Mobility

Read via MocoNews that Telephia and ComScore revealed that on mobiles more people like to access weather information, while on the PC it is about searching… Let me tell you why I'm not surprised with these results… and why this validates one of the main usage patterns and characteristics of mobility… First, the above results … Read more

The Mobile Marketing Association has released the latest version of their Consumer Best Practices Guidelines for Cross-Carrier Mobile Content Programs (in PDF format). The guidelines include information on: General Conduct Advertising and Promotion Opt-in Standard Rate Programs Premium Rate Programs Help Opt-out Subscriptions Chat Customer Care Spending Cap Limits Bill Face Word of Mouth Marketing … Read more

From the Sony Ericsson press release: “With the new Web Services for UIQ 3 package released today, Sony Ericsson gives developers an easy solution including guidance on how to access remote services over the internet on UIQ 3 phones using an open XML (eXtensible Mark-up Language) protocol called SOAP (Simple Access Object Protocol). By combining … Read more

Jason at the Paxmodept Blog points out an article at ZDNet UK about Google and its struggles with operators who want to block Google applications. Oh boy… not even Google can be saved from this one… that says a whole lot about the current (and nothing new, and who knows until when) situation between mobile … Read more

Mike Rowehl writes about something that has me perplexed, upset, and furious – see All traffic to US handsets require a valid short code registered with the different networks. This is a very big deal. And is no good… Closed systems, over-control by carriers is the top reason mobility is moving so slow here in … Read more

It is all over the web…. Network operator 3 is 1) opening up, and 2) offering flat access fees for their mobile broadband services on top of their basic subscription. Flat rates and open gardens, including support for Skype, Sling remote home TV and MSN and Google? Sounds great… Flat rates and open gardens are … Read more

Mobile Complete is a company offering a very useful service. Their DeviceAnywhere service addresses a real (and expensive) pain that any company/developer creating mobile software has to endure… testing on real handsets. Once you are ready to test your mobile solution, use their service to (remotely) test on a plethora of handsets and networks from … Read more

I've been playing with the Nokia 3220. The 3220 is a S40 handset targeted at the mass consumer market. I would add that it is targeted at the youth population with its embedded camera, and support for EDGE, SMS, MMS, Java, and light and sound effects, and robust construction — see Nokia 3220 spec web … Read more

The Mobile Developer’s Manifesto is a very good set of guidelines by Demetri Detsaridis, Creative Director at Massively Mobile. While written with the mobile game developer in mind, the guidelines are applicable to mobile developers in general. Good read. ceo

The illustration above depicts a (over-simplified) mobile convergence meme, where the user creates and consumes services/data on the web in different ways, and the user is right at the center, depicting the user (mobile context) is what really matters. For the sake of promoting advancement and minimizing confusion, and setting the right expectations (what is … Read more