Converging the Mobile and the Home Entertainment Worlds
The new Nokia N8 seems to be all about mobile multimedia.
Just take a look at the commercial below… 70% of the ad time is about featuring the phone’s multimedia capabilities and 50% of the items on the feature list at the end are about multimedia again.
Advertising photo, video and music capabilities is not something new, especially for the N-series. The interesting part is the new Home Theater feature – that is the capability to integrate mobile phones and home entertainment systems using HDMI to play phone’s photos, videos and music on home TVs.
We’ve been working in the mobile multimedia sharing area for some time and I believe the home entertainment environment would be an interesting battle field not only for mobile device manufactures but also for telecom operators. It offers great opportunities to extend the footprint and boost customer loyalty…
Mobile 3D Displays for a 3D World
Two weeks ago, Sharp introduced their new product – glasses-free mobile 3D touch screen displays. Three-dimensional effect is noticeable when the display is about 30cm from the eyes. The picture persists even if the device is rotated from portrait to landscape orientation. The technology provides different image for each eye, creating the illusion of a three-dimensional picture.
Sharp launched mobile phones and PCs equipped with a display that enables users to watch 3D images without glasses in the early 2000s. Well, this is already done. The Japanese company said it plans to start making this year the advanced 3D displays for cell phones and other mobile devices that don’t require special viewing glasses, betting that demand for 3D images will grow beyond movie theaters and living rooms to portable machines. Mass production is planned for the first half of fiscal 2010.
So let’s enjoy our three-dimensional world through new 3D mobile displays!
Integrating Android within the Home Entertainment Context
Yesterday we launched iMediaShare at Android Marketplace. Now we can all easily play phone-stored multimedia at our internet-enabled TV sets, or copy our phone photo albums to PS3.
No computers, no cables, no hassle…
P.S. I recommend Stefan deletes some of the “Las Vegas photos” before accidentally sharing them with the family back home 
Personal Multimedia Content – Do We Care About It?
The simple answer to this question is: Yes, we do. Why? Why do we care about it? It’s because our personal multimedia is all about our emotions. According to a recent market research made by CEA people take an average of 72 digital photos during their last trip. They do so because they want to memorize their special moments, the places they visited, and the experiences they had to revive their emotions later or share them with their friends and family.
So what do people actually care most about their favorite music, videos or picture of precious moments?
Most people do not know anything about encoders, storage devices or sharing technologies. And they do not need to. They just want them to work. Because what people do care about is choosing and accessing their content anywhere, anytime on any device.
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