Fast Company believes that NFC technology for mobile payments is making a stuttering start.  Many players are pushing for their share of the pie. However 2012 will see NFC getting a much bigger foothold in everyday commercial transactions.

Thanks to the smart phone and the proliferation of mobile devices. NFC (Near Field Communication) has become a viable means of transferring data between two enabled devices for various purposes. One of the first applications has been in electronic payment, which has shown great potential and futuristic style.

How NFC works

NFC technology has managed to seamlessly integrate physical infrastructure (banks, delivery services, retailers, etc.) with online entities into a viable digital ecosystem. Mobile networks and carriers are not new to commercial transactions being undertaken through wireless transmission.

Things started with the introduction of 3G technology a few years back. It started the trend with micro-transactions over the mobile phone and payments being paid along with the phone bills.  NFC, the open platform technology is ready to break through and business is sure to snowball. To ensure interoperability between services and devices, 135 member companies have jointly promoted the NFC Forum, a non-profit industry association.

Such mobile commerce through the networks has brought banks, retailers and merchants together along with advertisers and marketing services, to connect with consumers on a personal mobile platform. The NFC eco-system will be able to generate a steady stream of consumer information and data. Thus analysis can yield reports on preferences, trends, security issues, consumers and demographic analytics.

Using this standards based connectivity technology, today’s diverse contact-less technologies can give  great convenience to consumers to make transactions, transfer or exchange content, connect devices and all just with a tap. So users of NFC need not carry cash, reward coupons, transit passes, tickets, and credit and debit cards. Instead they carry their smartphone.

Another technology innovator, NFC-Data Inc. is offering its flagship product “padloc” which works as an e-wallet and also Point of Sale Terminal. It will be available as a limited pre-sale release from February of 2012 for early adopters, NFC enthusiasts, partners and application developers.

NFC is entering markets the world over

The mobile payment market is growing fast especially in Europe. NFC will be playing a critical role in the exponential growth being witnessed in mobile payments. NFC technology has been put into trial already in many places over the world. Poland will be using NFC technology for 2012, as four major operators including Orange, T-Mobile, Plus and Play will be following a common standard for payment services soon.

RIM is ready in Australia with NFC technology in their Blackberry phones in partnership with Tapit. RIM will be introducing into the Australian market the Blackberry Bold 9900 and Blackberry Curve 9300 with NFC. Tap this Blackberry on a device embedded with a NFC chip to quickly access information or make a payment. It works like the payment methods that allow card holders to tap their cards on a receiver as used by MasterCard’s PayPass and VISA payWave.

By updating to Blackberry 7OS, users will also bring the Blackberry Tag service enabling Australians to share content just by tapping their phones. Other smartphones that are NFC-enabled are Nokia N9 and Samsung Galaxy Nexus.

Google Android phones with the “Ice Cream Sandwich” operating system like the Nexus are already available for Australians that support NFC. The “Android Beam” is the tap feature that allows transfer of data. The roll-out of NFC-enabled retail outlets have begun too.

Isis has been created by a joint effort of three of the largest mobile service providers in USA- AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless. Isis is a nationwide mobile commerce network that uses the NFC technology on the smartphone, to build a country-wide mobile commerce network. Isis has got RIM, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, HTC, Motorola, and LG committed to bring out NFC enabled devices for them.

Google Wallet will run on the Galaxy Nexus but Isis might not open up their phones to Google Wallet now, but later when things get favourable. Google Wallet was launched in September partnering with Sprint, MasterCard and Citibank.

The mobile commerce system or m-commerce will be a joint venture in the UK, by Vodafone, O2, Orange, Everything Everywhere and T-Mobile. They will be joining to start a NFC payment system through their networks.

Using NFC in a partnership, Barclaycard and Orange will provide the Quick Tap service that will enable people in the UK for the first time from November, to pay using their smartphones.

So the future is not far when your smartphone becomes not only your smart e-wallet but an instrument to unlock key-less devices and establish interoperability with numerous other systems both in the real and cyber world, in real time.

Author Bio: Blogger Dinesh V.K. writes on latest consumer products, gadgets, technology, market trends, shopping offers, free samples, politics, public sector and other services.

