DeviceAtlas version 1.0.2
March 19, 2008, by atrasatti
Updates keep flowing to the production server as we add new features to the database and to the web interface. Today we have released a few updates that you can see on our website. A lot have asked for more detailed information about properties and while we thought most names would be self-explanatory it is always good to have a quick handbook to look at... Read More
A snapshot of the mobile web
March 19, 2008, by ronan
One of the nice side effects of crawling the mobile web for find.mobi is that we have a good idea of exactly what is out there. One thing that find.mobi does which is a bit different to the other mobile search engines out there is that it captures screenshots of mobile web pages as it crawls. As an experiment (with a tip of the hat to Russell Beattie's annual phone model images 2008 2005 2004) I pulled a selection of find.mobi's thumbnails and assembled them into a contact sheet. Preview below, higher resolution versions in page attachments... Read More
Over the Air: 48 Hours of Mobile Development, 4-5 April London
March 15, 2008, by Jo Rabin
Registration has just opened for an extraordinary event happening in London over the 4th and 5th of April. Over the Air is a free mobile developer conference covering a wide range of technologies and topics combined with a hands-on code-camp style un-conference. There will be talks and master-class type sessions on a range of technologies and platforms, including Java, Flash, Microsoft, Mobile Web, Android, Series-60, Widgets and Network APIs. There will be a strong user experience theme with sessions on prototyping, mobile design and human factors... Read More
The short comings of desktops
March 14, 2008, by jonarne
Why are people constantly talking about the limitations and short comings of mobile phones? I always think the other way around... Read More
DeviceAtlas tutorial for PHP
March 12, 2008, by atrasatti
We've just published the first tutorial that explains how to use the DeviceAtlas API in your applications. We open our "tutorials section" with PHP basic integration and of course Java and .NET will follow shortly. Remember that the different API's are very consistent (respecting language syntax and coding standards, of course) so it should be possible to take inspiration from the PHP tutorial and apply it to other languages... Read More
The DeviceAtlas API in PHP – Part I (The Basics)
UPDATED... AGAIN... 10/02/2009 We have just released version 2.3 of our API as a Beta with a whole host of new features that make integrating it into any PHP website much much easier. The download comes with extensive samples and documentation to help you get started. Find out more... Read More
Welcome to our 10,000th user!
March 6, 2008, by James Pearce
Hello everyone. We just reached new milestone - our 10,000th dev.mobi subscriber.We launched dev.mobi just over a year ago. We thought it was important for the mobile development community to have a single, independent source of information to help make the whole medium a success.It's fine having brilliant handset-specific and network-specific sites, but at the end of the day, which developers only develop for one make of handset or one network operator? Very few. So hopefully we fill a well-needed role in your bookmarks list :-)... Read More
DeviceAtlas 1.0.1.1
March 5, 2008, by atrasatti
A few minor issues were reported in the purchase process so we decided to release a quick fix. I have also updated the official changelog, but let me explain a few new things that we just added. Users are now allowed to edit the shipping address, so if you need to change or update it, you can do it from your user's homepage in DeviceAtlas. VAT number is now also stored as part of your address, so you can edit from the same page... Read More
Blogger mobile
March 1, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Do you use Blogger? Need a mobile template? We recently had a request in our forums for a mobile template for Blogger, and a few searches later ('blogger mobile template' etc.) and I knew how to post to a Blogger blog from my phone, but not how to make it accessible to mobile users...Blogger uses a template system which allows users to create and customise their own templates... Read More
DeviceAtlas version 1.0.1
February 26, 2008, by atrasatti
Today we have released a minor update for DeviceAtlas. It was a quick release, but we wanted to provide updates immediately. You can see the changelog on the official site. If you had downloaded the API we strongly suggest that you update to the latest version. Also make sure you download the latest JSON file from the internal link "My Licences" (available only if you have purchased a commercial licence or the developer licence)... Read More
