Novatel MiFi 2532

If I had to put my money on a tablet device, I think I would not buy a 3G embedded device, but I would go for a WiFi only device. Sure, I will need some sort of mobile broadband connectivity and for that reason I think I would put on the tablet side a MiFi device.

A MiFi device is a slimmed down version of a WiFi/3G router.

I had the opportunity to play with a few of these devices in the past and I think they are great products. In the recent eight months the User Interface and the usability of these kind of products become better and better, and they are much easier to set up and use than most current WiFi/3G routers. Most of those devices will offer connection to something like 5 WiFi devices that will share a mobile broadband connection.

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A Consideration On Tablet Usability

March 9, 2010
Apple iPad

During the recent Academy Awards Oscar Night Apple broadcasted a commercial on the upcoming iPad.
The first thing that you will notice in the video is that the device and the User interface looks great. You will see some nice activity performed by those guys and you may definitely fall in love with the device itself, [...]

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Apple May Reject All Auto Generated Applications In AppStore

March 8, 2010
iPhone

So it seems that Apple is going to reject all those applications that are built using an application generator.
I have written on the subject in the past and I found it a fantastic idea, and I still think that is the case.
Jason Kincaid of Techcrunch (via iPhoneHacks.com) says that:

Apple doesn’t want people using native applications [...]

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Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal. Apple Sues HTC.

March 4, 2010
Apple iPhone - HTC Desire

At the end of the day Apple sued an Android mobile phone manufacturer. HTC, but you will have heard that for sure.
On March 2nd, 2010 Apple filed a lawsuit concurrently with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and in U.S. District Court in Delaware.
This is what the offiicial Press Release from Apple was stating.
There is another [...]

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7 Features Of The Perfect Social Networking Desktop Client

February 24, 2010
Tweetie Mac OS X Desktop Client

In the I have tested pretty much any Social Networking dektop client application out there, but I have never been able to find the perfect solution to my needs.
As a compromise I ended up using Tweetie to manage Twitter, Thwirl for FriendFeed and a few tabs in the browser for other things like Facebook and [...]

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Nexus One – The Story On YouTube

February 10, 2010

In the past few days I have seen a lot of post on the YouTube channel describing the making of the Nexus one.
Since today Google has posted 5 videos:

Concept and Design
Display and 3D Framework
Testing
Manufacturing
Day One

Here is the link to the YouTube channel: GoogleNexusOne
Here is the first video on Concept and Design

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Is Apple The New SPECTRE In Technology?

February 4, 2010
Apple iPad

Do you remember SPECTRE in those James Bond movies and novels?
SPECTRE stands for SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion.
Have a look at the Wikipedia article about SPECTRE:
It should be noted that the goal of world domination was only ever stated in You Only Live Twice..
and more
Organizational discipline is notoriously draconian with the [...]

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It’s A Technology War (No More!)

January 25, 2010
Amazon Kindle

The recent article “Amazon invites developers to come up with Apps for Kindle” led me to some more considerations on the rumored Apple tablet.
Let’s start with a quick recap of what Amazon announced last Thursday:
The Kindle Development Kit enables developers to build active content that leverages Kindle’s unique combination of seamless and invisible 3G wireless [...]

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Turn Your Blog And Twitter Into An iPhone Application

January 21, 2010
MotherApp

As you may have noticed there are lot of companies launching dedicated iPhone applications for their businesses. Audi, FCBmobile, CocaCola, just to name afew.
Wouldn’t it be a great idea to build an iPhone application being able to deliver the content of your blog or twitter account? Sure it may be.
Well, in order to do that you [...]

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Ride The Tablet Way

January 12, 2010
Artwork on Apple rumored Tablet PC

One of the most discussed trends at CES 2010 was the Tablet PC.

Every single hardware manufacturer I have met there has announced or will announce a Tablet PC in the near future.

From an industry point of view, tablets are not new to the market.

They have been sitting there for such a long time with very low market success due to several factors. First of all they have always been expensive, bulky, almost unusable a with a very very small battery life.

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UXconference 2009 – UX and Social Networks

December 16, 2009

This is the presentation I gave a few weeks ago at the UXconference 2009.

There were a lot of great presentation and it was a fantastic event that I hope to attend again in 2010.

As I usually do the presentation need some details in order to be better understood. Below you will find some comments on the slides.

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Mobile 3TV – A Few Considerations

December 15, 2009

“Your application is Ready for Sale”
This was the subject of the message I received from Apple on Friday 4th. The Mobile 3TV was approved by Apple and was available for download from the Italian Apple Store.
This was great news for us. We had announced the future availability of this to our customer some time ago [...]

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MD Touch – A New Baby On The Shelves

November 25, 2009

In the past months my team has worked on a new touch based mobile phone called MD Touch.
It is now in the stores.
I am quite happy of what we were able to deliver in such little time.

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MomoDesign MD-300H

November 6, 2009

We launched this in the past and I did not notice it was reviewed!
I still remember we all had a great time designing this, and thanks to Lavinia, Guido, Mauro, and Adam!

Momo Design MD-300H from higui on Vimeo.

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