#mobile (321 links)
Analyzes 150 billion visits to 1,500+ websites to provide an overview of how consumers are using mobile devices worldwide.
- MediaPost Publications Tablets Convert Consumers More Often Than Smartphones 04/25/2013 mediapost.com
Online shoppers are three times more likely to make a purchase on a tablet compared with a smartphone, according to [Adobe's] The State of Mobile Benchmark-Q2 3013.
- Forecast Blog - It’s not a web app. It’s an app you install from the web. blog.forecast.io · Archived on
If it looks and feels like an app, and lives on your home screen, it’s an App. With a capital “A.”
- We’re not ‘appy. Not ‘appy at all. | Government Digital Service digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk
For government services, we believe the costs of developing and maintaining apps will very rarely justify their benefits, especially if the underlying service design is sub-optimal.
Departments should focus on improving the quality of the core web service.
- DOODAD - Prepaid international data SIM card getadoodad.com
- Missed Call: How the iPhone Conquered Japan - WSJ.com online.wsj.com
Smartphones now account for 56.6% of all new mobile phones shipped in Japan, according to Tokyo-based market research firm MM Research Institute. Apple and Samsung accounted for more than 20% of the Japanese market in the past fiscal year, compared with five years ago, when there were almost no foreign brands.
- PrePaidGSM.net prepaidgsm.net
- USA - Pay as you go sim with data Wiki prepaidwithdata.wikia.com
At Mozilla Space near Leicester Square.
Wah!
Via paul.irish.
- Slowy app slowyapp.com
"Real-world connection simulator and bandwidth limiter." Very handy.
We can no longer presume that the content accessed through mobile devices will also be viewed on them. With AirPlay, mobile device experiences can just as easily become 10 foot lean-back experiences, negating all your assumptions about display size and bandwidth. Responsive meda strategies will need to get more sophisticated to take this into account.
- HTML5 Touch Interfaces: SXSW extended version. slideshare.net
- Responsive Navigation Patterns | Brad Frost Web bradfrostweb.com
- Responsive News - Cutting the mustard blog.responsivenews.co.uk
A useful summary.
- LukeW | Touch Gesture Reference Guide lukew.com
Contains: 1) an overview of the core gestures used for most touch commands 2) how to utilize these gestures to support major user actions 3) visual representations of each gesture to use in design documentation and deliverables 4) an outline of how popular software platforms support core touch gestures.
Presuming the bank means around just under a grand.
- Mobile Performance Manifesto | David Calhoun's Developer Blog davidbcalhoun.com
- mobile web - Disable pinch/zoom in Android 2.1 browser on HTC devices - Stack Overflow stackoverflow.com
"I have contacted HTC about this issue and they have informed me that they don't have support for the viewport meta tag at all and there is no other way to disable zoom." Thanks, HTC!
The ‘tiny screen first’ boilerplate extension.
- the understatement: Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support theunderstatement.com
The Android landscape looks a bit screwed.
Via jamesholloway.
A debugger for web pages, like FireBug (for FireFox) and Web Inspector (for WebKit-based browsers), except it's designed to work remotely, and in particular, to allow you debug web pages on a mobile device such as a phone.
Via infovore.
- Ripple Emulator Community ripple.tinyhippos.com
A multi-platform mobile environment emulator that runs in a web browser and is custom-tailored to HTML5 mobile application testing.
- blog · I Don’t Want to Do This Any More camendesign.com
- mschrag/speedlimit - GitHub github.com
SpeedLimit is a Leopard preference pane for limiting your network bandwidth to one of a couple different speeds — 768k DSL, Edge, 3G, and Dialup.
- Hacker News | Mobile development with HTML5 news.ycombinator.com
The linked article is fairly useless but the comments on it are good; real-world dev stories.
- Sencha.io | Products | Sencha sencha.com
With Sencha.io Src don’t worry about scaling your image assets for the variety of mobile screens. Put a single high resolution image on your server, point your IMG tag to Src and let the cloud take care of the rest.
- A List Apart: Articles: Smartphone Browser Landscape alistapart.com
Good basis for a testing platform.
A small collection of CSS & JS files that can help you rapidly develop sites that look beautiful at any size