The Year of the Mobile Computer...
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Claims that broadband makes the internet contextual and location-aware by 2015, backed by concrete devices and numbers: point-and-find beta uses camera plus GPS and electronic compass to identify objects, Nokia ships ~60 million “mobile computers” last year and counts ~1.3 billion Nokia users within ~4 billion mobile users, and the N97 offers 64 GB local storage. A recent $8 billion mapping acquisition builds a global coordinate database, apps roll out through the OBI store, and the map becomes the primary UI while users keep control of their data.
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