Archive for April, 2008

UIQ Fast Track Events

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

If you develop or are thinking of developing for UIQ, you should check out the forthcoming UIQ Developer Fast Track Events in Boston and San Francisco. The Fast Track provides both technical and commercial content to accelerate your understanding of UIQ.
When people think about UIQ they often just think about programming Symbian and C++. […]

Sonopia Fails

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

I was sad to hear today that Sonopia has failed. I previously thought Sonopia presented some interesting opportunities for more vertical applications (see Related Articles below).
While I don’t know much about what happened within Sonopia, I suspect it is it might have failed because people didn’t want to give up their existing phone, tariff or […]

Native vs Java ME

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Symbian have a useful new paper comparing native and Java development. The paper covers application startup, installation, APIs, portability, fragmentation, security and tools.
In practice, most companies I work with find the choice of programming language (and platform) is driven mainly by…

the features provided by the API

the number of shipped devices in the target geographic region

Assessing […]

3 Mobile Broadband

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

The UK is currently flooded with adverts for 3 and Vodafone mobile broadband (USB dongles). I think the network operators are seeing this as a quick and easy way to make better use of their 3G networks.
As it happens, 3 have sent me their latest USB modem to try for a few months with an […]