On the MEX blogSimon Judge has posted an excellent series of articles on the theme of current moibile user experience from the developer perspective. Taken together the four posts on payment, simplicity, testing and personalistion give an excellent introduction and insite into not only the challenges, but also the opportunities facing developers in the mobile world.
Tomorrow sees the opening day of the PMN Mobile User Experience Conference. The two day conference promises 'insight into all aspects of the user experience, including technology platforms, design strategy and the commercial reality of delivering truly user-centred mobile products'. With speakers from across the industry the inaugral MEX event looks to put the splotlight on user experience. Read on...
The Internet seems to have gone wild over the weekend with gossip about a Sony Ericsson P950i, with Symbian OS 9 and UIQ 3. No further comments here, but here is a good starting point if you like rumours...
Starkey have launched the Eli Bluetooth hearing aid adaptor. Essentially, what this interesting device does is convert a standard hearing aid into a Bluetooth headset. Read on...
Orange have announced the date of the next in the series of their popular Code Camps. The Code Camp will take place in Opio (near Nice) in France from 17th - 19th October. It is a chance for developers to have face to face contact with both Orange and the sponosring companies such as Symbian, Sony Ericsson and UIQ. The camp lasts for 72 hours, with 24 hour food on offer and there is an opening Pow-Wow and over 70 sessions (both technical and commercial).
Symbian released it's quarterly summary of device numbers and operation figures for Q2 2005. 7.8 million devices were sold in the last 3 months to June 2005, and more Symbian devices were sold in the first half of the year than the whole of 2004. There are 54 different phones shipping worldwide and 50 Symbian OS phone models are under development by 11 licensees.
Another Series 60 virus 'outbreak' reported in the Register, and yet again it's the anti-virus software vendor who's prominent on the scene. "Prospective victims need to accept a download"? More like explicitly choose 'Yes' three times... Mutter mutter... Further reading.
What does it take to make a good UI on a smartphone? Symbian One talk to Giuliano Maciocci of Mobile Innovation, abut the design issues and challenges confronting modern day developers.
Rafe gets inspired by Steve's 'Next generation' thoughts and Nokia's almost simultaneous release of Mobile Search. Here's his own version of the future.
With interesting timing, given my editorial (above), Nokia has launched a new, free mobile search tool, as detailed here, in the 6630/6680 forum. The new tool aims to simplify searching on a mobile device by providing it as an application service. Search functions include web and images (via Yahoo) and it also includes 'local search' functionality in select countries (Yell in the UK).
