influencers
Never bet against the phone
The polished perfection of the millennial influencer is giving way to a rawer, more phone-centric look.
smartphones
Life through the (smart) rectangle
The rise of the Stories format is forcing us to accept that the smartphone is creating brand new forms of media.
Swap a coffee for smartphone journalism superpowers
Marc Settle [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/academy/entries/fafb0b78-b9cf-4218-81ec-b3f109d85225] : > […] if the money on just one coffee a week went instead towards an app, within a few months that smartphone would have acquired new powers (and you might even have lost a few pounds from your waistline). Marc,
education
Don't ban children from using smartphones - teach them to use them responsibly
The techno panic about children and phones is unnecessary - this is an education issue.
iPhone
Here's a movie trailer - what's so interesting about it?
Here’s a trailer to kick off your morning: Not my normal topic matter, right? So, why’s it here?Well, it was all shot on an iPhone 5 [http://petapixel.com/2015/07/08/tangerine-is-a-magnolia-pictures-film-shot-entirely-on-the-iphone-5/] . That’s right an iPhone 5. Not a 5S. Not a 6. A 5.
leweb
LeWeb: Forget watches, the future is a mesh of smart wearables
What happens when the smartphone explodes into a cloud of sensors and devices, that surround us in our home, our cars and our lives? These are two visions for that future, from the Wearables session at LeWeb 2014: JP Gownder: the reality of wearables Nothing is more urgent than a
mobile
News is going mobile - but how?
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/07/mobile-mobile.jpg] Frédéric Filloux did a useful round-up of the current state of play of news on mobile devices [http://www.mondaynote.com/2014/07/06/mobile-facts-to-keep-in-mind-part-1/]. This is of particular note: > According to Flurry Analytics, apps now
iphoneography
The terminal decline of the standalone camera
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/01/undersea-selfie-3457.html] This rather excellent feature about the transition from camera to smartphones [http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/12/goodbye-cameras.html] by Craig Mod was doing the rounds over the festive period: > After importing the results into
apple
On smartphone design
Great video – a sort of one-off addendum to the Everything is a Remix series – that looks at where iOS design draws its influences from:
apps
Why Tom Morris won't be buying your news app
Well, reason 9 of many [http://tommorris.org/posts/8070]: > Attempt to find the story you wanted to read using a layout and information architecture that’s completely different from the layout and information architecture of the website that you’ve grown familiar with, because some arsehole decided that
Android
Are smartphones now essential for journalism?
Between hurricane Sandy and the US presidential elections [http://blog.instagram.com/post/35239837390/election-night-on-instagram] we now have confirmation, if you needed it, that Instagram is a big social player. I can see why Facebook bought it – there’s plenty of evidence that people interact more around photos than anything
augmented reality
LeWeb: Get the kids outdoors for €299 (Augmented Reality)
Smart phones – are they the idea device for controlling remote control devices? Take, for example this: Controlled by an iPhone (works a little better in places without more than 3000 wifi connected devices…) Toys have lost the war with video games, says Henri Seydoux of Parrot [http://www.parrot.com/