Carlo Longino from MobHappy and Caroline Lewko from the Wireless Industry Partnership have created a new mobile resource called the WIP Wiki. It’s aimed at helping developers find the tools, resources and partners they need to move ahead with their work.
 
The wiki includes company listings, developer programs from handset and platform suppliers/operators and a tips […]

There are some interesting figures in the latest Gartner Q208 Smartphone sales statistics. It seems smartphone growth (as measured by its proportion of the market) is stalled at 11 per cent. This is due to…
"the current economic environment"and
"compelling touch technology mainly available on enhanced phones (based on proprietary operating systems)"

At first sight, it’s disappointing that […]

Recently, there has been much confusion and speculation over the SIP stack in the latest Nokia N85 and Nokia N79 phones. The SIP stack is used for VoIP. The truth is revealed by the article on the Nokia Conversations web site. It turns out that the SIP stack is there. It’s just the Nokia VoIP […]

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 […]