Just a quick note on the heels of Adam’s post about iPhone support in BatchBook.
While we love our iPhones here at BatchBlue, we know they are not necessarily the phone of choice among all cell phones users. Our very own president, Pamela, is a devoted BlackBerry owner and has been wanting a mobile version after seeing what we built for the iPhone.
So Adam and I worked together last week and launched support for BlackBerry, Palm, Windows Mobile and even Opera Mini. As with the iPhone version, this is an early “View only” release, but we are looking at adding support for adding contacts and To-Dos here very soon.
Please let us know if you have any features you would like to see in upcoming versions. Mobile BatchBook is already changing our daily work flow, as there’s nothing like having your most up to date contacts with you wherever you go. We hope you find it as useful as we do.
Tags: batchbook, Blackberry, mobile browser, mobile web, Opera Mini, Palm, Windows Mobile
I somehow managed to wrestle this product update post away from Sean. I’m really excited about the latest updates!
Speed Boost
The gentlemen-who-are-far-more-techie-than-I did some big time optimization behind the scenes. I noticed right away that BatchBook is much more zippy, particularly Lists & Reports. I’m sure you’ll notice, too.
Who am I kidding? iPhone is the big story!
We iPhone owners like to brag that the iPhone boasts a full-featured web browser—the same one you use on your desktop. But after the novelty of loading sites optimized for a 17″ LCD wears off, you begin to appreciate a nicely designed mobile-optimized site.
Most of the BatchBlue crew totes an iPhone and often fire up BatchBook to look up a phone number or address. While it is nice to be able to load the fully-functional site in the palm of your hand, there was too much clicking and loading to just get that darn phone number. So, we decided to optimize for mobile, starting with iPhone.
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Tags: batchbook, iphone, mobile browser, mobile web
With the launch of the Apple iPhone merely a few days away, Apple’s legion of loyal developers entered the week still anxiously awaiting word on how they are supposed to develop applications for the thing. The answer, most assumed, would come this week at the Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC07) this week. The timing was frighteningly close to the iPhone’s launch, but better late than never.
Well, they got their answer. And many didn’t like it. As Michael Calore of Wired put it:
Suddenly, a sound that’s rarely ever heard in a Jobs keynote welled up in the giant conference hall. Crickets.
Apple’s self-proclaimed “sweet” solution is an interesting one. They essentially told the developers to “make web apps.” The iPhone runs a full version of Apple’s Safari web browser. (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Ajax are all fully supported, so essentially if a web app uses web standards, it will work on the iPhone.
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Tags: batchbook, iphone, microformats, mobile browser, mobile web, mobility
