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Tag Cloud from Bachelor of Product Design Students mobile trial June 2008. Created using WORDLE (http://wordle.net)

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Students and tutor reflect on the mobile trial soo far:
(Videos still processing on YouTube - in meanwhile use url links until VOX embed links become available!)

Question1. What are the benefits of Moblogging (Mobile Blogging)?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5co1cdzfik

Question2. Why Blog?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d44q77cz7H4

Vodafone NZ now have a news bulletin on their site re the release of the iPhone 3G on 11 July - not much info & no pricing yet - however the NZ Herald qoted the 8GB iPhone 3G to be $365NZ this morning - that's less than a third of the parallel import price of the original iPhone!

"Australia, Italy, New Zealand and Portugal will be the first Vodafone markets to offer customers iPhone 3G for purchase on July 11. iPhone 3G will be available via Vodafone on both prepay and contract price plans which will include great value data bundles."

3G iPhone announced today!
• Available NZ 11 July – Vodafone
• 8GB $200US ($300 NZ), 16GB $300US ~ $500NZ !
• App store coming – some free blogging apps announced (Typepad)
• Will there be a voice/data contract required as part of purchase???

New Features:
* UMTS/HSDPA
* GPS
* iPhone2 software
* MobileMe synchronization (an updated dotMac)
* iPhone/iPod applications & app store coming soon

Still Missing:
* Video recording
* only 2MP camera resolution still, & no flash lighting
* No secondary camera for video conferencing
* No handwriting recognition
* No Java
* No Flash

The iPhone has the best mobile web experience available, but the holes in its feature set still hamper it. It's biggest benefit is the intuitive User Interface - this is the major downfall of Symbian S60 & UIQ mobile OSes.

From Trinder, K., Guiller, J., Marggaryan, N., Littlejohn, A., & Nicol, D. (2008). Learning from digital natives: Bridging formal and informal learning. Glasgow Caledonian University: The Higher Education Academy.

Here's an S60 app that allows you to share your 3G Internet connection from your Nokia cellphone via WiFi with any WiFi enabled device! - why is this cool? - it means you don't have to stuff around setting up bluetooth connections from your laptop, and non-bluetooth devices with WiFi can connect to the Internet anywhere you have cellphone coverage (e.g. iPod Touch, PSP, Eee PC...). It also means that you are not limited by sharing via a slow bluetooth connection (1-2Mbps) but can share the full HSDPA speed (up to 3.6Mbps). It supports NSeries and ESeries Nokia phones with WiFi.

"JoikuSpot is FREE and SECURE Mobile HotSpot solution that turns Nokia phones to a WLAN HotSpot. JoikuSpot software is installed directly to the phone. When switched on, laptops and iPods can establish instant, secure and fast WLAN connection via smartphone's JoikuSpot HotSpot using phone's own 3G internet connection. Multiple devices can connect to JoikuSpot in parallel and seamlessly share the same 3G internet connection. You can use JoikuSpot to access internet e.g. on the train, car, sailing boat, summer cottage, hotel, while walking, or when at remote office...where ever you are!"

JoikuSpotScreenshot

Another useful S60 application from Joiku is HandyWi Bascially a better WiFi hotspot finder than the builtin connection app for S60.

"HandyWi is freeware software, which helps your to discover and connect to private and public WiFi hotspots on your mobile phone. Application is designed to work with any 802.11a/b/c/g hotspots"

UPnP (Universal Plug n Play) technology is nicely integrated into the Nokia NSeries smartphones. This provides a way to wirelessly stream media (Video, Images, and Audio) from your smartphone to UPnP enabled devices or software applications.

On the N80, UPnP provides a way of viewing video & images from the N80 directly on a Mac or PC laptop (When connected to a video projector this enables large group viewing/interaction). On the newer NSeries phones (N95, N82) a dedicated video/audio out connector is provided - but it's still cool to stream media wirelessly!

