Forum Nokia have just announced a device loaner program. This is great for the smaller developers who can’t afford to purchase every device. It only costs 25 Euro to loan for 3 weeks. You can currently loan a N95, N75, E65 or 5300. Hopefully the range of devices will increase with time. 

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3 have just launched their new SkypePhone. I have been given one to try and have spoken with some of the technical people who produced the device. Here are my initial thoughts and some more detailed information how it actually works.
Obviously, the phone itself has to be good enough if 3 expect people to give up […]

There’s a fascinating post at Symbaali.com that describes how to modify the ROM to change the Symbian Platform Security User capabilities and JAVA untrusted permissions. There’s even an example of how to change Y-Browser to add AllFiles capability which, when used with the new ROM, allows browsing to any directory.
As previously explained, AllFiles was never given […]

I talked with several people at the Symbian Smartphone show about Motorola’s new share in UIQ. There’s an insightful analysis at Vision Mobile that reveals as much about Motorola’s use of Mobile Linux as it does about UIQ.
Another topic that came up when I spoke to people at the show was the balance of code […]

I tend to personally use two phones at any one time - one for work and one I carry around if I say, go out for the evening. Why do I have two phones? Well, to be honest, I haven’t been that impressed with the size, weight and bulk of smartphones - whatever the OS or […]

There’s an interesting read at Real Business where you can download the Real Business/ O2 ‘50 to Watch in Mobile’. While only British firms are included, the observations are equally applicable to any country. I was struck by the number of B2B ideas and how specialist are some of them. There are also quite a […]

Last week I mentioned Mobile Sorcery’s MoSync. Since then I have received clarifications from Mobile Sorcery as to how MoSync actually works and will be licensed…

MoSync runtimes will not necessarily be interpreting the intermediate code - on Java there will be an option of statically generating java bytecode while the Symbian and Windows Mobile versions […]