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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

When considering mobile development, people often wonder which Smartphone OS they should be targeting. 
Symbian has recently released a quarterly corporate presentation that gives an introduction to Symbian and the global smartphone market. If you fast forward over all the marketing blurb you will eventually get to an interesting regional breakdown of the smartphone OS market share for 2006…

These statistics […]

The latest Canalys stats show the worldwide smart mobile devices shipped in Q4 2006.

It’s interesting that Sony Ericsson went from 0.6% to 5.1% market share over one year with a growth of over 946%. However, all these numbers are relatively small compared to the overall phone market of 1 Billion devices in 2006.
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After IDC reporting handheld device sales declining, I was surprised to find Gartner saying PDA Shipments Grew 32 Percent in Third Quarter of 2006.
It turns out that this is due to how Gartner define a PDA…
"Gartner defines a PDA as a data-centric handheld computer weighing less than one pound that is primarily designed for use with both […]

The latest market statistics show that handheld device sales are still declining. IDC attribute this to lack of new handheld devices. The strange thing is that the previous day IDC published a report claiming this was due to evaporation of consumer demand for bundled handheld GPS solutions. Also, in the same report, converged devices saw growth of 30% year […]