There’s a new draft Symbian Signed Test Criteria document on developer.symbian.com that’s intended to be used with the new signing processes available later this year.
I have taken a quick look and there are a few changes..

The current CON-02 and CON-03 tests have been removed. These are related to privacy and billing information that currently has to […]

It’s great to see that Apple have finally given in and plan to provide an SDK that will allow third party applications. I suspect this and other things like lack of Java support, poor battery life, no removable battery, no 3G and no memory expansion slot were more because they would take too much time/money - rather […]

Today, I went to the Smartphone Show in London. It seemed slightly busier than last year. However, much of what was being shown wasn’t that different to last year.
Here’s what I found of particular relevance to developers…

Carbide.c++. A new beta version 1.3 will be out November time. The main change will be improved dependency tracking […]

I went to a joint UIQ/Motorola/Sony Ericsson pre-Smartphone Show developer event yesterday evening on the day when it was announced that Motorola would take a 50% stake in UIQ.
I talked to lots of people within and outside the three organisations to try to get a feel for what would be likely to change now that […]

Last year I happened to be at the London Science Museum when the Dead Ringers exhibition was running. It was an exhibition revealing how wasteful the mobile phone is and what scientists and industry are doing to combat the waste.
Most of the facts and figures are UK-centric but I suspect they are just as […]

Sometimes clients ask me from where I get my phones. They imagine there are phone manufacturers keen to send devices to developers. The realities are different - ’spare’ devices are actually more likely to be sent to press/blog authors.
The times I have worked with loan devices they have almost always been prototypes and not very […]

With the latest news that the Gphone will actually be (yet another) mobile Linux I started wondering who is likely to manufacture the devices. I would expect it’s beyond Google and network operators’ abilities to do this themselves. I can’t see existing phone OEMs cannibalising their own product markets to create new Google devices, at least […]