This video gives a short view of the evolution of mobile phones from 1985 until today and a glimse of the future.
Some of the interesting info is that one mobile phone is inspired by a communication device from Star Trek and another from a mobile phone in Matrix.
Design For Mobile will be the first North American mobile user experience conference. This will be a two-day conference focused on strategy and tactics for user research, product definition, interaction and other design, and usability testing. A day of workshops and training will preceed the conference sessions.
En nylig undersøgelse fra Rubicon Consulting viser, at circa 30% af iPhone-ejere går rundt med 2 telefoner (PDF). En naturlig forklaring kunne være, at mange bærer rundt på både en arbejds- og privattelefon. En anden forklaring kunne være, at mange i forvejen har en “FamilyPlan” som de ønsker at bruge når de ringer til familiemedlemmer. En tredje forklaring, og grunden til at jeg bærer rundt på 2 telefoner, er iPhonens mangler.
Selv om iPhonen er min gamle telefon (SE K800i) overlegen på flere punkter, så er der funktioner jeg savner, og har vænnet mig til at bruge:
Kamera:
iPhonen har et kamera. Men i både funktioner og kvalitet ligger det milevidt bag det kamera der sidder i Sony Ericssons Cyber-shot mobiltelefoner. Især mangler jeg muligheden for at tilpasse farvetemperatur og fokus. Men den generelle billedekvalitet er også bare for dårlig. Jeg har været på flere ferier hvor mon K800i var eneste kamera. Det vil jeg ikke kunne med iPhonen. Billedekvaliteten er for dårlig til feriebilleder.
Radio:
Jeg bruger radioen i min K800i rigtig meget når jeg går til og fra mit studie. Det er blevet en vane at lytte til P1 morgen og eftermiddag og den vane har jeg ikke tænkt at lægge fra mig bare fordi der ikke er radio i iPhonen.
“Internetmodem”:
Fra tid til anden er jeg på farten og væk fra internet. Da er jeg vant til at forbinde minlaptop til min K800i via Bluetooth og på den måde få 3G mobilt internet. iPhonen tillader desværre ikke at oprette forbindelse over Bluetooth til andet end headsets og selv om muligheden var der mangler der 3G.
Uanset disse mangler er jeg meget glad for min iPhone. Nu giver det pludselig mening at tilgå internettet fra sin telefon. Browseren er en “rigtig” browser og skærmen har en størrelse så forstørrelsesglas ikke er nødvendigt. Og derudover hjælper zoom og scroll via touch skærmem med til at det er en god oplevelse og faktisk brugbart.
Det kan hænde at man bare må blogge. Uanset hvor man befinder sig. Når en mand skal, så skal han sgu, som Erik Clausen siger i Den Store Badedag da han sætter sig til at skide på en avis på køkkengulvet.
Til det formål er der lavet et Wordpress plugin, mobileadmin. Når plugindet er indstalleret og aktiveret får man administrationsdelen i Wordpress i det velkendte iPhone websidelook.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mobileadmin
Efter min mening er iPhonen med dens qwerty-tastatur langt bedre at skrive på end min gamle telefons 9-taster keyboard. Dog er jeg ikke tilfreds med telefonens autocorrection-funktion, der automatisk foreslår nye ord fra telefonens ordbog hvis den ikke kender det ord man taster.
Autocorrection står i vejen for at jeg kan taste hurtigt. Min konsentration skal fordeles mellem at ramme tasterne og at holde øje med om telefonen foreslår et forkert ord.
Foreslår telefonen et forkert ord er jeg nødt til at fjerne fingrene fra tasterne og føre dem til tekstfeltet i stedet for at fjerne forslaget.
Idéen er jo god og minder om T9 ordbogen på min gamle telefon. Jeg tror forskellen er, at hvor min gamle telefon havde fysiske knapper med der tilhørende taktilt feedback. Det tillader, at jeg ikke kigger på skærmen mens jeg taster. iPhonen har ikke nogen form for taktilt eller “følt” feedback og jeg er derfor nødt til at se på tasterne når jeg skriver.
