The problems of mobile phone GPS (slow/battery hungry) and operator LBS (often closed to developers) have caused people to think about obtaining location in other ways. Skyhook have created a Wi-Fi access point database and associated windows/Linux/Symbian SDK to allow developers to obtain location to within 20m.
The clever bit is that after the database has been […]

In May, I questioned why the Handango Q1 yardstick didn’t include any Symbian devices. I came across the new Yardstick for Q2 today and it actually includes the Nokia N95…

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A while ago I did some work for Philips (now NXP) porting Mobile TV DVB-H code to Symbian. Hence, I still keep an eye on the world of Mobile TV. First Partner have just released a new market map …
"…invaluable to anyone wishing to understand the emerging Mobile TV market and illustrates the entire value […]

There’s a recent article at GigaOM that includes an interesting chart of H1/07 smartphone market share…
Source: Canalys. Includes closed devices in Japan

Such charts are useful as they give a guide as to what platforms are popular in each region. As with my post last February, the chart becomes more interesting when you compare it to a previous […]

Symbian Signed has been in turmoil for the last few months. The main problem has been the use of developer certificates by large numbers of general users to sign software that would normally go through the Symbian Signed (3rd) party testing process via one developer - a trend I commented in March. Well, the trend became an […]

In July last year, I mentioned that some UK companies were offering not only free phones but free call and SMS usage. At the time I mentioned that these offers were reliant on these companies being around for the duration of the 12 or 18 month contract.
Well, last weekend, I read in the Guardian Newspaper that […]

A new trend I am seeing, from prospective work leads, is for projects that make use of S60 as just a programmable platform for some specialised application - with the connectivity as an added bonus. This makes some sense because…

The platform is ubiquitous. Symbian’s latest fast facts show that the number of Symbian devices (mainly S60 phones) shipped […]