SavageMinds http://www.savageminds.com Android Device Testing Wed, 30 Oct 2013 18:17:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 Why OS X Mavericks will focus Android’s upgrade thinking http://www.savageminds.com/os-x-mavericks-will-focus-androids-upgrade-thinking http://www.savageminds.com/os-x-mavericks-will-focus-androids-upgrade-thinking#comments Fri, 25 Oct 2013 14:09:23 +0000 markt http://www.savageminds.com/?p=1507 What’s the thinking behind Apple’s move to give away the latest version of its desktop Operating System – OS X Mavericks -for free? And why should Android manufacturers care? As an OS X user, upgrading my family’s Mac machines has always been pretty cheap – one license key, all the machines I own for £20-30. […]

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]]> http://www.savageminds.com/os-x-mavericks-will-focus-androids-upgrade-thinking/feed 0 Measuring a smartphone battery’s ‘field’ life http://www.savageminds.com/measuring-smartphone-battery-usage http://www.savageminds.com/measuring-smartphone-battery-usage#comments Mon, 09 Sep 2013 18:40:22 +0000 markt http://www.savageminds.com/?p=1019 Smartphones receive strong marks for feature variety, design and ease of use – with battery life as their only real shortcoming. the American customer satisfaction index (July 2013)   Missing data I found out recently that – if enough of us get together – we can use smartphone battery temperature metrics to predict weather patterns. […]

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]]> http://www.savageminds.com/measuring-smartphone-battery-usage/feed 0 SmartMetrics (raw) Data Points http://www.savageminds.com/smartmetrics-raw-data-points http://www.savageminds.com/smartmetrics-raw-data-points#comments Tue, 13 Aug 2013 09:26:05 +0000 markt http://www.savageminds.com/?p=897 After posting on a couple of forums, realised that people want to know what specific data points can be gathered by the Smart Metrics Friendly User Management tool. 1.0 User Data Metric Description Issues Users can capture issues directly on their device from the notification tray or the app. Issues can be categorised, a subject […]

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]]> http://www.savageminds.com/smartmetrics-raw-data-points/feed 2 Beta Released http://www.savageminds.com/beta-released http://www.savageminds.com/beta-released#comments Mon, 12 Aug 2013 13:57:43 +0000 markt http://www.savageminds.com/?p=884 Did anyone see Michael Wolfe’s piece,Quora article about a hike from San Francisco to Los Angeles? For those that didn’t – and it’s well worth reading – the short version is that it’s damn hard to estimate engineering schedules because there are so many unknowns. His thoughts could also explain why User Acceptance Testing (UAT) […]

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]]> http://www.savageminds.com/beta-released/feed 0 The importance of battery life this autumn http://www.savageminds.com/the-importance-of-battery-life-this-autumn http://www.savageminds.com/the-importance-of-battery-life-this-autumn#comments Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:31:33 +0000 markt http://www.savageminds.com/?p=698 Last week’s post outlined the business case for transparent battery life figures. So the argument ran, manufacturer’s spec sheets are a major disappointment for customers and when the time comes, they are more likely to switch brands at upgrade time. Maybe the mobile industry is taking note. Motorola’s Mark Notton stressed the importance of battery […]

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]]> http://www.savageminds.com/the-importance-of-battery-life-this-autumn/feed 0 Show me the battery life http://www.savageminds.com/show-me-the-battery-life http://www.savageminds.com/show-me-the-battery-life#comments Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:17:30 +0000 markt http://www.savageminds.com/?p=689 I couldn’t make up my mind about which image to add here… should Jerry be shouting “show me the battery life” or should I have mashed Renee Zellweger’s line from the same film… “they ‘had-me’ at the retail outlet”? Sounds like recent(ish) Xerox acquisition WDS is campaigning for greater transparency – honesty? – from the […]

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]]> http://www.savageminds.com/show-me-the-battery-life/feed 0 Delivering a great customer experience http://www.savageminds.com/delivering-a-great-customer-experience http://www.savageminds.com/delivering-a-great-customer-experience#comments Mon, 03 Sep 2012 09:29:27 +0000 markt http://www.savageminds.com/?p=680 TM Forum’s chairman Keith Willetts recently wrote about the ‘critical importance of delivering a great customer experience‘. Keith makes a bunch of points about why customer experience management is important and how companies like Apple manage to charge higher prices and maintain higher profit margins because they constantly create better customer experiences… nothing new here, […]

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]]> http://www.savageminds.com/delivering-a-great-customer-experience/feed 0 Go to the gemba http://www.savageminds.com/go_to_the_gemba http://www.savageminds.com/go_to_the_gemba#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:43:20 +0000 markt http://www.savageminds.com/?p=672 Holidays allow me to get through my reading list. Except, I’m increasingly finding that my ‘reading list’ has more videos that need watching than books. A sign of the times? Rachel Hinman thinks so. It’s what she would call ‘comfortable computing’. The changing nature of what people are doing with their mobile computing devices and […]

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]]> http://www.savageminds.com/go_to_the_gemba/feed 0 1 million lines of code http://www.savageminds.com/1-million-lines-of-code http://www.savageminds.com/1-million-lines-of-code#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:22:17 +0000 markt http://www.savageminds.com/?p=659 You hear that Mr. Anderson?… That is the sound of inevitability… Rubin recently claimed that the latest version of Android (Ice cream sandwich) shipped as “over a million lines of code”. Although he’s also suggested (in the past) that Android had over 11 million lines of code – even if 80% is probably the Linux […]

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]]> http://www.savageminds.com/1-million-lines-of-code/feed 0 The cost of smartphone testing http://www.savageminds.com/the-cost-of-smartphone-testing http://www.savageminds.com/the-cost-of-smartphone-testing#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:44:57 +0000 markt http://www.savageminds.com/?p=628 Over the past week or so, I’ve been trying to establish how much money it costs Operators to test an Android smartphone and how much Operators spend on testing smartphones and Android in particular. I have some interesting data points: Adriana Nugter, Operations Manager at the Global Certification Forum (see here for the full deck) […]

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