Can mobile phones challenge dedicated e-readers, and perhaps even replace them?
Twenty-five themsare of them are in use by Olympic officials and reporters, among others, a strategy that Samsung hopes will energize its cell phone challenge to Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola, the top three leaders in the field.
In the Smoked by Windows Phone challenge, users had to try to finish certain tasks faster than Microsoft employees using Windows Phone.
The Windows Phone Challenge award was won by vSoft Studio from Singapore, which built a voice-drive reminders app for Windows Phone.
Once the smart phone challenge is resolved, another technology will come along and present a similar dilemma ask anyone in a marketing department scrambling to put together a social networking program.
Samsung's success with the Galaxy Note has also prompted companies like LG to take up the super-sized phone challenge, so it's very possible that phone screen sizes haven't topped out just yet.
As SCVNGR subscribers, they'll pay $80 a month to design mobile phone challenges that reward in-store customers with free stuff.
After showing off the HD i8910's video quality a bit (which, if you pop the embed into HD mode, doesn't seem too shabby. Of course, it's professionally tailored not to), they make the phone "disappear", challenging the viewer to guess how it was done.
The Guardian: The phone app challenging violence against women in a Mumbai slum.
There are many other examples, from Moldova and Zimbabwe to Venezuela and Burma, where independent media and mobile phones are challenging authoritarian rule.
