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Over at mBricks my colleagues have put a lot of work into the device database (we work with WURFL data and contribute back as well as we can). I took the opportunity to take a closer look at screen size trends. The data I have covers about 400 different device models sold from 2005 to today.

The Apple iPhone is easily the most publicized new mobile device in recent memory. But despite all the discussion about the product, there's relatively little hard information available to the public on its impact. How is it being used? What effect is it having on customers and on the technology industry?

dotMobi published a Mobile Web Guide in HTML. This guide provides its readers with best practices, methods and other material on how to publish for mobile devices.

News for User Interface Design, Human Computer Interface (HCI, Human Factors, & Usability from Usernomics.

You can create Mobile Sitemaps using the Sitemap protocol. You can do this manually or you can use our Sitemap Generator. If you plan to use a third-party tool, you should check to see that it can create Mobile Sitemaps.

I've seen many prototypes of mobile UIs that can't be built and if they could, would not be legible on a small LCD screen. So I thought I'd provide some pointers that might help those of you that is starting out. Often, people starting out prototyping mobile phone UIs get the size of the display right but the size of the font wrong. They try to stuff way too much in there, and they use a font size and font family that is not available in the phone.

some issues with gmail usability on the mobile phone

results from usability tests on the Iphone.

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.

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

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.

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.

To help you rapidly deploy cross-platform mobile apps and websites, there's a wide range of JavaScript frameworks you can take advantage of.

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.

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