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NFC For Mobile Payments In 2012

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The biggest conflict we have seen all year has been in the smartphone industry. iPhone and Android have been battling each other all year long, which has actually put several phone makers in court. So which really is the best? Should you go with Android or iPhone? 

Android Becomes Best Selling OS: Android – 1, iPhone – 0

There is no denying that Android is the most common operating system available on smartphones. 2011 was the year that Android came to prominence and really started showing their dominance in the overall marketplace. While the Apple iOS is only available on the iPhone and Android is available on a wide spectrum of devices, it is still clear that more people are accessing apps like Facebook and Twitter from Google’s OS.

The Tablet War: Android – 1, Apple – 1

Despite the different Android tablets available on the market, the iPad is still the clear and dominant force in the tablet world. While the Kindle Fire launched in the latter part of the year, the iPad still soared above competition as the leading seller for the all-important Christmas retail season.

The Samsung Galaxy S II: Android – 2, iPhone – 1

Tech writers and critics are clamoring about the release of the Samsung Galaxy S II. Not only is the screen bigger than the iPhone 4S, the processor, graphics, and overall functionality of the product are leaps and bounds above the new iPhone product. This may mark the first step Android phone manufacturers have taken to undermine the iPhone’s dominance as the device for creatives.

Apple Beats HTC in Lawsuit: Android -2, iPhone – 2

The legal patent battle between these two companies produced a slight win for the iPhone this year. According to CNET, Apple has forced HTC to stop producing phones that include technology Apple trademarked earlier. HTC has until late April to fix their phones or come up with a contentious counter-argument to take Apple back to court.

Siri: Android -2, iPhone -2

The introduction of the iPhone 4S brought about the release of the Siri app. iPhone claimed that this piece of software would be the first artificial intelligence device that fully integrated with the human experience. But so far, no one seems to be using the technology. Once more data is collected from users, Siri may pan out to be a unique iPhone product, but only time will tell. For the moment, this leaves the score level.

What will the year 2012 bring for these two mobile tech giants? There are rumors that the iPhone 5 and iPad 3 will be released and Google is working on making the Android voice activated technology even greater. Expect to see Nokia bring their flexible phone technology on the Windows operating platform at some point. On this battle-field, don’t expect to see anything coming from the Blackberry manufacturer RIM unless it is news about their bankruptcy.

Author Bio:  Sam Peters is a blogger who frequently writes for entrepreneurial and tech blogs covering topics from online marketing to the newest gadget and mobile web news.

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iPhone vs Android: Which Won In 2011?

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The outstanding Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Honeycomb tablet is lighter and a hair thinner than the Apple iPad 2, and has a smaller footprint than either the Motorola Xoom or the Acer Iconia Tab A500, which are heavier and bulkier than most tablets.  The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is a major contender.

If you check out the specs, you will be even more impressed.

That 10″ wide screen just invites you to get involved.  The iPad has already prepared the market place for devices like this and the Galaxy Tab may well be the major beneficiary.

The only impediment on the road may be the patent conflicts that are already ongoing between Apple and Android / Samsung.  The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 has again been delayed in Australia by the courts.  However this is only temporary.  Note also that the full Federal Court of Australia seemed to have found Apple’s objections to the tablet sales somewhat lacking.

The full court found that Justice Annabelle Bennett did not adequately assess the strength of Apple’s patent claims when she allowed a ban to go into effect last month.
“In our view, her decision was clearly wrong and should be set aside,” the full court wrote.

Now in the US, the headlines are that Judge rejects Apple bid to halt Galaxy sales.

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh  in San Jose, California stated that Apple would likely prove Samsung infringed one of its tablet patents. However, Apple had not shown that it was likely to overcome Samsung’s challenges to the patent’s validity.  Apple must demonstrate both infringement and validity to succeed in its lawsuit.

Global tablet sales are expected to explode to more than 50 million in 2011. Apple, which has sold more than 30 million iPads so far, is expected to continue to dominate the market in the near term. With the entry of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, we may be about to see a shift.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Looks A Winner

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Nigam Arora, a contributor to Forbes.com suggested that Apple will make billions On Google’s Android.  This is because Apple has a mountain of patents related to using movements and gestures on smart phone screens, which are very effective and may well set the standard for what users will accept.

