Mobile

In many ways, I see Moto going with Android as the only way they are going to remain within the market with the wars raging on with other smart phones. With the combined action of the iPhone, Palm Pre and Android on other handsets, Moto clearly is choosing the mobile platform that is open enough [...]

Ask anyone in the industry and they will be among the first to inform you that the news as we once new it is evolving. Some say it is dying, but I have seen evidence of it changing rather than simply rolling over to play dead as others believe it to be.
As this NYT piece [...]

Gmail on the BlackBerry is really nothing new. And offering yet another software app, again, just not that compelling. So I can only conclude that the Gmail plugin being discussed here is one that works directly with the BlackBerry email app itself.
In short, if I am following this correctly, it would mean having true Gmail [...]

I have spoken at length about the idea of bringing forth Android, designed by Google, to the world of netbooks in the past. And at the time, I felt that it could work with enough development effort tossed into the mix. Yet today, I am feeling differently. I think HP would be setting themselves up [...]

To be clear, I have no problem whatsoever with MySpace finally making its way over to the mobile world. Frankly, I think it is a bit overdue in many ways. But to simply choose to release MySpace on Windows Mobile only, is limiting. Even though I am not super big on Windows Mobile or MySpace [...]

I must be in a mobile frame of mind this week as yesterday, I spent the most of my afternoon and evening looking at what are supposed to be the best mobile web sites. Instead, I was disappointed and didn’t even want to select the amount we’re required to vote on. Then I saw this [...]

While designing with XHTML and CSS makes a site more accessible for those with mobile devices and screen readers, it’s not the most effective way to design mobile sites.
As more customers access the Web through the small screens of their cell phones and PDAs, businesses are beginning to develop Web pages specifically for these [...]

It is now possible to make Internet-based phone calls directly from your mobile phone, allowing great savings on the exorbitant international phone rates applied by most cell phone providers.
The new solution, which for now works only on Windows PCs, does not require any special hardware or adoption of a special mobile phone plan and it [...]

The long argument of what screen size to design for has run into another challenge: the small screen. Wireless device usage has jumped, color screens are no longer a luxury, and bandwidth is improving.
With numbers like the following, companies believe it’s worth the investment to pay attention to designing for the small screen. CTIA (Cellular [...]

I have to agree with Mike from The Feature. The idea of bringing Wi-Fi and cellular together is a little hard to wrap ones mind around. Having said this, I don’t think I would have been quite as hard on the idea as he was though. While there are undoubtly going to be some flaws [...]

Today I was reading about the fact that people are obviously going to want better ‘viewabilty’ of their favorite Web sites on mobile devices. This got me to thinking about the bigger question.
Should this become the Web Devs responsibility? I mean, should all blame or credit be placed in the hands of the world’s Web [...]

Here is another example of a Web site with the understanding that mobile technology requires Web sites to adhere to mobile device browser standards. Yell.com has understood this and is offering a service for maps, gifts, shopping and a whole lot more.

I’m a weblogger, and I don’t have a handheld version of my site - there I said it - but, I’m working furiously to rectify the situation. I didn’t quite think much of having a handheld version of my daily ramblings, but after taking a glance at A List Apart’s article on the importance of [...]

Do you have those cravings, when you’re out and about to just pick up your phone and write about that crazy nut job who just cut you off, or the most wonderful day you’ve had back-packing in the mountains? Well, now you can, and the story doesn’t even have to get stale before you reach [...]

LiveJournal users rejoice! Thanks to J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition), you will never again have to wander out of range for access to your Weblog. OK, so in reality you will still need some sort of Internet access, but that is pretty obvious I think.

Want to streamline your Web page so that it can be seen easily over any PDA browser? You ought to try out this neat little utility. While it may seem overly simplified, don’t discount it. The simple fact is that it does work.

Now this is just cool. Nextel has announced the release of a new wireless application called PitCommand for their mobile phones. Designed for race data delivery, it taps into the GPS telemetry for up-to-the-minute information. The Java based App displays important race information along with an animated graphic of the track while showing you the [...]

Here is an interesting article on mobile Web development. The author explains his thoughts on page design for smaller devices. He also goes on to discuss what tags the Openwave browser designed for the Sony Ericsson A5404S will support and which ones it will not. He then sums everything up at the end of his [...]