Ofcom have a report on the UK communications market 2007. While much of the information is UK centric, the general trends are probably equally applicable to most countries in Europe. For the first time, Ofcom have included mobile. Here are some insights… 

The cost of mobile telcoms is going down. I see this as good for consumers […]

It’s often difficult to find spare parts for phones with only official repair centres having access to parts. I recently came across a UK site where you can, for example, get spare parts for the Nokia N95.

Following on from my post on Final Fit, Finish and Testing, I have been wondering about Apple’s choice to have the iPhone closed to 3rd party development and the recent hacking by 3rd parties to allow native applications to be run on this phone.
At AppleInsider…
"When asked about the iPhone’s closed development platform and whether the […]

At the beginning of this month, I commented on how some successful Java ME applications tend to be based on processing performed at the server. SteelByte Media, LLC have just released a new code editor to allow editing, syntax highlighting and even compilation of JAVA and C/C++ from within a Java ME application. It does this by submitting […]

There’s a very interesting article at linuxdevices.com describing Ari Jaaksi’s (Nokia’s open source director) recent presentation at Linux World…
"Another challenge is to interest community developers in the final fit, finish, testing, and integration phase of software development. Once the basic application service is working, a developer is happy with it. It’s only about 50 […]

It’s an interesting observation that the handheld (non-phone mobile) market is in strong decline - a 43.5% decrease from the same quarter one year ago. I suspect people now rely on Smartphones for their organiser/PDA functionality.

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At MoMo London this week I met Derek Kopke, Vice President, Sales for DataWind. He demonstrated a very thin device called the PocketSurfer2 that allows web browsing via GPRS.

The device is to arrive in the UK this month and only cost £179 including a year’s worth of usage fees (up to 20 hours a month). You will be able to get unlimited access […]