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Mobile UI

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on February 3, 2007 at 12:21:20 pm
 

Mobile UI: How to "translate" a web site into a mobile site

 

Attendeed:

  • Jill MacNeice
  • Danny Yang, working on a physical activity helper
  • Rajiv Mehta, Zoomlife, solutions to help people with chronic diseases to stick to therapies and metrics
  • Andrew Chen, Mohr Davidow ventures, funding for digital media and several mobile companies
  • Sean Kung, Stanford Univ, medical media and info tech, elearning, medical
  • Fred Raab, Univ of Cal San Diego, School of medicine, mobile apps, formerly of Lifestock
  • Adam Tolnay, visiting scholar at Stanford, social approaches and financial literacy for teens, games
  • Evita Twerdahl, startup company using mobile solutions for autistic people
  • Alec Dara-Abrams, Sony electronics, how can cameras be smarter

 

Questions:

From app developers, there are lots of problems related to lack of uniformity in phones and interfaces, carriers walled garderns...is it possible to create complex mobile apps or are we stuck with SMS?

 

If you don't have the funding to work with carriers, you need to rely on sms or people's internet web browsers. Rich applications on mobile you have to work through the carriers....

 

Probs with phones changing every 2 months

 

Even sms is complex because carriers want to get involved

 

Either work through the carriers, or work aroundthem.

 

Using flash, (only 10% of phones) easier to program, easier to port than Java, can get around a lot of questions.

 

How can you get it past the carriers: in a small setting with flash as a development platform: -- this solves the porting issues. but how do you get it on the phone? either through carrier

  • blue tooth, for sharing
  • wap pushes, send to eachother
  • mixed medium where you put it partially on the web, put the same game on the web and put accessiblity via the phone and it's up to the organization that is running the product to negotiate with the carrier.

 

Example: a bank, ie Wells Fargo, wants this game, and the bank negotiates with the carriers. Get the elephant to talk to the elephant.

 

Example: Real Networks is a web games portal. People play these flash games. Very popular, but still have problems working through the carriers...

 

So: can the elephants band together to create a large organization?

 

Nokia has invested in supporting flash in the phone. All new Nokia phones will have it.

Flash is also on Qualcom.

 

 

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