Design Details: Unboxing the iPhone makes me feel dumb
5 Sep 2008 12:27pm GMT When you were frantically unpacking your iPhone 3G were you also having problems figuring out how to put the SIM card in? In my packaging was a loose O2 SIM which obviously needs to plug into the iPhone… somehow! Sure, the small hole in the top looks like a familiar place to engage the mechanism, [...]
Can you switch off on holiday?
27 Aug 2008 3:36pm GMT In this age of gadgets and technology, it’s easy to waste hours in front of a computer looking at the endless pit of email, news and entertainment stuff that’s provided to us. The best way to get away from it used to be to go away on holiday where the little beach resort (fingers crossed) [...]
Taptu at conferences this September
21 Aug 2008 5:18pm GMT In September, Matt Davies, from our User Experience team, will be presenting at MobileHCI08, a conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services in Amsterdam. MobileHCI08 is an annual conference, held on 2-5 September, that brings together industry and academic specialists in mobile user experience from all over the world. Matt’s talk will be [...]
We’ve had enough of mobile phone unboxing videos, right?
20 Aug 2008 3:10pm GMT Well, I’ve certainly seen enough. They’re all the same. Fan boy gets excited, unboxes new gadget in a poorly lit video, with oooh’s and aaah’s at every layer of paper peeled off. Give them half a chance and they’ll get excited over the owner manual! However, in this case, I’m sure there’s something different about this [...]
Panda Porn: A peek into Taptu’s Related Searches
8 Aug 2008 11:50am GMT One of the features we like the most from the latest additions to Taptu is the “related search” section. It’s unbelievably useful and interesting, provides tons of great content to look at. Stuck on a delayed train the other day, I got to my destination having read up on the Wildebeest, the Alice in Wonderland [...]