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MMS is a usability disaster
April 25, 2008, by ronan
I can't remember the last time I got an MMS message. Ewan of SMS Text News reminds me why: MMS: Still a piece of shit ... Read More
Email configuration via SMS
April 24, 2008, by Julien Buratto
Many of you will have experienced how a call to a network operator has resulted in an SMS containing configuration settings being sent to your phone. In this article we will look at how to configure a mobile phone's email account settings via SMS. Many phones support POP3 and IMAP accounts; in this example we are going to configure a simple POP3 account. To check emails, an access point (APN) is also needed, so we will also configure an internet connection... Read More
Open Sesame
April 24, 2008, by Ronan_Mandel
There’s lots of chatter about ‘openness’ in the mobile space recently. If you’re listening to the media, you’re hearing it both on the handset and the network side. We’ve got the 700MHz spectrum auction that’s just wrapped up in which Google so cleverly forced the ‘openness’ provision to kick in. Verizon, the largest operator in the US (and the big winner in the C block that’s now required to be ‘open’), making statements that they’re going to allow ‘any device’ on their network... Read More
Dev.mobi update
April 23, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
A quick heads up on a couple of changes to dev.mobi. We've been talking about upgrading the forums for a while, and well, we've done it (at least in part, consider it a work in progress). We've tidied up the thread layout a bit. In particular we now display your user stats: when you joined, how many times you've posted, and whether you are online or not... Read More
DeviceAtlas 1.1.1
April 22, 2008, by atrasatti
Full list of devices is now updated and shows vendor logosDevice list is visible to users who have not yet logged inVolantis data is being imported, about 2000 devices are already mapped to existing devices and you will see our total number of devices growing quickly in the next few days. We should reach the 5000 mark!Some users reported issues with Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, these should be fixed now... Read More
DeviceAtlas implementation of the W3C Simple API Recommendation
April 22, 2008, by atrasatti
It is almost midnight in Dublin, almost 1am in Italy and we are still busy preparing what we think is a very exciting release. We have worked hard in the W3C in the last year together with some of the greatest players of this industry (Fundacion CTIC, MobileAware, Volantis, Telefonica, to name a few) and the results are eventually coming... Read More
Viewports on mobile browsers
April 16, 2008, by ronan
Is it any wonder that users of low-end phones don't browse the web that much? Take a look at this photo of a Nokia 6131 in the default web browser. By my very crude calculations, the percentage of the overall screen area actually used by the browser to display useful content is a mere 65%. Why the gaping void between the bottom of the viewport and the menu? Why throw away so many pixels for the scrollbar? By the way, the browser was configured to use "Full" screen size... Read More
Ready.mobi Roadmap – we want your feedback!
April 15, 2008, by johnl
Thousands of you have used ready.mobi to test your sites, so we are interested to capture any feedback you may have, and particularly any new capabilities you would like to see. The roadmap for the remainder of the year is being completed, so this is an opportunity to influence the content - let us know what you think... Read More
10 things about dev.mobi, RSS Feeds, Subscriptions and Tracking
April 14, 2008, by daniel.hunt
I've put together a list of the 10 best things I can list about dev.mobi. Its hardly exhaustive, and there are plenty more that I could add in, but I didn't like the title "42 things you should know about dev.mobi". It just doesn't have the same 'ring' about it... Read More
Score one for the Developers!
April 4, 2008, by Ronan_Mandel
In case you missed it Openwave announced an update to its OpenWeb Adaptation Solution which will do a better job of respecting mobile specific content and the intent of the content onwer/author. It turns out that the Openwave contribution to the see of transforming proxies to bring the 'full web' down to mobile browsers will now at least make an attempt at allowing developers who take the time, effort and energy to build mobile specific interfaces actually deliver them to end users... Read More
