According to my web logs, my post yesterday on Nokia MeeGo and Belle was very popular. Some people agreed with me on Twitter. However, a tweet by Sebastian Brannstrom made me look at it from another angle. He said "I think an important factor is the staggering cost of Nokia R&D. They can’t develop at […]

A year ago, Google was talking about the potential of a billion people using Android. Today, I came across the some signs that Android is taking hold in the developing World.
However, I don’t think the $80 Huawei IDEOS is the answer to the next billion. It’s not inexpensive enough. I purchased a HTC device from […]

Canalys released their worldwide smartphone statistics for Q2 2011 yesterday. An amazing 107.7 million units shipped in the second quarter of 2011. Only a few years ago I was saying the smartphone market was small compared to the market for all phones. Today, smartphones are ubiquitous and mobile development is no longer experimental but mainstream.
Here’s […]

The Vision Mobile Developer Economics report has an interesting chart showing fragmentation of the various platforms. That is, the number of versions of an app that have to be developed to cater for different versions of a given OS.
 

This concurs with my previous observation that problems of Android Fragmentation have been exaggerated. However, I suppose […]

Nokia have just announced that they have updated their mobile web templates that I first mentioned May last year.
The templates allow mobile web sites to be easily created that have a generic mobile look and feel. They can also be embedded in apps (read into a HTML control) but I wouldn’t recommend doing so as […]

One factor when determining choice of platform is the target country. Market research is often global and it can be easy to miss that some platforms are much more popular in some countries. There’s a recent article at cellular news that gives some useful figures for the UK, USA, Germany, Italy, France and Australia.
For example, […]

Well, Nokia made their announcement that they are going to use Windows Phone 7 as their "principal smartphone strategy". They will "bring Windows Phone to a larger range of price points" tends to suggest that Symbian and MeeGo will be phased out over time. I am surprised because I don’t believe this is the correct […]