The future holds “an expanded definition of productivity where it’s not just about getting things done. It’s also about doing the right things, and doing them well and enjoying the process with other people in a very natural way.â€
In the video, Microsoft paints a world in which smartphones are about the size of a business card, and just about any surface you come into contact with has a touch-sensitive interface.
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Infographic: Statistics on the present (and future!) of mobile marketing
Microsoft Tag has just released a neat infographic highlighting statistics on how people are using mobile phones in 2011 and future!
Windows Phone 7, an intuitive user interface, feel the experience :)
Go ahead and stare the user interface of the Windows Phone 7 Series deserves it. That’s the reaction of people at Mobile World Conference in Barcelona. This new holistic design system that brings together form and function based on key principles – informing every aspect of the phone.
I like the typography and clean intuitive rich User interface which creates the simplicity feeling and unrivaled mobile experience. With a holistic design that brings together web content, applications and services into a single view, phones worships you now, not the other way around.
I like to play with this phone in hand to see the real time experience and how the form factor and performance is?
What you think about it. I like to know your comments about your current phone User interface, are you really satisfied with what you have it?
Check out the above video to get a first-hand look at the latest Windows Phone 7 🙂
vivek
Microsoft’s announced new version of Windows Mobile with Adobe Flash lite 3.1
Microsoft’s announced at the Mobile World Congress, Barcelona that newer version of Windows Mobile is with adobe Flash Lite 3.1
“What people really want is PC-style browsing on the phone. … There’s all these stats whereby if you tell users, go to the most popular sites and do something, they have this success and failure rate of whether they can do it on different mobile smart phones. With Internet Explorer, our rendering, how the UI looks, it is much more accurate to the PC because it’s the PC browser.”
“Then, by including Flash Lite in there, it also helps if you have a Flash site. Some of them use Flash actually as core navigation and functionality. So it’s not all eye candy. If you go to a site like that, at least you can go find the information and interact with it. The bigger news isn’t about Flash Lite, the bigger news is about getting PC-quality browsing on your phone.”
vivek
Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty?
A cellphone shop in Accra, Ghana, which carries and repairs a variety of handsets.
A great article via The New York Times featuring Jan Chipchase and his work style to find about how people use their cell phones, where they keep it, understanding their behaviour in terms of usability, business and Psychology many more ways . . even a simple idea can make a product more innovative and solution providing as mobile phones are getting more personalized mere just not a functional device to talk. The premise of the work is simple – get to know your potential customers as well as possible before you make a product for them.
“This sort of on-the-ground intelligence-gathering is central to what’s known as “human-centered design”, a business-world niche that has become especially important to ultracompetitive high-tech companies trying to figure out how to write software, design laptops or build cellphones that people find useful and unintimidating and will thus spend money on. Several companies, including Intel, Motorola and Microsoft, employ trained anthropologists to study potential customers.”
Chipchase talks to Accra street vendors about what an ideal phone.
Jan Chipchase is 38, a rangy native of Britain whose broad forehead and high-slung brows combine to give him the air of someone who is quick to be amazed, which in his line of work is something of an asset. For the last seven years, he has worked for the Finnish cellphone company Nokia as a “human-behavior researcher.†He’s also sometimes referred to as a “user anthropologist.†To an outsider, the job can seem decidedly oblique. His mission, broadly defined, is to peer into the lives of other people, accumulating as much knowledge as possible about human behavior so that he can feed helpful bits of information back to the company — to the squads of designers and technologists and marketing people who may never have set foot in a Vietnamese barbershop but who would appreciate it greatly if that barber someday were to buy a Nokia.
I really impressed with him, his thoughts to create innovation and more focussed for the people.
vivek
Microsoft Challenges Adobe Stranglehold: Silverlight versus Flash Lite in the Mobile Arena
The Strategy Analytics report says, “Silverlight on Mobile will not catch up with Adobe’s Flash Lite in the foreseeable future, but Microsoft recognizes a great opportunity beyond providing an alternative to Adobe’s Flash Lite. This Silverlight strategic offering will boost Microsoft’s online and cross-platform ambitions in the mobile space according to analysts at Strategy Analytics.
“The Silverlight deal with Nokia gives Microsoft access to Nokia’s S60 licensees including LG, Samsung which is vital for competing with Flash Lite,” commented Sravan Kundojjala, Analyst at Strategy Analytics. “They estimates that over 1.7 billion Flash Lite-enabled phones will be shipped globally over the next three years alone.”
Stuart Robinson, Director of the Handset Component Services added, “Strategy Analytics believes cross-platform wars will likely heat up in the mobile space, an argument strengthened by Nokia’s Trolltech acquisition. And also believes that SUN Microsystems will join the fray with its JavaFX platform.”
vivek
Microsoft Becomes Latest Licensee of Flash Lite 3 and Reader LE for future Windows Mobile based devices
 
Via Bill, Microsoft has licensed Flash Lite 3 and Reader LE for future Windows Mobile based devices and adds another supported platform for Flash developers to reach consumers. Flash Lite 3 will be pre-installed in the Internet Explorer Mobile browser on future Windows Mobile devices and will allow consumers with these devices to enjoy the same web experiences anywhere they are. In addition to Flash Lite, Reader LE will be pre-installed to allow consumers to open and view PDF documents while they’re away from their computer, increasing productivity and enhancing the enterprise workflow. Adding the Windows Mobile platform is important for our developers to expand the reach of their applications to more consumers.
This is something exciting, and make us curious to think !! 😉
vivek