Yesterday, I was at the Symbian Smartphone show in London. Here are the things that caught my attention and my thoughts…
First of all, I went to the Sony Ericsson pre-show pub meet. This was a bit disappointing. It was mainly ‘marketing-speak’ with very little value for developers (apart from food and drink!). Talking to people at […]

There’s a new free report at ARCChart which reviews the software platforms from 15 vendors - A la Mobile platform, Access Linux Platform, Adobe Flash Lite, GTK+, MiniGUI, Mizi Prizm, MontaVista Mobilinux, Nokia S60, Obigo Suite, Openwave MIDAS, Qualcomm BREW, SavaJe, Symbian OS, Trolltech Qtopia and Windows Mobile.

The report is free because it is […]

Just came across the new Google Code Search. It works very much like my popular Symbian Codex and J2ME Codex which I produced about a year ago.
I thought I would see how useful the Google Code Search will be for mobile developers. I typed in ‘extends midlet’ to get all J2ME applications. I got ‘about’ 700 references. Wow. Next […]

It’s about six months since I had trouble writing my file explorer and suggested that Nokia should have some policy regarding manufacturer approved capabilities. In the end, as it was freeware, I gave up and just allowed my application to see the unrestricted directories. Since then, a few other developers have gone down the same route and have yet to […]

This post is mainly for the many startup companies who come to me with vague ideas for mobile applications. They usually want to know two things - is the application possible and how much will it cost. While I can provide ‘ball park’ answers, the ‘devil is in the detail’ and it’s often necessary to dig […]

Due to the current popularity of the mobile web I have resurrected something I was tinkering with in 2002 - single page mobile web applications.
Back then, I wrote the mobile web applications in c++ and used ISAPI. This was complicated as I had to render the information in WML or HTML depending on the phone browser […]

There’s a rather confused press release at IDC that talks about the market for converged mobile devices capable of receiving enterprise email. More specifically, devices with a QWERTY keyboard or stylus/soft keyboard.
While I agree that RIM’s dominance is being challenged, I believe that IDC haven’t understood Nokia’s offering. This means they have over-estimated the possible dominance of Windows Mobile.
In […]