by Lee Williams | Apr 13, 2020 | Design, Development, Technology
This phone seemed to have everything but it came out only months before the iPhone, which changed the mobile world forever. I can remember this time well, I had joined Nokia a year earlier, and we were in final-ship, in-market update, and launch mode. The perspective...
by Lee Williams | Mar 11, 2020 | Design, Development, Technology
There is a lot going on in the world of foldable phone designs. Personally, I like the tri-fold concept, one that folds out into a tablet when needed. There is some work to do in terms of productization. In other words, reliability, usability, and value engineering,...
by Lee Williams | Feb 10, 2020 | Design, Technology
This will change the game, again. What a rebirth, that fold form factor with modern tech will just work, especially for the fashion conscious. The reborn Motorola Razr has a few quirks, but one of the most obvious is that all-black exterior. How are you supposed to...
by Lee Williams | Dec 17, 2019 | Imaging, Photography
Portrait Mode takes images with a shallow depth of field, focusing on the primary subject and blurring out the background for a professional look. It does this by using machine learning to estimate how far away objects are from the camera, so the primary subject can...
by Lee Williams | Dec 16, 2019 | Creative, Imaging, Photography, Uncategorized
Improvements in imaging, especially the software, just keep coming. Nokia had versions of this capability years ago. Good to see Samsung catching up. Samsung’s next Galaxy smartphone could be a huge leap forward in terms of its camera capabilities – at least if...