IDC have just published latest stats from their latest European Mobile Device Tracker. 
 

If you are considering UIQ development then the following comment might interest you…
"…and with the long-awaited P990 and W950 launching in the final quarter, IDC expects a substantial sell in for 4Q06 and into 2007, particularly given the consumer orientation of the W950"

Sun plans to open source most of the Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME) by the end of 2006. What does this mean to developers? Will it help reduce fragmentation?
Well, according to Sun’s Senior Director of Mobile & Embedded Platforms, Shannon Lynch…
"Open sourcing Java ME will accelerate the adoption of a single platform, driving more […]

There’s an interesting post on AllAboutSymbian on how Symbian Signed could be used to combat piracy. I wrote something along these lines last February. However, Ewan takes things one step further…
"…how about extending the self-signing program to instigate a clear and simple minimal ‘Symbian Signed’ level for authors that identifies them as the actual author (and requiring from […]

Seems London Mobile Monday has become a victim of its own success. Places for next month’s meeting became available last night at 9pm and were snapped up within a few hours! The Yahoo Group has a few people complaining that that didn’t get in.
People who arrived late to the previous meeting weren’t able to gain […]

After IDC reporting handheld device sales declining, I was surprised to find Gartner saying PDA Shipments Grew 32 Percent in Third Quarter of 2006.
It turns out that this is due to how Gartner define a PDA…
"Gartner defines a PDA as a data-centric handheld computer weighing less than one pound that is primarily designed for use with both […]

As phones increasingly include more multimedia capabilities, it becomes complex and more difficult for developers to include these facilities within applications. It becomes even more difficult to provide these across multiple mobile operating systems.
I have recently come across two solutions that aim to take the hard work out of cross-platform multimedia phone applications. The first comes from Tricastmedia who […]

The latest market statistics show that handheld device sales are still declining. IDC attribute this to lack of new handheld devices. The strange thing is that the previous day IDC published a report claiming this was due to evaporation of consumer demand for bundled handheld GPS solutions. Also, in the same report, converged devices saw growth of 30% year […]