Wendong’s Smart Phone Weblog

Yesterday Google announced Google Gears for mobile devices. It only supports Windows Mobile devices for now. Zoho is one of the demo sites available, so I tried it on T-Mobile Dash. As you can see from the screenshots, the capability is still limited: you can only view (no editting) up to 5 documents, (less than 25KB each). But the potential is there. I would wish the recently launched LinkedIn mobile supports offline mode, so I can cache all my connections locally with me all the time.

Local mobile applications will never rest in peace. But as the mobile browser evolves and 3G connection becomes more pervasive, mobile browser will be sufficient for more and more applications. Google Gears mobile is just the first step -bringing local storage capability to it.

Installation succeeded:

Zoho offline mode:

Zoho offline document viewing (sample document):

His newest weblog:
Russell Beattie’s Weblog

The first (ok, second) blog entry is about iPhone.

People started to create websites geared to iPhone like crazy. Although S60 Browser uses the same core technology as iPhone Safari, it never generates such a hype. Some iPhone applications may have usability issues on S60 devices because of the lack of a touch screen, but many of them work very well, as mentioned on AllAboutSymbian and s60tips.com. I hope iPhone will support real 3rd party applications soon, not just web applications.

It is hilarious that Apple claims iPhone delivers the full web experience to end users, and creates iPhone-only website (http://reader.mac.com).

Official guide on Apple site: Web Development for iPhone.

Yes, it is so last-week.

The full desktop browsing experience is very nice. It still can not beat the S60 Browser on my E61. But I will make it my default browser on the Dash. I am wondering when Deepfish will come out of the deep water.

I admit that my feature guessing for Opera Mini is completely wrong. Those pictures of Sprint phone and Wii remote are a little misleading

Yahoo just launched oneSearch on WAP. You can find it at http://m.yahoo.com.

This is a document from Yahoo which compares its offers with Google:
[PDF] Yahoo vs. Google on mobile

Via Andrea’s blog

The Ericsson Mobile JSF Kit provides a JSF library, MobileFaces, which implements a reference solution about mobile-device-specific rendering for mobile applications based on Java EE.

There are more additional solution packages for Mobile JSF Kit, such as DotMobi Template, Mobile Ajax, Mobile Security and Mobile Portlet. To me, this library demonstrates best practices of applying Java EE technologies (JSF, Portlet) to mobile web site development.