There’s a relatively new Wiki on Mobile Development. It gives a fair indication of the pros and cons of various mobile development platforms and the tools required to develop for them. In practice, you will need a bit more than the Wiki to choose a platform. Deeper technical, marketing and political issues usually pervade a given project […]

The Rethink Research Report into mobile TV caught my eye as I am currently working on a Symbian based Mobile TV (DVB-H) project. I think they are right in that there will be multiple ways of receiving video ranging from simple downloads (as now) to live broadcasts. They are also right in that there’s likely to be contention […]

Some ‘fan’ and gadget sites are starting to over-sell how easy it is to migrate applications to Symbian 9.1. For example, Engadget have said…
"The phone is one of the first to run S60 v3, and therefore can’t run any existing S60 apps, though that shouldn’t be much of a deal breaker since most apps will […]

The latest Symbian Community Newsletter links to a programming tool I have only just come across. Easy Mobile Programming is a simple programming language that allows simple Symbian applications to be created without any of the complexity of C++ programming. The author describes it as a prototype unsuitable for serious programming. Nevertheless, it allows simple […]

Jan Chipcase who works for Nokia in the HCI Group has made available a presentation on Mobile Essentials: What People Carry and Why. While the presentation is heavy on images rather than information (you probably had to be at the presentation to get the salient points), there are a few snippets worth thinking about…

These are the key areas that people […]

There’s an interesting article on Mobile Linux by Bill Weinberg that was published in Linux User and Developer. The gist of the article is that despite mobile Linux being based on an open OS, phone OEMs and network operators are preferring to keep their mobile phones closed to third party development and enhancement. Bill Weinberg is the OSDL’s […]

There’s a in-depth study of mobile consumers at KPMG.
If you don’t have time to read the whole white paper, in summary…Consumers…

Want new services

Want one service provider and one bill

Want entertainment services in Asia and information services in the West

Are reluctant to pay large premium for extra services

KPMG think Network Operators need to…

Think of services as a […]