We still see a significant difference between iPhone and iPod touch users upgrades, which isn’t surprising given the $5 upgrade requirement for the iPod touch. 91% of iPhone requests are 3.0 or 3.1, compared to only 35% of iPod touch requests via AdMob Metrics blog.
Sony Ericsson is hoping that a brand makeover can somehow heal its critically wounded handset business. The joint venture between Ericsson and Sony said today that it will adopt Sony’s “make.believe” tagline in its marketing campaigns to “reinforce its entertainment credentials” with consumers GigaOm Why Sony Ericsson Is Living in a Land of Make.Believe . [...]
In the future, people will point phones at you to check your interwebs while you speak. Notable about the video, and others, is the emphasis on the corporeal identity – face recognition, real-time video of people – seems to continue the anchorage of online identities to literal pictorial and video evidence. Facebook is a good [...]
On Monday, July 20, Oliver Wiedlich will be presenting on the mobile user experience followed by a panel discussion including myself, Oliver, Julian Wong and Rod Farmer. 6-8pm at Horse Bazaar, which is just behind that car with the boot open: View Larger Map Should be outstanding – here’s the full details at the Human [...]
As The Register mentions, it’s a little fantastic that these games can be played without looking at the screen. Mind you, I’m not even sure the hair is real in this ad, so let’s not nitpick. Incidentally, Yari is a Japanese word for spear: Yari (??) is the Japanese term for spear, or more specifically, [...]
It’s unfinished, so the gestures appear on rough device image. Notable: Close by swiping upwards Swipe either way to delete an item from a list – seems like a wasted gesture option. Move cursor? Select Text Engadget.
Vodafone have announced the launch on their app store by year end in Britain, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. They’ll concentrate on apps for Symbian devices initally People will be able to buy apps and have them charged on their phone bill It’s a 70/30 revenue split between the developer and [...]
Boy Genius Report have a video of the Samsung i7500, the first non-HTC Android phone. Thoughts: It has a lot of buttons There’s no sliding keyboard, and no stylus The camera is 5 MP, it has a flash It has video but it doesn’t focus It probably doesn’t have GPS “The keyboard is not really [...]
The Android Developers forum has a full list of Android 1.5 features. There are some UI element updates that may break the layout of some existing Android apps: You can see in this example that the buttons and checkboxes have a new appearance. Even though these changes do not affect binary nor source compatibility, they [...]
Started work at Symplicit. Unpacked an unprecedented amount of Appley goodness. And, hey, look mum, I’m moblogging. Are ya proud?
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