthai,” meaning “to touch.” Haptics technology used in mobile device user interfaces is also known as haptic, tactile, touch, and vibrotactile feedback.

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vivek

Mobile phone reads text to the blind

K-NFB Reading Technology

Today i found this very intresting news!! a mobile handset which released today is being touted as the smallest text-to-speech device ever created.

K-NFB Reading Technology, a joint venture between the National Federation of the Blind and Kurzweil Technologies, aims to help blind, partially-sighted and people with learning difficulties to ‘read’ text. The software has been designed to work with Nokia’s N82 handset to create the smallest text-to-speech reading device in the world.

The software turns the phone into a pocket-sized reader, enabling users to take a picture of most printed material and have it read back to them.

“Blind users hear the contents of the document read in clear synthetic speech, while users who can see the screen and those with learning disabilities can easily enlarge, read, track and highlight the material.”

“The software makes use of the N82’s large screen and 5-megapixel camera, and combines the best available character-recognition software with text-to-speech conversion technology.”

A communication tool which can enhance life and help to the society, is something which always i am keen to!! rather then just a fashion statement.

Have a look in to the details feature list here.

vivek

Playyoo Launches Community-Based Platform for Flash lite Mobile Casual Games

Playyoo flash lite games

Playyoo, a social networking platform for creating and sharing mobile casual games, today announced the official launch of its public beta site (www.playyoo.com and m.playyoo.com on mobile phones) giving mobile users easy access to free Adobe Flash Lite games.

“Since we first unveiled our preview site in October, Playyoo has generated strong interest within the Flash Lite and gaming communities. We’ve had visitors from 82 countries on 162 mobile networks on our mobile site, and we are seeing an enthusiastic and growing community of early adopters on our web site, including several leading Flash Lite game developers,” said Chris Pelly, CEO of Playyoo.

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vivek

Nokia reveals a mobile phone literally made for sharing

nokia 1209, nokia 2600

Espoo, Finland – Today, Nokia unveiled the Nokia 2600 classic and the Nokia 1209, two mobile handsets that offer useful features, range of colors or exchangeable covers for consumers in emerging markets.
Nokia also recently undertook a survey of consumers in emerging markets and exposed a new trend: mobile phone sharing. Apparently, more than 50 percent of those surveyed in India and Pakistan, plus almost 30 percent in Vietnam, either already share or would be willing to share the use of their mobile phone with family or friends.

“Phone sharing is a logical trend – more and more families are purchasing a mobile phone for the entire family to use, not just the head of the household. In addition, digital cameras are quickly becoming more popular in these markets, and as such taking and sharing digital images is becoming more common,” adds Lambeek. “In response, Nokia has developed a number of innovative features like the multiple phonebook to support phone sharing, and we have added technologies like Bluetooth to some models to make transferring images and ringtones easy and affordable.”

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vivek

Don’t design for “mobile” – design for mobility

Adaptive Path’s Peter Merholz posted an article about “Don’t design for “mobile” – design for mobility”. We really need to understand that the essence of great mobile application design is understanding that a phone is always with you – not that its simply a smaller device.

Some of the points which a developer or designer should consider:

“What we’re realizing is that the key item of concern when designing for mobile is the context in which the device is used. What this means is that discussions of “PC” versus “mobile” are misguided, because we shouldn’t be focusing on the device. We are not designing for mobile — we’re designing for mobility. ”

“A key characteristic of mobility is that the environment around the user is dynamic — they’re walking, driving, on transit, in restaurants, theaters, offices, moving from place to place, context to context. Things around them are constantly changing. ”

It’s true that we’re missing big opportunities when we design for the device, and not for the context in which the device is being used!!

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vivek

The Way We Live Next -Nokia’s new podcast series on the future of mobility by Bob Iannucci.

nokia

Nokia’s new Chief Technology Officer Bob Iannucci shares his thoughts on the future of mobility in the latest in ‘The Way We Live Next’ series of podcasts about the mobile future.

“What I really want Nokia to be known for in the coming years is the center of open innovation for mobility. I want people to think of Nokia as the preferred partner for creating great things that add consumer value and delight, and help build up not only Nokia but the companies who participate with us to the next wave of mobility”, says Bob Iannucci. Listen to the podcast.

In “The Way We Live Next” series of technology podcasts Nokia’s experts discuss their visions of what the future might bring in mobile communications and technologies.

Can a mobile be emotional !!

vivek

Yahoo! Launches Yahoo! Go 3.0, Extends Leadership and Sets New Standard for the Mobile Internet

yahoo go 3.0

Yahoo today announced the launch of the all-new, Yahoo! Go 3.0, Yahoo!’s flagship all-in-one mobile offering, in early beta at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2008. Yahoo!’s leadership position in delivering leading-edge mobile experiences to consumers worldwide.

This new product is designed to deliver more of what consumers want, wherever however and whenever they want it. Yahoo! Go 3.0 takes mobile services to the next level with an upgraded and feature-rich user interface, a truly personalized!

