The Venture Capital Dispatch of the Wall street Journal has an article reporting on the recent Dow Jones’ Wireless Innovations Conference.
The issue they are reporting on is one of whether developers should build an application for one or two mobile platforms or should they support multiple and maybe all operating systems. If you read the […]

I have been hearing rumours that many retailers in the UK have run out of the Nokia 5800. This has been due to unexpected demand. It seems the low price point/low tariff requirement has been attractive for consumers.
I have been surprised by this. As I mentioned previously, the 5800 didn’t become my phone of choice […]

Related to my In-Stat post last week, Juniper also predict today that smartphones will see healthy sales in the coming years.   

23% of all new handsets sold per annum by 2013
By 2013, annual smartphone sales will reach around 300 million

These are substantial gains compared to today’s sales. The big question for developers is whether one […]

I have been using the Nokia 5800 for a while now. Whenever I get a new phone for use in development testing it becomes a candidate for being the phone I currently carry around.
I have been particularly impressed with the hardware. It’s small, light, has a great camera and a wide (640 pixel) […]

It’s interesting that there are currently several rumours of hardware manufacturers considering using Android for NetBooks or MIDs. At first sight, I can’t see Android applications with their typical one or two controls per screen ‘row’, working that well on a wide screen.
However, according to a very recent ABI Research Survey, nearly half of respondents […]

A recurring theme in many feasibility studies I do is what devices to support. This depends on factors such as what geographic region(s) you wish to distribute, the technical requirements of your application and the currently popular devices.
The latter, the current device market, can be difficult to quantify. Here are some free sources I tend […]

Over the holiday period, I read an article in the paper version of Mobile Today examining why cases of faults are rising as more smartphones and touch-screen devices hit the market.
Here are the parts that I particularly found interesting…

So endemic is the problem that many consumers almost expect a new phone to have errors
Some retail […]