Here are a few of the presentations from the great event mobile20 in Barcelona last week. Beyond Free: …what is the customer’s perception of “free”? Device detection, the User Agent and beyond Openness in the telecommunication industry Context Introduction at Mobile 2.0 Europe
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
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 […]
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: […]
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 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 […]
I learned a new word today:
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 […]
Have been using twitter for a while now, and was annoyed by the tinyurls being useless on my mobile. So, I thought; how hard can it be? and made this one: mtny.mobi mtny.mobi works as all other tiny url creators, but this has a mobile touch to it. You can specify if the target url […]
From Wap Reviews blog on Mobile 2.0 Event San Francisco: