I am so glad that I tested the mobile web with my Ipod Touch and didn’t fall for the Iphone. I always was and am more intrigued of what Google is doing since they not only come out with superior products, but also have an incredible reach.
So here it is..it is not a “dream”…and I am sure I will wait in line this time: The Google Android G1 Phone
T-Mobile G1 Android Released : Full Details of the Google Android HTC Dream Phone
HTC T-mobile G1 Google Android Dream Phone (Animated Demo)
Funny that Ralph Lauren, a company that I almost ended up with is using QR Codes in their ads and in the stores:
Picture credit to PSFK.com.
Also other Ralph Lauren / Polo QR codes report here.
Oh well…not sure how secret it is, but someone figured that there is a QR code on
on the Iphone:
Ryan over at Punchkickinteractive is always good for a great post. This time the 5 Commandments of Mobile Web design. Here a quick summary:
1. The Mobile Web is not the little sister of the Traditional web.
2. Give People What they want, when they want it
3. Build unique mobile content, or don’t bother at all.
4. Make it useable (3xtimes)
5. Don’t forget about design. Seriously
and my 6th one:
If you design for mobile, read Ryan’s book (cannot find link now…but read it!).
Mitchel Baker, chairperson of Mozilla, announced that by 2010 there should be an effective
Firefox in the the mobile market. Here the quotation from the Mozilla dev blog:
“Over the past few weeks, Vladimir Vukicevic has been working on getting TraceMonkey working on the ARM architecture
which is frequently used in mobile and handheld devices. “[M]obile and
handheld platforms are going to quickly become consumers of the full
web, and core performance gains will often yeild much more significant
user-perceptible performance improvements. The result of all this work
will be a richer web experience on mobile and embedded devices, by
allowing those users to take advantage of modern web applications that
do much of their work on the browser instead of server side.” Vlad’s
TraceMonkey work will be available for testing in the next alpha
release of Fennec (the code name for Firefox Mobile) by enabling a configuration setting the same way testers can enable TraceMonkey in Firefox nightly builds. For more information, including a host of technical details, see Vlad’s weblog.”
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A study held by Innofact AG shows that 53% of Germans Don’t Use The Mobile Web B/C it is to expensive. 53% don’t use it, b/c there is no interest or they don’t see any value.
15% say, there current mobile phone doesn’t support the mobile web. 11% say it is
too complicated (e.g. too slow).
5% are looking forward for a mobile with mobile web capabilities.
Pretty impressive startup from Japan…Tonchidot:
SekaiCameraDemoVideo of TechCrunch50
TechCrunch50: Super-funny, hilarious Q&A with tonchidot
Just wanted to let all readers know that we’ll be at Nokia’s S60 event on September 17th at the Flagship store on E 57th Street. Event looks already like fun, so RSVP to Nokia and enjoy the mobile tech crowd.
Among other things you’ll get one-on-one demos and can talk directly to engineers, marketers and architects.
Techcraver posts today about the new Google Chrome browser and its possible impact on the Mobile Web.
He points out that the Browser will probably be rolled out as a Mobile browser after it will be made available to Windows, Mac and Linux.
Also Om Malik over at Gigaom see Chrome as a browser that “can carve out a nice chunk of the (mobile) browser market.
Phandroid even goes that far to say that “Chrome…could become the preferred mobile web browser and bridge the ever narrowing gap between the desktop and mobile experience”.
I am convinced that Google has a bigger strategy for Chrome and since they failed to transcode websites on the fly (like everybody else), this might be the way to go and open up a fast mobile web to Android other platforms.
For me the past two weeks have been clearly the “Google Weeks”. Their recent Admanager and now Chrome launches just have an impact beyond believe.
Interesting stats over at Headstand Media. Not sure about the source of the stats, but pretty interesting to see that even AOL Mobile has a fair amount of traffic:
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Top Browsed:
Top Search Brand Reach
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