Posts Tagged: gestures


17
Jun 08

Review of Nokia NFC device

“Nokia is attempting to focus on features such as sharing content through touch-interactions and using tags as a way of controlling phone functions. Nokia seems to call these emerging interactions “tapping and sharing”. In the demo we see: Tag access to the system functions: we see a tag setting an alarm, tag access to files on the system: we see loading and playing of music files, peer to peer exchange of content: we see the ‘sharing’ of files”

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Link: Thoughts on Nokia’s NFC developments (nearfield.org)


28
May 08

Android video demos

A few Android video demos have landed. The first one shows some nice details with a window-blind metaphor for accessing core functions, as well as a perplexing use of the ‘icons on a desktop’ metaphor.

The second shows a rather cool use of a compass in the hardware. I’m sure that there are lots of fun opportunities for games as well as mapping. Sensors are making portable devices so much more fun.