For example there is an Apple patent for a ‘slide to unlock’ feature.

All Android devices use this feature.  This is the feature that a person uses to unlock a phone by sliding a thumb over an image to unlock the device.  Slide-to-unlock has become so popular because it is the simplest and most elegant way to date to prevent inadvertent calls.

He goes on to describe some of the other fundamental smart screen patents that Apple has and it all looks very convincing.  A smart phone small screen is a very challenging space within which clumsy fingers are meant to define very precise tasks. Fitt’s Law would suggest a few large objects, one of which can be easily selected should be the approach for smart phones.  Apple already has several products including the iPad that do a great job here.

All this however is not convincing to another Forbes.com contributor writing a week or so later. David Coursey states that Apple won’t “make billions” off Android, and may even pay Google.

He notes that the Google acquisition of Motorola and its 24,500 patents could well cause payments to be going from Apple to Google as the technology advances.  He admits that he is not a patent expert so he is citing a theoretical possibility here.

Only someone with detailed technical knowledge of the possibilities could provide a definitive answer on this.  However I believe the strong user support for Apple products shows that usability of touch screens has been a priority for them for many years.  I would guess they are in the driving seat here on touch screen movements and gestures for smart phones.

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Google’s Android May Pay Billions To Apple

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I accordingly used a touch typing tutor, which at that time was a printed book.  I have never regretted the time I spent and it has made me much more efficient whenever I keyboard.  Clearly having an online tutor where you can practice and easily measure your performance is very much better.  However given the evolution of technology, whether you should learn touch typing is an interesting question.

Typing On Mobile Devices

The dilemma about learning touch typing arises because we are now increasingly moving to mobile devices.  So often these are becoming extremely small and this is a major challenge for average fingers.  Because of this, the smart phone technology is attempting to avoid the need for pecking away at keyboard buttons.  This can be done either with or without a smartphone interface that looks like a keyboard.

Swype

If you have an android smartphone then you may well have seen the Swype application. Acknowledging the difficulty of hitting miniscule keys with average fingers, Swype allows you to move your fingers over the letters in a word and the software will attempt to insert the word you had in mind.  If your character path is difficult for the software to provide a single word, it will give you a choice of words from which you can select what you had in mind.

For more details, you can check a video made by Robert Scoble on his meeting with the Swype creators.  Having used Swype on my Samsung Galaxy Android phone, I can say that although not perfect, it does a credible job.  It does of course grapple with a paradox.  Here we have a sound technology device, which is attempting to receive input via a physical stroking action.

Voice Technology

The more natural way to get data into a smartphone is to use voice technology.  Most smartphones do have this capability although in some cases the functionality may be limited.  The Android phone for example does allow you to create text messages by speaking into the device and it works fairly well although not with 99% accuracy.

These two alternative technologies for inputting messages into your smartphone seem likely to be what is used by most visitors.  Touch typing would be completely inappropriate here.

Typing for Desktop Devices

Mobile devices may be used in ever increasing numbers but there will always be a significant usership for desktop PCs, which do use keyboards of sufficient size to make touch typing a useful approach.  However voice technology such as Nuance’s Dragon NaturallySpeaking is becoming extremely fast and accurate and can be used with desktop computers.  It is used for the SMM blogs for example with reasonable success.

Touch Typing Is Hard To Beat

Even though voice technology can be used with a desktop PC and does give some speed advantages, it is never 100% correct.  Where unusual vocabulary is being used, the success rate may drop.  The Dragon Naturally Speaking software can be trained to recognize the unusual words perhaps said with an unusual accent.  However there may always be small amounts of text where it is appropriate to go back to keyboarding.

If this is your situation, then like me, you may find it very worthwhile to spend a little time with an online touch typing tutor to improve your total effectiveness.

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Free Online Touch Typing Tutor

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… But what do you think about the Android’s ” Iris ” . Do you think it can compete with Siri?

I had never heard about the Android Iris, so some immediate exploring was required.  Yes indeed, there is an Android app called Iris.  Apparently there had been a later version of the app that was issued and then withdrawn so the only one available at present is a prior version.

Some quick checks with Iris soon demonstrated that this was not at all comparable with the Apple Siri.  It appears to be something to provide voice input to searches, but even on that the performance was very variable.

