Dear Mobitype,

I am flattered to find my blog at http://mobile.mobitype.com/, but on the other hand, I would like to let you know that there is already a mobile version of this blog.

You can find it at: http://mobile.kaywa.com/mobile.

This mobile version has much more to offer than what you can find in the Atom feed. For example:

• a proper navigation
• categories
• an archive
• search over the whole mobile blog
• mobile comment possibility
• link to latest comments
• images rendered for every device, output only of the first image (the other images are links) for download speed
• blogroll
• proper link handling (external and internal)
• and so on...

And it's available in XHTML, WML and i-mode, scaled for every device.

So why not simply link to the real thing. Thanks.

See also: mobitype - what is going on ?


Btw: If you want to try it out now! There are free blogs (the internet version has google ads though) available at http://www.moblog.ch. Right now the registration is in german, but once you are through, you can go to Einstellungen > Blog and change it to english or french.
If you need any help, drop me an email [roger at kaywa dot com] or leave a comment.

Tokyo Metropolitan Government(see images below) launched on April 12 a mobile service by which citizens and visitors to Tokyo can use their QR code-enabled phone to access more information on a whole variety of things such as landmarks, roads, plants, zoo animals and construction works.

via Wireless World Japan


Preannouncement:
Kaywa will provide a free QR Code and Datamatrix Reader in the next weeks.

Spinvox seems to offers what I am looking for since eternity. Already in 2003 I was talking to the guys of HP in Boston about that, but - at that time - they couldn't deliver what I was looking for: speech to text in natural environments.

If Spinvox can with the quality of a simple phone call, well that's really great. Congrats! Is this also possible with other languages than english?

By the way, Spinvox sounds quite familiar. Did they know about Svox (text-to-speech) or vice versa?

See also:
Russell about Spinvox
Mobile Crunch about Spinvox

PS: Sofar we at Kaywa with our partner can give you Phonecasting or Phoneblogging with a swiss phone number. You call a number and as you finish your voicemessage, it's blogged as an MP3 file and a Podcast. See an example here.
If needed we with our partner (not Svox) can also give you text to speech. So you can listen to your blog;)

Pearson To Develop iPod Educational Material

Pearson Education are to develop educational content for teachers and students which will play on an iPod. What a perfect strong-arm tactic, one that I'd imagine parents will find hard to refuse.

[...] Students will be able to download study guides that work with Pearson's educational texts and listen to review notes to prepare for exams.

Via Engadget

More photos here

LG, Sprint introduce new music phone, FUSIC (LX550)

Sprint and LG Electronics MobileComm introduce FUSIC, a trendsetting mobile phone with a progressive design and music and entertainment services delivered at broadband-like speeds via the Sprint Power Vision Network.

Pupils perform 'alarming' feat

A high-pitched alarm which cannot be heard by adults has been hijacked by schoolchildren to create ringtones so they can get away with using phones in class.

Schoolchildren have recorded the sound, which they named Teen Buzz, and spread it from phone to phone via text messages and Bluetooth technology.

Now they can receive calls and texts during lessons without teachers having the faintest idea what is going on.

You can listen to a recording of teen buzz here . I didn't hear anything. There is also a torrent download. (you need to go to bittorrent do download the client first)


Via Amy and Emily

Niall Kennedy's State of the aggregator

Mobile phones are becoming ubiquitous consumption devices of on-demand content. Phones are used to deliver highly targeted content to a 2" screen while you want for the bus, commute to work, or have a few spare minutes before the next meeting.

[...] Mobile phones are a perfect environment for rich feed payloads such as audio or video. Modern cell networks have average advertised download speeds of 300-500kbps and actual even faster speeds in real-world testing.

Barcode Specification by NTT DoCoMo

What's i-αppli?
Creating i-αppli content

Radar, Share what you do while you do it with the people who matter most.

Pete reports in Radar - Mobile Picture Sharing

The app is very focussed on the 'friends' side of things - you have to know a person's id to be able to see their pictures and this keeps the whole thing within a circle of friends quite nicely - this isn't your dad's social network.

	QR Code	DataMatrix	Maxi Code	PDF417
Developer	Denso	RVSI Acuity CiMatrix	UPS	Symbol Technologies
Type	Matrix	Matrix	Matrix	Stacked Bar Code
Capacity: Numeric	7'089	3'116	138	2710
Capacity: Alphanumeric	4'296	2'355	93	1'850
Capacity: Binary	2'953	1'556		1'018
Capacity: Kanji	1'817	773		554
Main features	Large Capacity, small size, high speed scan	Small size	High speed scan	Large capacity
Main usage	Logistics, Factory automation, Mobile phones	Factory automation	Logistics	Office automation
Standard	AIM, JIS, ISO	AIM, ISO	AIM, ISO	AIM, ISO

Sources: Wikipedia, Gerhard Fasol


Big advantage of QR Code:
QR Code is capable of 360 degree (omni-directional), high speed reading. QR Code accomplishes this task through position detection patterns located at the three corners of the symbol. These position detection patterns guarantee stable high-speed reading, circumventing the negative effects of background interference.
Source: TechnoRiver