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some issues with gmail usability on the mobile phone

results from usability tests on the Iphone.

RPI's Tetherless World Constellation will address this emerging area of "Web Science," focusing on the World Wide Web and it's future use. Faculty in the constellation will explore the research and engineering principles that underlie the Web, will enhance the Web's reach beyond the desktop and laptop computer, and will develop new technologies and languages that expand the capabilities of the Web.

There has been a lot of huffing and puffing over limitations to iPhone 3rd party apps. Especially the "one app at a time" and "no background processes" rules. A lot of people claims that these particular restrictions does not apply to the native iPhone apps or to preferred partners that Apple lets under the tent. I would like to argue that this assumption is not correct.

More and more mobile phones users are browsing and searching the internet on their handsets. The UK, for example, has neared saturation for mobile phones and many handset browsers can now handle sites designed for viewing on computers. Indeed 20% of UK mobile phone users now use the internet on their mobile devices. In this article, Abid Warsi of Webcredible defines seven guidelines that web designers should bear in mind when considering how their sites will look and work on mobiles.

The modern web is viewed on many different devices, so it is getting increasingly important for us to think about how to create our web sites so that they will serve the right content to users, no matter what device they are using. We have many technologies at our disposal, including media types, media queries, and browser sniffing, but what's the best way to handle this?

Little Springs Design has started a wiki that collects mobile ui design resources, patterns, devices, and so forth.

Developing for the iPhone is great, but it's only a sliver of the mobile market, and the real world of mobile development is a lot hairier. Opera developer relations manager Chris Mills writes about do's, don'ts and best practices.

Mobile phone users struggle mightily to use websites, even on high-end devices. To solve the problems, websites should provide special mobile versions.

We hear your words. Why another JavaScript framework?! When development of PhoneGap was under way we noticed slow load times for modern JavaScript frameworks (such as Prototype, MooTools, YUI, Ext and (yes) even jQuery. A big reason why these libraries are so big is because is mostly they contain a great deal of cross browser compatability code. The mobile space has less browser implementations (so far) and different needs. Thus XUI. XUI strives to be a framework for first class mobile device browsers such as WebKit, Fennec and Opera with future support under consideration for IE Mobile and BlackBerry.

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 the amount of Internet users who are accessing websites via phones and mobile devices. As a result, Web designers have a growing need to be educated in this area and ready to design websites that accommodate this audience. Because designing websites for mobile devices brings some unique situations and challenges into play, the subject requires a strategic approach from the designer and developer. In this article, we'll look at the subject as a whole, including current trends, challenges, tips and a showcase of mobile websites. Plenty of helpful resources and articles are also linked to throughout the post, so if you're interested in learning more about designing for mobiles, you should have plenty of information at your fingertips.

Too often, when companies decide to make a mobile version of their application, they take their desktop application or site, decide which features work for mobile, and then convert those features to a mobile language or two. Through this method we get flight times, stock prices, checking email, checking calendars, local weather, and several other useful but limited applications. These applications do not fully meet user needs. To do anything in particular, the user has to visit several applications, one after the other, remembering data from application to application.

Usability and page design for websites on mobile phones is very different to that of PCs. These essential mobile usability guidelines will help ensure your site works well for mobile visitors.

The W3C's basic guidelines for delivering a good experience to mobile Web users.

WidSets is a clever service that brings the Internet to your cell phone. It uses mini-applications called widgets that keep an eye out on updates to websites you normally visit several times a day.

Among the many websites that are out there, few are standards-compliant. Among those few, only a handful sport style sheets adjusted to the needs of handheld devices. Of those which do offer styling for handhelds, not all will fit the smallest, lowest-resolution screens without presenting the user with the ultimate handheld horror: namely, horizontal scrolling. The Opera browser runs on handheld devices of all screen sizes and resolutions, some of them only 120 pixels wide. We work for the company that produces Opera, so we can offer a degree of insight into the functions of Opera for handhelds. In this article, we've prepared a set of general suggestions for creating a handheld-friendly style sheet, along with a few Opera-specific pointers that you may find useful.

The Only Open Source Mobile Framework That Supports 6 Platforms PhoneGap is an HTML5 app platform that allows you to author native applications with web technologies and get access to APIs and app stores"

It was the Apple iPad that started the revolution of enterprise mobility. Once this tablet made it into the market, other similar tablets hit the marketplace with different operation systems.