Expansys have a one day only offer on the Nokia 6120. It’s only £127.49. I used this phone myself for a while, just over a year ago and posted on how I liked its size, weight and speed (HSDPA).
If you are looking for a cheap S60 3rd phone for development or to give to someone […]

I have been talking to Rhomobile about their new cross platform Ruby-based mobile application framework. Rhomobile is different in that it’s open source.  As I will explain later in this post, being open source solves some problems associated with mobile cross platform frameworks.
I tend to assess cross platform frameworks (and widget frameworks) against the following […]

One of Symbian’s PR companies has suggested I might like to mention the forthcoming Symbian Partner Event on December 4 2008 at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco. I don’t usually mention PR originated stuff unless the subject matter especially relevant or different. So what’s particularly interesting about this event?
Notably, this will be the first partner […]

There’s a thought provoking post on Gorkem Ercan’s blog asking does Java have a place in the future of mobile devices? Gorkem works for Nokia in the Nokia S60 Java platform team working mainly with Java and eclipse based technologies.
Gorkem sees one possible scenario as being…
"Android Java becomes so favored that OSS projects start for […]

Andrew Ebling, author of iBlueSky emailed me regarding the charts I published last week. He suggested one metric that he thought would be interesting to consider would be the relative difficulty of addressing device fragmentation.

This chart is trying to say a lot of things and generalises a lot so it needs some explanation. On the […]

From feedback, it seems my post yesterday on the relative development difficulties of the various mobile platforms was popular. People like charts, so here’s another showing the platforms on which people are currently seeking to develop. The statistics are based on leads for work I have received in the last two months. 
 
The largest category is […]

When I meet people at conferences, one question I particularly get asked regularly is how easy is it to develop on the various mobile platforms. I would say it depends on what aspects you are considering and whether you are a beginner or experienced with a given platform.
Here’s a very subjective graphical view of […]