There’s so much buzz about mobile advertising at the moment. But what happens when people reach their advertising led destination? Much of the current mobile web advertising is actually for mobile content. If you are a smaller publisher of content, how can you present it in a way accessible to mobile phones? How can you […]

Yesterday, there was an interesting thread on the Mobile Monday London newsgroup with various people guessing how the new Google Maps Mobile cellid based location works. Some people guessed it was Java/S60 native application accessing the cellid and triangulating the position.
First of all, Java ME can’t reliably (across all phones) get the cellid and this only works […]

 The Nokia N800 is now going for a surplus price, only five months after I mentioned the Nokia 770 bargain.
The N810 is the latest model with the main changes being the addition of a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, Mozilla browser and VoIP SIP support.
I can’t help but wonder why Nokia hasn’t yet integrated a phone into the Internet Tablet. […]

Regarding the new Nokia Energy Profiler it seems that initially it wasn’t that clear who this application was targeted at.
Tommi at s60.com says…
"I proposed last month, inside Nokia, that we should release this under Beta Labs too. We decided not to go for it, however, because the app is clearly developer-focused, while Beta Labs is […]

There’s a great new article on the Nokia Forum Wiki that describes how to optimisze Java ME. The article is written by Sergio Estevao who also has his own blog with some great Java ME tips and tutorials.
As with optimisation on any platform, it’s best not to blindly implement all optimisations. Optimisations often hinder code readability/maintainability […]

The new Symbian Signed Test Criteria are no longer draft and were issued today. So what implications does this have for a typical application?
Take an application I am currently working on…

I can now remove the intrusive privacy and billing prompts (and settings to control them) that were previously required

Autostart now has to be OFF by default. This isn’t so nice […]

One of the problems I have previously written about is that most people don’t know they can download extra software and media onto their smartphone.
Nokia’s answer to this was ‘Catalogs’, a built in application on the main S60 menu which in newer devices has recently morphed into something called ‘Download!’.
Very recently, Nokia announced a beta […]