Tuesday, July 27, 2010
The third annual MobileBeat conference took place in San Francisco this week and Nokia was there showing off some cool innovations with Terminal Mode. Jörg Brakensiek, a principal member of research staff at Nokia’s Palo Alto research centre, was presenting from Nokia along with some folks from Volkswagen. Read on after the jump to find out more.
Despite it’s very functional name, Terminal Mode promises a wealth of possibilities for users and application developers. As Jorg highlighted during his MobileBeat presentation, there are three core philosophies behindTerminal Mode. Removing barriers for users is the first, to enable you to run your chosen smartphone applications in your car, with your car’s built in interface (think steering controls, touch screen etc). Essentially, what you see on your device’s screen, you can see on your car’s larger screen.
Secondly, Terminal Mode is “a catalyst for new services�. With core device functions covered off, such as navigation, music, phone, weather, social media etc, connecting the device to the car opens up a wealth of new opportunities for developers to create new multi-platform applications. The difference being, that the platform actually stays the same (in this instance, the device is the platform) but the usage can be on device or in the car. The weather widget in the video gets this across perfectly along with, of course, Ovi Maps navigation.
From: http://ping.fm/cJQir
Despite it’s very functional name, Terminal Mode promises a wealth of possibilities for users and application developers. As Jorg highlighted during his MobileBeat presentation, there are three core philosophies behindTerminal Mode. Removing barriers for users is the first, to enable you to run your chosen smartphone applications in your car, with your car’s built in interface (think steering controls, touch screen etc). Essentially, what you see on your device’s screen, you can see on your car’s larger screen.
Secondly, Terminal Mode is “a catalyst for new services�. With core device functions covered off, such as navigation, music, phone, weather, social media etc, connecting the device to the car opens up a wealth of new opportunities for developers to create new multi-platform applications. The difference being, that the platform actually stays the same (in this instance, the device is the platform) but the usage can be on device or in the car. The weather widget in the video gets this across perfectly along with, of course, Ovi Maps navigation.
From: http://ping.fm/cJQir