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 […]

ARCChart has some thought provoking analysis on Nokia’s acquisition of Trolltech. It’s generally a negative view on the prospects for other mobile Linux vendors…
"It is even more telling that Trolltech’s management have accepted Nokia’s cash, instead of holding out an improved valuation were they confident that future market conditions would be favourable to the company." 
and…
"where […]

Nokia have announced their intention to acquire Trolltech. What will be the implications of this on Nokia and mobile developers? The press release says…
"Trolltech’s deep understanding of open source software and its strong technology assets will enable both Nokia and others to innovate on our device platforms while reducing time-to-market. This acquisition will also further […]

While the LiPS 1.0 standards have very recently been released, a more interesting LiPS and Android/OHA FAQ has become available.
The FAQ explains how both LiPS and OHA are similar in that they attempt to seek unity. However, LiPS is doing this through open standards, while Android/OHA is approaching the problem through ad-hoc standards…

LiPS argue that […]

Symbian has just released their Symbian Market Round-up. The most interesting part is the following two graphs…
 

This appears to put mobile Linux and the Apple iPhone into perspective. Also, nearly all the vendors seem to be making yearly market gains. This looks good, but is it?
What this chart doesn’t show is that the smartphone market is […]

 The Nokia N800 is now going for a surplus price, only five months after I mentioned the Nokia 770 bargain.
The N810 is the latest model with the main changes being the addition of a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, Mozilla browser and VoIP SIP support.
I can’t help but wonder why Nokia hasn’t yet integrated a phone into the Internet Tablet. […]