I recently wrote about the shortage of iPhone developers and the possible migration of developers to the iPhone. I have been communicating with Andrew Ebling for a while now. He was once a Java ME developer in a full time role and gave this up to be an independent iPhone developer. Andrew’s first application iBlueSky, […]

It’s strange how mutually independent people seem to contact me at the same time enquiring about similar things. This week, it has been people looking for iPhone developers. According to someone I spoke to today, there’s a big shortage. This has come from the success of the Apple App store and the perception that there’s […]

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 […]

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 […]

When specifying and communicating with people regarding different options/ways of implementing application UIs, I often take screenshots from existing applications and super-impose proposed data (using Photoshop) so everyone can get a feel for things prior to implementation.
 
Teehan+lax also use this approach and have produced an iPhone specific set of images that allow you to mockup […]

Now that a significant number of third party applications are running on iPhones, it’s inevitable that the iPhone has become less stable. Phone lockups can occur and reboots are required. I have also heard from several developers that they are getting ‘low memory’ messages in their applications when the phone should, in fact, have lots […]

Canalys have just released their smartphone statistics for Q2 2008.

38% of smartphones shipping in EMEA have GPS integrated
Smartphone growth is slowing compared to the previous 18 months
58% of phones ship with WiFi
Nokia has 71.2% of the market, declining from 79.7%
Devices with touch screens represented 13% of the smartphone market

At first sight the Canalys statistics seem […]