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"A collection of screenshots encompassing some of the best (IMO!) looking Android apps, and / or apps with interesting user interfaces, hopefully providing some inspiration and insight into Android UI conventions."

A solid introduction to the mobile wallet and mobile payments as it is already used in the world.

"At the end of December, the country had 513 million Internet users, according to a report issued Monday by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), a non-profit group with ties to the government. This puts the country's total Internet penetration at 38.3 percent, up 4 percent from a year ago. In contrast, the U.S. has a total Internet penetration of 78.2 percent, according to Internet World Stats.

"The number of users accessing the Internet from their mobile phones has also grown, reaching 355 million, or more than the entire population of the U.S. Now 69.3 percent of China's Internet users connect to the Internet via their handsets, up from 66.2 percent a year ago."

A beautifully comprehensive review of the platform over the last three years of its existence.

UI Patterns for iOS, Android and More

A collection of mobile UI elements

"34,000* interviews with mobile users across over 43 countries [...] provides real insight into how consumers across the world are using and interacting with mobile technology and delivers a holistic understanding of the end-to-end consumer experience and how this will change in the future."

China experienced 870% growth in app sessions between January and October 2011, according to Flurry Analytics.

A comprehensive look at hardware support for every major Android release. It's not a pretty picture for those who own Android-based devices.

"provides insights into smartphone usage and mobile attitudes. Use it to create custom charts that will deepen your understanding of the mobile consumer and support data driven decisions in your mobile strategy."

Great breakdown of Facebook's mobile platform and dev strategy.

A mobile app localization platform. I love the "pseudo-translation" concept

Awesome collection of responsive, multi-size Web layout resources, tools and articles.

A comprehensive view of the process and resource needs for building a cross-platform HTML 5 Web app, broken down by the key components. The anatomy diagram provides an excellent view into the complexity involved with building and supporting the app.

"Preview mobile websites, design mockups, and local HTML on Mac or PC." The preview devices include the iPhone 4, Palm Pre, HTC Evo, Blackberry Storm and more on the way. "Visit any URL or drag and drop local HTML, Flash, or image files"

"Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development"

A great resource for designers and developers who need to work with multiple-resolutions and devices...wait, that's all of us!

The package includes (taken form their site):
1. A collection of Photoshop® CS5 marquee-tool presets for common screen resolutions. These cover both fixed-screen resolution sizes and ratios for less common resolutions that fall within standard ratios.

2. A collection of layered Photoshop CS5 PSDs each providing common devices for comping and design presentations. These devices cover the standard ratios and device types (televisions, tablets, smartphones). The screen sizes are to scale to help put designs in accurate and realistic context.

3. A reference chart for resolutions and device landscape.

"Treesaver is a JavaScript framework for creating magazine-style layouts using standards-compliant HTML and CSS."

A straightforward breakdown of the state and usefulness of CSS Media Queries that pulls together the various points of contention.

"ipadio allows you to broadcast from any phone to the Internet live. Phone blog, collect audio data, record and update the world, or simply let your mates know what you're doing - ipadio is integrated with Social Media & Blogging platforms."

"Use Appcelerator Titanium to build mobile apps for iPhone & Android and desktop apps for Windows, Mac OS X & Linux from Web technologies"

Stay connected to your Google Talk contacts right from your iPhone. Chat with your Google Talk contacts in real time. Send and receive instant messages in chat sessions with your contacts.* Move easily between multiple open chats. View and s…

An alternative to Acrobat Reader, Foxit Reader provides all of the key functionality, in a smaller footprint, plus a few features that would normally require you buy Acrobat Professional. Looks promising.

"Stoyan Stefanov made an appearance last week at the PHP Quebec Conference in Montreal. His session debuts Yahoo!’s latest research results and performance breakthroughs. He covers the existing 14 rules, plus 20 new rules for faster web pages. We’…

"Just prior to jetting off to Austin last week, I started playing around with a mobile version of this site. While a personal blog is hardly a site that really needs one (unlike, say, an app with a proven mobile user-base like Twitter), I wanted t…

This PHP code implements a mobile device detection algorithm that works for a large percentage of mobile browsers out there. The algorithm used is fairly lightwight -- the code is mostly based on a list of about 90 well-known mobile browser UA str…

A great collection of Web development articles

There are a few plugins that you can use with Firefox that allow you to basically emulate a live mobile device. These shouldn't be used in place of actual live device testing but for testing while developing, these have been invaluable to me.

Automatic location switching for Mac OS X with bluetooth detection and fuzzy logic to better determine when your laptop is in a new location.

Using adaptive layouts to serve to a variety of screen sizes