En lille del af forklaringen er sikkert også om iPhonen foreslår mange rigtige rettelser eller mange forkerte rettelser. Da man skal udføre en handling for at omgå rettelsen giver det meget ekstra arbejde hvis telefonen tit foreslår noget forkert. For mit vedkommende ville det være bedre hvis jeg skulle gøre noget aktivt for at acceptere rettelsen, men då er det jo ikke autocorrection mere, men nærmere en suggest correction i stedet.
Jeg forstår slet ikke at Apple ikke har tilføjet muligheden for at kunne fjerne denne funktion. Så vidt jeg kan læse mig frem til er funktionen til stede i softwaren, men skjult. Heldigvis er der en venlig sjæl der har skrevet et hack, som bringer funktionen frem i indstillingsmenuen og derved gør det muligt at slå autocorrection til og fra i iPhonen, og en anden venlig sjæl, har skrevet en letforståelig guide om, hvordan man indstallerer hacket der giver mulighed for at slå autocorrection fra i iphonen.
7 User Experience Lessons from the iPhone
internal presentation, given in mid January 2007, to introduce our newly formed user experience group to the development team.
Mobile takes the web back to the 90s
Does this mean that mobile internet is effectively 8 years behind the web as we know it today?
Certainly the content that can be delivered is basic. I am sure if we scour the industry we can still find some die-hard HTML coders to build these sites. I am sure designers can be prized away from Flash to build some basic 16 colour designs.
Mobile phone use increases tumor risk
The current study showed, according to an Israel newspaper, that people used mobile phone for more than 22 hours per month faced 50 percent increased risk for a parotid gland tumor.
Why The Mobile Web Had Such A Terrible Start
First attempts by mobile phone manufacturers to mobilize the web were a big disappointment for quite a number of reasons. In the fixed line world the web got an incubation time of at least a decade to grow, to be refined and to be fostered by researchers and students at universities before being used by the public who already had sufficiently capable notebooks, PCs and a reasonably priced connection to the Internet. In the mobile world, things were a lot different when first web browsers appeared on mobile phones around the year 2001.
JupiterResearch Finds Creating Better Browser Alternatives Would Stimulate Mobile Internet Adoption
“Browser alternatives such as widgets or applets, which are mini applications that allow for content to be easily accessed from a home screen or with just a few clicks, can meet consumer demands for quick access to information,” said David Schatsky, President of JupiterResearch. “The goal should be to engage the user through ease of operation so that accessing information in this manner will eventually become second nature.”
Nokia sees HD video on cellphones in a few years
Video recording on cellphones is set to reach high definition (HD) quality in a few years’ time, an executive at the world’s top cellphone maker Nokia said on Wednesday.
“It’s coming. Technically, we are a couple of years away,” Nokia’s Chief Technology Officer Tero Ojanpera told Reuters in an interview. “It’s still a few years away.”
Google’s Android targets iPhone power
London’s role is to come up with brilliant new ways to use the internet on a mobile phone. European mobile internet may not be mass market yet, but users here are leagues ahead of their American cousins. Which makes the UK one of the best places to test new products and find software developers who understand the medium.
JupiterResearch Finds Creating Better Browser Alternatives Would Stimulate Mobile Internet Adoption
Overall, 63 percent of cell phone owners are not using cell phones to access such Internet services as search engines or to gather such information as the daily news, which are both popular activities on computers. However, the fact that 37 percent of cell phone owners are accessing some kind of information or services on their cell phone is a clear indicator of demand from cell phone users for more than voice services.
Usability test: Does iPhone match the hype?
Let’s cut to the bottom line: In terms of usability, iPhone blew away its two competitors. Its overall score in the usability tests was 4.6 out of 5. The HTC Touch was a distant second at 3.4, and the Nokia N95 scored 3.2.
“Testers were [typically] about twice as fast doing specific tasks on the iPhone, which is pretty remarkable,” Thornton said.
Phone revolution makes Africa upwardly mobile
“This phone has become my office,” he added, smiling as he held up a Nokia registering a full bar of signal. Mr Gakungi and others like him are helping to drive a wireless revolution that has made Africa the world’s fastest-growing mobile phone market. At the start of 2000, there were eight million subscribers in Africa. According to a report by Informa, a telecoms analyst, there are now more than 100 million mobiles in use on the continent — one for every nine Africans.
