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iMobileU Initiative

iMobileU Initiative. Common Solutions Group. The State of Mobile Devices. Fragmented Today and Tomorrow: iPhone (still AT&T only) in the lead followed closely by BlackBerry (all U.S. carriers) Android gaining momentum (T-Mobile & Sprint: HTC, Motorola, Samsung, LG, etc.)

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iMobileU Initiative

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  1. iMobileU Initiative Common Solutions Group

  2. The State of Mobile Devices • Fragmented Today and Tomorrow: • iPhone (still AT&T only) in the lead followed closely by BlackBerry (all U.S. carriers) • Android gaining momentum (T-Mobile & Sprint: HTC, Motorola, Samsung, LG, etc.) • Palm webOS also lurking (Pre & Pixi: Sprint + Verizon & AT&T (2010)) • “Premium Touch Phones” also gaining • Users expect mobile info on their devices without discrimination

  3. Room for ImprovementMIT Mobile Web • Browser Detection: • Accommodate the popularity of non-WebKit “premium touch phone” browsers (e.g. BlackBerry Storm, Samsung Instinct, LG Dare, etc.) • Segregation of browser detection (mobi-service) • Branching WebKit UI to accommodate Android, webOS and others in the future • Improved UI for “premium touch phone” users • Ability to serve data to native applications (api) • More features and content type/data source

  4. MIT Mobile 2.0 Mobile Web Native App Browser Detection (mobi-service) Web Kit Generic Touch UI Normal Computer iPhone Android webOS Content Generator (api) People Directory Campus Map Shuttle Schedule Events Calendar Stellar (LMS) Student Careers Emerg. Info 3Down Tech CASH Library MIT LDAP Server MIT IMS Server NextBus MIT Events Server MIT Stellar Server CareersOffice Emergency .mit.edu 3Down .mit.edu MIT Tech CASH DB MIT Libraries

  5. 517K page views over the last year MIT Statistics May 2008 -> Sep 2009

  6. iPhone Native App (MIT Prototype) • Developed with the help of student developers (< 6 weeks) • Advantage Native: • Local Storage (e.g. campus map images) • Accelerometer (e.g. shake to refresh) • Push Notification (e.g. shuttle bus arrival notice, new class announcement notice) • Open Source

  7. iMobileU Activities • We’ve been busy (sorry), but we want to work together on this -- not just share the work. • Wiki, Mailing List, Conference Call https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/imobileu • Potential opportunity to partner with other open source projects, e.g. FluidProject.org • Let’s collaborate on developing application framework that can be customized for each member institution

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