16 posts tagged “mobile”

Sunday, November 16th was Firefox Developers Conference 2008 in Tokyo, I attended and took videos with my N82.
Here are the Keynote speeches from the conference:

Next year is the planned first release, with versions for Maemo, possibly S60 (depends if they can get it working well enough in time for release), and windows mobile is expected to be working.

I asked what version of S60 they planned to develop for, and they said S60 3rd edition because that way it will bring Fennec to the largest amount of devices.

Currently there is only a touch screen version of Fennec that works. They are still working with different ideas on UIs for smaller screen (QVGA 320x240) and non-touch devices ie. windows mobile and S60 3rd devices. But they don't have a final UI yet.

They are not developing an iPhone version due to Apple's SDK License and Apple preventing "competing applicatons" to be available in the App Store. Christian Sejerson of Mozilla commented on Apple's App Store saying, Apple's approach is a failure they should focus on providing the best experience and service for their users not prevent competing apps on their devices.

They are also not developing an Android version, because currently Android apps are only developed in Google's version of Java and they are not willing to put a big effort into porting Fennec to that programming language.

Ubiquity is an Add-on/Extension that gives a lot of power to the user, to change how websites look, combine website content from different sites, and quickly look up specific information from different sites. It's sort of like Greasemonkey in it's ability to change a sites layout and design. It's long term goal after having established it in the Browser world is to bring Ubiquity to the desktop, making it easier to access info on websites right on your desktop, similar to Quicksilver for Mac. More details can be found on the Mozilla Labs Ubiquity Wiki.

Weave is another Add-on/Extension that Mozilla Labs is working on. One of the main goals Weave is trying to accomplish is Syncing your Bookmarks, cookies, history, and saved passwords between any Firefox browser with the Weave extension installed. The Sync will make a copy of your Bookmarks, cookies, history, etc. on Mozilla's server for backup as well. Because the Weave Add-on will also work in Thunderbird it's planned to also have the ability to Sync contacts from the E-mail client. The target is to have a first release at the same time as Fennec and to work with Fennec, so that your Bookmarks in Firefox can be synced to your mobile device that you install Fennec on. More info about Weave can be found on the Mozilla Labs Wiki site.

Great video showing the evolution of Mobile Phones from 1985 - Today. You'll see some familiar mobiles and some that you've never seen before.

Reiter's Camera Phone Report has some great interview video coverage from the US CTIA. Reiter used a Nokia N82 to record an interesting conversation about WiMAX and LTE, and another conversation that he captured on video was Rafe from All About Symbian asking questions about Share on Ovi. Check out the videos below.

Lenovo's U8 IdeaPad is an interesting concept device that combines: touchscreen internet tablet, phone, office productivity, entertainment, imaging, messaging, etc. But the keypad layout seems a bit awkward to me.
Watch the promotional video to see how it looks.

Photos by Chris Jordan of discarded mobile waste and other electronic waste, the byproduct of mass consumption societies. His work is exhibited widely in the US and Europe, and has been featured in print media, blogs, documentary films, on radio, and tv programs worldwide. Watch the video for Chris'  talk on the subject.

Nvidia demoed their new mobile graphics processor, named the Nvidia APX 2500, in a prototype device at MWC in Spain. It looks cool and demonstrates what is possible when graphics chips are embedded in mobile devices. Too bad it seems to only work with windoze mobile currently.

Check out the demo of the Nvidia APX 2500 below

Great blog post describing the difficulties for users accessing mobile websites and some suggestions to help developers make a better mobile site!

This is Mobility - Total Mobile Access - Excellent Example of Difficulties

http://www.thisis...

I went to the Pizza Hut site to see if the new store just around the corner from my house opened up and was greeted with a little flash animation informing me of “Total Mobile Access!!” for pizzahut.com. “How cool is that!!” I say to myself (I often speak to myself when using the web). I simply m...

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A company called Pleyo has released a browser called Origyn that is based on Webkit. Origyn sourcecode is available for afew different mobile platforms, including Maemo, the platform that N800 runs.

Pleyo Releases Origyn

http://www.sand-labs.org/owb

Origyn is a web browser designed for CE devices such as mobile phones, portable media players, Set Top Boxes and TV decoders, and any other consumer electronic product (GPS, home-gateways, Web-radios, PVR, DVD recorders, wireless devices etc.)

MTube might be the world's smallest PC, but with a touch screen as small as that I don't see it as being very usable except for maybe watching videos and showing photos to friends.