I know I’m coming late but only yesterday I’ve come in contact with this customized ROM of Android called MIUI, that a colleague has installed on his Samsung Galaxy Note 2 instead of the official build from the South Corean manufacturer. Interesting …
(it also has strong local communities all over the world, and the italian one seems very rich)
Matthew Paul Thomas ☞ System Settings for Ubuntu Phone
source ☞ Mobile malware exploding, but only for Android
my friends playing Ingress says it’s a cool image…
Great article found on UXmatters early on this morning.
In this long post Steven Hoober faces the argument of the touch interfaces and some of it’s misconceptions in fact, he sais:
Touchscreens have been with us for decades—and they’ve been the mobile input method of choice for many of us for about 5 years. In fact, many junior designers and developers—or at least those who were late to the mobile party—have never owned a mobile phone for which buttons were the primary input method.
But there are still very few designers who seem to know how touchscreens actually work or how people really interact with them. In my work as a UX design consultant, working for many different organizations, I’ve encountered lots of myths and half-truths about designing for touchscreens.
If you’re into mobile, or touch, UX design I think this is a very interesting and enriching reading to do in this (hopefully) lazy sunday, ready to inspire you for tomorrow’s work…
The fine folks @ MBAonline a couple of weeks ago have submitted me via email the following infographic on the growth of the Android mobile operating system:
I’m a satisfied iOS user (I’ve gone through the iPhone 3, iPhone 4 and now iPhone 5) but I’m always onlooking over the other platforms (hey, I did my thesis on the 2005 state of the art of mobile’s operating systems). Even so Android laks any fascination to me. Any single app or device I’ve seen with it has always achieved to bother me in a way or another. Now’s the app look & feel, then the poor hardware, then the phisical size of the device, then the particular customization of the OS (like with Samsung’s or Sony ones).
This year’s Nexus seemed interesting but, so far, there’s no sign of Google – or LG – having any intention to sell it in Italy (one of the most rich and important mobile telephone contry market in the world).
In my opinion there’s way too much offer, way too much cluttered and not clearly divided in ‘categories’. Resulting in a bazaar where occasional buyer get lost within. This doesn’t happen with Windows Phones (we have 2 maximum 3 family models) and of course with iPhone, when we have just a couple of models 4S and the latest & greatest, iPhone 5.
Now available for Android, and also freely available. Get your copy today from your smathphone’s store.
