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  Books I have co-authored |
Xperia Arc’s low light camera – will Sony(Ericsson) ever come to their senses about the Mpixel race?Xperia arc I don’t usually pay much attention to Sony Ericsson’s products but last week I saw a billboard in the subway stating that the Xperia Arc sported a camera with excellent low light capabilities. A quick google search revealed that SE is pushing the 8 Mpix low light camera as a major selling point. [...] Sometimes I get the impression that the industry believes the iPhone and iPad represent the pinnacle of human technology. Even though the majority of the market attention is on these form factors, several new UI technologies are already out of the labs. These technologies have the potential to disrupt the traditional smartphone/tablet market and might [...] Blackberry Playbook An abbreviated version of this article has previously been Now that the Blackberry Playbook has been released it is fairly obvious that RIM is putting the building blocks in place for a future positioning of the Playbook as a gaming platform, most likely in their next model. [...] Eventually the mouse and keyboard will be replaced as our primary way of interfacing with the digital world by something else. Voice input, and pen/finger based touch screens are the most well-known candidates but there are several other more advanced technologies being developed. One example is I-Tech’s Virtual Keyboard (introduced in 2005) with a red laser [...] Google has the Midas touch and never fails – right? What if they made a Google Phone (gPhone?) and disrupted the global phone market? They already have a smartphone OS and aggressive plans for the market. Rumors about a Google Phone have been floating around for some time but gained momentum yesterday with tweets claiming that [...]
Satio smartphone with camera All mobile phone vendors hope to repeat the success of Apple with a new Jesus phone. Sony Ericsson’s candidate is Satio (previous working name Idou) and they are positioning the integrated 12 megapixel camera as the “killer app” that will lift Satio above the other smartphone competitors when it hits the shelves [...] Despite decades of talk about being “in tune with customers” and huge budgets for market research I wonder how well the major corporations in the tech sector really understand their customers. During the last two years, the leading vendors of PC and Mac have decided that users only want glossy screens. They have obviously missed that [...] |
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