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1 Books (online and dead tree)

• http://mobilewebbook.com/ – gathering of information in one place, by Cameron Moll. Couple of years old but good overview of mobile. Sold as PDF only.
• Designing the Mobile User Experience by Barbara Ballard – LN tech library bought a copy.
• Constant Touch: A Global History of the Mobile Phone by Jon Agar
• Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life by Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe, and Misa Matsuda
• Mobile Interaction Design by Matt Jones and Gary Marsden

2 Blogs/Articles/Resources worth reading

• http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2007/01/putting_27_bill.html – overview of just how big the mobile market is in terms of physical devices
• http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2008/12/trillion-with-a.html – mobile is a trillion dollar industry, one of very few
• http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2009/01/a-study-in-digi.html – convergence of digital devices into the phone
• http://mobili.st/ – weekly overview of articles about mobile worth reading
• http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/ – industry site, general news
• http://mobileactive.org/mobile-web-and-your-organization – lots of links to other sites

3 Design and/or Coding Articles

• http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/designing-and-developing-mobile-web-site/ – 3 kinds of mobile users, sort of mini-personas for use
• http://mobiforge.com/designing/story/effective-design-multiple-screen-sizes – example of the data from Device Atlas, showing how to pick a target screen size. Also uses the idea of a single reference device.
• http://www.alistapart.com/articles/returnofthemobilestylesheet – writing CSS for handheld devices only
• http://www.bushidodesigns.net/blog/mobile-device-detection-css-without-user-agent/ – another method for the same goal of writing mobile CSS
• http://smartmobtoolkit.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/not-device-detection/ – detect desktops, not mobile

4 Statistics on mobile use

• http://www.opera.com/smw/ – Opera does a monthly state of the mobile web
• http://www.admob.com/s/solutions/metrics – monthly report on mobile ads and general mobile use
• http://weblog.cenriqueortiz.com/mobility/2009/01/05/top-10-mobile-phones-in-the-us-q3-2008/ – Top 10 handsets in 2008
• http://mobileactive.org/countries/ – stats on each country and mobile penetration in those countries

5 Best Practices and Design Resources

• http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/ – technical best practices for developing mobile websites
• http://www.passani.it/gap/ – another guide, written by a former author/contributor of the above
• http://mobiforge.com/starting/story/dotmobi-mobile-web-developers-guide – PDF file, requires registration
• http://mobiforge.com/book/mobile-web-developer%E2%80%99s-guide-part-i – online guide, may or may not be the same as above
• http://patterns.littlespringsdesign.com/index.php/Main_Page – wiki for mobile information, run by Little Springs Design
• http://www.w3.org/TR/mwabp/ – for web applications, not just sites. Still in progress.
• http://www.w3.org/TR/mobileOK-basic10-tests/ – test for mobile sites
• http://wapreview.com/blog/?p=184 – validating mobile sites

6 Testing/Emulation Sites and resources

• http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/resources/simulators.jsp – blackberry simulator
• http://developer.openwave.com/dvl/tools_and_sdk/phone_simulator/ – openwave simulator
• http://mtld.mobi/emulator.php?emulator=nokiaN70&webaddress=mtld.mobi – nokia simulator
• http://www.projectaphone.com/ – device for capturing screen images/video
• http://www.gotomobile.com/archives/diy-gotomobiles-mobile-cam – homemade version of the above, more or less
• http://www.browsercam.com/Default2.aspx – browsercam gives screenshots of sites on devices
• http://deviceanywhere.com/ – Device Anywhere, remote access to actual physical devices
• http://ready.mobi – more mobile Emulators.
• http://deviceatlas.com – huge resource of data on mobile devices. Visiting the site with a mobile phone registers that information and saves it for others to use.

7 Conferences

• http://design4mobile.mobi/conference.html – run by Little Springs Design

8 Articles/Resources specific to Health Care

• http://www.sacbee.com/140/story/1584982.html?mi_rss=Technology
• http://www.hcireports.com/hcireports/trendswirelesshealthcare/?sub_id=6w1J2Hw2F1Ma – Trends in wireless healthcare tech.

9 Devices/Manufacturer Specific info and links