It’s interesting that UIQ hasn’t been absorbed into Sony Ericsson since it was acquired a few months ago.
In fact, a recent article on Mobile Europe suggests the exact oppose will happen…
"…So we set up UIQ as a separate company, which at the moment is owned by Sony Ericsson, but we absolutely do not expect to […]

I am not sure when it actually happened but Nokia has dropped further development of Carbide.j. The reasoning is that the EclipseME plugin and Sun’s NetBeans IDE with Mobility Pack provide two adequate solutions.
This all makes sense. In the (distant) past I tended to avoid Sun’s development tools as they were slow and cumbersome. Similarly, […]

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. […]

Penrillian have recently released a useful .NET application that allows anyone to package up passive content (music, images, ebooks etc) as part of standard UIQ or S60 .sis install.

While doing some surfing related to mobile gaming, I came across a useful library that I didn’t even know existed.
EDGELIB allows you to…
"Compile and create multi-platform games smoothly through the generic interface for Windows Mobile Pocket PC, Windows Mobile Smartphone, Symbian Series 60, Series 80, Series 90, Symbian UIQ, Gamepark Holdings GP2X and Windows desktop.
EDGELIB […]

It appears that AppForge is in financial difficulty. I have previously written about AppForge’s usefulness and unsuitable license schemes resulting in lost opportunity. Let’s hope Nokia can salvage something from this.

The second of my UIQ ‘Getting Started’ tutorials has just been published on Sony Ericsson Developer World. It covers how to set up your PC for UIQ development.
The development environment is a complex mix of Symbian base SDK, UIQ SDK, IDE, optional manufacturer specific extensions and third party tools. Developers also have a choice […]