South African based Red Five Labs are producing a .NET compact framework for the Nokia Series 60.
While I know some people don’t like me saying it, Symbian development is significantly more difficult and time consuming than Windows Mobile development. This is mainly due to poorer documentation and poorer tools. Being able to program against Microsoft documentation […]

Research and Markets have a report on 2006 Global Mobile Data usage. Here are a few insights…
 

Current mobile technologies are not well suited for economically viable business models for mobile data

The lack of suitable infrastructure has hampered the growth of mobile data
The business models that these (mobile) operators offer are hopelessly inadequate
very few sustainable models […]

There’s a very interesting article by Michael Mace asking why mobile application sales are dropping.  Sales are dropping despite the fact that (Symbian) smartphone sales are increasing significantly. With Symbian set to sell hundreds rather than tens of millions of phones in the next few years, what can be done to narrow the smartphone to […]

There’s was post by Anina on the new Forum Nokia blogs about WidSets.com. This is a venture within the business incubation part of Nokia, Nokia Ventures Organization. Strangely, the post was removed from the blogs but is still on the RSS feed as I write this.
Anyway, WidSets uses a Java ME client to read existing […]

I received the following email this morning…

"If you have a moment - i would be very grateful for your expert opinion. A few days ago I bought a Nokia N80 smartphone. This is described as running S60 3rd Edition software on Symbian OS. I had fully expected  this to be backwards compatible with software running on […]

IDC report that the converged mobile device market is surging. It’s up 67.8% compared to the same quarter a year ago.
While it’s ambiguous in the press release as to what IDC classify as a ‘converged’ device, it’s clear that Nokia shipped 9.3 million Series60/Series80 phones in one quarter. Multiply this up by four for the […]

Every so often I go through the process of deciding what phone to use myself. It usually starts when I get a new device for development. Every time, I try a particular smartphone for a few months only to drop back to having a small phone + PDA or small phone + FiloFax. I have […]