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Nexus One and Touchscreen Accuracy
Today Engadget posted an article that claims many Nexus One customers complain about touchscreen calibration, which is an important element of the graphic user interface (GUI) as well as the user experience in general. As well, labs.moto.com published an interesting report last week comparing the accuracy of touchscreen of various mobile devices. It would seem…
Car Dashboard UI Layout Gets Updated
The new Ford Sync App Ecosystem is a promising move toward the long-awaited upgrade of cars’ user interface. While driving conditions have changed dramatically during the last 50 years, the dashboard UI has not. Our driving habits and laws have changed but we are still presented with the same basic set and layout of a…
"Microsoft has No Taste"
The following interview summarizes fairly well why MS products are so hard to use and why Microsoft hasn’t been able to “get it right” for the last 15 years. I’ve never thought of MS as a design or innovation company. For me, it has always been a tandem of engineers and businessmen serving a certain…
LG Turns to Android UI
LG has announced it will run Android on more than half of its smartphones in 2010. It is a significant change from the company’s current strategy. In 2009, only one LG smartphone ran Android and the rest were running Windows Mobile. It is a big hit for Microsoft as other companies such as Motorola, Samsung…
Apple’s Tablet Confirmed.
Stéphane Richard, Orange’s CEO-To-Be, confirms the arrival of Apple’s Tablet with a webcam and live video streaming via 3G. Jean-Pierre Elkabbach (the interviewer) : According to Le Point (a french magazine), your partner Apple will be launching a tablet Stéphane Richard: Yes. Jean-Pierre Elkabbach: … equipped with a webcam. Stéphane Richard: Yes. Jean-Pierre Elkabbach: Will…
Apple’s Rumoured Tablet to Have 3D Interface?
Apple has filed a patent, that describes an interface for manipulating “three-dimensional virtual objects” on a touch screen. The technology may be used in future releases of the iPhone or in the rumored Apple tablet (iSlate?). I doubt that simply porting existed OS to a 10” touch screen may take “you-know-who’s considerable undivided attention”. Having…
Android Market and Apple’s App Store
As Android Market has grown to about the 20,000 apps mark, it is interesting to compare two different approaches to user experience. While Apple sets up very strict approval rules in an effort to assure only well-done and polished apps get through to an end-user, Google doesn’t set any approval process at all. Aesthetics have…
Google Chrome Beta for Mac speed test
Safari is the fastest browser on a Mac platform, approximately 12% faster than Chrome Beta according to Computerworld. Chrome easily leaves behind Firefox and Opera in JavaScript rendering performance. SunSpider JavaScript Benchmarks of Mac Browsers (Shorter bars represent faster performance) On the Windows platform Chrome 3.0 shines as the fastest browser, leaving Safari behind. We…
Mobile Traffic at glance (by AdMob)
A few days back, AdMob published a very interesting report on market share of various mobile OS and smartphones. The data suggests that Apple’s dedication to user experience results in higher app approval and user adoption rates. The report is a great read but for those that don’t have time here are the highlights: Smartphone…
Remembrance Day
Remembrance Day Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism? ~Henry Ward Beecher One of my grandfathers was killed in the first…