Fred Recsky

Statistics

This is the number in percentage of what mobile operational systems are being used to access all my web sites ( including applications, blogs, etc etc ).

Platform - % of visits - average time spent on site:

1. Android - 36% -  00:01:51
2. Symbian - 31% - 00:00:36
3. iOS - 29% - 00:03:22
4. Blackberry - 4% - 00:00:30

Notice how iOS users spend time navigating on their devices. Also notice how nokia was screwed with Symbian. Windows Phone is not representative yet.

Now if I open the Android by each version I have a giant report with 22 diferent versions! And 2.2 is the most common followed close by 2.3.4. Only two visitors used 4.x or more. This is less than the windows phone users.

And the last one, the devices per manufactures ( only the top 3 ):

1. Nokia
2. Apple
3. Samsung

Almost 30% each. Since nokia is in decline and Apple and Samsung are climbing, this means a lot of “smartphones” nokia around, but that sucks. I had on 5800x ( one of the most popular ) and is just terrible navigate with it. 

I would like to see how it will be on the next six months, so I’ll do the same comparison again. Please note that this is only for my websites and is not a trend or something bigger. It is just my own analysis.

CodePlex - Mercurial password for new users

I started to use CodePlex, a.k.a Github for microsoft stuff, and when I was trying to push my source code to mercurial repository it never sucessed. 

That looks like it is not working with live-id correctly ( probably not ). The first time you login on codeplex you can choose if you want use your live-id or the login schema from the codeplex. To me is clear that the operations are authenticated only against the codeplex login system. 

So what I did?

I choose to login with my live-id and during the first login I was asked to choose a “username”. So I logged out and started a password recovery using this username. It sent a email to my live-id and voi-la. After I reset the password everything worked.

Notice that this procedure didn’t touch the live-id password and it is only for stuff on codeplex. Hope that this can help you.

Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak about windows phones: 

“Wrong. iPhone is my favorite phone. I did give my opinion that the Windows 7 phone had superior visual appearance and operation cues that were also more attractive. In my opinion, it sets the mark for user interface. I would recommend it over my Android phones given that it doesn’t yet have the breadth of apps. I surmise that Microsoft hired someone from Apple and put money into having a role in the UI and appearance of some key apps. I also surmised that Steve Jobs might have been reincarnated at MS due to a lot of what I see and feel with this phone making me think of a lot of great Apple things.”

The point is about the user interface and the end user feels it. After almost five years after iphone and now two after windows phone 7 looks like the journalists didn’t get it.  

The OS/2 of mobiles…

Jason Hiner on Lumia 900

Windows Phone 7: The OS/2 of this generation?

Just saved it for future claim chowder. But you already can find the excuses for future reference in the article:

• Nokia said that it has sold so many Lumia 900 phones that it’s having a hard time keeping up with the inventory demands (although the company has refused to disclose sales numbers).
• On opening weekend, the Lumia 900 became the top-selling cellphone on Amazon.com.
• A poll on WPcentral.com found that most of the customers who were buying the Lumia 900 were coming from iPhone (29%) or Android (28%).

So the phone started in the top of the selling charts and it is a failure. Hard to understand the news today.

Claim Chowder

Playing like Daring Fireball, I’ll start to save stuff related with Windows Phone and mobile market in general for a Claim Chowder.

I will start with this:

Nokia-Microsoft: ‘A certain road to death’

Next weeks both Lumia 800 and 900 start to sell on U.S. Let’s see what happens later.

Brazilian Windows Phone Developer Blog

So, I started to write about windows phone development in details here. It is portuguese :).

pt_BR:

Então meu blog de desenvolvimento para windows phone está aqui.

http://wp.frederico.me

One year of Windows Phone 7

So, it is already one year since I moved from my loved/hated nokia 5800 to my really loved HTC trophy 7. It is time for some reflections.

Once a time a go, I saw a weird phone, with a interesting interface. I went to the shop and saw the Microsoft logo and walked away. I did it three times and tried on the fourth, and bought it.  My nokia 5800 software sucked and annoyed me too much that I need some fresh air. I never liked Androids and for some weird reason I never felt enough will to buy a iphone. Welcome to the dark side*.

So changed my life in some sense, since I was a nokia user and Linux fan boy it is easy to imagine that wasn’t a easy decision. But after it payed every buck that I spent on it.

