At the July MoMo London, Google told us about the new Gears Geolocation API. Well, today they released the first incarnation for Windows Mobile (5 and higher). The Google Mobile Help Center  lists the compatible devices.
The API allows web apps run in the mobile version of Internet Explorer to access location information based on the […]

dotMobi has been compiling a DeviceAtlas for some time now. Up until today, when I received a press release on dotMobi’s inclusion of Mobizoft video content adaptation data, I hadn’t taken a look at it because I saw it as mainly applicable for web developers.
However, taking a look at, for example, the data on the […]

With the demise of OPL, developers, especially hobbyists will be pleased to know that NS Basic Corporation have announced the availability of NS Basic for Symbian OS.
NS Basic can now be used to develop both UIQ and S60 applications. It’s easy to use. There’s no need for C++, Carbide.c++ or even Nokia/UIQ SDKs. It […]

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 […]

I read the title of an article on The Register this morning ‘Sun opens Java tools in mobile fight back‘. What? I thought. All Java tools? Can’t be. The article starts…
"Sun Microsystems has open sourced its Java toolkit for building mobile applications just as the role Java plays on handsets comes into question."
It turns out […]

Following on from my post yesterday on operator slowness to market, there’s news that T-Mobile are, in fact, creating an application store that will allow third party applications to be easily provisioned.
The strange bit is…
"the exact details of the revenue share depend on the intensity of the app’s data consumption. The more bits an app […]