Handful of Nothing

As I expected, the Sony Xperia it’s a shallow UI enabled phone. After the nice ” activity ” exposé based menu, the rest is pure windows mobile juice. Sour one. more details here, on Gizmodo

Also it was fun to hear the representative saying that the angular disposition is to follow the finger movement… but what if you’re left handed? Nice justification thought :).

I think I had a little bit more expectations from the first pictures of this phones, but is at least interesting to notice the detail here: SE is going windows mobile. So no more Symbian PX phones?

On the Korean side, Samsung’s Soul brings a functional way of using the a touchscreen as input device combining a 2 color OLED display with haptics. Haptics are for sure one way to go, but still doesn’t kill the problem of complete lack of physical feedback on touchscreen only devices. Maybe in the future we will be able to have surfaces that can actually “interact” with us in all touchscreen devices. Speaking about industrial design, the Soul phone is also very competent on that front.

Take a glance on the news from Samsung for this semester here

From the Finnish giant, the new Navigator phone, that brings one thing that I really miss when using GPS : the compass. The ability to really now where am I facing to! So this is really a pedestrian blessed phone. More details and video here

At the hidden front, in the sometimes not beloved hardware, the news comes from Texas Instrument that presented the 2 new mobile chips. The first one brings the ability to record HD movies on your phones! I was already happy with the quality in the N95… The second one will brings enough power to allow pico projectors to be on the phone. Add these 2 beasts with the one presented by Nvidia, and you get the felling of what’s happening in the Mobile World event in Barcelona.

I dream with the day that I will be able to enter a meeting with just a portable device, and will not need even to point it to a wall. Even on meetings the phone are incredible tools, and I don’t want to let it on the desk =) But for quick meetings this would be just perfect.

To end this collection of link post (almost exclusively from gizmodo) this concept design for a PSP device just rocks. I really like to see people doing those crazy concepts. Of course they are not working with industry limitations, but in a perfect world it would be nothing less then fun to see what we would be able to create with total freedom on industrial design. Would functionality be ahead of beauty bliss?