user experience

WirelessWeek is reporting today that a judge is allowing the lawsuit against T-Mobile by disgruntled subscribers to proceed. The subscribers are fighting charges against unsolicited text messages because they have no viable way of avoiding the charges.

http://www.wirelessweek.com/T-Mobile-Subscribers-Sue-Text-Messages.aspx

I have been thinking about mobile advertising quite a bit of late. In my last blog I shared news of the mobile Internet reaching critical mass.

Within that report was a graphic showing the Motorola RAZR as the most popular device for mobile Internet browsing. This news got me to thinking about how the mobile internet is funded, then to thinking about mobile advertising in general, and before long I was thinking about the basic problems with mobile banner ads. Anyhow, follow with me on this one:

The mobile web as an application platform has at the best very limited use. Mobile devices are fundamentally different than personal computers and this difference dictates not only how the devices display information and how the users interact with the information, but how the devices are used. It is critical that application developers understand this difference.