All KAYWA Weblogs have now also an i-mode version. If you have a i-mode capable mobile phone, you will automatically get the i-mode version when you add "/mobile" to your weblog address.
Example: http://blog.kaywa.com/mobile



i-mode is used in european countries like France, Germany, the Netherlands.
i-mode was developed by NTTDoCoMo in Japan - the land of the mobile internet.

More information about i-mode

Here are some screenshots (from a Nokia 6630) of our weblogs:

The latest posts (http://info.kaywa.com/mobile/latest):

KAYWA has updated its weblogs with a new mobile version*, our 5th mobile release already. All KAYWA weblogs are available on your mobile phone or PDA. We also created a mobile portal which makes it easy to search a weblog.



MOBILE PORTAL

Image: Mobile Portal at http://home.kaywa.com/mobile

Create a new bookmark in your mobile phone: http://home.kaywa.com/mobile, so that you have immediate access to all KAYWA weblogs via the mobile portal.

Scroll on http://home.kaywa.com/mobile to the name "Portalog". Under "Latest Posts" you will always find the lastest posts published on KAYWA. As soon as you click one of the posts, you will go directly to the weblog from where the post is coming from.

Image: Latest Posts on Mobile Portal and Latest Posts Results

Underneath is the weblogs search which is especially adapted for mobile devices. With it, you are searching only in the subdomains. (Every weblogs subdomain follows immediately after the http://).

Image: Search on Mobile Portal and Search Results

Example:
You are looking for the weblog http://welt.kaywa.ch/. Enter welt into the search field, then hit search. Now you get a list with all weblogs who have welt in the subdomain. Click now on the link "welt.kaywa.ch". This brings you to the weblog itself. It's easy and fast.


INDIVIDUAL WEBLOG NAVIGATION

Image: Homepage of a weblog
Image: Post with a comment

The navigation of every weblog has numbers. These numbers can be typed on your mobile phone.

Type
1 to go to the homepage of the weblog you are visiting
3 for the categories of this particular weblog
4 for the galleries
5 for the links
6 for the archive
7 to go to the top of the page
8 to go to the end of the page


META NAVIGATION

Under the navigation to navigate the current weblog, you always find the meta navigation. With the Meta Navigation, you can go back to the mobile portal, to the registration, to the help, to the about page etc.

Click on "Home" under Meta Navigation to return to the mobile portal at
http://home.kaywa.com/mobile.


* Supported are wml, xhtml. An i-mode version will soon follow.

If you have questions, send an e-mail to support@kaywa.com

Russell Beattie:

The most interesting thing I heard was about Nokia's enthusiasm for moblogs!

MOBIlearn:

MOBIlearn is a worldwide European-led research and development project exploring context-sensitive approaches to informal, problem-based and workplace learning by using key advances in mobile technologies.

More:
Mobile Informatics
Victoria Institute
Knowmobile

Via Stefan

Urs tried to find out the original meaning of the word "KEITAI" / 携帯【けいたい】

携帯: KEITAI = (1) carrying something; (2) mobile telephone (abbr); (P) which uses the above kanji

携: KEI, tazusa(eru), tazusa(waru) = portable; carry (in hand); armed with; bring along

帯: TAI, obi(ru), obi = sash, belt, obi, zone

To find out things like this, I usually use these cool Japanese resources:

Japanese-English Dictionary
Kanji Dictionary (Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Server)

Camera phones changing the definition of picture-worthy:

In Japanese, "material" for news and stories is called "neta." The term has strong journalistic associations, but also gets used to describe material that can become the topic of conversation among friends or family: a new store seen on the way to work; a cousin who just dropped out of high school; a funny story heard on the radio. Camera phones provide a new tool for making these everyday neta not just verbally but also visually shareable.

See also:
GLOCOM-USC-JETRO Mobile Conference: July 16, 2003

Another source predicting around 60 million camera-phone handsets for this year (after the Qualcomm study):

Camera-phone market set to double by the end of the year says ARC Group analysts in Future Mobile Handsets 2003-2008 report:

According to a report released today by analyst firm ARC Group, by the end of 2003 more than 55 million consumers worldwide will own camera-phone handsets, more than doubling from the 25 million mobile units sold in 2002.

[...]

"This year we have seen a massive growth in camera-enabled phones, with 15 per cent of handsets worldwide featuring built-in cameras or designated camera accessories," commented David McQueen, ARC Group's Senior Consultant and author of the Future Mobile Handsets 2003-2008 report. "Tempted by innovative design features such as rotational cameras and swivel screens, along with the advent of multimedia messaging, colour displays and polyphonic ring tones, we'll see many consumers upgrading their mobile phones this Christmas."

Swisscom predicts even a bit a larger growth: 150 instead of 100%. We will see how all this works out in December.

Via Emily

This is really big news, according to a report issued by Future Image, by mid-2004, sales of camera-phones, first introduced in the US in November 2002, could exceed the combined total sales of regular digital cameras and those using film.

[...]

Henning, author of "The Camera-Phone Phenomenon" report, is among the speakers at the upcoming Seybold San Francisco 2003 set for Sept. 8-12, at the newly completed Moscone West.

As Gregor will also be at Seybold, I am sure they'll meet.

Via Emily

Mobile Content - Where's it going?

One way that this conundrum might be resolved is to use proper semantic markup, XHTML and RDF for the content and CSS for the presentation layer.

Well, that's exactly what KAYWA is doing;)

See also:
Camera Phones Save Lives