Sooooo, I’m in the market for a new phone, but it seems like every time I consider one I see a god awful advert which puts me off completely (Samsung Jet anyone). The Palm Pre is the latest offender, I’m pretty sure I don’t want to go with their flow if it involves speaking like a heavily medicated Californian yoga teacher and listening to Freur. Maybe I should just dig out a Nokia 5110.
Sorry, another iPhone post, but it is just a quickkie. Like this a lot, Spotify on the iPhone, more importantly the ability to download tracks over 3G to listen to while on the tube! Excellent idea.
What is very interesting is just how publicly Spotify have launched the application, even though it is not even available yet! Hmmm, I wonder if it is the PR equivalent of twisting someone’s arm? C’mon Apple don’t be an asshole with this one, approve it!
It’s old news now, but I thought this was sexy enough to warrant a belated post. PocketGamer recently reported that a shadowy group of developers have managed to port a just about fully functional version of Valve’s hit puzzle game Portal to the iphone.
Plenty of naysayers have since popped out of the nerdosphere to decry the video (below) as fake. If it does eventually hit the market however, then it might just be enough to tempt me to join the legions of smug graphic designers and advertising types who already own Apple’s mugger baiting handset. And if it doesn’t, well, I can always play the flash version.
Saw this cool iPhone 3GS application by Acrossair today on AppleInsider and it really excited me on the prospects for useful augmented reality (AR) applications, not just ones used to sell things like cars.
I think as we see more and more capable phones we are going to see a real directional shift in developing media for the mobile platform. As the interactive element becomes more noticable, instead of just point-and-click, we will have to walk to and around our applications to interact with them. At The Processor we think this is really exciting. A good example may be the developer looking to build in a public space, and through AR they could let residents know how the building will look in situ and how it may affect their environment. The AR app will allow us to engage in a very different way from just looking at a computer screen to physically getting involved.
An exciting future for AR applications lies ahead.
Any possible merit the launch had has now been comprehensively stomped by the rancid TV advert I had the misfortune of seeing yesterday. A Trainspotting style voice over tells us how rubbish waiting for things is, while a herd of obnoxious yahs run about/shag/smash stuff. It looks like a trailer for Skins recast with members of Oxford University’s indefensibly cuntish Bullingdon Club. The reason? Well, because as Samsung tells us, “impatience is a virtue”. Death would be too good for the ad agency responsible.
Waaayyy we like puns. Puns are fun. So are holographic screens! Especially when they are interactive ones like this model used by Samsung to launch their new super cool Jet mobile phone in London.
Now I actually like the look of the Jet, however it just seems to be upstaged by this amazing presentation. Now if only they could have predicted that.
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