After almost a year in the making, working with the world famous artist Jon Burgerman – ustwo™ finally announces the launch of the already infamous Inkstrumental™.
The app lets you make and share crazy music with your friends. You can choose from a vast array of characters, each with their own weird sound that when tapped, is automatically played, recorded and added to the wonky, hypnotic, rolling beats. For more info visit www.inkstrumental.com or Jon Burgerman.
(via AllAboutSymbian) - Nokia today introduced their first Symbian^3 device, the Nokia N8.
The Nokia N8 is a powerful combination of internet, video, photos, music, maps with Symbian^3 operating system. With a large capacitive touch screen supporting pinch to zoom, social networking integration, a Carl Zeiss 12 megapixel camera with wide-angle lens and Xenon flash, shooting 720p HD video, On Demand WebTV, HDMI connectivity and USB OTG, you can create, discover and share a world of creativity. Additionally, for the software developers, the device includes Qt 4.6.2, Java MIDP 2.1 and Flash Lite 4.0.
You can read full device details here or take a look to the launch event website.
Ovi Daily App Blog just published a nice review of 10×10 Mobile. Thank you blog.ovi.com.
The Boston Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group is holding an eSeminar on Thursday April 15th at 12 PM EST (check your time). Speaker for this eSeminar is Matt Pollitt from digital agency ustwo™. He will talk about the company ustwo and the mobile projects they are working on.
Topics: ustwo™
When: Thursday April 15th at 12 PM EST
eSeminar link: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/ustwo/
Speaker: Matt Pollitt
Matt will talk about ustwo™ Flash Lite mobile projects (for example: b@tv), their distribution, performance issues and results. You don't want to miss! More info here.
On Sony Ericsson Developer World was just published a cool video showing off the speed and rich effects that are possible on the XPERIA™ X10 mini. The great news is that the UI software development team at Sony Ericsson is preparing some tutorials so that developers can use the same UI features!
Read more here.
(via MobileCrunch) - The first videos of Symbian 4 have just been released for public consumption:
And I must agree with the following comment:
The first videos of Symbian^4 have just been released for public consumption, and we can’t help but notice that they seem very.. uninspired. Actually, perhaps that’s inaccurate. They’re very inspired. Directly inspired. By the competition.
New useful resource released by teehan+lax to help designers who want to begin working on iPad projects and create custom UI elements on the fly:
Now that Apple has officially released the iPad we want to start designing for it. While Apple’s interface builder is great, it doesn’t really allow us to create custom UI elements on the fly. We decided to take a page from our iPhone GUI PSD and create one for the iPad.
Read the full post here and/or download the iPad GUI PSD.
UX Magazine published a very interesting article summarizing most important considerations (from Apple) to take in mind designing application for the iPad.
Apple's Human Interface Guidelines for the iPad outline how to create user interfaces optimized for the iPad device. According to Apple, the best iPad applications: downplay application UI so that the focus is on content; present content in beautiful, often realistic ways; and take full advantage of device capabilities to enable enhanced interaction. [...]
Read the full article here.
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