Unblocking The Main Thread Solving ANRs and Frozen Frames
Crosscultural study on mobile phones
1. Cross-cultural study of the use of mobile phones E.A. Draffan (Univ. of Southampton, UK), Kenryu Nakamura, Mamoru Iwabuchi (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan), Takeo Kondo, Sheryl Burgstahler (Univ. of Washington, USA)
3. Mobile phones were identified in the Horizon Report (2009)as the technologies with the highest likelihood of entry into the mainstream of learning-focused institutions within the next year. The fastest-growing sales segment belongs to smart phones (2010) http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2009/ & http ://wp.nmc.org/horizon2010 / More statistics
9. If my phone could change text to reduce glare this would be brill Speaking instructions - hard to remember the commands or which button sets it working. e.g phone home The 'large' text option on for font is not very large! Due to fear of getting frustrated at not knowing a feature, I had the blackberry for 6 months in a box before I started using it a year ago. I am still not familiar with all the features.
13. Examples I take a picture as reminder and open webpages to save them as bookmarks so I can see the whole later Take pictures of whiteboards and other information (e.g. slides) to save making notes I use it to time activities...e.g. walking to the shops. Then save this information as a spread sheet. As I massively misjudge amount of time activities take. I also use the camera to take pictures of people I meet (with their permission) as I have a very very poor memory for names, so often cant find them in my phone book. The pictures help a lot. The fact the internet is always on hand is excellent for spelling, maps etc. I now cant imagine how I would manage without it, as I use it several times a day. I read PDF documents on iPhone on the way to school. using the notes to remember things, and using the alarm more than most people.
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Editor's Notes
iPhone 20% Samsung 14% Nokia 13% Sony 11% Blackberry 10% HTC 9% LG 3% Sharp 3% Motorola 3% Toshiba 2% Other 12%
Learning new features 29.20% Understanding the menus 18.23% Reading text and spelling 21.33% Seeing things on a screen 17.00% Seeing any part of the phone 5.37% Using buttons 30.73% Hearing sounds 15.30% Having a conversation 20.47% Remembering over time 22.73%