The Usable Products Company have the results of a new study into the key drivers to mobile media downloads. The survey found…

42% of 14 to 17 year-olds report downloading ring tones at least once per month. However, only 21% of consumers 25 and older report equally frequent ring tone downloads.
56% of survey respondents either have no […]

According to new research from The Diffusion Group, as demand for advanced mobile devices accelerates, the battle between mobile OS vendors will intensify with market-leader Symbian gradually losing share to both Microsoft’s Mobile Windows and Linux.
The press release says… "at year-end 2005 Symbian enjoyed a market share of 51%, followed by Linux (23%) and Microsoft’s […]

Looking through the shared links on a bookmarking service, I came across a site that saddened me. A site with lots of pirated Nokia Series 60 and UIQ Symbian software. I am not including the link here as I don’t really want to everyone going there. If you are from Adobe, contact me and I’ll give you […]

If you thought Smartphones are taking market share away from PDAs, you might be wrong. According to Gartner, "PDA Shipments of 14.9 Million Units in 2005 Tops Previous Mark Set in 2001"
So what’s a PDA?
"Gartner defines a PDA as a data-centric handheld computer weighing less than one pound that is primarily designed for use […]

Nokia have released the (free) Carbide.c++ Express for Symbian C++ development. The Nokia Forum description confusingly describes it…
"Carbide.c++ Express is intended to replace the Symbian SDK command line tools as the entry level development tool for non-commercial Symbian OS development"
While it’s the entry level tool, it is possible to use it for commercial Symbian OS […]

Another big news item at 3GSM is Nokia’s 6136 which supports Unlicensed Mobile Access. Most news sites are reporting this as a dual-mode WiFi/GSM phone but there’s more to it than this. You won’t just be able to go out and buy a UMA phone and be able to make Skype-style calls. It will depend […]

Of all the announcements from 3GSM, I think the one that has the greatest potential to affect future mobile development is one from Access. They intend to take Palm OS, port it to Linux, add telephony and produce… "a comprehensive yet flexible and integrated commercial-grade Linux based solution for the mobile market" 
In terms of 3rd party software […]