Keitai

This is probably one of those totally geeky things to worry about but what exactly do we call a directional key-press on a handset?
So you have your typical navi-pad—except not all navi-pads are typical and not all are actually ‘pads.’
My Nokia 6600 has a little 5-way (left/right/up/down + click) joystick, as does my E60. [...]

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Sometimes, there’s a disconnect on the device itself.
So the phone rings and I pick up our new Sony Ericsson W810i. We bought it for testing so i’ve never actually heard it ring or picked up a call.
Being a Nokia Series 60 junkie I look for the Green ‘answer’ button but can’t find it so start [...]

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So i’ve noticed a strange thing about mobile emulators. The added context is great but sometimes it’s just not enough. Then again—sometimes it’s too much…
Mobile emulator 1 (two weeks ago)

How it looked: Flash Lite application (swf) embedded on a web page directly a background image of a Nokia 6630. So to the user, it looks [...]

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A nice little presentation on in QuickTime format (no sound, only powerpoint style pages.) Available in Portuguese and English.
Recording of a presentation on “Content Usability” made in Lisbon, during the Usability Seminar as part of the celebrations of the World Usability Day
Creative Commons licensed by-nc-sa 2.5.

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According to the Washington Post (would love to read the article BTW but this is one of those subscription only ones,) Google has now resumed the scanning of books. Looks like (for now) they’re going to focus on books that are out of copyright.
I used Google Print for the first time a few days back. [...]

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