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Category Archives: design
New Asha platform and ecosystem to deliver a breakthrough category of affordable smartphone from Nokia
… by bringing premium experience to the entry-level smartphone market: Peter Skillman (Head of Ux Design for Mobile Phones & HERE at Nokia) demonstratingSwipe and Fastlane experiences on a greatly enlarged touchscreen, actually from a ladder, at the launch in … Continue reading
Posted in "smart" feature phones, Cloud client SW platforms, Cloud Computing strategy, consumer computing, consumer devices, design, Geopolitics, smartphones
Tagged affordable smartphones, Facebook, Fastlane, India, intelligent multitasking, Lumia, NAX, Nokia, Nokia Advertising Exchange, Nokia Asha 501, Nokia Asha ecosystem, Nokia Asha family, Nokia Asha platform, Nokia HERE, Nokia In-App Payment, Nokia N9, Nokia Xpress browser, Nokia Xpress Now, Nokia's operator billing network, Series 40, smarter Internet, Smarterphone, swipe, User Experience, UX
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Nokia’s non-Windows crossroad
Update: 3” display with 240 x 320 pixels, not AMOLED screen, 3.2 MP camera. More information:- New Asha platform and ecosystem to deliver a breakthrough category of affordable smartphone from Nokia [‘Experiencing the Cloud’, May 9, 2013] my composite post … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing strategy, Cloud SW engineering, consumer computing, consumer devices, design, smartphones, tablets
Tagged Android, Asha, Asha 501, Blackberry, C#, Codename One, Codename One development kit, Codename One UI, cross-platform development, J2ME, Java developers, LCDUI, lightweight architecture, Lightweight component, Lightweight User Interface Toolkit, LWUIT, LWUIT 2.0, Metro, Metro design, Modern design, Modern UI, Nokia, Nokia Asha, Nokia Premium Developer Program for Asha, Nokia S40, Nokia SDK 2.0 for Java, Nokia Series 40, non-Windows platforms, platforms co-development, porting Android apps, porting Blackberry apps, S40, Swing, Tantalum, Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone 8, XAML
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Dell Latitude 10: Windows 8 Clover Trail (Intel Z2760) hybrid tablets from OEMs
The new Dell Latitude [10] tablet [Exclusive24x7News YouTube channel, Dec 11, 2012] The video was originally produced for Dell Latitude gets things done [by STUART KENNEDY in the The Australian IT, Dec 11, 2012]: SITTING next to Apple’s sleek iPad … Continue reading
Posted in consumer devices, design, Geopolitics
Tagged application load times, business tablet, business-class tablet, business-grade, business-grade security, Clover Trail, Competition, conventional tablet PC mode, Dell, Dell drops Android, Dell Latitude, Dell Quits Smartphone Business, Dell World 2012, Dell World 2012 Influencer Panel, device management, docking, easy access to virtual private networks, hands-free usage mode, hybrid tablets, Influencer Panel, Intel, Intel Atom, Intel Z2760, Microsoft, Microsoft Surface, OEMs, PCMark 7 test, productivity mode, Surface, tablet competition, touch+type, Windows 8, Windows 8 opportunity, Windows tablet competition, Wistron
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Microsoft Surface: its premium quality/price vs. even iPad3
Preliminary reading: Core post: Giving up the total OEM reliance strategy: the Microsoft Surface tablet [June 19, 2012] IAm Panos Panay, GM of Microsoft Surface, AMAA – Ask Me or My Team Almost Anything [reddit, Oct 16, 2012]: Why 599 … Continue reading
Nokia Design direction
Update: Marko Ahtisaari, Head of Design at Nokia on the Lumia 920 & Working with Microsoft [minipcpro YouTube channel, Oct 31, 2012] On the day of the official launch of Windows Phone 8 and http://www.mobilegeeks.com got a little behind the … Continue reading
Posted in "smart" feature phones, consumer devices, design, smartphones
Tagged Asha Touch, “heads up” design, “heads up” design principle, Bauhaus, CMYK color palette, Directions, Finnish design, Helsinki, Hi Design 2012, industrial design, London Design Museum, Lumia, Lumia 800, Lumia 900, Marko Ahtisaari, Metro, N9, Nokia, Nokia Design, Nokia phones, People Made exhibition, User Experience, user experience design, UX design, WDC Helsinki 2012, World Design Capital 2012
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Google adding a style guide (design guidelines) to Android (4 years late)
While it is still quite distant from Microsoft’s achievements in design, and taken together with Nokia even more so, it is better to be late than never come to that discipline at all. And Google is definitely here by any accounts … Continue reading
Posted in design, smartphones
Tagged Android, Android 4.0, Android design, Apple, design, design guidelines, Google, Ice Cream Sandwich, ICS, iOS, Microsoft, Pure Android, smartphones, style guide, style guidelines, Tablets, UI, UI Guidelines, UX, Windows Phone 7, WP7
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Smarterphone end-to-end software solution for "the next billion" Nokia users
In Smart Devices, Nokia will build a winning ecosystem together with Microsoft using their global reach, iconic products and location services. In Mobile Phones, Nokia will realign and increase its investments to connect the next billion people to the Internet, … Continue reading
Posted in "smart" feature phones, Cloud client SW platforms, Cloud Computing strategy, design
Tagged Beep Science, cloud client, CooTek, eZiText, eZiType, feature phones, Ferd Capital, handwriting recognition, InfoQuick, Java ME, Kvaleberg, Mimiria, mobile phones, Mobile Phones (Nokia), Model-View-Controller, MVC, Nokia, Nuance, Obigo, Obigo Q7 Browser, OMA DRM 2.0, Openwave AirTX Predictive Text, Openwave SMS/EMS/MMS Client, Openwave Systems, Openwave V7 Framework, Radial, Scheme, scripting language, SinoVoice, Smart Devices (Nokia), Smarterphone, Smarterphone OS, text entry and prediction, text entry and prediction engine, TouchPal, UME, Unified Messaging Engine, Wistron
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Best practice industrial and user experience design – Nokia and Microsoft
Major updates: Marko Ahtisaari: smartphone evolution is only just beginning [The Guardian, Jan 31, 2012] … “There’s a point of view about design that all innovation in the interaction with the phone has been done,” Ahtisaari says. “Nothing could be … Continue reading
Posted in design, smartphones, tablets
Tagged Albert Shum, Axel Meyer, cloud client, design, IDEA, IDSA, Industrial Designers Society of America, International Design Excellence Awards, Kinect, live tiles, Lumia, Lumia 800, Marko Ahtisaari, MeeGo, Metro, Metro design language, Metro UI, Microsoft, N9, Nokia, Oscar, Steve Kaneko, UI, User Experience, user interface, UX, UX design pattern, Windows 8, Windows Live, Windows Phone, Windows Phone 7, Xbox
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