- From: Tom Worthington <tom.worthington@tomw.net.au>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:15:45 +1000
- To: fasol@eurotechnology.com
- Cc: Juha Vierinen <jvierine@mail.niksula.cs.hut.fi>, www-mobile@w3.org, www-tv@w3.org, fasol@eurotechnology.com
At 11:17 23/07/01 +0900, Gerhard Fasol wrote: >Tom, I agree with what you are saying... There is a very simple test: look >at the website with an imode phone ... Trying to get the average web site to work on the current small-screen i-mode or WAP phone is probably too difficult a task. My suggestion is to aim for a quarter-VGA screen on a typical PDA device, such as an MS-Pocket PC. While messing around with an Internet TV in a hotel recently I found that I-mode pages worked reasonably well and the effective TV screen size is about the same as one-quarter VGA <http://www.tomw.net.au/2001/eal/index.html#MovieLink>. The European Interactive TV format recently adopted by Australia appears a bit overblown, but would offer the possibility of using the same web pages for hand held devices and iTV. What the mobile industry needs are some reasons for customers to buy new products and services. There is no point in promoting technologies which are already proven failures, such as WAP and the videophone. In Sydney last week I proposed kiddie-groupware as the mobile killer application <http://www.tomw.net.au/media/20010719.html>. If young people are using SMS for organising social events, then why not give them a more sophisticated web based applications to do it? Tom Worthington FACS tom.worthington@tomw.net.au Ph: 0419 496150 Director, Tomw Communications Pty Ltd ABN: 17 088 714 309 http://www.tomw.net.au PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617 Visiting Fellow, Computer Science, Australian National University Publications Director & Past President, Australian Computer Society -------------------------------------------------------------------- YXML? 31 July, Sydney: http://www.tomw.net.au/2000/yxml.html
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