Japan: a mobile phone to fight against depression

Yutaka Ohno, a famous Japanese researcher has developed an Internet site, accessible from a mobile phone, allowing people with depression, to receive free psychotherapy.

This raises a number of questions to the user regarding his sleep, his eating habits, weight changes its potential moral or state to offer therapy, available since his mobile phone.

The mobile site also advises users, symptoms of depression, while avoiding the need for persons suffering from this disease, consult a specialist.

Samsung Launches its mobile Hugo Boss

Samsung answers to Prada and LG with the new Hugo Boss Mobile Phone..

it wears a black metallic shell and a new interface design.
The 3G + touch screen of 2.8 inches also provides a digital camera 5 MP (with autofocus and flash), offers MP3 player functions, acts as a RDS FM radio tuner, video recorder , Calendar and can of course surf the Internet, access your mail or instant messaging services. For data storage, it has 235 MB of internal memory, expandable with MicroSD slot. USB 2.0 also enables synchronization to a computer and facilitates the transfer of data. Finally, a playlist has been specially created by Hugo Boss and pre-loaded on this Samsung phone.

Delivered in a stylish leather Hugo Boss scratched with a Bluetooth ear with a range of 10m, the Samsung Mobile Phone Hugo Boss will be available in December. Price Unknown.

A mobile phone reserved for men, true men!

Religion and Mobile: a Holy Business

There is about 2.7 billion mobile suscribers worlwide. Less than 2 Billion Christians; about 1.5 bn Muslims, more than 900 mn Buddhists and 15 mn jews, and so many religious confessions worldwide ...
But I unfortunately still can't find an exhaustive religious mobile offer, or any applications / dedicated wap sites on the Eastern Europe operators portals.
I am not religious, but so amazed that one of the main juicy business in the man History still remain unexploited on mobile...

Basically it already exists few Christian softwares for Palm OS, and usual devices ( Handango & Mobizex companies proposes some basic Holy Bible apps); as well in Indonesia a mobile device "certified Muslim" called Hidaya ( = Guidance / good way) already exists , gathering various applications ( sounds alerts for the daily prays, access to Koran, themes, ringtones...);
Also in the US, the "Jewberry", the Jewish-friendly version of a Blackberry, allows the access to prayers in Hebrew, and full texts of Torah.
I think that simple religious mobile nex applications such as geolocalization to find all the nearest saint places... or dedicated mobile communities could easily find his niche on mobile ...and generate huge revenues!

What do you think?

Next gen of User interfaces soon in Europe?

The company Acrodea - one of the stars of mobile multimedia in Japan – has arrived in Europe. It is represented by Jap'Presse/Innovasia in the EU.

The flagship solution of this company was at the basis of the strongest growth market in Japan since 2007, and aims to revolutionize the world of mobile user interfaces. The solution Vivid UI - which was adopted in Japan by 3 main players on the market ( NTT Docomo, KDDI, Softbank)- can fully customize the interface of mobile color of a brand or license content. This is the entire interface that results customized (see pictures), all the elements - including bar network, energy, menu animations when confronted with messages or calls, and so on. A simple tool, enables agencies to create user interfaces, and then offer them for download. However, the motive is to embark on pre-Vivid UI middleware, to help change UI (User Interface) in 2 clicks.

In Japan, there are now hundreds of user interfaces for download on all topics: brands, movies, music, sports, etc.. This new type of content may be free or sold until 4 euros for IU. On the archipelago, the Mobile Content Forum believes that the market for mobile UI was about 15 million euros in 2007, with growth of over 600%. Creator and leader of this market in Korea and Japan, Acrodea hopes to finally move the European mobile interfaces.

For my point of vue: To have seen a few months ago on a Japanese mobile ithis is a very high quality and fairly bluff, if operators and manufacturers kick their a** to incorporate this type of technology on the devices or for downloads on portal, a new juicy business will born very quickly for mobile content but also for mobile marketing agencies that will have new opportunities in creating user interfaces dedicated to trademarks, events, film, sport ...
I don't think that in Europe we will wait so long to see these wonderful interfaces in our future terminals...

