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After Steve Jobs announced the video iPod (just bought a Nano - damn!), the race is on.

iPod Video (60 GB)
104.14 mm x 60.96 mm x 13.97 mm
Bright 2.5-inch, 320 x 240 pixel TFT display
60 Gigabyte
150 Hours of Video (according to Jobs)
Charges and syncs via USB
20 Hours of Battery Life
Price: 429 Euro ($ 399)
Series (ex. Lost) Episode: 1,70 Euro ($ 1,99)

* iPod 30 GB at 319 Euro


Sony's PSP (White Ceramic)
170 mm x 74 mm x 23 mm, 260 g
Display: 4.3 Zoll TFT LCD, 16:9; over 16 Millions Colors, Resolution: 480 x 272 Pixel
4 Gigabyte
USB (2.0, not yet confirmed), 802.11b Wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) and Memory Stick PRO Duo
Storage: USB- and Memory Stick
Main storage medium is the Universal Media Disc (UMD)
Price: Euro 219.99 (CHF 409.-)

Mobile Phone
Uhmm... ? Start reading here, that it is convergence time, but that the ultimate tool is not there yet.

Portable Media Center
see here

See also:
iPod Video (Apple)
Apple Event: Video iPod vorgestellt
Sony promotes vision of mobile video
Sony's White Ceramic PSP
Portable TV (TV for PSP)
X-OOM MOVIES ON PSP (Software to bring DVD's to the PSP). In this respect the following is also interesting: Amango, kind of a german Netflix.
Sony to create "iTunes for movies," release 500 films digitally within a year
iPod-DVD Ripping Guide
and
Der neue iPod: Interessanter Versuch mit Video-Content

Related:
Maim that tune: The problem mobile phone operators have with mobile music, especially in comparison with the rise of the iPod

How Bob Iger Saved Network TV. Bob Iger has saved Network TV. How ? By completely changing the economic model.

Teenager (17) about TV and Mobile Phones:

Q: Want you to buy a new phone online, where would you go?
Sean: Verizon, I want the one with Vcast, "I don't watch much TV but watching it on your phone is pretty cool."

[...] Q: What mobile devices do you guys want?
"A video iPod is a realy good idea! You guys should get on that!"

Some time ago, I wrote a post about context management in a learning environment. Recently I saw the term context management popping up more often. So let's quickly attack the meat:

On a mobile device context is king. But context means many things:

Space Context
A simple example: I am in an unknown town and I am looking urgently for a post office. If my cell phone displays my current location (via telco or A-GPS) as well as showing me the nearest post office on a map and guiding me there via an interactive map.

Time Context
Example: I want to know now if the movie Crash plays in the particular movie theatre nearby my office. And what other movies I could see instead.

Individual Context
* Parameter-oriented: Age, Social Group etc.
According to my age (other parameters like "salary situation", etc would work as well), I get certain content.
Example: I only get party ads for parties aimed at my age group.

*Peer-oriented
I am only interested in content which interests also my peers.

*Content-oriented
I am interested in content, but I want to have it filtered out according to my former searches, readings etc.

*Security-oriented
I can access password protected sites, I can buy things, ride a métro without a need to log in or to do anything.

The list is non-exhaustive;)


See also:
Towards a Context Management Framework for MobiLife via MobileSummit 2005
Context 05

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How WolframTones Works

Via George Szpiro's NZZ article "Meins klingelt anders"