Mobility

It is not AJAX. It is not Java ME or other mobile platform. It is not Mobile Web. It is not texting. At least not by themselves. It is –> F L A T     F E E     P L A N S! For data, and messaging. We are getting closer to … Read more

Leveraging the mobile context has a positive effect on the mobile user experience. As described in the essay The Mobile Context, the mobile context is defined as: “The user’s mobile context can be defined as the set of and the intersection between facts, events, circumstances, and information that surrounds the (mobile) user at a given … Read more

There is an interesting new project at Vodafone’s Betavine website that is called ContextMessages. Check it out. Context Aware Messaging for Bluetooth and Java Enabled Mobile Phones It should be a pretty neat project/study. The idea is to apply “personal, spatial and temporal context models to a mobile text messaging service”. Related to this see: … Read more

I recently got recognized, along with others in the mobile Java community, as a Java Mobile & Embedded Community Star. Community Stars are members who show noteworthy involvement in the community, be it by posting to forums, providing code, writing blogs, running projects, or getting involved in any other way that makes the community a … Read more

Registration for the Mobile 2.0 conference is now open. The one-day event is scheduled for October 15th, 2007. The event is organized by fellow Mobilists Mike Rowehl of AdMob, Daniel Appelquist of Vodafone, Gregory Gorman of The Open Group, Peter Vesterbacka of Some Bazaar, and Rudy De Waele of mTrends. I’ll be attending this year, … Read more

I previously wrote about The dimension of space and movement in Mobile Applications, where I covered some of the virtues of accelerometer vs. optical approaches for motion detection. From my perspective, accelerometers rule! Not sure if real, but in the video below you will see iPhone’s accelerometer in action courtesy of Medallia: The folks at … Read more

My friend Gary Mendel (CMO at eZee) pointed me to this story: Carriers Chosen for European iPhone From the story: Apple has chosen its carriers for the iPhone launch in Europe, according to a report published Tuesday in the Financial Times. The report, citing unnamed sources, said the chosen partners are T-Mobile Deutschland for Germany, … Read more

Following my previous post Mobile, data plans and the digital divide, what can we, as mobile software product developers, do to help with the problem of cost of ownership that result in a digital divide? The answer is that we must be smart and considerate about the cost of ownership of mobile applications. An obvious … Read more

From the Sun announcement by Richard Marejka: Topic: Mobile Service Architecture (MSA), JSR 248 When: August 20-24, 2007 Experts: Mikhail Gorshenev, senior staff engineer, Sun Microsystems E-ming Saung, Product Line Manager, Java ME Marketing group, Sun Microsystems Hinkmond Wong, senior staff engineer , Java ME group, Sun Microsystems Mobile Service Architecture (MSA), is a Java … Read more

When addressing the general consumer market, we (product owners and developers of mobile/handset applications) must cater both advanced and non-advanced users. It is very common to see applications that are only or mainly delivered for the more advanced, or early adopters-type of users. It is tempting to take such approach, as it is a more … Read more