I carry around a Nexus One and an iPhone. Karanja carries around a Nokia 1600, the cheapest data-enabled phone you can buy ($25). Why? He does this so that he understands what his customers need and use. His clients aren’t your upper-class Blackberry toting professionals, they’re the “wananchi” (the ordinary person). That’s Erik Hersman of [...]
[14 May 2010]
UPDATE: Turns out, I wasn’t wrong. I was just clairvoyant . WorldMate is working on an Android version of its application. Hrm. It appears I was wrong about a WorldMate application for Android. I managed to find an unused download page (by typing “android site:www.worldmate.com” in Google) that listed Android as an option. I assumed [...]
[30 Jul 2009]
Google announced the release of the 2.0 version of Gmail mobile Java application yesterday. I’ve used the 1.0 application for about as long as I’ve owned my phone. It worked well for most of that time, except for a significant — though since fixed — glitch with secure connections. I have only used the new [...]
[24 Oct 2008]
I received a Nokia N800 to test and review from the fine folks at WOM World, a Nokia-sponsored meta-blog. The basics The N800 runs a flavor of Linux known as OS 2008. Several software packages come loaded with the N800, including a full-featured web browser (with Flash!), e-mail client, media player, and instant messaging application. [...]
[2 Apr 2008]
Summaries and well-written headlines are already important when it comes to triggering user reactions or making content findable. But as U.S. web users adopt the mobile web, I think such headlines and summaries are critical. Waiting for content to download in order to determine its relevance is a pain in the a**. It’s a lesson [...]
[28 Jan 2008]
Sure the iPhone has its spiffy little web browser / SDK (Safari), but that mean bupkiss for the rest of us. What can we do? That’s where Mozilla comes in. Via Ajaxian: Mike Schroepfer’s post Mozilla and Mobile. According to Schroepfer: Mozilla will add mobile devices to the first class/tier-1 platform set for Mozilla2. This [...]
[10 Oct 2007]