Having a personal interest in digital photography and having worked for Pixology on their mobile direct-to-store printing application, I have a keen interest in all things to do with camera phones.
The latest InfoTrends report on camera phone shipments caught my eye.

The marriage of the phone and camera creates the potential for new uses beyond those provided by a camera or phone […]

MIDletPascal is a Pascal to J2ME compiler. It allows you to create MIDlets from Pascal source code. Interestingly, it supports both NokiaAPI and or MIDP 2.0 full screen applications and also includes support for HTTP and sending SMS messages.
This tool is especially useful for those programmers more used to Delphi or Pascal. JAVA can also be […]

Opera have released a beta version of a new Platform SDK that allows mobile applications to be developed using AJAX (a mixture of HTML, CSS and Javascript). Applications run in the Opera web browser. The SDK is currently only for the Series 60 but a Microsoft Windows Mobile version is coming soon.
Opera applications can be […]

There’s a great article on mobile at REAL Business that evangelises mobile. Read it and you might have to go away and think up some new mobile ideas.
Here’s a summary…

Dr Ray Anderson who started the mobile payments company Bango, claims the mobile phone isn’t just the “next big thing”. It’s THE thing. Bigger than computers. Bigger than […]

I have been working with the new UIQ 3.0 beta SDK this week. It’s available for free download from the new UIQ Developer web site. UIQ are now providing direct support for developers. Previously Sony Ericsson were the first port of call for all UIQ enquiries irrespective of the actual phone manufacturer.
As well as the SDK, […]

A new NOP survey commissioned by Olista, reveals that users who encounter problems in using new mobile data services will simply give up rather than seek assistance. The survey follows on from research conducted earlier this year that revealed that 77% of phone users have never used any mobile data services, and of those that […]

Orange have released a new download test tool that allows you to upload applications so that they can be downloaded via WAP.

You have to register as an Orange partner to use the tool. However, this is worth doing anyway as Orange offer a wealth of technical and market information on their developer web site. Most of this […]