Posts Tagged ‘Mobile’
The Palm Pre: NOT an iPhone Killer
Sunday, January 11th, 2009
Official Image of the Palm Pre
The Palm Pre is the latest touch screen smart phone. It combines the capacitive touch screen technology with a full QWERTY keyboard to produce possibly one of the best smart phone experiences possible. This phone is definitely what Palm needed to introduce, and from the videos from CES and initial impressions from first-time users, the experience truly is great. So it’s no surprise then that people are calling this the iPhone killer. However, no matter how great this phone is, it will never be an iPhone killer.
Previous phones have tried to take this seemingly impossible title, including the G1, the Blackberry Storm, and many others. Sadly, I don’t think there will ever be a smartphone that is truly an iPhone killer. It’s sad, because there are many phones with innovative new technology which really is truly superior to the iPhone. Unfortunately I fear the new Palm Pre will be added to this list. Clearly there are features that the Pre has that surpass that of the iPhone, especially the nice slide-out full QWERTY keyboard. However, the iPhone has one thing that no other phone on the market can reproduce: iTunes.
There are several reasons that iPhone is as popular as it is, but the one that continues to separate it from the competition is its integration with iTunes. As Apple has been building the iTunes store and platform for many years and has a wide number of users, it should come as no surprise that they have a firm understanding of integrating and synchronizing audio, video, and content between computers and devices. Not only are they good at it, but it is cross platform and just about anyone using a computer has the full functionality of this software. It also allows for simplicity when introducing users to the concept of an app store. Most people are familiar with the iTunes store, and the app store is a simple and intuitive extension of that experience.
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Tags: CES, iPhone, Mobile, Palm Pre, Smartphones
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Designing for the Mobile ‘Net: 3 Quick Steps to Better Looking, Faster Mobile Designs
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
With the increased popularity of smart phones that feature wi-fi and 3G network capabilities, it’s becoming more important to design for these devices. Most of them have screen resolutions similar to the iPhone, which is 320×240 pixels. That makes for a lot of pixels crammed into those 3-3.5 inch screens, and the way they handle websites (showing the whole site first and allowing for zoom) can make them difficult to work with. So here are three quick things you can do to make your mobile site more practical and cleaner looking. (more…)
Tags: Design, Mobile, Smart Phones, Web, Web Design
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