.Mobi owners often point to the future of handheld devices as examples of the growing market and need for their ‘lite’ versions of the web. The Register is reporting that Motorola (not a ’sponsor’ of mobi) has teamed up with a company called MicroVision to put laser projectors into their mobile phones.
Practical use of this will be to project videos, websites or any other media content outside of the mobile, thus taking the small form factor of the mobile smaller with its capabilities bigger. Similar ideas have been trialed before with projection keyboards and AV-out socket in mobiles and associated devices.
The good news keeps on coming with news that Yahoo are following Vodaphone’s lead (a .mobi ‘backer’) by offering up Novarra’s mobile-optimising technology on their OneSearch (mobile.yahoo.com) portal. This technology deduces which device is being used and re-jigs pages on the fly, quite like the current google system.