Since Andy Rubin, the Senior Vice President responsible for Google Mobile including Android, had spoken out against Siri, it was somewhat surprising to see an app that apparently tried to give the same Siri functionality to an Android device.

After a little research, I was not convinced that Iris would ever become a mainstream Android application.  Here are the facts as I was able to put them together.

The Iris Chronology

Iris is produced by Dexetra Software Solutions  located in Cochin, India.  The dexetra tagline is delivering surprises

How they got involved with producing Iris is explained in their blog.

A day when Siri inspired us to create Iris for Android

It started out as a lazy Friday with half our team missing, the influx of tweets and posts on the “Awesome Siri” were flying everywhere. Suddenly, I got the urge to do something similar for Android.

After eight hours of frenzied teamwork the first version of Iris was produced.  The response from those they were in contact with was so positive that they decided to develop a version that could be put in the Android app market.

The blog then tells us: Iris (improved) goes live on Android market.

… and indeed it is and you can download it for free.  I found it less than satisfactory.  If you disagree, then by all means add your comments below.

My View On Iris

Iris may be improved but it is very much at the alpha state and in my opinion it is unlikely to get to a beta version that will excite any interest among potential users.  In addition since the official Google mobile strategy does not seem to envision a Siri-type functionality for Android devices, I do not think any significant resources will be invested in it.

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Awesome Siri, Aweless Iris

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The Forbes Debate On Whether Siri Is A Google Killer

Whether provocatively or by happenstance, Forbes raised the hype by publishing two conflicting commentaries on this.  Eric Jackson wrote a piece on why Siri is a Google killer.  Ten days later David Coursey countered with a piece on why Siri is not a Google killer. Both contributors are knowledgeable in the field so clearly this question is not easily resolved.

Eric Jackson Sheds More Light on The Google Mobile Team

Eric Jackson has written a most interesting post on the history of voice technology and described how some of the key players have been involved. He was involved in the voice technology sector and knows the players and their motivations. You might well think from that review that the present Google mobile team was well placed and very experienced to take the right strategic decision.

One item in that post is a video produced by Apple in 1987 as their vision of where this technology might go.  This is produced below.

An Apple Future Vision Becomes Reality

The first video here is Apple’s visionary view in 1987 of the Knowledge Navigator:

The second video is a demo of the new Siri application on the Apple iPhone 4s.

As you may notice, most of the functionalities envisaged in 1987 are now available almost a quarter of a century later.  It may have taken a long time to come together, but clearly this is a practical approach at this time.

Google May  Continue Its Present Mobile Strategy

Although Siri has done much more in the artificial intelligence field than Android has (as far as is public), Google could certainly put the resources in place to do their Android version of Siri, if it wished.  It certainly has some of the brightest people in voice technology.  However I believe there are reasons why, as an organization, they will be reluctant to do this.  That is why I wrote in Technorati that Siri will be a Google Mobile killer. The reasons I set out in the article were the following:

1. Google Is A Product-Driven Company
2. Google Thinks Apple Is Wrong
3. Google Is Proud
4. Smart Phones Should Use Voice Input Not Finger Swipes

The first reason is why Google will not acknowledge the importance of the fourth reason.

Apple Will Have A 2 Year Lead In The Mobile Internet

I am not alone in this line of thinking.  Gary Morgenthaler, a partner at Morgenthaler Ventures, recognized expert in artificial intelligence, and a Siri board member and investor argues that Apple now has at least a two-year advantage over Google in the war for best smartphone platform.

Apple is now offering through semantic analysis and artificial intelligence the opportunity to interact with your mobile device to home in on the right answer or complete the right task.  This is quite counter to the typical Google approach where they hope by understanding enough about you and your preferences, they will deliver exactly the answer you want in one pass.  That may be an additional reason why Google will reluctantly followed the Siri lead when the marketplace shows that it is inevitable.

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Siri Is An Android Killer

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He was speaking last week at the AsiaD Conference and expressed the somewhat surprising view that a phone should be merely a phone.  This is how he set out his views about Siri and the iPhone:.

