The latest Gartner statistics for Q308 show some interesting changes in the smartphone market…

Apple Overtakes Microsoft As No. 3 Smartphone OS Vendor  
Worldwide smartphone sales to end-users totalled 36.5 million units in the third quarter of 2008
The current economic climate is negatively impacting sales of higher end devices
Symbian commanded 49.8 per cent of the global […]

I have been talking to Rhomobile about their new cross platform Ruby-based mobile application framework. Rhomobile is different in that it’s open source.  As I will explain later in this post, being open source solves some problems associated with mobile cross platform frameworks.
I tend to assess cross platform frameworks (and widget frameworks) against the following […]

I think the Android Market is in need of some work. First of all, the statistics reported to Android developers are broken. Here are the statistics for the two applications I have on the market… ASpell is still showing zero installs and WordNet has been stuck at 1377 for over a week now. I […]

I have used the G1 as my main phone for three weeks now. Here’s how I think the G1 could be improved.
I think the camera is probably the weakest part. It’s very slow to take a picture and doesn’t cope very well in lower light situations. I’d go so far to say it’s […]

There’s a thought provoking post on Gorkem Ercan’s blog asking does Java have a place in the future of mobile devices? Gorkem works for Nokia in the Nokia S60 Java platform team working mainly with Java and eclipse based technologies.
Gorkem sees one possible scenario as being…
"Android Java becomes so favored that OSS projects start for […]

Andrew Ebling, author of iBlueSky emailed me regarding the charts I published last week. He suggested one metric that he thought would be interesting to consider would be the relative difficulty of addressing device fragmentation.

This chart is trying to say a lot of things and generalises a lot so it needs some explanation. On the […]

From feedback, it seems my post yesterday on the relative development difficulties of the various mobile platforms was popular. People like charts, so here’s another showing the platforms on which people are currently seeking to develop. The statistics are based on leads for work I have received in the last two months. 
 
The largest category is […]