Last November, I talked about the latest Three Pay As You Go tariffs that allow Internet access for only £5 UK pounds per month. Well, I purchased a few SIMs to put in my test phones so that I don’t have to continually switch SIMs.
It turns out that it’s proving very difficult to re-new the […]

I recently wrote about the new Skypephone and commented on how the fonts could be better. In fact, poor fonts seem to currently be an inherent part of Chinese ODM phones.
Today, I came across a great post at Sender 11 explaining what fonts are used by Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Samsung et al.
While […]

I just learnt via MoMo London that the Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days will be broadcast live, free of charge, on 23rd and 24th January.
There is more information on the event on java.net together with a listing of the sessions.

The latest Admob Stats make interesting reading. For example, the number if iPhone users doubled on Christmas Day suggesting many were given as gifts…
 
If you are after more useful statistics there are also device breakdowns for the top countries: US, India, South Africa, UK and Indonesia. For example, here are the numbers for the UK:
 
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There’s an interesting press release at In-Stat reporting that mobile business applications growth is slower than expected. The reason for this is because…
"As business users approach saturation for horizontal mobile data applications, most of the growth potential remains for vertical market applications. These require more planning and time to implement."
What this means is that many […]

I have been doing some Windows Mobile development this week that has caused me to reflect on emulation. With Visual Studio 2005 and a Pocket PC SDK I can turnround small code changes and restart the emulator in seconds. Why can’t I do the same with the Nokia S60 and UIQ Symbian-based emulators? I believe […]

There’s a thought-provoking article by Oliver Starr at Reg Developer entitled Google’s Android, big name, big question on payment. Oliver questions whether there is a business model for Android applications.
First of all, you have to understand how Google works. Google is engineering driven. As stated by a Google employee in the Google Engineering: The REAL […]