Welcome Apple and Thank You!
I had promised myself that I would not write an iPhone related post but a lot of MoTo people have been proclaiming (rather loudly) about how they believe Apple’s closed standard iPhone doesn’t really make it an adequate competitor in the high end handset space. Though some of their arguments do make sense - I [...]
Designing better mobile apps - learning from SMS’s stickiness
The last couple of weeks I have been thinking about the most sticky mobile application and I could not think of anything more powerful than SMS. The sheer numbers of users and the volume is truly astounding.
Why did this mobile application stick where many others have failed?
I believe, that a number of factors in [...]
BlogLines - the best mobile web app
I am a HUGE fan of BlogLines Mobile!
I’ve tried a lot of rss aggregators for my Treo 700w - AvantGo and PocketFeed being amongst the notables. I finally settled on BlogLines mobile which is a web-based mobile app. I absolutely love the interface for this mobile web-app and it incorporates all the tenets of mobile [...]
Mobile devices as an extension of social software
I know everyone has been talking about Goobe and the coming storm of mobile media content from social web-sites such as MySpace. I believe that mobile devices offer just another distribution platform for these players - they do not intend to take the mobile into the era of social software.
Here’s what I mean by this [...]
Motorola - The real RIM/Blackberry killer ?
News just in this evening about Motorola’s buy-out of Good Technology Inc. Good has been honing its enterprise product featuring push based email for some time now and has grown its enterprise base to around 10000+ companies which clearly puts it in the BlackBerry competitor mode.
By buying Good Technology, Motorola will be able to add [...]
SmallDoses is now PDA friendly!
I just installed the Wordpress PDA Plugin and it works like a charm. I would highly recommend it to anyone who writes about mobility or has users who would find it easier to access your content while on the move. The installation process is pain-free.
The interface on the handheld is elegant and mobilized very [...]
The Indian Wireless Carrier War - What it means for Indian Mobile Startups:
I just got back from a 6 week long business trip in Bangalore, India. I got myself an AirTel card the day that I arrived and got down to doing some work at our ThoughtWorks Bangalore Office. If you go down to India - you cannot miss it - there really is a pitched battle [...]
Is hardware QWERTY really overrated?
Have you noticed how some new smartphones from Nokia have given up on hardware qwerty on their devices? Was this just a whim that the interaction design team at Nokia wanted to fullfill or could it be that there is realization amongst many that hardware qwerty is not a natural way to interact with a [...]
Ideas are Easy - Words are the problem…
Yesterday Karen and I spent 45 mins listening to George R R Martin talk about his writing philosophy, how he channels his thoughts on a particular story he is writing and what influences his stories from the real world. Both of us were introduced to George R R Martin’s work by our good friend Amit [...]
Mobile Web Design Survey by Amand Kern of Valencia Community College
Amanda Kerns at Valencia Community College, Orlando, Florida is inolved in an interesting survey to gather data from users of the Mobile Web. I found her survey posted on a Mobile Design Yahoo Group and took about 5 mins to fill in the survey. I am interested in what her findings will be and what [...]