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 […]

‘Quick Recipes on Symbian OS‘ has just been published.
It’s often the case developers with no Symbian experience are asked to produce an application yesterday. The aim of the book is to get these people up and running as quickly as possible. Quick guidelines how to set up the IDE and SDK, a summary […]

Symbian have told me that UIQ3: The Complete Guide, that I co-authored, is now shipping and on sale at Amazon. Example code and latest slightly earlier versions (before Wiley got their hands on it) of some of the chapters can be found at UIQ Wiki.
The Wiki represents a new way to publish the book. Many Symbian developers are […]

Wondering what will happen to UIQ and the currently shipping licensee phones? There has been an interview and forum posts (here and here) explaining a few things…

Sony Ericsson will continue to ship UIQ phones for quite some time, with the G700 and G900 expected to achieve good volumes
Motorola has publicly said it will also continue […]

There are some interesting comments around on the Symbian Foundation.
Michael Mace’s Symbian changes everything, and nothing has some excellent observations. Much in the same way Michael said Mobile Applications, RIP , he now says "UIQ is dead". Do I spot a theme here Michael?
More seriously, he asks "How does Nokia differentiate its software?". I […]