Anders Lindh <alindh@iki.fi>
the mobile experience
Convergence, mobility, related technologies & development and random thoughts related to mobility and the mobile web.

Archive for June, 2006

Today’s bookmarks (2006-06-29)

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

»»Melodeo’s Mobilcast - Free Mobile Phone Podcast Listening Software - Mobile Podcasting
Great! My N70 doesn’t support the Nokia podcasting client, so I’ve been waiting for an alternative..
Mobile Advertising (Could Be) Worth $9.6 Billion By 2010 | MocoNews.net

Today’s bookmarks (2006-06-27)

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

Cellfire
Very interesting as Cingular is taking this mobile coupon concept nation wide in the states
8 Invaluable Wordpress Plugins
Tagged as: blog
Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0

Mobile platform statistics

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

I’ve done some searching for statistics on different types mobile platforms and their current global uptake. Here is a what I’ve found.

Platform
Amount(millions)
Notes

Java
700M
Total shipped, end of 2005Most phones are feature phones, a fact that is reflected in this figure.I wonder what the MIDP 1/2 split is?

Flash Lite
77M
Total shipped, Q1 2006This figure is based mostly on the […]

Widgets, gadgets and microbrowsers

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

I’ve been running Windows Vista beta 2 for a couple of days, and one thing I like about it is the sidebar with its user-definable gadets. The sidebar gadgets are in all simplicity applications built out of HTML, JavaScript and CSS (very ajaxy by definition). Individual gadgets can be dragged out of the sidebar and […]

Internet Tablet OS 2006 beta available

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

A beta of the forthcoming Internet Tablet OS 2006 update for the Nokia 770 tablet was released in on Jun 9 at maemo.org. Having just installed it, I must it really is a major update for device, as it features not only prettier graphics, a browser that remembers passwords, etc. but a full scale VOIP […]

Today’s bookmarks (2006-06-15)

Friday, June 16th, 2006

Mobile phone companies join forces on Linux
I’ve never been a big believer in linux on the phone, as the user experience needs to be unified as possible (just take a look at desktop linux..). On the other hand, the Nokia 770 is quite good in usability terms, phones are getting faster and get more m
FlyakiteOSX […]

Today’s bookmarks (2006-06-14)

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

PlacesToDo Takes Social Bookmarking Mobile - Mashable*

Today’s bookmarks (2006-06-12)

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006

Open Gardens
Tagged as: blogs mobile web2.0
Mobile Web Design ~ The Series ~ Authentic Boredom

Mobileplay
Mobile content and application aggregator with social features. Too bad there is no Symbian or J2ME version available. Via Lifeblog.Tagged as: mobile

Grokking FON

Monday, June 12th, 2006

I remember reading about FON when it got funding, but didn’t bother checking our more thoroughly then. Having done that now, I can say wow. FON is a “global community of people”, all of whom share their WiFi connection with rest of the community. So when I share my WiFi connection, I get to use […]

Today’s bookmarks (2006-06-08)

Friday, June 9th, 2006

anti-mega: hello reboot
I got the S60 backpack application and have it installed on my N70. Looks quite promising!
Aula 2006 - Movement
Xgl - openSUSE
Suse 10.1 with Xgl enabled is wickedly cool. Haven’t tried Linux (on the desktop) for years, so it was a nice surprise that eveything seems to work quite well (sound, wlan with wpa […]