The document emphasizes the growth of mobile web usage and the increasing variety of devices available, highlighting the need for open device labs to enhance web user experience. It notes significant statistics, such as 72% of internet users in China accessing the web via mobile and a 2:1 global mobile broadband subscription ratio to fixed broadband. The initiative aims to provide real devices for testing to improve web quality and accessibility across different devices.

1. Open Device Labs
for A Better
User Experience
Holger Bartel - @foobartel

2. The Mobile Web
★ Mobile Web Traffic
★ Device Penetration
★ Device Variety

3. 10%
of Internet usage worldwide
accounts to Mobile
http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2012/05/09/

4. 2x
the amount of 2010
http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2012/05/09/

5. 2012
192.5% growth of mobile
web traffic in Asia
2010
http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/05/08/mobile-web-traffic-asia-tripled/

6. 538m
Internet users in China
http://mobithinking.com/blog/china-top-mobile-market

7. 72%
access the web via mobile
http://mobithinking.com/blog/china-top-mobile-market

8. 16%
of global population
=
1.1 billion active mobile-broadband
subscriptions
http://mobithinking.com/mobile-marketing-tools/latest-mobile-stats/b#mobilebroadbandcountries

9. Global mobile broadband
subscription outnumber
fixed broadband
subscriptions
2:1

10. New Devices Since 09/12
4"-5" Smartphones 9"-10" Tablets
Apple iPhone 5 (4" Apple iOS 6.0) iPad Gen 4 (9.7" Apple iOS 6.0)
Nokia Lumia 920 (4.5" Microsoft Windows 8) Microsoft Surface Tablet (10.6" Microsoft Windows 8)
HTC Windows Phone 8X (4.3" Microsoft Windows 8) Kindle Fire HD (8.9" Google Android 4.0 modified)
HTC Windows Phone 8S (4.0" Microsoft Windows 8) Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2 (10.1" Microsoft Windows 8)
Motorola Droid RAZR HD (4.7" Google Android 4.0) Acer Iconia Tab W510 (10.1" Microsoft Windows 8)
Motorola Droid RAZR M (4.3" Google Android 4.0) Dell Latitude 10 (10.1" Microsoft Windows 8)
Google/LG Nexus 4 (4.7" Google Android 4.2) Dell XPS 10 (10.1" Microsoft Windows 8)
Asus Vivo Tab RT (10.1" Microsoft Windows 8)
5"-6" Phone/Tablet Hybrids Google/LG Nexus 10 (10.055” Google Android 4.2)
Samsung Galaxy Note II (5.5" Google Android 4.0)
11"-17" Laptops & Convertibles (Tablet/Laptop)
7"-8" Tablets 13" MacBook Pro with Retina (13" Apple OSX 10.8)
iPad Mini (7.9" Apple iOS 6.0) Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13 (13.3" Microsoft Windows 8)
Kindle Fire HD (7" Google Android 4.0 modified) Lenovo ThinkPad Twist (12.5" Microsoft Windows 8)
Kindle Fire (7" Google Android 4.0 modified) Toshiba Satellite U925T (12.5" Microsoft Windows 8)
Google/LG Nexus 7 (7" Google Android 4.2) Dell XPS 12 (12.5" Microsoft Windows 8)
Lenovo IdeaTab Lynx (11.6" Microsoft Windows 8)
20"-30" Desktops Samsung ATIV Smart PC 500T/700T (11.6" Microsoft Windows 8)
Sony Tap 20 (20" touch screen Microsoft Windows 8) Acer Iconia W700 (11.6" Microsoft Windows 8)
21.5-inch iMac (21.5" Apple OSX 10.8) Sony Vaio Duo 11 (11.6" Microsoft Windows 8)
27-inch iMac (27" Apple OSX 10.8) Samsung Chromebook (11.6" Google Chrome OS)
http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1646

11. Designing The Experience

12. Performance
=
Design

14. Testing & Improving
★ Test early
★ Test often
★ Test on REAL devices

15. www.flickr.com/photos/brad_frost/7387823392

16. Open Device Labs

17. Open Device Labs
are an effort to improve the quality and
user experience of the web by providing
their local web design/developer
community with a range of real devices for
real testing.

18. opendevicelab.com

19. Open Device Labs
opendevicelab.hk

20. DYDD
★ Donate Your Dusty Devices
★ @hkodl
★ lab@opendevicelab.hk

21. “ Every web user should be able to
access any content with any
device on the internet.

22. Thank You.
Holger Bartel
@foobartel
h@foobartel.com