Comments on: Own Goal, And How Long Til The BCKS? http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/06/13/own-goal-and-how-long-til-the-bcks/ Russell Buckley and Carlo Longino on mobile technology. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:56:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: sticklebrick http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/06/13/own-goal-and-how-long-til-the-bcks/comment-page-1/#comment-9092 sticklebrick Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:45:07 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/06/13/own-goal-and-how-long-til-the-bcks/#comment-9092 Shockingly poor but with some potential. They've made an interface that looks very nice, on a pwoerpoint - but running it on my SE K600 it is simply not usable, and in my experience that's consistently one of the faster java phones on the market. Given it's over 200K and restricted to SEs and Nokia S60s with approx 176x220 screens and fairly unrestricted heaps, you can see exactly how they've written it - I'm assuming bloated code fixed to one screen size, but I can guarantee overuse of images. A bit of thought/experience/skill and they could have created an app half the size which moved very fast and looked very good. No idea how good the content is, because I waited a minute to connect over 3G to be told the next match is 24 days away and then it started trying to reconnect to the server again for no obvious reason, so I staggered round the menus for as long as i could bear (30 seconds, with 2 secs lag between keypress and visible response) and then killed it. Then again, it's 2/3rds the size of the last app Yahoo put out and looks nicer if you don't have to see it move, so give them another couple of years... Shockingly poor but with some potential.

They’ve made an interface that looks very nice, on a pwoerpoint – but running it on my SE K600 it is simply not usable, and in my experience that’s consistently one of the faster java phones on the market.

Given it’s over 200K and restricted to SEs and Nokia S60s with approx 176×220 screens and fairly unrestricted heaps, you can see exactly how they’ve written it – I’m assuming bloated code fixed to one screen size, but I can guarantee overuse of images. A bit of thought/experience/skill and they could have created an app half the size which moved very fast and looked very good.

No idea how good the content is, because I waited a minute to connect over 3G to be told the next match is 24 days away and then it started trying to reconnect to the server again for no obvious reason, so I staggered round the menus for as long as i could bear (30 seconds, with 2 secs lag between keypress and visible response) and then killed it.

Then again, it’s 2/3rds the size of the last app Yahoo put out and looks nicer if you don’t have to see it move, so give them another couple of years…

]]> By: Jonathan http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/06/13/own-goal-and-how-long-til-the-bcks/comment-page-1/#comment-9082 Jonathan Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:16:17 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/06/13/own-goal-and-how-long-til-the-bcks/#comment-9082 You aren't going to bring up Beckham's red card fiasco, are you? Let's the bloke alone, with his wife. You aren’t going to bring up Beckham’s red card fiasco, are you? Let’s the bloke alone, with his wife.

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