There’s a useful article at ARCChart on Mobile Linux and how it is gradually becoming commercialised/productised.
While this is true, I can’t help but wonder how difficult it will be to develop for many variants. The growth is being driven by too many different parties (IDE/tools vendors, standards organisations, phone manufacturers and network operators). Each will have their […]

IDC have just released their analysis of converged mobile device sales for Q2/2006. It shows that Nokia is still well ahead with 46.9% of the market.

It’s interesting that despite all the hype over RIM, they still has a very small share of the market.
IDC claim that smartphone sales are being driven by the availability of […]

I have recently updated my freeware SendSMS application. It’s a J2ME program that allows you to send SMS messages via Clickatell rather than via your network operator.
This has the advantage of much lower cost, the ability to send flash SMS messages (instantly displayed) and the possibility to change the ‘from’ attribute to be any number or […]

On the Nokia Forum blogs, Kevin Sharp, Technical Editor of Forum Nokia asks how Nokia are doing with respect to fragmentation.
I have worked on almost all the Series 60 devices since the 7650. Prior to this I did a large amount of work under Windows CE. I have also written applications for some companies under J2ME. […]

Broadly speaking most mobile development either involves an application on the phone, accessing a web site or doing something creative with SMS text messages. The other day, when I received a new TomTom GPS navigation system, I came across a different way of using the phone.
The TomTom uses the bluetooth and Internet access point to use the phone […]

Starting Symbian development? You might like to read some new free booklets that have become available on Symbian.com. Download electronic versions or email Symbian for paper version.

There’s an interesting report into US mobile internet usage at Telephia. The top US mobile sites at Yahoo! email, the Weather Channel and and ESPN (sports news).