August 2010
1 post
Marco.org: A smartphone retrospective →
This is what high-end smartphones looked like in 2007: Smartphones were an established consumer-electronics market with devices that people thought were pretty cool, but often frustrating and with serious shortcomings and design flaws. Then this happened: Other manufacturers had…
November 2009
9 posts
A Guide to Mobile Web Design Tips and Tricks →
A very handy article listing many mobile development resources. They vary from beginner to advanced so you are likely to find something appropriate.
I have used many of the resources myself in the past to learn more about creating mobile websites; UI/architechture, best practices, design, buildout, testing etc. It is important if you want to make a usable mobile version of your website that you...
RealWire | GoPayforit Launches Mobile, Small... →
Worth keeping an eye out for this one.
Artists Will Define Mobile Entertainment, Not The... →
“In mobile, the potential of the medium was first teased with the ringtone (a legit consumer phenomenon) and now again with the App Store…but these are still early stages of what Sarkar characterized as Alien (as in the movie) Evolution…” -Sam Sarkar, a senior exec for Infinitum Nihil, Johnny Depp’s production company
iPhone Superguide comes to the App Store...... →
marco:
Jason Snell at Macworld had a sad but unsurprising amount of trouble getting their app approved that contained “iPhone” in the title and a photo of an iPhone in the icon. (Mentioning or depicting the iPhone at all is problematic.) I’ll steal the same quote as Gruber:
He also said something that really irked me. He suggested — again, perfectly politely — that if we had a problem with...
Nokia saddens N-Gage fans. →
Nokia discontinues N-Gage and announces the Ovi Store.
AT&T vs Verizon coverage
marco:
Jared:
Working at Tumblr, I’m the only person in the office without an iPhone. I own a BlackBerry Curve 8300 and it’s a perfectly fine phone, but its features are incomparable to those of the iPhone. The only thing keeping me on it is Verizon. Unlike everyone else here, I get reception at work. I also get reception everywhere in NYC. Hell, I get reception virtually everywhere I...
October 2009
5 posts
Selectors
When writing CSS for lo-end mobile devices, always give each selector their own properties/values. Do not combine selectors. Many older mobile devices can’t handle them and you’ll spend a lot of time bug hunting.
“The three current big megatrends in the web/tech sector are mobile, social, and...”
– Fred Wilson (via soupsoup)
Seems like Fred essentially described Foursquare? It’s clearly a real-time, mobile application that encourages social interactions to occur face-to-face. (And, sure, the Twitter and Facebook hooks help extend the interaction/fellowship with others as well.)
(via...
Adobe Flash on Every Phone (Except iPhone) -... →
phineaspoe:
The story about Flash on smartphones (or lack thereof) has been dragging on for so long many of you will surely be surprised it wasn’t solved by now, but luckily, we’re getting there.
At the MAX conference in Los Angeles Adobe isshowing off Flash Player 10.1 for smartphones. In short, this is the version of mobile Flash you’ve been waiting for. You can expect faster rendering, lower...