Google Android “HTC Dream” phone review

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 25 February, 2009 to the technology subset

The Google Android, or HTC Dream as it is also known, is a mobile phone, camera, and mini-computer, and is Google’s response to the iPhone.
Powered by the Android open-source operating system, the handset also features a 480 by 320 pixels tilt screen, with 65K colours, and full five row QWERTY keyboard.
Also included are numerous [...]

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Let’s web design like it’s 1998

Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 20 February, 2009 to the design and art subset

The state of mobile web design is lamentable according to usability guru Jakob Nielsen (and he’s probably right), but to ease the indescribable suffering of visitors accessing your website you should at least provide one mobile-device friendly version thereof for them to use…
For many sites, however, the only realistic option is to supplement the main [...]

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New adventures with the Google Android

Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 16 February, 2009 to the technology subset

I have a Google Android, or HTC Dream phone for a week or so to try out. I’ll be writing about the experience and hope to cover off the main user points when I do.
If there’s anything you’d like to know about the Android handset from a users point-of-view drop me a line, or leave [...]

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Mobile Web Design Trends For 2009

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 15 January, 2009 to the technology subset

Smashing Magazine looks at the trends and challenges of designing web interfaces for the mobile web.
Web designers know that the industry involves plenty of change, and continuous adaption and development of skills is required in order to stay up to date. In the past few years, one of the biggest areas of change has been [...]

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Some iPhone website development resources

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 6 November, 2008 to the technology subset

A small but useful round up of resources for anyone charged with the task of developing an iPhone optimised website, from Web Directions.

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The iPhone will beam you back to the future

Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 10 October, 2008 to the technology subset

Terabytes have no doubt been written about the iPhone by now, but this paragraph at Daring Fireball possibly makes for the best iPhone introduction and summary I have seen yet:
If I could travel back 20 years and show my then 15-year-old self just one thing from the future of today, it would be the iPhone. [...]

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Mobile web usage set to explode in developing nations

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 11 September, 2008 to the technology subset

Another reason to hone your mobile web development skills, a growing number of people in the developing nations are increasingly using mobile phones to access the web, more so than by way of desktop or laptop computers.
Opera Software, a firm that makes web-browser software for mobile phones, reports rapid growth in mobile-web browsing in developing [...]

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Australia’s top 10 mobile moguls

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 3 September, 2008 to the technology subset

Brad Howarth has recently compiled a list of ten significant influencers of Australian mobile content development and delivery.
Following the launch of the iPhone, the mobile industry has become hot property. But this is not a new sector. A group of industry pioneers have been slowly building Australia’s mobile industry for more than a decade. Building [...]

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Not quite 5GB of data for $50 a month, but a little better

Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 1 August, 2008 to the technology subset

Virgin have announced a 5GB of data for $100 a month plan for the iPhone in Australia. That’s still very expensive compared to the data plans in the US though.
Not quite 5GB of data for $50 a month, but at least it’s a step in the right direction.
Virgin is selling Apple’s 8GB iPhone 3G [...]

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Mobile Web Best Practice guidelines

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 30 July, 2008 to the technology subset

The W3C has released a set of Mobile Web Best Practice guidelines, providing a consistent framework for developers of content for mobile devices to work with.
In theory, at least.
Today, many more people have access to mobile devices than access to a desktop computer. This is likely to be very significant in developing countries, where Web-capable [...]

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