Mobile Phones Are Hard To Use?

Om Malik, Thursday, December 30, 2004 at 7:30 AM PT Comments (0)

The Broadband Daily: Most people are not very good in communicating experiences using written language. People are much better in capturing experiences using audio, video, and other sensory mechanisms. Phones allow audio and (now video) to capture experiences of a communicator and may help in sharing these captured experiences by other people instantly or store them to share asynchronously. Phone system evolved to capture the audio part and has become quite good. It is the video part where there are several interesting challenges. I think that a very good use of cameras in the phones will be to communicate a slice of your experience or store it while it is fresh. This requires very good facilities to send images to others and to store and organize images centrally. All these facilities are there, they are just not very convenient to use. Continue Reading ….

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