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Is Windows Phone 7 Series the One I Expect?

binzywu — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:12:54 +0000

Microsoft announced WP7 series on WMC2010. (Announce video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q-HtdW03Zs, pretty cool!) And there are lots of people are talking about it. But what I expect of a mobile OS? I write this down 9 months ago:

1. Small/Micro kernel.
2. Powerful UI.
3. Simple Application development.

And what I can see now is it really has an innovative UI and I like it. The kernel should be neat althought it definitely should be based on Win CE (guess). So what I really want to know is how to develop app based on this new UI. It should bring a tough switch… But let’s check it out on MIX10…

Widgets on Windows Mobile

binzywu — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:36:58 +0000

Microsoft just released the new mobile 6.5 developer toolkit, and you can get it from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=20686a1d-97a8-4f80-bc6a-ae010e085a6e

Normally you only can develop application for windows mobile via C/C++ or .Net CF. But as to me, I pretty hope to use more simple stuff to build app, like html and javascript, which means widget: http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets/. Like Opera widget, provides this dev feature, but it’s not Windows Mobile nature…

Great thing is coming, Windows Mobile 6.5 now supports the widget although I’m still hoping a better app list interface! Check out this about building widget on WM6.5, http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2009/06/04/getting-started-with-widgets-on-windows-mobile-6-5.aspx. Going to try creating something.

Flickr Mobile Site

binzywu — Fri, 29 May 2009 11:31:13 +0000

http://m.flickr.com is quite nice, including structure, design and functionalities.I do not have many experiences on mobile site development, but to me, if all websites can be like flickr mobile, I don’t think the I need so many client applications. Honestly, I don’t like facebook mobile, twitter mobile, so Ihave to install client applications for them to get better user experience.

via looking into the html source of flickr, I just realized it’s true that people say iphone changed the world. And flickr mobile is optimized for iphone,completely, although I can get almost same user experience by Opera on windows mobile phone. And unfortunately, flickr mobile doesn’t response same to IE on mobile…

So as resource for myself, there are two sites look nice, http://www.iphonemicrosites.com and http://www.iphonecompatible.net.

flickr mobile

Mobile Operating Systems

binzywu — Tue, 26 May 2009 06:08:54 +0000

It was reported that ChinaMobile and ChinaUnicom are developing their own operating system based on Android which actually is Linux. (actually China Mobile already released/will release their OS called OMS, open mobile system) I have no idea why it’s not Windows Mobile but Android. Looks google will be successful in China mobile market. IPhone is based on Darwin, actually is Unix. Symbian, which is just a toy. I don’t know Palm and Blackberry. So no comments. Mezu M8 has developed a great system based on WinCE 6.0. I think they should sell the system to Microsoft. Windows Mobile, which is official ver6.5 but actually is WinCE 5.2, sigh.

So looks the war comes back, windows vs linux vs unix. Does Windows mobile possibly win?

I’m expecting new and fast kernel, simple and powerful UI, easy to dev app… Seems Android is what I expect?