Shiny at 3GSM: NVIDIA next-generation mobile phone interface

At 3GSM this year, NVIDIA was showing off some demos of its GoForce 5500 processor. This video shows a demo mobile phone UI, using 3D, video and Flash 2D. It mighty purdy.

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The mobile phone is the computer for Africa

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by Karen Coppock

During a suspend-out session in the MobileActive08 conference in Johannesburg last week, a contributor from Uganda asserted that the mobile phone is the computer for Africa. This proposition was heavily debated amongst the series, with some voting in favor of the computer (argument: have you ever tried to work on a spreadsheet or emend a Word document on a mobile phone? The screen is simply too small to be one’s only computing apparatus) and others voting in favor of the mobile phone (argument: affordability, ubiquity, reduce of usage, etc.).

One concern with computers was the requirement for literacy. Yet someone in the place mentioned that literacy is also an issue for mobile phones as SMS messages are so much more affordable than present calls and many of the MobileActive08 projects revolved around SMS text messages. A very intelligent participant from Zambia mentioned that there is an old tradition of letter writers – people who occupied to write letters for people who were not literate. She said that there is indication that this trend could be translated to the mobile phone environment with the emergence of SMS writers or people that will send/announce a text message for someone if they are not literate (either reading/writing literate or technically literate).

Regardless of its shortcomings, the diversified agreement in the small group was that the mobile phone may very well be the only computing device that millions of Africans ever know-how first-hand. There is an opportunity, therefore, to develop tools that enable the mobile phone to become easier to use as a computer (i.e., docking stations for mobile phones with connections to a monitor, keyboard, extraneous speakers...

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