Hello! Mobile Industry Review is using DISQUS, a powerful comment system, to manage its comments. Learn more.
Community Page
- www.smstextnews.com Jump to website »
-
Subscribe -
Community
-
Top Commenters
-
Popular Threads
- Nokia’s got game: Android handset coming in September
- The T-Mobile takeover rumour mill continues
- An 8.1 megapixel Sony Ericsson Android handset you can be proud of?
- Nokia’s Ovi let’s the market decide. The market says, ‘no’ (and how to fix it)
- 3 and Vodafone: Two roaming data cost cuts, two very different offers
-
Recent Comments
- Really looking forward to this. It's the only reason I haven't already ordered a HTC Hero. Waiting and watching for as long as I can bear it. 8MP and poss 1Ghz processor? That would be the...
- LOVELY but I have only 1 WORD......drum roll please. XPERIA-X1, remember that mess of a hand held? Announced years ago, finally delivered like a lead bomb. PLOP..sink..where is it now? SE have a...
- That's how it's going to play out, basically, isn't it? Total arse.
- I wouldn't 8-)
- And in the meantime a plethora of Android devices are going to appear this year that will reach a much bigger market than the T-Mob offering so far. By the time Nokia introduce whatever Symbian are...
Mobile Industry Review
Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics
Yes! Get yourself a totally unique W-41 t-shirt that comes complete with it’s own special logo, thus:
See that big white logo on that girl’s chest? That’s it!
Now. If you’re that girl, other people can use the W-41 application to take a picture of that logo with your mobile, thus: [...] ... Continue reading »
See that big white logo on that girl’s chest? That’s it!
Now. If you’re that girl, other people can use the W-41 application to take a picture of that logo with your mobile, thus: [...] ... Continue reading »
1 year ago
If they go tits-up or start charging or refuse to make a decoder for your phone or generally go bad - you're out of luck.
Contrast this with QR Codes - they're an open standard. Anyone can write a coder or decoder. In fact, Google have an open source reader for Android.
They can contain any information - URL, VCARD, Phone numbers, plain text - and don't require a working Internet connection to get the information.
Furthermore, they're readable by just about any phone - not just Nokias.
Basically, this is a cool idea but make sure you use an open standard like QR Codes to ensure that the maximum number of people can access your information.