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Ok, this is a brilliant idea from Gigabyte out of Taiwan—on two fronts. Firstly, their new g-re line of devices are being marketed as a mobile learning phone.
The g-re is a slider phone with a neat look and rich content. Besides ten novel motion-sensing JAVA games, g-re is equipped with an unprecedented GEPT [...]

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Some good commentary this week from Russell in The PDA is Dead, Long Live the Smartphone.
Latest from Gartner is that Smartphone sales are soaring, eagle-like, into the ether, with an increase in sales of 75%. During the same period, PDA sales barely rose 5%, with Palm not even bothering to launch a [...]

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Most of this stuff is from Nokia and specifically S60 related but there’s lots of good information regardless of the O/S or platform you’re developing for.

Usability Culturally Speaking: Short paper by Nokia introducing common issues such as differences in text direction, colour usage, iconography, number and date conventions etc.
Series 60 UI Style Guide: Just what [...]

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“Nokia and international children’s organisation, Plan (formerly Foster Parents’ Plan), have joined forces to use modern communications technologies in Africa to raise children’s awareness of their rights and opportunities. Nokia has provided an initial donation of 1 million Euros for 2006. The first stage of this new joint effort will see Nokia focus on supporting [...]

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I got the bright idea to go downtown this afternoon to buy dessert. The sky was black and there was thunder in the air so Bryan tagged along (can’t work anyhow—not safe to stay plugged in during lightning storms here.)
First it rained. Then it rained a lot. We could only see about a metre ahead [...]

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This installment of the Carnival of the Mobilists (#48) is hosted by Technokitten (Helen Keegan.) This edition is packed full of Mobile 2.0 posts including a lively debate on MobHappy regarding mobile advertising and content repurposing by the likes of Opera. There’s also a link to a post by Adrian Cummings of the Mobile [...]

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We saw a baby elephant last night at dinner.
I’ve always stayed away from elephant related exhibits in Thailand. Year ago, we rented a small house in the Phuket countryside. The island was hilly and there was no public transit so we bought a motorbike. Every afternoon we would ride out into the hills and often [...]

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After a far too long hiatus i’m back (from Bangkok!—more on that very soon.) So for starters, a bunch of new mobile learning material
Mobile Learning on the Cheap
Lots of good ideas here that range from how to use PDAs in the classroom to SMS based activities.

An exploration of various currently available devices by [...]

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