I am seeing more and more people coming to me with requirements for Windows Mobile applications. I actually started programming for mobile under Windows CE (’Pegasus’) when it first came out in 1996. Since then, in Europe at least, fewer companies have been looking for Windows Mobile development and more have wanted Java ME and […]

Handango have just released their Yardstick for 2007.
"Entertainment applications rose to the leading content category, showing a shift in consumer smartphone usage from business only to work-and-play"
The top devices adding software make more interesting reading…
 
Last year I questioned why there were so few Symbian devices adding software. This year, the same seems to have happened […]

According to GCN.com, Sybase are creating a new cross-platform runtime environment for mobile devices.
While I am looking forward to the recently announced cross platform environments and runtimes, I can’t help but think that if there are too many of them, it may prove difficult for a developer such as myself to keep up with them […]

There’s a very dramatic post at MobileOpportunity entitled Mobile Applications: RIP. Michael Mace’s observations are based on a company that has been trying to sell applications.
While I agree that creating a mobile application for sale is now a dead end (and had been for many years), the smart people have since moved on to […]

One of the guys from navxs.com has emailed me about their new Cross Platform Development Framework for Mobile Applications…
 
They can deploy to Android, Java ME, Windows Mobile and Blackberry. They started on a Symbian port but later decided to put their (limited) time on the other ports. Their first reference implementation is a […]

O2 have kindly sent me their new Windows Mobile 6 based Orbit 2 as part of their blogger seeding programme. It’s very timely as I am currently doing some Windows Mobile work every other week (and Nokia N95/S60 in intervening weeks).
This has given me the opportunity to compare the current top of the range (WiFi, […]

The latest IDC press release tells us that the handheld (non telephony) device market continues to fall…
"For the full year, vendors shipped a total of 3.0 million units worldwide, down 44.3% from the 5.5 million units shipped during all of 2006."
"Handheld devices do not include telephony but may include wireless capabilities (like Bluetooth and […]