Russell Beattie is back with a brand new mobile blog. Russell’s old blog was one of the main influences that got me blogging and it’s great he’s back. For people who don’t know Russell’s style, it’s wise to know he sometimes posts partially thought out and even contentious ideas. This isn’t a criticism. In fact, it causes […]

One of the problems of application development is that it’s often not possible to test on phones that are about to be released. This is especially the case when you are in a country where phones arrive late to the market.
Sometimes it’s possible to ask phone OEM’s for pre-production phones but often there aren’t […]

One thing I am continually doing is setting up new phones with an appropriate Internet Access Point (APN). It’s usually straightforward and involves a visit to either the Sony Ericsson, Nokia or Motorola (select country then operator settings) web sites that send settings to your phone.
However, what happens when the combination you want isn’t listed? You […]

There’s a thought provoking study on mobile widget solutions at the Usable Product Company. In particular, it found that Celltop’s widget solution was harder to use than WAP.
With all the hype about widgets, this shows that they don’t necessarily confer improved ease of use. It’s all down the design and implementation - as is the case […]

On the Symbian blogs there’s an interesting post by Eric Jacobson, product manager of PIPS at Symbian. He describes how Symbian platform security is hindering some people trying to port components using PIPS. Eric goes on to say that "These problems are being solved" even "on older releases of Symbian OS (thus on older phone ROMs) where the […]

It’s interesting that UIQ hasn’t been absorbed into Sony Ericsson since it was acquired a few months ago.
In fact, a recent article on Mobile Europe suggests the exact oppose will happen…
"…So we set up UIQ as a separate company, which at the moment is owned by Sony Ericsson, but we absolutely do not expect to […]

Mobile Clipper is an evolution of some work I did a few years ago on web clipping for mobile. It’s been updated to make it .mobi compliant.
Mobile Clipper fits somewhere between transcoders and writing custom xhtml code. It allows you to take textual parts of existing pages and publish them as new mobile clips. Compared to a […]