I posted a new video demonstrating what the N95’s accelerometer or motion sensor can do.

I forgot to show in the previous video the latest version of Accelerinvaders 0.4 by Luis Valente, so I posted it here, both landscape and portrait are possible, there is auto shooting, a little red guy on the top, and it is real cool. You can download it here, the password is "phonereport.info" without the "

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Channels by Nokia Beta Labs retrieves information from news channels such as EuroNews, Al-Jazeera and presents it in very clean and neat categories, and it has 4-way auto-rotation.

After some reading and listening to Podcasts, I think it is time to say something about Nokia’s greatest fair of the year.

Of course lot bloggers happily went to Amsterdam to check out the new deals, but I never got a (sponsored) invite, I guess we aren’t that big yet.

From what I hear from the guys at various Symbian blogs, there is little information about Ovi, but even from Nokia’s press releases, I can smell that it is going to change the meaning of multimedia in smartphones, something very exciting, sharing videos, music and photos on the internet, on computers and phones, it’s like a social networking website with all simplicity and all tools at your hand.

As I said in my latest review (Nokia 5310), S40 are coming very close to S60. Today there is little difference between them, they got the same basic UI, but S40 still lacks of advanced multitasking (only the music player minimizes), and there is no support for many programs and platforms.

Many of us do agree that S40 has a stable OS, not buggy, the phones themselves have a good built, and it’s ready to be used, while on S60 we have to install programs here are there, and even though they have everything, on S40 they are altogether.

Another great news was the Comes with Music sign on N81, etc. This is definitely good for artists, as there will be less copyright breaking. Obviously Universal won’t leave artists empty handed, and Universal themselves must have profited from the deal. A good thing is DRM, although it can be broken easily, most end-users don’t have the knowledge or time to do it, so people will start owning music legally. Of course this won’t stop piracy at all as the rest of the people will illegally download music, but it should reduce it, even minimally.
People won’t bother as much to transfer music from their computers to music players, etc, but it can make a slight disadvantage as there will be something there that won’t work, the same happens with Symbian installation files, you cannot send them from phones. Most people might not care as long as they have the music. Of course Apple will need to protect themselves or the sales of iPods will drop drastically, but seriously, what is the use of an iPof anyways, besides the internal hard drive?

Another news is the form factor, N82 is back to candy bar, and I don’t really like it. I do like exotic designs, as long as companies don’t overdo it, like the N93, which is a marvellous shaped phone, I don’t prefer candy bars, but don’t have anything against it.

Before I finish, I would like to comment on internal hard drives or memory cards. I think we definitely need a good solid hard drive which is fast and has a few GB of storage, but we also need a removable memory card, we could have one memory card with music, the other for video capture, etc, I think removable memory is always helpful.

Finally, what future S60s should have…From the All About Symbian podcast, I heard some bloggers suggesting better resolution, better build quality, dedicated camera buttons for macros, etc, and Darla Mack even implied that new phones shouldn’t be downgraded to a 2 megapixel camera, which I totally agree. But what I think is really important on phones is battery, if we don’t have those fuel cell batteries soon, I think our phones won’t last long with all the functionality, even though we come from black and white call and sms phones to 5 megapixel 8GB GPS phones, this is not real battery life.

Please feel free to share your views.

These PSP Phones concepts are starting to coming, but luckily not as fast as those iPhone concepts used to be posted.

This time someone at Esato drew up a pretty good concept of what a PSP Phone could be, dual slider N95 type, but has a video game console look, it would totally suit if the device was launched.

SOURCE: JUST ANOTHER MOBILE PHONE BLOG

As usual, mobile phone companies come up with great patents that we never see implemented, so this time Sony Ericsson comes up with a software to use the camera to the maximum…to recognize patters and human movements, quite crazy but I’ve seen it being implemented for disabled people. This is how the world will end up lazy…or maybe it will encourage us to work and improve the technology, I don’t know…

As you can see, you should be able to customize gestures and actions. Example:
If you lift your finger, the Email would be synchronized, if you turn your fingers, the volume would go up, etc.

At Unwired View they even proposed awesome events as if answering a phone on loudspeaker from a distance, controlling TV and other appliances, shooting a group photos, etc.

We must also look at the other factors, I mean you wouldn’t want to dry up the battery in half an hour would you? Those darn fuel cells are taking way too long…

SOURCE: UNWIRED VIEW

Nokia gladly joined the trend of saving the world and human beings, although it’s just a concept, this phone with a wearable sensor senses and analyzes your environment, health, and local weather conditions.

You can wear it in your wrist or your neck (yeah right I can image people walking around with a neck-sensor), this sensor will get it’s energy from solar power and transmit to the phone with Near-Field Communications and RFID.

You can personalize the sensor, include a heart monitor and motion detector,

We leave you with some Nokia links for further info:

Printed electronics

Bio-materials

Bio-materials

• Bio-materials, such as polylactic acid (PLA) plastics with plant or other biomass-based modifiers, can help to reduce the use of non-renewable materials. An additional bonus is that the energy required to produce PLA - from raw material to plastic pellet - is minimal.
• Elastomers based on biomaterials can be used as rubber-like materials to seal off battery case.

Reclaimed materials

Reclaimed materials

Electronics

• Printed electronics consume less energy during manufacturing than traditional circuit board production and will be used in the phone, detection units, and their chargers.

Display screens

Display screens

• Display technologies widely in use in 2007, such as liquid crystal display (LCD) or organic light-emitting diode (OLED), are continuously evolving – resulting in increasingly energy-efficient screens. But other technologies, such as electrowetting, also exist that produce screens that consume less energy than LED or OLED displays.
  • Electrowetting is the process of applying electrical voltage to tiny drops of oil, causing the droplets to expand and contract. When compressed under the display glass, expanding droplets produce an effect similar to a pixel "lighting up," whereas contracting droplets can be compared to a pixel "turning off."

Alternative energy sources

Alternative energy sources

Environmental monitoring

Personal health

Personal health

• Motion detector
• Heart rate monitor
• Noise level monitor

Weather monitoring

Weather monitoring

SOURCE: NOKIA ENVIRONMENT