If you haven’t been on this planet for the past several weeks, then I should tell you that Gizmodo have put their hands on a future iPhone prototype. I don’t really want to delve into the realm of questions running around how much they paid, whether it really is an Apple product, staged or got lost. iPhone launch day Instead, I want to deal with the video chat camera issue – not the question of is it real or
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | May 10th, 2010 | Filed under Clients
It’s time to call it out – PDAs have won over mobile handsets when it comes to our future personal mobile devices. A few years ago, the debate was quite heated – do you invest money on a smartphone or on a PDA? Will the PDA conquer the mobile phone markets or will phones evolve to doing what PDAs are capable of? Today the most heated battle is raging between Nokia, the gorilla of the mobile phone market, and
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | April 1st, 2010 | Filed under IPTV, Technology
[This post is part of our Designing Hardware for HD series. Be sure to check it out!] It’s about time we deal with interfaces. Not the video ins and outs – I have already touched on that one. This time I want to discuss the interfaces that usually connect to a videophone product – and trust me, there are a bunch of options here. Yes, I’m talking peripherals here – those pesky things your end-users will end up connecting to
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | December 28th, 2009 | Filed under HD VoIP
It seems like we’re writing on our blogs a lot about Google lately, but here’s another post about one of their ground-breaking products. This time – the Android operating system. The Google Android OS was designed and built with mobile handsets in mind, but for some reason, almost from day one, people tried using it for a variety of different devices and products. Here are a few examples: Enterprise Desktop Phones Allan Sulkin reports on NoJitter about Cloud Telecomputers, a
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | December 24th, 2009 | Filed under Clients, Technology
There are three ways in which a service can be provided on a mobile handset these days: it can be integrated, downloaded or served from “the cloud”. The multi-Million dollar question is – which one is going to rule? A few years back, the only real way for a service to be noticed on a mobile device was by having it as an integrated part of the handset from day one. But these days, especially after the iPhone became the
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | December 14th, 2009 | Filed under Clients, Technology
I am definitely not a gadget freak – the mobile phone I use is the corporate Nokia 6120 classic and I am happy with it (!!!), but I am a workaholic – so, at home, my laptop is always open, the VPN is always connected, and I check my corporate email account frequently. Why am I telling you that about myself? Because some people think WiFi VoIP is going to replace 3G calling. Michael Graves, for instance, thinks DECT is
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | November 5th, 2009 | Filed under Technology
The iPhone has been around for a while now. And while it has been a game changer to the mobile handset industry, it was also a game changer of almost EVERY other industry in town. I came to this conclusion reading Om Malik’s post about the wireless bandwidth boom, which has (of course) been driven by the iPhone: But the popularity of new 3G devices such as the iPhone and BlackBerry 3G has increased the use of data, putting the
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | October 29th, 2009 | Filed under Technology
Last month I’ve mused about Mobile VoIP, first suggesting IMS will kill it and then stating it is not going to happen any time soon. I think it’s time I stand behind my big words and explain why. Here are my 5 cents reasons: 1. Mobile VoIP is (Still) Downloadable Mobile VoIP is yet to be embedded as part of the natural user experience of a mobile phone. There are some handsets that support mobile VoIP, but finding it, configuring
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | October 5th, 2009 | Filed under Clients, Technology
I wrote my views on Modu when it launched its handset in July. Since then, I’ve had the time to continue and ponder about it, most recently during the World Innovation Summit 09 I attended here in Israel. One of the keynotes was given by Dov Moran – Founder, Chairman and CEO of modu – who provided his views on the future innovation in the mobile arena in general, as well as the innovation by modu. Basically, Modu’s innovation according
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | September 21st, 2009 | Filed under Clients
There’s a fashionable hype lately all around HD Voice, up to the point of “marrying” it with other technologies that make a lot of sense to us “techies”. But I must ask a “dirty” question: where the hell is the incentive for the consumer market? HD Voice does improve voice quality. I’ve used it at work. It sounds differently. You don’t want to go back to the crappy systems we have today on our mobiles and in our homes.
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | September 17th, 2009 | Filed under Clients
