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Microsoft’s Mobile Gaming Strategy is BrilliantAugust 24

Colin Gibbs of GigaOm thinks that Microsoft’s Mobile Gaming Strategy is a mistake, he cites that Microsoft will be bring “twitch” games like “Halo” which don’t make sense on mobile… I think that’s a little presumptuous, I think Microsoft’s focus on integrating Xbox Live games with Windows Mobile 7 is a brilliant move and Colin discounted the game database that Microsoft has and it’s ability to bring in games that mobile gamers would love.

Tomi Ahonen points out in his analysis of iPhone Economics that “most paid iPhone apps are games”, this reveals that decent quality games are a big hit with people and they are willing to pay for them so Microsoft’s focus on mobile gaming is a smart move.

In one of his keynotes, Steve Jobs said that one of the b

Carnival of the Mobilists #228June 29

Head over to this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists at msearchgroove for some of the finest in mobile blogging.

This week’s carnival also features my post Android Gingerbread to focus on user experience and fragmentation to counter iPhone

Tagged: Android, carnival, Mobile

Android Gingerbread to focus on user experience and fragmentation to counter iPhoneJune 24

Image credit - The Music Void

Google’s core competency is engineering, not UX, and it showed through in its mastery of the implementation of features with iPhone always trying to catch up like with multi-tasking and copy/paste. However, Android UI looks plain vanilla compared to the polish of iPhone UI, Android “UI layers” like Motorola’s Motoblur and HTC’s Sense basically scream out that the standard Android UI isn’t good enough.

With the features mostly in place, Google has decided to take the bull by the horns and make the user experience a top priority. Matias Duarte’s appointment as user experience director for Android seems to be a move in the right direction. Martin was the guy responsible for the the elegance of Palm’s webOS.

According to TechCrunch, the Android team is “laser focused” on user experience for the next firmware upgrade.

Google is focusing the bulk of its efforts on the user experience for the upcoming Gingerbread release to counter this. And they want to get the Android experience closer t

The delicate art of balancing commercial imperative and user experienceJune 23

I chanced upon this great presentation by Priya Prakash, Creative Director for Consumer Experience at Nokia. She talks about one of the toughest topics facing designers: how to strike a balance between the commercial imperative of revenue generation techniques and the quality of user experience.

What’s the customer’s perception of value?

Value for money is a perception, or to put it more simply, a feeling. It is the state of mind that a customer has.

The old method of “more features – more value” is not relevant anymore. As per a BBC study, people only use a small percentage of features and are baffled by overflow of features

HTC, Motorola and Sony Ericson all make phones on Android platform, but it’s the value perception that they create by enhancing the User Experience using their UI frameworks on top of Android like HTC “Sense”, Moto Blur and Sony’s Rachel UI that differentiate them from each other. The feature-set is (almost) the same but the user experie

In the mobile world, it is all about the user experienceMarch 21

Mobile User Experience

Value for money is a perception, or to put it more simply, a feeling. It is the state of mind that a customer has.

The old method of “more features – more value” is not relevant anymore. As per a BBC study, people only use a small percentage of features and are baffled by overflow of features

“When technology delivers basic needs, user experience dominates.” (Donald Norman – MIT)

3 years ago, iPhone changed the game completely and ever since major handset manufacturers have started focusing on user experience instead of features.

HTC, Motorola and