Janus Symbian Engine has just gone open source. Janus allows S60 Flash Lite applications to access phone features that aren’t part of Flash Lite. It does this by setting up a local http server which, in turn, accesses the OS.
Open sourcing will make this technique more attractive to companies who previously might not have wanted […]

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 […]

There’s an interesting article at the Wall Street Journal…
"Apple sold an average of $1 million a day in applications for a total of about $30 million in sales over the month, Mr. Jobs said."
"Mr. Jobs said developers’ share of iPhone application sales in the first month was about $21 million, of which the top 10 […]

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 […]