Entries tagged 'Mobile'

Mobile widgets are the future, we know that, But nokia made some futuristic announcements that may or may not come true.
10 years ago it was great if you could make a phone call on the go, today that's almost unmissable. A chief visionary at nokia said that they are looking in to things that could be relevant for 2015. It could be relevant to patent a product in 2015 but the product may be further away in the future. For reaseachers any starting point is possible. They are even playing with possibilities of growing your own phone or just print a new phone.
Recently Nokia launched "Morph nanotechnology concept". This could result in phones with very flexible and self cleaning materials within the next 7 years.

We thought this was very cool, though we did wonder, if you could really grow your own phone. Would it still be in garantee if you had a failed harvest?

check the full article here

I just saw an article on T-zine on Belgian mobile internet prices and I didn't want to keep it from you guys!
To give you guys an insight in the prices of the 3 major operators in Belgium.

Proximus
here you have 3 options.
Access Time Option (standaard) € 0,4158 / 5 min (€ 4,99 / uur)
Access Volume Option € 0,50 / 100 KB
Bundel 50 MB € 15 / maand for 50 MB.
After 50 MB you'll pay € 0,90 / MB*.

I find this a bit expensive actually. Especially with a maximum of 50 mb. If you start downloading content regularly on your mobile phone this just isn't going to cut it.

Mobistar
Until recently I could only find data plans for mobile laptops. In the end you still used a sim card and you could put that sim card in your phone to surf the internet, but as far as I know you couldn't make a phone call with that sim card.
Now Mobistar has a new dataplan aspecially for the iPhone. But my guess is you can just use those subscribtions on your other GPRS enabled phones aswell.
30 Euro for 3 hours calling or 300 text messages and 200 mb of data
45 Euro for 6 hours calling or 600 text messages and 500 mb of data
60 Euro for 9 hours calling or 900 text messages and 1 GB of data

Base
if you surf very irregularly you pay 2,5 Euro for 1 mb
5 Euro for 10 mb
10 Euro for 200 mb
25 Euro for 2 GB
The first three are available in prepaid the last only if you have a subscription.

My personal favorit is Base because of a fair prepaid offer of 200mb for 10 Euro. I especially like the idea of freedom of choice. If I don't want to spend any mony on phonecalls or mobile internet next month I can do that. Mobistar and Proximus do both allow faster connections, but that's only if you are in an area where UMTS is supported.See here on this image for mobistar! and here for Proximus!
Probably the real battle for cheap mobile data plans is about to start, but the above will give you an idea of what you can use. You should also take in mind Mobistar and Proximus both have a dataplan for mobile laptops which are cheaper than their mobile phone dataplans. The only disadvantage you'll have is that you probably won't be able to phone using those simcards.

In the very near future we may face a turning point, the birth of Web 3.0.
Many people speculate what Web 3.0 could be like. Though, some of these speculations are very interesting for mobile developers.


To start from the very beginning, from the burst of the dot com bubble in the fall of 2001. Many people believed that the web was overhyped. But it wasn't the end of the web. Far from it infact. New and exciting sites and applications started poping up and it were the good web solutions that showed their strenght by surviving and thriving while the pretenders dissapeared.
In the first conferences (source from o'Reilly), Web 2.0 was described as "the web as a platform" and later Web 2.0 meant something about democracy. When speaking of Web 2.0 today we think of Ajax, RSS, user generated content and democracy like blogs and wiki and mashups.


Some speculations for web 3.0 suggest that the web will be everywhere on various devices, anytime, anywhere. Crucial applications such as mobile applications and intuitiveness in usage where a mobile powered web will play a big part in.


imagin walking in a store with your phone and you automatically switch over to the in-house wifi. Now you are online located in the store and browsing the web deliverd catalog and if you want to find a product in a certain department, your phone shows you a map of the store.


Or the search engine of the future where your search results are based on the radius of your location.


Social networking may change drastically aswell. Imagine in the near future where you take out your phone and see several people online near you, you don't have to talk to them yet, you can first see their profile and their hobbies and the other way around. All you have to do is walk to that person and start a conversation.


Seems to me, It's only a matter of time...