I had a brief visit to the Symbian Smartphone Show today. Here’s a summary of what interested me…

Samsung had a huge presence. It was a strange stand though - with topics that I thought were more oriented towards consumers than people in the Symbian ecosystem.
I couldn’t get Motorola or Sony Ericsson to commit to what […]

It’s strange how mutually independent people seem to contact me at the same time enquiring about similar things. This week, it has been people looking for iPhone developers. According to someone I spoke to today, there’s a big shortage. This has come from the success of the Apple App store and the perception that there’s […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

In Symbian, Just for Fun, David Wood talks about some research ideas at Symbian and how they might make Symbian development easier…
"I see lots of API improvement projects inside the Symbian labs - such as the experimental forthcoming ZString class alternative to text descriptors, and the […]

Symbian created a new partner program this week, the Symbian Partner Network (SPN). This will replace the existing Symbian Platinum Partner Program. Why have Symbian done this and what does it mean for developers?
The SPN will…
"make use of a range of technical, marketing and business development tools and resources, including the Symbian OS Binary Access […]