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Our November Issue of Mobile Connect focuses on Tablets. The UIE design team delves into the importance of the user experience and how tablet design has evolved and developed a new niche of multimedia exploration.

This month’s feature article on “The Importance of Doing Things Right” is written by the head of Quality Assurance at UIEvolution. Also included are featured devices, a data point on tablet shopping activities, and an overview of our newly released Mobile Connect Magazine App.

You can download this app on iTunes or the Android Market and read Mobile Connect on your tablet.

UIEvolution is looking for talented, dedicated developers who want to work on innovative, high visibility mobile and connected software for major brands in a challenging, highly collaborative environment. If you have iPhone, Android, Java, or Web Development skills and you love saying, “I made that!” please email your resume and cover letter to careers@uievolution.com

For more information see our job posting on Craigslist.

The cover story for this month’s issue of Mobile Connect is Mobile Payments: The Electronic Wallet. The article explains how three businesses are using smartphone technology as a payment system for everyday transactions.

The feature article in the October Issue is iOS 5: Five New Tools. This article is written by Hasan Edain. A developer at UIEvolution, Edain explains how these tools will help both developers and users.

As in our previous issues, we have included spotlights on top devices and an industry timeline. Please enjoy, and send us your feedback.

The focus of the September issue of Mobile Connect is ecosystems. In the progressive technology world, businesses must focus on more than simply a product. Our feature story examines “a new business model” from a CEO adapting to the capricious marketplace.

In the cover story, Tara Peters and Jim Bogar explain how Quick Response codes work, creative applications for using QR codes, and how mobile scanning can influence marketing strategy. ENJOY!

Scan this QR code on your phone to take the PDF with you on your mobile device. 

The August Issue of Mobile Connect focuses on tablets. We break down Google’s “Honeycomb” operating system designed specifically for tablet use, and explore the new scenes of tablet application: soon you will see the tech-gear for rent in sports stadiums, on airplanes, and in luxury hotel rooms.

We provide the top 12 smartphones and tablets currently available for purchase and layout a timeline of what happened this month, and what events are quickly approaching.

In a press release from Toyota on August 23rd, Bob Carter Group Vice President and General Manager – Toyota Division talked about Entune.

“One of the key features today’s consumers are looking for is information and entertainment. But it can be a challenge to design a safe, easy to use system in an automobile.  Toyota’s answer is our exclusive Entune multimedia system and Camry will be among the first to have it. The key to Entune is its conversational voice recognition system that helped it earn a best-in-class rating at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (Read here for more details on the best-in-class rating).  For a distraction-free motoring environment Entune takes the phone out of the driver’s hand, leave it in the console or put it in your purse and you’re still connected. You’ll find Entune to be safe, simple, intuitive, compatible and upgradeable.”

The Camry was revealed this week, and will be on sale this Fall. Entune is also available in the 2012 Prius V, for a hands-on look at the system watch this video.

The new Lexus GS 350 will come with built-in connected car features similar to the Entune system. SMS text-to-speech and Facebook integration have been added to enhance the infotainment system. Continuous updates and upgrades through over-the-air downloads keep the technology current.

The focus of the July issue of Mobile Connect is smartphones. Smartphone OS fragmentation has made it challenging to deploy native apps across all devices. Because of that, companies and developers are considering relying on mobile web as an alternate strategy to developing native apps.

The cover story this month is “Native App or Mobile Web”. Travis Beaven, COO of UIE, discusses the ongoing debate between Native Applications and Mobile Web, the dream of “write once, run everywhere”, and the important factors to consider when developing a mobile strategy.

With iPad 2 sales continuing to stack up, the International Data Corp (IDC) raised its estimates for 2011 tablet shipments from 50.4 million units to 53.5 million units.

This coincides with our first issue of Mobile Connect, suggesting that 2011 will be “The Year of the Tablet“