Archive for the 'Tools' Category

Maemo Harmattan

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

I have been reading the rumours about Nokia’s Maemo Harmattan. Assuming this for real…
"Maemo was indeed headed for at least one Nokia phone. In fact, they say the eventual plan is to use Maemo to phase out S60 all together"
I have been a fan of Nokia Tablets ever since I purchased the 770. I always […]

Phone Screen Streaming

Monday, September 29th, 2008

mobileways.de are looking for beta testers for their new service that allows you to control a S60 phone from anywhere on the Web and share the screen with an audience on the Web.
The screen of the mobile phone is streamed to a central server in real-time by using Remote Professional’s high performance screen compressing algorithms. […]

Older Devices

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

One thing that constantly surprises me is how many companies want to develop for older phones. Take Nokia S60 for example. Despite the fact that S60 3rd devices have been available for over a year now, some network operators, especially those in developing countries, are still selling many S60 2nd Edition phones.
This translates […]

Application Provisioning

Friday, September 5th, 2008

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 […]

Remote Desktop and VNC

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

One of the challenges of developing for multiple mobile platforms is that each development platform usually requires a specific development machine setup. Some tools need to run on XP, some can be cajoled into working on Vista and obviously iPhone development needs a Mac. The requirement to have multiple build environments becomes even more troublesome […]

Windows Mobile Gaining Ground?

Friday, April 11th, 2008

I am seeing more and more people coming to me with requirements for Windows Mobile applications. I actually started programming for mobile under Windows CE (’Pegasus’) when it first came out in 1996. Since then, in Europe at least, fewer companies have been looking for Windows Mobile development and more have wanted Java ME and […]

One Button Cross Platform Development Framework

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

One of the guys from navxs.com has emailed me about their new Cross Platform Development Framework for Mobile Applications…
 
They can deploy to Android, Java ME, Windows Mobile and Blackberry. They started on a Symbian port but later decided to put their (limited) time on the other ports. Their first reference implementation is a […]