How capable is your Mobile Device?

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 1:56 pm

Directly in relation to creation of a mobile theme for RN v2.5 or greater, based on the jQuery mobile framework. Curious how many users will have access to "A-grade" features. Support for devices continues to improve, so look for other devices to be added to the A-grade list over time. If you wish to provide other info specific to your device it would be helpful; most notably resolutiom (width) and any cache size restrictions (kb)

A-grade – Full enhanced experience with Ajax-based animated page transitions.

Apple iOS 3.2-5.0 - Tested on the original iPad (4.3 / 5.0), iPad 2 (4.3), original iPhone (3.1), iPhone 3 (3.2), 3GS (4.3), 4 (4.3 / 5.0), and 4S (5.0)
Android 2.1-2.3 – Tested on the HTC Incredible (2.2), original Droid (2.2), HTC Aria (2.1), Google Nexus S (2.3). Functional on 1.5 & 1.6 but performance may be sluggish, tested on Google G1 (1.5)
Android 3.1 (Honeycomb) – Tested on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Motorola XOOM
Android 4.0 (ICS) – Tested on a Galaxy Nexus. Note: transition performance can be poor on upgraded devices
Windows Phone 7-7.5 – Tested on the HTC Surround (7.0) HTC Trophy (7.5), LG-E900 (7.5), Nokia Lumia 800
Blackberry 6.0 – Tested on the Torch 9800 and Style 9670
Blackberry 7 – Tested on BlackBerry® Torch 9810
Blackberry Playbook (1.0-2.0) – Tested on PlayBook
Palm WebOS (1.4-2.0) – Tested on the Palm Pixi (1.4), Pre (1.4), Pre 2 (2.0)
Palm WebOS 3.0 – Tested on HP TouchPad
Firebox Mobile (10 Beta) – Tested on Android 2.3 device
Chrome for Android (Beta) – Tested on Android 4.0 device
Skyfire 4.1 - Tested on Android 2.3 device
Opera Mobile 11.5: Tested on Android 2.3
Meego 1.2 – Tested on Nokia 950 and N9
Samsung bada 2.0 – Tested on a Samsung Wave 3, Dolphin browser
UC Browser – Tested on Android 2.3 device
Kindle 3 and Fire - Tested on the built-in WebKit browser for each
Nook Color 1.4.1 – Tested on original Nook Color, not Nook Tablet
Chrome Desktop 11-17 - Tested on OS X 10.7 and Windows 7
Safari Desktop 4-5 - Tested on OS X 10.7 and Windows 7
Firefox Desktop 4-9 – Tested on OS X 10.7 and Windows 7
Internet Explorer 7-9 – Tested on Windows XP, Vista and 7
Opera Desktop 10-11 - Tested on OS X 10.7 and Windows 7

B-grade – Enhanced experience except without Ajax navigation features.

Blackberry 5.0: Tested on the Storm 2 9550, Bold 9770
Opera Mini (5.0-6.5) - Tested on iOS 3.2/4.3 and Android 2.3
Nokia Symbian^3 - Tested on Nokia N8 (Symbian^3), C7 (Symbian^3), also works on N97 (Symbian^1)

C-grade – Basic, non-enhanced HTML experience that is still functional

Blackberry 4.x - Tested on the Curve 8330
Windows Mobile - Tested on the HTC Leo (WinMo 5.2)
All older smartphone platforms and featurephones – Any device that doesn’t support media queries will receive the basic, C grade experience

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 2:01 pm

C grade, I refuse to pay rip off prices to be bothered by email while I'm doing other things ... have the cheapest "feature phone" I can get. It can barely do text messaging.

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 2:07 pm

Don't you have an ipad as well? What resolution does it run?

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 4:04 pm

I have an IPAD 1. I don't know what resolution it has. Googling around it says: 1024 x 768 at 132 ppi.

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 10:57 pm

thanks, i guess that is pretty similar to a desktop display. Later down the road I may look at a dynamic shifting layout based on display width, as used on the jqm demo/docs site http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.1.0-rc.1/ - but for now my efforts have been concentrated on fitting content within a narrow viewport... not to say it will look bad at larger resolutions, just not my focus at this time. It should still offer benefits for ipad though, such as ajax navigation, css/js optimization, lower bandwidth consumption, and a touch friendly interface.

glad to see most respondents so far have the latest gadgets Smile

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 3:58 am

@spasticdonkey

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FYI: i cant view the results of this poll?

registered · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6437

wHiTeHaT, I was able to view after voting

registered · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 12:09 pm

I use a nokia n98 as a phone , and it's perfect to google/wikipedia , get weather forececast ,
However , chat , gmail , ravennuke , others...shite!

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 12:25 pm

Argh, can't see results without voting and I don't want to vote because it will throw of the results - I don't have a smart phone - quite happy with my wheelbarrows, prtable generator and my PC, though it's "mobile" it doesn't really count Wink

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 12:28 pm

As of now:
How capable is your Mobile Device?
A-grade
77% [ 7 ]

B-grade
11% [ 1 ]

C-grade
11% [ 1 ]
Total Votes : 9

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 12:51 pm

thanks, that's interesting

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:17 am

kguske wrote:

wHiTeHaT, I was able to view after voting

I can see them now.

registered · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:02 am

spasticdonkey wrote:

thanks, i guess that is pretty similar to a desktop display.

Just a small comment on this if I may... This is why for any kind of RN mobile implementation there needs to be a way for the end-user to force to see the site as a normal desktop user would. Either User Agent sniffing won't be perfect or the individual (and I've done this on occasion) would rather see the site as a desktop user would (I've had to do this where the mobile version just doesn't show what I want it to and my Dolphin browser at times can reformat it better).

Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:30 am

Right now I have a couple of "modes" for launching the mobile theme, which is chosen by the site owner:
A) force mobile theme with a link @ bottom of every page to disable
B) offer option to enable mobile theme via Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! if mobile device detected

I may offer a 3rd option of a splash screen with on/off if mobile device detected, but not sure yet. Suffice it to say there will always be a way back to the "desktop" theme. The sidetab option is pending testing on an actual mobile device, as I don't know how usable it is.

Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 12:23 pm

spasticdonkey, awesome stuff!