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  • 08.06.08
    Mobile Browsers Driving Mobile Web per ARM mobile browsers | (3)
    ARM is the leading provider of chips for mobile phones and apparently they are now focusing on optimizing their processors for browsers. Bob Morris, their Director of Platform Enablement has his eye on the mobile browser wars and calls them the new application framework for mobile devices. While I agree on their thinking and approach, I think it could be dangerous for ARM to take their eye off of the mobile phone OS market share numbers between Symbian, Linux Mobile (LiMo), Google Android, Windows mobile and others. It's really not practical to install an application for every single function that you ...
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  • 07.09.08
    Mobile Web User Experience Still Has a Long Way To Go on the go | (2)
    A newly released global study shows users' overwhelming dissatisfaction with their mobile web user experience. In fact, the study shows that "Nearly 50 percent of respondents said that a poor experience on their initial use of the mobile Web made them "reluctant to access" either the site - or the Internet in general - on their mobile phones again." The study was conducted by AKQA and dotMobi, who is the registrar for the .mobi top level domains. The primary reasons cited for poor mobile web experiences are poor site display and layout. There are really 2 factors at work here: Poor ...
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