The Butt Ugly Weblog:

In other news, the new Web Browser for S60 supports cool things like thumbnail views of the pages, AJAX and DHTML for Web 2.0 hype compliancy, and built-in RSS support for following blogs and news. The best part though: it’s got a plugin API, so people can develop new browser plugins for S60, too. It’s cool enough to make a geek drool.

However, while this is very nice, someone might mistake to think that this means that there no longer is a need to create mobile-specific versions of the web. In fact, it becomes more important than ever: while 3G and high-end smartphones will have a browsing experience similar to the laptop, the most phones sold in the world are simple devices with GPRS (roughly the equivalent of a 56k modem) and tiny displays with a very simple browser.

+1
Even those using some high-end smartphones will appreciate if you take care of their screen real estate and navigation experience…

Via Tom Hume

OpenSource.nokia.com, the new website is up and running. Cool.
Lot of things there including a space for the new S60 browser (see the press release)

Via Ora and I guess I could also congrats (and say HI) Barbara :-)

QR Code generated by the folks at Active Print.

Check on All About Mobile Life for more details on QR Code

I discovered lately Shozu, from their website:
ShoZu is a FREE cool app that makes uploading images from your camera-phone to your Flickr photostream simple. Download the ShoZu application to try it out.
I could not help but test it :-)

Requirement: having a FlickR account and a supported handset
Pretty cool, once that you have subscribed to the service, that you have setup your account, and that it is installed (I ran into some problems when installing it but that was 97% my mistake) you can publish pictures on your FlickR account in a SINGLE click.

Shozu access your local file system and search for pictures:

If you want to upload an image to your FlickR account just select it in the menu and it will be added the next time you execute a transfer.

You can also add a description and a tag:

You can check the picture state in the browser:

• “F” with a green arrow, the picture will be added to FlickR when the next transfer occurs.
• “F” The picture has been added to FlickR
• “F” with a bulbe, a description/tag has been added to the picture.

Start the transfer:

You can also set it up so that every time you take a picture it will automatically ask you if you want to publish it on your account.

Now… with KAYWA you can publish on your blog by MMS or email. Once you have entered your moblogging address to your contacts does not make the publishing process that longer but this kind of application definitely help. I would love to provide this to our KAYWA users.

Possible improvement:
– Choosing the gallery to publish in would be nice.

Similar applications are (not exclusive):
– PicoBlogger from PicoStation (tested and talked about it here)
– Lifeblog from Nokia (here)
– KaBlog (here, here)

A service to get lat/long in Switzerland depending on the name of the locality…
Find Me!!

Swiss citizens… if you need to set up lat/long on your blog, like every KAYWA blog, this is the tool you were looking for.

Well done Roberto!!

One of them will be mine… and since the Nokia’s will not be on the market before Christmas, it will most likely be the new iPod (but of course as a true fan of those toys I will not resist next year to buy one of the NSerie)

Nokia N92


From MobileTracker:

• Integrated DVB-H with basic play/pause functions for live TV
• QVGA screen with 16 million colors
• WiFI
• S60 3rd edition
• 2 megapixel camera

Nokia N80

From MobileTracker:

• S60 3rd edition
• 3-megapixel camera
• 352×415 resolution display

iPod

Check out their website with a pretty nice list of speakers announced…

LIFT 06
2-3 February 2006
Geneva, Switzerland

Of course you might want to add the feed of their weblog to your aggregator…

Personal note > I did not realize that the first time I visited their website last week but I like their logo… with the air balloon ;-)

Via P&V

Tags: lift06, conference, innovations

Nice serie on Mobile Web Design from Cameron Moll who just published part 3 (out of 4): Tips & Techniques

Part 1 was State of the Mobile Web
Part 2 was Methods to the Madness

Wired: Futurists Pick Top Tech Trends
Taking a long-term view isn’t easy nowadays…

Pick no 2:
Mobile socialization: Already our cell phones and PDAs work well at both contributing to our social lives (i.e., getting in touch with friends) and spoiling them (i.e., meeting friends but ignoring them to answer cell-phone calls).
But according to futurists, we’ve only scratched the surface of figuring out how our portable communications devices can be of service.
What’s in store? How about mapping programs that show us whether anyone we’d like to see is nearby. Or a mobile reference modeled on Wikipedia that can tell us if the restaurant on the corner is any good. Perhaps a few voice-recognition applications that actually work.
While we’re at it, why not throw in programs to protect our privacy by limiting who has access to information about where we are?