There’s an interesting press release at Gartner on Q1/08 global smartphone sales…

Of particular interest…

Smartphone sales grew by 29% year on year
Nokia lost market share to RIM and Apple
Nokia still has over 45% of the global market

There’s further commentary at Bloomberg.
It’s also interesting what isn’t mentioned in the press release: Windows Mobile. I think this […]

There are some serious usability issues for developers using the new Symbian Open Signed Online.
I have just gone from working on a project that has Publisher ID to a new project where the company has just applied for one. Hence, I have to work without a publisher ID until it is granted. This can take […]

Dean Bubley talks about extended mobile presence…
"In theory, mobile phones ought to be good platforms for presence information - both rudimentary connection details (online, offline, idle etc) and some personalised state or emotional content as well ("Dean is currently thinking about lunch" and so on).
But at the same time, I think the mobile presence industry […]

Symbian is actually 10 Year’s old this June! It’s thought provoking to think back what’s been achieved over this time.
Despite the fact that Symbian has the largest slice of the World Mobile OS market, this slice is only about 7%. Why is this so small given that Symbian has been in business for 10 years? […]

The book ‘UIQ3: The Complete Guide’, that I co-authored last year, is now listed on the Wiley site and will be available in June 2008.
"After a brief introduction and history of UIQ, the book explains the key new features of UIQ3.  The SDK is introduced and the reader is taken from a simple ‘Hello World’ […]

If you develop or are thinking of developing for UIQ, you should check out the forthcoming UIQ Developer Fast Track Events in Boston and San Francisco. The Fast Track provides both technical and commercial content to accelerate your understanding of UIQ.
When people think about UIQ they often just think about programming Symbian and C++. […]

I have been holding off commenting on the M:Metrics MoMo London presentation last week until the presentation came online. There were so many facts and figures I wanted to be sure I got them correct.
 
 
Here are the statistics that particularly interested me…

Smartphones are mainly owned by males
Italy has a much higher percentage (20%) of Smartphone […]