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April 03, 2008 S60 goes to Las Vegas Posted by Oren at 12:41 AM | Categories: Commentary

Greetings from Las Vegas, Nevada! I'm spending a few days here for the annual CTIA Wireless conference, the biggest mobile technology show in the US. There's no official S60 presence here, but I did give a presentation about the S60 runtime and developer offering at the Smartphone Summit that preceded the main event. I also had a chance to meet some of the companies in the Nokia stand that have interesting and innovative S60 applications and services.

One application that's particularly interesting is the KNFB Mobile Reader. This application helps blind and visually impaired people read printed text, and recognize printed documents, by converting the printed text into audio. The program also recognizes US currency, which is particularly useful since all US bills are the same shape and size(!)

It takes advantage of S60 3rd Edition FP 1 and the 5MP camera and Xenon flash available in the Nokia N82.

If you want to see more, I have been uploading photos from the event to Share on Ovi:

-Oren


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Hi,

Oh I wrote about long time ago, interesting concept but shameless realization IMO; it is simply overpriced and in my personal opinion it is shameful to take so much money off of people who have a disability, simply disgusting. I understand that business speaks only money language but c'mon, blind people don't have much, people should help people without ripping them off.

http://www.symbian-freak.com/news/008/01/knfb_mobile_reader.htm

Teo

Posted by: Apoc' | April 3, 2008 09:09 AM


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