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 […]

Earlier this month I commented on how I perceived Windows Mobile is growing, based on the number of development enquiries I have been receiving. I guessed this was because of better 3G Windows Mobile devices and greater uptake by network operators.
Last November, while reviewing the Skypephone that 3 sent me, I commented on the rise […]

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 […]