The Ovi Pose
June 19, 2009 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Editorial
At Nokia Connection ‘09, the Philippine delegation took part in the Ovi Race, which was basically the easiest way to allow the media to experience the GPS and Maps functionality of Ovi. This photo was taken at the Singapore Merlion where the team had to do a creative pose. The more creative the direction, the more points you’d get. So this is us taking a water break.
We had to upload the photo to the Share on Ovi site using the built in widgets on the two Nokia phones issued to us, the N97 and N86.
Photo taken by our …read more
Indoor GPS Positioning Technology in works to help find nearest bathroom!
October 18, 2008 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Nokia
What sucks about today’s GPR positioning technology is that it really just works outdoors. Sometimes, we feel the need to go into a more “macro” level of positioning especially when we’re inside a mall or a huge office building that’s unfamiliar to us and we need to find the nearest bathroom for that !!! huge emergency !!!.
Nokia has been working on a triangulating technology that uses WLAN to find your mobile phone and project you in relartion to everything else in the building:
The mobile uses the buildings’ WLAN infrastructure to triangulate your position and then indicates where you are on …read more
