TAT speaks at Webinale 2010, on June 1st in Berlin, Germany; Ola Larsen (TAT VP Marketing) will address the topic “The Smartphone era has begun”.
Right now we are at the beginning of a new era. The mobile phone will rule everybody´s life. Apps will improve our life by making it easier and more comfortable. And we will no longer search by words. Pictures are everything now and tomorrow. TAT will show you stunning apps like Recognizer and describe the evolution in the App Economy. Furthermore he will explain how to become more attractive and increase the Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) as well as to innovate the user experience for future growth.
About the conference:
Business, Design and Technology are the three basic pillars for success on the World Wide Web. The webinar has been prescribed for these three pillars since the first conference in 2007. Since then the Internet at the web conference is holistic, holistic approach and explored. The webinar focuses not on individual fragments but always has the big picture in view.
The conference succeeded to build a bridge between designers, web developers and managers like no other event. It focuses not only on the day – the webinar always anticipates the future trends and provides the responses to the challenges of tomorrow. Among the high-caliber speakers and webinar include the Web scene, designers, developers, entrepreneurs and investors who put their knowledge to the participants as well as closer for questions and dialogue are available. The perfect organization, the high level of expertise as well as the pleasant atmosphere make the webinar a unique experience.
In this video about Android 2.2, the first new feature in the package is faster rendering speed, something close to our heart at TAT. But most of the time it is hard to sell better performance in a Youtube video, since the framerate of the video typically is way below the framerate of the device in real life. But, here they show two examples with an increasing amount of graphical objects, and color the entire screen red when the framerate drops below a certain threshold. Very persuasive. Although I would probably set the threshold framerate at 60 fps to ensure a solid gaming experience.
I kind of like the use of pen and fingers on the same device. By using them both at the same time you can get a simple mode switch similar to right clicking on your mouse. But writing on a thick glass surface where the display is a few millimeters under the surface is not like writing on paper. Its more imprecise, like drawing with a really thick crayon. The distance makes it hard to predict exactly where you get ink when you set down your pen. I think you can see the effect of this on the graceless handwriting in the demo.
When there is a layer of glass between the pen and the pixels, you get a mismatch that depends on your viewing angle. I tried the Wacom Cintiq and it has this problem. If only you could have a camera on the device, that could track your face and calibrate based on the angle, then you could solve this problem. Or, just have an incredibly thin glass.
The deal-space for the new mobile ecosystem. The Open Mobile Summit is the place where, once a year, the leaders of the converging mobile, Internet and media industries gather to explore how we can build and monetize the open mobile Internet.
TAT´s Hampus Jakobsson (VP Business Development and Co-founder of TAT) will be speaking at the upcoming Open Mobile Summit in London, UK on the 25th of May, 2010.
He will talk and show how, thanks to mature operating systems, now any player can control the user experience in an effective way. He will also address the various pitfalls and constraints that have appeared as a result of an ever growing third party application and service developer community.
About the conference:
Today, the world’s mobile, Internet and media companies are converging, as we enter the age of the mobile Internet. This is creating major disruption in the mobile industry, opening the value chain to new competition and forcing a rethink of business models. It also spells huge opportunity for those who understand which way the markets are headed and are positioned to take advantage.
In 2 condensed days the Open Mobile Summit hits all the hotspots in mobile today from the perspectives of all the players in the value chain. This conference puts the thought leaders from the whole ecosystem in one room – from mobile network operators through to handset manufacturers, wireless software companies, Internet, media and applications companies.
Key issues on the agenda include:
Device evolution beyond the phone, and where the PC meets the Phone
Open platforms and the future of the OS
Operator business models for mobile broadband, 4G, vertical markets and wholesale
Monetizing mobile content, media and applications
The future of Entertainment Anywhere
How mobile is changing publishing, gaming, TV and the music business
Mobile Advertising
App Stores, Search and Discovery, Social and Location
De-fragmentation, standards, apps in the cloud and the mobile web
I think this is very exiting. Just like you have adaptive music in games that heightens the mood, so too could you have music in your book, that changes depending on what you´re reading right now. Or, you could even have a song book, that played accompaniment in the speed you´re reading. Or maybe that would just be weird.
It would be nice to experiment with dimming text that you´ve already read. Distracting, or awesome? Only testing it will tell me for sure.
Counting the word-speed could help find passages in a text that are hard to read. This would be awesome for wikipedia, as it could automatically flag passages for revision.
Exiting times ahead, when built in cameras will be hi-rez, and hi-speed, and computing power will be endless. Then, eye-tracking will be cheap, and reliable. This is within reach in a few years.
