The day we have been waiting for is finally here. Someone published malware in an appstore, and to no surprise it was published to the Android Marketplace. Norwegian newspaper Digi.no has written/translated an article form The Register about an phishing application written to hijack your banking account information.
This was bound to happen, and this is whythere is such a strict regime to submit applications into appstores like the Apple AppStore and the Windows Phone Marketplace.
Today’s smartphones are trusted devices and the general public does not yet think of their mobile phone as a device that needs antivirus, firewall and malware detection software. But as long as there are vendor solutions like the Android Marketplace; where there is no quality control and no reviewing of applications except for the user feedback from those who already have been fooled by such applications i think things will get a lot worse before it gets better. Continue Reading
When it comes to application development on the Windows Phone platform things are on the move. Lessons are being learned from the iPhone and its usability experience, from the Android platform etc. The lesson learned is that you need to pay extra attention to how your application looks and feel.
You should not under estimate the possibility of usability and design being the selling point in a purchase decisions before feature richness in a case where two similar featured apps are compared, where one looks and feels good, and the other has an extra amount of features beyond the core functionality it should handle.
As i am on the look out for a UI toolkit to standardize our enterprise development at work on I´ll compile a list of libraries that could do the job as i find them. The criteria for the search is ease of use and finger friendliness. Hopeful others also find this list useful. Continue Reading
Made by Gartner analyst Monica Basso that muses that the Windows Mobile OS doesn´t have a future, that Microsoft is working to slow, and that they’re not able to renew the OS according to whims and wishes of the consumers. That they will not be able to regain any market share because of that.
Basis for this is according to Gartner that the Windows Mobile platform is to big and not dynamic enough to be scaled down to function on the less powerful and not so advanced phones, aka the regular cellphones(?) that dominates today’s mobile market. Continue Reading
Norwegian Yellow Pages (Eniro) have created one of the first augmented reality application for the iPhone. Augmented reality is the concept of adding value-adding information onto real time imaging. One use i think this could be a really cool tool for is visiting tourists. Hold up your iPhone and get instant tourist information anywhere in Oslo. The application is due to be launched in November/December 2009 at no cost, but will only be available for the iPhone 3GS because it uses the digital compass.
For developers of Android applications there is an AR API called Wikitude. It is a application programming interface which allows for the open development of markerless AR experiences, providing developers with the tools to either create their own android augmented reality applications, or enhance their existing Android applications with an AR camera-view engine. Continue Reading
Last week Mozilla org launched an alpha version of it’s mobile browser Fennec Norwegian paper digi.no writes.
Fennec ’s goal is in first hand to support Windows Mobile and Linux devices.
“We have the stated goal of supporting Windows Mobile and Linux devices. Support for other Platforms may be added in the future.”
- Fennec Wiki
The video shows a walkthrough of the alpha 1 release for Windows Mobile, running on an HTC Touch Pro. I really liked the “off-screen” controls and tabs and looking forward to trying it, but for now you need a Nokia N810 Internet Tablet with OS2008 to run it. Continue Reading
I live about 1 hour of commuting with bus and subway from my office and my favorite past time getting there or home from work is to listen to music and read blogs.
One of the blogs I like to read in the morning is www.smallsurfaces.com. A good blog about mobile user interfaces, but as irony strikes it, not very reader friendly on a small surface.
More blogs should be available with mobile friendly user interfaces!
I have used both my HTC Touch Diamond, and now an iPhone. Continue Reading
As a .NET and Windows Mobile device developer i love my Apple iPhone. It is an inspiratioal device, helps me create better and more usable applications on the WM platform. For some reason everything just looks better, mobile webpages, applications etc.
Today i addet a iPhone plugin to my wordpress blog called WPtouch and it can be downloaded here. What it does is that it redirects iPhone safari requests to a iphone friendly userinterface that makes everything plain nice.
We need to learn (a lot) when it comes to usability! Continue Reading
Ledende mobiloperatører og telefonfabrikanter har gått nå gått sammen i et felles forsøk på å unngå fragmentering av "AppStore" markedet for mobile applikasjoner. […]
Nyetablerte WPDC (Windows Phone Developer Community) hadde sin første samling i begynnelsen av desember 2009, nå er det på tide å tromme sammen til ny samling. […]
This was bound to happen, and this is whythere is such a strict regime to submit applications into appstores like the Apple AppStore and the Windows Phone Marketplace.
One of the blogs I like to read in the morning is 
As a .NET and Windows Mobile device developer i love my Apple iPhone. It is an inspiratioal device, helps me create better and more usable applications on the WM platform. For some reason everything just looks better, mobile webpages, applications etc.
