I have been searching for a while now, how to access the TRK on-device debugging promised for the new 3rd edition phones. It turns out it’s an add-on which has just been released on Nokia Forum.
 

Previously, on-device (Nokia) debugging was limited to the few privileged people with special Nokia phone builds or reference boards. In comparison, Windows Mobile has had on-device debugging, for […]

This week’s London Mobile Monday concentrated on ‘Mobile User Experience’.
Michael Quazza of SurfKitchen explained that while devices, networks and contents have reached maturity, the user experience is causing users to give up using mobile data services. For example, in research for a Tier 1 network operator, results showed that 43% of users would use […]

There’s an article on the MEX blog that references a recent ARC Chart report on network operator churn. The MEX blog and ARC report comment on how churn might be reduced by tying financial services to phone tariffs.

I have written in the past about personalisation (see links below). This report tends to suggest that network […]

One of the common causes for non-takeup of mobile applications is the uncertainty users have over how much it will cost to actually use the applications. When I am talking about costs, this usually means data or MMS costs.
As an example, a report this month by NPD shows that people are very pleased with camera phones. However, images are […]

Tommi’s S60 Applications blog has a useful post entitled ‘Tommi’s quick guide for marketing S60 applications’. Tommi talks about creating great apps, free trials, being different, getting mentioned and the involvement of blogs where he even mentions me.
This made me think and write a few words on my experiences of mobile marketing over the last 10 years…

Free trials help but […]

Nokia Research have an interesting proof of concept for S60 2nd Edition Feature Pack 2 based devices (e.g. 6630). It creates a web server on your phone that, with the help of a Nokia server, allows you to access your phone from any normal internet browser.
The interesting part is the hook into Python which opens up the phone […]