Comcast has this little website called TripleSlanguage to promote their triple-play offer (internet, telephone and TV). They invented some new words like ‘Quizjacking’ and ‘Tomphonery’. I guess I’m guilty to several …
‘What’s the capital of Belgium? Waffles.’
Some time ago, some people found out that there are some design similarities between the iPhone calculator and some Braun calculators from the late 70ies. Erik Spiekermann, a well known typographer, found an other one between Apple’s current aluminum look and an old world receiver. Apparently there some fans of German design in the Apple team.
Today I had the chance to play around with an iPhone for just a few minutes at Gravis, an Apple retailer in Germany. The first impression is great, the design is outstanding and the screen is amazing. I actually wanted to try out the web browsing to see if it would scale this blog right etc.. But Gravis had build up the demo stand in just that area of the store where there is no wifi, duh! So instead, I tried to write a note, typing isn’t that easy but ok. The photo browsing just works like advertised, flicking through albums and scaling pictures … it just works. Then I passed the iPhone on to some other eager hands.
So in the end I couldn’t really experience the iPhone, but I really like the screen and the GUI.
Indeed you’ve heard it here first! Apple will release an 80GB iPhone soon! At least that’s what you can see in the new ‘Activation & Sync video‘ around marker 6:19, or did someone mess up … ? Apple and AT&T also released the rate plans for the iPhone, I can’t really judge them as I don’t know the mobile market in the USA. Hype rules!
It’s been a while since I’ve heard about ‘a guided tour’, but this morning Apple just released one for the iPhone. You can now watch a 25 minutes video which shows you many features of the iPhone. There’s some new information in it like how the headphones work, the possible settings for in flight usage and many other neat interface features like the a .com button to complete an url in safari. I bet that everyone who will be at a sales point next Friday, will be know the video by heart. But there are still some open questions like can people exchange the battery or what kind of AT&T plans will available. So go and watch the video now.
Yugo Nakamura and his team developed the eye-project website for the Japanese telecom company KDDI. It looks quite similar to the Experience Uniqlo Explorer but this time it’s all about user-generated content. Yay!
They developed a server-side video generating system to which the users can upload videos, photos or capture webcam input. The outcome is a video-pixel-style content browser. You have to love those sounds on Japanese websites.
Media Skin is an other mobile phone by KDDI. I can’t tell you anything more than that the Media Skin looks slick as I don’t speak Japanese.
(You have to scroll horizontally in the pop up window.)
Speaking of mobiles phones, KDDI (a japanese brand) always had hot phones like Marc Newsons Talby. Now there’s a new sexy one … neon, everything looked good till I reached the Functions&Specs page. What a let down. First they tease you with some apple like design and when you look at it from other sides you get an ordinary pc laptops bottom.
The Motofone is the first Motorola phone that appeals to me, I won’t buy it though … still waiting for that iPhone. Anyway the promo site for it is quite interesting while the designers explain the features and the decisions they have made. The flash work by the web designers is on par with the phone.
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