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*The mobile phone has an programming enviroment that is open to developers, so that Consumerium's Consumer Agent or one component of it can be installed on the phone. The J2ME-enviroment seem very suitable at the first glance and it seems that Java is gaining a broad support among phone manufacturers. | *The mobile phone has an programming enviroment that is open to developers, so that Consumerium's Consumer Agent or one component of it can be installed on the phone. The J2ME-enviroment seem very suitable at the first glance and it seems that Java is gaining a broad support among phone manufacturers. | ||
The two features described above are the only features that are necessary for the | The two features described above are the only features that are ''necessary'' for the consumer's terminal. In the following I describe a few additional hardware features, which would enhance the usability of the system. | ||
**The phone could have a built-in digital camera. I've just tried out the new Nokia 7650 (tm) model, which is Nokia's first phone with a fitted camera. The focusing and resolution properties of 7650 were maybe just a little bit too poor that one could use the pictures to OCR the numerical representation of EAN-codes. But it came very close, so hopes are high that OCRing the code will be possible in the near future. | **The phone could have a built-in digital camera. I've just tried out the new Nokia 7650 (tm) model, which is Nokia's first phone with a fitted camera. The focusing and resolution properties of 7650 were maybe just a little bit too poor that one could use the pictures to OCR the numerical representation of EAN-codes. But it came very close, so hopes are high that OCRing the code will be possible in the near future. | ||
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*Internet access, so that information can be fetched from outside of the store's own datasystem and to deliever the consumer's feedback to the producers. | *Internet access, so that information can be fetched from outside of the store's own datasystem and to deliever the consumer's feedback to the producers. | ||
*Servers that contain the data about products sold in the store. To save costs it makes sense that retail chains place the data about products that are sold in all stores on it's central servers and then cache the data onto the store servers whenever it's requested. | *Servers that contain the data about products sold in the store. To save costs it makes sense that retail chains place the data about products that are sold in all stores on it's central servers and then cache the data onto the store servers whenever it's requested. | ||