MobHappy

I’ve mentioned before about how I think a key aspect of mobile operating systems of the near future will be the degree to and ease with which they can be customized with user interfaces. I think this is part of what’s behind the recent Symbian move, for instance. But what will also be key will [...]

I noted last month the growing number of manufacturers that are developing their own UI to run on top of Windows Mobile. Today, IntoMobile pointed out another, Glide, from ASUS. ASUS introduces its own Windows Mobile UI – Glide: Let’s see, HTC has its own UI (TouchFLO and TouchFLO 3D) running on top of Windows [...]

Last May, I went to the UIQ Fast Track event in San Francisco and had a pretty great time. If you’re looking to get into mobile development, whether on UIQ or another platform, you should be there. If you’re already developing, you’ll get a lot out of it as well. As last year, everybody attending [...]

Fast is better than slow, Google says, when it comes to mobile. But they’ve got data to back that up — with a chart! They say that S60 and BlackBerry users that install their home-screen search shortcuts not only see a 40 percent increase in the speed of their search results, but they also perform [...]

You might have noticed that Apple released an SDK for the iPhone, which will allow developers to create native applications for it. Given all our recent talk about native apps vs. web apps, it’s worth mentioning (doubly so as Apple is going a different way than other platform makers by not supporting Flash on the [...]

A real bugbear of mine are the surveys and press releases put out by mobile “security” vendors that seem intended to do little more than scare people into buying their products. They attempt to whip up a frenzy by playing on people’s experiences with viruses on their PCs, then ignore the reality that it’s actually [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the merits of mobile native development compared to mobile web development. Native mobile development is so complex and fraught with so many pitfalls, and that situation doesn’t look like it’s changing much, despite the advances many handset manufacturers and platform providers trumpet. Myriad technical issues remain, while the [...]

“Stratellites” — giant blimps that could supposedly deliver wireless broadband to land masses the size of Texas — were, for a long time, my favorite BS broadband idea. The obvious pun, that the company behind them was full of hot air, was irresistable. A close second was the concept of putting reusable balloons in the [...]

Generally when we discuss the idea of platform agnosticism — that is, supporting a multitude of platforms, instead of just one — it usually pertains to mobile operating systems, mobile web vs. Java, or handset brands. But that narrow perception might soon become outmoded. Orbitcast, a blog that follows the satellite radio industry, reported earlier [...]

One of the real problems for mobile search is how hard it is for users to simply enter and perform searches. The difficulty of entering search terms makes using search services unattractive, except in extreme cases of need, while the impact of each additional click on the likelihood a mobile user will complete a task [...]