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Voice search on the iPhone

deelman — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:35:56 +0000

This is amazing, I am speechless so to say. No text entering with your thick thumbs anymore, we have seen it in movies, now on an iPhone near you. This blog runs the risk of writing mostly about Google and Apple, but hey, isn’t this true innovation what Google is demonstrating? Overcoming the limitations of key boards. The speech recognition and processing requires some horsepower on the phone I guess, will be interesting to see if the iPhone can cope with it. The more apps you load, the slower it gets. But, check out the video.
UPDATE: of course Google will not rely on the iPhone for processing, it will just send the audio file to it’s global computing cloud and do the processing there….

What’s the magic of the Apple experience?

deelman — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:56:49 +0000

Regent Street, London, today, lunch time, the streets were packed with thousands of people. I passed Nokia’s Flagship store, with large posters advertising Nokia’s new offering “Comes with music”. Being curious I went inside, looked around, all phones nicely displayed and ready to try out. When I walked outside again I noticed that actually the Apple store is right across the street…

And not only that, but the Apple store was crowded with people and looking back over my shoulder, I noticed there were actually just a few people in the Nokia store. I counted 5 people in the Nokia store that looked like customers and at least 10 Nokia staff. The Apple store housed a few hundred potential customers walking and playing around with gadgets. Of course not just with iPhones, but hey, Nokia did not open this store right across the street without a reason. What is the magic of the Apple experience, what attracts all these people? A combination of things, more than I want to cover in this quick post from London. But the pictures are telling…

First blog post (from Madrid)

deelman — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:33:13 +0000

You need to start blogging somewhere, so why not from sunny Madrid.
I am here for business, but compared to rainy Amsterdam it’s a pleasure as you can imagine.
With the Wordpress app installed on my iPhone, it’s pretty easy to write and submit something. When travelling, there is a lot of waiting time: for planes, for meetings to start and qeues to resolve. Quite suitable for a quick post.
Our website will undergo an extreme makeover in the coming weeks and this blog will be more integrated with it. Meanwhile we’ll start sharing our thoughts about anything that contributes to simply mobile: handset user experience, device management, customer self service, new devices and marketing mobile applications. We’ve turned off the comments functionality for now, so there’s no need to fight blog spam. If you want to have a dialogue, please drop us an email at blog at qelp dot com – written this way for the same reason…