Archive for the tag 'iphone'

Jan 10 2010

Why that thing on Nexus One?

Published by Stef under business, eng

I can’t get my head around one feature of Google’s superphone: why did they put that scroll-click-button at the bottom of the phone? Shouldn’t the touch screen be enough to use the phone? Besides, being so close to the bottom edge, can it really be used? If anybody is still thinking that Google wants to [...]

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Apr 06 2009

Mobile phone markets are designed to split our community

Published by Stef under community, eng, fsf

Apple’s iPhone biggest innovation is its mobile app store: for the first time it allowed installing software on the mobile device with the convenience of any modern GNU/Linux distribution. Like in Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, installing software is just a matter of browsing a repository and click on a button. It’s such a good idea that [...]

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Apr 01 2009

Funambol engineers apply iPhone ergonomics to cars

Published by Stef under community, eng, funambol

Check this out: Funambol’s R&D department just released a prototype user interface for driving cars. According to my colleagues that drove it in Redwood City, it’s so easy to use, even a caveman can drive it. The vehicle smashes driving age limit with “snap” finger-powered steering; integrates cruise control with Google Latitude to automatically get [...]

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Sep 11 2008

Cross-platform and interoperability is the key

Published by Stef under funambol

When it comes to connecting people, the first thing you need to do is use the same language.’  That doesn’t mean force everybody to use your language, because that’s what dictators do (and dictators are wiped out by history). To connect people you have to adapt to people’s language, eventually learning many of them.
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Aug 04 2008

Are Apple fans too cautious or is Apple evil?

Published by Stef under business

The iPhoneDevCamp was a great experience for me.’  Lots of developers, lots of new ideas, lots of fun. I found it surprising though how many people still develop on this platform despite how badly Apple behaves towards its community. In San Francisco at iPhoneDevCamp there were about 500 developers that played for two days delivering [...]

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Jul 30 2008

Will I get an iPhone?

Published by Stef under community

Many of my friends keep asking me what I think of the iPhone, if it’s good and whether they should buy one. They are all non-techie people that want a very good phone and are willing to pay the extra money for a good handset that does email and web navigation, and a decent phone [...]

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Apr 01 2008

New UI from Funambol to iPhone

Published by Stef under community, eng, funambol

Only real hackers consider improving what everybody else thinks is already optimal. At Funambol we like to do just that and we decided to improve the iPhone user interface:
Funambol, the company that is known for putting the “fun” back in the mobile business, today released a high contrast user interface for the widely used [...]

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Mar 20 2008

Everybody loves iPhone

Published by Stef under business, eng, funambol

To confirm that Jobs got everything (not!) right, Sybase jumps on the iPhone bandwagon for enterprise users.
Sybase on Tuesday said it’s adding Apple iPhone support to its suite of mobile middleware, making it possible to access IBM Lotus Domino or Microsoft Exchange e-mail servers through a secure environment.
May I just add that Funambol can already [...]

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Feb 28 2008

Using Funambol on iPod Touch

Published by Stef under business, eng, funambol

Even if I don’t have an iPod (and I won’t buy one … I’ll tell you why one of these days) I’ve asked Funambol’s community to translate into English an article by Luis Medina written in Spanish. Paulo Sergio Lopes Fernandes and German Viscuso contributed the translation.
I liked the article not only because it’s [...]

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