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Entries from November 2006

Keitai Fashion in Thailand

November 16th, 2006 · 1 Comment

I was chatting with Anina about phone fashion last week and went on a bit of a recon of what’s available in Bangkok right now. This is what I found.
Phone Jewelry (Phone Bling
Plastic diamonds and gemstones for your phone are available for about $3-4 a package. Most consist of sticky diamond hearts [...]

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Tags: Culture · Design

Mobile Youth Interview

November 7th, 2006 · 1 Comment

This week, Xellular Identity has an interview with Nick Wright from Wireless World Forum’s Mobile Youth report.
…One of the more interesting findings is that mobiles have come to take the place in youth culture traditionally held by cigarettes. They provide or allow private communication, the activity is carried out largely unsupervised and [...]

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Tags: Mobility · Youth

Carnival of the Mobilists (#52)

November 7th, 2006 · No Comments

This installment of the Carnival of the Mobilists (#52) is hosted by All About Symbian. Lots of good stuff this week including a nice review of Opera Mini 3 (beta) over at WAP Review and lots of mobile AJAX talk all of a sudden. My recent Flash Lite rant is also included (thanks!
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Tags: News

Is Flash Lite Finally Going Mainstream?

November 3rd, 2006 · 1 Comment

We have the Flash Lite player on every handset we own but most players were purchased via the Adobe developer site. Only my E60 had Flash Lite pre-installed at the time of purchase. As a matter of fact, when you look at Adobe’s Supported Devices list, you find that—once Japanese Flash Lite 1.1 handsets [...]

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Tags: Content · Flash Lite

Carnival of the Mobilists (#51)

November 2nd, 2006 · 1 Comment

This installment of the Carnival of the Mobilists (#51) is hosted by Tarek at Tarek Speaks Mobile. New to the carnival this week, a post by one of my favourite edu-mobile-bloggers Leonard Low from Australia. My post about mobile in Thailand is also included in this issue.
Be sure to check it out!

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Tags: News