I have taken a quick look at the new Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Release Specifications and Roadmap that are the result of 2.5 years work on evolving a mobile Linux standard.
The specification consists of some documentation and APIs in terms of a c interface (headers). Looking at the release plan it becomes apparent how much work […]

Henrietta Wendt of Motorola also presented at MoMo last Monday. Up until then, I had wondered about Motorola’s motivation for creating the Symbian/UIQ based Z8 and how it would differentiate itself from the current crop of Sony Ericsson and Nokia Symbian-based devices.
The Z8 will…

Allow Motorola to receive greater margins than for lower end devices
Be the […]

Last night’s MoMo London covered graphics, multimedia and games. Here are some new insights I took away from the meeting…

Native gaming (as opposed to JAVA) may become a more viable platform as the installed based of devices increases over the next few years
Today’s low end and high end native programmable phones compare favourably (in performance) to […]

Sony Ericcson Developer World are offering the book “Wireless Game Development in Java with MIDP 2.0” by Ralph Barbagallo, free of charge.
The book features step-by-step examples in major game programming areas such as graphics, GUI, networking, tiles, animation, and sound. Additionally, the book goes into some detail about the business model of wireless game distribution.
Receiving […]

The sessions from the JavaOne 2007 are now online. The JAVA ME sessions provide lots of brain food for mobile developers working with J2ME.
As always, there are many sessions on new technologies that haven’t quite made it to real devices yet. However, it’s the sessions that are applicable to developing today that interest me the […]

Vodafone created a stir in the mobile development community today when they released their mobile adaptation technology. Several people on the London MoMo email group and The Register were the first to spot the problems.
The biggest problem is that the new gateway isn’t passing through the user agent. Hence, any server that has functionality that […]

A few weeks ago, I posted an article on Symbian data sharing and mentioned the Client-Server mechanism. Unless you working within Symbian or as a licensee, there aren’t many public examples available how to implement this pattern.
If you are bit lost then check out the updated sample (for Symbian 9.x) from Jo Stichbury’s book, ‘Symbian […]