Alex Rainert just posted this great piece on his blog Everyday UX showing the evolution of his mobile phones from 1998 to now.
I was inspired to post my own, though I have to admit I’m not sure if I have the exact models right. Thanks to GSM Arena for having photos of every mobile phone [...]
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My Cell Phones: 2000 – Today
June 4th, 2008 · Comments · Gadgetry
Update on Amazon’s TextBuyIt
April 5th, 2008 · Comments · Pleasure
As you may have read on Wednesday, I bought a book through Amazon’s new service TextBuyIt. I was really impressed by the user flow and was able to buy the book I was looking for in about two minutes.
Even more incredible is that the book showed up at my house yesterday morning, just two [...]
Tags:Books·Innovation·Mobile·Pleasure·Tools
Text message your order to Amazon
April 2nd, 2008 · Comments · User Experience
Amazon launched a new service yesterday called TextBuyIt in which you can look up and compare product info via SMS and purchase with your pre-existing account.
I tried it out this morning by texting “Purple cow” to short code 262966 (“Amazon” on the keypad). A moment later I got a response that read:
Reply w/1 or 2 [...]
TwitterBerry was mean to me
March 1st, 2008 · Comments · Gadgetry, Twitter
I’ve got a thing for Twitter and I own a BlackBerry, so naturally I use TwitterBerry. It’s a downloadable BB app that lets me post updates, get replies, read my friends timeline and the public timeline — all without having to load Twitter in the mobile browser.
It isn’t perfect, but it usually works pretty well [...]
Formatting my blog for the iPhone
March 1st, 2008 · Comments · Blogging, Design
Last night Matthew Oliphant recommended iWPhone, an easy WordPress plugin that “automatically reformats your blog’s content for optimized viewing on Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch.” I tried it out this morning and here are the results:
With the plugin:
Without the plugin:
So… which one do you all prefer?
Big thanks to Daniel Sandler for the images.
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