Opportunity on the Third Screen

Another great post from David Biesel about the opportunity on the Third Screen -- AKA the underutilized mobile phone home screen. I've only recently discovered this blog, and it's rapidly becoming one of my favorite daily reads.

This 1x1 display has until recently been overlooked as a vehicle for information communication. Always with you and referenced perhaps dozens of times per day, it carries a lot of possibilities with it. Right now my own background screen is terribly boring calendar. Updated news and weather information would be a great replacement, if only just a first step to more personalized content.

Comments

[Bill Seitz]

The Opera browser has been extended into a whole framework (oops, I mean "platform") for providing the entire UI on a cellphone, for just this kind of application.

http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/platform/

[JohnEss]

Thanks AJ!