The second of my UIQ ‘Getting Started’ tutorials has just been published on Sony Ericsson Developer World. It covers how to set up your PC for UIQ development.
The development environment is a complex mix of Symbian base SDK, UIQ SDK, IDE, optional manufacturer specific extensions and third party tools. Developers also have a choice […]

I have been working on a Symbian RAD tool on and off for over a year now. The idea is to have a simple XML file that contains screen definitions. The screen definitions contain controls (labels, text boxes, menus etc) which interact with industry standard javascript defined at the bottom of the XML file.
To date, […]

When considering mobile development, people often wonder which Smartphone OS they should be targeting. 
Symbian has recently released a quarterly corporate presentation that gives an introduction to Symbian and the global smartphone market. If you fast forward over all the marketing blurb you will eventually get to an interesting regional breakdown of the smartphone OS market share for 2006…

These statistics […]

With all the talk about the mobile Internet and mobile search, I am coming to the conclusion that it’s going to be very difficult to support everyone’s diverse needs for different data via a device with a small screen while maintaining an acceptable mobile experience.
There’s also a large ‘long tail’ of things people might […]

If you are into selling consumer mobile applications then you should take a look at Handango’s latest statistics for 2006.
 

I was curious as to why the top sellers by revenue and by units sold didn’t include any Symbian devices. In previous years Sony Ericsson UIQ and one or two S60 devices usually made the top 10. […]

The latest Canalys stats show the worldwide smart mobile devices shipped in Q4 2006.

It’s interesting that Sony Ericsson went from 0.6% to 5.1% market share over one year with a growth of over 946%. However, all these numbers are relatively small compared to the overall phone market of 1 Billion devices in 2006.
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I came across Mobile Zoo for the first time last week. It’s a Java ME application that people can load onto their phone which determines the phone type and capabilities. These are then uploaded to a database where they can be viewed and compared against other phones.
Mobile Zoo have also persuaded some Java ME authors […]