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Saturday, March 17, 2007
New mobile trends and guidelines at MEX
Check out Seven mobile user experience downloads for information about mobile trends and guidelines for mobile services etc. The reports are quite lengthy.
I didn't get time to read through Jeff Axup's thesis (400+ pages), but it's clearly solid work, and written with also the user's perspective.
Don't be scared off by the 130+ slides in Brian Fling's presentation. That includes all part slides, so maybe it's "just" 70 slides all in all. I had expected more about the alternatives to using the phone's browser for service access, like Java ME and Flash, at least for showing that using the browser is best (if it now is). These platforms are becoming very strong for service frontends, providing much better responsiveness for the end-user. The only way a browser-based service can be as responsive is by deploying Java/ECMA-script on the mobile side, and there's very little about that in the presentation.
It links to a summary by Unstrung of the Top 10 Emerging Mobile Markets where China and India clearly stand out. Other information has confirmed that China and India will be the major markets also over time, but the presented list of countries indicates there's a substantial amount of mobile market still to evolve, but of course it's not endless.
I didn't get time to read through Jeff Axup's thesis (400+ pages), but it's clearly solid work, and written with also the user's perspective.
Don't be scared off by the 130+ slides in Brian Fling's presentation. That includes all part slides, so maybe it's "just" 70 slides all in all. I had expected more about the alternatives to using the phone's browser for service access, like Java ME and Flash, at least for showing that using the browser is best (if it now is). These platforms are becoming very strong for service frontends, providing much better responsiveness for the end-user. The only way a browser-based service can be as responsive is by deploying Java/ECMA-script on the mobile side, and there's very little about that in the presentation.
It links to a summary by Unstrung of the Top 10 Emerging Mobile Markets where China and India clearly stand out. Other information has confirmed that China and India will be the major markets also over time, but the presented list of countries indicates there's a substantial amount of mobile market still to evolve, but of course it's not endless.