I don’t believe that your phone should be an assistant. Your phone is a tool for communicating. You shouldn’t be communicating with the phone; you should be communicating with somebody on the other side of the phone. … To some degree it is natural for you to talk to your phone. We’ll see how pervasive it gets. … This isn’t a new notion. In projecting the future, I think Apple did a good job of figuring out when the technology was ready to be consumer-grade.

Here is how the Siri website describes what it does for you.

It helps you do the things you do every day.

Ask Siri to text your dad, remind you to call the dentist, or find directions, and it figures out which apps to use and who you’re talking about. It finds answers for you from the web through sources like Yelp and WolframAlpha. Using Location Services, it looks up where you live, where you work, and where you are. Then it gives you information and the best options based on your current location. From the details in your contacts, it knows your friends, family, boss, and coworkers. So you can tell Siri things like “Text Ryan I’m on my way” or “Remind me to make a dentist appointment when I get to work” or “Call a taxi” and it knows exactly what you mean and what to do.

Perhaps the following video will give you a better appreciation of what it does.

Siri involves many partners in its technology, but perhaps the most impressive is the contribution promoted by SRI International, the DARPA PAL program.

The DARPA PAL program (the Personalized Assistant that Learns) focused on improving the way that computers support humans through the use of cognitive systems—that is, systems that reason, learn from experience, and accept guidance in order to provide effective, personalized assistance.

SRI International has led the PAL Framework effort to make available many of the successful machine learning and reasoning technologies developed on the PAL program for use by the broader DARPA, research, and military communities.

Clearly the iPhone with Siri is one smart phone, whatever Mr. Rubin may opine.

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Should Smartphones Be Smart

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The One Web Principle

The W3C set out the following praise-worthy target as its One Web Principle:

One Web means making, as far as is reasonable, the same information and services available to users irrespective of the device they are using. However, it does not mean that exactly the same information is available in exactly the same representation across all devices. The context of mobile use, device capability variations, bandwidth issues and mobile network capabilities all affect the representation.

The StayGoLinks view was that the technical challenges were such that this One Web Principle could never be practical.  Just think of the ‘real-estate’ difference between a smartphone ( say 320 pixels by 480 pixels ) versus the most popular desktop screen at this time ( 1024 pixels by 768 pixels ).  The screen areas are in the ratio of 1 to 5, which reflects a major difference in information that can be displayed.  Bear in mind that the touch screen of the smartphone must be controlled by a possibly stubby finger, whereas the desktop device is controlled by the precision of a mouse or other pointing device.

The Multi-Web Practice

The Multi-Web Practice suggested that any online website should perhaps have several versions, each optimized for a particular device, whether it be a desktop or a mobile device.  The practice would have involved a multi-dimension coordinate or array of URIs, clearly indicating the association between the various versions.

As is clear and perhaps rightly, this multidimensional array of URIs did not attract any support.  However the notion of  a number of associated websites is very much the normal practice.  Many of the major news sources and blogs have separate mobile versions usually located on a subdomain of the main domain.  For example if a news site for desktop visitors was located at the main domain, www.news_site.com, then the version for mobile devices would be located at m.news_site.com.

These mobile versions are usually fairly ‘thin’ representations of the full website.  Google has suggested what needs to be done to produce these thinner versions, or mobile friendly websites as they are often dubbed.  It usually means reducing the size of images and cutting out anything which is too large for the small screen.

Interactive Websites Need Apps

If a website involves interactions where visitors must input data or select among options, then the smartphone screen is usually somewhat small to display the offers.  An App could be devised with the particular mobile device in mind.  This would allow the visitor to carry out the task in the most effective way considering whatever limitations that particular mobile device may have.

Despite the attraction of this argument, it appears that marketers are not yet convinced about Apps and will merely try to achieve the best mobile website they can.  Hopefully the marketers will keep good analytics on how well visitors do achieve what they hoped to do and so can adopt the App approach when they realize the improvements in performance that can be made.

