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  • iPhone - Posted by weimenglee 7 weeks 2 days ago
  • Location in iPhone Web Apps
  • One of the key limitations of developing Web applications for iPhone is that you are not allowed to access the hardware on the device via the Web browser. For example, you cannot access the camera on the iPhone; neither can you access the accelerometer. This seriously limits the kinds of applications you can develop on the iPhone. One notable exception, however, is the support for tracking the location of devices, through a combination of GPS, Wi-Fi, and cellular triangulation.
  • Browsers - Posted by jonarne 40 weeks 4 days ago
  • Location, Location, Location
  • Location based services (LBS) has been a buzz word and a hype since birth of mobile services. I'm not saying that it is a failure!
  • Best Practices - Posted by Ronan_Mandel 43 weeks 3 days ago
  • Widget Investigation leads to a 'Worst Practice' Discovery
  • Nokia just wrapped up their Developer Conference in Monaco last week. Sadly, I didn't have the budget to go. Maybe you were lucky and did (or maybe you live there, lucky you!). Anyhow, one of the technologies that they're pushing these days is their WRT (Web Run Time) or Widgets for the lay person out there. This whole mobile widget thing is nothing new, but what does appear to be new is that they're gathering a steam this time.
  • Browsers - Posted by Ronan_Mandel 46 weeks 1 day ago
  • Accesskeys: Thinking about them in a QWERTY world
  • Interestingly enough, in this time of excitement and interest in building apps for mobile phones, Google did a refresh on their web apps for iPhone and Android. Go figure, seems like the mobile web isn't dead even on high end, high power devices. Even more, it would appear to make sense to build mobile specific web interfaces even for fully functional WebKit browser based devices. Imagine that!
  • Hosting - Posted by Ronan_Mandel 1 year 4 weeks ago
  • AT&T Gateway address updates
  • Well our friends at AT&T are up to changes in the network again. Happily they were kind enough to send out a message with a heads up about new network addresses that are coming from devices on their network.
  • Browsers - Posted by bryanrieger 1 year 8 weeks ago
  • Effective Design for Multiple Screen Sizes
  • So you're a designer and have been tasked with the design of a mobile web site. Chances are, unless you're designing for only one device you're quickly going to be faced with a common problem experienced by designers who work with mobile devices; figuring out what screen size to actually design for. For instance:
  • Location Based Services - Posted by nicogoeminne 1 year 12 weeks ago
  • Developing Location Based Services: Introducing the Location API for J2ME
  • Many mobile phones today support the Location API for J2ME under JSR-179. Using the location API, you can easily develop useful location based mobile Java applications. In this article, we demonstrate how to develop and test a mobile location based client server application using JSR-179, servlets and Google Maps.
  • Usability - Posted by casaise 1 year 14 weeks ago
  • Character Encoding Issues and the Mobile Web
  • Character encoding, the binary representation underlying every symbol in documents delivered to mobile devices, is often treated as an afterthought in mobile Web development. Many developers simply rely upon ISO-8859-1; not a bad choice, as this encoding efficiently supports all important Western European languages, has long been available in the mobile and fixed Internet, is widespread among low-end phones, and is the default encoding in the HTTP standard.
  • Best Practices - Posted by Ronan_Mandel 1 year 19 weeks ago
  • It's Open if We Tell You It Is
  • I'd like to come back to a topic that I touched on a few months ago: open. In case you weren't paying attention to CTIA in San Francisco last month (and I won't fault you if you weren't), you may have missed the clarification that the major operators in the States provided to the definition of an 'open' network. Sitting together on a stage the bigwigs from Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile each found ways to describe why an 'open' network is not really what the end user wants. Given some of what was said, it's a wonder that any of us are ever able to get apps out there at all.
  • Best Practices - Posted by Ronan_Mandel 1 year 22 weeks ago
  • The Google Phone Cometh (so what)?
  • Last week saw the announcement of the first Android based device, the HTC Dream better known now as the T-Mobile G1. Despite the fact that this phone is based on on Open Source platform, the details as they have been released, make it feel very much like any other smartphone that Joe Consumer can go purchase from his operator. It's locked to T-Mobile USA at launch and will find its way into the UK in November before it conquers the world in 2009. Now the real question: So what?