Nigel Clifford, CEO of Symbian, speaks with Bloomberg news at Mobile World Congress about Symbian’s announcement of the 53% jump in Symbian based mobile phone shipments.
India, the world’s fastest-growing mobile market, added a record 8.77 million mobile phone connections in January 2008, according to data released by telecom regulator Trai on Friday. Industry sources said the additions in January could be the highest-ever recorded globally. China, the world’s largest telecom market, added 8.42 million subscribers in the month of January, led by a 7-million addition by China Mobile, the country’s dominant GSM operator.
China, the world’s largest telecom market, added 8.42 million subscribers in the month of January, led by a 7-million addition by China Mobile, the country’s dominant GSM operator.
India added a total of 8.77 million mobilephone connections during January, against 8.11 million connections in December 2007. However, wireline connections registered a decline of 0.03 million subscribers to 39.22 million in January. The total number of telephone connections reached 281.62 million at the end of January, against 272.88 million in December 2007. Tele-density increased to 24.63% at the end of January.
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Featured in The Museum of Modern Art “Design and The Elastic Mind” exhibition, the Morph concept device is a bridge between highly advanced technologies and their potential benefits to end-users. This device concept showcases some revolutionary leaps being explored by Nokia Research Center (NRC) in collaboration with the Cambridge Nanoscience Centre (United Kingdom) – nanoscale technologies that will potentially create a world of radically different devices that open up an entirely new spectrum of possibilities.
Morph concept technologies might create fantastic opportunities for mobile devices:
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This might sound like a bit far from reality but, the point to note is that the combination of technologies used here are already with us. In his own words Petitinvention says, “This is what I wish the internet search will be able to do with a mobile device in the NEAR future. Touch screen, built in camera, scanner, WiFi, google map (hopefully google earth), google search, image search… all in one device. Like this way, when you can see a building through it, it gives you the image search result right on the spot.” I guess by now you have the tiny idea of what we are talking about. Just a picture to show what it is:
Follow the link to read along. Petitinvention - The Future of Internet Search
If you are interested in seeing video interviews of people from different mobile companies who attended the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week, go to this link . This gentleman with the username of servicesmobiles in YouTube has posted some 53 videos of the show and most of them are interviews. I was pretty impressed so just thought of sharing.
The much talked about Nokia Touch Screen UI was demonstrated in multiple places in the Mobile World Congress last week. Here is a video showing the demonstration.
This is certainly an interesting thing. The Indian telecom company Spice has come up with a ‘Blind Phone’ yes, it is a mobile phone for the blind.
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I was on my vacations for 20 days and due to which designtraffic was silent for almost a month now. The traffic would start again from today.
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