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Ericsson Application Awards page

Just spreading the word and reminding of: Ericsson has the deadline in the end of January, for registration of team for the great opportunity for student developers to gain exposure with the telecom world and have a chance to win upwards of EUR 20,000 in prize money.

That’s right, the competition is for students, but any company can participate as discussion partner to support the students during the development. Students should choose the company contact to join the competition. Process is described here. The point of the competition is to utilize Ericsson Labs enablers.

If you know any talented postgraduate or undergraduate students why not give them a hint :)

When working on Sudoku Master Example for Nokia, I designed a simple touch keypad for number entry to Sudoku cells. In the design, touch keypad highlighted the number ‘over’ the touch point with a zoom effect. Many thought I got ‘inspired’ from iPhone, and questioned the design. However, the reason was simple (so I thought):

The reason for the decision to zoom above the finger is simply because it is the only way to make the number visible for both right- and left-handed people.

Today, I was watching Android G2 video review; and saw that a guy was typing on a virtual keypad and complains (00:45) there is no key highlight at all (which is weird). When I watched little carefully, I could see the highlights popping up on the ‘left’ side of keys. This was a perfect real life example that the key highlights should be on top of a key, not on left, right or bottom. And that’s not because Apple iPhone does it so; but that’s the only right way to avoid such a big FAIL when a left handed guy shoots one of the first reviews of your product :)

PS. Phone definitely looks cool