Archive for January, 2006

Beta Test Carbide.vs

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

There’s an opportunity to beta test the latest version of Carbide.vs. Unlike the current version, this latest beta version of Carbide.vs allows development against the final version of the Series 60 3rd Edition SDK. The Nokia Forum discussion says…
"We will shortly put out an update for Carbide.vs 2.0 that will support the S60 3.0 Final SDK. We are looking […]

Non-Literacy as a Barrier to Mobile Phone Communication

Monday, January 30th, 2006

It’s well known that as the Western and Asian markets become saturated with phones, the main growth areas will be the emerging markets which have higher numbers of textually non-literate people. Nokia has an excellent study on this. 
To gain an appreciation of the problems, try the Nokia Simple Non-Literacy Test…
"If you’re wondering just how hard it […]

Worldwide Mobile Phone Shipments Rose 19.3% Year over Year

Friday, January 27th, 2006

According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, worldwide mobile phone shipments rose 19.3% year on year.

These figures are roughly in line with Strategy Analytics recent report. The slight discrepancies in percentage change year on year demonstrate the kind tolerance we should allow for when reading these types of report. Anyhow, it’s the general direction […]

Symbian/Nokia Search

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

Are you a developer wanting to search all of the Symbian and Nokia developer content in one go? If so, then try out the not so well-known Search Portal for Developer Technical Resources. It searches Forum.Nokia.com, Series60.com, PreminetSolution.com, SoftwareMarket.Nokia.com, and Symbian.com, from one convenient location.
If you are after Symbian and J2ME code snippets then you […]

Selling Your Software

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

If you sell your mobile software direct to consumers, check out Sharewire who offer payment by premium SMS, interactive telephone voice response, credit card, Paypal and now, LUUP.
Sharewire describe LUUP as follows…
"We are please to announce the launch of an exciting new payment method for your customers which offers the same payouts as Credit cards […]

Rocky Time for Network Operators

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

Another challenging year in 2006 for Network Operators, according to the latest research from the Strategy Analytics Wireless Network Strategies service. In 2005, subscriber churn (turnover) increased while the average revenue per active subscription decreased.
David Kerr, Vice President, Global Wireless Practice, adds, "If there is a silver lining, it is in the 3G market. W-CDMA […]

Berkeley Research Listing

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Need some inspiration for your next mobile project? Try Nalini P. Kotamraju’s large listing of Mobile Devices/SMS/Instant Messaging Social Science Research at Berkeley, the University of California.