UPnP setup:

1. On the N80/N95 Scan for WiFi access point & connect
2. On the N80/N95 find the 'Home Network' application
   

   HomeNetwork1
3. Configure the Home Network application for your WiFi connection and choose which media to share wirelessly
   

   HomeNetwork2
4. Start a UPnP capable software application on your Mac or PC: on PC (Simple Center http://experience.nokia.se/VideoTV/howto/howto_2.aspx ) & Mac (Mediacloud) http://users.pandora.be/bruno.keymolen/hmediamac.html
5. Now wirelessly browse & display your mobile media!
   

   UPnP2_Mediacloud_on_Mac_N95

I've yet to get UPnP working on the P1i or the Nokia E90 :-(

I've been experimenting with the possibilities of mobile Vodcasting (Video casting) recently. The N-Series Nokia's make this a painless exercise (the multimedia capabilities of the NSeries phones is exceptional - it's just their lack of text entry options and poor battery life that let then down - you really need to carry a Bluetooth keyboard with you all the time for any length of text input):

1. Place your smartphone in a deskstand. Turn on the camera on your smartphone, or start the 'camera' application.
2. Choose 'use secondary camera (the 'front low resolution camera)
3. Choose video mode and 'shoot' your vodcast. This will be saved as a 176x144 .3gp (H263 mpeg4) compressed video, suitable for mms or emailing. The built-in microphone does a reasonable job of recording the audio accompanying the video.
4. Edit your video recording
5. Upload your edited video to your online video host or Blog - using either email or Shozu.

Non NSeries cameraphones: The Sonyericsson P1i does not have a built-in video editor, nor does the front camera record stills or video - it's solely for video conferencing :-( . However the main camera records video at 320x240, 15fps. To edit and upload your video clips from the P1i:

1. Create a free Jumpcut or Photobucket account.
2. Find your email upload address, and email your video clips to Jumpcut or Photobucket from your P1i
3. Logon to your Jumpcut/Photobucket account on a computer and edit your uploaded clips into a 'movie'.
4. Embed the final 'movie' into your Vox blog etc...

Obviously Jumpcut and Photobucket can also be used with the Nokia NSeries phones as well - their online video editors are more fully featured than the built-in video editor on the phones, and Jumpcut or Photobucket also provide extra features such as embedding a video player in most blog hosts, and voting polls etc... Below is an example of a Vodcast created by recording clips on an N95 secondary camera & a P1i, then uploaded via email to a Jumpcut account and edited into a short 'movie' using the Jumpcut editor - pretty cool technology! (Pity about the video ;-) )

http://www.jumpcut.com/view?id=1FD4F6F419D711DDAB75000423CEF5B0

Here's a quick example of using a Nokia N95 to capture and edit a video (including inserting still images, audio and titles) then upload it (Emailed to my account at xxxxxxxxx@mms.youtube.com) to YouTube all from the N95 - no 'computer' involved! Oops - in my excitement I forgot I added a section of copyrighted audio as an additional soundtrack!

It's interesting to see how YouTube's automatic copyright identification picked that up!
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=83766&hl=en_US

"UMG has claimed some or all audio content in your video n95 video example (MyN95Video.mp4). This claim was made as part of the YouTube Content Identification program. Your video is still live because UMG has authorized the use of this content on YouTube. As long as UMG has a claim on your video, they will receive public statistics about your video, such as number of views. Viewers may also see advertising on your video's page."

Don't worry - I won't be making any money from this video :-D I'll upload an edited version with my own original music instead shortly!

Version2 - non copyright below now! In the N95 media gallery I chose my edited video, then chose 'change sound' and replaced the first audio track with one from my old band (When I used to be a rock star!). VOILA!

Here's the 'medium' quality version (previous version was reduced for MMS) of the video entirely captured, edited & processed on the N95 - quite impressive for a phone! (NOTE: - Vox recompresses video uploads to Flash video - so quality won't be as good as the original mp4 version)