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After a great meeting of the Mobile Web Best Practices working group last week, the group decided to issue a “Last Call” working draft of the mobileOK Basic specification. This spec is basically a series of tests you can perform on content to evaluate how well it implements the best practices themselves. Because many of the best practices are not machine testable, these test necessarily only represent a subset of the best practices, but they’re a good place to start (hence “basic”). The specification (actually “mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0″) is intended to raise the quality bar on mobile Web content. I invite you to review it and send comments in to the public W3C mailing list (public-bpwg-comments@w3.org).

Filed by Daniel Appelquist at 23:34 under Mobile Web, W3C
Tags: mobileOK, MobileWeb, MWI, W3C

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On paper, this looks like a fabulous device. It’s got a high-res screen. It’s faster than its predecessor, the 770. It has a great browser, Opera. It’s got audio, video, the promise of Skype calling… It’s got a web cam for Internet-based video calling. Linux based, it’s open to third party developers. It’s also pretty cheap for what it does.

On the minus side, do I really need another device to lug around with me? I actually already have an iPod, a Blackberry and an N73 and I don’t realistically see the N800 replacing any of those. And you can’t drive presentations off of it so it can’t replace the laptop either, except in very specific situations. I suppose it could theoretically replace the iPod, but what about all that Fairplay-DRM’d music (doh!).

No. I’m fairly sure that if I did buy this, it would sit around in my living room gathering dust, only occasionally picked up to look up some obscure trivia on IMDB or Wikipedia. I dunno — am I wrong? Am I missing something here? I’m happy to be convinced.

Filed by Daniel Appelquist at 22:42 under Technology
Tags: n800, Nokia

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Thanks to the alert reader who sent in the following tidbit: a job posting in Seattle that asks for knowledge of the “W3C Best Practices” (as well as refencing both dotMobi and Mobile 2.0). This is the first time I’ve seen a job posting that specifically asks for knowledge of the work we’ve done in the Mobile Web Best Practices working group. The word is definitely getting around.

Filed by Daniel Appelquist at 21:08 under Mobile Web
Tags: dotMobi, jobs, mobile2.0, MobileWeb, W3C

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It sure looks like it. High-res screen. Built-in cellular and WIFI radios. Built on top of MacOS (open operating system). Touch-screen. Safari browser. Video. Music. It’s got it all! Analysis: Apple has done it again. Just watching the coverage on Macrumors.com (on my Nokia N70, by the way, utilizing Mobile Ajax in the Series-60 browser). One thing comes to mind though: how do you keep the thing clean? Also, it doesn’t have 3g, just GSM and EDGE? Hello, Apple! I want my 3G iPhone!

I still want one, though.

Filed by Daniel Appelquist at 18:10 under Technology, mobile 2.0
Tags: Apple, mobile2.0

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I’ve been working with the folks at Mobile Monday New York and SVG.org to develop an event on mobile SVG for the end of this month. The theme will be SVG on mobile devices and we’ll be featuring presentations from Qualcomm, Opera, Ikivo Sun, Beatware and others. Antoine Quint of has put together an excellent roster of speakers and Lubna Dajani and the folks at MoMo NYC have lined up a great venue (the Samsung Experience at the Time Warner Center).

For more details, or to register for the event, please visit the event web site.

Filed by Daniel Appelquist at 11:50 under Mobile Monday, Mobile Web
Tags: events, mobile2.0, mobilemonday, Mobility, MoMoNYC, SVG, upcoming:135061, userexperience

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