Informational Websites Can Be Merely Mobile Friendly

Purely informational websites can be less demanding.  The only ‘task’ a visitor wishes to accomplish is to navigate to another web page.  Provided links are easily clicked on then the mobile website will function quite well with some careful work in design.  However as was noted in the first article mentioned,  even some of the most visited news websites have mobile versions that do not rate well using the MobileOK Validator from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

WordPress And The Twenty Eleven Theme

The approach that SMM has adopted is to use the latest default theme from WordPress.org, which is titled Twenty Eleven (twentyeleven).  A great deal of effort has gone into the preparation of this them to ensure that it will render well in mobile devices.  Here is how the theme web page describes the theme:

The 2011 theme for WordPress is sophisticated, lightweight, and adaptable. Make it yours with a custom menu, header image, and background — then go further with available theme options for light or dark color scheme, custom link colors, and three layout choices. Twenty Eleven comes equipped with a Showcase page template that transforms your front page into a showcase to show off your best content, widget support galore (sidebar, three footer areas, and a Showcase page widget area), and a custom “Ephemera” widget to display your Aside, Link, Quote, or Status posts. Included are styles for print and for the admin editor, support for featured images (as custom header images on posts and pages and as large images on featured “sticky” posts), and special styles for six different post formats.

All the main SMM blogs are now using child versions of this theme including this blog, which is the recommended way to use the theme.  WordPress is also being used as the Content Management System (CMS) for the SMM website.  The actual website is rendered using a child version of the twentyeleven theme and all web pages do display well in mobile devices.

Although the mobile device screen displays of the SMM online properties are now very acceptable, they still are not as usable as they would be if conceived specifically for a mobile device probably using an App.  However for a small or mid-sized business, using a mobile friendly website is probably a reasonable compromise, given the visitor traffic that is gained by these online properties.

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Making Websites Mobile Friendly Is Better Than Nothing

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How Samsung describes the Samsung Galaxy S

It’s not surprising that Samsung should describe it in glowing terms but their enthusiasm is well justified.

Galaxy S Fascinate is your entertainment and gaming dream phone with an incredible 1 GHz processor, HD video and 3D sound. Videos, movies and games come to life, literally jumping off the 4″ Super AMOLED touchscreen that’s bright in any light. Enjoy full integration with Google and access Gmail, Google Search, YouTube™ – plus download thousands of Android™ apps on Android Market. And with full HTML web browsing, 5 MP camera, Social Hub™ with preloaded social network sites, integrated calendar and email, the Galaxy S Fascinate puts the whole bright, beautiful world in your hand.

Galaxy S named European Smartphone of the Year at the EISA Awards 2010–2011

The Galaxy S was very well received and as of January 2011, Samsung had sold 10 million Galaxy S phones globally.  It was named the European Smartphone of the Year at the European Imaging and Sound Association Awards 2010–2011.

Here is what appealed to the judges:

The Samsung GALAXY S II should attract huge interest due to its stunning Super AMOLED Plus 4.3-inch (10.9 cm) display as well as the speed of operation offered by a 1.2 G?z dual core processor. With this device in your hands you feel like you can do whatever you want whether this is browsing the Internet, shooting Full HD video, playing back all kinds of media (most codec’s are included), gaming or taking pictures even in subdued light thanks to the integrated LED flash and 8 megapixel sensor. The super slim 8.49mm body, Android v2.3 operating system and the delightfully user-friendly Touch Wiz UX interface all combine to offer users an exciting and highly competent product.

How the Galaxy S Fascinate is working out for me

I can certainly concur with the descriptions given above. The Galaxy S Fascinate has many virtues and few if any vices that I have run into.  My biggest motivation in buying this smartphone was that it was an Android phone.  This is a priority area for Google and I’m sure the integration with other Google Account systems will increase by leaps and bounds. I’m a heavy user of Gmail and Google Docs and both are extremely user-friendly in the Galaxy S Fascinate.

Like any smartphone, heavy use of the apps and games can quickly deplete the battery.  However with it plugged in and using my local Wifi network, it’s essentially my mobile device on the Internet.  Comparing a website on the Galaxy S Fascinate with what appears on my desktop is often a revelation.

This whole website was set up to view the mobile world from a desktop perspective and this smartphone is an essential tool in that.  The biggest insight to develop from all this is just how slow most companies are to have an effective mobile web presence.  The best advice to a website developer who is locked in to the desktop perspective is probably to say “You can’t start from here.”  As smartphones become ever more popular, the importance of starting with that mobile perspective will be self-evident.

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Samsung Galaxy S Fascinate 3G Smartphone

Technorati Tags: Android, Google, samsung galaxy, Super AMOLED

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