Filed under: WIRELESS | Tags: CES, Consumer Electronics Show, iPhone, Microsoft, Microsoft Tag, Palm, QR Code, QWERTY
At a press announcement today at CES, Palm announced a brand spankin’ new handset: the Palm Pre. Running the much-gossiped new Palm WebOS (Not known as “Nova” afterall) and sporting a QWERTY slide-out keyboard below a 3.1″ touchscreen, this might just be enough to get Palm out of their slump. (http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/01/08/palm-announces-palm-pre 1/8)
At CES, Microsoft has introduced its second iPhone app after dipping its toe with the release of Seadragon Mobile last month. The name of the application is Microsoft Tag
, and it enables users to instantly access mobile content, videos, music, contact information, maps, social networks, promotions, etc. simply by pointing the device’s camera to a custom tag. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/08/microsoft-releases-tag-its-second-iphone-application 1/8)
Saw a demo of this at the Microsoft booth today. The camera has trouble reading the codes when there are shadows in the photo but otherwise, I think this is an even better solution than the QR codes. QR codes are barcode like in black and white. Microsoft tags are colorful and stand out, inviting users to use them.
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