It has a nipple! It’s not a real one, it’s a roller-ball style navigation like the traditional Blackberry Pearl. OK, so having a touchscreen is supposed to make this kind of thing obsolete, but if you’re not used to touch then a nipple can make navigation a lot simpler.
Web-kit based browser. Just like apple’s Safari Surfing the net is going to be fast, but just like the iPhone there’s no flash support yet.
Push email for gmail It’s push email for the masses, as soon as you get a mail it gets received by your phone – and you don’t need a Microsoft Exchange server.
It’s the shape of things to come! Jump onto the bandwagon, and be one of the first to experience a phone with a Google OS.
3.2 mega-pixel camera. Ok, lets be honest – it’s nothing special, especially as phones are around with 5 mega-pixels, but it’s still a higher resolution than the iPhone’s
Memory card expansion slot It’s not innovative, but it means that unlike the iPhone you wont have to worry about all those applications using up your storage space.
Digital Compass as well as GPS Real innovation here – it means there’s plenty of scope for navigational applications which orientate their maps directly to the way your facing.
Open Platform Unrestricted applications, you can download what you want, when you want.
The LHC Large Hadron Collider is the worlds largest machine, Costing £2.6bn with thousands of people involved in a collaborative project designed to unlock the untold mysteries of our universe. They will have a live online broadcast of the first full beam run on September the 10th. There’s even a rap about it on youtube, so you would imagine they’re pretty crazy busy people – what with maybe the slim possibility of destroying the world and all that.
Well think again! Here’s some of the most exciting screen-grabs from the CERN Live feed today. – Brace yourself, you’ll see a coat stand move, followed by the amazing disappearance of staff. If you fancy having a look yourself before they take the feed down, check out their feed by clicking here (update) For more interesting science related webcams, Tomy suggests looking here http://www.abcwebcam.com/
With ever more sophisticated browsers included inside mobile phones the choices available to advertisers are changing. Combining high speed access, with location based information can potentially provide a completely different level of engagement with users. One of the most recent examples of this is from Admob, the mobile advertising network.
Not content with just banner ad’s Admob are taking things to the next level, incorporating all the functions available on devices such as the iPhone. Take a look at the video example below.
Ad’s including direct mapping, or telephoning capability. While we have yet to see how many users adopt the iPhone as their choice of communication, what this does do is show us the way forward within mobile advertising. Location based information is at its most useful when the user is mobile, and this is exactly what this brings to the mobile user within their ads. Looking forward to seeing more of this.
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