Nokia N95 Multitouch

Here is a sort of demo of what I would say a dream… The multitouch support in Nokia N95.

Silverlight is SilverLight… There’s no “Silverlight Lite”

Ewan Spence, from AllAboutSymbian, is attending MIX08 and managed to get a few minutes with Brad Becker, who is the Group Project Manager for the User Experience Platform and Tools Marketing Group at Microsoft for a nice chat about Silverlight, which we announced earlier last week as coming to Nokia’s product lines, including their Symbian S60 handsets.

Notice Brad’s statements that there won’t be a ‘Silverlight Lite’ for mobile devices (may be he wanted to say “…like Adobe’s Flash Lite”). It will be the same for all, though applications will likely need to be recompiled for mobiles. As Brad points out, this works good because developers will be able to take the guts of their application and tweak it specially for the mobile.

India adds the Highest number of Mobile Subscribers in January 2008

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.

Read more in this post of WirelessDuniya

Mobile World Congress Interviews

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.

Nokia S60 touch UI demo

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.

Braille Mobile for the blind

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.

Read more here

One Step forward for Flash Content on the iPhone.

A new bookmarklet called iTransmogrify promises a solution for the problem with iPhone’s Safari browser where you can’t see embedded Flash - for example, if someone’s embedded a YouTube video in their blog. It also means you can’t use some Music 2.0 services which use Flash streaming to deliver music. Coded by a chap called Joe Maller, iTransmogrify basically converts embedded Flash content into native iPhone formats. He’s making it work with various sites and formats as he goes along, with users queuing up with requests on his own site. It’s certainly an impressive bit of development work, and shown off in the video above.

See the Video Demo and read More on the iTransmogrify website.

Exclusive: Windows Mobile 7 To Focus On Touch and Motion Gestures

Windows Mobile 7 will dramatically change the way we use mobile devices. It will emphasize the use of touch on the device, as well as motion gestures created by using the device. It is, absolutely, Microsoft’s effort to beat back the iPhone, and the iPhone is referenced several times in the document. Read the more than 3000 words article here

The Google Phone

The G-Phone finally has started showing up. Doest look that great. In fact, at the first glimpse looks like a Blackberry phone. but I guess for the time being Android great demo apps can be shown in this one. If you want to see more pics go here

SkyeSpy - Audio Detect Technology

Ever wondered if you could become a spy without using any spying gadget? Skyestream has created an application that will let you do so. All you need is a Nokia S60 3rd edition phone and a mobile application called SkyeSpy.

What does it do?

• SkyeSpy is remote audio monitoring, detection and notification software for your S60v3 mobile device

• SkyeSpy can be used as:

(1) an intruder detection and alarm system for the home and office,
(2) a remote baby monitor,
(3) a remote car alarm monitor, or
(4) a spy device to listen-in on any environment without anyone knowing!

• SkyeSpy is installed on a mobile device that is used as the audio monitoring hardware

• The SkyeSpy device is placed in an area where the audio/sound is to be monitored e.g. near a baby, in the home/office etc

• SkyeSpy is ‘paired’ to ‘communicate’ with another mobile device or landline

• When SkyeSpy detects an audio instance, it alerts the paired device with an SMS, MMS or even a CALL!