Since I am currently considered the Product Manager, I get to work on projects such as making an existing web application mobile friendly. While not as sexy as creating QR code applications, there are few nuances that are somewhat entertaining. One of those nuances that I find interesting is the concept of whether tablets are considered mobile devices. We all know that Zuckerburg and Facebook don’t consider the Ipad to be mobile but plenty of others, including my clients seem to. Needless to say the design needs for a 320 pixel wide area are much different than one for 760 pixels. Granted some of the dynamic HTML5 functionality really helps out in the implementation but overall it feels that a smartphone experience and a tablet experience should be different. It “feels” that the smartphone experience should be more simple, straight to the point, while the the tablet experience could be very close to a normal desktop / laptop experience.
