Will our mobile phones continue to evolve at the rate they have done over the last fifteen years? Most technology sort of runs out of steam after a while. Computers today aren’t really much better than they were five years ago, for example. Televisions haven’t particularly improved for about ten years. However, there
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The idea of mobile as a media platform is both very modern — by definition, it couldn’t have been conceived of before about 1985 and colour screens didn’t arrive until the mid-90s. But it’s also something that people seem to have been banging on about for ages, without anything in particular happening. At the I think it was about this point — maybe six weeks in — that I started to ‘get it’, as they say. To understand why mobile is quite so important. More important than computers and the Internet in many respects. You might disagree: I have, after all, been brainwashed by mysterious Finns in black suits. First It was with some surprise that I discovered that built-in RFID chips aren’t the preserve of high-end smartphones. They’re actually more likely to be found at the bottom-end. It’s a technology that needs to be available to millions, rather than thousands, for the likes of retailers and transport companies to want to support such devices. Continue reading Connecting things: how soon till near-field comms? One of the main bones of contention when it comes to comments on the Nokia blog is product launch dates. Put simply, they are always either too early or too late. Too late because some people want to buy the products as soon as they’re announced, and any launch date thereafter is wrong. I’ve been blogging a lot, but evidently not here. Instead, I’ve been writing for a wage at Nokia Conversations. That’s a far better arrangement for me in almost every respect, but has left things rather dusty over here on twopointouch. So, one of the things I write is a bit of a rant for the weekly newsletter. You |
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