Two years using the nokia 5800 generated a lot of frustration, that easily make me understand why nokia dropped the Symbian and Meego in favor of Windows Phone. With the nokia 5800 I have a phone and nice music player with a terrible touch screen. The browser sucks, the ovi store sucks, the apps sucks. The hardware was good and the touch screen, resistive one makes me cry blood everytime that I need to use it.

So when I started to use the HTC was only happiness, nice capacitive touch screen with a awesome looking system, with apps that work ( even if it is not that much ) and I can easy develop for it. I downloaded the SDK and make the hello world in 10 minutes. I really tried the nokia QT studio and other options and again was terrible in many levels.

Now I only check social networks on my phone, is rare use desktop email client and I really became more productive in a lot of tasks. I can do a lot of tasks on my phone.  At that time was windows phone 7 and it was really more limited that it is today.

When the windows 7.5 was released ( I installed it since the beta version ), with new apps and a lot of new features ( for users and developers ) I just got it as my definitive phone. HTC hardware proved to be really good, surviving some hard falls and with a lot of scratches it is still working perfect.

The only thing that I got a bit disappointed was the camera, but it is specific from HTC, the nokia 800 from my wife has a gorgeous camera ( like all nokias ).  The lack of some apps and the time that it takes for some apps comes to the platform still a issue but I can understand. Will get better in future when it will have more marktshare.

Linkivy.com

So I released a new website, linkivy.com. It is based on a old ideia, a bookmark tool that shows the updates of the saved sites.  So basically linkivy is a tool where you can save links or have them read from your likes on facebook, and it will automatically show the feeds from these sites.

I’m using it for more or less one year, since I started to develop it. I would say that it is mature enough for the early adopters but still lack a lot of necessary features. The main features are:

• save the link and automatically provide the feeds related
• show the feeds in a really nice white minimalistic screen
• read your facebook account for liked links and add it to your feed list ( if you want )

Just that, you can try it at linkivy.com, in front page you can navigate on some feeds without login. If you login you can add your feeds using a bookmark applet or reading the liked links on facebook.

That also changed the way that I save my bookmarks. On my primary desktop I save it using the javascript applet on bookmark toolbar, but on mobile phones, tablets or other computers I simple do like it on facebook when I want save it or read later or add the feed to my list.

That also make my internet reading more productive, If I want I can go to the publisher website but usually I simple check if there is new stuff published on that site on linkivy, and read what I think that should be read.

I hope it can be useful for other people also and the only thing that I’m planning is create a mobile client.

Trello →

So I started testing trello.  I was using microsoft one note to manage my lists because it suck less than the other options. So now almost all of them are in trello. Downside is that I can’t use it from my windows phone yet. 

Now I can use the one note for taking notes, and for that it is really good.

Imovlr is my “company wannabe”, where I put some software that I pretend to be a product. The link of my trello lists for imovlr is here.

Playing with templates

The site may look weird for a while.

Also wondering about buy a premium theme from tumblr.

I’m fine with this one now :).

Nokia Lumia 710

So today I went to local store ( mediamarkt in Almere - NL) and saw a Nokia Lumia 710. Before that  I had an impression of it being the ugly duck. Everybody talks about the Lumia 800 and the 710 is just the bugdet option. 

The point is that it is way better than I thought. Really. Being almost 230 bucks cheaper than the Lumia 800 and free on contract it is really a good option.  If you are a developer and just want a phone to development this is your best option. 

First the hardware buttons looks way better live than in the photos. They are not a degree out of the phone but a nice designed buttons.  Also the build is very solid and have the same good feeling when touching that the 800.  

The screen is not the same but is better than my HTC trophy and the other options available at the time ( some HTCs, a old model LG ), except by of course the Lumia 800.

And the last comment, I was with my wife and the pink/white version just drove her crazy. In a sea of black, white and gray devices the nokias coloured ones look very cool. 

So Jony Ive leads the design team at the two most-profitable phone makers. Impressive

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Daring Fireball

Like a friend like to say, Fantastic!

Android is the new dumb phone.

staff:

What do those numbers add up to? Mobile updates. We have a bunch coming over the next few weeks.

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Minimal: Occupy Tumblr →

I have to say that I will do the same.

mnmal:

Here’s the idea as described by my friend Patrick Rhone from Minimal Mac:

What if, 1% of the users of a particular free service of 36 million clients and growing, were to decide to drop $10.00 cash every month into an envelope and mail it to said service? What if that envelope had no return…

Just bought my Christmas gift →

I bought the game and now everything that were in their store :).