An iPhone web simulator for designers
Looking for a way to see how your web creations will look on iPhone? Look no further. And also, Optimizing Web Applications and Content for iPhone from Apples Developer Connection
Mobile Web is 19% of PC Web
A little warning / nudge / reminder from MobHappy on the shape of things to come.
Putting 2.7 billion in context: Mobile phone users
A completely fascinating article by Tomi T Ahonen, which is a must read for most. The article compares mobile technology with that of the car, the phone (land-line), the TV and other life / culture changing technology.
Some of his findings are startling but on reflection, not surprising.
More phones sold last year than the total installed base of personal computers in use. Out of the 950 phones sold last year, two in three had built-in cameras, 30% had MP3 players. Four out of five had colour screens. All 950 million could access the web (at least via WAP), and all 950 million could send and receive SMS text messages. Over two in three were high speed; while one in five phones sold last year was a 3G phone.
Read Putting 2.7 billion in context: Mobile phone users.
Digg Mobile
Digg have launched a collection of mobile friendly sites, all accessbile at diggriver.com/about, covering technology to sports stories. The mark-up is pure and design simple, allowing it to load on a mobile device as quickly as possible.
This site is an experiment to see how we can make digg news easily available to mobile web browsers. You can read the news on a Blackberry, Treo, or cell phone on the train, in the line at the grocery, or in a boring meeting.
Simple is better. Thanks TechCrunch.