35% of U.S. Tweens Own a Mobile Phone, According to Nielsen
According to Nielsen, 5% of tweens access the Internet over their phone each month. While 41% of tween mobile Internet users say they do so while commuting or traveling (to school, for example), mobile content such as the Internet is also a social medium for this audience: 26% of tween mobile Internet users say they access the web while at a friend’s house and 17% say they do so at social events.
The impact of the mobile phone
What was first considered a luxury item is now a necessity in our everyday lives. The mobile phone ranks right up there with the wallet, as items that I can’t leave home without. And if I did, well, I would feel something amiss and it would completely throw my day off.
The mobile phone also lets me do a lot more than make phone calls, play games and take photos. For example, OCBC Bank in Singapore has turned the mobile phone into a two-factor authentication device for Internet banking transactions. Newer mobile phones are also starting to incorporate GPS navigation, and wireless payment is emerging.
Mobile Manufacturers – Obsessed by cool?
I have the dubious pleasure of sitting in on a lot of focus groups with mobile users and I am always surprised at how many users want and need a phone that is robust. For example – many still treasure their Nokia 6310s and go all nostalgic when they talk about its reliability.
Festival for mobile phone films in Japan
Films made entirely on mobile phones are competing in Japan’s First Pocket Film Festival this weekend, with 48 titles in the running for the first prize of 500,000 yen (£2,200).
Ask the IntoMobile Magic 8-Ball – What is the future of mobile phones?
The UI is the future, and manufacturers are starting to realize that fact. Nokia is going with a touch-based S60. Motorola just bought a 50% stake in UIQ. Samsung has Croix. Apple has the iPhone. And therein lies the key to why the iPhone is such a success. The user interface on the iPhone is un-rivaled. Sure, it’s lacking in the hardware department, but Apple will eventually get it together and offer the same hardware specs that we’ve come to expect from high-end phones. But, the UI. Wow, the UI is incredible.
Ny portal giver det mobile overblik
Folkene bag MobStart mener nemlig, at portalen snart vil være sidestykket til Jubii og Yahoo – bare på mobiltelefonen. MobStart fokuserer specielt på hjemmesider, der er tilpasset det mobile internet.
Fuld fart på de mobile portaler
Både Sonofon og TDC jubler over deres respektive portaler, E-go og Fly.
»Inden for det sidste år er antallet af brugere steget med over 70 procent,« siger Peter Berg, der er markedsdirektør hos Sonofon.
Den markante fremgang har bragt E-gos besøgstal op på 192.000 unikke brugere, der skaber 1,5 millioner sidevisninger om måneden.
Hos TDC er der samme begejstring for portalen Fly.
»Vores opfattelse er, at Fly er en af de største mobile portaler. Vi har i øjeblikket 225.000 unikke besøgende om måneden, og vi ser en konstant vækst,« siger Morten Hother Sørensen, der er markedsdirektør i TDC Mobil Norden.
Apple trimmer iPhone til forretningsfolk
Indtil videre er det især inkarnerede Apple-entusiater og gadget-freaks, der har kastet sig over Apple-hittet iPhone. Men nu satser Apple på at udvide kredsen, og lancerer en erhvervsløsning, der skal gøre iPhone til forretningsmandens følgesvend.
Mobiler der stråler mindre
SonyEricsson S500i, SonyEricsson W580 og Samsung SGH-i600 er gode valg, hvis du ønsker en mobiltelefon med lav stråling.
A bank in every pocket?
Leonard Waverman of the London Business School has estimated that an extra ten mobile phones per 100 people in a typical developing country leads to an extra half a percentage point of growth in GDP per person.
As mobile phones have spread, a new economic benefit is coming into view: using them for banking, and so improving access to financial services, not just telecoms networks. Pioneering m-banking projects in the Philippines, Kenya and South Africa show the way. These “branchless” schemes typically allow customers to deposit and withdraw cash through a mobile operator’s airtime-resale agents, and send money to other people via text messages that can be exchanged for cash by visiting an agent.
Mobile Web: So Close Yet So Far
Similarly, surveys by Yankee Group, a Boston research firm, show that only 13 percent of cellphone users in North America use their phones to surf the Web more than once a month, while 70 percent of computer users view Web sites every day.
“The user experience has been a disaster,” says Tony Davis, managing partner of Brightspark, a Toronto venture capital firm that has invested in two mobile Web companies.
