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Last week Martin Cooper, considered the father of the first mobile phone (btw, did you know he pick up the idea from Star Trek?) and the first person to make a call on one (April 3, 1973), criticized aspects of the current wireless industry, from closed carrier networks or inefficent cellular antenna systems to the design of top-selling smart phones like the iPhone (he had to hand his off to his grandson after some weeks using it… “You try to build a universal device that does all things for all people, and guess what? It doesn’t do anything very well.” ).

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Qik allows your mobile phone to broadcast videos on live by streaming on the internet.

At the beginning of the year, this application was published but in a restricted way, only available for pre-registered or invited users. Now it has been published in a beta version and it is available for anyone who signs up in the website, even if you doesn’t want to stream videos but see and comment other people videos.

If you sign up you will be able to stream videos on a website directly from your mobile phone using your data plan to connect to the internet. In this new version you will have the chance of creating areas for your videos, grouping and making them public or private.

This new public version includes support for new phones such as Motorola Q or Nokia N96, and in following versions it will include support for iPhone 3G and several devices from HTC as HTC Touch Diamond.

One more feature of Qik is that the latency from the start of the recording to the beginning of the broadcasting on the internet is just between a half-second and 3 seconds. Half a second is extremely fast! This makes Qik the fastest and most live system of the online video streaming sites.

I’m sure that live video streaming from mobile phones is becoming something important in our lifes, better than just sending multimedia messages so that with Qik we can share on live our streams with whoever we want.

Via xatakamovil

こんにちは (Konichiwa · hello)

Acording to a little survey, 91% of Japanese don´t want an iPhone. Sure?, I don´t think so.

iPhone 3G will change mobile phones foundations, and i think everybody agree. Japanese are waiting for the iPhone with desire as in the rest of the world. Maybe Japan is a little bit special market for this gadget, they have great handsets and much more features built in their phones than in the rest of the countries, they pay the subway, order an pay a meal, use internet everywhere with affordable data plans… but even this things it is not enough to beat the fashionable and cool iPhone for many people in Japan. Of course the sales of this device will not be as incredible as in other countries like USA or UK, but it will be better than people think.

I have some friends in Japan, and i have made my own survey to know what japanese youth really think about the iPhone 3G.

Erika 20 years old, from 千葉県 (Chiba, Tokio)

Alvaro: Do you know the iPhone 3G?

Erika: Yes, i know it from TV news

A: What do you think about it?

E: I´m very interested in it!, it is so cool and fashionable.

A: Are you thinking on get it?

E: I want to get it, but i can´t, because I can´t cancel easily my current mobile phone contract.

A: What people around you think about this device?

E: People think it is reasonably price and attractive shape.

A: What do you think about the iPhone´s future in Japan, success or failure?

E: I think success, It is no expensive and it is so lovely! Many people are interested in it.

A: Do you think it is a great option to choose in Japan?

E: I´m not sure… If it can be very convenient phone in Japan, ( in terms of radio wave, battery live, usability…), it will succeed

本当にありがとうErika ( Many Thanks Erika) :D

10.000 mobile phones per hour were sold in India this first quarter of year, Incredible!.

Acoording to IDC India, 20 million mobile phones were shipped in India along this Q1´08.

Naveen Mishra, Manager, Communications Research at IDC India, said, “As the need of Indian mobile phone consumers is evolving, they are demanding feature-rich devices, which can cater to their business communication requirements as well as their personal needs.”

“This growth comes on the back of a burgeoning mobile services market and lower entry barriers across various customer categories, as average selling values (ASVs) of handsets continue to fall in the wake of a highly competitive landscape populated by close to 25 vendors.”

Overall, Nokia retained the top spot with a market share of 52.8%, followed by LG at 10.2%, and Samsung at 8.3% in terms of units shipped during the quarter ended March 31, 2008.

Via CellularNews

Benefon, a Finnish company which recently changed its name to GeoSentric and bought the GyPSii application earlier this year, has just signed a deal with Nokia to put its GyPSii location-based social networking service on the N95 and 6110 handsets, regarding Reuters.

GyPSii service allows people to upload pictures, videos and sound clips recorded with their phone. At the same time, those uploaded multimedia contents are geo-positioned with the location where they were created. Besides, users can check where their friends, watch other geo-positioned contents or search other’s saved places.

We are sure that this kind of services mixing social networks and mobility will spread a lot for next months. What do you think?

Via Reuters
Link GyPSii too slow… :-(

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If you are a techie, one of the funniest things you can do in Internet is watch vision videos. In that way, one of our best SevenClick followers has sent us a great Intel Ultra Mobile vision video. Titled “Ultra Mobile: It lets me be me”, the video shows us how mobile technology is going to complete and make easiest (not change) our way of life.

Pay attention because you will discover some devices and technologies very similar to another ones that today are available.

• Nike+
• iPhone and multi-touch screens
• Media Center
• …

Enjoy it! Thanks Santiago N.

Reading the news today, I’ve found a couple whose contrast has shocked me. It is about the differences in the process of mobile services adoption in developing and third world countries.

Some developing countries are on the race for an intensive use of mobile technologies. In fact, some countries are adopting some kind of services as mobile banking faster than first-world countries, since there are places where cell phones are more common than bank accounts. In the other hand, other countries are stuck in the past, many times due to political questions.

An example of that, the situation in Philippines and Ethiopia. While the first is making an intensive use of cell phones as electronic wallets, Ethiopians are happy to have SMS back with them. While Filipinos could harness SMS for ousting former president, Ethiopians couldn’t and paid for it: SMS were disallowed for two years!!!

Link Slahphone EngadgetMobile

Scientists of India have made an experiment to prove the loss of to ear using cellphones. Apparently, speaking more than 60 minutes to the day by the cellphone can partially inflict a casual lost of hearing.

The investigation was carried out with 100 participants whose results were positive towards the suspicions that investigators Indian had; the users who had been long time using cellphone, suffered a certain loss of hearing of high frequency, in most cases, of their right ears (most usual to speak by cellphone)

Link EngadgetMobile

A couple of days ago, Nokia MOSH has reached one important milestone: 1 million downoloads of contents, that comes up one month later of MOSH launching as a public beta.

MOSH is a user-generated content innitiative from Nokia that stands for ‘Mobilize and Share’. And that’s just what it is. A repository where you can collect your favorites contents: audio, images, video, applications, games,… and share it with your friends, family,etc. This can be accomplished from your desktop browser and, of course, from your cell phone, and, as we’re talking about a web application, it is not restricted to Nokia handsets: you only need a web browser on your mobile phone.

Nokia as handset manufacturer does not contribute a clear competitive advantage for this service apart from an undoubtly great-valued brand in mobile related issues. So, it is clear that with this service, Nokia takes one step forward in its new strategy of becoming an Internet company.

Via +34.net
Link NokiaMosh

Kristall, a Vodka Muscovite manufacturer, has just presented today a new way to check the originality of their bottles via SMS.

Every Kristall bottle has an special stamp with a unique code. In that way, you can send the code via SMS to the Kristall short number, receiving immediately an answer informing about the origin of the product.

The solution is very useful in a country where every year dead thousands people because of drinking adulterated drinks.

Via EFE