At the recent FOM conference, Matt Millar of Adobe commented that there are now more Nokia S60 users than Mac users. A very recent In-Stat report predicts that "Size and Growth of Smartphone Market Will Exceed Laptop Market for Next Five Years".
However, S60 is a phone and Mac is a PC. It’s not sensible to […]

I recently came across some very interesting GSM modules while performing a feasibility study. Telit produce a range of GSM modules that allow remote mobile telemetry applications to be created without having to use a consumer phone. Usually, this also requires use of a micro-controller and it all gets a bit more complicated and expensive. […]

One of the problems with Flash Lite is that you can’t access many of the phone’s features. Recently, I came across Flyer that extends Flash Lite 2.1 to allow you to use Python on S60. This allows you to…

Take photos with device camera from Flash Lite

Take device screenshots from Flash Lite

Send files over a bluetooth […]

Last week, Nokia released a beta version of Python for Series 60 3rd Edition. The final 1.4.0 release will be out some time in the second half of 2006. The first thing of note is that bug fixes and new features for pre-3rd edition are on hold while work goes on to get the 3rd […]

There’s a relatively new Wiki on Mobile Development. It gives a fair indication of the pros and cons of various mobile development platforms and the tools required to develop for them. In practice, you will need a bit more than the Wiki to choose a platform. Deeper technical, marketing and political issues usually pervade a given project […]

The latest Symbian Community Newsletter links to a programming tool I have only just come across. Easy Mobile Programming is a simple programming language that allows simple Symbian applications to be created without any of the complexity of C++ programming. The author describes it as a prototype unsuitable for serious programming. Nevertheless, it allows simple […]