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First Sony Ericsson Android Phone – XPERIA Codename: Rachael

joesonic — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:00:01 +0000

Currently rumors of the first Android based handset of Sony Ericsson can be found on several Internet news portals. The danish phone site Mobile invoke on internal documents of Sony Ericsson, which describe an upcoming XPERIA handset codenamed Rachael. Fist details of the specifications include: 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor HSPA 8 megapixel camera 3.5mm headphone jack big touchscreen (somewhere [...]

Warsaw, Prague and Oslo: 3D city models now in Google Earth

joesonic — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:06:15 +0000

Google has added 3 more 3d city models in Google Earth. They can be found in the 3D Buildings layer of Google Earth. In the post of “Google latlong” Google mentioned that these 3D models are mainly auto-generated and include several user generated 3D buildings. This video was embedded using the YouTuber plugin by Roy Tanck. Adobe [...]

Augmented Reality now possible on the iPhone

joesonic — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:10:13 +0000

As you all know the new iPhone 3G S has a build in compass. This allows creating Augmented Reality applications for the iPhone. Such applications are already available for Android Phones. They use the camera, compass and GPS of the mobile device to include additional (artificial) information on the camera view showing the current real [...]

Featured Sessions at ESRI UC 2009

joesonic — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:44:30 +0000

ESRI has published a list of Featured Session for the User Conference 2009. (logo by ESRI) How can we design our future with GIS? Jack Dangermond President, ESRI How can we design our future with GIS? UC Opening Plenary Session, Mon, Jul 13, 8:30AM – 3:30PM This inspiring session is a must-attend event where you’ll celebrate the accomplishments of the [...]

Market Share of mobile AppStores by number of Applications

joesonic — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:26:03 +0000

I have tried out to compare mobile application stores by their number of available applications. Starting with Apple mobile application stores have become very popular to download programs and games directly to the users smartphone. Now nearly every big player has launched a platform where different applications are hosted. I have compared platforms of the [...]

Yahoo Maps with draggable routes

joesonic — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:01:18 +0000

Yahoo has updated their Map Service for Europe. Now it is also possible to modify routes via drag and drop, as you know it from Google Maps. They included also an function to revert back to the original route and compare route distances. In my opinion the user interface in not as intuitive as in Google [...]

Timeline diagram showing the development of Web Languages

joesonic — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:31:57 +0000

On Wikipedia I found an interesting graph which summarizes the development of web languages very well. At least most prominent languages that are not discontinued are visualized in the timeline. You can also see dependencies between languages and they are separated into client side and server side languages. (click on the image to view in [...]

TomTom Navi now available for the iPhone

joesonic — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:39:15 +0000

At Apples WWDC in San Francisco CTO and Co-founder of TomTom, Peter-Frans Pauwels introduced TomTom turn-by-turn navigation for the iPhone. The application looks very slick and fast and can switch between portrait and landscape mode. The text to speech functions sound clear and they also worked on a TomTom car kit as accessory for the [...]

Video and Maps: Home 2009 – Documentary showing HD aerial images of the earth

joesonic — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:00:05 +0000

Some time ago I have posted about a site I like, called Earth from above. Today on the first UN-recognized World Oceans Day the author of this site has published a documentary movie about the earth on YouTube. The movie is called HOME and can also be seen in theaters. The official Google LatLong blogged about this movie: “To [...]

Nokia Ovi Maps Player API – Just another Maps API

joesonic — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:20:39 +0000

Is it just another Maps API or is there something new? Every big player in the Internet and mobile industry try to establish their own Maps API. Why is this so and what are characteristics of Nokia’s OVI Maps Player API? Without further details I’ll assume it is optimized for Nokia handsets and LBS on Nokia [...]