CTIA Las Vegas
will start today. I plan to follow http://blog.symbian.org on how the Symbian Foundation rolls out its plans out there. While waiting for real news, here's a funny piece of a story to set us into that LV mood.
Nokia announced already some supadupa cool things in the onging Web 2.0 conference:
- E71x for AT&T is said to be the thinnest QWERTY device there is.
- Nokia Messaging solution (Nokia email, to be in 5800 xpress in May) now supports also hotmail.
- Ovi Store will get new content from the creator of TV series HEROES.
- Nokia published Point&Find an augmented reality solution
The Point&Find thing is really exciting. Nokia has developed it for a couple of years, and now it's ready for public. With Point&Find you can get digital information on objects just by pointing your device's camera at it. The solution is based on image recognition At its first phase it seems that the database includes only movie posters and related images, but the idea is that basically any shapes, objects or images could work. My favorite use case for Point&Find has been a database of forest mushrooms. If you've ever been in a forest picking mushrooms and tried to compare the object on your hand to a tiny, smeered picture in a book that you inherited from your grandmom, you'll know what I'm talking about.
The Point&Find beta trial also includes a barcode reader. First I though this is the same barcode reader that Nokia devices have had since 2007, but no. This is the capability to read those stripes you can see on the side of the bean cans on your local food store. Neat-o.
Nokia announced already some supadupa cool things in the onging Web 2.0 conference:
- E71x for AT&T is said to be the thinnest QWERTY device there is.
- Nokia Messaging solution (Nokia email, to be in 5800 xpress in May) now supports also hotmail.
- Ovi Store will get new content from the creator of TV series HEROES.
- Nokia published Point&Find an augmented reality solution
The Point&Find thing is really exciting. Nokia has developed it for a couple of years, and now it's ready for public. With Point&Find you can get digital information on objects just by pointing your device's camera at it. The solution is based on image recognition At its first phase it seems that the database includes only movie posters and related images, but the idea is that basically any shapes, objects or images could work. My favorite use case for Point&Find has been a database of forest mushrooms. If you've ever been in a forest picking mushrooms and tried to compare the object on your hand to a tiny, smeered picture in a book that you inherited from your grandmom, you'll know what I'm talking about.
The Point&Find beta trial also includes a barcode reader. First I though this is the same barcode reader that Nokia devices have had since 2007, but no. This is the capability to read those stripes you can see on the side of the bean cans on your local food store. Neat-o.



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