When you distribute freeware you end up gaining a great insight into the kinds of problems experienced by end-users. The most frustrating problems for me are those that involve too many people emailing with the same old problem. For example, in the past when I distributed significant numbers of Pocket PC software, I continually got asked how […]

Hartti Suomela on the Nokia Forum blogs has announced that CPU information is now displayed on the device specification pages. While this might not seem that interesting, it does show which devices are dual or single CPU. For example, the 5700, 6110, 6290 are single CPU devices. The more complex phones such as the E90, […]

One of the lesser promoted features of Symbian 9 based development is that Symbian, Nokia and UIQ have committed to backward binary and source code compatibility of new phones. What does this mean? Well, if you are a S60 end user and you purchase a third party application, it should also work on future Symbian 9.x […]

It appears that AppForge is in financial difficulty. I have previously written about AppForge’s usefulness and unsuitable license schemes resulting in lost opportunity. Let’s hope Nokia can salvage something from this.

The latest M:Metrics MeterDirect statistics show that Smartphone users in the UK use network operator portals more than off-portal sites. Conversely, Americans prefer Internet brands and actually show higher levels of usage than the UK. All this is interesting but isn’t that useful as there’s no way of knowing why. It just raises lots of […]

The third of my UIQ ‘Getting Started’ tutorials has just been published on Sony Ericsson Developer World. It covers application integrity and platform security.

I have finally found some spare time to complete the first version of SymRAD for UIQ. It’s now available from the new SymRAD Wiki. I’ve had some great feedback since I released the first version Nokia S60 3rd. Here’s what one user said…
"I made a simple Loan calculator to test the RAD and its very […]