Interesting viewing if you want to see what some of the technology and issues of mobile will be in the future.
I’m not sure about the prediction of mobile payments ‘becoming a mass phenomenon’ by 2015, that seems a bit soon for widespread adoption. It would mean the big players (Apple, RIM, Nokia, SE) releasing NFC phones by around 2012/2013 so the technology has time to marinate with consumers and allow all stores to set up infrastructure and POS by 2015. Just don’t see that happening.
Check out the MOCOM2020 site for more info.
Over the next 18 months Orange will be launching a range of ‘future phones’ which showcase new innovation in technology. The first up is the LG touch screen watch phone.
It features 3G, video calling, a touchscreen and the ability to compose text messages by only viewing one word at a time on the tiny screen.
The limited edition phone will go on sale from 9:00am on the 27th August in the Orange Shop, Bond Street Station, London at the hefty price tag of £500.
Check out the video below for a preview.
In 2005 LG Launched the LP-4100 Sobriety phone (Korea only), the main selling point being that it had a in-built breathalyzer.
All owners needed to do was blow on the sensor for the reading to appear on the display. If you are over the limit the display shows a car hitting some cones.
But here is where it really gets cool. The LP4100 also allows you to set up the phone so on certain nights and after a certain time it will restrict you from calling certain people in your phone book. Yes that’s right, it has a ex girlfriend/boyfriend druken call preventor.
This is a bit old but I remembered it when I was posting about the Shaver Phone. This phone would be even better if it gave you the numbers of the nearest taxi company and directions to a kebab shop.
You know the drill, you wake up Sunday morning in a daze, scratch your head and fumble around for your mobile to check the time, you search your jeans, your jacket and then eventually realise – it’s gone.
The next steps go something like this – Call network, pick new phone, start Facebook group, send and digg out emails/business cards and end up with maybe 10-30% less contacts than before.
I think most people can agree that the contacts are possibly the most valuable thing on the phone. I remember the story of one of my friends being robbed for his phone and asked to at least keep the Sim card with all the contacts on, the thieves took pity obviously knowing the pain of a lost phonebook and handed back the Sim before running off with the handset.
Soocial is here to ease the pain. It works by allowing you to store all your contacts to the service using over the air synchronisation i.e – no cables. The data then goes onto the site allowing you to search, edit, delete and add contacts all for free.
No public Twitter messages.
