Techcrunch has released an interesting video showing off a new way to type–or should I say “swype”–on a touchscreen phone. The basic premiss is that instead of lifting your finger to “tap” a letter, you simply slide your finger around the screen and the device will guess what word you mean. It’s similar to the [...]

The wonderful Smashing Magazine just posted a great article on “iPhone Apps Design Mistakes” but all of what they say can be applied directly to any mobile app, not just iPhone apps: Designing a great app isn’t a simple task. Jacob Nielsen recently asserted that “the mobile user experience is still miserable.” Extracting user [...]

While we’ve all been having fun comparing Android and iPhone, all the underlying open source OS code has been MIA–until today. Google pushed the source for Android 2.0 to the Android Open Source Project last night and as we should expect, the Android development community had it running on G1 devices faster than you can say [...]