TranSystem’s BT GPS receiver has the longest operation time on the market. Now with the add-on solar energy panel, it sure can be a “Power Forever” BT GPS device.
neat. i wonder about the price
Tag: mobile
A Thing of Beauty
on google maps mobile:
The grace with which it works comes close to a religious experience.
Idiot Phones
It is lumbered with a bewildering array of unnecessary “features” aimed at idiots, including a mode that scans each text message and turns some of the words into tiny ani- mations, so if someone texts to say they have just run over your child in their car, the word “car” is replaced by a wacky cartoon vehicle putt-putting onto the screen. There is also a crap built-in game in which you play a rabbit (“Step into the role of Bobby Carrot – the new star of cute, mind-cracking carrot action!”).
another reason to opt out of phones. not that i need one
WIFI NAS
what’s special about DAVE? One thing is size. The guts of it are about the size of a 1 cm thick credit card. How about 10-20 gigabytes of storage. Cooler. Now get this, files are transmitted to and from it wirelessly.
ah, wireless NAS. that is kinda cool
Mobile Second Life
Comverse has developed a version of the virtual world of Second Life that runs on a mobile phone. It sounds like the technology is imperfect at the moment (as is SL itself) and requires a PC to be running Second Life at an intermediary position, but it’s an interesting and potentially exciting step toward opening Second Life up to yet more uses.
still fairly primitive
Telco Search Consortium
Europe’s biggest telecoms groups are aiming to create a mobile phone search engine that could challenge Yahoo! and Googl. Faced with declining revenues as calls become cheaper, network operators are determined to secure a large slice of the lucrative search advertising market.
why does this remind me of the doomed to failure EU consortiums?
Oy!
Oy is a system of between-stop informal gaming, played for small stakes, the price of a text message, or just for fun with fellow passengers onboard. Oyster card holders (London Transport’s smart travel card scheme) can sign up in their existing online account to play for top-ups to their card.
locative game that shortens the travel time on london buses by utilizing onboard GPS
Steve Jobs makes up BS
jobs is his disingenuous self by claiming that an open phone platform would expose the network to meltdown risk. this is exactly the stuff i hate about apple (even though i recently became a mac user again after a 8 year absence)
iPhoney?
a really disruptive device would have cost under $200 retail; and done voice, SMS, photos and music. And nothing else.
+1
Yahoo leverage
Y! is just ‘doing what it can’ for the last 7 years, which, since they don’t control carriers or handset makers, means continuing to bash their heads against the wall shoehorning mediocre products onto devices which will never do them justice.
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