if the voice commands works half as well as in this demo, I am…
if the voice commands works half as well as in this demo, I am still impressed! On the other hand I would not be surprised if Apple has done it again
Category Archives: mobile thoughts
Location based services in the browser
One of the main reasons for creating applications in stead of web based services running in the browser is that you cant get hold of location data from the gps in the handset. There are actually a few options of doing that. And a W3C standard is on its way! I have made a small compilation […]
Why is mobile search so hard?
And WHY is nobody trying to make it right? Microsoft launched Bing the other day. The mobile version of this is m.bing.com There are so many things that are completely wrong with this service, I don’t know where to start. Fortunately Dennis @ wap review has covered it all. A few things that is worth mentioning again: […]
Playing with geoip
Have been playing with MaxMinds free geoip lookup tool. Its pretty OK. The quality, as far as I have tested, is pretty good! More than good enough to use in location aware mobile services. Ofcourse you have the issue with looking up location of the operators gateway when the user is connected throgh the telco network… […]
Jakob Nielsen about mobile web
Jakob Nielsen knows a lot about interaction design and usability, no doubt. But a few of the statements about mobile web are still pretty disturbing: A Separate Mobile Site Is Best Sure! thats a no brainer For the best user performance, you should design different websites for each mobile device class What? Do you know […]
Todays word: “Social Messaging”
I learned a new word today:
Fanta crash lands on mobile marketing attempt
Currently fanta is running a campaign on boards here in Norway. The campaign is sad in a crappy way. More than one person should get fired over this. Here is the use case: 1) Read the board. There is something that looks like a QR-code or data matrix stuff. 2) Read the stuff with small […]
Opera does not think much of mobile web….
From Wap Reviews blog on Mobile 2.0 Event San Francisco:
The future of mobile
On the Google blog there is a quite interesting post about the mobile future.When reading it two things comes to my mind: 1) The mobile is what