Science and Industry

As a worker of mobile corporation, I use mobile phone for both business (emails) and fun (chatting, surfing). I’m nowadays regularly using mobile phone while traveling in Helsinki.

So, I happened to stop by at the university today to do some things I promised to do. I sat there, close to computer, for hours and did some actual work also. Then, after few hours, I decided to left back to home. While sitting in the bus, I noticed the battery level being rather down: it seemed like it would last for the whole journey.

So, I started to think. This was obviously my mistake: I should have charged it while doing other things. But then, was it really my fault? Mobile phone is rather unnoticeable. I didn’t check the battery status during the day. I didn’t know that it was rather low.

So, even thought there’s a human error behind this all — there’s rather easy technological solutions. First, the charging procedure is rather hard. You need to plug things in and do all this manual work. It’s not easy and fun, especially if you’re mobile.

Secondly, one isn’t specially aware of the mobile phone if it’s not used. My main focus was on transscripting things, not checking the wellbeing of my phone. Should the device notice where I am and tell me that it has a low battery? Some sort of smart contextuality would be interesting.

This brings up the question that how much we want that the device effects our life. Actually, for some situation — like battery charging or profile mode choosing — I would give the device more intelligence and power. Luckily E90 has a good battery and I survived to home to continue IRC discussion with a laptop.