I recently took a fresh look into the available J2ME IDEs….
I had thought things might have moved on from a year and a half ago when my favourite IDE was Borland. I was right but still came away a little disappointed. It’s great that J2ME midlets can now be developed in Eclipse. It’s feature packed […]

Currently the main way of paying for 3rd party services is via Premium SMS. Typically the developer gets about 60% and the network operator keeps 40%. The payment, and that for any of the network operators’ own information services, ends up on the customer’s bill.
Sharewire is an innovative service that accepts Paypal, Interactive Voice Response (premium rate numbers) […]

There’s an interesting view of the Symbian OS at CodeProject.
This adequately describes the frustrations most people have when they first program for Symbian. The Symbian OS was written quickly and inherited many failings from the old Psion code base. Little thought was given to third party development. The main aim was to get an OS […]

The Q2 2005 Canalys device shipment stats show the Symbian OS dominating mobile device sales with shipments of 7.6 million. Of the Symbian sales, the majority were Nokia Series 60 sales. So is Series 60 the platform that will give ISVs the greatest number of software sales?
Not necessarily. Consider that over 160 million JAVA phones were […]

Application signing/certification is something I have been involved with for both Windows Mobile and Symbian. In both cases the processes involved significant effort for very little gain from the developer’s perspective…
I have found that code certification or signing slows development and actually discourages product updates because any new versions have to also re-tested. This cost […]

Nokia recently licenced Macromedia Flash Lite. What does this mean for mobile developers?.
I was enrolled in the beta testing of Flash Lite which has since become available to developers for $9.95.
Macromedia has been trying to license Flash Lite to carriers and phone OEMs presumably because it sees these as large revenue earners. So far, Nokia, T-Mobile […]

Symbian has recently announced v9 of the Symbian OS. This creates a break in binary compatibility which means older programs won’t run on new Symbian v9 devices (due in the second half of 2005). At the same time Symbian has tightened up application security. What does this mean for developers?
Version 9 of the Symbian OS […]