BDesign Tag Cloud

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

BDesign Mobile Trial Reflections

Students and tutor reflect on the mobile trial soo far:

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

iPhone 3G NZ update

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 from Vodafone 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.”

New 3G iPhone

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
* 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.

Student Devices and Software Usage

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.

Interesting Mobile statistics

From the Symbian S60 Summit 08 (last weekend)

Usage of Mobile Phones:

• 12% Voice
• 16% Multimedia
• 37% Messaging
• 8% Web Browsing

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rafeblandford/2545382334/in/set-72157605390553644/

2005 – 2007 Mobile Browsing & Multimedia on the rise

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rafeblandford/2544559105/in/set-72157605390553644/