It offers an intuitive and rich design that makes efficient use of the phone’s small screen and speeds consumers’ ability to find the information they need on the mobile Internet. This enhanced experience is both visually stunning and highly functional, enabling consumers to easily navigate Yahoo! Go 3.0 through a choice of two views – either the traditional carousel or the new icon layout.

I like this new User interface and it looks good.

vivek

On2 Technologies Empowers handsets with new Multi-Format Decoder to offer high performance support for the video used in Adobe Flash Lite 3.

on2 technologies

On2 Technologies, Inc. , a leader in video compression technologies, today announced the release of the Hantro 9100 software multi-decoder. Highly optimized for ARM9 and ARM11 processors, the decoder supports VP6, Sorenson Spark and H.264 in a single package thereby enabling handsets to offer high performance support for the video formats used in Adobe(R) Flash(R) Lite(TM) 3 and Flash(R) Player 9 / Moviestar. Available off-the-shelf, the Hantro 9100 multi-decoder provides manufacturers and service providers with an immediate and cost effective solution to significantly enhance the Flash video experience in mobile phones and other handheld devices.

As a result of the optimizations, the Hantro 9100 multi-decoder improves performance by as much as 100% over the reference codec designs, reducing the power required for video playback, saving battery-life and allowing processor resources to be available for developers to deliver the video experience consumers expect.

“Our Hantro 9100 software multi-decoder overcomes the challenges faced by handset manufacturers to quickly deliver the playback performance needed to make Flash video as compelling on handsets as it is on desktops.” said Bill Joll, President and CEO of On2 Technologies. “Video quality on devices is extremely dependent on optimizations for different processors, and On2 is addressing this across all relevant mobile video formats for the first time.”

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Flash-Enabled Handset Forecast: 91% Global Growth in 2007

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Great news !! from strategyanalytics “Flash-Enabled Handset Forecast shows 91% Global Growth in year 2007 as Flash lite Gains Momentum outside Japan.”

Adobe’s Flash Lite technology has taken off rapidly in the last 18 months. Cumulatively, over 301 million FL devices, of which over 90% are cellphones, have been shipped since 2003. The base continues to strengthen in Japan, but in 2008 we will see shipments of Flash Lite-enabled cellphones in the rest of the Asia Pacific region and Western Europe exceed shipments in Japan for the first time since the launch of Flash Lite. A further 1.4 billion FL-enabled phones are expected to be shipped globally over the next three years alone, at which point over 46% of phones shipped are likely to support Flash Lite. This report gives a global forecast of the market for Flash Lite-enabled phones with detailed analysis of 23 countries, and splits by Flash Lite version, air interface and network operator.

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vivek

Happy New Year and great year 2008 ahead

i2fly new year

It’s great time enjoying this new year eve and year 2007. I must say that year 2007 is really good for me and i2fly. As i release lots of cute and beautiful Flash lite products to decorate everyone’s mobile phones. And my works presented in Adobe Max event(MAX 2007 Japan (Tokyo), MAX 2007 Europe (Barcelona), MAX 2007 US (Chicago), FlashForeward 07, articles published on Adobe devnet, Presented at IndiMAD group Bangalore, co-author with Chris Georgenes in his book. . . sweet memories.

Design is something which always passionate me to deliver an engaging experiences for everyone and create beautiful products with emotions. And designing for mobile devices is off course i love it 🙂
There are many new plans for year 2008!! Hope this year will bring more good thing and great future for i2fly. .

Hope all of you have a great holiday. Wish all of you a very happy new year 2008! 🙂
Let’s make a wish for Peace . Love . Happiness

Cheers
vivek

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Adobe brings the power of AVM2 (ActionScript 3.0/ECMAScript 4) to mobile devices “likely to be Flash lite 4”

flash lite 4

Great news!! coming from Adobe for contributing a new virtual machine to the open source Mozilla Tamarin project. This new VM – internally called QVM – known to the outside world as Tamarin-Tracing essentially brings the power of AVM2 (ActionScript 3.0/ECMAScript 4) to mobile devices.
So power your imagination to see this as a first step into bringing AS3 Flash content and eventually Flex/MXML to mobile and devices. i must say that its exciting times ahead.

The QVM will likely be what executes Flash Lite 4, the next generation of the Flash mobile spec, allowing full AS3 compliance. In theory, this will enable Flex users to author for devices as well and open up mobile development to an even larger base of Flash developers.

Parts of QVM “tamarin-tracing” are written in the Forth programming language because you are create really efficient VMs in 50K of memory runable on just about any device available today. QVM makes AS3 bytecode execute on a majority of devices that consumers already own and is a key part of the future Flash Player and AIR strategies. The open sourcing of QVM will accelerate our device strategy and allow EcmaScript to scale up and down independent of system resources.

Exciting times ahead 🙂

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vivek