Yesterday’s MoMo was themed location based services. I have always been disappointed with the lack of consistent operator support for LBS. GPS on some latest phones seems to solve the problem but brings with it battery drain, long initial discovery times and poor coverage in places other than open areas. Cell ID is inaccurate and difficult to pre-define. Also, […]

Nokia have just announced a new Web runtime and Widgets  for the forthcoming phones based on S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2.
This is great as it implements one of the few features the iPhone had over the S60. Incidentally, widgets will be the only way for users to create apps for the iPhone.
However, I think the […]

It’s about a year since Nokia Series 60 devices started shipping. However, I think it’s only this month that there has become a very large number of phones in use. Why do I say this? Well, this month the number of downloads of my S60 3rd freeware has exploded… so much so that it has exceeded the […]

The latest news is that Sun has acquired SavaJe’s intellectual property. SavaJe technologies extend mobile Java such that very much more of the OS  (rather than additional applications) are implemented in Java.
Up to now, Sun has limited mobile Java’s scope to that of running under 3rd party mobile operating systems. This latest acquisition makes me […]

There’s an interesting discussion going on on the European Nokia Consumer Forums. People are angry that the ‘Internet Telephone’ application, that is usually part of the S60 system software, has been removed from the phone by Vodafone and Orange.
This raises the question as to who owns the phone (or more correctly who has the right […]

I came across Sonopia’s new ‘roll your own’ MVNO  this week.
The idea is that anyone or any company can create their own MVNO. You build your own service around your own unique content, brand and community taking about 5% of revenue that Sonopia earns.
Looking at the Sonopia web site it seemed that news photos sharing […]

The London Mobile Monday Yahoo group has an interesting thread on phone testing. The problem is the need to test against a large number of different handsets and networks. It’s obviously not possible to buy every phone and visit every country to test every network. The following diagram from Zanan shows how the increasing number of services […]