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Saturday, February 07, 2004
Mobile Usability book goes mobile
The Mobile Usability - How Nokia Changed the Face of Mobile Phone book has gone mobile with a S60 maxdox abstract. The included screen shot is not alluding to the mobile version of the book, but to one of the less successful concepts we worked on a few years back ;-).
Find out how to download it for yourself in the end of this document.
I recently got introduced to Maxdox by bazaar keeper Peter Vesterbacka of HP. Maxdox is a mobile document format based on JAVA and XML. When I met the creators of Maxdox, Max Rumpus, we got the idea to make the Mobile Usability book truly mobile. We some selected parts of the book and wrapped it in Maxdox. It it surprisingly usable, and I urge you to download it. Type the following URL: http://wap.maxdox.com/usability/usability.jad into your S60 phones browser and you get it pushed to you as wap download.
I believe that Smartphones have a good chance of evolving into reading devices. The Series 60 screen is now big and bright enough for rather comprehensive reading. Many users have read e-books on their Palms and I used to do it on my Newton back in 1993. One of the things that attract me with mobile e-books is making book/document reading one-hand operated, which books typically aren’t.
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Comments
Is this document availalbe to non-wap connections? I thought I'd try it on my P800, but Opera loads over GPRS/public internet...
Posted by: Mark Derricutt at Feb 7, 2004 5:13:15 AM
The URL looks like to be invalid. I got a "The page cannot be found" msg.
Posted by: Alberto Escarlate at Feb 7, 2004 2:15:21 PM
Just change the 'jab' to 'jad' :)
http://wap.maxdox.com/usability/usability.jad
Posted by: Wendong at Feb 8, 2004 1:30:33 AM
Maybe since you work for a high tech company, you would like to read my murder mystery, Chip and Die by Arlene Sachitano - which is set in a high tech factory. I based it on my 25 years experience in the field. . .
My book can be found at www.aksach.com
Thanks for your time and attention
AKSACH
Posted by: aksach at Feb 8, 2004 8:30:51 PM
Beautiful design on the book abstract! I think this is turning out to be a really neat way to sample books. Will be very interesting to see how these mobile documents evolve, clearly a lot of potential in here.
Posted by: Peter Vesterbacka at Feb 11, 2004 7:13:32 PM
Excuse me, I make bold to write this commnet to you.I'm steven from china and reading your book 'Mobile Usability', It's very interesting!
China's usability at initial stage, very unDeveloped !
so ChinaHCI was 'born'!
firstly,It's a learning platform support by our Studio.we want to make it become a biggest HCI and Usability free organization to accelerate development.u know, like UPA and ACM...etc.
so we want contact some author and ORG. or company to help us, get book's publish copyright in china.. let us to translate and diffuse it.
Do u be interested in it？！
wait for your RE. thanks a lot!
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Posted by: java site at Nov 4, 2005 12:19:34 PM
The tool that have been used for creating the Mobile Usability book is now available for free.
Check out and download your free copy of Maxdox Mobile Publisher Personal edition for OSX, Linux or Windows.
www.maxdox.com
Posted by: Mika Huhtamäki at Feb 2, 2006 7:39:02 PM
