Nice little BBC news item on the growing market for applications for smartphones.
Sales in the world’s mobile phone industry are expected to fall this year but downloads of phone applications is one area which is thriving.
Applications create new things to do on a phone and almost a billion of them have been downloaded to Apple’s iPhone.
Rory Cellan-Jones examines the emerging new trend.
Our new cameras arrived, after a bit of a delay, our Sanyo CA9 video cameras are now in the hands of our learners and staff.
With a conventional digital camera or camcorder, many users are understandably reluctant to film or shoot in the rain or other wet environments, for the obvious fear of causing water damage to the camera. The VPC-CA9, however, has earned the highest possible IEC 60529 waterproof rating—IPX8—allowing users to capture high-definition (1280 x 720-pixel) 30 fps footage without worrying about the effects of water or snow. The VPC-CA9 is operable down to a water depth of 1.5 meters (5 feet).
We wanted a camera which could be used outside, up mountains, in the countryside, on sports fields, in workshops and in classrooms.
It takes MP4 video and JPG still images, which are saved to an SD card.
Should be fun and allow us to use video for assessment and on mobile devices much more easily than the traditional DV tape camcorders we have used in the past. Also the sheer number of them will remove many of the barriers to using video that happens when you have to “book” a camera, or share a small number of cameras amongst a large number of students.
I will post some images and video later.
Post first appeared on Shiny.
BBC reports on a survey about the possible identity theft issues from mobile phones.
A survey of London commuters suggests that 4.2m Britons store data on their mobiles that could be used in identity theft in the event they are stolen.
Only six in 10 use a password to limit entry into the phones, according to the survey by security firm Credant.
The survey found that 99% of people use their phones for business in some way, despite 26% of them being told not to.
Of course from an educational perspective, if an institution is giving mobile devices to students, they do need to be informed about what data the students put on that device and what to do if the device is stolen?
I have liked Slideshare as a place to put my presentations and store them online and show them online.
One problem was that they used Flash which of course did not work on mobile devices such as the iPod touch or the iPhone.
Today Slideshare announced a mobile version of their website.
We’re quite excited to announce the new SlideShare Mobile website today. Visit http://m.slideshare.com on your mobile phone and you can view any presentation, search through presentations, login to save favorites and even download to your mobile phone!
Impress that client you bump into somewhere by running a quick pitch off your phone! Or review the latest conference presentations you missed while travelling!
As a result it is now easier to put presentations on mobile devices.
Engadget, the gadget blog really doesn’t like Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system.
Still, some of us at Engadget (well, one of us, at least), feel like the folks in Redmond missed the mark by a longshot. Instead of demonstrating its technical prowess and vast resources, Microsoft limped out a half-hearted rehash of an OS we’ve seen all too much of, and managed to blind most onlookers with a storm of big time partnerships and bloated PR.
They go on to give ten reasons why Windows Mobile 6.5 misses the mark!
Read the article in full.
I will say that I am not a great fan of Windows Mobile, for many years I used an iPaq as a PDA, but recently (an Acer c530 for GPS and Satnav aside) I have been using either my Nokia phone or an iPod touch as my personal organiser.
On Friday the 23rd January I gave a few online presentations (conferences) for the MoLeNET programme.
One was one which I had given the previous year on gadgets, entitled Gadgetfest. During the actual presentation I did talk about newer gadgets and new devices.
So what is out there? What devices are available? How are they been used? What can they do?
This presentation from the online conference explores the different devices available and their capabilities. Building on the experiences of year one of MoLeNET this will be an opportunity to learn how and what mobile devices can do to enhance, enrich and support your learners.
On Friday the 27th February I gave a few online presentations (conferences) for the MoLeNET programme.
One was on images and photography in relation to mobile learning.
Presentation on images, creating images, editing images and using images on mobile devices. The use of images for teaching and learning with an emphasis on cameraphones.
On Friday the 27th February I gave a few online presentations (conferences) for the MoLeNET programme.
One was on GPS and location based learning.
Presentation on on GPS and location based learning using mobile devices, it covered some of the GPS devices out there and how location based learning can be used.
Alan Graham from Gloucestershire College talks about he is using the PSP to enhance and enrich the learning experience.
Download the iPod version.