Last night’s MoMo London was very interesting. It was billed as…
"With the growing interest in Ajax and Widgets, and initiatives like BONDI, the choice of development platform has never been greater. How do these technologies play against or with more traditional approaches like installable J2ME and Native Apps."
Instead of the usual presentation format, the evening […]

Carlo Longino from MobHappy and Caroline Lewko from the Wireless Industry Partnership have created a new mobile resource called the WIP Wiki. It’s aimed at helping developers find the tools, resources and partners they need to move ahead with their work.
 
The wiki includes company listings, developer programs from handset and platform suppliers/operators and a tips […]

There are some interesting figures in the latest Gartner Q208 Smartphone sales statistics. It seems smartphone growth (as measured by its proportion of the market) is stalled at 11 per cent. This is due to…
"the current economic environment"and
"compelling touch technology mainly available on enhanced phones (based on proprietary operating systems)"

At first sight, it’s disappointing that […]

Samsung have a new mobile developer site (in beta) called Samsung Mobile Innovator. It covers Samsung specific S60 development. From October there will be facilities to allow remote testing on real devices, technical support and a business development service.
I think the Market.dev section is particularly useful as it provides a way to submit business proposals […]

One area I find companies often leave until late is provisioning of their application via their web server. It can be as simple as adding the application to your web server and adding the appropriate mime types. Some companies also set up simple SMS and WAP push mechanisms.
However, if you have more than one […]

One of the problems with S60 development is that it can be difficult to get an overall picture of how the UI hangs together. Yes, there’s lots of SDK information on individual classes and some on application architecture but newcomers often come away wondering where to start and how to provide basic UI features.

Today, […]

I have heard from a reliable source that the current versions of Symbian OS won’t be made open source. Open source will start at version Symbian OS 9.6. I guess this makes sense for several reasons…

To be fair on companies who have already paid royalties for current versions
To allow the Foundation to start with a […]