Confrimed: Nokia Exits Phone Manufacturing Business, Now Makes Videos Of Concepts

Gone are those days where you could expect phones like Nokia 3310 with which you could play foot ball, and still expect it to work.

Nokia has been pummeled by the iPhones and the Androids in the smart phone market quite some time back. And after losing the remaining market share in the developing countries to Micromax/Karbonn (in India) and to other low end cell phone makers, Nokia fired its engineers and has got down to the business of making some really awesome videos of concepts (and forget about manufacturing good phones).

Here are two of the latest Nokia concepts:

360 TeliportME - Worlds best Panorama app for Android!

If you an Android user, wanted to make/share some awesome panoramic images like this view of a mountain range, or like this awesome pano of the Grand Canyon, you can do it (for FREE), with the awesome Android app 360 TeliportME that runs on most devices running Android 2.2 or later!

This Fall, the iPod Touch will die

This is the boldest prediction I am making.

This fall, when the next generation iPhone (5 or 4S whatever) is announced, the iPod touch will die.

Why?

I am basing my prediction purely based on the "cheaper version of the iPhone" rumors and a change in the back to school offer for Apple products.

The usual back to school offer would include a free $199 worth of iPod touch with any mac purchase. With rumors of a cheaper iPhone to be announced this fall, it'd probably make sense to give away that $199 iPhone instead of iPod touch. This would ensure that the students get sucked into the walled garden (I love the garden even though its walled =) of Apple early on, cutting the growth of any iPhone competitor!

As with most of my iPredictions (which didn't come true), this is purely based on the iRumors I have heard!

Update (September 21, 2011)
Fast Company is thinking on the lines of this post! http://www.fastcompany.com/1781750/apple-should-kill-the-ipod

Are We Wired For Mobile Learning? [Infographic]

Via: Voxy Blog

iPhone user Vs Android user

Source: JoyOfTech

Features I want in iOS5 (hopefully these are announced @ this WWDC)

From an end user's perspective, these are the features I want:

1) Fixed notifications. This probably has been pending for a long long time

2) An easy way to shut all the background apps instead of the same old press+hold+delete routine

3) App organisation: I am not sure about other iOS users. But I have noticed that any app I place in a folder, I start using it lesser and I believe this is true for many other iOS users too.

Ideally, Apple should let the springboard of apps scroll up/down for each section (like games, news, utilities etc) and scroll sideways for switch between the sections/groups/folders.

4) Its been quite monotonous seeing the same springboard. Guess they should make the icons hexagonal instead of squares? (Alright, I just had to add that frivolous one just for the heck of it ;) )

Lets see what "magic" Steve Baba will talk about (in about 11 hrs from the time of posting this wishlist)

Thanks to the search engines from Ukraine and Russia

Thats the screenshot from my blog hits over time.

In April, I had the most hits on the blog, without any effort from me (in spamming other tech blogs with comments leading to my blogposts). I must say, thats mainly because of Yandex, the upcoming search engine (that stands for Yet ANother inDEX).

In May, the blog posts got a lot of hits from Ukraine, so I am guessing there are some Ukrainians who are coming up with another search engine of their own!

Eitherway, for the sake of bragging, I must say, May has been the month with the most hits on my blog :P

Is there anyone out there caring for the environment?

This is actually my comment for this TechCrunch post (I hate posting big comments :)

Not surprised to see why no one wants to talk about population reduction as a greener option! Everyone wants to use the least damaging source of electricity (nothing is green. Every energy generation unit leads to some carbon emissions).

Ideal green solution: Reduce world population. This directly affects every source of consumption, which leads to reduced carbon emissions at multiple sources.

If an extra baggage policy works wonders for the airline industry, a similar policy should work wonders in eradicating poverty, reducing emissions etc. It should at least be implemented in the top 3 populous countries (China, India and USA). Have first baby free. for the second baby pay $1000. third baby $5000.

Why this solution will never be implemented:

Awesome Extragram

Heard of Instagram? If you have an iPhone, there's a good chance that you have heard about it and also used it to post your awesome photos made even awesomer by the filters on the Instagram app on Instagram.

The only catch (until now) was that, Instagram has been, since day one, iPhone only. There was no web interface or apps on other platforms for you to enjoy your instagrams, or the instagrams shared by your contacts, or just view the popular photos.

Template for creating an Apple centric TechBlog

Ever wanted to come up with a tech blog of your own? When you read posts on TechCrunch, did you ever think that its extremely easy to churn out similar content? If yes, the following 14 points in the template will help you create your own TechCrunch type of a blog :) 


(If you are like me and the answer is no, enjoy the humor =)


Start from the day when an iDevice is released/launched:

How To Browse Facebook on a secure connection (https) whenever possible

Gmail gave this option long back,and then made it the default option for all gmail users after the Google Vs China incident.

Facebook is giving its users options to make their Facebook browsing more secure, but its not the default setting.

Here are the steps:

An Interesting Infographic about Cell Phone usage and market

Here's some interesting stats about the cell phone usage statistics.

Some Eye Popping Numbers:

200 Trillion SMSs are received every single day in US alone!

42% of teens can text blindfolded!

5 Billion app downloads a year!

2011: Year of Android/WinMo7/BlackberryOS6? How about making it an year of iOS?

The new set of rumors doing rounds in the tech journals/blogs yesterday got me to write this post (which I wanted to write before Jan1, so that I could title it as my predictions for 2011 :)

A lot has been written and spoken about The Rise of The Android OS, and to some extent about the Windows Mobile 7. The growth of all non-iOS platforms/devices had the luxury of being shielded by iPhone-AT&T exclusivity, which was good enough for people to forgo the iPhone for a better network (most often claimed to be Verizon).

Now, with the impending launch of the iPhone on the "best" American wireless carrier, I predict the tsunami of iOS devices, since there are millions of wireless consumers who have been satisfying their urge to have a smartphone by going in for the only options available on Verizon, which happened to be Androids!

Android is open (only to OEMs)

Could it be any worse for Android devices not manufactured (designed or OEMd) by Google?

Sony Ericcson says here "We believe the features included in the Android 2.1 phone are on par with, and in many cases better than, a vanilla installation of 2.2 #X10"

Which means, an Xperia owner is in Sony Ericcson's walled garden now!