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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

It seems that LiPS is folding itself into LiMO.
I suppose the indications were there last February that something like this might happen. It’s a shame because I previously thought the LiPS specifications had some innovative solutions to platform fragmentation (See my previous posts below).

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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 […]

I was curious as to whether Karsten Homann from Trolltech would pursue cross platform development or mobile Linux in his presentation and hence give a clue as to Nokia’s intentions in acquiring Trolltech. In the event, Karsten gave equal precedence to each.
Karsten described how Qt tools can be used to reuse UI models and functionality […]

This month’s Mobile Monday London was themed ‘Mobile Operating Systems’. There were speakers from Symbian, Trolltech, Vodafone and MMetrics. As so much was said and I believe in short blog posts, I am going to split my commentary over several instalments.
First of all, David Wood from Symbian. David gave a whirlwind presentation why he thinks […]