Soon after Yahoo! launched this new mobile search, oneSearch (news:Yahoo jumps ahead of Google on mobile phone search), Google tried to catch up with by adding a link to another search page with some new feature, just like Y!'s oneSearch (google.com/m). The images above are the actual screenshot of the serach result of "godzilla" on Yahoo oneSearch and Google's new search.
Also see this interesting comparison (pdf): Dare to Compare - Google vs. Yahoo!
Ooo. I am a sucker for anything pink. Nokia Europe introduced the pink collections for Valentine's Day. Sweet.
Oh, wait. They are all S40, not S60... Girls don't need smart phones, do they?
Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, Quad-Band GSM (yay! world-wide phone!), EDGE (No 3G!?)
OS X, Safari (I bet this will work just like Nokia's S60 browser.)
Collaboration with Yahoo - free IMAP email to all iPhone customers!
Google Maps and Widgets
I am hoping this will work wirh Skype, but I don't think Cingular will like it at all...
The Price:
4GB model = $499
8GB model = $599
Shipping in June!
Wait. This price is for 2-year contract with Cingular.... I knew it...
Source: Gizmodo
Everything goes 2.0. What's next?
According to Read/WriteWeb, the next 2.0 is a "Search".
This article shows the results of the concepts to beat Google. The top idea of the next generation search is the Artificial Intelligence. Yet there's no true AI search engine on market yet, the closest possible so far is Hakia that I already liked it because more knowledge and news based results, mainly recently posted blog entries, are listed as the search results, and they are quite different from that of Google.
Here's a list of other suggestions:
interesting.
I think it was back in 2004, when I visited my family in Japan, I found some weird looking barcode-like thingies everywhere on paper and magazines. They didn't look like the traditional barcodes with a bunch of vertical lines. I was stearing one as I was trying to figure out how to decode this cyptic message from outer space or something, then finally asked my brother. He was actually really surprised that I had no idea what they were.
Well, anyway what I saw was called QT code, a matrix code (2-D code) that contains info, mainly URLs of mobile websites. Use your camera phone and scan the barcode so you don't have to type them in with non-qwerty devices!
Now it is almost the end of 2006, here in the US, I finally have a chance to use the barcode with Nokia N93, which comes with a barcode reader software (and 3.2 megapixel camera!)
Then I wonder how I could adopt the QR code for own wap sites and googled it. Sweet enough I didn't have any difficulty to find some QR-code generators. The one I liked is qrcode.kaywa.com. The image below is the example I created on the website. This stored a URL for google's mobile site, google.mobi (I believe this is their new domain and slightly different from mobile.google.com. This site has UA detection.)
I got a new N93 before Thanksgiving and have been having fun with it since the holiday weekend.
Now I found that Nokia launched another cool toy I can play with my new N93 - Nokia Music Mixer. This is an web application (Flash) that allows you to remix tracks and download them as ring tones. This seems to be a part of Nokia 5300 XPressMusic phone campaign, and you can join the mix competition to win the new phone!
"10 Things I Learned at Mobile 2.0" (by Brian Fling of Blue Flavor) has a great summary about interesting facts on Mobile 2.0 Conference that I still regret I didn't go. I am glad that there're some good web/blog I can read about the conference.
I cannot agree more about mobile user experience. I am sure that everybody who have browsed mobile web sites have encountered some difficulty navigating in some point. User-experience really is a key for handheld devices!
It's faster than Gmail mobile web and you can view attachments too!
View demo on web (on PC)
I feel that we (people here, in the US) are so behind of mobile technology, compared to Europe and Asia. Though we all have heard of the new term, "Mobile 2.0", I believe most of us don't get much benefit of because we are so stuck with phone provider's own business models (providing customers locked phones and charging fees for whatever services). I am hoping soon we are able to get some descent Wifi-enable mobile phones cheap and enjoy so-called Mobie 2.0, without worrying bills.
(BTW I just missed Mobile 2.0 Conferene here in SF... Stupid me.)
BTW, I was excite about that YouTube on Mobile, but I found out that they are in the process with Verizon (source: Mashable!). Verizon wil charge $15 per month for this service. Like I just mention, we are stuck with the providers plans.
According to MobileCrunch, YouTube will go mobile!
Currently, youTube allows you to upload from your mobile, but can't watch video on your mobile. In near future, you can watch videos in your hand!
