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Glad to see so much good ideas here, from two different groups of people - users and developers.

So, "What does Mobile Creativity mean to you?"

I partially share ragnar's thoughts, contextualized information is what people seek nowadays.
We are in a world that change really fast, we experience a lot of things everyday, the information comes from everywhere, it's impossible for us to assimilate everything.
The right contextualized information available to ours fingerprints, will save us a lot of time each day, and our life's will be easier for sure .

It's a big challenge I know, but we already have the proper tools for that. We already have fast mobile devices with a lot of sensors that can provide a good 'picture' of surrounding environment, we already have fast and good learning algorithms. We already have the technology !!! It's a matter of putting everything together.
Of course there's no prefect system, and we need to deal with some pitfalls - here, IMHO are the power consumption (most of the HW sensors need to be 'on' all the time, in order to sense the surrounding environment) and some concerns about privacy (a big deal breaker, believe me ).

The 'mobile creativity' area will have big challenges in the future, for sure. Having an device that is capable to deal with tons of information coming for everywhere, select them and contextualize them for me is really an dream, it's the dream of live in a age where the 'devices' can understand our needs and act according to them.

Allow me to ramble a bit more.
Almost all opinions in this thread, targeted an market of masses, and of course this is the aim of an big company like Nokia, but please take in mind, that such intelligent systems in mobile devices can be applied in other areas or smaller groups. These systems can be used to help disabled people, elders or even people with cognitive diseases. An system capable of recognize human activities(my research area ) and sense the environment can make the life of these small groups and their families much better.

To finalize, I can't forget other growing area that intersects the 'mobile creativity' field, some people like to call it Mobile HCI, but since I don't like the term, I will call it Human Mobile Interaction.
Isn't new to anyone here that fancy UI's with the appropriate marketing really sell phones, not matter if the UI gives a good experience to the user or not, sometimes this kills good innovation in the HMI area, already happened in the past, but we don't live in a perfect world, so we have to deal with these factors in order to innovate a bit more.
I personally think that a lot can be done in the HMI area, and I'm not thinking about fancy UI's (we need them too, in order to sell devices), I'm thinking in 'breaking innovation', new forms of HMI, that can improve the interaction/experience with our mobile devices, that are nowadays part of our lives.

An mobile phone is seen nowadays as an non intrusive device (there's only other 'piece' of technology, that we usually have with us, that has the same status), we really need to take more advantage of that .
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