When a phone is not a phone

The charismatic leader Steve Jobs once said the killer application of a mobile phone is … making phone calls. He said it last year when he introduced the iPhone and sure, iPhone changed the world a lot in terms of mobile device usability and applications. But seriously, most of time I found people are just playing with their iPhone as a toy or a fashion icon, instead of making phone calls. Look around, and you know what I mean.

I can imagine a mobile phone with good UI, good application is a powerful device and platform; and I firmly believe mobile commerce will be a totally new ball game (unlike other says, mobile commerce is only an extension of Internet eCommerce).

But before all that, get ready to spend more time to play with your phone, change the look, desktop, widgets etc. etc. See the following, another new UI system from Samsung F480 …

It’s gone …

It’s really sad, a national symbol and treasure to Koreans around the world, Namdaemun was destroyed by a fire in last Sunday night. Namdaemun, South Korea’s oldest wooden structure, was built more than 600 years ago and stood at the center of Seoul, having served as a main gate into the capital for centuries. A picture I took some months back …

Namdaemun

The new new gadget

Finally one gadget that can replace my Dopod C730. You know, I always wanted a communication device (read: phone) with better keyboard, wider screen and faster processing. The Dopod is great and quite perfect for my needs, until the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 …

sony-xperia-x1.jpg

You can check out other beautiful photos and the technical specification in its site, and essentially it has everything under the sun. Before you hop to other sites, one video about the new phone and the new user interface.

You wanna get one, don’t you ?