There’s an interesting article at MobileInternetTrends reporting on Arun Sarin’s challenge to the mobile industry to whittle down the number of operating systems currently supported for mobile phones.
"We have 30 or 40 operating systems right now, if we had three or five operating systems, then that would be a good thing."
While I can see […]

There’s an entertaining piece at the Inquirer about analyst firm J. Gold Associates predicting Symbian and Android will merge…
"Gold believes the ‘true’ open version of Symbian won’t be available for around 18-24 months, allowing time for the two code bases to be consolidated into a superior open-source product."
Unbelievable - at least technically as well as […]

Ben Lorica of O’Reilly Radar has what I think is a contentious post where he has analysed newsgroups for references to mobile platform names from which he has tried to infer developer interest.
 
I don’t think his results will be very accurate. Firstly, developers don’t just use newsgroups any more. Most use web sites, wikis and […]

Dean Bubley’s latest post on Operator-specific vs. Vanilla handsets describes how Dean has spotted Carphone Warehouse selling vanilla rather than operator branded handsets.
An anonymous comment from a CPW employee says this is…"because it is easier to carry and not sell out of a generic handset also that economies of scale are realised fully when we […]

In February, I commented on Michael Mace’s observation that Mobile Applications were dead.
I explained how mobile applications have changed. It’s no longer about selling an application - which I would say is in retirement rather than dead. It’s more about providing an application free of charge to either promote a brand, tie in with a […]

PDFs from the recent JavaOne Java ME sessions are now available online. As well as the previously mentioned LWUIT, there are other interesting sessions such as ‘How to Port phoneME Advanced Software to Google Android, iPhone, OpenMoko, LiMO, and More’.
phoneME is sun’s attempt to extend the reach of Java ME to new platforms. There’s an […]

Dean Bubley talks about extended mobile presence…
"In theory, mobile phones ought to be good platforms for presence information - both rudimentary connection details (online, offline, idle etc) and some personalised state or emotional content as well ("Dean is currently thinking about lunch" and so on).
But at the same time, I think the mobile presence industry […]