Physical keyboard in a touchscreen

Also seen in Xataka Movil. An interesting design for a touchscreen that raises parts of ths surface as the buttons of a keyboard. It this is technically possible, I buy it.

Nokia NSeries as multimedia servers

I guess I already talked about this. It is something I have used several times: viewing multimedia contents in my phone in more powerful media renderers, like the display of a PC or a TV set. I have been lazy recording a video illustrating about this usage for UPnP technology, but luckily Martin Sauter has just posted one in his blog. You can find the video that he included in his post below:

Fotmob

For a guy crazy about football like me, this is a must!. FotMob allows you to have online real time information about the main football leagues in Europe. It works on Windows Mobile and Java phones now, with Android and iPhone coming soon. There is even a Windows Vista gadget :)

It is already installed in my mobile phone and it'll be used a lot ;)

Rise of the mobile

Do you want to see how fast mobile phones are spreading?
Click here :-)

Note that you can move the pointer over different regions of the world to see their specific increasement of mobile subscriptions.

Nokia Morph

This is what I call R&D

Best mobile phone of 2007

The guys from Xataka (a popular Spanish blog about gadgets) have published the results from their poll to guess which is the best mobile phone of the last year.



iPhone looks good and feels great but I cannot vote something not allowing MMS and SMS to multiple recipients, with no 3G support and no SDK to program non-web applications (by now).

Anyway, I have to agree is that if, without these and some other important not supported featuresl, what are the rest of the phone and mobile OS makers to do when they bring the next generation of iPhones? At the same time, we know the rest of the people are not being lazy (Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, the Linux army). 2008 is a very promising year for the mobile gadget fan.

Samsung does not seem to be doing it bad

Nice video showing the UI in new Samsung phones.

USB transfer: not that easy

As it is read in Esos aparatos del demonio, a blog that I like a lot which is created by a colleague and friend at the University of Oviedo, USB connection of an external device to a PC can be achieved by two different "methods": USB Mass Storage (UMS) and Media Transfer Protocol (MTP). As the original article (written in Spanish) says, some people experience problems with certain devices because of the "method" being used by "those gadgets from hell" (my personal free translation of the title of the blog that I am talking about).

Another great blog, S60 Multimedia Blog, talks about WinAmp support to transfer music to S60 mobile phones by using a plugin. It seems to support both methods and, by the way, USB Mass Storage is referred as MSC and not UMS in that article.

I will have to try it and, from now and on, I have found a new hobby: check which of my gadgets are UMS/MSC or MTP :-)