Last January, AMF Ventures conducted a survey of 400 mobile professionals…
"to delve deeper into the technical environment of mobile devices, the policies and behaviours around them, and the impact that this has on the further development of the industry as a whole."

The results of the survey are available on slideshare.

I personally think […]

Following on from my post on the deficiencies of the Symbian/S60 emulator and subsequent comments at Nokia Forum, it appears that the Carbide.c++ team are considering changing the emulator.

One of the difficulties of creating your first Symbian Signed application is knowing how to code your application in such a way that it is compliant. The test criteria just say how your application should behave - they don’t give any clue as to what extra code you might need to pass the tests.
Hence, it’s […]

Symbian have a useful new paper comparing native and Java development. The paper covers application startup, installation, APIs, portability, fragmentation, security and tools.
In practice, most companies I work with find the choice of programming language (and platform) is driven mainly by…

the features provided by the API

the number of shipped devices in the target geographic region

Assessing […]

There’s a very dramatic post at MobileOpportunity entitled Mobile Applications: RIP. Michael Mace’s observations are based on a company that has been trying to sell applications.
While I agree that creating a mobile application for sale is now a dead end (and had been for many years), the smart people have since moved on to […]

One of the guys from navxs.com has emailed me about their new Cross Platform Development Framework for Mobile Applications…
 
They can deploy to Android, Java ME, Windows Mobile and Blackberry. They started on a Symbian port but later decided to put their (limited) time on the other ports. Their first reference implementation is a […]

After last year’s Symbian Smartphone show I commented that the UIQ 3.x UI Designer would become part of the Carbide.c++ beta around January.
Nokia has now released their release candidate 1 for Carbide.c++ 1.3. This Beta-release is the first one that contains UI-designer with support for UIQ applications. It can be downloaded from http://groups.google.com/group/carbidecpp-beta after you […]