The thin line that divides mobile phones, PDAs, other portable devices and laptops is every day smaller. Every day more phones resemble PDAs, more laptops become smaller (even with a keyboard that you can use with one hand) and PDAs are disappearing.On the other hand, we often consider a phone very different from a laptop when developing software, and we imagine users in quite different contexts and scenarios. How many times do we forget that even we would prefer the simplicity of keeping our information in one place, one interface, one copy, one single version… without the problems of copying or synchronizing or even the hassle of carrying one more charger… without the helplessness of not being able to do something because the mobile interface of what you need is not available.
A mobile experience (as everything else) is better when it’s simpler, but… that should not make it less powerful.
