Nokia's Z-Wave Home Control Center hands-on and video

by Joshua Topolsky posted Dec 2nd 2008 at 12:28PM

Since hearing about Nokia's foray into the world of home automation, our curiosity has been seriously piqued. Thankfully, our girl-on-the-scene Drita has captured video of the new software / hardware combo in action on the Nokia World show floor. It looks like a fully decked out system is going to run you a hefty fee (given all the components required), but can you put a price on the extreme laziness it will enable? We didn't think so. Check out the pics on Engadget and the thrilling video out after the break!

Filed under: Peripherals, Nokia

Tags: eco, energy, features, hands on, hands-on, HandsOn, home automation, home control center, HomeAutomation, HomeControlCenter, nokia, remote, remote control, RemoteControl, video, video hands-on, VideoHands-on, z wave, z-wave, ZWave

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rseijas @ Dec 2nd 2008 4:06PM

Cool automation. UI needs work but the concept is sweet. Controlling my house through my cell phone?! That's a geek's dream!

But for those pop-up ads during the videos - could they get any more FuCkInG annoying?! I don't think so. They're at max annoyance level right now.

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KilgoreTrout @ Dec 14th 2008 2:13PM

Uhmm, a weak point of the system is for sure the obsolete N95 (best phone when it came out but now?) maybe steering the system with the N97 , and with Nokia excellent voice recognition/activation software will improve the concept.
But what makes me seriously skeptic about Nokia's softwares for any non phone related app is the ridiculous, bloated, buggy and crappy "Nsuite" sync'ing programs.

Anyone who ever tried , and maybe even payed for Nokia's "Home Media Server" can't be blamed for being pessimist about Nokia capabilities in home related program developing