Mobile Search by the Numbers

Mobile search, and mobile Web use in general, has been over-hyped by many people for years. The promise of widespread mobile Internet use has never come to fruition, especially in the U.S., but it has steadily grown.

In 2005, research from Telephia found that search was done by less than 3 percent of the mobile audience. In December 2006, Forrester Research reported that 11 percent of U.S. mobile consumers search on the mobile Internet.

According to an August 2006 report from the Mobile Marketing Association, Mobile search is in its early stages of adoption, but shows significant upside potential. In a study of mobile device users, 31-percent had used search in the past month, and more than half of the phone users that were not aware of the ability to search via their phones said they planned to use mobile search after they were made aware.

While 2005 and 2006 have each been hailed as the “Year of Mobile,” there are increasing signs that those predictions may finally come true in 2007. And if not, there’s always next year.

After Apple presented the iPhone, Nokia tries to reinvent the phone

At the beginning  of 2007 Steve Jobs said in his keynote that phones shouln’t be built with a pre designed keyboard and presented the way the iPhone interacts with the user with the help of it’s multitouch screen! Now Nokia wants to take this idea to the next level: the shapeless phone! It’s called Nokia 888 and it’s very flexible, you can keep it in virtually any shape you want, as a clip, a bracelet and so on! The built in liquid battery, the flexible touch screen allow you to do so many cool things with your phone!

Used technologies:

- Liquid battery

- Flexible touchscreen

- Speech recognition

- Touch sensitive body that allows it to change with the environment

- A Body mechanism that can be programed to change it’s shape in different situations

Functionality:

- you’ll be able to carry the phone no only in your pocket, but on your wrist, on your shirt, and so on

- the big touch screen gives you plenty of display space

- the ability to change it’s shape makes it more ergonomical

- you can share shapes with your friends