"Shot Note is a notepad for storing hand written notes in a digital format. The iPhone app recognises the fiduciary markers on the corner of the pad and corrects the perspective, colour and scale to fit the iPhone screen perfectly."

FWIW, I feel precisely the same way: the colleagues I've worked with during my tenure at Nokia have been some of the most talented, open, insightful and friendly people I've ever met...and they've been undermined at every step by awful decision-making at higher echelons. Also see the comments on evangelism and hypocrisy.

This all sounds so very close to home. The only difference is that someone at Microsoft had the wisdom and perspective to kill a pointless, failing product/service line.

“Motorola did quite well by jumping on Android’s bandwagon." Some of us have been arguing this for awhile. A-HEM. (I still think Sanjay Jha is an idiot.)

Predictive analytics. Oh joy.

Via JL Fréchin. This will blow the dam wide open.

Via Steph. I'd be very interested to understand just what JCDecaux thinks they're doing here.

Mobile phones & failure modes.

Horseless carriage.

This is a point I'm constantly trying to make at work, to no avail. The guy is a little tendentious in places, but hits the nail on the head over and over again. Sigh.

Via Chris Palmieri, an actually-useful, available-right-now iPhone augmented reality application that shows nearby London Tube stations superimposed on the world in front of you. Very, very nice.

Famous last words: "[Sony] is not worried that Apple’s device will take over their core audience. 'At the end of the day, you buy the iPhone to make calls,' he said. 'And you buy the PSP to play games.' Cammie Dunaway, vice president for sales and marketing for Nintendo: 'No one can match our years of experience in the hand-held market and the subscriber base we’ve built up over the last 20 years.'" I'm sure Chrysler and GM expressed similar sentiments about Toyota.

Not much given to "world's first"-anything hype - nor Engadget links about anything at all, for that matter - but this looks potentially big.

Verrrrrry innnnnnteresting.

Dennis Crowley (who should know) on Latitude and its weaknesses. For my own part, I'm distressed at its comparative lack of dynamic privacy options; for comparison, look at the loving way this is crafted in Fire Eagle. (I also know that, however hard Tom Coates and his crew worked to get things just right, a gazillion more people will adopt Latitude in its first day of use than will ever hear of Fire Eagle. Mostly Yahoo!-corporate's fault, I'm guessing.)

Via Timo. If these screenshots are from live, running code, then I'd say the mobile-AR bar has been raised pretty significantly. Also tends to validate the idea that Android is a friendly toybox/toolkit for stuff like this.

The Grey Lady discovers the world of third-party applications and services for mobile devices. One mobile player, in particular, is conspicuously absent. I wonder why. Sigh.

Via Timo. The (sorry) money graf: "I see no advantage to the involvement of an operator in the value chain at all - apart from specifying NFC chips in future handsets. I don't buy the idea that Londoners would want out travel expenses appearing on the same bill as postpaid phone usage, and prepay users would almost certainly prefer two different "buckets" for transport and communications for ease of budgeting."

Clumsy implementation, but the idea is clearly in the air. Plus, these guys are working with Grameen: now *that*'s a pedigree.

Ahem. (Via Timo.)

Via Cheathco. It was only a matter of time...

"A woman can’t switch her phone’s Bluetooth feature on in a public place without receiving a barrage of the love poems and photos of flowers and small children which many Saudi men keep stored on their phones for purposes of flirtation."

Via Jones. Yes, but...

“We need to deliver an Internet experience that is like the desktop,” said Sanjay Jha, Qualcomm’s chief operating officer. “People are used to the Internet, and you can’t shortchange them.” WRONG. FAIL.

Heh.

It's not really "design" if there aren't any constraints, right? Nevertheless, I think this is strongly suggestive of the kind of things we'll be seeing with e-paper.

Tufte on display resolution and informational density.

Analyst: "I don’t think the Skype kind of application is going to become mainstream.” And the total world market for computers is five.

I'll spring for this, and then of course iPhone 2.0 will hit the streets a week later with GPS built in. Via Coates.

Excellent. Do you think they can AT&T to do the same? Put another way: who needs "full service" when that really means "no service"?

The NYT thinks it sees signs of a turn toward openness in the entrails. That may be significant in itself.

Mimi Ito and Ken Anderson.

The kind of machine inference I tend to mistrust, applied to the evocation of social networks &c.

Warning: THIS GUY'S AN IDIOT. ("[B]oth phones have powerful brands - Prada is very powerful in Europe"!)

AH HAHAHAHA. If only they had launched this last month, people'd be all over it...

In which NYC begins to catch up with the rest of the world, with the "assistance" of Cingular, MasterCard and Citibank. Via Timo.

If "Individuality" makes you shine, I wonder what effect individuality would have.

The only acceptable Bluetooth headset.

AWWWWWW YEAH

Could I get past the ungainly form factor?

Interesting support for that piece about the de-classing of Bluetooth headsets and Sidekicks I keep threatening to write.

The problem with phone interfaces, the long-awaited FOTA model, and more...