Tag: mobile

There are two main types of cell phone buyers

Intriguing insight in this review of the Fairphone 5:

There are two main types of cell phone buyers – those who love checking out the new gadgets and getting a new phone, and those who “hate saying goodbye” to their old devices, who would rather not replace a phone for mere planned obsolescence because it still works *just fine* except for this one little thing that either can be worked around or *should* be fixable.

Fairphone is intended for the second group

https://www.theverge.com/23895548/fairphone-5-review-price-features

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I’d love to get a Fairphone for this reason. But I also don’t want to get a new phone right now, for the same reason.

Here’s hoping what I’ve got lasts long enough for this model (or the next) to reach the US.

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Responsive Email

I was going to put together a post complaining about #email #newsletters that still assume you’re reading on a desktop and send out layouts that rely on a wide screen size and end up with 2pt type on a #mobile phone – you know, where most people read their email these days.

Then I stumbled on this #usability article by Jakob Nielsen.

From 2012.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/mobile-email-newsletters/

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The funny thing is that #HTML is #responsive by default. In the very early days, it was *always* responsive except when you added preformatted text. Once you got a little more rendering capability (tables, images and image maps) you had people designing websites who were accustomed to fixed-size media, and the paradigm stuck.

Build for 800×600. Build for 1024×768. Hey, we have widescreen now. What do you mean the window isn’t always fullscreen?

And so on.

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Being able to apply relative sizes to everything, and being able to tweak the layout based on the logical screen size instead of physical pixels is an amazing improvement in the flexibility of anything formatted in HTML+CSS.

(And of course higher-definition displays, but a responsive layout can still make itself usable on some of those older screen sizes.)

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I wouldn’t say I’m considering getting a tablet for the DC relaunch

I wouldn’t say I’m considering getting a tablet for the DC relaunch, but I have added it to my list of other reasons I’m considering a tablet.

As much as I like print comics, I have to admit that I don’t re-read most of them, and I have a lot of long boxes. The idea of buying digital monthlies and then printed collections of the books I want to reread has a strong appeal.

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