The Future of Mobile Application Development – Web or Native?
According to a recent study by Global Intelligence Alliance, these are the top three reasons (in order of relevance) companies still prefer native mobile applications:
- Ability to build a superior user interface
- Need to access device hardware
- Leverage popular, established app store distribution channels
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…
BlackBerry Applications… for the Business
A recent study by Localytics demonstrates what we all already knew…
RIM/BlackBerry continues to be the leader in the US enterprise segment.
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!
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