Platform Agnostic and Current Friendly

One of the great promises of HTML5 with CSS3 and Javascript is that eventually, after much wrangling & negotiation, one will be able to write apps that can work across many devices regardless of platform and ecosystem. In the meantime, while we are waiting…

Tidbits :: Sunday, December 19, 2010

Mobile: Tech Crunch on Guest post: Symbian OS – one of the most successful failures in tech history Qt Developer Blogs on Experimental packages for Symbian development on Linux Qt Mobile Development Online Training O’Reilly on HTML5 Mobile Web Development Sarah Parameter on Designing…

Camera Phone Apps, A Very Small Survey

Recently I found myself thinking about camera phone apps, more specifically about Hipstamatic and do folks really use it past the week they bought it out of the App Store? Amongst the photographers and designers I know and follow on Flickr, I will occasionally…

Over the Air Updates, Too Much Kit, & Mobile UX

Forgive me for last night’s storytelling rant/praise about Over the Air updating of one’s mobile / smartphone. But one point that I would like to pick out from the story’s threading is that of ease of use for the customer. Many in the mobile…

Over the Air Full OS Updates, or Why I love Maemo (Soon to be Meego)

The ability to update one’s mobile phone / device is an excellent service that a handset manufacturer or operating system can offer a customer as it not only extends the life of the mobile but it also expands and builds on the array of…

Talking to Vaughan about the Upcoming Nokia N8 & HD Video Recording

Fri. 05.07.10 – Today at Tuttle Club LA, Vaughan Risher (@vardenrhode) started asking the mobile folk in the group some questions about the upcoming Nokia N8’s HD video recording capabilities. He had three questions, of which he wrote down for me to ask around…