More info about the product there:
http://www.acrodea.co.jp/english/product/ui/index.html

Here comes the new LG Prada

Available in Europe at the end of the month, the new version of LG PRADA should once again turn some heads and deflate some wallets. The LG-KF900 retains the same design chic and minimalist style than its predecessor, but wins a sliding QWERTY keyboard and a new user interface. And that's not all ... The autofocus camera now offers a resolution of 5 MP, the video recording is permitted, the DivX format is supported and WiFi 802.11 b / g is included, like Bluetooth.

The new PRADA 3G and will browse the Internet at all thanks to its HTML browser and touch screen of 7.6 cm (240 x 400 pixels). For storing multimedia data, 60 MB of internal memory provided by the manufacturer. A storage capacity expandable to 8 GB via a memory card. And to dress her mobile connected, LG has been careful to select a few tones from behind the bundles, wallpapers and exclusive video clips tend to enhance its technical qualities.

To accompany, LG, with optional, the PRADA Link (LG-LBA-T950), a jewel accessory to know distance (Bluetooth) which calls and read text messages without the phone out of his pocket or his holster. A jewel that Bluetooth will be marketed at a price of 299 euros.

The new LG PRADA will be offered from 600 euros.

Second half of 2009 Adobe Flash Player 10 on Mobile?

Very expected ... Adobe Flash is a vector animation format for the Web unavoidable. Adobe and ARM have announced they have jointly developed Adobe Flash Player 10 and Adobe AIR on ARM technology to enable mobile display the player on web pages on mobile! The technology should not be available until the second half of 2009. Not present on Nokia, IPhone, Android, Microsoft (WM6 ).... whaaat? The same version of the Flash client usable on both PC and mobile may come one day...

NTT DoCoMo provides a service for monitoring students

NTT DoCoMo provides a service for monitoring students for education professionals.
The Japanese leading mobile operator announced an objective of developing a new ASP service to monitor students outside the school via mobile for next spring. Known Kodomonita (Kodomo= Child, monita = monitor), this service is designed for education professionals such schools or classes after school. It will announce the departure of children from one place to parents via mail on mobile phones to inform on the whereabouts with GPS, or the school can send information by mail to children and parents.

In recent years, Japan has undergone a series of tragedies involving children missing or killed. Thus, a demand for better monitoring is growing from parents, and some services are already available. The service that NTT DoCoMo will develop will be provided in ASP, which does not require a significant investment for education professionals. This service provides 3 functions: sending mail to parents when a child leaves school, sending information of geographical position on the child, and sending messages to parents and children since the School.

At first, this service is only available on the terminal operator, the F801i and SA800i, but the operator will expand the range of mobile, terminals to other mobile operators.

Personalization of Nokia mobile devices

Holders of a Nokia 7310 Supernova can freely customize the design of their mobile using drawing tools or standard color, photos and personal images. The design feature offers a wide range of colors, images and themes ready for use. The software packages include pre-integrated games, multiple customization options, including the creation of wallpapers, and music functions.

Everyone can share their customizations in the Nokia Build Gallery http://www.nokia.fr/nokia-build , if desired. Once the user has finished customize the design of the phone, it can keep this design for him or "publish" online to be rated by other users and possibly serve as a basis for other customization .

Mobile payments for tickets in Paris subway

The RATP ( french national public transports company) associated with the company Visa, in order to access the technical feasibility of a system of payment of tickets in the Paris Subway, from contactless cards.

The system "Visa payWave" will be tested in Paris during 2009. Regarding the use of this service, a credit card will include a microchip which will lower readers with contactless card on a small distance. In this context, travelers RATP would' nt lose more time to buy a ticket.

At the Club "& Identification Cards", held in Paris in early November, the Visa group had outlined a turnstile system RATP, compatible with the contactless cards. The company is also testing for recent years, other solutions tickets, from mobile phones with an NFC chip.